Fanpeng Chen

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Fanpeng Chen is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Fanpeng Chen has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 19 papers in Catalysis and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Fanpeng Chen's work include Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (14 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Fanpeng Chen is often cited by papers focused on Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (14 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers). Fanpeng Chen collaborates with scholars based in China and France. Fanpeng Chen's co-authors include Bin Zhang, Yifu Yu, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Rong Yang, Hongjiao Li, Shuhe Han, Tieliang Li, Cuibo Liu, Yongmeng Wu and Mengyao Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fanpeng Chen

25 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.

Ultralow overpotential nitrate reduction to ammonia via a three-step relay mechanism

2023 699 citations Shuhe Han, Hongjiao Li et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
Electrochemical hydrogenation and oxidation of organic species involving water

2024 139 citations Cuibo Liu, Fanpeng Chen et al. Nature Reviews Chemistry profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fanpeng Chen China	14	1.2k	1.1k	624	327	262	27	1.7k
Faezeh Habibzadeh Canada	9	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	579 0.9×	271 0.8×	187 0.7×	10	1.8k
Shi‐Nan Zhang China	17	1.3k 1.0×	849 0.8×	683 1.1×	309 0.9×	239 0.9×	42	1.7k
Tieliang Li China	14	1.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	570 0.9×	451 1.4×	340 1.3×	20	1.8k
Nannan Meng China	19	1.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.6×	261 0.8×	266 1.0×	25	2.2k
Dazhi Yao Australia	13	1.1k 0.9×	764 0.7×	593 1.0×	216 0.7×	97 0.4×	21	1.4k
Nihan He China	9	1.4k 1.1×	957 0.9×	549 0.9×	122 0.4×	189 0.7×	12	1.6k
Shiyong Mou China	16	2.0k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	938 1.5×	294 0.9×	208 0.8×	23	2.3k
Li‐Wei Chen China	14	1.6k 1.3×	989 0.9×	1.0k 1.6×	250 0.8×	180 0.7×	33	2.0k
Runbo Zhao China	17	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	835 1.3×	396 1.2×	213 0.8×	19	2.0k
Shunhan Jia China	19	966 0.8×	849 0.8×	403 0.6×	126 0.4×	144 0.5×	42	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fanpeng Chen

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All Works

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Li, Rui, Meng He, Chuanqi Cheng, et al.. (2025). Defect‐Induced Electron Localization Promotes D₂O Dissociation and Nitrile Adsorption for Deuterated Amines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(14). e202424039–e202424039. 4 indexed citations

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He, Yichen, Fanpeng Chen, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Chuanqi Cheng, & Bin Zhang. (2025). Carbonyl‐Anchoring Stabilized Copper Single Sites with Cavity‐Enhanced Mass Transport for Acetylene‐to‐Ethylene Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie. 137(50).

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He, Yichen, Fanpeng Chen, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Chuanqi Cheng, & Bin Zhang. (2025). Carbonyl‐Anchoring Stabilized Copper Single Sites with Cavity‐Enhanced Mass Transport for Acetylene‐to‐Ethylene Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(50). e202518663–e202518663.

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Chen, Fanpeng, Chuanqi Cheng, Jiajun Wang, et al.. (2025). Potassium-stabilized metastable carbides and chalcogenides via surface chemical potential modulation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3869–3869. 5 indexed citations

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Miao, Bo‐Qiang, Fanpeng Chen, Chuanqi Cheng, et al.. (2025). Promoting the Kinetics of Ethylene Electrosynthesis via the Facet‐Dependent Activation of Acetylene over Silver Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(20). e202502757–e202502757. 11 indexed citations

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Miao, Bo‐Qiang, Fanpeng Chen, Chuanqi Cheng, et al.. (2025). Promoting the Kinetics of Ethylene Electrosynthesis via the Facet‐Dependent Activation of Acetylene over Silver Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 137(20). 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Chuanqi, Jiajun Wang, Fanpeng Chen, et al.. (2025). Selective electrosynthesis of 1,3-butadiene by tailoring the coverage of acetylene and water. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5685–5685. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Cuibo, Fanpeng Chen, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Yongmeng Wu, & Bin Zhang. (2024). Electrochemical hydrogenation and oxidation of organic species involving water. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 8(4). 277–293. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Chuanqi, Fanpeng Chen, Bin Zhang, Bo‐Hang Zhao, & Xi‐Wen Du. (2024). Promoting Water Dissociation and Weakening Active Hydrogen Adsorption to Boost the Hydrogen Transfer Reaction over a Cu−Ag Superlattice Electrocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413897–e202413897. 19 indexed citations

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Cheng, Chuanqi, Fanpeng Chen, Bin Zhang, Bo‐Hang Zhao, & Xi‐Wen Du. (2024). Promoting Water Dissociation and Weakening Active Hydrogen Adsorption to Boost the Hydrogen Transfer Reaction over a Cu−Ag Superlattice Electrocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Fanpeng, Li Li, Chuanqi Cheng, et al.. (2024). Ethylene electrosynthesis from low-concentrated acetylene via concave-surface enriched reactant and improved mass transfer. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5914–5914. 25 indexed citations

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Li, Li, Fanpeng Chen, Bo‐Hang Zhao, & Yifu Yu. (2024). Enhanced Ethylene Production from Electrocatalytic Acetylene Semi-hydrogenation Over Porous Carbon-Supported Cu Nanoparticles. Transactions of Tianjin University. 30(4). 297–304. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bo‐Hang, Fanpeng Chen, Chuanqi Cheng, et al.. (2023). Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity. Nature Sustainability. 6(7). 827–837. 133 indexed citations

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Chen, Fanpeng, et al.. (2023). Understanding of the structural evolution of catalysts and identification of active species during CO2 conversion. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(4). 109240–109240. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuting, et al.. (2023). Electromagnetic field-assisted low-temperature ammonia synthesis. Science Bulletin. 68(17). 1871–1874. 13 indexed citations

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Han, Shuhe, Hongjiao Li, Tieliang Li, et al.. (2023). Ultralow overpotential nitrate reduction to ammonia via a three-step relay mechanism. Nature Catalysis. 6(5). 402–414. 699 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Fanpeng, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Mengyao Sun, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic insight into the controlled synthesis of metal phosphide catalysts from annealing of metal oxides with sodium hypophosphite. Nano Research. 15(12). 10134–10141. 43 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bo‐Hang, Mengyao Sun, Fanpeng Chen, et al.. (2021). Photoinduced Reaction Pathway Change for Boosting CO₂ Hydrogenation over a MnO-Co Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 11(16). 10316–10323. 23 indexed citations

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Sun, Mengyao, Bo‐Hang Zhao, Rong Yang, et al.. (2021). Photoinduced H₂ Heterolysis to Form Mo₂NH_x Active Species for CO₂ Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 6(5). 2024–2029. 20 indexed citations

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Zhao, Bo‐Hang, Mengyao Sun, Fanpeng Chen, et al.. (2020). Unveiling the Activity Origin of Iron Nitride as Catalytic Material for Efficient Hydrogenation of CO₂ to C₂₊ Hydrocarbons. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(9). 4496–4500. 93 indexed citations

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