Dafeng Yan

11.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
71 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Dafeng Yan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dafeng Yan has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 26 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dafeng Yan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (51 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers). Dafeng Yan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (51 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers). Dafeng Yan collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Singapore. Dafeng Yan's co-authors include Shuangyin Wang, Ru Chen, Yuqin Zou, Yanyong Wang, Jia Huo, Yunxiao Li, Chao Xie, Liming Dai, Zhijuan Liu and Shiqian Du 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

Dafeng Yan

66 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious‐Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions

2017 1.5k citations Dafeng Yan, Ru Chen et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Operando Identification of the Dynamic Behavior of Oxygen Vacancy-Rich Co₃O₄ for Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2020 1.2k citations Chao Xie, Shiqian Du et al. profile →
In Situ Exfoliated, Edge‐Rich, Oxygen‐Functionalized Graphene from Carbon Fibers for Oxygen Electrocatalysis

2017 681 citations Yanyong Wang, Dafeng Yan et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Recent Progress on Layered Double Hydroxides and Their Derivatives for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

2018 655 citations Yanyong Wang, Dafeng Yan et al. profile →
Defect Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recognition, Understanding, and Utilization

2020 490 citations Chao Xie, Dafeng Yan et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dafeng Yan China	36	7.5k	5.6k	3.1k	1.2k	1.1k	71	9.2k
Chang Hyuck Choi South Korea	49	7.6k 1.0×	5.6k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	122	9.2k
Xuecheng Yan Australia	38	7.4k 1.0×	5.8k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	907 0.8×	73	9.1k
Jiawei Zhu China	57	8.5k 1.1×	6.8k 1.2×	3.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	139	10.4k
Pengzuo Chen China	44	9.4k 1.3×	7.7k 1.4×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	100	11.3k
Ya‐Rong Zheng China	39	7.7k 1.0×	5.8k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	853 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	57	9.2k
Zexing Wu China	55	7.8k 1.0×	6.7k 1.2×	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	816 0.7×	230	9.3k
Zhaohui Xiao China	26	6.9k 0.9×	5.4k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	961 0.8×	722 0.7×	43	8.3k
Junxiang Chen China	53	6.8k 0.9×	6.0k 1.1×	3.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	1.6k 1.4×	123	9.9k
Xunyu Lu Australia	51	8.6k 1.2×	6.4k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.7×	97	10.6k
Shibin Yin China	56	6.2k 0.8×	5.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	904 0.8×	924 0.8×	166	7.7k

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Deng, Yunlong, Tong Liu, Lin Lv, et al.. (2025). An elaborate electron spin modulator of schottky catalyst for stable alkaline Zn-air battery application. Journal of Power Sources. 631. 236273–236273. 2 indexed citations

Dong, Jie, et al.. (2025). Challenges and innovations of bipolar membranes to enhance water electrolysis performance. Chemical Communications. 61(51). 9169–9187. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Kefan, Yuyan Liu, Chu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Designing Molecular Reactor of Interlayer Dual‐Atom Toward Urea Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 137(38).

Zhang, Kefan, Yuyan Liu, Chu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Designing Molecular Reactor of Interlayer Dual‐Atom Toward Urea Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(38). e202513341–e202513341. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Tong, Lin Lv, Hanbin Wang, et al.. (2025). Modulating a1g-b1g-orbital occupied states of planar square-coordinated cobalt single-atom electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction and rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 704(Pt 1). 139352–139352.

Zhang, Mengyang, Xiaomin Lu, Zefei Wu, et al.. (2024). Advanced development of dual-atom catalysts: From synthesis methods to versatile electrocatalytic applications. Journal of Power Sources. 613. 234923–234923. 11 indexed citations

Gu, Chen, et al.. (2024). The advanced development of innovative photocatalytic coupling strategies for hydrogen production. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(1). 110234–110234. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Kun, et al.. (2024). Recent Developments in Immobilized Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Production. ChemCatChem. 16(22). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Chen, et al.. (2024). Electrocatalytic Bipolar Synthesis of Valuable Chemicals. ChemCatChem. 16(21). 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zheng, et al.. (2024). Bubbles Management for Enhanced Catalytic Water Splitting Performance. Catalysts. 14(4). 254–254. 21 indexed citations

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Tan, Xing, Shiming Chen, Dafeng Yan, et al.. (2024). Recent advances in Ni-based catalysts for the electrochemical oxidation of ethanol. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 98. 588–614. 24 indexed citations

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Tan, Xing, Longfei Liao, Zhenchen Tang, et al.. (2024). Refining Mn–Ni synergy for the design of efficient catalysts in electrochemical ethanol oxidation. New Journal of Chemistry. 48(39). 17167–17176. 1 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yuanhua, Shiwei Zhang, Dangcheng Su, et al.. (2024). Optimizing the intermediates adsorbability and revealing the dynamic reconstruction of Co6Fe3S8 solid solution for bifunctional water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 664. 329–337. 21 indexed citations

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Yuan, Ye, Junan Pan, Weinan Yin, et al.. (2023). Effective strategies to promote Z(S)-scheme photocatalytic water splitting. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(3). 108724–108724. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Mengyang, et al.. (2023). Bimetallic Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrocatalytic and Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production. Catalysts. 13(11). 1409–1409. 11 indexed citations

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Xia, Chenfeng, Lei Huang, Dafeng Yan, et al.. (2021). Electrospinning Synthesis of Self‐Standing Cobalt/Nanocarbon Hybrid Membrane for Long‐Life Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(43). 104 indexed citations

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Yan, Dafeng, Chenfeng Xia, Chaohui He, et al.. (2021). A Substrate‐Induced Fabrication of Active Free‐Standing Nanocarbon Film as Air Cathode in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries. Small. 18(7). e2106606–e2106606. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guoqiang, Yangsen Xu, Dafeng Yan, et al.. (2021). Construction of K⁺ Ion Gradient in Crystalline Carbon Nitride to Accelerate Exciton Dissociation and Charge Separation for Visible Light H₂ Production. ACS Catalysis. 11(12). 6995–7005. 170 indexed citations

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Xie, Chao, Dafeng Yan, Hao Li, et al.. (2020). Defect Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recognition, Understanding, and Utilization. ACS Catalysis. 10(19). 11082–11098. 490 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Hanwen, Kui Hu, Dafeng Yan, et al.. (2018). Recent Advances on Black Phosphorus for Energy Storage, Catalysis, and Sensor Applications. Advanced Materials. 30(32). e1800295–e1800295. 276 indexed citations

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