Kena Yang

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 957 citations indexed

About

Kena Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kena Yang has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 957 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kena Yang's work include 2D Materials and Applications (4 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (3 papers). Kena Yang is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (4 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (3 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (3 papers). Kena Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Portugal and Japan. Kena Yang's co-authors include Lei Fu, Mengqi Zeng, Yao Xiao, Jinxin Liu, Bei Jiang, Yunxu Chen, Jiaxu Li, Jun‐Tao Li, Tao Zhang and Xuejiao Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kena Yang

10 papers receiving 938 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.

Exploring Two-Dimensional Materials toward the Next-Generation Circuits: From Monomer Design to Assembly Control

2018 465 citations Mengqi Zeng, Yao Xiao et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kena Yang China	7	649	458	428	100	74	11	957
Danyang Wu China	18	413 0.6×	467 1.0×	301 0.7×	110 1.1×	52 0.7×	29	740
Federico M. Pesci United Kingdom	13	701 1.1×	686 1.5×	570 1.3×	78 0.8×	50 0.7×	16	1.2k
Joseph A. Beardslee United States	5	929 1.4×	553 1.2×	971 2.3×	149 1.5×	121 1.6×	7	1.4k
Jingcong Hu China	17	889 1.4×	783 1.7×	735 1.7×	83 0.8×	86 1.2×	33	1.4k
Yudi Tu China	16	433 0.7×	319 0.7×	284 0.7×	67 0.7×	143 1.9×	43	698
Haili Song China	16	683 1.1×	635 1.4×	561 1.3×	205 2.0×	45 0.6×	34	1.1k
Huaibao Tang China	20	1.0k 1.6×	525 1.1×	741 1.7×	190 1.9×	71 1.0×	61	1.4k
Jae Ha Shim South Korea	8	433 0.7×	338 0.7×	237 0.6×	163 1.6×	37 0.5×	8	730
Naohiko Kato Japan	14	565 0.9×	525 1.1×	561 1.3×	42 0.4×	75 1.0×	42	1.0k
Nam Hawn Chou United States	9	499 0.8×	342 0.7×	373 0.9×	177 1.8×	128 1.7×	10	825

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kena Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kena Yang

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Xu, Dan, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of Tannic Acid-ESO Microgel via In Situ Melt Reaction for Reinforcing Heat-Resistant PLA Fibers. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(8). 5138–5149.

2.

Yang, Kena, Tao Zhang, Bin Wei, et al.. (2020). Ultrathin high-κ antimony oxide single crystals. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2502–2502. 49 indexed citations

3.

Xiao, Yao, Mengyue Zhou, Bin Wei, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Meta Symmetric 1T’‐WTe₂ Using an Edge‐Induced Mechanism. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 38(7). 709–713. 6 indexed citations

4.

Xiao, Yao, Tao Zhang, Mengyue Zhou, et al.. (2019). 2D Material Disassembly: Disassembly of 2D Vertical Heterostructures (Adv. Mater. 4/2019). Advanced Materials. 31(4). 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Kena, Jun‐Tao Li, Lu Zhou, Tao Zhang, & Lei Fu. (2019). Synthetic strategies of two-dimensional porous materials towards highly effective catalysts. FlatChem. 15. 100109–100109. 29 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yao, Tao Zhang, Mengyue Zhou, et al.. (2018). Disassembly of 2D Vertical Heterostructures. Advanced Materials. 31(4). e1805976–e1805976. 15 indexed citations

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Zeng, Mengqi, Yao Xiao, Jinxin Liu, Kena Yang, & Lei Fu. (2018). Exploring Two-Dimensional Materials toward the Next-Generation Circuits: From Monomer Design to Assembly Control. Chemical Reviews. 118(13). 6236–6296. 465 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Tao, Kena Yang, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2018). Nanometric Ni₅P₄ Clusters Nested on NiCo₂O₄ for Efficient Hydrogen Production via Alkaline Water Electrolysis. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(29). 124 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tao, Kena Yang, Cheng Wang, et al.. (2018). Electrocatalysts: Nanometric Ni₅P₄ Clusters Nested on NiCo₂O₄ for Efficient Hydrogen Production via Alkaline Water Electrolysis (Adv. Energy Mater. 29/2018). Advanced Energy Materials. 8(29). 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunxu, Kena Yang, Bei Jiang, et al.. (2017). Emerging two-dimensional nanomaterials for electrochemical hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(18). 8187–8208. 256 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yao, Bei Jiang, Kena Yang, Tao Zhang, & Lei Fu. (2017). Controllable synthesis of two dimensional heterostructures and their application. Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). 62(20). 2262–2278. 5 indexed citations

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