Bo You

18.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
152 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Bo You is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo You has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 73 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 41 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bo You's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (84 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (51 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (33 papers). Bo You is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (84 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (51 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (33 papers). Bo You collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Bo You's co-authors include Yujie Sun, Nan Jiang, Meili Sheng, Xuan Liu, Bao Yu Xia, Junko Yano, Lei Huang, Shahid Zaman, Jun Yang and Sheraz Gul and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Bo You

146 papers receiving 16.2k 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.

Innovative Strategies for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

2018 1.6k citations Bo You, Yujie Sun profile →
A General Strategy for Decoupled Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting by Integrating Oxidative Biomass Valorization

2016 869 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Electrodeposited Cobalt‐Phosphorous‐Derived Films as Competent Bifunctional Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting

2015 790 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Hierarchically Porous Urchin-Like Ni₂P Superstructures Supported on Nickel Foam as Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

2015 777 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. profile →
Enhancing Electrocatalytic Water Splitting by Strain Engineering

2019 660 citations Bo You et al. profile →
High-Performance Overall Water Splitting Electrocatalysts Derived from Cobalt-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks

2015 591 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. profile →
Simultaneous H₂ Generation and Biomass Upgrading in Water by an Efficient Noble‐Metal‐Free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst

2016 553 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Nickel sulfides for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions: a case study of crystalline NiS, NiS₂, and Ni₃S₂ nanoparticles

2015 467 citations Bo You, Yujie Sun et al. profile →
Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall and Hybrid Water Splitting

2024 450 citations Quan Li, Hui Jiang et al. profile →
Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts toward Practical Fuel Cells: Progress and Perspectives

2021 386 citations Shahid Zaman, Lei Huang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Facet Engineering of Advanced Electrocatalysts Toward Hydrogen/Oxygen Evolution Reactions

2023 189 citations Bo You et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Bo You	13.2k	9.8k	4.4k	2.5k	1.9k	152	16.4k
Xue Feng Lu	12.0k 0.9×	11.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.1×	3.4k 1.4×	1.7k 0.9×	153	16.7k
Panagiotis Tsiakaras	10.2k 0.8×	9.7k 1.0×	7.5k 1.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	318	16.6k
Ya Yan	11.1k 0.8×	9.8k 1.0×	4.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	116	14.6k
Lu Shang	12.4k 0.9×	8.4k 0.9×	8.0k 1.8×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	136	16.9k
Fan Lv	9.9k 0.8×	9.7k 1.0×	5.6k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	127	14.9k
Zidong Wei	18.3k 1.4×	17.2k 1.7×	6.9k 1.6×	3.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	422	23.9k
Yuqin Zou	13.8k 1.0×	10.1k 1.0×	6.3k 1.4×	3.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.0×	165	18.9k
Haolin Tang	9.5k 0.7×	13.0k 1.3×	5.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	902 0.5×	391	17.2k
Huajie Yin	9.1k 0.7×	7.8k 0.8×	4.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	112	13.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo You

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bo You. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bo You 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 Bo You. Bo You is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xia, Bao Yu, et al.. (2025). Cobalt‐Based Noble‐Metal‐Free Electrocatalysts for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction Toward Practical Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis. ChemCatChem. 17(9). 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Hui, et al.. (2025). Convergent Electrochemical–Chemical Tandem Catalysis Synthesis of Ethylene Oxide from CO₂ and Water at Ambient Conditions. Angewandte Chemie. 137(43).

Jiang, Hui, et al.. (2025). Convergent Electrochemical–Chemical Tandem Catalysis Synthesis of Ethylene Oxide from CO₂ and Water at Ambient Conditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(43). e202514638–e202514638.

Hu, Xin, et al.. (2025). Bifunctional PtAg-enabled oscillation electrorefining of PET waste-derived ethylene glycol and water for rapid glycolic acid and H₂ coproduction. Green Chemistry. 27(9). 2493–2503. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Hui, et al.. (2024). Topology optimization of flow and heat transfer in coolant channels considering porous multi-heat source. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 152. 107285–107285. 7 indexed citations

Wu, Qingyu, et al.. (2024). Novel solar-induced wastewater purification materials originated from ore tailing solid waste. Sustainable materials and technologies. 40. e00893–e00893. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Jianlin, et al.. (2024). Bio-inspired dual-mode Janus film with optical adaptation for spatial thermal management and year-round energy saving. Nano Energy. 134. 110580–110580. 5 indexed citations

Xia, Chenfeng, Tao Wang, Chaohui He, et al.. (2024). Highly Selective Electrocatalytic CO₂ Conversion to Tailored Products through Precise Regulation of Hydrogenation and C–C Coupling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(29). 20530–20538. 69 indexed citations

Li, Quan, et al.. (2024). Wrinkled Ir-MnO_x nanospheres as pH-universal electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(31). 19958–19967. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Lei, Yanyang Qin, Ruijuan Qi, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen Peroxide Spillover on Platinum–Iron Hybrid Electrocatalyst for Stable Oxygen Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(32). 22650–22660. 68 indexed citations

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Mei, Guoliang, Xiaoju Yang, Xuan Yang, et al.. (2023). Tandem Electro‐Thermo‐Catalysis for the Oxidative Aminocarbonylation of Arylboronic Acids to Amides from CO₂ and Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(2). e202314708–e202314708. 12 indexed citations

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Hu, Xin, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous Generation of H₂O₂ and Formate by Co‐Electrolysis of Water and CO₂ over Bifunctional Zn/SnO₂ Nanodots. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(29). e202304050–e202304050. 32 indexed citations

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Li, Quan, et al.. (2023). Atomic Pt‐N₄ Sites in Porous N‐Doped Nanocarbons for Enhanced On‐Site Chlorination Coupled with H₂ Evolution in Acidic Water. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(41). 44 indexed citations

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Huang, Lei, Min Wei, Ruijuan Qi, et al.. (2022). An integrated platinum-nanocarbon electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen reduction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6703–6703. 179 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhiwei, Yadong Zhang, Hong Wang, Bao Yu Xia, & Bo You. (2022). Improved Corrosion‐Resistance and Regulated Electro‐state of Elastic Polyaniline Coated Nickel Phosphide for Efficient Water Oxidation. ChemCatChem. 14(23). 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Huan, Chung‐Li Dong, Hongming Wang, et al.. (2022). Constructing nickel–iron oxyhydroxides integrated with iron oxides by microorganism corrosion for oxygen evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(20). e2202812119–e2202812119. 63 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhitong, Yansong Zhou, Dongyu Liu, et al.. (2022). Carbon‐Confined Indium Oxides for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Reduction in a Solid‐State Electrolyte Flow Cell. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(21). e202200552–e202200552. 141 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhitong, Yansong Zhou, Chenfeng Xia, et al.. (2021). Efficient Electroconversion of Carbon Dioxide to Formate by a Reconstructed Amino‐Functionalized Indium–Organic Framework Electrocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 133(35). 19255–19260. 15 indexed citations

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Zaman, Shahid, Yaqiong Su, Chung‐Li Dong, et al.. (2021). Scalable Molten Salt Synthesis of Platinum Alloys Planted in Metal–Nitrogen–Graphene for Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(6). 28 indexed citations

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