Bei Zhao

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
125 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Bei Zhao is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bei Zhao has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Organic Chemistry, 49 papers in Materials Chemistry and 26 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bei Zhao's work include 2D Materials and Applications (33 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (32 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (18 papers). Bei Zhao is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (33 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (32 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (18 papers). Bei Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Bei Zhao's co-authors include Xidong Duan, Bo Li, Yingming Yao, Ruixia Wu, Huifang Ma, Chengrong Lu, Yuan Liu, Xiangfeng Duan, John M. Shaw and Zhengwei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Bei Zhao

121 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Efficient strain modulation of 2D materials via polymer encapsulation

2020 318 citations Zhiwei Li, Jia Li et al. profile →
2D Metallic Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides: Structures, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

2021 234 citations Bei Zhao, Dingyi Shen et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bei Zhao China	35	2.4k	1.4k	724	579	405	125	4.0k
Takuya Masuda Japan	32	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	436 0.6×	436 0.8×	254 0.6×	154	3.4k
János Kiss Hungary	45	4.3k 1.8×	1.0k 0.7×	536 0.7×	605 1.0×	450 1.1×	233	5.8k
Xiaoqing Gao China	35	2.0k 0.8×	740 0.5×	881 1.2×	1.6k 2.8×	760 1.9×	110	4.2k
Jing Xie China	37	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	623 0.9×	405 0.7×	680 1.7×	139	4.3k
Lionel Dubois France	32	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	327 0.5×	599 1.0×	783 1.9×	114	3.9k
Elad Gross Israel	27	943 0.4×	444 0.3×	759 1.0×	652 1.1×	263 0.6×	73	2.3k
Jason C. Hicks United States	32	2.4k 1.0×	656 0.5×	425 0.6×	812 1.4×	93 0.2×	70	4.3k
Željko Tomović Netherlands	32	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	809 1.4×	636 1.6×	105	4.0k
Jianbo Liu China	30	1.2k 0.5×	966 0.7×	733 1.0×	253 0.4×	218 0.5×	133	2.9k
Yi Zeng China	33	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	937 1.3×	686 1.2×	297 0.7×	168	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Bei Zhao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bei Zhao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bei Zhao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bei Zhao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bei Zhao. Bei Zhao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Fan, Yufan, Guanghao Zhu, Hairong Zeng, et al.. (2025). Rational engineering of isoform-specific hSULT1E1 fluorogenic substrates for functional analysis and inhibitor screening. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 275. 117192–117192. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Dingyi, Zucheng Zhang, Rong Song, et al.. (2024). Recent Advances in Spin-coating Precursor Mediated Chemical Vapor Deposition of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(7). 282–299. 12 indexed citations

Shen, Dingyi, Bei Zhao, Chen Dai, et al.. (2024). Controlled Synthesis of Ultrathin Cu₂Te Nanosheets for High-Performance Photodetectors. Chemistry of Materials. 36(9). 4758–4765. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ning, Xiaoyan He, Bei Zhao, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen-doped carbon confined cobalt nanoparticles as the steric acid-base multifunctional catalysts for Knoevenagel condensation. Molecular Catalysis. 550. 113521–113521. 4 indexed citations

Long, Haoran, Feng Ding, Wei Li, et al.. (2023). Two-dimensional metallic alloy contacts with composition-tunable work functions. Nature Electronics. 6(11). 842–851. 54 indexed citations

Xiang-Dong, Yang, Jia Li, Rong Song, et al.. (2023). Highly reproducible van der Waals integration of two-dimensional electronics on the wafer scale. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(5). 471–478. 111 indexed citations

Huang, Ziwei, Wei Deng, Zhengwei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Terminal Atom‐Controlled Etching of 2D‐TMDs. Advanced Materials. 35(17). e2211252–e2211252. 33 indexed citations

Tang, Xiao, Xingce Fan, Jun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Alloy Engineering Allows On-Demand Design of Ultrasensitive Monolayer Semiconductor SERS Substrates. Nano Letters. 23(15). 7037–7045. 44 indexed citations

Li, Jia, Jingyi Liang, Yang Xiang-Dong, et al.. (2022). Controllable Preparation of 2D Vertical van der Waals Heterostructures and Superlattices for Functional Applications. Small. 18(22). e2107059–e2107059. 27 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiaohui, Long Chen, Chenglin He, et al.. (2022). Vapor Phase Growth of Centimeter‐Sized Band Gap Engineered Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Single‐Crystal Thin Films with Color‐tunable Stimulated Emission. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(1). 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Ruixia, Quanyang Tao, Jia Li, et al.. (2022). Bilayer tungsten diselenide transistors with on-state currents exceeding 1.5 milliamperes per micrometre. Nature Electronics. 5(8). 497–504. 103 indexed citations

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Shen, Dingyi, Bei Zhao, Zucheng Zhang, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Group VIII Magnetic Transition-Metal-Doped Monolayer MoSe₂. ACS Nano. 16(7). 10623–10631. 56 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Ruixia Wu, Quanyang Tao, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of 2D α‐GeTe Single Crystals and α‐GeTe/WSe₂ Heterostructures with Enhanced Electronic Performance. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(35). 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Liting, Lingan Kong, Qianyuan Li, et al.. (2021). Transferred van der Waals metal electrodes for sub-1-nm MoS2 vertical transistors. Nature Electronics. 4(5). 342–347. 214 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhengwei, Yuan Liu, Chen Dai, et al.. (2021). Highly Selective Synthesis of Monolayer or Bilayer WSe₂ Single Crystals by Pre-annealing the Solid Precursor. Chemistry of Materials. 33(4). 1307–1313. 33 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bei, Dingyi Shen, Zucheng Zhang, et al.. (2021). 2D Metallic Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides: Structures, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(48). 234 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Huifang, Qi Qian, Biao Qin, et al.. (2021). Controlled Synthesis of Ultrathin PtSe₂ Nanosheets with Thickness‐Tunable Electrical and Magnetoelectrical Properties. Advanced Science. 9(1). e2103507–e2103507. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zucheng, Bei Zhao, Dingyi Shen, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of Ultrathin 2D Nonlayered α‐MnSe Nanosheets, MnSe/WS₂ Heterojunction for High‐Performance Photodetectors. Small Structures. 2(8). 51 indexed citations

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Ma, Huifang, Ke‐Jing Huang, Ruixia Wu, et al.. (2020). In‐plane epitaxial growth of 2D CoSe‐WSe₂ metal‐semiconductor lateral heterostructures with improved WSe₂ transistors performance. InfoMat. 3(2). 222–228. 27 indexed citations

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Roisnel, Thierry, Marie Cordier≈, Dan Yuan, et al.. (2020). Rare-Earth Metal Complexes Supported by Polydentate Phenoxy-Type Ligand Platforms: C–H Activation Reactivity and CO₂/Epoxide Copolymerization Catalysis. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(23). 16976–16987. 12 indexed citations

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