Chengwu Yang

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Chengwu Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengwu Yang has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Catalysis and 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Chengwu Yang's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (17 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers). Chengwu Yang is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (17 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers). Chengwu Yang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Spain. Chengwu Yang's co-authors include Christof Wöll, Alexei Nefedov, Stefan Heißler, Yuemin Wang, Xiaojuan Yu, Alexander Welle, Junsheng Li, Pavel A. Levkin, M. Grunze and Linxian Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Chengwu Yang

33 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Structure of the catalytically active copper–ceria interfacial perimeter

2019 524 citations Aling Chen, Xiaojuan Yu et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengwu Yang Germany	21	1.5k	747	582	314	285	33	2.0k
Brandon J. O’Neill United States	15	1.3k 0.9×	414 0.6×	412 0.7×	535 1.7×	608 2.1×	19	2.0k
Sufeng Cao United States	17	953 0.6×	410 0.5×	652 1.1×	231 0.7×	195 0.7×	31	1.4k
Sergey Beloshapkin Ireland	26	1.4k 0.9×	691 0.9×	488 0.8×	246 0.8×	333 1.2×	53	2.1k
Caixia Qi China	23	1.3k 0.9×	601 0.8×	292 0.5×	211 0.7×	166 0.6×	115	1.8k
Thierry Dintzer France	23	969 0.7×	269 0.4×	506 0.9×	443 1.4×	130 0.5×	50	1.5k
Lanbo Di China	25	1.1k 0.8×	329 0.4×	580 1.0×	392 1.2×	157 0.6×	75	1.6k
Weifeng Chen China	20	1.7k 1.1×	263 0.4×	1.1k 1.8×	760 2.4×	448 1.6×	67	2.5k
Lidiya S. Kibis Russia	28	1.9k 1.3×	662 0.9×	748 1.3×	682 2.2×	428 1.5×	78	2.7k
Tingting Zhao China	28	1.3k 0.9×	358 0.5×	629 1.1×	825 2.6×	215 0.8×	76	2.3k
Ling Lin China	20	1.1k 0.8×	998 1.3×	186 0.3×	130 0.4×	670 2.4×	39	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengwu Yang

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lustemberg, Pablo G., Chengwu Yang, Yuemin Wang, M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, & Christof Wöll. (2025). Synergistic Effects in Low-Temperature CO Oxidation on Cerium Oxide Surfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(8). 6958–6965. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Chengwu, Hicham Idriss, Yuemin Wang, & Christof Wöll. (2024). Surface Structure and Chemistry of CeO₂ Powder Catalysts Determined by Surface-Ligand Infrared Spectroscopy (SLIR). Accounts of Chemical Research. 57(22). 3316–3326. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Jia, et al.. (2023). Mechanism study on direct synthesis of glycerol carbonate from CO2 and glycerol over shaped CeO2 model catalysts. Chinese Chemical Letters. 34(12). 108395–108395. 11 indexed citations

Lustemberg, Pablo G., Chengwu Yang, Yuemin Wang, Christof Wöll, & M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano. (2023). Vibrational frequencies of CO bound to all three low-index cerium oxide surfaces: A consistent theoretical description of vacancy-induced changes using density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(3). 24 indexed citations

Lustemberg, Pablo G., Philipp N. Pleßow, Yuemin Wang, et al.. (2020). Vibrational Frequencies of Cerium-Oxide-Bound CO: A Challenge for Conventional DFT Methods. Physical Review Letters. 125(25). 256101–256101. 29 indexed citations

Chen, Aling, Xiaojuan Yu, Yan Zhou, et al.. (2019). Structure of the catalytically active copper–ceria interfacial perimeter. Nature Catalysis. 2(4). 334–341. 524 indexed citations breakdown →

Schöttner, Ludger, Alexei Nefedov, Chengwu Yang, et al.. (2019). Structural Evolution of α-Fe2O3(0001) Surfaces Under Reduction Conditions Monitored by Infrared Spectroscopy. Frontiers in Chemistry. 7. 451–451. 26 indexed citations

Yang, Chengwu, Xiaojuan Yu, Stefan Heißler, et al.. (2017). O₂‐Aktivierung an Cerdioxid‐Katalysatoren – Zur Bedeutung der kristallographischen Orientierung des Substrats. Angewandte Chemie. 129(51). 16618–16623. 19 indexed citations

Yang, Chengwu, Xiaojuan Yu, Stefan Heißler, et al.. (2017). O₂ Activation on Ceria Catalysts—The Importance of Substrate Crystallographic Orientation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(51). 16399–16404. 120 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, Xiaojuan Yu, Philipp N. Pleßow, et al.. (2017). Rendering Photoreactivity to Ceria: The Role of Defects. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(45). 14301–14305. 45 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, Alexander Welle, Wu Wang, et al.. (2017). Effect of pyrolysis oil components on the activity and selectivity of nickel-based catalysts during hydrotreatment. Applied Catalysis A General. 544. 161–172. 36 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, Fabian Bebensee, Alexei Nefedov, et al.. (2016). Methanol adsorption on monocrystalline ceria surfaces. Journal of Catalysis. 336. 116–125. 42 indexed citations

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Guo, Wei, Zhi Chen, Chengwu Yang, et al.. (2016). Bi₂O₃nanoparticles encapsulated in surface mounted metal–organic framework thin films. Nanoscale. 8(12). 6468–6472. 33 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaojuan, Zhenrong Zhang, Chengwu Yang, et al.. (2016). Interaction of Formaldehyde with the Rutile TiO₂(110) Surface: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(23). 12626–12636. 53 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, Xiaojuan Yu, Stefan Heißler, et al.. (2016). Innentitelbild: Oberflächenfacettierung und Rekonstruktion von Ceroxid‐ Nanopartikeln (Angew. Chem. 1/2017). Angewandte Chemie. 129(1). 2–2. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, et al.. (2016). Catalytic activity and crystal structure modification of Pd/γ-Al2O3–TiO2 catalysts with different Al2O3 contents. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 25(3). 375–380. 26 indexed citations

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Sezen, Hikmet, Honghui Shang, Fabian Bebensee, et al.. (2015). Evidence for photogenerated intermediate hole polarons in ZnO. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6901–6901. 54 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, Chengwu Yang, Qian Zhang, Zhe Li, & Wei Huang. (2015). Effects of Fe addition on the structure and catalytic performance of mesoporous Mn/Al–SBA-15 catalysts for the reduction of NO with ammonia. Catalysis Communications. 62. 24–28. 29 indexed citations

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Yang, Chengwu, Lili Yin, Fabian Bebensee, et al.. (2014). Chemical activity of oxygen vacancies on ceria: a combined experimental and theoretical study on CeO₂(111). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(44). 24165–24168. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Vei, et al.. (2013). Hybrid functional with semi-empirical van der Waals study of native defects in hexagonal BN. Solid State Communications. 177. 74–79. 17 indexed citations

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