Wei Wu

4.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
166 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Wei Wu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Wu has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Materials Chemistry, 55 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 55 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wei Wu's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (20 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (15 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (13 papers). Wei Wu is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (20 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (15 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (13 papers). Wei Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Wei Wu's co-authors include Tao Wang, Ravi Kant Pathak, Benjamin Chen, Fumiya Watanabe, Weiwei Sun, Hongli Zhu, Mourad Benamara, Alaa A. AL-Hilo, Jingbiao Cui and Xiumei Geng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Wei Wu

142 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pure and stable metallic phase molybdenum disulfide nanosheets for hydrogen evolution reaction

2016 815 citations Wei Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Summertime PM _2.5 ionic species in four major cities of China: nitrate formation in an ammonia-deficient atmosphere

2009 499 citations Wei Wu et al. profile →
Room-temperature ferroelectricity in supramolecular networks of charge-transfer complexes

2012 471 citations Wei Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Wu China	27	1.6k	1.3k	656	637	575	166	3.7k
Qi Shi China	36	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	700 1.1×	356 0.6×	626 1.1×	135	4.5k
Lei Li China	42	4.4k 2.7×	1.7k 1.3×	1.9k 2.8×	420 0.7×	762 1.3×	221	6.7k
Stefan Will Germany	41	1.6k 1.0×	549 0.4×	365 0.6×	1.1k 1.8×	322 0.6×	197	5.9k
Frances A. Houle United States	37	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	433 0.7×	208 0.4×	134	4.2k
Trevor J. Davies United Kingdom	33	822 0.5×	2.8k 2.1×	587 0.9×	562 0.9×	320 0.6×	68	5.1k
Kevin J. Hughes United Kingdom	36	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.2×	953 1.5×	413 0.6×	157 0.3×	186	4.1k
Takafumi Seto Japan	31	1.2k 0.7×	902 0.7×	145 0.2×	581 0.9×	227 0.4×	152	3.0k
Hui Li China	39	3.5k 2.2×	2.9k 2.2×	2.4k 3.6×	239 0.4×	680 1.2×	241	7.2k
Shuguang Chen China	35	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	797 1.2×	138 0.2×	633 1.1×	125	3.8k
Xiaoming Gao China	38	2.2k 1.3×	2.1k 1.6×	2.5k 3.8×	1.2k 1.8×	504 0.9×	212	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wei Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wei Wu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Wu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Wu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Wu 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 Wu. Wei Wu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Wei, et al.. (2025). On wedge aerated water entry: experiment and theory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1026.

Wang, J. G., et al.. (2025). A Fast Method for Calculating the High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Environmental Parameters Based on Neural Network. International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics. 77(1). 32–46.

Zhang, Zhengbiao, et al.. (2025). Biomass furan-based layered porous organic framework for capturing Hg2+ in aqueous solution. Surfaces and Interfaces. 64. 106478–106478. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Wei, Jiayi Zhang, Yang Xie, et al.. (2025). Ultra-high capacity quaternized PET for moisture-swing CO2 capture from air. Separation and Purification Technology. 381. 135629–135629.

Wu, Chunhua, et al.. (2025). Preparation of ionic covalent organic frameworks and its efficient recovery of gold from e-waste. Separation and Purification Technology. 379. 134807–134807. 1 indexed citations

Fan, Wei, et al.. (2025). Two-stage optimal scheduling of integrated energy system with modern agricultural park considering extreme temperature events. Journal of Cleaner Production. 522. 146332–146332.

Li, Lili, et al.. (2024). Self-assembled peptide microtubes (SPMTs)/SnO2 sensors for enhanced room-temperature gas detection under visible light illumination. Talanta. 286. 127495–127495. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhengbiao, et al.. (2024). 2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid-based porous polyamides: Preparation and adsorption efficiency for Hg2+. Polymer. 305. 127181–127181. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Hao, et al.. (2024). Thio-groups decorated covalent triazine polyamide (TTPA) for Hg2+ adsorption: Efficiency and mechanism. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(2). 112340–112340. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Wei, et al.. (2023). Cellular fault prediction of graphical representation based on spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks. Computer Communications. 213. 78–87. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Wei, et al.. (2023). Revealing the adhesion, stability, and electronic structure of SiC/M (M=Au, Pt) interface: A first-principles study. Vacuum. 213. 112143–112143. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Hao, et al.. (2023). Novel triazine-based sulfur-containing polyamides: Preparation, adsorption efficiency and mechanism for mercury ions. European Polymer Journal. 202. 112588–112588. 15 indexed citations

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Wu, Wei, et al.. (2023). First-principles studies of oxygen interstitial dopants in RbPbI₃ halide for perovskite solar cells. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(1). 15007–15007. 1 indexed citations

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Chang, Jia-Wei, Lin Ma, A. J. Fisher, et al.. (2023). Triplet-mediated spin entanglement between organic radicals: integrating first principles and open-quantum-system simulations. NPG Asia Materials. 15(1). 7 indexed citations

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Gong, Peiwei, Juan Li, Junyi Wang, et al.. (2023). Controlled Growing of Graphdiyne Film for Friction Reduction and Antiwear. ACS Nano. 17(9). 8252–8261. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Wei Wu, Xinlei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Investigation of the CdZnTe (2 1 1) and (1 3 3) films grown on GaAs (2 1 1) controlled by temperature: Experiment and first-principles calculations. Applied Surface Science. 649. 159154–159154. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Lin, et al.. (2022). Triplet-radical spin entanglement: potential of molecular materials for high-temperature quantum information processing. NPG Asia Materials. 14(1). 8 indexed citations

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Ma, Lin, et al.. (2021). Optoelectronic properties of one-dimensional molecular chains simulated by a tight-binding model. AIP Advances. 11(1). 1 indexed citations

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Zou, Taoyu, et al.. (2020). Novel Strategy for Organic Cocrystals of n-Type and p-Type Organic Semiconductors with Advanced Optoelectronic Properties. ACS Omega. 5(21). 12067–12072. 12 indexed citations

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Serri, Michele, Wei Wu, Luke Fleet, et al.. (2014). High-temperature antiferromagnetism in molecular semiconductor thin films and nanostructures. Nature Communications. 5(1). 69 indexed citations

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