Lin Zhou

14.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
121 papers, 13.0k citations indexed

About

Lin Zhou is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Lin Zhou has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 43 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 40 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Lin Zhou's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (35 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (29 papers). Lin Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (35 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (34 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (29 papers). Lin Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lin Zhou's co-authors include Jia Zhu, Shining Zhu, Weichao Xu, Xiuqiang Li, Bin Zhu, Yingling Tan, Ning Xu, Xiaozhen Hu, Wenshan Cai and Jingyang Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lin Zhou

116 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-e... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 2016 2017 2016 500 1000 1.5k
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. 3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination
    2016 1.9k citations Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  2. Self-assembly of highly efficient, broadband plasmonic absorbers for solar steam generation
    2016 1.2k citations Lin Zhou, Yingling Tan et al. profile →
  3. Graphene oxide-based efficient and scalable solar desalination under one sun with a confined 2D water path
    2016 1.1k citations Xiuqiang Li, Weichao Xu et al. profile →
  4. Mushrooms as Efficient Solar Steam‐Generation Devices
    2017 1.1k citations Ning Xu, Xiaozhen Hu et al. profile →
  5. Tailoring Graphene Oxide‐Based Aerogels for Efficient Solar Steam Generation under One Sun
    2016 890 citations Xiaozhen Hu, Weichao Xu et al. profile →
  6. Flexible and Salt Resistant Janus Absorbers by Electrospinning for Stable and Efficient Solar Desalination
    2018 810 citations Weichao Xu, Xiaozhen Hu et al. profile →
  7. Enhancement of Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation by Environmental Energy
    2018 672 citations Xiuqiang Li, Jinlei Li et al. Joule profile →
  8. A water lily–inspired hierarchical design for stable and efficient solar evaporation of high-salinity brine
    2019 447 citations Ning Xu, Jinlei Li et al. profile →
  9. Over 10 kg m−2 h−1 Evaporation Rate Enabled by a 3D Interconnected Porous Carbon Foam
    2020 383 citations Jinlei Li, Xueyang Wang et al. Joule profile →
  10. Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation
    2023 231 citations Ning Xu, Jinlei Li et al. profile →
  11. High-yield solar-driven atmospheric water harvesting of metal–organic-framework-derived nanoporous carbon with fast-diffusion water channels
    2022 204 citations Ning Xu, Guoliang Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lin Zhou China 34 10.2k 4.9k 2.0k 2.0k 1.8k 121 13.0k
George Ni United States 14 7.0k 0.7× 3.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 916 0.5× 976 0.5× 19 8.2k
Weichao Xu China 14 5.3k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 946 0.5× 960 0.5× 20 6.4k
Svetlana V. Boriskina United States 43 2.8k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 785 0.4× 2.2k 1.1× 2.0k 1.1× 152 7.3k
Siddhartha Das United States 39 2.6k 0.3× 1.6k 0.3× 1.8k 0.9× 2.8k 1.4× 1.6k 0.9× 203 7.9k
Minmin Gao Singapore 33 6.7k 0.7× 2.4k 0.5× 996 0.5× 871 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 56 8.0k
Hadi Ghasemi United States 35 3.4k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 79 6.4k
Lin Zhao China 29 2.0k 0.2× 1.6k 0.3× 357 0.2× 877 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 122 5.2k
Meng Li China 56 2.8k 0.3× 677 0.1× 1.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 5.3k 3.0× 286 9.9k
Xin Qian China 30 1.9k 0.2× 888 0.2× 437 0.2× 915 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 74 5.8k
Amy Marconnet United States 27 2.0k 0.2× 865 0.2× 378 0.2× 764 0.4× 745 0.4× 119 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lin Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lin Zhou

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liang, Jie, et al.. (2025). Plasmon Enhanced Universal SERS Detection of Hierarchical Plastics by 3D Plasmonic Funnel Metastructure. Advanced Science. 12(23). e2500062–e2500062.
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Zhou, Lin, et al.. (2025). Dual-channel broadband polarization multiplexing and phase modulation metasurface in GHz band. Journal of Applied Physics. 138(16).
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Zhao, Wenguang, Mingyang Li, Zijian Li, et al.. (2025). Stabilizing Surface Lattice On− (0 < n < 2) for Long‐Term Durability of LiCoO2. Angewandte Chemie. 137(23). 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Yinqi, Lin Zhou, Yuhang He, et al.. (2024). Real-time ultra-sensitive anisotropic edge enhanced imaging based on frequency upconversion. Optics & Laser Technology. 176. 110988–110988. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Jinlong, Chi Zhang, Tianqi Wei, et al.. (2024). All-in-one, all-optical logic gates using liquid metal plasmon nonlinearity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1726–1726. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yi, Shuying Chen, Yuning Han, Xiulai Xu, & Lin Zhou. (2024). Sodium metals for single emitter strong coupling: Alternative plasmonic candidates beyond noble metals. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 67(8). 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Shuying, et al.. (2024). Analytic ellipsometric measurement for materials under bulk encapsulation. Optics Express. 32(10). 18293–18293. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lin, et al.. (2024). QCF-YOLO: A Lightweight Model of Surface Defect Detection for Quick-Connect Fittings. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(1). 1716–1731. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Xiaozhen, et al.. (2023). Omniphobic melamine sponge for interfacial solar desalination of saturated water with anti-fouling performance. Applied Surface Science. 649. 159201–159201. 13 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shuyan, Fan Zhong, Zhenhui Lin, et al.. (2023). Spectrum‐Selective High‐Temperature Tolerant Thermal Emitter by Dual‐Coherence Enhanced Absorption for Solar Thermophotovoltaics. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(5). 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lin, et al.. (2023). Plasmon-induced hot carrier dynamics and utilization. 2(4). R08–R08. 29 indexed citations
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Wang, Yang, Jianyu Yu, Yifei Mao, et al.. (2020). Stable, high-performance sodium-based plasmonic devices in the near infrared. Nature. 581(7809). 401–405. 156 indexed citations
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McGilly, L. J., Alexander Kerelsky, Nathan Finney, et al.. (2020). Visualization of moiré superlattices. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 580–584. 247 indexed citations
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Li, Jinlei, Xueyang Wang, Zhenhui Lin, et al.. (2020). Over 10 kg m−2 h−1 Evaporation Rate Enabled by a 3D Interconnected Porous Carbon Foam. Joule. 4(4). 928–937. 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bai, Yusong, Lin Zhou, Jue Wang, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Excitons in strain-induced one-dimensional moiré potentials at transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunctions. Nature Materials. 19(10). 1124–1124. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Xiuqiang, Jinlei Li, Jin-You Lu, et al.. (2018). Enhancement of Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation by Environmental Energy. Joule. 2(7). 1331–1338. 672 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Lin, Yingling Tan, Jingyang Wang, et al.. (2016). 3D self-assembly of aluminium nanoparticles for plasmon-enhanced solar desalination. Nature Photonics. 10(6). 393–398. 1885 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhou, Lin, et al.. (2015). Time-division-multiplexing laser seeded amplification in a tapered amplifier. Chinese Optics Letters. 13(1). 11401–11404. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongjun, et al.. (2011). A novel gas ionization sensor using Pd nanoparticle-capped ZnO. Nanoscale Research Letters. 6(1). 534–534. 21 indexed citations

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