Wenchao Wan

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wenchao Wan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wenchao Wan has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 18 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wenchao Wan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (8 papers). Wenchao Wan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (8 papers). Wenchao Wan collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and Australia. Wenchao Wan's co-authors include Ying Zhou, Greta R. Patzke, Carlos A. Triana, Ruiyang Zhang, Jingguo Li, Yonggui Zhao, Christopher S. Allen, Shan Yu, Yuanhua Lin and Shiqian Wei and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Wenchao Wan

37 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts

2021 339 citations Wenchao Wan, Yonggui Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Synergy of dual-atom catalysts deviated from the scaling relationship for oxygen evolution reaction

2023 147 citations Cong Fang, Jian Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accelerated Recombination Reaction through Interfacial Fe^IV=O Accumulation on Photoanode Surfaces 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Jingguo Li, Hang Chen, Siqin Liu, Yu Wang, Wenchao Wan, Yonggui Zhao, Carlos A. Triana, Zihao Xu, Greta R. Patzke	1
2	Carbon‐Supported Single Fe/Co/Ni Atom Catalysts for Water Oxidation: Unveiling the Dynamic Active Sites 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Wenchao Wan, Liqun Kang, Alexander Schnegg, (unknown), Zongkun Chen, Christopher S. Allen, Longxiang Liu, Sonia Chabbra, Serena DeBeer, Saskia Heumann	12
3	Operando Spectroscopic Monitoring of Metal Chalcogenides for Overall Water Splitting: New Views of Active Species and Sites 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Yonggui Zhao, Wenchao Wan, Rolf Erni, Long Pan, Greta R. Patzke	1
4	Operando Spectroscopic Monitoring of Metal Chalcogenides for Overall Water Splitting: New Views of Active Species and Sites 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yonggui Zhao, Wenchao Wan, Rolf Erni, Long Pan, Greta R. Patzke	17
5	Mechanistic insights into the formation of hydroxides with unconventional coordination environments to achieve their cost-effective synthesis 2024 ·National Science Review ·Zongkun Chen, (unknown), Xingkun Wang, Liqun Kang, Wenchao Wan, Jonathan Avaro, Siyuan Zhang, Christina Scheu, (unknown), Serena DeBeer, Saskia Heumann, Minghua Huang, Heqing Jiang, Helmut Cölfen	0
6	Synergy of dual-atom catalysts deviated from the scaling relationship for oxygen evolution reaction breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Cong Fang, Jian Zhou, Lili Zhang, Wenchao Wan, Yuxiao Ding, Xiaoyan Sun	147
7	Tailoring C─N Containing Compounds into Carbon Nanomaterials with Tunable Morphologies for Electrocatalytic Applications 2023 ·Small ·Wenchao Wan, Yonggui Zhao, Jie Meng, Christopher S. Allen, Ying Zhou, Greta R. Patzke	7
8	Optimized NiFe-Based Coordination Polymer Catalysts: Sulfur-Tuning and Operando Monitoring of Water Oxidation 2022 ·ACS Nano ·Yonggui Zhao, Wenchao Wan, Nanchen Dongfang, Carlos A. Triana, (unknown), Chong Huang, Rolf Erni, Marcella Iannuzzi, Greta R. Patzke	39
9	Dynamics and control of active sites in hierarchically nanostructured cobalt phosphide/chalcogenide-based electrocatalysts for water splitting 2022 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Yonggui Zhao, Nanchen Dongfang, Carlos A. Triana, Chong Huang, Rolf Erni, Wenchao Wan, Jingguo Li, Dragos Stoian, Long Pan, Ping Zhang, Jinggang Lan, Marcella Iannuzzi, Greta R. Patzke	174
10	Mechanistic insight into the active centers of single/dual-atom Ni/Fe-based oxygen electrocatalysts breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Wenchao Wan, Yonggui Zhao, Shiqian Wei, Carlos A. Triana, Jingguo Li, Andrea Arcifa, Christopher S. Allen, Rui Cao, Greta R. Patzke	339
11	Reaction kinetics and interplay of two different surface states on hematite photoanodes for water oxidation 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Jingguo Li, Wenchao Wan, Carlos A. Triana, Hang Chen, Yonggui Zhao, Christos K. Mavrokefalos, Greta R. Patzke	104
12	Understanding and Optimizing Ultra‐Thin Coordination Polymer Derivatives with High Oxygen Evolution Performance 2020 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Yonggui Zhao, Wenchao Wan, Yi Chen, Rolf Erni, Carlos A. Triana, Jingguo Li, Christos K. Mavrokefalos, Ying Zhou, Greta R. Patzke	35
13	Bifunctional Single Atom Electrocatalysts: Coordination–Performance Correlations and Reaction Pathways 2020 ·ACS Nano ·Wenchao Wan, Carlos A. Triana, Jinggang Lan, Jingguo Li, Christopher S. Allen, Yonggui Zhao, Marcella Iannuzzi, Greta R. Patzke	148
14	Dynamic Role of Cluster Cocatalysts on Molecular Photoanodes for Water Oxidation 2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Jingguo Li, Wenchao Wan, Carlos A. Triana, Zbyněk Novotný, Jürg Osterwalder, Rolf Erni, Greta R. Patzke	34
15	Compressible and Recyclable Monolithic g-C3N4/Melamine Sponge: A Facile Ultrasonic-Coating Approach and Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity 2018 ·Frontiers in Chemistry ·Ye Yang, Qian Zhang, Ruiyang Zhang, Ran Tao, Wenchao Wan, Ying Zhou	22
16	Hydrothermal formation of graphene aerogel for oil sorption: the role of reducing agent, reaction time and temperature 2016 ·New Journal of Chemistry ·Wenchao Wan, (unknown), Shan Yu, Ruiyang Zhang, Ying Zhou	91
17	Three-dimensional carbon-based architectures for oil remediation: from synthesis and modification to functionalization 2016 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Wenchao Wan, Yuanhua Lin, Arvind Prakash, Ying Zhou	76
18	Efficient C₃N₄/graphene oxide macroscopic aerogel visible-light photocatalyst 2016 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Wenchao Wan, Shan Yu, Fan Dong, Qian Zhang, Ying Zhou	187
19	Heat of formation for C60 by means of the G4(MP2) thermochemical protocol through reactions in which C60 is broken down into corannulene and sumanene 2015 ·Chemical Physics Letters ·Wenchao Wan, Amir Karton	17
20	W/Mo co-doped BiVO4 for photocatalytic treatment of polymer-containing wastewater in oilfield 2015 ·Superlattices and Microstructures ·Ying Zhou, Wei Li, Wenchao Wan, Ruiyang Zhang, Yuanhua Lin	38

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