Lei Wan

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Lei Wan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Wan has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lei Wan's work include Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (9 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Lei Wan is often cited by papers focused on Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (9 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Lei Wan collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Lei Wan's co-authors include Yida Deng, Fräser A. Armstrong, Weili Zhang, Xiaoxia Chen, Pan Zhou, Yang Lu, Kai Liu, Yingchun Xia, Shuaishuai Yan and Hangyu Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lei Wan

36 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Engineering a passivating electric double layer for high ... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. Engineering a passivating electric double layer for high performance lithium metal batteries
    2022 245 citations Weili Zhang, Yang Lu et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lei Wan China 19 543 270 249 212 142 37 1.0k
Yanan Wang China 18 357 0.7× 291 1.1× 343 1.4× 52 0.2× 75 0.5× 50 829
Ya Ji China 13 698 1.3× 230 0.9× 162 0.7× 39 0.2× 133 0.9× 19 1.0k
Maria Christy South Korea 18 855 1.6× 386 1.4× 244 1.0× 22 0.1× 59 0.4× 44 1.1k
Da Li China 17 217 0.4× 226 0.8× 366 1.5× 105 0.5× 114 0.8× 50 1.0k
Ge Li China 18 250 0.5× 441 1.6× 448 1.8× 36 0.2× 111 0.8× 34 1.1k
Xinyu Qin China 15 620 1.1× 426 1.6× 518 2.1× 32 0.2× 43 0.3× 28 1.1k
Ziming Qiu China 13 463 0.9× 406 1.5× 472 1.9× 26 0.1× 70 0.5× 32 1.1k
Van Chinh Hoang Australia 16 595 1.1× 551 2.0× 577 2.3× 28 0.1× 56 0.4× 22 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Wan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Wan

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

All Works

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Wan, Lei, Yan Dong, Wangzhe Li, et al.. (2025). A coupled enzyme-photocatalytic system for efficient NADH regeneration and L-glutamate production. Chemical Engineering Journal. 517. 164375–164375. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yilin, Lei Wan, Danhong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Boron-doped-diamond coupling with gold nanoparticles to prepare a simple and highly rigid aptasensor for detection of bleomycin. Bioelectrochemistry. 166. 109052–109052. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Yangyang, Shihao Li, Lei Wan, et al.. (2023). Preparation of chitosan-iron oxide modified sludge-based biochar for effective removal of tetracycline from water: performance and mechanism. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 31(1). 622–633. 3 indexed citations
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Wan, Lei, et al.. (2023). Hydrogenase as the basis for green hydrogen production and utilization. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 85. 348–362. 26 indexed citations
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Ou, Yu, Shuaishuai Yan, Jin Xie, et al.. (2023). Supramolecular Polymer Ion Conductor with Weakened Li Ion Solvation Enables Room Temperature All‐Solid‐State Lithium Metal Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 135(35). 9 indexed citations
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Cao, Wenping, Hao‐Liang Xu, Xueyang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Novel post-treatment of ultrasound assisting with acid washing enhance lignin-based biochar for CO2 capture: Adsorption performance and mechanism. Chemical Engineering Journal. 471. 144523–144523. 47 indexed citations
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Liu, Hong, Lei Wan, Yan Li, & Yewen Fang. (2023). Diversified access to di- and trisubstituted allenes via nickel-catalysed reactions of 1,3-enynes with alkyl N-hydroxyphthalimide esters. Chemical Communications. 59(13). 1825–1828. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Weili, Yang Lu, Lei Wan, et al.. (2022). Engineering a passivating electric double layer for high performance lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2029–2029. 245 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Xuan, et al.. (2022). Boosting the Performance of Formate Dehydrogenase by Silver Nanoclusters for Photoreduction of CO2 to Formate. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(45). 14888–14896. 8 indexed citations
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Wan, Lei, Hong Liu, Yan Li, & Yewen Fang. (2022). Nickel-catalysed SET-reduction-based access to functionalized allenes via 1,4-carbohydrogenation of 1,3-enynes with alkyl bromides. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 9(14). 3862–3868. 17 indexed citations
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Yuan, Shuai, Lili Wang, Lei Wan, et al.. (2020). The combination of asymmetric hydrogenation of olefins and direct reductive amination. Nature Communications. 11(1). 621–621. 25 indexed citations
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Megarity, Clare F., Bhavin Siritanaratkul, Rachel S. Heath, et al.. (2019). Electrocatalytic Volleyball: Rapid Nanoconfined Nicotinamide Cycling for Organic Synthesis in Electrode Pores. Angewandte Chemie. 131(15). 5002–5006. 5 indexed citations
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Megarity, Clare F., Bhavin Siritanaratkul, Rachel S. Heath, et al.. (2019). Electrocatalytic Volleyball: Rapid Nanoconfined Nicotinamide Cycling for Organic Synthesis in Electrode Pores. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(15). 4948–4952. 65 indexed citations
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Wan, Lei, Rachel S. Heath, Bhavin Siritanaratkul, et al.. (2019). Enzyme-catalysed enantioselective oxidation of alcohols by air exploiting fast electrochemical nicotinamide cycling in electrode nanopores. Green Chemistry. 21(18). 4958–4963. 18 indexed citations
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Wan, Lei, Jinfeng Zhang, Yaqiong Chen, et al.. (2016). Varied hydrogen evolution reaction properties of nickel phosphide nanoparticles with different compositions in acidic and alkaline conditions. Journal of Materials Science. 52(2). 804–814. 30 indexed citations
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Shieh, Fa‐Kuen, Yi‐Hsin Liu, Lei Wan, et al.. (2013). A bioconjugated design for amino acid-modified mesoporous silicas as effective adsorbents for toxic chemicals. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 260. 1083–1091. 17 indexed citations

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