Menglei Yuan

2.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Menglei Yuan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Menglei Yuan has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 24 papers in Catalysis and 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Menglei Yuan's work include Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Menglei Yuan is often cited by papers focused on Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Menglei Yuan collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Poland. Menglei Yuan's co-authors include Guangjin Zhang, Zhanjun Liu, Jingxian Zhang, Tongkun Zhao, Junwu Chen, Hongyan He, Yiling Bai, Shuwei Li, Rongji Liu and Suojiang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Menglei Yuan

58 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Unveiling Electrochemical Urea Synthesis by Co‐Activation of CO₂ and N₂ with Mott–Schottky Heterostructure Catalysts

2021 358 citations Menglei Yuan, Junwu Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Highly selective electroreduction of N₂ and CO₂ to urea over artificial frustrated Lewis pairs

2021 265 citations Menglei Yuan, Junwu Chen et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Menglei Yuan China	25	1.7k	1.3k	807	691	235	58	2.4k
Zhouhong Ren China	20	1.4k 0.8×	720 0.6×	938 1.2×	765 1.1×	205 0.9×	46	2.2k
Minghang Jiang China	24	1.4k 0.8×	901 0.7×	824 1.0×	491 0.7×	130 0.6×	52	1.9k
Zhan Jiang China	16	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	804 1.0×	788 1.1×	105 0.4×	30	2.6k
Nannan Meng China	19	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	367 0.5×	266 1.1×	25	2.2k
Bingquan Xia Australia	23	2.6k 1.5×	934 0.7×	1.9k 2.3×	829 1.2×	210 0.9×	38	3.2k
Ximeng Lv China	27	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	757 1.1×	101 0.4×	72	3.0k
Shiyong Mou China	16	2.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	938 1.2×	329 0.5×	208 0.9×	23	2.3k
Byung Hee Ko United States	13	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	747 0.9×	425 0.6×	134 0.6×	16	2.2k
Simson Wu United Kingdom	21	1.1k 0.6×	780 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	351 0.5×	297 1.3×	31	1.9k
Cameron Priest United States	13	1.8k 1.0×	706 0.6×	717 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	141 0.6×	25	2.3k

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Bu, Jun, Xinyue Niu, Jinjin Li, et al.. (2025). Selective Electrocatalytic Hydrodimerization of Acetylene to 1,3‐Butadiene Over Neighboring Cu Dual Sites. Angewandte Chemie. 137(30). 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Menglei, Xinjie Gao, Yiran Shi, et al.. (2025). Double exchange interaction promoted nitrate electroreduction to ammonia over heteronuclear metal organic framework. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 700(Pt 2). 138445–138445. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhihao, Ruyi Jiang, Meng Wang, et al.. (2024). Clusters induced electronic delocalization of single atom sites toward efficient electrocatalytic urea synthesis from CO2 and N2. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 682. 222–231. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Le, et al.. (2024). Ionic liquid screening for lignocellulosic biomass fractionation: COSMO–RS prediction and experimental verification. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 407. 125214–125214. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Ling, Guo Liang Li, Yiling Bai, et al.. (2024). Boosting electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis from nitrate by asymmetric chemical potential activated interfacial electric fields. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 676. 636–646. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhihao, Yiling Bai, Xuehua Zhang, et al.. (2023). Jahn–Teller Distortions Induced by in situ Li Migration in λ‐MnO₂ for Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation. Angewandte Chemie. 136(8). 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Menglei, et al.. (2023). Rational element-doping of FeOOH-based electrocatalysts for efficient ammonia electrosynthesis. EES Catalysis. 2(1). 324–334. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Ling, et al.. (2023). Insight into the Mechanism of Cobalt-Nickel Separation Using DFT Calculations on Ethylenediamine-Modified Silica Gel. Materials. 16(9). 3445–3445. 4 indexed citations

Yuan, Menglei, Junwu Chen, Honghua Zhang, et al.. (2022). Host–guest molecular interaction promoted urea electrosynthesis over a precisely designed conductive metal–organic framework. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(5). 2084–2095. 167 indexed citations

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Yuan, Menglei, Junwu Chen, Yiling Bai, et al.. (2021). Unveiling Electrochemical Urea Synthesis by Co‐Activation of CO₂ and N₂ with Mott–Schottky Heterostructure Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(19). 10910–10918. 358 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Zehui, Xinghui Li, Menglei Yuan, et al.. (2021). Investigation of MOF-derived humidity-proof hierarchical porous carbon frameworks as highly-selective toluene absorbents and sensing materials. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 411. 125034–125034. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingxian, Fan Lv, Zehui Li, et al.. (2021). Cr‐Doped Pd Metallene Endows a Practical Formaldehyde Sensor New Limit and High Selectivity. Advanced Materials. 34(2). e2105276–e2105276. 89 indexed citations

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Yuan, Menglei, Junwu Chen, Yiling Bai, et al.. (2021). Electrochemical C–N coupling with perovskite hybrids toward efficient urea synthesis. Chemical Science. 12(17). 6048–6058. 245 indexed citations

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Yuan, Menglei, Junwu Chen, Yong Xu, et al.. (2021). Highly selective electroreduction of N₂ and CO₂ to urea over artificial frustrated Lewis pairs. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(12). 6605–6615. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Qiongguang, Menglei Yuan, Yanhong Wang, et al.. (2021). Designing and preparing carbon anode materials modified with N and Fe-nanoparticle: Creating the interior electric field to improve their electrochemical performance. Electrochimica Acta. 383. 138367–138367. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Qiongguang, Yanhong Wang, Jing Yu, et al.. (2020). High-performance Si-Containing anode materials in lithium-ion batteries: A superstructure of Si@Co–NC composite works effectively. Green Energy & Environment. 7(1). 116–129. 38 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiangyang, Qiao Dong, Liangrong Yang, et al.. (2020). Novel magnetic carbon supported molybdenum disulfide catalyst and its application in residue upgrading. Green Energy & Environment. 6(6). 952–960. 11 indexed citations

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Yuan, Menglei, Sobia Dipazir, Meng Wang, et al.. (2019). Polyoxometalate-assisted formation of CoSe/MoSe ₂ heterostructures with enhanced oxygen evolution activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(7). 3317–3326. 113 indexed citations

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Ning, Pengge, Hongbin Cao, Menglei Yuan, et al.. (2019). Selectively anchored vanadate host for self-boosting catalytic synthesis of ultra-fine vanadium nitride/nitrogen-doped hierarchical carbon hybrids as superior electrode materials. Electrochimica Acta. 332. 135387–135387. 18 indexed citations

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Zhu, Bohan, et al.. (2017). Molecular engineering of step-growth liquid crystal elastomers. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 244. 433–440. 17 indexed citations

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