Pingwu Du

17.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
206 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

Pingwu Du is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pingwu Du has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Materials Chemistry, 118 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 73 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pingwu Du's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (76 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (53 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (50 papers). Pingwu Du is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (76 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (53 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (50 papers). Pingwu Du collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Pingwu Du's co-authors include Richard Eisenberg, Zijun Sun, Hongxing Jia, Ali Han, Shangfeng Yang, Shengsheng Cui, Jacob Schneider, Daochuan Jiang, Huafei Zheng and Dapeng Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Pingwu Du

202 papers receiving 15.8k citations

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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.

Catalysts made of earth-abundant elements (Co, Ni, Fe) for water splitting: Recent progress and future challenges

2012 1.2k citations Pingwu Du et al. profile →
Making Hydrogen from Water Using a Homogeneous System Without Noble Metals

2009 587 citations Pingwu Du et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Extraordinarily efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution in water using semiconductor nanorods integrated with crystalline Ni₂P cocatalysts

2015 546 citations Pingwu Du et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pingwu Du China	71	10.6k	9.1k	6.0k	2.6k	1.2k	206	16.0k
Wei Luo China	71	9.8k 0.9×	6.6k 0.7×	7.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	302	15.6k
Emilio Palomares Spain	68	9.9k 0.9×	10.9k 1.2×	6.9k 1.1×	990 0.4×	535 0.5×	297	17.9k
Gongzhen Cheng China	65	7.6k 0.7×	5.2k 0.6×	5.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	202	12.5k
Fabrice Odobel France	60	5.6k 0.5×	7.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	234	11.3k
Carlo Alberto Bignozzi Italy	54	7.7k 0.7×	7.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	800 0.7×	207	12.8k
Yan Li China	58	6.1k 0.6×	8.0k 0.9×	4.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 2.2×	334	14.2k
Mark D. Symes United Kingdom	40	6.1k 0.6×	3.5k 0.4×	4.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	805 0.7×	110	9.5k
Yongquan Qu China	68	7.5k 0.7×	9.8k 1.1×	7.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	207	16.7k
Jiangwei Zhang China	59	6.4k 0.6×	5.9k 0.6×	4.0k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	262	11.1k
Huaqiao Tan China	55	6.8k 0.6×	8.1k 0.9×	4.4k 0.7×	971 0.4×	3.1k 2.6×	201	12.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pingwu Du

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yin, Nan, Li Zhang, Shaofeng Wei, et al.. (2025). Stable Cycloparaphenylene Diradical Dications with Macrocyclic Aromaticity. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 43(24). 3507–3514.

Wang, Xing, Xiang Chen, Yang‐Rong Yao, et al.. (2025). Modulating the Binding Strength of Multiple Intermediates by Few‐Layer Fullerene Network Electron Buffer for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Small. 21(32). e2506131–e2506131. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Taotao, et al.. (2025). Enhanced simultaneous H ₂ and CH ₄ generation from formaldehyde using CdS/NiO _x nanorods under visible light. Nano Research. 18(12). 94907891–94907891.

Xu, Youzhi, et al.. (2025). Functional Bis/Multimacrocyclic Materials Based on Cycloparaphenylene Carbon Nanorings. Accounts of Materials Research. 6(4). 399–410. 4 indexed citations

Cao, Zhong‐Yan, et al.. (2024). BINOL‐Based Chiral Macrocycles and Cages. Angewandte Chemie. 136(29). 2 indexed citations

Wang, Baoyi, Hongxing Jia, Cong Zhao, et al.. (2024). Precise Regulation of Ultralow Conductance Attenuation in Single-Molecule Hexabenzocoronene Oligomers. ACS Materials Letters. 6(9). 4388–4394.

Zhang, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of a Chiral Carbon Nanoring Containing Rubicene. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 89(11). 8255–8261. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). Enantiomerically Resolvable Inherent Chirality Induced by Strong Para-Steric Hindrance in Cycloparaphenylene-Based Carbon Nanohoops. Organic Letters. 26(27). 5635–5639. 6 indexed citations

Guan, Runnan, Jing Huang, Muqing Chen, et al.. (2024). A stabilization rule for metal carbido cluster bearing μ3-carbido single-atom-ligand encapsulated in carbon cage. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, Xinyu Zhang, Guan Sheng, et al.. (2023). A metal-free photoactive nitrogen-doped carbon nanosolenoid with broad absorption in visible region for efficient photocatalysis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 16 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Gui‐Lin, et al.. (2023). Selective synthesis and physical properties of a bismacrocycle: Cycloparaphenylene-pillar[5]arene. Chinese Chemical Letters. 35(3). 108593–108593. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Taotao, et al.. (2023). Highly efficient photocatalytic formic acid decomposition to syngas under visible light using CdS nanorods integrated with crystalline W₂N₃ nanosheets. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(5). 2246–2251. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Shengda, Fei Chen, Gui‐Lin Zhuang, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of an all-carbon conjugated polymeric segment of carbon nanotubes and its application for lithium-ion batteries. Nano Research. 16(7). 10342–10347. 29 indexed citations

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Chen, Muqing, et al.. (2023). Regulating supramolecular interactions in dimeric macrocycles. Chemical Science. 14(20). 5425–5430. 10 indexed citations

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Ge, Jianhua, et al.. (2021). Ozone modification as an efficient strategy for photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under visible light irradiation. Journal of Porous Materials. 28(3). 825–834. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yajuan, Daoming Zhu, Xianjun Zhu, et al.. (2020). Enhancing the photodynamic therapy efficacy of black phosphorus nanosheets by covalently grafting fullerene C₆₀. Chemical Science. 11(42). 11435–11442. 29 indexed citations

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Huang, Qiang, Gui‐Lin Zhuang, Mengmeng Zhang, et al.. (2019). A Long π-Conjugated Poly( para -Phenylene)-Based Polymeric Segment of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(48). 18938–18943. 58 indexed citations

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Ge, Jianhua, et al.. (2019). Nitrogen photofixation on holey g-C3N4 nanosheets with carbon vacancies under visible-light irradiation. Chinese Chemical Letters. 31(3). 792–796. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Taiming, et al.. (2017). 黒リンの再検討:可視光水素発生のための失われた無金属元素光触媒【Powered by NICT】. Advanced Materials. 29(17). 201605776. 1 indexed citations

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Du, Pingwu. (2009). Catalysis engineering of light induced dye degradation and cyclohexane photo-oxidation. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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