Kang Yang

967 total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 748 citations indexed

About

Kang Yang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Kang Yang has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 748 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Kang Yang's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (7 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (6 papers). Kang Yang is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (7 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (6 papers). Kang Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and France. Kang Yang's co-authors include Jingjing Duan, Yao Zheng, Min Zheng, Xing Zhi, Yan Jiao, Shi‐Zhang Qiao, Pengtang Wang, Sheng Chen, Qiang Li and Baokai Xia and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kang Yang

26 papers receiving 736 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.

Electrocatalytic CO₂-to-C₂₊ with Ampere-Level Current on Heteroatom-Engineered Copper via Tuning *CO Intermediate Coverage

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kang Yang China	12	616	367	209	190	101	28	748
Haipeng Bai China	12	496 0.8×	249 0.7×	262 1.3×	187 1.0×	49 0.5×	16	664
Veerendra Atla United States	9	856 1.4×	454 1.2×	304 1.5×	283 1.5×	147 1.5×	14	1.0k
Fuzhen Zhao China	16	199 0.3×	427 1.2×	562 2.7×	143 0.8×	63 0.6×	42	745
Saurav Sorcar South Korea	14	851 1.4×	110 0.3×	738 3.5×	209 1.1×	79 0.8×	20	1.0k
Séverine Rousseau France	8	290 0.5×	195 0.5×	333 1.6×	195 1.0×	16 0.2×	10	518
Dimitriy Vovchok United States	14	267 0.4×	426 1.2×	601 2.9×	68 0.4×	86 0.9×	17	734
Ping Miao China	10	159 0.3×	217 0.6×	253 1.2×	119 0.6×	29 0.3×	20	482
Arko Parui India	10	693 1.1×	83 0.2×	435 2.1×	270 1.4×	41 0.4×	18	909
Xurui Zhang China	8	252 0.4×	123 0.3×	138 0.7×	66 0.3×	50 0.5×	16	372

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kang Yang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Kang, Manyu Chen, Can Liu, et al.. (2025). Tunable Catalytic Performance of Pd-Doped Carbon Dots for Catalytic Polymerization of Phenylacetylenes via Modification of Surface Functional Groups. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8(6). 3064–3072. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Kang, et al.. (2024). Advancements and challenges of industrial‐level acidic CO₂ electrolysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 5 indexed citations

Yang, Kang, et al.. (2024). Investigation on NO and N ₂ O emissions characteristics in deep peak regulation circulating fluidized bed boilers. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering. 22(7). 773–781. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Kang, Ming Li, Guoliang Xu, et al.. (2024). An acid-tolerant metal-organic framework for industrial CO2 electrolysis using a proton exchange membrane. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7060–7060. 41 indexed citations

Fan, Xinwen, et al.. (2024). Recognition of acoustic vortex fields based on a convolutional attention neural network. Physical Review Applied. 22(1).

Aslam, Muhammad Kashif, Kang Yang, Sheng Chen, Qiang Li, & Jingjing Duan. (2023). Clarifying the local microenvironment of metal–organic frameworks and their derivatives for electrochemical CO₂ reduction: advances and perspectives. EES Catalysis. 1(3). 179–229. 13 indexed citations

Yang, Kang, Sheng Chen, Min Zheng, et al.. (2023). Tackling the proton limit under industrial electrochemical CO₂ reduction by a local proton shuttle. Carbon Energy. 6(4). 15 indexed citations

Yang, Kang, Dong Liu, Hao Feng, et al.. (2023). Augmented CO2 utilization for acidic industrial-level CO2 electroreduction to near-unity CO. Electrochimica Acta. 469. 143249–143249. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Hui, et al.. (2023). Mercury removal performance and mechanism of biochar co-modified with HNO ₃ and NH ₄ Br under oxy-combustion atmosphere. Energy Sources Part A Recovery Utilization and Environmental Effects. 45(3). 8167–8182. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Herui, Muhammad Kashif Aslam, Zhihao Nie, et al.. (2023). Dual‐Anion Regulation for Reversible and Energetic Aqueous Zn–CO₂ Batteries. Small Methods. 8(6). e2300867–e2300867. 4 indexed citations

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Ding, Shan, Yu-Xiang Zhang, Qi Huang, et al.. (2023). Oxygen-vacancy-type Mars–van Krevelen mechanism drives ultrafast dioxygen electroreduction to hydrogen peroxide. Materials Today Energy. 38. 101430–101430. 20 indexed citations

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Yang, Kang, Yuntong Sun, Sheng Chen, et al.. (2023). Less‐Coordinated Atomic Copper‐Dimer Boosted Carbon–Carbon Coupling During Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Small. 19(36). e2301536–e2301536. 33 indexed citations

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Ding, Shan, Baokai Xia, Ming Li, et al.. (2023). An abnormal size effect enables ampere-level O₂electroreduction to hydrogen peroxide in neutral electrolytes. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(8). 3363–3372. 67 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, et al.. (2023). Elemental Mercury Removal from Coal-Fired Flue Gas on Sulfur-Modified Activated Biomass Coke: Experiment and Simulation. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 62(19). 7420–7433. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Kang, et al.. (2023). Insight into the Mercury Removal Mechanism of Copper Salt-Modified Biomass Coke in an Oxyfuel Combustion Atmosphere. Energy & Fuels. 37(12). 8431–8443. 7 indexed citations

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Fan, Xudong, Yifan Zhu, Ning Li, et al.. (2023). Transverse Particle Trapping Using Finite Bessel Beams Based on Acoustic Metamaterials. Physical Review Applied. 19(3). 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Hui, et al.. (2023). Comprehensive analysis of acid gases on mercury removal by CuCl2 modified char exposure to oxy-fuel environment: Experiment and XPS perception. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering. 40(12). 2855–2865. 10 indexed citations

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Xia, Baokai, Kang Yang, Di Li, et al.. (2023). Techno-economic Analysis and Carbon Footprint Accounting for Industrial CO₂ Electrolysis Systems. Energy & Fuels. 37(23). 17997–18008. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yiwen, et al.. (2023). Acid treatment for enhancing Hg0 removal efficiency of chlorine-loaded biochar: mechanism and kinetic analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(3). 4897–4909. 2 indexed citations

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Fan, Xudong, et al.. (2022). Ultra-Broadband Bending Beam and Bottle Beam Based on Acoustic Metamaterials. Applied Sciences. 12(6). 3025–3025. 4 indexed citations

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