Haiyang Zou

12.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
88 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Haiyang Zou is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Haiyang Zou has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 41 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Haiyang Zou's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (46 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (39 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (10 papers). Haiyang Zou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (46 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (39 papers) and Tactile and Sensory Interactions (10 papers). Haiyang Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Haiyang Zou's co-authors include Zhong Lin Wang, Cheng Xu, Aurelia Chi Wang, Peihong Wang, Xu He, Guozhang Dai, Yi‐Cheng Wang, Yejing Dai, Ruiyuan Liu and Chao-Yu Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Haiyang Zou

85 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

Quantifying the triboelec... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2019 2016 2018 2018 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Quantifying the triboelectric series
    2019 1.5k citations Haiyang Zou, Ying Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Micro-cable structured textile for simultaneously harvesting solar and mechanical energy
    2016 936 citations Haiyang Zou, Zhong Lin Wang et al. profile →
  3. On the Electron‐Transfer Mechanism in the Contact‐Electrification Effect
    2018 784 citations Cheng Xu, Aurelia Chi Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. A Stretchable Yarn Embedded Triboelectric Nanogenerator as Electronic Skin for Biomechanical Energy Harvesting and Multifunctional Pressure Sensing
    2018 451 citations Aurelia Chi Wang, Haiyang Zou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Quantifying and understanding the triboelectric series of inorganic non-metallic materials
    2020 444 citations Haiyang Zou, Litong Guo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. A Highly Stretchable and Washable All-Yarn-Based Self-Charging Knitting Power Textile Composed of Fiber Triboelectric Nanogenerators and Supercapacitors
    2017 437 citations Yi‐Cheng Wang, Steven L. Zhang et al. ACS Nano profile →
  7. A novel method to recycle mixed cathode materials for lithium ion batteries
    2013 361 citations Haiyang Zou et al. profile →
  8. 3D Orthogonal Woven Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Effective Biomechanical Energy Harvesting and as Self‐Powered Active Motion Sensors
    2017 343 citations Yi‐Cheng Wang, Cheng Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  9. An Ultra-Low-Friction Triboelectric–Electromagnetic Hybrid Nanogenerator for Rotation Energy Harvesting and Self-Powered Wind Speed Sensor
    2018 325 citations Peihong Wang, Minyi Xu et al. ACS Nano profile →
  10. Super-robust and frequency-multiplied triboelectric nanogenerator for efficient harvesting water and wind energy
    2019 295 citations Binbin Zhang, Haiyang Zou et al. Nano Energy profile →
  11. Standardized measurement of dielectric materials’ intrinsic triboelectric charge density through the suppression of air breakdown
    2022 170 citations Di Liu, Linglin Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Haiyang Zou China 48 8.3k 5.9k 2.9k 2.3k 2.3k 88 11.0k
Jie Chen China 48 6.7k 0.8× 4.2k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 2.0k 0.9× 200 9.5k
Zhitao Zhang China 45 3.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.5× 3.9k 1.3× 3.0k 1.3× 648 0.3× 209 8.7k
Nan Liu China 43 3.0k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 3.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 495 0.2× 191 7.9k
Liang Xu China 62 9.8k 1.2× 6.6k 1.1× 2.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 2.9k 1.3× 121 11.8k
Chengyi Hou China 61 5.1k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 4.1k 1.4× 1.9k 0.8× 1.4k 0.6× 256 11.9k
Wei Tang China 72 14.0k 1.7× 8.8k 1.5× 3.7k 1.3× 3.0k 1.3× 3.9k 1.7× 276 17.2k
Jun Yang China 55 4.7k 0.6× 2.9k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 939 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 174 9.7k
Yuan‐Qing Li China 55 4.1k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 239 10.4k
Chunya Wang China 36 6.9k 0.8× 3.6k 0.6× 3.0k 1.0× 979 0.4× 920 0.4× 117 9.6k
Shuai Chen China 58 3.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.3× 5.8k 2.0× 2.2k 1.0× 912 0.4× 328 10.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haiyang Zou

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Chaoran, Xin Tong, Hongjian Lin, et al.. (2025). Broadband and low-crest-factor direct-current triboelectric nanogenerator with phase-shifting modulation. Cell Reports Physical Science. 6(5). 102596–102596. 2 indexed citations
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Zou, Haiyang, Thanh D. Nguyen, & Giuseppina Pace. (2025). Materials and figures of merit for nanogenerators. MRS Bulletin. 50(3). 295–304. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Chaoran, Xin Tong, Zhenhua Wu, et al.. (2025). Water-evaporation-induced direct current electricity generation based on stretchable hydrogel/Al2O3. Matter. 8(10). 102200–102200. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Xucong, Chaoran Liu, Haiyang Zou, et al.. (2024). A Micro-Airflow Sensor System Enabled by Triboelectric Nanogenerator for Lab Safety and Human–Computer Interaction. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(5). 6880–6887. 5 indexed citations
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Tewari, Amit, et al.. (2024). Printed and Stretchable Triboelectric Energy Harvester Based on P(VDF‐TrFE) Porous Aerogel. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(19). 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Di, Linglin Zhou, Shengnan Cui, et al.. (2022). Standardized measurement of dielectric materials’ intrinsic triboelectric charge density through the suppression of air breakdown. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6019–6019. 170 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dai, Baoying, Gill M. Biesold, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Piezo-phototronic effect on photocatalysis, solar cells, photodetectors and light-emitting diodes. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(24). 13646–13691. 140 indexed citations
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Liu, Chaoran, Haiyang Zou, Lufeng Che, et al.. (2020). Theoretical investigation and experimental verification of the self-powered acceleration sensor based on triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Extreme Mechanics Letters. 42. 101021–101021. 41 indexed citations
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Zou, Haiyang, Litong Guo, Hao Xue, et al.. (2020). Quantifying and understanding the triboelectric series of inorganic non-metallic materials. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2093–2093. 444 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zou, Haiyang, Xiaogan Li, Guozhang Dai, et al.. (2019). Dramatically Enhanced Broadband Photodetection by Dual Inversion Layers and Fowler–Nordheim Tunneling. ACS Nano. 13(2). 2289–2297. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Haidong, Jing Li, Minghui Cheng, et al.. (2018). Optimal drip fertigation management improves yield, quality, water and nitrogen use efficiency of greenhouse cucumber. Scientia Horticulturae. 243. 357–366. 95 indexed citations
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Xiang, Youzhen, Haiyang Zou, Fucang Zhang, et al.. (2018). Effect of Irrigation Level and Irrigation Frequency on the Growth of Mini Chinese Cabbage and Residual Soil Nitrate Nitrogen. Sustainability. 11(1). 111–111. 16 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuliang, Ying Zhang, Zhaowu Wang, et al.. (2018). Dynamic Electronic Doping for Correlated Oxides by a Triboelectric Nanogenerator. Advanced Materials. 30(45). e1803580–e1803580. 26 indexed citations
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Zhang, Fucang, et al.. (2016). Nutrition diagnosis for N in bell pepper based on critical nitrogen model in solar greenhouse. Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao. 32(17). 97. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Lu, Jin Xuan, Dennis Y.C. Leung, et al.. (2016). A switchable pH-differential unitized regenerative fuel cell with high performance. Journal of Power Sources. 314. 76–84. 25 indexed citations
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Zou, Haiyang. (2008). Geochemistry Features of Accumulated Dust in Changsha,Zhuzhou and Xiangtan. 1 indexed citations
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Zou, Haiyang. (2008). THE STATUS QUO AND EVALUATION OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION OF SOILS IN THE CHANGSHA,ZHUZHOU AND XIANGTAN AREAS. Earth and Environment. 3 indexed citations

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