Wei Ye

2.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
45 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Wei Ye is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Ye has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 22 papers in Catalysis and 19 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Wei Ye's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (27 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers). Wei Ye is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (27 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (21 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers). Wei Ye collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Wei Ye's co-authors include Peng Gao, Yujie Xiong, Fangfang Wu, Gan Jia, Mengqiu Xu, Qianqian Chi, Genping Zhu, Li Yang, Sijia Chen and Li Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Wei Ye

42 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Precisely Tuning the Number of Fe Atoms in Clusters on N-Doped Carbon toward Acidic Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2019 474 citations Wei Ye, Peng Gao et al. profile →
Se‐Containing MOF Coated Dual‐Fe‐Atom Nanozymes With Multi‐Enzyme Cascade Activities Protect Against Cerebral Ischemic Reperfusion Injury

2022 133 citations Ruizhen Tian, Wei Ye et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Regulating the d-Band Center of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Efficient Nitrate Reduction Reaction and Zinc-Nitrate Battery

2024 89 citations Yuanhui Yao, Xiaofei Wei et al. profile →
Selective electrocatalytic synthesis of urea using entangled iron porphyrins in covalent organic frameworks

2025 29 citations Chengtao Gong, Yongwu Peng et al. Nature Synthesis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wei Ye China	22	1.2k	958	589	578	188	45	1.9k
Jiankang Zhao China	25	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	578 1.0×	978 1.7×	209 1.1×	59	2.5k
Xiting Wang China	25	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	919 1.6×	827 1.4×	196 1.0×	48	2.6k
Xuhao Wan China	21	1.2k 1.0×	847 0.9×	778 1.3×	672 1.2×	117 0.6×	39	2.0k
Yuchen Qin China	24	1.2k 1.0×	925 1.0×	661 1.1×	345 0.6×	321 1.7×	54	1.9k
Zuochao Wang China	28	1.7k 1.4×	738 0.8×	915 1.6×	522 0.9×	205 1.1×	56	2.1k
Chao Wan China	25	833 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	416 0.7×	816 1.4×	368 2.0×	86	2.2k
Huan Zhao China	20	1.4k 1.1×	716 0.7×	606 1.0×	490 0.8×	155 0.8×	33	1.9k
Huitong Du China	21	1.9k 1.5×	763 0.8×	991 1.7×	855 1.5×	151 0.8×	26	2.2k
Jianwei Zheng Singapore	30	1.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.9×	720 1.2×	513 0.9×	378 2.0×	61	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Ye

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

All Works

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Zhao, Shuang, Jing Wang, Fangfang Wu, et al.. (2025). Pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect induced lattice distortion in flexible MOFs boosts electrochemical nitrate reduction reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 383. 126052–126052. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Mei, Lifu Zhang, Teng Su, et al.. (2025). EfficientMoE: Optimizing Mixture-of-Experts Model Training With Adaptive Load Balance. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 36(4). 677–688. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Anming, Li Qiao, Xiaoting Pan, et al.. (2025). Cofactor-independent photo-enzymatic reductions with water mediated by reductive graphene quantum dots. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8310–8310.

Gong, Chengtao, Yongwu Peng, Mengqiu Xu, et al.. (2025). Selective electrocatalytic synthesis of urea using entangled iron porphyrins in covalent organic frameworks. Nature Synthesis. 4(6). 720–729. 29 indexed citations breakdown →

Ye, Wei, Yuanhui Yao, Xiaofei Wei, et al.. (2025). Continuous Intermediates Spillover Boosts Electrochemical Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia over Dual Single‐Atom Alloy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(32). e202509303–e202509303. 19 indexed citations

Gao, Jing, et al.. (2025). SCR performance and mechanism study with multiple poisoning gases on CeOx promoted V2O5-WO3/TiO2 monolithic honeycomb catalyst of NOx removal. Separation and Purification Technology. 363. 132087–132087. 5 indexed citations

Ye, Wei, Yuanhui Yao, Xiaofei Wei, et al.. (2025). Continuous Intermediates Spillover Boosts Electrochemical Nitrate Conversion to Ammonia over Dual Single‐Atom Alloy. Angewandte Chemie. 137(32).

Ye, Wei, Ye Zhang, Liang Chen, et al.. (2024). A Strongly Coupled Metal/Hydroxide Heterostructure Cascades Carbon Dioxide and Nitrate Reduction Reactions toward Efficient Urea Electrosynthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(48). e202410105–e202410105. 84 indexed citations

Deng, Ping, Gan Jia, Wei Wang, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric bridge structure based on NiFe bimetallic sites for optimizing nitrate reduction reaction. Chem Catalysis. 4(11). 101122–101122. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Mengqiu, Fangfang Wu, Ye Zhang, et al.. (2023). Kinetically matched C–N coupling toward efficient urea electrosynthesis enabled on copper single-atom alloy. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6994–6994. 156 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoyu, Mengqiu Xu, Zhenbo Peng, et al.. (2023). Multi-layer core–shell metal oxide/nitride/carbon and its high-rate electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia. Nanoscale. 15(35). 14439–14447. 8 indexed citations

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Xu, Mengqiu, Qifan Xie, Delong Duan, et al.. (2022). Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites on Dual‐Mesoporous N‐Doped Carbon for Efficient Ammonia Electrosynthesis from Nitrate. ChemSusChem. 15(11). e202200231–e202200231. 44 indexed citations

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Tian, Ruizhen, Wei Ye, Yijia Li, et al.. (2022). Se‐Containing MOF Coated Dual‐Fe‐Atom Nanozymes With Multi‐Enzyme Cascade Activities Protect Against Cerebral Ischemic Reperfusion Injury. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(36). 133 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Mengqiu, Ye Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, et al.. (2022). Boosting the interlayer-confined nitrate reduction reaction by in situ electrochemical potassium ion intercalation. Science China Materials. 66(4). 1352–1361. 16 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kaili, Xudong Xu, Mengqiu Xu, et al.. (2021). One‐Pot Synthesis of Tensile‐Strained PdRuCu Icosahedra toward Electrochemical Hydrogenation of Alkene. ChemElectroChem. 8(20). 3855–3862. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Zhenbo Peng, Kaili Zhu, et al.. (2021). The fate of oxygen on graphene-catalyst in the photocatalytic water splitting reaction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 11(21). 7083–7090. 5 indexed citations

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Chi, Qianqian, Genping Zhu, Dongmei Jia, et al.. (2021). Built-in electric field for photocatalytic overall water splitting through a TiO₂/BiOBr P–N heterojunction. Nanoscale. 13(8). 4496–4504. 51 indexed citations

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Kong, Xianglong, Zhenbo Peng, Rui Jiang, et al.. (2020). Nanolayered Heterostructures of N-Doped TiO₂ and N-Doped Carbon for Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(2). 1373–1381. 88 indexed citations

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Xu, Fuchun, Fangfang Wu, Kaili Zhu, et al.. (2020). Boron doping and high curvature in Bi nanorolls for promoting photoelectrochemical nitrogen fixation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 284. 119689–119689. 69 indexed citations

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Zhu, Genping, Zhenbo Peng, Jie Bian, et al.. (2019). Abundant hot-spot construction between Ni/C nanotubes with enhanced localized surface plasmon resonance for Radar wave absorption. Applied Surface Science. 504. 144592–144592. 17 indexed citations

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