Defa Wang

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
137 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

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Defa Wang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Defa Wang has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 97 papers in Materials Chemistry and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Defa Wang's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (90 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (30 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers). Defa Wang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (90 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (30 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (20 papers). Defa Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Defa Wang's co-authors include Jinhua Ye, Lequan Liu, Tetsuya Kako, Zhigang Zou, Shuxin Ouyang, Hua Xu, Xianguang Meng, Wei Zhou, Takashi Kimura and Naiqin Zhao 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

Defa Wang

131 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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Nanometals for Solar‐to‐Chemical Energy Conversion: From Semiconductor‐Based Photocatalysis to Plasmon‐Mediated Photocatalysis and Photo‐Thermocatalysis

2016 554 citations Lequan Liu, Shuxin Ouyang et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Dynamic integrated approach to safety risk management in substation maintenance and testing integration operations 2025 ·Reliability Engineering & System Safety ·Chen Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Defa Wang, (unknown)	1
2	Integrating photochemical and photothermal effects for selective oxidative coupling of methane into C2+ hydrocarbons with multiple active sites 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Hui Song, Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, Shangbo Ning, Shengyao Wang, Zhuan Wang, Yuxiang Weng, Yi Cui, Yifan Li, Xusheng Wang, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Zhou‐jun Wang, Jinhua Ye	13
3	Solar-Driven C–N Coupling over Pd/TiO ₂ Enables High-Yield Synthesis of Methylamine Hydrochlorides from Methanol and Ammonium Chloride 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, Haijiao Lu, Bernt Johannessen, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Hui Song	0
4	Bi2Te3/SrTiO3 Nanocomposite for Enhanced CO2 Photoreduction via a Synergistic Photothermoelectric Effect 2025 ·Catalysts ·(unknown), Guiming Ba, (unknown), Huilin Hu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	0
5	Synergistic Enhancement of Electron and Hole Transport by Pd Single Atoms and Gradient‐Distributed Ti ³⁺ Species for High‐Performance Photocatalytic Oxidation of CH ₄ to Oxygenates 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Kai Sun, (unknown), Shengyao Wang, Xusheng Wang, Panzhe Qiao, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Hui Song	0
6	Engineering nitrogen vacancies and cyano groups into C3N4 nanosheets for highly efficient photocatalytic H2O2 production 2024 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Guiming Ba, Huilin Hu, (unknown), (unknown), Enzuo Liu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	30
7	Ag Nanoparticles‐Modified FeVO₄ Composite for Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction 2024 ·European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry ·(unknown), Shan Hu, (unknown), Zixin Liu, Huilin Hu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	1
8	Boosting photocatalytic overall water splitting over single-layer graphene coated metal cocatalyst 2023 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Xinmin Yang, Jiwei Cui, Xiaolu Liu, Qiqi Zhang, Defa Wang, Jinhua Ye, Lequan Liu	22
9	Efficient photothermal alcohol dehydration over a plasmonic W18O49 nanostructure under visible-to-near-infrared irradiation 2023 ·Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry ·Xueliang Zhang, (unknown), Yike Liu, Xin Wang, Huilin Hu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	3
10	Polar-surface-dominated zigzag GaN nanowires with alternate H2 and O2 evolution sites for photocatalytic overall water splitting 2023 ·Applied Catalysis A General ·Hong Pang, Wei Zhou, Huilin Hu, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	13
11	Promoting water dissociation for efficient solar driven CO2 electroreduction via improving hydroxyl adsorption 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Xin Chen, Junxiang Chen, Huayu Chen, (unknown), Jiaxuan Li, (unknown), (unknown), Defa Wang, Jinhua Ye, Lequan Liu	90
12	The pollution levels, variation characteristics, sources and implications of atmospheric carbonyls in a typical rural area of North China Plain during winter 2020 ·Journal of Environmental Sciences ·Jinhe Wang, Shuyu Sun, Chongxu Zhang, Chaoyang Xue, Pengfei Liu, Chenglong Zhang, Yujing Mu, Wu Hai, Defa Wang, Hui Chen, Jianmin Chen	23
13	Promoting photoreduction properties via synergetic utilization between plasmonic effect and highly active facet of BiOCl 2018 ·Nano Energy ·Li Wang, Dongdong Lv, Zengji Yue, He Zhu, Liang Wang, Defa Wang, Xun Xu, Weichang Hao, Shi Xue Dou, Yi Du	65
14	Simultaneous confidence bands for a percentile hyper-plane with covariates constrained in a restricted range 2018 ·Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics ·(unknown), (unknown), Defa Wang	1
15	Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Activity of g‐C₃N₄/KTaO₃ Composites under Visible Light Irradiation 2015 ·Journal of Nanomaterials ·(unknown), Jian Ren, Huilin Hu, Peng Li, Shuxin Ouyang, Hua Xu, Defa Wang	18
16	Structure, Optical Properties, and Photocatalytic Activity towards H₂Generation and CO₂Reduction of GaN Nanowires via Vapor-Liquid-Solid Process 2014 ·International Journal of Photoenergy ·Hong Pang, Lequan Liu, Shuxin Ouyang, Hua Xu, Yunxiang Li, Defa Wang	6
17	One-pot synthesis of peroxo-titania nanopowder and dual photochemical oxidation in aqueous methanol solution 2008 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·M.V. Shankar, Tetsuya Kako, Defa Wang, Jinhua Ye	30
18	Fractional Fourier transform of apertured paraboloid refracting system 2007 ·Chinese Optics Letters ·Jiannong Chen, Jinliang Yan, Defa Wang, (unknown)	2
19	Expression level of beta protein 1 mRNA in Chinese breast cancer patients: A potential molecular marker for poor prognosis 2007 ·Cancer Science ·Man Yu, Yi Yang, Yurong Shi, Defa Wang, Xiyin Wei, Ning Zhang, Ruifang Niu	15
20	New structures after martensitic transformation in an Fe-Mn-Si-Cr shape memory alloy 1998 ·自然科学进展(英文版) ·Defa Wang	1

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