Haofan Yang

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Haofan Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Haofan Yang has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Haofan Yang's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (9 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers). Haofan Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (9 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers). Haofan Yang collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Singapore. Haofan Yang's co-authors include Andrew I. Cooper, Lunjie Liu, Xiaobo Li, Xiaoyan Wang, Nigel D. Browning, Rob Clowes, Mounib Bahri, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, Mei‐Yan Gao and Xue Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Haofan Yang

26 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.

Linear Conjugated Polymers for Solar-Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production: The Importance of Catalyst Stability

2021 288 citations Lunjie Liu, Mei‐Yan Gao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Using sound to synthesize covalent organic frameworks in water

2022 201 citations Wei Zhao, Peiyao Yan et al. Nature Synthesis profile →
A Pyrene-4,5,9,10-Tetraone-Based Covalent Organic Framework Delivers High Specific Capacity as a Li-Ion Positive Electrode

2022 182 citations Hui Gao, Alex R. Neale et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haofan Yang United Kingdom	17	1.2k	864	615	581	132	29	1.6k
Yucheng Jin China	22	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	627 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	98 0.7×	69	2.2k
Fangyuan Kang Hong Kong	18	790 0.6×	305 0.4×	445 0.7×	370 0.6×	94 0.7×	62	1.2k
Xuechun Jing China	8	1.1k 0.9×	477 0.6×	359 0.6×	659 1.1×	93 0.7×	9	1.3k
Zhipeng Xie China	17	931 0.7×	958 1.1×	675 1.1×	331 0.6×	65 0.5×	28	1.4k
Zhenjie Mu China	12	821 0.7×	430 0.5×	414 0.7×	532 0.9×	55 0.4×	17	1.1k
Weijie Zhang China	21	826 0.7×	473 0.5×	211 0.3×	473 0.8×	78 0.6×	61	1.2k
Kazuyuki Iwase Japan	17	754 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	427 0.7×	231 0.4×	36 0.3×	38	1.4k
Narae Kang South Korea	19	1.3k 1.0×	433 0.5×	668 1.1×	424 0.7×	96 0.7×	29	1.7k
Dongming Cheng China	17	540 0.4×	243 0.3×	533 0.9×	336 0.6×	127 1.0×	28	1.0k
Chun‐Yu Lin Taiwan	17	1.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	777 1.3×	404 0.7×	97 0.7×	40	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haofan Yang

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Xu, Yongjie, Yang Liu, Xue Wang, et al.. (2025). Base-mediated exfoliation of quinoline-linked covalent organic frameworks for heavy metal ion adsorption. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(33). 27524–27530.

Mao, Lijun, Haofan Yang, Ning Huang, et al.. (2025). MiR-122 promotes metastasis of hepatoma cells by modulating RBM47-integrin alpha V-TGF-beta signaling. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0327915–e0327915. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Haofan, et al.. (2025). An Improvement of the Load Transfer Method for Energy Piles Under Thermo-Mechanical Loads. Applied Sciences. 15(11). 6046–6046.

Yang, Haofan, et al.. (2025). A Sub-5 ppm/°C Bandgap Voltage Reference With Dual Source-Sink Current Compensation. 2(1). 13–21.

Bondarenko, Anna S., Benjamin T. Diroll, Xiaodan Wang, et al.. (2024). Unexpected Photodriven Linker-to-Node Hole Transfer in a Zirconium-Based Metal–Organic Framework. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(46). 11496–11503. 2 indexed citations

Li, Chao, Tao Liu, Adrian M. Gardner, et al.. (2024). Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopic study of molecular nanoaggregate photocatalysts. Chemical Science. 15(39). 16133–16141. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Weiwei, Miaojie Yu, Tao Liu, et al.. (2024). Accelerated discovery of molecular nanojunction photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution by using automated screening and flow synthesis. Nature Synthesis. 3(5). 595–605. 34 indexed citations

Li, Xiaobo, Linjiang Chen, Tao Liu, et al.. (2024). Sequential closed-loop Bayesian optimization as a guide for organic molecular metallophotocatalyst formulation discovery. Nature Chemistry. 16(8). 1286–1294. 26 indexed citations

Jiang, Gang, et al.. (2024). Modeling of Thermomechanical Energy Pile Behavior with Temperature-Induced Radial Effects. International Journal of Geomechanics. 25(1). 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Haofan, Chao Li, Tao Liu, et al.. (2023). Packing-induced selectivity switching in molecular nanoparticle photocatalysts for hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide production. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(3). 307–315. 97 indexed citations

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Yang, Haofan, et al.. (2023). Machine Learning Accelerated Exploration of Ternary Organic Heterojunction Photocatalysts for Sacrificial Hydrogen Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(49). 27038–27044. 25 indexed citations

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Gao, Hui, Alex R. Neale, Qiang Zhu, et al.. (2022). A Pyrene-4,5,9,10-Tetraone-Based Covalent Organic Framework Delivers High Specific Capacity as a Li-Ion Positive Electrode. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(21). 9434–9442. 182 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bai, Yang, Chao Li, Lunjie Liu, et al.. (2022). Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting Under Visible Light Enabled by a Particulate Conjugated Polymer Loaded with Palladium and Iridium**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(26). e202201299–e202201299. 79 indexed citations

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Zhao, Wei, Peiyao Yan, Haofan Yang, et al.. (2022). Using sound to synthesize covalent organic frameworks in water. Nature Synthesis. 1(1). 87–95. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Lunjie, Mei‐Yan Gao, Haofan Yang, et al.. (2021). Linear Conjugated Polymers for Solar-Driven Hydrogen Peroxide Production: The Importance of Catalyst Stability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(46). 19287–19293. 288 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Hui, Qiang Zhu, Alex R. Neale, et al.. (2021). Integrated Covalent Organic Framework/Carbon Nanotube Composite as Li‐Ion Positive Electrode with Ultra‐High Rate Performance. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(39). 142 indexed citations

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Yang, Haofan, Xiaobo Li, Reiner Sebastian Sprick, & Andrew I. Cooper. (2020). Conjugated polymer donor–molecular acceptor nanohybrids for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Chemical Communications. 56(50). 6790–6793. 79 indexed citations

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Wang, Kewei, Zhifang Jia, Yang Bai, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Stable Thiazole-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks via a Multicomponent Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(25). 11131–11138. 243 indexed citations

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Gao, Hui, Bingbing Tian, Haofan Yang, et al.. (2020). Crosslinked Polyimide and Reduced Graphene Oxide Composites as Long Cycle Life Positive Electrode for Lithium‐Ion Cells. ChemSusChem. 13(20). 5571–5579. 18 indexed citations

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Yang, Haofan, Wenchan Dong, Lei Lei, et al.. (2020). Highly Nonlinear Organic-Silicon Slot Waveguide for Ultrafast Multimode All-Optical Logic Operations. IEEE photonics journal. 12(6). 1–12. 42 indexed citations

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