Nan He

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Nan He is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan He has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 8 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Nan He's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (14 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (7 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers). Nan He is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (14 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (7 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (5 papers). Nan He collaborates with scholars based in China, Malaysia and South Korea. Nan He's co-authors include Lin Li, Dawei Tang, Bo Jiang, Haotian Zhang, Qian Zhang, Haonan Wang, Yongchen Song, Xin Fan, Zhewei Yang and Bingsen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nan He

41 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Highly Salt‐Resistant 3D Hydrogel Evaporator for Continuous Solar Desalination via Localized Crystallization
    2021 294 citations Lin Li, Nan He et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nan He China 17 940 498 308 258 182 43 1.4k
Jiawei Yang China 18 974 1.0× 509 1.0× 280 0.9× 383 1.5× 163 0.9× 35 1.6k
Jianming Liao China 21 892 0.9× 368 0.7× 195 0.6× 321 1.2× 134 0.7× 54 1.6k
Xingfang Xiao China 23 887 0.9× 515 1.0× 259 0.8× 153 0.6× 279 1.5× 45 1.6k
Bo Tang China 19 1.1k 1.2× 464 0.9× 430 1.4× 416 1.6× 217 1.2× 46 2.1k
Deoukchen Ghim United States 15 1.3k 1.4× 946 1.9× 362 1.2× 253 1.0× 285 1.6× 19 1.9k
Chunde Jin China 18 533 0.6× 270 0.5× 238 0.8× 83 0.3× 307 1.7× 37 1.3k
Taotao Meng United States 14 300 0.3× 158 0.3× 270 0.9× 291 1.1× 166 0.9× 27 1.1k
Fei Guo China 16 207 0.2× 418 0.8× 427 1.4× 161 0.6× 85 0.5× 42 845
Lipei Ren China 17 580 0.6× 361 0.7× 111 0.4× 111 0.4× 171 0.9× 30 898
Ying Su China 15 258 0.3× 176 0.4× 252 0.8× 335 1.3× 251 1.4× 34 909

Countries citing papers authored by Nan He

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan He

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan He

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

All Works

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Li, Lin, Bingsen Wang, Haotian Zhang, et al.. (2025). Lithium Bond‐Mediated Molecular Cascade Hydrogel for Injury‐Free and Repositionable Adhesive Bioelectronic Interfaces. Advanced Materials. 37(18). e2419002–e2419002. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Nan He, Xinyi Xu, et al.. (2025). Dual-interfacial gating unlocks bidirectional ionic flux for high-efficiency hydrovoltaic energy harvesting. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(17). 8209–8219. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Qianwen Gao, Nan He, et al.. (2025). Water‐Thermal Self‐Cycling Thermoelectric Hydrogel for Continuous Energy Harvesting from Body Heat. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(31). 3 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Nan He, Bingsen Wang, et al.. (2025). High-efficiency moisture energy harvesting at −30 °C via hybrid solute engineering. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(6). 2985–2994. 9 indexed citations
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He, Nan, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal changes and drivers of ecological security based on an improved ecological footprint model: the case of Hubei Province, China. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64049–64049. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Bingsen, Haotian Zhang, Nan He, et al.. (2023). Mangrove root-inspired evaporator enables high-rate salt-resistant solar desalination. Separation and Purification Technology. 314. 123490–123490. 28 indexed citations
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He, Nan, et al.. (2023). A comprehensive study on flavor/cyclodextrin inclusion complexes. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 679. 132613–132613. 15 indexed citations
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He, Nan, Haonan Wang, Haotian Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ionization Engineering of Hydrogels Enables Highly Efficient Salt-Impeded Solar Evaporation and Night-Time Electricity Harvesting. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 8–8. 62 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haotian, Nan He, Bingsen Wang, et al.. (2023). High‐Performance, Highly Stretchable, Flexible Moist‐Electric Generators via Molecular Engineering of Hydrogels (Adv. Mater. 20/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(20). 2 indexed citations
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He, Nan, Haonan Wang, Fan Li, et al.. (2023). Ion‐Transfer Engineering via Janus Hydrogels Enables Ultrahigh Performance and Salt‐Resistant Solar Desalination. Advanced Materials. 35(24). e2300189–e2300189. 93 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qian, Lin Li, Haotian Zhang, et al.. (2022). Defect-engineered MXene monolith enabling interfacial photothermal catalysis for high-yield solar hydrogen generation. Cell Reports Physical Science. 3(5). 100877–100877. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Nan He, Bo Jiang, et al.. (2021). Highly Salt‐Resistant 3D Hydrogel Evaporator for Continuous Solar Desalination via Localized Crystallization. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(43). 294 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Peng, Nan He, Seungah Lee, & Seong Ho Kang. (2015). Fast High-Throughput Screening of H1N1 Virus by Parallel Detection with Multichannel Microchip Electrophoresis. Methods in molecular biology. 1274. 81–92. 4 indexed citations
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He, Nan, et al.. (2014). Fast on-site diagnosis of influenza A virus by Palm PCR and portable capillary electrophoresis. Journal of Chromatography B. 963. 134–139. 23 indexed citations
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Shu, Tong, Ping Lu, & Nan He. (2013). Mercury adsorption of modified mulberry twig chars in a simulated flue gas. Bioresource Technology. 136. 182–187. 70 indexed citations
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He, Nan, Sang‐Won Lee, & Seong Ho Kang. (2012). Fast screening of rice knockout mutants by multi-channel microchip electrophoresis. Talanta. 97. 249–255. 11 indexed citations
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He, Nan. (2004). Study on consumer classification differentiated pricing of electricity. Electric Power. 6 indexed citations

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