Runnan Guan

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 941 citations indexed

About

Runnan Guan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Runnan Guan has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 941 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Organic Chemistry and 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Runnan Guan's work include Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (14 papers) and Graphene research and applications (13 papers). Runnan Guan is often cited by papers focused on Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (14 papers) and Graphene research and applications (13 papers). Runnan Guan collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and South Korea. Runnan Guan's co-authors include Shangfeng Yang, Muqing Chen, Jong‐Beom Baek, Yan Zhou, Yongsheng Fu, Fei Jin, Pingwu Du, Xianjun Zhu, Daochuan Jiang and Yalin Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Runnan Guan

37 papers receiving 928 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.

Tuning the Coordination Environment of Carbon‐Based Single‐Atom Catalysts via Doping with Multiple Heteroatoms and Their Applications in Electrocatalysis

2023 150 citations Yan Zhou, Runnan Guan et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Runnan Guan China	15	667	329	324	282	82	39	941
Hong Shi China	17	513 0.8×	351 1.1×	184 0.6×	262 0.9×	53 0.6×	39	739
April Corpuz United States	10	383 0.6×	313 1.0×	190 0.6×	266 0.9×	124 1.5×	12	725
Akbar Omidvar Iran	20	661 1.0×	103 0.3×	250 0.8×	320 1.1×	114 1.4×	48	950
Yanyan Jia China	16	690 1.0×	604 1.8×	241 0.7×	449 1.6×	62 0.8×	18	1.0k
Qiufeng Huang China	23	682 1.0×	332 1.0×	585 1.8×	488 1.7×	48 0.6×	93	1.5k
Minda Chen United States	17	485 0.7×	337 1.0×	256 0.8×	142 0.5×	109 1.3×	32	832
Youngkyu Han South Korea	13	234 0.4×	298 0.9×	137 0.4×	263 0.9×	69 0.8×	36	659
Zuo‐Chang Chen China	16	472 0.7×	118 0.4×	362 1.1×	314 1.1×	68 0.8×	39	823
Andrew S. Crampton Germany	13	670 1.0×	413 1.3×	112 0.3×	179 0.6×	49 0.6×	22	857
Zhiyuan Sun China	13	516 0.8×	217 0.7×	321 1.0×	236 0.8×	271 3.3×	20	852

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Zhou, Yan, Zhuo Zhao, Runnan Guan, et al.. (2025). Hollow structures derived from metal-glycerates toward efficient electrochemical energy storage and conversion. Nano Energy. 144. 111348–111348. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Sooyeon, Jae‐Hoon Baek, Jeong‐Min Seo, et al.. (2025). Mechanochemical ammonia synthesis enhanced by silicon nitride as a defect-inducing physical promoter. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5703–5703.

Guan, Runnan, Sheng Li, Changqing Li, et al.. (2025). Mechanochemical carbon dioxide capture and conversion. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(9). 1247–1253. 6 indexed citations

Guan, Runnan, Qiannan Zhao, Sheng Li, et al.. (2025). Separation-Free High-Purity Hydrogen Production via the Mechanochemical Ammonia–Silicon Reaction under Mild Conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(35). 32035–32044.

Zhou, Yan, Zhen Wu, Runnan Guan, et al.. (2025). Amorphous/Crystalline Heterostructured Nanomaterials: An Emerging Platform for Electrochemical Energy Storage. Small. 21(12). e2411941–e2411941. 11 indexed citations

Li, Changqing, Zhaoying Wang, Yucheng Jin, et al.. (2025). Tunable Catalytic Vertex Wall Chemistry in Metal‐free Covalent Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(14). 2 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

Li, Changqing, Zhongping Li, Ranjit Thapa, et al.. (2024). Direct Electroplating Ruthenium Precursor on the Surface Oxidized Nickel Foam for Efficient and Stable Bifunctional Alkaline Water Electrolysis. Advanced Materials. 36(31). e2403151–e2403151. 44 indexed citations

Zhou, Yan, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Coordination Environment of Carbon‐Based Single‐Atom Catalysts via Doping with Multiple Heteroatoms and Their Applications in Electrocatalysis. Advanced Materials. 35(38). e2210575–e2210575. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, Xiaole, Yang‐Rong Yao, Runnan Guan, et al.. (2022). Monometallic Endohedral Azafullerene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(47). 21587–21595. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Muqing, Fei Jin, Mengyang Li, et al.. (2022). Decisive role of non-rare earth metals in high-regioselectivity addition of μ₃-carbido clusterfullerene. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 9(21). 5688–5696. 7 indexed citations

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Guan, Runnan, Zuo‐Chang Chen, Jing Huang, et al.. (2022). Self-driven carbon atom implantation into fullerene embedding metal–carbon cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(39). e2202563119–e2202563119. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Runnan Guan, Muqing Chen, et al.. (2021). Favorite Orientation of the Carbon Cage and a Unique Two-Dimensional-Layered Packing Model in the Cocrystals of Nd@C₈₂(I,II) Isomers with Decapyrrylcorannulene. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(3). 1462–1471. 13 indexed citations

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Guan, Runnan, Muqing Chen, Fei Jin, et al.. (2021). Capturing the Missing Carbon Cage Isomer of C₈₄ via Mutual Stabilization of a Triangular Monometallic Cyanide Cluster. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(21). 8078–8085. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Muqing, Runnan Guan, Bo Li, et al.. (2020). Anomalous Cis‐Conformation Regioselectivity of Heterocycle‐Fused Sc₃N@D_3h‐C₇₈ Derivatives. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(14). 7880–7886. 14 indexed citations

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Wu, Jianhua, Shiyang Wang, Zhanwu Lei, et al.. (2020). Pomegranate-like C60@cobalt/nitrogen-codoped porous carbon for high-performance oxygen reduction reaction and lithium-sulfur battery. Nano Research. 14(8). 2596–2605. 23 indexed citations

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Tamm, Nadezhda B., Runnan Guan, Shangfeng Yang, Erhard Kemnitz, & Sergey I. Troyanov. (2019). Chlorination‐Promoted Cage Transformation of IPR C₉₂ Discovered via Trifluoromethylation under Formation of Non‐classical C₉₂(NC)(CF₃)₂₂. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 14(12). 2108–2111. 6 indexed citations

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Guan, Runnan, Muqing Chen, Fei Jin, & Shangfeng Yang. (2019). Strain Release of Fused Pentagons in Fullerene Cages by Chemical Functionalization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(3). 1048–1073. 27 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xianjun, Taiming Zhang, Daochuan Jiang, et al.. (2018). Stabilizing black phosphorus nanosheets via edge-selective bonding of sacrificial C60 molecules. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4177–4177. 214 indexed citations

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Wei, Tao, Fei Jin, Runnan Guan, et al.. (2018). Blending Non‐Group‐3 Transition Metal and Rare‐Earth Metal into a C₈₀ Fullerene Cage with D_5h Symmetry. Angewandte Chemie. 130(32). 10430–10434. 5 indexed citations

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