Tongwei Wu

4.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Tongwei Wu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tongwei Wu has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 29 papers in Catalysis and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Tongwei Wu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (25 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (24 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Tongwei Wu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (25 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (24 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers). Tongwei Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and Singapore. Tongwei Wu's co-authors include Xuping Sun, Yanning Zhang, Yonglan Luo, Xifeng Shi, Xiaojuan Zhu, Qian Liu, Zhe Xing, Ting Wang, Shiyong Mou and Marko Melander 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

Tongwei Wu

53 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Greatly Improving Electrochemical N2 Reduction over TiO2 ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2021 2020 2025 2025 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Greatly Improving Electrochemical N2 Reduction over TiO2 Nanoparticles by Iron Doping
    2019 448 citations Tongwei Wu, Yanning Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Activity Trends and Mechanisms in Peroxymonosulfate‐Assisted Catalytic Production of Singlet Oxygen over Atomic Metal‐N‐C Catalysts
    2021 420 citations Yun Gao, Tongwei Wu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Identifying the Origin of Ti3+ Activity toward Enhanced Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction over TiO2 Nanoparticles Modulated by Mixed‐Valent Copper
    2020 349 citations Tongwei Wu, Haitao Zhao et al. profile →
  4. Hexafluorophosphate additive enables durable seawater oxidation at ampere-level current density
    2025 35 citations Xun He, Yongchao Yao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Expanded Negative Electrostatic Network-Assisted Seawater Oxidation and High-Salinity Seawater Reutilization
    2025 34 citations Hefeng Wang, Tongwei Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tongwei Wu China 26 2.8k 2.0k 1.5k 570 479 57 3.5k
Jung Yoon Kim United States 10 3.0k 1.1× 2.2k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 850 1.5× 879 1.8× 10 3.8k
Qinye Li Australia 20 2.2k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 659 1.2× 355 0.7× 29 3.1k
Bari Wulan China 23 3.3k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 2.2k 1.5× 739 1.3× 481 1.0× 40 4.1k
Bingquan Xia Australia 23 2.6k 0.9× 934 0.5× 1.9k 1.2× 829 1.5× 247 0.5× 38 3.2k
Carlos M. Sánchez‐Sánchez France 25 1.7k 0.6× 880 0.4× 674 0.4× 735 1.3× 297 0.6× 62 2.6k
Claudio Ampelli Italy 31 2.7k 1.0× 1.6k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 630 1.1× 262 0.5× 85 3.4k
Jinmeng Cai China 27 2.1k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 701 1.2× 354 0.7× 44 2.8k
Adam C. Nielander United States 25 1.9k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 796 1.4× 319 0.7× 66 2.7k
Xianbiao Fu China 25 2.6k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 869 1.5× 559 1.2× 48 3.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Tongwei, et al.. (2026). Potential-dependent polaron formation activates TiO2 for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 17(1).
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Guo, Xiaoxi, Tongwei Wu, Hengfeng Li, et al.. (2025). Electrosynthesis of NH3 from low-concentration NO on cascade dual-site catalysts in neutral media. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8481–8481.
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Li, Fei, Zhiyu Xue, Miao He, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Li‐Accelerated Motif Enables Lithium Stabilization and Polysulfide Conversion for Long‐Cycling Li–S Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(50). 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yajing, Tongwei Wu, Jianing He, et al.. (2025). Hand-powered interfacial electric-field-enhanced water disinfection system. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(12). 1796–1804.
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He, Xun, Yongchao Yao, Limei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Hexafluorophosphate additive enables durable seawater oxidation at ampere-level current density. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4998–4998. 35 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tian, Lin, Yuandong Niu, Xingen Lin, et al.. (2025). Constructing a Localized OH Buffer Motif to Improve the Alkaline Hydroxide Reaction over Ru Clusters. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(37).
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Wang, Pan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing electroreduction of NO 3 − to NH 3 over Co 3 O 4 nanowires via N-doping. New Journal of Chemistry. 49(4). 1128–1132. 1 indexed citations
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Melander, Marko, Tongwei Wu, Timo Weckman, & Karoliina Honkala. (2024). Constant inner potential DFT for modelling electrochemical systems under constant potential and bias. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 47 indexed citations
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Wang, Pai, Peng Wang, Chunyang Wu, et al.. (2024). Octahedral CoS2 electrocatalysts for efficient nitrate reduction to ammonia. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(20). 7118–7125. 10 indexed citations
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Ye, Beirong, Tengfei Zhang, Yongqi Li, et al.. (2024). Self-standing hollow Ni-doped Mo2C nanotube arrays induced by the Kirkendall effect for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic and alkaline solutions. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(18). 5894–5904. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Fei, Xiaoqin Li, Jie Tan, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance with MXene: Specialized Structures and Innovative Designs. Advanced Science. 11(36). e2404328–e2404328. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Pan, Tongwei Wu, Xuping Sun, & Yanning Zhang. (2024). Bimetal Metaphosphate/Molybdenum Oxide Heterostructure Nanowires for Boosting Overall Freshwater/Seawater Splitting at High Current Densities. Advanced Science. 11(44). e2407892–e2407892. 18 indexed citations
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Wu, Tongwei, Marko Melander, & Karoliina Honkala. (2023). Theoretical advances in understanding the active site microenvironment toward the electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction in aqueous media. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 42. 101383–101383. 9 indexed citations
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Guo, Xiaoxi, Pai Wang, Tongwei Wu, et al.. (2023). Aqueous Electroreduction of Nitric Oxide to Ammonia at Low Concentration via Vacancy Engineered FeOCl. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(6). e202318792–e202318792. 37 indexed citations
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Guo, Xiaoxi, Pai Wang, Tongwei Wu, et al.. (2023). Aqueous Electroreduction of Nitric Oxide to Ammonia at Low Concentration via Vacancy Engineered FeOCl. Angewandte Chemie. 136(6). 3 indexed citations
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Pan, Jinliang, Tongwei Wu, Chao Ma, et al.. (2023). Unidirectional alignment and orientation pinning mechanism of h-BN nucleation on Ir(111) via reactive probe atomic force microscopy. Communications Materials. 4(1). 2 indexed citations
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Gao, Yun, Tongwei Wu, Chengdong Yang, et al.. (2021). Activity Trends and Mechanisms in Peroxymonosulfate‐Assisted Catalytic Production of Singlet Oxygen over Atomic Metal‐N‐C Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 133(41). 22687–22695. 21 indexed citations
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Gao, Yun, Tongwei Wu, Chengdong Yang, et al.. (2021). Activity Trends and Mechanisms in Peroxymonosulfate‐Assisted Catalytic Production of Singlet Oxygen over Atomic Metal‐N‐C Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(41). 22513–22521. 420 indexed citations breakdown →
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