Qian He

18.8k citations

334 papers · 15.3k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

Catalysis top 0.1%
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.2%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Papers in

Catalysis 100
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions 72
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 112
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 73
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 27

Co-authors: Christopher J. Kiely Graham J. Hutchings Nikolaos Dimitratos Stuart H. Taylor David Morgan Albert F. Carley Albina Y. Borisevich José Antonio López-Sánchez
Journals: Catalysis Science & Technology (13 papers)ACS Nano (12 papers)Nature Communications (11 papers)ChemCatChem (11 papers)ACS Catalysis (11 papers)
Partner nations: China United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Qian He

324 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

Photocatalytic upcycling of polylactic acid to alanine by sulfur vacancy-rich cadmium sulfide 2025 · 31 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Nature Communications
2025 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2024 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2023 Nature Synthesis
2023 Energy & Environmental Science
2022 Nature Communications
2022 Nature
2020 Nature Catalysis
2020 Chemical Reviews
2017 Science
2016 Science
2012 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Engineering Metal Nanoclusters at the Atomic Level for Effective Electrocatalysis SmartMat ·Zejuan Li, Zhihe Liu, Qiaofeng Yao, Qian He, Jianping Xie	2025	8
2	Blocking the Operando Formation of Single‐Atom Spectators by Interfacial Engineering Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xuan Tang, Shasha Ge, C. K. Chang, Geng Sun, Zhaohua Wang, Mihalis I. Panayiotidis, Mi Peng, Yao Xü, Jie Zhang, Bingqing Yao, Qian He, Yanglong Guo, Wangcheng Zhan, Li Wang, Lihui Zhou, Bingjun Xu, Sheng Dai, Yun Guo, Ding Ma	2025	1
3	Nanoscale Confinement‐Induced Atom‐Milling Pd Nano‐Sheets Into Ultra‐Fine Pd ₃ Co Alloys Small ·M Babapour, Theresa A. Exner, Qian He, Jian Wang, Wei Ding, Wen‐Feng Lin, Zidong Wei	2025	1
4	Switching off Competing Hydrogen Formation in CO ₂ Electroreduction via Substrate Defect Engineering Advanced Materials ·Haozhou Yang, Na Guo, Shibo Xi, Haiyuan Zou, Jiayi Chen, Lei Fan, Yukun Xiao, Qian He, Lele Duan, Pengfei Wei, Guoxiong Wang, Chun Zhang, Lei Wang	2025	1
5	Overcoming the conventional thermodynamic limit of water electrolysis to boost renewable energy storage Chemical Engineering Journal ·N. M. Skobelkina, Wentao Bi, Qian He, Zhu Li, Yuqing Dong, Atenea Domínguez Cuevas, Zhenguo Guo, Jun Ding, Jianbo He	2025	2
6	Atomic-scale mechanisms of dislocation-driven ε→γtwin reversion in metastable compositionally complex alloys: insights from experiments and molecular dynamics simulations International Journal of Plasticity ·Junhua Hou, Pengfei Qu, Bruna Iasmim dos Santos Pompéia, Dongpeng Hua, Chang Dong, Qian He, Weizong Bao, Konaté Moussa, Zhiyuan Mei, Bingnan Qian, Brahim Arezki, Wenjun Lu	2025	0
7	Mechanical activation assisted synthesis of atomically dispersed cobalt catalysts supported on N, P co-doped cellulose-derived carbon for nitrobenzene hydrogenation Applied Surface Science ·理恵川北, Wim Scholten, Yanjuan Zhang, Zuqiang Huang, Huayu Hu, Qian He, Tao Gan	2024	2
8	Zn-doped Mn₃O₄ with lattice distortion as flexible cathode for zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitor Journal of Alloys and Compounds ·Shengjuan Li, Qian He, Faming Gao, 周凤琳, He Gao, Yuhua Xue, Lei Li	2024	8
9	Emergence and transformation of polar skyrmion lattices via flexoelectricity npj Computational Materials ·Chávez Berrospi, M. Tiseo, Fei Sun, Qian He, Mengjun Wu, Weijin Chen, Yupeng Zheng	2024	1
10	Generative AI Enables Label-Free Segmentation for Live Analysis of Supported Nanoparticle Catalysts Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Yuelong Hou, Bingqing Yao, Shengdong Tan, Qian He	2024	0
11	Cascade Dual Sites Modulate Local CO Coverage and Hydrogen-Binding Strength to Boost CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethylene Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Junjun Li, Yu Chen, Bingqing Yao, Wenjuan Yang, Xiaoya Cui, Huiling Liu, Sheng Dai, Shibo Xi, Zhiyi Sun, Wenxing Chen, Yuchen Qin, Jinlan Wang, Qian He, Chongyi Ling, Dingsheng Wang, Zhicheng Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2024	111
12	Interfacial Electronic and Magnetic Reconstructions in Manganite/Titanate Superlattices Advanced Materials Interfaces ·Da Lan, Bingqing Yao, Hussein Rabah, Ning Li, Jing Cao, Shu Shi, Xiaojiang Yu, Ping Yang, Xiaohan Wu, Marta Bru-Aparicio, Pingfan Chen, Jingsheng Chen, Saurabh Ghosh, Qian He	2024	1
13	Partially Bonded Aluminum Site on the External Surface of Post-treated Au/ZSM-5 Enhances Methane Oxidation to Oxygenates ACS Catalysis ·Н И Фокин, Guodong Qi, Bingqing Yao, Qian He, Richard J. Lewis, Li Xu, Feng Deng, Jun Xu, Graham J. Hutchings	2024	12
14	Recovery of bismuth and other metals from blast furnace dust by leaching with oxalic acid-based deep eutectic solvent and precipitation Hydrometallurgy ·Zhiqiang Qiao, Yunquan Yang, Qian He, Samitha Danansooriya, Wensong Li, Christian Alexander Tjandra, Weiyan Wang, Zhigang Shen	2023	16
15	Genesis of Active Pt/CeO₂ Catalyst for Dry Reforming of Methane by Reduction and Aggregation of Isolated Platinum Atoms into Clusters Small ·Sonali Das, Uzma Anjum, Kang Hui Lim, Qian He, Adam S. Hoffman, Simon R. Bare, Sergey M. Kozlov, Bruce C. Gates, Sibudjing Kawi	2023	18
16	Utilization of carbonized water hyacinth for effective encapsulation and thermal conductivity enhancement of phase change energy storage materials Construction and Building Materials ·Qian He, Hua Fei, Jiahong Zhou, Elok Mahmud Putri, Bart-O. Nnaji	2023	26
17	Single tungsten atom-modified Pt/Al2O3 to boost glycerol hydrogenolysis to 1,3-propanediol Chemical Engineering Journal ·Binbin Zhao, Rätsep, Chen Chen, Qian He, Qiong Tang, Lei Liu, Jinxiang Dong	2023	10
18	Promoted Growth and Multiband Emission in Heterostructured Perovskites Through Cs⁺‐Sublattice Interaction Advanced Science ·Lei Zhou, Liangliang Liang, Jiaye Chen, Xin Zhou, Lingmei Liu, Shibo Xi, Kian Ping Loh, Yu Han, Qian He, Xiaogang Liu	2023	5
19	Learning motifs and their hierarchies in atomic resolution microscopy Science Advances ·Jiadong Dan, Xiaoxu Zhao, Shoucong Ning, Jiong Lu, Kian Ping Loh, Qian He, N. Duane Loh, Stephen J. Pennycook	2022	23
20	Study on the difference between in-situ and ex-situ catalytic pyrolysis of oily sludge Environmental Science and Pollution Research ·Qian He, Sheng‐Xiong Huang, Wei Luo, Ângela Kazue Morita, Mao Xia, Monica Fernandez-Boente, Zhi Zhou	2021	7

About Qian He

Qian He is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Structural Biology, Materials Chemistry and Process Chemistry and Technology, having authored 334 papers that have together received 15.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (128 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (73 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (72 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (45 papers), Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (34 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (27 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (27 papers) and Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Catalysis (4.5k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (5.8k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (684 citations), Materials Chemistry (9.7k citations) and Inorganic Chemistry (1.8k citations). Qian He has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Stuart H. Taylor, David Morgan, Albert F. Carley, Albina Y. Borisevich, José Antonio López-Sánchez, David J. Willock and Meenakshisundaram Sankar. Their work appears in journals such as Catalysis Science & Technology, ACS Nano, Nature Communications, ChemCatChem and ACS Catalysis.

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