Di Zu

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Di Zu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Di Zu has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Di Zu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (4 papers). Di Zu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (4 papers). Di Zu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Di Zu's co-authors include Hui Wu, Kai Huang, Haiyang Wang, Gang Ou, Sen Lin, Binghui Ge, Ming Lei, Ziwei Li, Zhenglian Liu and Bo Wen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Di Zu

21 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction

2018 609 citations Gang Ou, Yushuai Xu et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Di Zu China	12	826	669	659	318	294	21	1.6k
Joonhee Moon South Korea	24	1.2k 1.5×	863 1.3×	731 1.1×	481 1.5×	371 1.3×	42	2.1k
Chengzhi Luo China	20	765 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	639 1.0×	1.0k 3.3×	438 1.5×	46	2.2k
Benjamin V. Cunning South Korea	19	650 0.8×	750 1.1×	435 0.7×	342 1.1×	386 1.3×	33	1.5k
Yun Wu China	27	1.4k 1.7×	1.6k 2.3×	1.2k 1.9×	370 1.2×	321 1.1×	101	2.9k
Alex J. Welch United States	12	590 0.7×	486 0.7×	557 0.8×	397 1.2×	572 1.9×	12	1.6k
Guoqiang Lu China	20	359 0.4×	553 0.8×	544 0.8×	118 0.4×	507 1.7×	53	1.5k
Manzhang Xu China	31	1.7k 2.1×	1.5k 2.3×	989 1.5×	518 1.6×	824 2.8×	93	3.1k
Yuanbin Qin China	22	510 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	650 1.0×	212 0.7×	164 0.6×	50	1.5k
Anand P. Tiwari South Korea	24	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	948 1.4×	249 0.8×	181 0.6×	41	1.9k
Hisashi Sugime Japan	27	1.2k 1.5×	690 1.0×	487 0.7×	236 0.7×	394 1.3×	78	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Di Zu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Di Zu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Di Zu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Di Zu 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 Di Zu. Di Zu 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

She, Sixuan, Hsiao‐Chien Chen, Changsheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Regulating Ru–Ru Distance in RuO₂ Catalyst by Lattice Hydroxyl for Efficient Water Oxidation. ACS Nano. 19(19). 18513–18521. 6 indexed citations

Zu, Di, et al.. (2024). Interferometric Phase Intensity Nanoscopy (iPINE), Revealing Nanostructural Features, Resolves Proximal Nanometer Objects below the Diffraction Limit: Implications in Long-Time Super-Resolution of Biological Dynamics. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(16). 18443–18449. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yu, Yixuan Li, Hehe Wei, et al.. (2024). Efficient and durable OER electrocatalysts through vacancy engineering and core-shell structure design in acidic environment. Materials Today Energy. 46. 101722–101722. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Yunbo, Di Zu, Zhijia Zhang, et al.. (2023). Phase intensity nanoscope (PINE) opens long-time investigation windows of living matter. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4318–4318. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Haiyang, Di Zu, Yong Xu, et al.. (2023). Bifunctional Activated Carbon Ultrathin Fibers: Combining the Removal of VOCs and PM in One Material. Advanced Fiber Materials. 5(6). 1934–1948. 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhijia, et al.. (2022). Dynamic observations of CRISPR‐Cas target recognition and cleavage heterogeneities. Nanophotonics. 11(19). 4419–4425. 6 indexed citations

Zu, Di, et al.. (2020). Black ZrO ₂ synthesized by molten lithium reduction strategy for photocatalytic hydrogen generation. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 103(8). 4035–4042. 21 indexed citations

Lin, Sen, Haiyang Wang, Fan Wu, et al.. (2019). Room-temperature production of silver-nanofiber film for large-area, transparent and flexible surface electromagnetic interference shielding. npj Flexible Electronics. 3(1). 182 indexed citations

Wei, Hehe, Hongbo Wu, Kai Huang, et al.. (2019). Ultralow-temperature photochemical synthesis of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Chemical Science. 10(9). 2830–2836. 96 indexed citations

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Lin, Sen, Junchen Liu, Qingmin Wang, et al.. (2019). Highly Robust, Flexible, and Large‐Scale 3D‐Metallized Sponge for High‐Performance Electromagnetic Interference Shielding. Advanced Materials Technologies. 5(2). 59 indexed citations

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Li, Lei, Chao Jia, Ziqiang Shao, et al.. (2019). Fe₃O₄/Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Electrodes from Tailored Thermal Expansion toward Flexible Solid‐State Asymmetric Supercapacitors. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 6(21). 9 indexed citations

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Zu, Di, Zhongfei Xu, Ao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Room temperature Mg reduction of TiO₂: formation mechanism and application in photocatalysis. Chemical Communications. 55(53). 7675–7678. 16 indexed citations

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Ou, Gang, Fengchi Wu, Kai Huang, et al.. (2019). Boosting the Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation Performance of CoFe₂O₄ Nanoparticles by Surface Defect Engineering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(4). 3978–3983. 90 indexed citations

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Lin, Sen, Junchen Liu, Wenzheng Li, et al.. (2019). A Flexible, Robust, and Gel-Free Electroencephalogram Electrode for Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interfaces. Nano Letters. 19(10). 6853–6861. 147 indexed citations

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Zu, Di, Haiyang Wang, Sen Lin, et al.. (2019). Oxygen-deficient metal oxides: Synthesis routes and applications in energy and environment. Nano Research. 12(9). 2150–2163. 101 indexed citations

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Lin, Sen, Haiyang Wang, Xuenan Zhang, et al.. (2019). Direct spray-coating of highly robust and transparent Ag nanowires for energy saving windows. Nano Energy. 62. 111–116. 234 indexed citations

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Wang, Haiyang, Sen Lin, Di Zu, et al.. (2019). Direct Blow Spinning of Flexible and Transparent Ag Nanofiber Heater. Advanced Materials Technologies. 4(7). 23 indexed citations

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Ou, Gang, Yushuai Xu, Bo Wen, et al.. (2018). Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1302–1302. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Zhenjie, Rui Yang, Di Zu, & Shuqing Sun. (2017). Microscopic Differentiation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for the Ratiometric Read-out of Target DNA. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14742–14742. 4 indexed citations

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Liao, Ran, et al.. (2017). Digital quantification of DNA by mapping polarization degree related with coding gold nanorods. Applied Optics. 56(33). 9301–9301. 2 indexed citations

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