Defa Wang

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

About

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

Hit Papers

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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.

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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Author						Papers	Cites
Defa Wang	5.0k	4.8k	2.2k	895	388	137	6.6k
Stephen A. Shevlin	5.8k 1.2×	6.4k 1.3×	3.1k 1.4×	749 0.8×	377 1.0×	52	8.6k
Caimei Fan	4.7k 0.9×	4.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	716 0.8×	454 1.2×	210	6.2k
Hua Xu	4.6k 0.9×	5.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	608 0.7×	293 0.8×	120	7.1k
Xiaoxiang Xu	4.5k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	814 0.9×	294 0.8×	163	5.8k
Štěpán Kment	3.8k 0.8×	3.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	748 0.8×	234 0.6×	145	6.0k
Jum Suk Jang	7.6k 1.5×	6.6k 1.4×	3.2k 1.5×	996 1.1×	241 0.6×	195	9.6k
Youngku Sohn	3.4k 0.7×	4.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	594 1.5×	262	6.5k
Kai Yang	5.2k 1.0×	5.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	655 0.7×	426 1.1×	182	7.0k
Jun Fang	2.2k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	871 1.0×	403 1.0×	118	4.5k
Savio J. A. Moniz	6.5k 1.3×	5.7k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	650 0.7×	211 0.5×	36	7.6k

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Wang, Chen, et al.. (2025). Dynamic integrated approach to safety risk management in substation maintenance and testing integration operations. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 261. 111061–111061. 1 indexed citations

Song, Hui, Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, et al.. (2025). Integrating photochemical and photothermal effects for selective oxidative coupling of methane into C2+ hydrocarbons with multiple active sites. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2831–2831. 13 indexed citations

Sun, Kai, Hengming Huang, Haijiao Lu, et al.. (2025). Solar-Driven C–N Coupling over Pd/TiO ₂ Enables High-Yield Synthesis of Methylamine Hydrochlorides from Methanol and Ammonium Chloride. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(49). 44962–44971.

Ba, Guiming, et al.. (2025). Bi2Te3/SrTiO3 Nanocomposite for Enhanced CO2 Photoreduction via a Synergistic Photothermoelectric Effect. Catalysts. 15(3). 229–229.

Sun, Kai, Shengyao Wang, Xusheng Wang, et al.. (2025). 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. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(49). e202517585–e202517585.

Ba, Guiming, et al.. (2024). Engineering nitrogen vacancies and cyano groups into C3N4 nanosheets for highly efficient photocatalytic H2O2 production. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 361. 124645–124645. 30 indexed citations

Hu, Shan, et al.. (2024). Ag Nanoparticles‐Modified FeVO₄ Composite for Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 28(4). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Xueliang, Yike Liu, Xin Wang, et al.. (2023). Efficient photothermal alcohol dehydration over a plasmonic W18O49 nanostructure under visible-to-near-infrared irradiation. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 441. 114728–114728. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Xinmin, Jiwei Cui, Xiaolu Liu, et al.. (2023). Boosting photocatalytic overall water splitting over single-layer graphene coated metal cocatalyst. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 325. 122369–122369. 22 indexed citations

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Pang, Hong, Wei Zhou, Huilin Hu, et al.. (2023). Polar-surface-dominated zigzag GaN nanowires with alternate H2 and O2 evolution sites for photocatalytic overall water splitting. Applied Catalysis A General. 654. 119084–119084. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Xin, Junxiang Chen, Huayu Chen, et al.. (2023). Promoting water dissociation for efficient solar driven CO2 electroreduction via improving hydroxyl adsorption. Nature Communications. 14(1). 751–751. 90 indexed citations

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Wang, Li, Dongdong Lv, Zengji Yue, et al.. (2018). Promoting photoreduction properties via synergetic utilization between plasmonic effect and highly active facet of BiOCl. Nano Energy. 57. 398–404. 65 indexed citations

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Wang, Defa, et al.. (2018). Simultaneous confidence bands for a percentile hyper-plane with covariates constrained in a restricted range. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 344. 301–312. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Dongjie, Yue Wu, Yue Wu, et al.. (2017). Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 2-aryl-4-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoyl)-1,2,3-triazol derivatives as microtubule-destabilizing agents. RSC Advances. 7(46). 29103–29111. 12 indexed citations

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Ren, Jian, Huilin Hu, Peng Li, et al.. (2015). Synthesis, Characterization, and Photocatalytic Activity of g‐C₃N₄/KTaO₃ Composites under Visible Light Irradiation. Journal of Nanomaterials. 2015(1). 18 indexed citations

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Pang, Hong, Lequan Liu, Shuxin Ouyang, et al.. (2014). Structure, Optical Properties, and Photocatalytic Activity towards H₂Generation and CO₂Reduction of GaN Nanowires via Vapor-Liquid-Solid Process. International Journal of Photoenergy. 2014. 1–6. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiannong, et al.. (2007). Fractional Fourier transform of apertured paraboloid refracting system. Chinese Optics Letters. 5(1). 18–20. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Man, Yi Yang, Yurong Shi, et al.. (2007). Expression level of beta protein 1 mRNA in Chinese breast cancer patients: A potential molecular marker for poor prognosis. Cancer Science. 99(1). 173–178. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Defa & Jinhua Ye. (2005). Substitution Effects of the Trivalent Cations M3+ on the Photophysical and Photocatalytic Properties of In12NiM2Ti10O42 (M = Al, Cr, Ga). MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS. 46(12). 2699–2703. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Defa. (1998). New structures after martensitic transformation in an Fe-Mn-Si-Cr shape memory alloy. 自然科学进展(英文版). 1 indexed citations

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