2026
(61) Cui, Y.; Gao, Y.; Wang, Z.; Shao, M.*; Shi, B.; Wang, Z.; Song, B.; Lu, G.; Li, M.; Du, X.; Liu, B.; Li, T.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Non-Fullerene Acceptor Photo-Charge Enabled Stretchable Photovoltaic Robustness under 90% Tensile Strain and 30% Strain Cycles. Adv. Mater. 2026, accepted.
(60) Wang, Z.; Zhao, C.*; Ma, W.; Yan, H* Revisiting Open-Circuit Voltage in Heterojunction-Scarce Organic Solar Cells. Electron 2026, 4, e70053.
(59) Tang, Y.; Wang, S.; Shi, B.; Zhang, Z.; Liu, H.; Li, Y.; Zhang, Y.; So, S. K.; Yan, H.; Lu, X.; Cai, G.*; Zhang, S.* Acceptor Heterojunction Engineering toward Enhanced Spontaneously Formed Photo-Charges for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells. ACS Energy Lett. 2026, 11, 3485.
(58) Li, Y.; Wang, S.; Liu, H.; Shi, B.; Zhang, Z.; Tang, Y.*; Song, Y.; So S. K.; Dang, D.; Yan, H.; Lu, X.; Cai, G.*; Zhang, S.* Decoupling the Transparency-Efficiency Trade-Off in Semi-Transparent Organic Solar Cells via Optimized Dual-Channel Photoelectric Conversion. Adv. Sci. 2026, 13, e23474.
(57) Tan, X.; Xue, F.; Qin, X.; Ma, W.; Yan, H* Optimizing CuSCN/Photoactive Interface towards Efficient Semitransparent Organic Solar Cell with 55% Average Visible Transmittance. Nano Energy 2026, 150, 111776.
(56) Cui, Y.; Ma, W.; Yan, H* Developing an Intelligent Data-Driven Framework for Organic Phtovoltaic Research. EES Sol. 2026, 2, 246.
2025
(55) Shi, B.; Wang, J.; Bao, X.*; Ma, W.; Yan, H* One Plastic Improves the Shortages of Photovoltaic and Mechanical Properties in Flexible Semitranparent Organic Photovoltaics. Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 19861.
(54) Xie, Y.; Guo, Y.; Chow, P. C. Y.*; Tan, X.; Xu, H.; Lu, G.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Constructing Bulk Homojunction for Intrinsic Photo-charge Utilization in Organic Solar Cells. Small 2025, 37, e07273.
(53) Wang, Z.; Yan, H.* 分子掺杂半透明有机太阳能电池研究进展. 高分子学报 2025, 56, 1063.
(52) Qin, X.; Xie, X.; Bu, L.*; Wang, Y.; Cui, Y.; Hou, J.; Liu, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Shi. B.; Yin, H.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Developing Absorption-Matched and Encapsulation-Free Underwater Organic Photovoltaics with the Acceptor-Poor Active Layer. Nano Energy 2025, 142, 111198.
(51) Zhang, Z.; Wang, Y.; Xue, W.; Tang, Y.; Zhang, C.; Huang, Y.; Yan, H.; Tsang, S.-W.; Wu, T.; So. S. K. Boiling Water Tolerant Organic Field-Effect Transistors Enabled by a Short-Chain Polymer Blend Approach. J. Mater. Chem. A 2025, 13, 9282.
(50) Cui, Y.; Xue, W.; Jiang, B.; Zahmatkeshsaredorahi A.; Lu, G.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Suppressing the Blend Morphology Led Intrinisc Defects in Organic Photovoltaics towards Undersea Application. Nano Energy 2025, 136, 110773.
(49) Xue, F.; Xie, Y.; Cui, Y.; Paraschuk, D. Y.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Boosting Fill Factor of Semitransparent Donor-Poor Organic Solar Cells for the Best Light Utilization Efficiency. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2025, 35, 2415617.
(48) Wang, Y.; Tang, Y.; Ouyang, Y.; Wu, W.; Patterson, A.; Alqahtani, O.; Melody, T.; Zhou, K.; Lu, G.; Min, J.; Zhang, C.; Yan, H.; Fan, Q.*; Jiang, L.*; Collins, B. A.*; Ma, W.* A Mixed-Pure Planar Heterojunction Structure of Active Layers for Efficient Sequential Blade-Coating Organic Solar Cells. Small 2025, 21, 2407435.
2024
(47) Cui, Y.; Fan, Q.; Feng, H.; Li, T.; Paraschuk, D. Y.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Towards Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells: Fixing the Morphology Problem in Block Copolymer Active Layers with Synergistic Strategies Supported by Interpretable Machine Learning. Energy Environ. Sci. 2024, 17, 8954.
(46) Ma, W.; Fan, Q.; Liu, Y.; Yan, H.; Zhou, K.; Wang, Y.; Zhao, C.; Bi, Z.; Wu, Q.; Wang, B.; Bai, H. Hot Spots Review for New Photovoltaic Semiconductor Materials in 2023. Science & Technology Review 2024, 42, 188-203.
(45) Xie, Y.; Cui, Y.; Paraschuk, D. Y.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Why Does Y6 with Bulk Charge Photogeneration and Bipolar Charge Transport Properties Still Fail in Non-heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics? J. Mater. Chem. A 2024, 12, 29000-29008.
(44) Xin, J.; Zhao C.;Geng, Z.; Xue, W.; Chen, Z.; Song, C.; Yan, H.; Liang, Q.; Miao, Z.*; Ma, W.*; Liu, J.* Elucidate the Thermal Degradation Mechanism of Y6-Based Organic Solar Cells by Establishing Structure-Property Correlation. Adv. Energy Mater. 2024, 14, 2401433.
(43) Zhang, R.; Zhao, C.*; Ma, W.*; Yan, H.* Self-Powered Intelligent Tactile-Sensing System Based on Organic Electrochemical Transistors. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2024, 6, 3431.
(42) Tang, Y.; Cui, Y.; Zhang, R.; Xue, W.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Identifying and Amplifying the Spontaneously Formed Photo-Charge Contribution in Opaque and Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics. Adv. Energy Mater. 2024, 14, 2303799.
2022-2023
(41) Cui, Y.; Zhao, C.; Tang, Y.; Souza, J. P. A.; Benatto, L.; Koehler, M.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Eliminating the Imbalanced Mobility Bottlenecks via Reshaping Internal Potential Distribution in Organic Photovoltaics. Adv. Sci. 2023, 10, 2302880.
(40) Xue, W.; Liang, Z.; Tang, Y.; Zhao, C.; Yan, L.*; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Solid Solvation Assisted Electrical Doping Conserves High-Performance in 500 nm Active Layer Organic Solar Cells. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2304960.
(39) Chen, Z.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* A Paradigm Study of Polymer Donor Diluted Bulk Heterojunction Films for Application in Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics. J. Mater. Chem. A 2023, 11, 6901-6908.
(38) Tang, Y.; Zheng, H.; Zhou, X.; Tang, Z.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* N-dopants Optimize the Utilization of Spontaneously Formed Photocharges in Organic Solar Cells. Energy Environ. Sci. 2023, 16, 653-662.
(37) Chen, Z.; Zheng, H.*; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Study of the Doping Effect on Imperfect Morphology at Photovoltaic Heterojunction in Bilayer Organic Solar Cells. J. Mater. Chem. C 2022, 10, 11848.
(36) Xue, W.; Zhang, Z.; So, S.; Song, Y.; Wei, Z.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Reducing the Excitonic Loss at Donor/Acceptor Heterojunction with Negligible Exciton Dissociation Driving Force. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2022, 5, 9929.
(35) Zhang, Z.; Tang, Y.; Wang, Y.; Zeng, Z.; Shi, R.; Yan, H.; Tsang, S.-W.; Cheng, C.*; So, S. K.* Heat Transfer Enhancement of n-Type Organic Semiconductors by an Insulator Blend Approach. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 30174.
(34) Tang, Y.; Zheng, H.*; Zhou, X.; Tang, Z.; Ma, W.; Yan, H.* Molecular Doping Increases the Semitransparent Photovoltaic Performance of Dilute Bulk Heterojunction Film with Discontinuous Polymer Donor Networks. Small Methods 2022, 6, 2101570.
(33) Yan, H.*; Ma, W. Molecular Doping Efficiency in Organic Semiconductors: Fundamental Principle and Promotion Strategy. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 32, 2111351.
2020-2021
(32) Xue, W.; Tang, Y.; Zhou, X.; Tang, Z.; Zhao, H.; Li, T.; Zhang, L.; Liu, S.; Zhao, C.*; Ma, W.*; Yan, H.* Identifying the Electrostatic and Entropy-Related Mechanisms for Charge-Transfer Exciton Dissociation at Doped Organic Heterojunctions. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2101892.
(31) Chen, Y.; Li, Q.*; Li, C.; Dai, Z.; Yan, H.; Zhu, M.; Zhang, Y.*; Yao, Y.*; Li, Q. Regulation of Multidimentional Silver Nanostructures for High-Performance Composite Conductive Adhesives. Composites Part A 2020, 137, 106025.
(30) Chen, Z.; Tang, Y.; Lin, B.; Zhao, H.; Li, T.; Min, T.; Yan, H.*; Ma, W.* Probe and Control of the Tiny Amounts of Dopants in BHJ Film Enable Higher Performance of Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 25115.
(29) Tang, Y.; Lin, B.; Zhao, H.; Li, T.; Ma, W.*; Yan, H.* Significance of Dopant/Component Miscibility to Efficient N-Doping in Polymer Solar Cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 13021.
2018-2019
(28) Yan, H.; Ma, W.* Making Weak Dopants Strong. Nature Mater. 2019, 18, 1269.
(27) Yan, H.*; Tang, Y.; Sui, X.; Liu, Y.; Gao, B.; Liu, X.; Liu, S. F.; Hou, J.; Ma, W.* Increasing Quantum Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells with Efficient Exciton Splitting and Long Carrier Lifetime by Molecular Doping at Heterojunctions. ACS Energy Lett. 2019, 4, 1356.
(26) Ma, W.; Yan, H.; Zhou, K.; Naveed, H. B. Nanostructure of Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Nanomaterials for Solar Cells and Light Emitting Diodes. 2019, 37-68. (Book Chapter)
(25) Yan, H.*; Tang, Y.; Meng, X.; Xiao, T.; Lu, G.; Ma, W.* Achieving High Doping Concentration by Dopant Vapor Deposition in Organic Solar Cell. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 4178.
(24) Yan, H.*; Chen, J.; Zhou, K.; Tang, Y.; Meng, X.; Xu, X.; Ma, W.* Lewis Acid Doping Induced Synergistic Effects on Electronic and Morphological Structure for Donor and Acceptor in Polymer Solar Cells. Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1703672.
(23) Yan, H.*; Ye, S.; Seferos, D. S.* Unusual Performance Increase in Polymer Solar Cells by Cooling a Hot Donor/Acceptor Ink in a Good Solvent. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 10, 979.
Before Joining XJTU
22. H. Sun, Z. Yang, M. Wei, W. Sun, X. Li, S. Ye, Y. Zhao, H. Tan, E. L. Kynaston, T. B. Schon, H. Yan, Z. Lu, G. A. Ozin, E. H. Sargent,* D. S. Seferos,* Chemically Addressable Perovskite Nanocrystals for Light-Emitting Applications. Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 1701153.
21. M. T. Dang, T. M. Grant, H. Yan, D. S. Seferos, B. H. Lessard,*; T. P. Bender,* Bis(tri-n-alkylsilyl oxide) Silicon Phthalocyanines: A Start to Establishing a Structure Property Relationship as Both Ternary Additives and Non-fullerene Electron Acceptors in Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaic Devices. J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 12168.
20. H. Yan, J. G. Manion, M. Yuan, F. P. García de Arquer, G. R. McKeown, S. Beaupré, M. Leclerc, E. H. Sargent, D. S. Seferos,* Increasing Polymer Solar Cell Fill Factor by Trap-filling with F4-TCNQ at Parts Per Thousand Concentration. Adv. Mater. 2016, 28, 6491.
19. H. Yan, Y. Song, G. R. McKeown, G. D. Scholes,* D. S. Seferos,* Adding Amorphous Content to Highly Crystalline Polymer Nanowire Solar Cells Increases Performance. Adv. Mater. 2015, 27, 3484.
18. C. R. Bridges, C. Guo, H. Yan, M. B. Miltenburg, P. Li, Y. Li,*; D. S. Seferos,* Conjugated Polymers with Switchable Carrier Polarity. Macromolecules 2015, 48, 5587.
17. A. J. Tilley, C. Guo, M. B. Miltenburg, T. B. Schon, H. Yan, Y. Li,* D. S. Seferos,* Thionation Enhances the Electron Mobility of Perylene Diimide for High Performance n-Channel Organic Field Effect Transistors. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2015, 25, 3321.
16. C. R. Bridges, H. Yan, A. A. Pollit, D. S. Seferos,* Controlled Synthesis of Fully pi-Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers Using a Ni(II) Diimine Catalyst. ACS Macro. Lett. 2014, 3, 671.
15. H. Yan, J. Hollinger, C. R. Bridges, G. R. McKeown, T. Al-Faouri, D. S. Seferos,* Doping Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanowires with Selenophene Increases the Performance of Polymer-Nanowire Solar Cells. Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 4605.
14. D. Li, H. Yan, C. Li, Y. Yang,* Z. Wei,* C. Wang, Nanoscale Structural and Electronic Evolution for Increased Efficiency in Polymer Solar Cells Monitored by Electric Scanning Probe Microscopy. Chi. Sci. Bull. 2014, 59, 360.
13. H. Yan, D. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Yang, Z. Wei,* Rational Design of Ternary-Phase Polymer Solar Cells by Controlling Polymer Phase Separation. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 10552.
12. H. Yan, L. Zhu,* D. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Yi, Y. Yang, Z. Wei,* J. Brédas, Rationalization of the Selectivity in the Optimization of Processing Conditions for High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells Based on the Polymer Self-Assembly Ability. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 29473.
11. K. Lu, J. Fang, H. Yan, X. Zhu, Y. Yi, Z. Wei,* A Facile Strategy to Enhance Absorption Coefficient and Photovoltaic Performance of Two-Dimensional Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b’]dithiophene and Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione Polymers via Subtle Chemical Structural Variations. Org. Electron. 2013, 14, 2652.
10. K. Lu, J. Fang, X. Zhu, H. Yan, D. Li, C. Di, Y. Yang, Z. Wei,* A Facile Strategy to Enhance the Fill Factor of Ternary Blend Solar Cells by Increasing Charge Carrier Mobility. New J. Chem. 2013, 37, 1728.
9. H. Yan, D. Li, C. He, Z. Wei,* Y. Yang,* Y. Li, A Material Combination Principle for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Investigated by Mesoscopic Phase Heterogeneity. Nanoscale 2013, 5, 11649.
8. Y. Zhang, J. Fang, C. He, H. Yan, Z. Wei,* Y. Li, Integrated Energy-Harvesting System by Combining the Advantages of Polymer Solar Cells and Thermoelectric Devices. J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 24685.
7. H. Yan, D. Li, C. Li, K. Lu, Y. Zhang, Z. Wei,* Y. Yang,* C. Wang, Bridging Mesoscopic Blend Structure and Property to Macroscopic Device Performance via in-situ Optoelectronic Characterization. J. Mater. Chem. 2012, 22, 4349.
6. H. Yan, D. Li, K. Lu, X. Zhu, Y. Zhang, Y. Yang,* Z. Wei,* Evolution of Polymer Photovoltaic Performances from Subtle Chemical Structure Variations. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2012, 14, 15127.
5. K. Lu, J. Fang, Z. Yu, H. Yan, X. Zhu, Y. Zhang, C. He, Z. Wei,* Improving the Performance of Polymer Solar Cells by Altering Polymer Side Chains and Optimizing Film Morphologies. Org. Electron. 2012, 13, 3234.
4. Z. Yu, H. Yan, K. Lu, Y. Zhang, Z. Wei,* Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Nanostructuresof Linear Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene). RSC Adv. 2012, 2, 338.
3. Z. Yu, J. Fang, H. Yan, K. Lu, Y. Zhang, Z. Wei,* Self-Assembly of Well-Defined Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanostructures towards the Structure-Property Relationship Determination of Polymer Solar Cells. J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 23858.
2. H. Yan, Z. Yu, K. Lu, Y. Zhang, Z. Wei,* Self-Assembly of Graphenelike ZnO Superstructured Nanosheets and Their Application in Hybrid Photoconductors. Small 2011, 24, 3472.
1. H. Yan, Y. Yan, Z. Yu, Z. Wei,* Self-Assembling Branched and Hyperbranched Nanostructures of Poly (3-hexylthiophene) by a Solution Process. J. Phys. Chem. C 2011, 115, 3257.