Huayan Yang

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Huayan Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Huayan Yang has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Materials Chemistry, 24 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Huayan Yang's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (29 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (23 papers) and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (19 papers). Huayan Yang is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (29 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (23 papers) and Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (19 papers). Huayan Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Finland and United States. Huayan Yang's co-authors include Nanfeng Zheng, Shaoning Yu, Yu Wang, Shouning Yang, Aichun Dong, Hannu Häkkinen, Jilie Kong, Sami Malola, Juanzhu Yan and Hua-Qi Huang 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

Huayan Yang

61 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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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.

Obtaining information about protein secondary structures in aqueous solution using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy

2015 982 citations Huayan Yang, Shouning Yang et al. Nature Protocols profile →
All-thiol-stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 nanoparticles with single-crystal structures

2013 694 citations Huayan Yang, Yu Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Interfacial electronic effects control the reaction selectivity of platinum catalysts

2016 634 citations Guangxu Chen, Chaofa Xu et al. Nature Materials profile →
Progress in infrared spectroscopy as an efficient tool for predicting protein secondary structure

2022 144 citations Shouning Yang, Huayan Yang et al. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Huayan Yang China	27	3.4k	1.8k	685	640	594	65	5.2k
Hideya Kawasaki Japan	43	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	1.4k 2.1×	433 0.7×	219	7.0k
Lixin Xia China	35	2.0k 0.6×	779 0.4×	896 1.3×	822 1.3×	619 1.0×	221	4.6k
Eulália Pereira Portugal	34	1.6k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	642 1.0×	296 0.5×	101	4.0k
Dongxiang Li China	33	1.6k 0.5×	805 0.4×	802 1.2×	731 1.1×	389 0.7×	113	3.9k
Ilaria Fratoddi Italy	39	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	655 1.0×	544 0.8×	265 0.4×	153	4.4k
Carlos Rodríguez‐Abreu Spain	35	1.7k 0.5×	584 0.3×	316 0.5×	1.3k 2.1×	556 0.9×	148	4.0k
Sherine O. Obare United States	27	1.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	660 1.0×	480 0.8×	250 0.4×	69	3.6k
Yong Xie China	29	1.5k 0.4×	586 0.3×	485 0.7×	526 0.8×	900 1.5×	110	3.8k
Zhongyu Yang United States	38	2.2k 0.6×	470 0.3×	1.5k 2.2×	334 0.5×	397 0.7×	148	5.0k
Iole Venditti Italy	41	1.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	650 0.9×	411 0.6×	239 0.4×	125	4.2k

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Dai, Jiyan, Chao Yang, Hai‐Feng Su, et al.. (2025). Highly stable bidentate thiol-protected Ag ₅ Cu ₄ nanoclusters: a stable catalyst for enhanced Knoevenagel condensation. Chemical Communications. 61(38). 6933–6936.

Dai, Jiyan, Chuan Shi, Zhixun Zhang, et al.. (2025). Halide Ion-Templated Atomic Precision Synthesis and Structural Modulation of Silver Sulfide Nanoclusters. Journal of Cluster Science. 36(2). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Shouning, Hongyan Jia, Shengkun Wang, et al.. (2025). Species- and subspecies-level differentiation of cancer cells based on viscosity sensitive fluorescence sensor array and machine learning. Microchemical Journal. 213. 113682–113682.

Zhang, Zhixun, Jiyan Dai, Chuan Shi, et al.. (2025). From intermediate capture to functional cluster construction: Synthesis of silver clusters and their Br ⁻/I ⁻ sensing applications. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 9140086–9140086. 1 indexed citations

Luo, H., Chuan Shi, Jiyan Dai, et al.. (2025). Precise Synthesis of High-Strength Chiral Au Nanomaterials: From Chiral Au Nanoclusters to Chiral Au Nanoparticles. Inorganics. 13(3). 72–72.

Song, Jian, et al.. (2024). A new fusion strategy for rapid strain differentiation based on MALDI-TOF MS and Raman spectra. The Analyst. 149(21). 5287–5297. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Huayan, Haimei Shi, Bin Feng, et al.. (2023). Protocol for bacterial typing using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. STAR Protocols. 4(2). 102223–102223. 13 indexed citations

Krishnadas, Kumaranchira Ramankutty, et al.. (2022). Molecule-like and lattice vibrations in metal clusters. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(22). 13848–13859. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Huayan, Meng Wang, Yanmin Zhang, et al.. (2019). Detailed insight into the formation of protein corona: Conformational change, stability and aggregation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 135. 1114–1122. 24 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, Yanmin Zhang, Jian Song, et al.. (2019). Boosting phototherapeutic efficiency with single NIR laser-activated ultrasmall bismuth sulfide quantum dots. Chemical Engineering Journal. 375. 121941–121941. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Guangxu, Chaofa Xu, Xiaoqing Huang, et al.. (2016). Interfacial electronic effects control the reaction selectivity of platinum catalysts. Nature Materials. 15(5). 564–569. 634 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Huayan, Shouning Yang, Jilie Kong, Aichun Dong, & Shaoning Yu. (2015). Obtaining information about protein secondary structures in aqueous solution using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy. Nature Protocols. 10(3). 382–396. 982 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Huayan, et al.. (2014). Probing the Ca2+/CaM-induced secondary structural and conformational changes in calcineurin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 64. 453–457. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, Yu Wang, Alison J. Edwards, Juanzhu Yan, & Nanfeng Zheng. (2014). High-yield synthesis and crystal structure of a green Au₃₀cluster co-capped by thiolate and sulfide. Chemical Communications. 50(92). 14325–14327. 83 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, Yu Wang, Hua-Qi Huang, et al.. (2013). All-thiol-stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 nanoparticles with single-crystal structures. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2422–2422. 694 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Guangxu, Huayan Yang, Binghui Wu, Yanping Zheng, & Nanfeng Zheng. (2013). Supported monodisperse Pt nanoparticles from [Pt3(CO)3(μ2-CO)3]52− clusters for investigating support–Pt interface effect in catalysis. Dalton Transactions. 42(35). 12699–12699. 30 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, Yu Wang, & Nanfeng Zheng. (2013). Stabilizing subnanometer Ag(0) nanoclusters by thiolate and diphosphine ligands and their crystal structures. Nanoscale. 5(7). 2674–2674. 145 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, et al.. (2013). One-pot synthesis of water-dispersible Ag₂S quantum dots with bright fluorescent emission in the second near-infrared window. Nanotechnology. 24(5). 55706–55706. 113 indexed citations

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Li, Huan, Guangxu Chen, Huayan Yang, et al.. (2013). Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Surface‐Clean Ultrathin Palladium Nanosheets by Simply Mixing a Dinuclear Pd^I Carbonyl Chloride Complex with H₂O. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(32). 8368–8372. 109 indexed citations

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Yang, Huayan, Lei Jing, Binghui Wu, et al.. (2012). Crystal structure of a luminescent thiolated Ag nanocluster with an octahedral Ag₆⁴⁺core. Chemical Communications. 49(3). 300–302. 232 indexed citations

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