Renyuan Li

10.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
99 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Renyuan Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Water Science and Technology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Renyuan Li has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 21 papers in Water Science and Technology and 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Renyuan Li's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (33 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (18 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (14 papers). Renyuan Li is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (33 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (18 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (14 papers). Renyuan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong. Renyuan Li's co-authors include Peng Wang, Le Shi, Lianbin Zhang, Yusuf Shi, Seung‐Hyun Hong, Mengchun Wu, Chenlin Zhang, Bo Tang, Sifei Zhuo and Yong Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Renyuan Li

96 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

MXene Ti₃C₂: An Effective 2D Light-to-Heat Conversion Material

2017 1.5k citations Renyuan Li, Lianbin Zhang et al. profile →
Hydrophobic Light‐to‐Heat Conversion Membranes with Self‐Healing Ability for Interfacial Solar Heating

2015 917 citations Lianbin Zhang, Bo Tang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A 3D Photothermal Structure toward Improved Energy Efficiency in Solar Steam Generation

2018 639 citations Yusuf Shi, Renyuan Li et al. Joule profile →
Salting-in Effect of Zwitterionic Polymer Hydrogel Facilitates Atmospheric Water Harvesting

2022 217 citations Sara Aleid, Mengchun Wu et al. ACS Materials Letters profile →
Recent research advances in efficient solar-driven interfacial evaporation

2024 84 citations Renyuan Li et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renyuan Li China	40	5.9k	2.9k	1.7k	1.7k	1.5k	99	9.2k
Qingxia Liu Canada	58	2.8k 0.5×	3.0k 1.0×	3.5k 2.1×	3.0k 1.8×	2.0k 1.4×	318	12.0k
Qi Liu Canada	56	1.8k 0.3×	4.4k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	2.9k 2.0×	347	9.8k
Lei Miao China	53	3.3k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	4.2k 2.5×	956 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	309	9.8k
Long Li China	46	1.7k 0.3×	777 0.3×	2.6k 1.6×	2.1k 1.2×	673 0.5×	337	7.9k
John G. Georgiadis United States	31	2.0k 0.3×	4.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.2×	5.0k 3.0×	1.0k 0.7×	116	11.1k
Yiming Li China	50	2.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	3.9k 2.3×	2.5k 1.5×	440 0.3×	251	9.2k
Lin Li China	43	2.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	848 0.6×	185	5.4k
Zhiqiang Chen China	50	2.6k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	3.2k 1.9×	1.4k 0.9×	804 0.5×	284	9.4k
Bo Han China	49	2.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	3.6k 2.2×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	352	8.8k
Hongxia Li China	33	2.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	600 0.4×	524 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	178	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Rongrong, Jiaojiao Han, Raid Alrowais, Jun Zhou, & Renyuan Li. (2025). Atmospheric water as alternative and universal resources: From the energy perspective. Nano Energy. 140. 111012–111012. 2 indexed citations

Li, Renyuan, Zhen Cui, & Junliang Yao. (2025). Modular design for switchable and tunable terahertz absorbers based on vanadium dioxide. Micro and Nanostructures. 209. 208405–208405. 1 indexed citations

Jiang, Shao‐Yong, et al.. (2024). Development of major unconformities in the forearc regions: A signal of west Myanmar−Asia assemblage before the late Paleocene. Journal of Structural Geology. 185. 105174–105174.

Alezi, Dalal, Renyuan Li, Norah Alsadun, et al.. (2024). Metal–organic framework-based atmospheric water harvesting for enhanced photovoltaic efficiency and sustainability. Materials Advances. 5(11). 4660–4667. 12 indexed citations

Wu, Mengchun, Sara Aleid, Xiaodan Tang, et al.. (2024). Recyclable and Degradable Biomass-Based Water Vapor Sorbents for Efficient Atmospheric Water Harvesting. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(3). 1255–1264. 21 indexed citations

Li, Yuquan, Renyuan Li, Mengchun Wu, et al.. (2024). Faradaic Rectification in Electrochemical Deionization and Its Influence on Cyclic Stability. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(4). 956–965. 11 indexed citations

Li, Renyuan, et al.. (2023). Advanced Material Design and Engineering for Water‐Based Evaporative Cooling. Advanced Materials. 36(12). e2209460–e2209460. 60 indexed citations

Cui, Zhen, et al.. (2023). Adsorption of metals on Si9C15 monolayer for optoelectronic applications. Vacuum. 217. 112565–112565. 5 indexed citations

Aleid, Sara, Mengchun Wu, Renyuan Li, et al.. (2022). Salting-in Effect of Zwitterionic Polymer Hydrogel Facilitates Atmospheric Water Harvesting. ACS Materials Letters. 4(3). 511–520. 217 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Mengchun, Renyuan Li, Yusuf Shi, et al.. (2021). Metal- and halide-free, solid-state polymeric water vapor sorbents for efficient water-sorption-driven cooling and atmospheric water harvesting. Materials Horizons. 8(5). 1518–1527. 102 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenbin, Yusuf Shi, Chenlin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Conversion and storage of solar energy for cooling. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(1). 136–145. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenbin, Yusuf Shi, Chenlin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Solar Seawater Distillation by Flexible and Fully Passive Multistage Membrane Distillation. Nano Letters. 21(12). 5068–5074. 111 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenbin, Wu Chen, Kai Zhu, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Personal Fever Alert Monitoring by Wearable Detector Based on Thermoresponsive Hydrogel. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 3(4). 1747–1755. 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, et al.. (2021). Erosion and sedimentation in SE Tibet and Myanmar during the evolution of the Burmese continental margin from the Late Cretaceous to Early Neogene. Gondwana Research. 95. 149–175. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Renyuan, Mengchun Wu, Yusuf Shi, et al.. (2021). Hybrid water vapor sorbent design with pollution shielding properties: extracting clean water from polluted bulk water sources. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(26). 14731–14740. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Weidong, Dimin Wang, Rongcai Yue, et al.. (2021). Gut microbes enlarged the protective effect of transplanted regulatory B cells on rejection of cardiac allografts. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 40(12). 1502–1516. 4 indexed citations

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Yang, Kaijie, Yusuf Shi, Mengchun Wu, et al.. (2019). Hollow spherical SiO₂ micro-container encapsulation of LiCl for high-performance simultaneous heat reallocation and seawater desalination. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(4). 1887–1895. 68 indexed citations

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Li, Renyuan, Yusuf Shi, Mengchun Wu, Seung‐Hyun Hong, & Peng Wang. (2019). Improving atmospheric water production yield: Enabling multiple water harvesting cycles with nano sorbent. Nano Energy. 67. 104255–104255. 310 indexed citations

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Shi, Yusuf, Renyuan Li, Yong Jin, et al.. (2018). A 3D Photothermal Structure toward Improved Energy Efficiency in Solar Steam Generation. Joule. 2(6). 1171–1186. 639 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Lianbin, Renyuan Li, Bo Tang, & Peng Wang. (2016). Solar-thermal conversion and thermal energy storage of graphene foam-based composites. Nanoscale. 8(30). 14600–14607. 190 indexed citations

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