Rui Si

38.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
316 papers, 34.1k citations indexed

About

Rui Si is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui Si has authored 316 papers receiving a total of 34.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 191 papers in Materials Chemistry, 142 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 129 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Rui Si's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (136 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (68 papers). Rui Si is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (136 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (68 papers). Rui Si collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Rui Si's co-authors include Chun‐Hua Yan, Ya‐Wen Zhang, Maria Flytzani‐Stephanopoulos, Liping You, Shu Miao, Ling‐Dong Sun, Chao Ma, Xinhe Bao, Jie Zeng and Haoxin Mai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Rui Si

313 papers receiving 33.8k 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.

Shape-Selective Synthesis and Oxygen Storage Behavior of Ceria Nanopolyhedra, Nanorods, and Nanocubes

2005 1.4k citations Ya‐Wen Zhang, Rui Si et al. profile →
High-Quality Sodium Rare-Earth Fluoride Nanocrystals: Controlled Synthesis and Optical Properties

2006 1.3k citations Ya‐Wen Zhang, Rui Si et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Direct, Nonoxidative Conversion of Methane to Ethylene, Aromatics, and Hydrogen

2014 1.2k citations Rui Si, Xiulian Pan et al. profile →
Achieving a Record‐High Yield Rate of 120.9 for N₂ Electrochemical Reduction over Ru Single‐Atom Catalysts

2018 857 citations Zhigang Geng, Xiangdong Kong et al. profile →
Promoting nitrogen electroreduction to ammonia with bismuth nanocrystals and potassium cations in water

2019 776 citations Yuchen Hao, Yu Guo et al. profile →
Shape and Crystal‐Plane Effects of Nanoscale Ceria on the Activity of Au‐CeO₂ Catalysts for the Water–Gas Shift Reaction

2008 734 citations Rui Si et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Coordinatively unsaturated nickel–nitrogen sites towards selective and high-rate CO₂electroreduction

2018 709 citations Rui Si, Jianping Xiao et al. profile →
Synergetic interaction between neighbouring platinum monomers in CO2 hydrogenation

2018 682 citations Hongliang Li, Xusheng Zheng et al. profile →
Alkali-Stabilized Pt-OH _x Species Catalyze Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reactions

2010 658 citations Rui Si et al. profile →
Engineering the Coordination Environment of Single‐Atom Platinum Anchored on Graphdiyne for Optimizing Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

2018 527 citations Shu Miao, Rui Si et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Electrochemical deposition as a universal route for fabricating single-atom catalysts

2020 423 citations Zhirong Zhang, Hongliang Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
One-Step Synthesis of SnI₂·(DMSO)_x Adducts for High-Performance Tin Perovskite Solar Cells

2021 413 citations Luozhen Jiang, Rui Si et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitric oxide using a copper–tin alloy catalyst

2023 151 citations Jiaqi Shao, Huijuan Jing et al. Nature Energy profile →
Corrosion Protection of Rare Earth for Kilowatt-Level Alkaline Seawater Electrolyzer

2025 22 citations Rui Si, Chun‐Hua Yan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui Si China	98	22.0k	18.4k	11.6k	9.1k	4.2k	316	34.1k
Zheng Jiang China	78	16.6k 0.8×	23.3k 1.3×	8.5k 0.7×	11.7k 1.3×	3.8k 0.9×	332	32.6k
Shu Miao China	69	14.6k 0.7×	15.8k 0.9×	8.4k 0.7×	5.5k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	171	25.6k
Martin Muhler Germany	89	20.0k 0.9×	13.8k 0.8×	9.7k 0.8×	10.5k 1.1×	4.0k 1.0×	626	33.3k
Paolo Fornasiero Italy	92	25.8k 1.2×	14.6k 0.8×	12.1k 1.0×	5.9k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	360	33.2k
Chak‐Tong Au China	88	20.2k 0.9×	9.8k 0.5×	11.0k 0.9×	5.4k 0.6×	5.4k 1.3×	658	29.6k
Ding Ma China	99	21.2k 1.0×	12.2k 0.7×	11.2k 1.0×	5.1k 0.6×	5.7k 1.4×	517	33.1k
Junfa Zhu China	104	24.0k 1.1×	27.3k 1.5×	6.3k 0.5×	16.2k 1.8×	3.4k 0.8×	493	43.1k
Xiaofeng Yang China	56	14.6k 0.7×	13.7k 0.7×	7.2k 0.6×	4.1k 0.4×	4.5k 1.1×	192	23.0k
Shiqiang Wei China	79	18.3k 0.8×	20.6k 1.1×	4.8k 0.4×	12.2k 1.3×	3.1k 0.7×	373	32.1k
Dang Sheng Su China	81	16.9k 0.8×	7.9k 0.4×	6.7k 0.6×	6.3k 0.7×	4.8k 1.2×	353	25.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rui Si

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Yin, Xingxing, Zheng Hu, Zhongqing Liu, et al.. (2025). Gradient Structural Design Inducing Rocksalt Interface and P2/P3 Biphasic Bulk for Layered Oxide Cathode with Prolonged Sodium Ion Storage. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(8). 4 indexed citations

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Shao, Jiaqi, Huijuan Jing, Pengfei Wei, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from nitric oxide using a copper–tin alloy catalyst. Nature Energy. 8(11). 1273–1283. 151 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kong, Xiangdong, Jiankang Zhao, Jingwen Ke, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Effect of *CO Coverage on C–C Coupling toward CO₂ Electroreduction. Nano Letters. 22(9). 3801–3808. 121 indexed citations

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Chen, Huihuang, Shaoqing Chen, Zhirong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Single-Atom-Induced Adsorption Optimization of Adjacent Sites Boosted Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 12(21). 13482–13491. 59 indexed citations

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Gong, Wei, Xinfa Chen, Wenqiang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Leveraging Chiral Zr(IV)-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks To Elucidate Catalytically Active Rh Species in Asymmetric Hydrogenation Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(7). 3117–3126. 50 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiaxu, Ning He, Zhenmei Zhang, et al.. (2021). Highly-Dispersed Zinc Species on Zeolites for the Continuous and Selective Dehydrogenation of Ethane with CO ₂ as a Soft Oxidant. ACS Catalysis. 11(5). 2819–2830. 84 indexed citations

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Hao, Yuchen, Li‐Wei Chen, Jiani Li, et al.. (2021). Metal-organic framework membranes with single-atomic centers for photocatalytic CO2 and O2 reduction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2682–2682. 244 indexed citations

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Wang, Ye, Wenxiong Shi, Zhiming Zhang, et al.. (2020). Unveiling Single Atom Nucleation for Isolating Ultrafine fcc Ru Nanoclusters with Outstanding Dehydrogenation Activity. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(43). 42 indexed citations

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Jin, Xixiong, Rongyan Wang, Lingxia Zhang, et al.. (2020). Electron Configuration Modulation of Nickel Single Atoms for Elevated Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(17). 6827–6831. 190 indexed citations

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Jin, Xixiong, Rongyan Wang, Lingxia Zhang, et al.. (2020). Electron Configuration Modulation of Nickel Single Atoms for Elevated Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 132(17). 6894–6898. 69 indexed citations

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Chen, Yuxiang, Ke Gong, Feng Jiao, et al.. (2020). C−C Bond Formation in Syngas Conversion over Zinc Sites Grafted on ZSM‐5 Zeolite. Angewandte Chemie. 132(16). 6591–6596. 6 indexed citations

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Babu, Dickson D., Yiyin Huang, G. Anandha Babu, et al.. (2019). Atomic iridium@cobalt nanosheets for dinuclear tandem water oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(14). 8376–8383. 84 indexed citations

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Chen, Yizhen, Hongliang Li, Wanghui Zhao, et al.. (2019). Optimizing reaction paths for methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation via metal-ligand cooperativity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1885–1885. 154 indexed citations

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Miao, Shu, et al.. (2019). Efficient selective hydrogenation of 2-butyne-1,4-diol to 2-butene-1,4-diol by silicon carbide supported platinum catalyst. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(2). 327–331. 17 indexed citations

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López-Cámara, Diego, V. Cortés Corberán, A. Martı́nez-Arias, et al.. (2019). Novel manganese-promoted inverse CeO2/CuO catalyst: In situ characterization and activity for the water-gas shift reaction. Catalysis Today. 339. 24–31. 43 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Xiaowa Nie, Weiwei Yu, et al.. (2019). Single Atomic Cu-N2 Catalytic Sites for Highly Active and Selective Hydroxylation of Benzene to Phenol. iScience. 22. 97–108. 69 indexed citations

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Li, Huining, Changyan Cao, Jian Liu, et al.. (2019). Cobalt single atoms anchored on N-doped ultrathin carbon nanosheets for selective transfer hydrogenation of nitroarenes. Science China Materials. 62(9). 1306–1314. 50 indexed citations

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Yi, Jun‐Dong, Rui Xu, Guoliang Chai, et al.. (2018). Cobalt single-atoms anchored on porphyrinic triazine-based frameworks as bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and hydrogen evolution reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(3). 1252–1259. 167 indexed citations

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Li, Jiong, S. Zhang, Lihua Wang, et al.. (2015). The XAFS beamline of SSRF. Nuclear Science and Techniques. 26(5). 050102-1–050102-7. 77 indexed citations

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Kang, Danmiao, Qinglei Liu, Rui Si, et al.. (2015). Crosslinking-derived MnO/carbon hybrid with ultrasmall nanoparticles for increasing lithium storage capacity during cycling. Carbon. 99. 138–147. 88 indexed citations

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