Ruquan Ye

19.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
135 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Ruquan Ye is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruquan Ye has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Materials Chemistry, 68 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ruquan Ye's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (34 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers) and Graphene research and applications (23 papers). Ruquan Ye is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (34 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers) and Graphene research and applications (23 papers). Ruquan Ye collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Ruquan Ye's co-authors include James M. Tour, Zhiwei Peng, Jian Lin, Dustin K. James, Errol L. G. Samuel, Yilun Li, Boris I. Yakobson, Yuanyue Liu, Ben Zhong Tang and Miguel José Yacamán and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ruquan Ye

128 papers receiving 15.8k 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.

Laser-induced porous graphene films from commercial polymers

2014 2.3k citations Ruquan Ye, Boris I. Yakobson et al. Nature Communications profile →
Laser-Induced Graphene by Multiple Lasing: Toward Electronics on Cloth, Paper, and Food

2018 816 citations Ruquan Ye et al. ACS Nano profile →
Laser‐Induced Graphene: From Discovery to Translation

2018 722 citations Ruquan Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Coal as an abundant source of graphene quantum dots

2013 701 citations Ruquan Ye, Zheng Yan et al. Nature Communications profile →
Laser-Induced Graphene

2018 596 citations Ruquan Ye et al. profile →
Clusterization-triggered emission: Uncommon luminescence from common materials

2019 583 citations Haoke Zhang, Zheng Zhao et al. profile →
Flexible Boron-Doped Laser-Induced Graphene Microsupercapacitors

2015 565 citations Ruquan Ye et al. ACS Nano profile →
Laser‐Induced Graphene Formation on Wood

2017 533 citations Ruquan Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →
High‐Performance Pseudocapacitive Microsupercapacitors from Laser‐Induced Graphene

2015 488 citations Ruquan Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →
MnO₂‐Based Materials for Environmental Applications

2021 376 citations Ruquan Ye et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Strain enhances the activity of molecular electrocatalysts via carbon nanotube supports

2023 303 citations Jianjun Su, Charles B. Musgrave et al. profile →
Advanced electrolytes for high-performance aqueous zinc-ion batteries

2024 183 citations Ruquan Ye et al. profile →
Direct Synthesis of Ammonia from Nitrate on Amorphous Graphene with Near 100% Efficiency

2023 139 citations Libei Huang, Le Cheng et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Manipulating Electric Double Layer Adsorption for Stable Solid‐Electrolyte Interphase in 2.3 Ah Zn‐Pouch Cells

2023 129 citations Geng Li, Ruquan Ye et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Flash healing of laser-induced graphene

2024 88 citations Le Cheng, Libei Huang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ruquan Ye China	55	7.5k	6.4k	5.8k	4.6k	3.6k	135	16.1k
Torben Daeneke Australia	62	8.5k 1.1×	6.3k 1.0×	3.9k 0.7×	3.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.6×	168	14.3k
Anthony P. O’Mullane Australia	55	5.0k 0.7×	5.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	265	11.6k
Sanjay Mathur Germany	67	8.1k 1.1×	7.4k 1.1×	3.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	493	15.5k
Hee‐Tae Jung South Korea	67	9.2k 1.2×	6.9k 1.1×	5.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	345	17.1k
Zhengzong Sun China	47	12.9k 1.7×	8.6k 1.3×	7.7k 1.3×	2.7k 0.6×	4.4k 1.2×	105	20.7k
Bilu Liu China	72	15.0k 2.0×	12.6k 2.0×	5.1k 0.9×	5.7k 1.3×	5.3k 1.5×	220	24.7k
Xiaoqiang Cui China	71	6.8k 0.9×	6.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.4×	6.7k 1.5×	2.0k 0.6×	294	15.0k
Chen Wang China	54	9.2k 1.2×	7.8k 1.2×	2.5k 0.4×	4.2k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	348	15.1k
Xiangheng Xiao China	58	6.2k 0.8×	4.6k 0.7×	2.4k 0.4×	3.8k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	256	10.9k
Xuhui Sun China	72	5.8k 0.8×	7.2k 1.1×	7.6k 1.3×	4.4k 1.0×	3.2k 0.9×	330	17.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruquan Ye

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Wang, Lingzhi, Junlei Qi, Yongping Dai, et al.. (2025). Surface Engineering of PtSe ₂ Crystal for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Ethanol Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 37(21). e2502047–e2502047. 1 indexed citations

Musgrave, Charles B., Jianjun Su, Pei Xiong, et al.. (2025). Molecular Strain Accelerates Electron Transfer for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(4). 3786–3795. 16 indexed citations

Song, Yun Mi, Charles B. Musgrave, Jianjun Su, et al.. (2025). Efficient CO2-to-methanol electrocatalysis in acidic media via microenvironment-tuned cobalt phthalocyanine. Nature Nanotechnology. 21(1). 78–86. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Xiaohu, Xuemeng Yu, Xihan Chen, & Ruquan Ye. (2024). Boosting the photoelectrochemical performance of BiVO₄ by borate buffer activation: the role of trace iron impurities. Chemical Communications. 60(75). 10330–10333.

Shen, Hanchen, Changhuo Xu, Bingzhe Wang, et al.. (2024). A Near-Infrared-II Excitable Pyridinium Probe with 1000-Fold ON/OFF Ratio for γ-Glutamyltranspeptidase and Cancer Detection. ACS Nano. 18(31). 20268–20282. 15 indexed citations

Zhao, Xueqian, Fei Wang, Chuen Kam, et al.. (2024). Fluorescent Nanocable as a Biomedical Tool: Intracellular Self-Assembly Formed by a Natural Product Interconnects and Synchronizes Mitochondria. ACS Nano. 18(32). 21447–21458. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Qiushi, Shang Liu, Jingjing Liu, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Hole Preservation with Undercoordinated Tungsten for Efficient Solar-to-Chemical Conversion. ACS Energy Letters. 9(7). 3252–3260. 4 indexed citations

Hu, Tingting, Fanqi Meng, Lu Ma, et al.. (2023). Preparation of 2D Polyaniline/MoO₃₋_x Superlattice Nanosheets via Intercalation‐Induced Morphological Transformation for Efficient Chemodynamic Therapy. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(11). e2202911–e2202911. 38 indexed citations

Sun, Feiyi, Hanchen Shen, Qinghu Yang, et al.. (2023). Dual Behavior Regulation: Tether‐Free Deep‐Brain Stimulation by Photothermal and Upconversion Hybrid Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials. 35(21). e2210018–e2210018. 27 indexed citations

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Sun, Feiyi, Hanchen Shen, Qingqing Liu, et al.. (2023). Powerful Synergy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Aggregation-Induced Emission-Active Photosensitizer in Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Nano. 17(19). 18952–18964. 23 indexed citations

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Guo, Weihua, Siwei Zhang, Jun‐Jie Zhang, et al.. (2023). Accelerating multielectron reduction at CuxO nanograins interfaces with controlled local electric field. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7383–7383. 82 indexed citations

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Huang, Libei, Yong Liu, Geng Li, et al.. (2023). Ultrasensitive, Fast-Responsive, Directional Airflow Sensing by Bioinspired Suspended Graphene Fibers. Nano Letters. 23(2). 597–605. 48 indexed citations

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Zhao, Sai, Shipei Zhu, Ho Cheung Shum, et al.. (2022). Shape-Reconfigurable Ferrofluids. Nano Letters. 22(13). 5538–5543. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Ruquan Ye, Hanchen Shen, et al.. (2022). Molecular Motion and Nonradiative Decay: Towards Efficient Photothermal and Photoacoustic Systems. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(30). e202204604–e202204604. 160 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhaoyu, Xinhui Zou, Yi Xie, et al.. (2022). A nonconjugated radical polymer with stable red luminescence in the solid state. Materials Horizons. 9(10). 2564–2571. 35 indexed citations

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Song, Xinyi, Le Huang, Carl Redshaw, et al.. (2022). Experimental and theoretical studies of the effect of molecular conformation on the photophysical properties in the pyrene system. Dyes and Pigments. 210. 111036–111036. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Xue, Houqi Liu, Lin Chen, et al.. (2022). Zero-valent iron boosts nitrate-to-ammonia bioconversion via extracellular electron donation and reduction pathway complementation. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 188. 106687–106687. 14 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiaoxue, Karpagam Subramanian, Ling Chen, et al.. (2021). Masks for COVID‐19. Advanced Science. 9(3). e2102189–e2102189. 131 indexed citations

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Huang, Libei, Ling Li, Jianjun Su, et al.. (2020). Laser-Engineered Graphene on Wood Enables Efficient Antibacterial, Anti-Salt-Fouling, and Lipophilic-Matter-Rejection Solar Evaporation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(46). 51864–51872. 94 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianfu, Yuanyuan Li, Zheng Zheng, et al.. (2019). In Situ Monitoring Apoptosis Process by a Self-Reporting Photosensitizer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(14). 5612–5616. 217 indexed citations

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