Wei Hu

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
213 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Wei Hu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Hu has authored 213 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Materials Chemistry, 61 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Wei Hu's work include 2D Materials and Applications (49 papers), Graphene research and applications (44 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (23 papers). Wei Hu is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (49 papers), Graphene research and applications (44 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (23 papers). Wei Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Wei Hu's co-authors include Jinlong Yang, Zhenyu Li, Lin Lin, Chao Yang, Shu‐Hong Yu, Hong‐Bin Yao, Changfeng Wang, Zhijun Zheng, Yong Ni and Ge Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wei Hu

199 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Flexible and Highly Pressure‐Sensitive Graphene–Polyure... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2018 2021 2023 250 500 750 1000
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. A Flexible and Highly Pressure‐Sensitive Graphene–Polyurethane Sponge Based on Fractured Microstructure Design
    2013 1.0k citations Wei Hu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Intrinsic Electric Fields in Two-dimensional Materials Boost the Solar-to-Hydrogen Efficiency for Photocatalytic Water Splitting
    2018 628 citations Wei Hu, Jinlong Yang et al. profile →
  3. Bidirectional photocurrent in p–n heterojunction nanowires
    2021 247 citations Danhao Wang, Xin Liu et al. Nature Electronics profile →
  4. Phase regulation enabling dense polymer-based composite electrolytes for solid-state lithium metal batteries
    2023 159 citations Wei Hu et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wei Hu China 47 5.5k 3.6k 2.2k 1.6k 961 213 9.0k
Peng He China 44 5.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 541 0.6× 190 8.1k
Kang Wang China 48 4.2k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 620 0.6× 316 7.6k
Yangyang Li China 44 2.6k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 234 0.2× 268 7.4k
Yue Zhang China 63 6.5k 1.2× 6.4k 1.8× 3.0k 1.3× 3.7k 2.3× 549 0.6× 383 13.6k
Wanlin Guo China 68 11.4k 2.1× 5.3k 1.5× 3.3k 1.5× 4.8k 3.0× 2.1k 2.2× 505 18.9k
Giridhar U. Kulkarni India 53 4.7k 0.9× 4.2k 1.2× 727 0.3× 3.3k 2.1× 967 1.0× 329 9.9k
Qi Zhang China 45 6.1k 1.1× 4.5k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 529 0.6× 303 8.4k
Xiaohong Xu China 45 5.6k 1.0× 3.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 817 0.5× 1.4k 1.4× 480 9.6k
Lei Shen China 53 6.3k 1.1× 4.0k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 877 0.6× 2.1k 2.2× 365 10.2k
Chongxin Shan China 73 11.4k 2.1× 8.7k 2.4× 1.0k 0.4× 2.7k 1.7× 1.4k 1.5× 305 15.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Hu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Hu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Hu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Hu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wei Hu. Wei Hu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hu, Wei, et al.. (2025). Bridging language models and computational materials science: A prompt‐driven framework for material property prediction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Liang, Wei Hu, Hao Wang, et al.. (2024). Mussel adhesive protein inspired functionalization of steel fibers for better performance of steel fibers reinforced concrete. Construction and Building Materials. 436. 136887–136887. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Ping, Chunliu Zhu, Lei Yang, et al.. (2024). One single-atom Mn doping strategy enabling two functions of oxygen reduction reaction and pseudocapacitive performance. Energy storage materials. 71. 103639–103639. 11 indexed citations
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Gao, Yunzhi, et al.. (2024). First-Principles Computational Screening of Two-Dimensional Polar Materials for Photocatalytic Water Splitting. ACS Nano. 18(29). 19381–19390. 24 indexed citations
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Li, Jielan, et al.. (2023). Low-rank approximations to accelerate hybrid functional enabled real-time time-dependent density functional theory within plane waves. Electronic Structure. 5(1). 14008–14008. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jie, Wei Hu, & Jinlong Yang. (2023). An efficient implementation of analytical nuclear gradients for linear-response time-dependent density functional theory in the plane wave basis. Electronic Structure. 5(2). 24003–24003. 2 indexed citations
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Fang, Shi, Liuan Li, Danhao Wang, et al.. (2023). Breaking the Responsivity‐Bandwidth Trade‐Off Limit in GaN Photoelectrodes for High‐Response and Fast‐Speed Optical Communication Application. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(37). 45 indexed citations
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Wang, Danhao, Shi Fang, Yang Kang, et al.. (2022). Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 227–227. 91 indexed citations
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Li, Junyao, Xiaofeng Liu, Lingyun Wan, et al.. (2021). Mixed magnetic edge states in graphene quantum dots. 5(1). 14001–14001. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhenlin, Jielan Li, Lingyun Wan, et al.. (2021). KSSOLV-GPU: An efficient GPU-enabled MATLAB toolbox for solving the Kohn-Sham equations within density functional theory in plane-wave basis set. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. 34(5). 552–564. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Na, Liang Cai, Chao Wang, et al.. (2021). Identification of the Active-Layer Structures for Acidic Oxygen Evolution from 9R-BaIrO3 Electrocatalyst with Enhanced Iridium Mass Activity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(43). 18001–18009. 136 indexed citations
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Wang, Danhao, Xin Liu, Yang Kang, et al.. (2021). Bidirectional photocurrent in p–n heterojunction nanowires. Nature Electronics. 4(9). 645–652. 247 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fang, Shi, Danhao Wang, Xiaoning Wang, et al.. (2021). Tuning the Charge Transfer Dynamics of the Nanostructured GaN Photoelectrodes for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Detection in the Ultraviolet Band. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(29). 64 indexed citations
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Li, Guinan, Hengli Duan, Weiren Cheng, et al.. (2019). Interlayer Photoelectron Transfer Boosted by Bridged RuIV Atoms in GaS Nanosheets for Efficient Water Splitting. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(49). 45561–45567. 8 indexed citations
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Duan, Hengli, Peng Guo, Chao Wang, et al.. (2019). Beating the exclusion rule against the coexistence of robust luminescence and ferromagnetism in chalcogenide monolayers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1584–1584. 60 indexed citations
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Tan, Hao, Chao Wang, Wei Hu, et al.. (2018). Reversible Tuning of the Ferromagnetic Behavior in Mn-Doped MoS2 Nanosheets via Interface Charge Transfer. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(37). 31648–31654. 10 indexed citations
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Zeng, Xiaofeng, Tingwei Zhou, Chongqian Leng, et al.. (2017). Performance improvement of perovskite solar cells by employing a CdSe quantum dot/PCBM composite as an electron transport layer. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(33). 17499–17505. 300 indexed citations

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