Hua Sheng

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Hua Sheng is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Hua Sheng has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Hua Sheng's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (46 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers). Hua Sheng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (46 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers). Hua Sheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Belgium. Hua Sheng's co-authors include Jincai Zhao, Chuncheng Chen, Hongwei Ji, Chaoyuan Deng, Shijie Xie, Yangfan Li, Wanhong Ma, Wanyi Zhang, Wenjing Song and Wei Wang 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

Hua Sheng

64 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Photocatalytic C–C Coupling from Carbon Dioxide Reduction... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Photocatalytic C–C Coupling from Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper Oxide with Mixed-Valence Copper(I)/Copper(II)
    2021 408 citations Wei Wang, Chaoyuan Deng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hua Sheng China 27 2.2k 1.7k 617 367 248 71 2.9k
Min Zhou China 33 2.6k 1.2× 2.6k 1.5× 1.2k 1.9× 202 0.6× 210 0.8× 93 3.5k
Jun Hu China 30 1.4k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 675 1.1× 503 1.4× 483 1.9× 110 3.1k
Haomin Xu China 16 2.7k 1.2× 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 2.5× 662 1.8× 157 0.6× 24 3.5k
Lingyu Piao China 30 2.4k 1.0× 2.2k 1.3× 706 1.1× 204 0.6× 182 0.7× 66 3.1k
Dong‐Hee Lim South Korea 29 2.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.9× 1.8k 2.9× 415 1.1× 122 0.5× 87 3.8k
Hongliang Bao China 27 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.3k 2.2× 252 0.7× 610 2.5× 75 3.3k
Shuxian Wei China 32 1.5k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 882 1.4× 466 1.3× 385 1.6× 141 3.0k
Fernando Fresno Spain 35 3.3k 1.5× 2.9k 1.7× 1.1k 1.8× 196 0.5× 238 1.0× 78 4.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hua Sheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hua Sheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hua Sheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hua Sheng 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 Hua Sheng. Hua Sheng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Xie, Shijie, Bo Sheng, Bo-Wen Xiao, et al.. (2025). Air‐Level Oxygen Enables 100% Selectivity in Urea Synthesis via Photocatalytic C─N Coupling of CO and Ammonia. Angewandte Chemie. 137(30). 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Shijie, Bo Sheng, Bo-Wen Xiao, et al.. (2025). Air‐Level Oxygen Enables 100% Selectivity in Urea Synthesis via Photocatalytic C─N Coupling of CO and Ammonia. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202505630–e202505630. 6 indexed citations
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Jia, Tongtong, Yufan Zhang, Ran Duan, et al.. (2025). Shifting from One- to Two-Electron Transfer Towards Water-Donating Photocatalytic Hydrogenation. CCS Chemistry. 8(3). 1407–1419.
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Zhang, Zhiyong, Qing Huang, Yangen Xie, et al.. (2025). Solar-driven direct coupling of atmospheric CO2 with ammonia for urea synthesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10493–10493.
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Wang, Xi, Siqin Liu, Lei Wu, et al.. (2025). Axially Wired Single‐Site Catalyst Enabled Ampere‐Level Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis From Nitrate. Advanced Functional Materials.
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Wang, Chong, Yupeng Song, Tao Wang, et al.. (2025). Fullerene C70‐Encapsulated Tetrathiafulvalene‐Co Porphyrin Covalent Organic Framework: Driving Multistep Charge Transfer to Boost CO2 Photoreduction. Advanced Science. 12(28). e2505161–e2505161. 1 indexed citations
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Sheng, Bo, Qi Zhao, Zhiyong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Discriminative Peroxymonosulfate Activation on Iron Carbides for Redox‐Neutral Singlet Oxygen Generation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(50). e202519774–e202519774.
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Li, Yangfan, Qi Zhao, Baipeng Yin, et al.. (2025). Spin Catalysis of Urea Electrosynthesis Using Diluted Magnetic Oxides. CCS Chemistry. 1–14.
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Li, Yangfan, et al.. (2024). Mixed CO adsorption modes induced by lattice strain to facilitate C-C coupling during electrochemical CO reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 361. 124627–124627. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Yangfan, Shijie Xie, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2024). The Tandem Nitrate and CO2 Reduction for Urea Electrosynthesis: Role of Surface N‐Intermediates in CO2 Capture and Activation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(24). e202403980–e202403980. 65 indexed citations
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Deng, Chaoyuan, Mengyu Duan, Yukun Zhao, et al.. (2024). Non-radical photoelectrochemical production of free chlorine from diluted chloride solutions on BiVO4. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 361. 124644–124644. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, Ben Niu, Zhiyong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Spatially Separate Center-to-Surround Radiation Structure Induced Tandem Electron Transfer Effect for Stable and Enhanced Photocatalysis. Nano Letters. 24(40). 12628–12633. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wanyi, Chaoyuan Deng, Wei Wang, Hua Sheng, & Jincai Zhao. (2024). Achieving Almost 100% Selectivity in Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methane via In‐Situ Atmosphere Regulation Strategy. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2405825–e2405825. 38 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yukun, Mengyu Duan, Chaoyuan Deng, et al.. (2023). Br−/BrO−-mediated highly efficient photoelectrochemical epoxidation of alkenes on α-Fe2O3. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1943–1943. 55 indexed citations
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Li, Yangfan, Shijie Xie, Wenjing Song, et al.. (2023). Spectating the proton migration on catalyst with noninnocent ligand in aqueous electrochemical CO2 reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 329. 122542–122542. 9 indexed citations
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Xie, Shijie, Chaoyuan Deng, Qing Huang, et al.. (2023). Facilitated Photocatalytic CO2Reduction in Aerobic Environment on a Copper‐Porphyrin Metal–Organic Framework. Angewandte Chemie. 135(10). 3 indexed citations
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Xie, Shijie, Chaoyuan Deng, Qing Huang, et al.. (2023). Facilitated Photocatalytic CO2Reduction in Aerobic Environment on a Copper‐Porphyrin Metal–Organic Framework. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(10). e202216717–e202216717. 72 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yukun, Chaoyuan Deng, Daojian Tang, et al.. (2021). α-Fe2O3 as a versatile and efficient oxygen atom transfer catalyst in combination with H2O as the oxygen source. Nature Catalysis. 4(8). 684–691. 205 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei, Chaoyuan Deng, Shijie Xie, et al.. (2021). Photocatalytic C–C Coupling from Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Copper Oxide with Mixed-Valence Copper(I)/Copper(II). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(7). 2984–2993. 408 indexed citations breakdown →

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