Nan Yao

24.9k total citations · 7 hit papers
505 papers, 18.8k citations indexed

About

Nan Yao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Yao has authored 505 papers receiving a total of 18.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Materials Chemistry, 80 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 64 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nan Yao's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (24 papers) and Graphene research and applications (20 papers). Nan Yao is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (24 papers) and Graphene research and applications (20 papers). Nan Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Nan Yao's co-authors include Vincenzo Lordi, I. A. Aksay, Shiyou Xu, David J. Norris, Yao‐Wen Yeh, Yong Shi, Xi Chen, A.G. Evans, Forrest Charnock and T. A. Kennedy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nan Yao

475 papers receiving 18.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

1.6 V Nanogenerator for Mechanical Energy Harvesting Using PZT Nanofibers

2010 744 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →
High-Quality Manganese-Doped ZnSe Nanocrystals

2000 740 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →
Deformation mechanisms in nacre

2001 666 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →
Biomimetic Pathways for Assembling Inorganic Thin Films

1996 640 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →
Accelerated aging of all-inorganic, interface-stabilized perovskite solar cells

2022 244 citations Guangming Cheng, Nan Yao et al. profile →
Obesity and its impact on female reproductive health: unraveling the connections

2024 55 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →
Bilibili, TikTok, and YouTube as sources of information on gastric cancer: assessment and analysis of the content and quality

2024 34 citations Nan Yao et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Yao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Orthogonal Multiple Hydrogen Bonds of Nucleobases Enable Precise Tunability of DNA‐Polymer Nanostructures 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yuan Xue, Huijuan Chen, Nan Yao, Siyu Guo, Gui Zhang, Zan Hua	0
2	Experimental study of styrene-acrylic emulsion modified mortar with manufactured sand and its performance exposed to combined chloride-sulfate attack 2024 ·Construction and Building Materials ·(unknown), Hongqiang Chu, Nan Yao, (unknown), Wen‐Wei Li, Linhua Jiang	3
3	Catalytic upcycling of silicone rubber by AlCl3 at low temperature 2024 ·Polymer Degradation and Stability ·(unknown), Xueying Wen, Huiyue Wang, Huajian Liu, Lijie Liu, Ran Niu, Tao Tang, Nan Yao, (unknown), Jiang Gong	0
4	A calcium aluminum rhenium sodalite with reducible rhenium in the sodalite cage 2024 ·MRS Communications ·Danrui Ni, Guangming Cheng, Lun Jin, (unknown), Nan Yao, R. J. Cava	1
5	Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Individual CO Molecules Adsorbed on a Cu(111) Surface 2024 ·Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Dingxin Fan, Pengcheng Chen, Nan Yao	1
6	Study on delamination characteristics and mechanical properties of cemented waste rock backfill with rubber aggregation 2024 ·Construction and Building Materials ·Nan Yao, Tianyu Huang, Guangquan Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Yiding Liu, (unknown)	6
7	Foam fractionation of rosmarinic acid from perilla leaves using surface-modified Al2O3 nanoparticle as frother and collector 2023 ·Industrial Crops and Products ·Nan Hu, Lin Chen, (unknown), Nan Yao, Huizhen Li, Zhijun Zhang	7
8	Spatially separated crystallization for selective lithium extraction from saline water 2023 ·Nature Water ·Xi Chen, Meiqi Yang, Sunxiang Zheng, (unknown), Qi Dong, Guangming Cheng, Nan Yao, Howard A. Stone, Liangbing Hu, Zhiyong Jason Ren	103
9	Individual Iron and Cobalt Atoms Identification using Atomic Force Microscopy 2023 ·Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Dingxin Fan, Pengcheng Chen, James R. Chelikowsky, Nan Yao	0
10	The prognostic ability of radiotherapy of different colorectal cancer histological subtypes and tumor sites 2023 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Jianfei Chen, Nan Yao, Tiantian Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Jun Liu, (unknown), Keming Zhang	3
11	The cardiovascular toxicity of clozapine in embryonic zebrafish and RNA sequencing‐based transcriptome analysis 2023 ·Journal of Applied Toxicology ·(unknown), (unknown), Ziqian Yang, Nan Yao, (unknown)	3
12	Mediated electron transfer process in α-MnO2 catalyzed Fenton-like reaction for oxytetracycline degradation 2023 ·Chinese Chemical Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiuru Bi, Nan Yao, Peiqing Zhao, Xu Meng	13
13	Atomically precise nanoclusters predominantly seed gold nanoparticle syntheses 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Liang Qiao, (unknown), Ravithree D. Senanayake, Zhi Yang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nan Yao, Yimo Han, Rigoberto Hernandez, Andre Z. Clayborne, Matthew R. Jones	27
14	Crystal structure and magnetic properties in semiconducting Eu3−δZnxSnyAs3 with Eu-Eu dimers 2022 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·(unknown), Guangming Cheng, (unknown), Duncan H. Moseley, (unknown), (unknown), Yu Yu, Raphaël P. Hermann, Nan Yao, Rongying Jin, Weiwei Xie	2
15	Improved parameterization of snow albedo in Noah coupled with Weather Research and Forecasting: applicability to snow estimates for the Tibetan Plateau 2021 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Lian Liu, Yaoming Ma, Massimo Menenti, (unknown), Nan Yao, Weiqiang Ma	24
16	Probing the Variation of the Intervalley Tunnel Coupling in a Silicon Triple Quantum Dot 2021 ·PRX Quantum ·Felix Borjans, (unknown), Xiao Mi, Guangming Cheng, Nan Yao, Clayton Jackson, L. F. Edge, J. R. Petta	17
17	Structure–Dynamic Function Relations of Asphaltenes 2021 ·Energy & Fuels ·Linzhou Zhang, Pengcheng Chen, Shu Pan, Fang Liu, Vincent Pauchard, Andrew E. Pomerantz, Sanjoy Banerjee, Nan Yao, Oliver C. Mullins	24
18	Pairing of near-ultraviolet solar cells with electrochromic windows for smart management of the solar spectrum 2017 ·Nature Energy ·Nicholas C. Davy, Melda Sezen-Edmonds, Jia Gao, Xin Lin, Amy Liu, Nan Yao, Antoine Kahn, Yueh‐Lin Loo	259
19	An ABC transporter, OsABCG26, is required for anther cuticle and pollen exine formation and pollen-pistil interactions in rice 2016 ·Plant Science ·Zhenyi Chang, Zhufeng Chen, Wei Yan, Gang Xie, Jiawei Lu, Na Wang, (unknown), Nan Yao, Guangzhe Yang, Jixing Xia, Xiaoyan Tang	65
20	TPGS/Phospholipids Mixed Micelles for Delivery of Icariside II to Multidrug-Resistant Breast Cancer 2015 ·Integrative Cancer Therapies ·Jie Song, (unknown), Zhi Xia, Yingjie Wei, Nan Yao, Zhang Li, Hongmei Yan, Xiao‐Bin Jia, Zhenhai Zhang	24

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