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Yanming Sun is affiliated with Beihang University in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. These fields cover topics related to the development, characterization, and application of materials critical to electronic devices and energy technologies.

The main topics of Yanming Sun's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Thin-Film Transistor Technologies, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity, and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications. These areas denote a broad involvement in advanced materials research with applications in energy conversion and electronic devices.

Yanming Sun has published research in several notable scientific journals. The frequent publication venues include Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Angewandte Chemie, and Nature Communications. These journals are known platforms for disseminating research in materials science and applied physics.

Recent papers authored by or co-authored by Yanming Sun include:

  • Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology (2022, Nature Materials)
  • Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells (2021, Nature Energy)
  • A Well-Mixed Phase Formed by Two Compatible Non-Fullerene Acceptors Enables Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 18.6% (2021, Advanced Materials)
  • A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells (2021, Nature Energy)
  • Optimized active layer morphology toward efficient and polymer batch insensitive organic solar cells (2020, Nature Communications)

Yanming Sun collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Jiali Song, Han Young Woo, Xiaotao Hao, Yunhao Cai, and Zheng Tang. These collaborations indicate an active research network within the fields of organic electronics and photovoltaic materials.

Best Publications

  • Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

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  • Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

    Chao Li;Jiadong Zhou;Jiali Song;Jinqiu Xu

  • Inverted Polymer Solar Cells Integrated with a Low‐Temperature‐Annealed Sol‐Gel‐Derived ZnO Film as an Electron Transport Layer

    Yanming Sun;Jung Hwa Seo;Christopher J. Takacs;Jason Seifter

  • Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency

    Yanming Sun;Gregory C. Welch;Wei Lin Leong;Christopher J. Takacs

  • High-Performance Electron Acceptor with Thienyl Side Chains for Organic Photovoltaics.

    Yuze Lin;Yuze Lin;Yuze Lin;Fuwen Zhao;Qiao He;Lijun Huo

  • A Facile Planar Fused-Ring Electron Acceptor for As-Cast Polymer Solar Cells with 8.71% Efficiency

    Yuze Lin;Qiao He;Fuwen Zhao;Lijun Huo

  • High-Performance Solution-Processed Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Based on Selenophene-Containing Perylene Bisimide Acceptor

    Dong Meng;Dong Meng;Dan Sun;Dan Sun;Chengmei Zhong;Chengmei Zhong;Tao Liu

  • Efficient, Air‐Stable Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells Using MoOx as the Anode Interfacial Layer

    Yanming Sun;Christopher J. Takacs;Sarah R. Cowan;Jung Hwa Seo

  • Improved high-efficiency organic solar cells via incorporation of a conjugated polyelectrolyte interlayer.

    Jung Hwa Seo;Andrea Gutacker;Yanming Sun;Hongbin Wu

  • Single‐Junction Organic Solar Cells Based on a Novel Wide‐Bandgap Polymer with Efficiency of 9.7%

    Lijun Huo;Tao Liu;Xiaobo Sun;Yunhao Cai

  • Non-Fullerene-Acceptor-Based Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 7%

    Dan Sun;Dong Meng;Yunhao Cai;Bingbing Fan

  • High mobility emissive organic semiconductor

    Jie Liu;Jie Liu;Hantang Zhang;Hantang Zhang;Huanli Dong;Huanli Dong;Lingqiang Meng

  • Advances in organic field-effect transistors

    Yanming Sun;Yunqi Liu;Daoben Zhu

  • Three-Bladed Rylene Propellers with Three-Dimensional Network Assembly for Organic Electronics.

    Dong Meng;Huiting Fu;Huiting Fu;Chengyi Xiao;Xiangyi Meng

  • Mapping Polymer Donors toward High‐Efficiency Fullerene Free Organic Solar Cells

    Yuze Lin;Yuze Lin;Fuwen Zhao;Yang Wu;Kai Chen

  • A Well-Mixed Phase Formed by Two Compatible Non-Fullerene Acceptors Enables Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Efficiency over 18.6%

    Yunhao Cai;Yun Li;Rui Wang;Hongbo Wu

  • Polymer Donors for High-Performance Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

    Huiting Fu;Huiting Fu;Zhaohui Wang;Yanming Sun

  • A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

    Xian-Kai Chen;Deping Qian;Yuming Wang;Thomas Kirchartz;Thomas Kirchartz

  • Fine-Tuning of Molecular Packing and Energy Level through Methyl Substitution Enabling Excellent Small Molecule Acceptors for Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency up to 12.54

    Zhenghui Luo;Zhenghui Luo;Haijun Bin;Tao Liu;Zhi-Guo Zhang

  • Solar Cell Efficiency, Self-Assembly, and Dipole–Dipole Interactions of Isomorphic Narrow-Band-Gap Molecules

    Christopher J. Takacs;Yanming Sun;Gregory C. Welch;Louis A. Perez

  • Optimized Fibril Network Morphology by Precise Side-Chain Engineering to Achieve High-Performance Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells.

    Tao Liu;Lijun Huo;Sreelakshmi Chandrabose;Kai Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Lijun Huo
Lijun Huo Beihang University
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Han Young Woo
Han Young Woo Korea University
Zhaohui Wang
Zhaohui Wang East China Normal University
Yunqi Liu
Yunqi Liu Fudan University
Wei Ma
Wei Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Gui Yu
Gui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chuluo Yang
Chuluo Yang Shenzhen University
Daoben Zhu
Daoben Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chong-an Di
Chong-an Di Chinese Academy of Sciences

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