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

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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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nan Yao	8.3k	4.7k	3.7k	2.1k	1.9k	505	18.8k
Gang Wang	9.4k 1.1×	6.1k 1.3×	4.8k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	700	18.9k
Qin Li	10.0k 1.2×	6.2k 1.3×	5.2k 1.4×	3.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.2×	798	24.4k
Qiang Li	5.9k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	674	15.1k
Zhirong Liu	8.4k 1.0×	4.0k 0.8×	4.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	3.7k 2.0×	466	20.3k
Wolfgang Peukert	6.6k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	545	15.8k
Dan Wang	8.6k 1.0×	4.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.3×	762	18.5k
Lei Wang	8.5k 1.0×	3.9k 0.8×	5.1k 1.4×	1.3k 0.6×	4.7k 2.5×	513	17.5k
Min Chen	7.7k 0.9×	3.8k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	539	13.9k
Jing Zhang	8.8k 1.1×	3.9k 0.8×	3.9k 1.0×	4.5k 2.1×	2.7k 1.4×	791	21.9k
Fangfang Wang	6.5k 0.8×	5.3k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	3.9k 2.1×	970	19.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Zeyuan, Pei Liu, Nan Yao, et al.. (2025). Fast‐Charging and Long‐Cycle Sodium‐Ion Batteries Enabled by an Ultra‐Stable Carbon Anode. Advanced Materials. 37(47). e09953–e09953. 1 indexed citations

Xue, Yuan, Huijuan Chen, Nan Yao, et al.. (2025). Orthogonal Multiple Hydrogen Bonds of Nucleobases Enable Precise Tunability of DNA‐Polymer Nanostructures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(35). e202512106–e202512106.

Ni, Danrui, et al.. (2024). A calcium aluminum rhenium sodalite with reducible rhenium in the sodalite cage. MRS Communications. 14(3). 372–378. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Dingxin, Pengcheng Chen, & Nan Yao. (2024). Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Individual CO Molecules Adsorbed on a Cu(111) Surface. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Yao, Nan, et al.. (2024). Study on delamination characteristics and mechanical properties of cemented waste rock backfill with rubber aggregation. Construction and Building Materials. 438. 137090–137090. 6 indexed citations

Chu, Hongqiang, et al.. (2024). Experimental study of styrene-acrylic emulsion modified mortar with manufactured sand and its performance exposed to combined chloride-sulfate attack. Construction and Building Materials. 458. 139682–139682. 3 indexed citations

Wen, Xueying, Huiyue Wang, Huajian Liu, et al.. (2024). Catalytic upcycling of silicone rubber by AlCl3 at low temperature. Polymer Degradation and Stability. 232. 111117–111117.

Lee, S., Fang Yuan, Guangming Cheng, et al.. (2024). Role of Cr Redox and Dynamics in Electrochemical Cycling of H_xCrS_2−δ. Chemistry of Materials. 36(19). 9469–9479.

Chen, Xi, Meiqi Yang, Sunxiang Zheng, et al.. (2023). Spatially separated crystallization for selective lithium extraction from saline water. Nature Water. 1(9). 808–817. 103 indexed citations

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Fan, Dingxin, Pengcheng Chen, James R. Chelikowsky, & Nan Yao. (2023). Individual Iron and Cobalt Atoms Identification using Atomic Force Microscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 581–582.

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Chen, Jianfei, et al.. (2023). The prognostic ability of radiotherapy of different colorectal cancer histological subtypes and tumor sites. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11758–11758. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Ziqian, et al.. (2023). The cardiovascular toxicity of clozapine in embryonic zebrafish and RNA sequencing‐based transcriptome analysis. Journal of Applied Toxicology. 44(2). 175–183. 3 indexed citations

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Bi, Xiuru, et al.. (2023). Mediated electron transfer process in α-MnO2 catalyzed Fenton-like reaction for oxytetracycline degradation. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(8). 109331–109331. 13 indexed citations

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Hu, Nan, et al.. (2023). Foam fractionation of rosmarinic acid from perilla leaves using surface-modified Al2O3 nanoparticle as frother and collector. Industrial Crops and Products. 197. 116633–116633. 7 indexed citations

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Qiao, Liang, Ravithree D. Senanayake, Zhi Yang, et al.. (2023). Atomically precise nanoclusters predominantly seed gold nanoparticle syntheses. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4408–4408. 27 indexed citations

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Cheng, Guangming, Duncan H. Moseley, Yu Yu, et al.. (2022). Crystal structure and magnetic properties in semiconducting Eu3−δZnxSnyAs3 with Eu-Eu dimers. Journal of Applied Physics. 132(4). 2 indexed citations

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Yan, Yangyang, et al.. (2022). Bioinspired Hydrogen Bonds of Nucleobases Enable Programmable Morphological Transformations of Mixed Nanostructures. Macromolecules. 55(17). 7798–7805. 9 indexed citations

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Davy, Nicholas C., Melda Sezen-Edmonds, Jia Gao, et al.. (2017). Pairing of near-ultraviolet solar cells with electrochromic windows for smart management of the solar spectrum. Nature Energy. 2(8). 259 indexed citations

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Chang, Zhenyi, Zhufeng Chen, Wei Yan, et al.. (2016). An ABC transporter, OsABCG26, is required for anther cuticle and pollen exine formation and pollen-pistil interactions in rice. Plant Science. 253. 21–30. 65 indexed citations

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Song, Jie, Zhi Xia, Yingjie Wei, et al.. (2015). TPGS/Phospholipids Mixed Micelles for Delivery of Icariside II to Multidrug-Resistant Breast Cancer. Integrative Cancer Therapies. 15(3). 390–399. 24 indexed citations

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