Li Yang

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
191 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Li Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Li Yang has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Materials Chemistry, 76 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Li Yang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (47 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (24 papers). Li Yang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (47 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (24 papers). Li Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Li Yang's co-authors include Jun Jiang, Wei Xing, Junjie Ge, Changpeng Liu, Hongliang Jiang, Lirong Zheng, Guozhen Zhang, Hai‐Long Jiang, Huabin Zhang and Li Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Li Yang

180 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Regulating Photocatalysis by Spin-State Manipulation of Cobalt in Covalent Organic Frameworks

2020 514 citations Li Yang, Lirong Zheng et al. profile →
Precisely Tuning the Number of Fe Atoms in Clusters on N-Doped Carbon toward Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2019 474 citations Li Yang, Xusheng Zheng et al. profile →
Confined Ir single sites with triggered lattice oxygen redox: Toward boosted and sustained water oxidation catalysis

2021 420 citations Li Yang, Zheng Jiang et al. profile →
Insights into the activity of nickel boride/nickel heterostructures for efficient methanol electrooxidation

2022 357 citations Li Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Li Yang	4.8k	4.2k	3.0k	870	725	191	7.9k
Feng Li	5.8k 1.2×	3.6k 0.9×	4.4k 1.5×	864 1.0×	635 0.9×	178	9.1k
Jinghui Zeng	4.0k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	4.0k 1.3×	454 0.5×	668 0.9×	141	8.1k
Greta R. Patzke	4.1k 0.8×	5.2k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	616 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	176	8.6k
Haiping Lin	3.7k 0.8×	3.8k 0.9×	3.7k 1.2×	458 0.5×	947 1.3×	183	7.2k
Daojian Cheng	5.5k 1.1×	4.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	664 0.8×	500 0.7×	248	8.5k
Spyridon Zafeiratos	4.6k 1.0×	5.8k 1.4×	2.8k 0.9×	570 0.7×	674 0.9×	149	8.1k
Jianfeng Jia	2.8k 0.6×	4.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	709 1.0×	332	6.7k
Dongdong Xu	3.5k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	727 0.8×	473 0.7×	153	6.6k
Zhihua Zhang	3.8k 0.8×	4.1k 1.0×	3.4k 1.1×	616 0.7×	478 0.7×	207	7.4k
Xiao Han	4.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	432 0.5×	603 0.8×	139	6.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Lang, Feifan, Lulu Zhang, Li Yang, et al.. (2025). Retrieving the Stability and Practical Performance of Activation‐Unstable Mesoporous Zr(IV)‐MOF for Highly Efficient Self‐Calibrating Acidity Sensing. Angewandte Chemie. 137(14). 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zebin, Yunlin Fu, R. P. Zhao, et al.. (2025). Mangiferin reverses high glucose-induced osteoblast damage and ameliorates osteoporosis by targeting SOX9. Phytomedicine. 148. 157295–157295.

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Nie, Lu, Li Yang, Xiaoyan Wu, et al.. (2025). Scalable ultrathin solid electrolyte from recycled Antheraea pernyi silk with regulated ion transport for solid-state Li–S batteries. eScience. 5(4). 100395–100395. 6 indexed citations

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Gao, Can, Kunyuan Lu, Li Yang, et al.. (2025). Redefining PbS Quantum Dot Photovoltaics: p‐i‐n Devices with Superior Efficiency and Reproducibility. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e12933–e12933.

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Zhang, Hui, Jie Wang, Jixin Yao, et al.. (2025). Revealing the Correlation of Loading‐to‐Performance of Single Atom Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(35). e202506563–e202506563. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Yunxiang, Ruiting Zheng, Wei Chen, et al.. (2025). Optimizing surface active sites via burying single atom into subsurface lattice for boosted methanol electrooxidation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 286–286. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Wei, Weiyi Wang, Xin Liu, et al.. (2025). Highly Coupled Dynamically Modulated Electrocatalysts on Wafer‐Scale InGaN/GaN Nanowires on Silicon for Successive Acidic Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 37(28). e2501218–e2501218. 2 indexed citations

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Liao, Tao, Xiaomei Liu, Ning Li, et al.. (2024). Sulfate radical dominated rapid pollutants degradation leaded by selenium vacancies in core-shell N-doped carbon wrapped cobalt diselenide nanospheres. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 665. 219–231. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, et al.. (2023). Establishment of a highly efficient in vitro plant regeneration system for Impatiens hawkeri W. Bull cv. ‘Pink’ and its background resistance to kanamycin. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 155(3). 627–636. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, et al.. (2023). Catalytic hydrogenation of ethyl levulinate into γ-valerolactone over commercial Raney Cu catalyst. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering. 40(8). 1912–1918. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jiahui, Ziyang Wang, Li Yang, et al.. (2023). Fast joule heating synthesis of NiCoFeCrMo high-entropy alloy embedded in graphene for water oxidation. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 966. 171535–171535. 32 indexed citations

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Yu, Yifan, Lei Wang, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2023). Carbon‐Doped Nickle Via a Fast Decarbonization Route for Enhanced Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Media. Small. 19(38). e2303142–e2303142. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jiahui, Baojie Zhang, Jie Wang, et al.. (2023). Realizing a Lattice Se Atom-Modified Co Hydroxide Catalyst via Electrochemical Reconstruction for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Performance. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(26). 10490–10496. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lei, Yiqiang Sun, Yunxiang Lin, et al.. (2023). Tuning Electron Transfer in Atomic-Scale Pt-Supported Catalysts for the Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(12). 5032–5039. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Ming, Yuxuan Wu, Xiaoyu Li, et al.. (2022). Achieving a highly efficient oxygen reduction reaction via a molecular Fe single atom catalyst. Nanoscale. 14(23). 8255–8259. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Ge, Li Yang, Qi Yin, et al.. (2020). A Comparison of Two Isoreticular Metal–Organic Frameworks with Cationic and Neutral Skeletons: Stability, Mechanism, and Catalytic Activity. Angewandte Chemie. 132(11). 4415–4420. 9 indexed citations

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Huang, Ge, Li Yang, Qi Yin, et al.. (2020). A Comparison of Two Isoreticular Metal–Organic Frameworks with Cationic and Neutral Skeletons: Stability, Mechanism, and Catalytic Activity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(11). 4385–4390. 78 indexed citations

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Duan, Yu, Ziyou Yu, Li Yang, et al.. (2020). Bimetallic nickel-molybdenum/tungsten nanoalloys for high-efficiency hydrogen oxidation catalysis in alkaline electrolytes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4789–4789. 288 indexed citations

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Luo, Zhaoyan, Hao Zhang, Yuqi Yang, et al.. (2020). Reactant friendly hydrogen evolution interface based on di-anionic MoS2 surface. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1116–1116. 149 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, Shibin Wang, Jianchun Guo, et al.. (2019). Reducing adsorption of hydroxypropyl guar gum on sandstone by silicon nanoparticles. Carbohydrate Polymers. 219. 21–28. 13 indexed citations

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