Qikun Hu

646 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 461 citations indexed

About

Qikun Hu is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Qikun Hu has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 461 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Pollution, 6 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Qikun Hu's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (6 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (4 papers). Qikun Hu is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (6 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (6 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (4 papers). Qikun Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Norway. Qikun Hu's co-authors include Zhiqiang Niu, Yanfen Wu, Yu‐Xiao Zhang, Mingze Sun, Shengbo Zhang, Haoyue Guo, Ping Liu, Shuyan Gong, Yang Fu and Xiaohao Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Qikun Hu

14 papers receiving 450 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.

Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling

2023 180 citations Shengbo Zhang, Qikun Hu et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qikun Hu China	9	190	117	104	104	75	15	461
Arun S. Asundi United States	11	269 1.4×	76 0.6×	68 0.7×	129 1.2×	51 0.7×	22	499
Jingqing Tian China	8	184 1.0×	93 0.8×	104 1.0×	59 0.6×	37 0.5×	16	411
Laura C. Meyer United States	8	72 0.4×	122 1.0×	137 1.3×	152 1.5×	44 0.6×	9	442
Shuheng Tian China	9	294 1.5×	134 1.1×	121 1.2×	240 2.3×	40 0.5×	26	648
Mengqi Sun United States	10	174 0.9×	152 1.3×	147 1.4×	96 0.9×	47 0.6×	14	476
Ruochen Cao China	8	236 1.2×	199 1.7×	163 1.6×	306 2.9×	29 0.4×	9	663
Weixiao Sun China	12	196 1.0×	65 0.6×	71 0.7×	102 1.0×	80 1.1×	19	720
Chaojie Huang China	11	289 1.5×	57 0.5×	51 0.5×	124 1.2×	41 0.5×	16	501
Houqian Li United States	12	294 1.5×	68 0.6×	79 0.8×	101 1.0×	123 1.6×	19	682
Bibo Chen China	7	110 0.6×	30 0.3×	53 0.5×	72 0.7×	101 1.3×	11	368

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qikun Hu

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Huang, Helai, Mingze Sun, Xin Tang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of Mn‐based Catalyst for Durable Two‐electron Oxygen Reduction in Acid at High Current Densities. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202511844–e202511844. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Helai, Mingze Sun, Xin Tang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of Mn‐based Catalyst for Durable Two‐electron Oxygen Reduction in Acid at High Current Densities. Angewandte Chemie. 137(33). 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Qikun, Jiayang Zhao, Yi Cheng, et al.. (2025). CO-promoted polyethylene hydrogenolysis with renewable formic acid as hydrogen donor. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7821–7821. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jiayang, et al.. (2025). Tandem Catalysis to Mitigate Coke Formation in the Upcycling of Mixed Polyolefin Wastes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(34). 30768–30776. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shengbo, Penghui Li, Qikun Hu, et al.. (2025). Diatomic Zn‐Functionalized Carbon Sphere for Microplastics Remediation in Natural Seawater at Environmentally Relevant Concentration. Advanced Materials. 37(42). e08428–e08428. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, Xin Tang, Helai Huang, et al.. (2025). Efficient chemical recycling of mixed plastics by intramolecular glycolysis. AIChE Journal. 71(12).

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Hu, Qikun, Shuairen Qian, Yuqi Wang, et al.. (2024). Polyethylene hydrogenolysis by dilute RuPt alloy to achieve H2-pressure-independent low methane selectivity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10573–10573. 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Nondestructive Recovery of Cotton from Waste Polycotton Textiles by Catalytic Hydrolysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(28). 10446–10454. 14 indexed citations

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Xiong, Haocheng, Peiping Yu, Qikun Hu, et al.. (2024). Urea synthesis via electrocatalytic oxidative coupling of CO with NH3 on Pt. Nature Catalysis. 7(7). 785–795. 50 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Opportunities and challenges for plastic depolymerization by biomimetic catalysis. Chemical Science. 15(17). 6200–6217. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Beibei, Ruonan Ma, Lei Chen, et al.. (2023). Diatomic iron nanozyme with lipoxidase-like activity for efficient inactivation of enveloped virus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7312–7312. 50 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shengbo, Qikun Hu, Yu‐Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling. Nature Sustainability. 6(8). 965–973. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huelsenbeck, Luke, et al.. (2021). Conductive, Large-Area, and Continuous 7,7,8,8-Tetracyanoquinodimethane@HKUST-1 Thin Films Fabricated Using Solution Shearing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(8). 10202–10209. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Huiqiu, Yilin Hou, Wenjing Sun, et al.. (2020). Insight into the Effects of Water on the Ethene to Aromatics Reaction with HZSM-5. ACS Catalysis. 10(9). 5288–5298. 54 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaohao, Qikun Hu, & Yang Fu. (2008). First-principles LDA+U studies of the In-doped ZnO transparent conductive oxide. Journal of Applied Physics. 104(6). 45 indexed citations

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