Wu Zhou

51.1k total citations · 32 hit papers
295 papers, 38.9k citations indexed

About

Wu Zhou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Wu Zhou has authored 295 papers receiving a total of 38.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Materials Chemistry, 102 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 69 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Wu Zhou's work include 2D Materials and Applications (97 papers), Graphene research and applications (60 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (56 papers). Wu Zhou is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (97 papers), Graphene research and applications (60 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (56 papers). Wu Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Wu Zhou's co-authors include Zheng Liu, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Jun Lou, Stephen J. Pennycook, Yongji Gong, Junhao Lin, Boris I. Yakobson and Xiaolong Zou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wu Zhou

277 papers receiving 38.3k citations

Hit Papers

Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2014 2013 2013 2014 2012 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers
    2014 1.9k citations Sokrates T. Pantelides, Zheng Liu et al. profile →
  2. Intrinsic Structural Defects in Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide
    2013 1.8k citations Wu Zhou, Zheng Liu et al. Nano Letters profile →
  3. Vapour phase growth and grain boundary structure of molybdenum disulphide atomic layers
    2013 1.6k citations Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  4. Nanoscale nickel oxide/nickel heterostructures for active hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis
    2014 1.5k citations Wu Zhou, Stephen J. Pennycook et al. profile →
  5. An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube–graphene complexes
    2012 1.5k citations Yanguang Li, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  6. Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC catalysts
    2017 1.3k citations Lili Lin, Wu Zhou et al. Nature profile →
  7. Defects Engineered Monolayer MoS2 for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2016 1.1k citations Sokrates T. Pantelides, Wu Zhou et al. Nano Letters profile →
  8. Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP2S6 ultrathin flakes
    2016 911 citations Jiadong Zhou, Sokrates T. Pantelides et al. profile →
  9. van der Waals Epitaxy of MoS2 Layers Using Graphene As Growth Templates
    2012 861 citations Wu Zhou et al. Nano Letters profile →
  10. In-plane heterostructures of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride with controlled domain sizes
    2013 776 citations Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  11. PdSe2: Pentagonal Two-Dimensional Layers with High Air Stability for Electronics
    2017 617 citations Zheng Liu, Matthew F. Chisholm et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  12. Ultrathin high-temperature oxidation-resistant coatings of hexagonal boron nitride
    2013 596 citations Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  13. Structural defects on converted bismuth oxide nanotubes enable highly active electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction
    2019 596 citations Mingquan Xu, Jun Deng et al. profile →
  14. High‐Electron‐Mobility and Air‐Stable 2D Layered PtSe2 FETs
    2016 569 citations Jingsi Qiao, Wu Zhou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  15. Non-Bonding Interaction of Neighboring Fe and Ni Single-Atom Pairs on MOF-Derived N-Doped Carbon for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction
    2021 545 citations Siyuan Zhou, Aowen Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Pt-based anode catalysts for direct ethanol fuel cells
    2004 542 citations Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  17. Strain and structure heterogeneity in MoS2 atomic layers grown by chemical vapour deposition
    2014 495 citations Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  18. Two-Step Growth of Two-Dimensional WSe2/MoSe2 Heterostructures
    2015 493 citations Zheng Liu, Wu Zhou et al. Nano Letters profile →
  19. Atomically thin noble metal dichalcogenide: a broadband mid-infrared semiconductor
    2018 453 citations Wu Zhou, Zheng Liu et al. profile →
  20. Band Gap Engineering and Layer-by-Layer Mapping of Selenium-Doped Molybdenum Disulfide
    2013 453 citations Zheng Liu, Sokrates T. Pantelides et al. Nano Letters profile →
  21. Dynamic Behavior of Single-Atom Catalysts in Electrocatalysis: Identification of Cu-N3 as an Active Site for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction
    2021 410 citations Mingquan Xu, Wu Zhou et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  22. Direct Synthesis of Large‐Area 2D Mo2C on In Situ Grown Graphene
    2017 387 citations Dechao Geng, Xiaoxu Zhao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  23. A highly CO-tolerant atomically dispersed Pt catalyst for chemoselective hydrogenation
    2019 380 citations Lili Lin, Siyu Yao et al. profile →
  24. Electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene by ultrathin CuO nanoplate arrays
    2022 358 citations Aowen Li, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  25. In-situ spectroscopic observation of dynamic-coupling oxygen on atomically dispersed iridium electrocatalyst for acidic water oxidation
    2021 310 citations Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  26. Fully exposed palladium cluster catalysts enable hydrogen production from nitrogen heterocycles
    2022 282 citations Zirui Gao, Xuetao Qin et al. profile →
  27. Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition
    2021 267 citations Zhang Zhou, Mingquan Xu et al. profile →
  28. Recent advances in carboxymethyl chitosan-based materials for biomedical applications
    2023 188 citations Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  29. Renaissance of Strong Metal–Support Interactions
    2024 168 citations Wu Zhou, Ding Ma et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  30. A stable rhombohedral phase in ferroelectric Hf(Zr) 1+ x O 2 capacitor with ultralow coercive field
    2023 127 citations Roger Guzmán, Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  31. Glucose oxidase: An emerging multidimensional treatment option for diabetic wound healing
    2024 45 citations Wu Zhou et al. profile →
  32. Shielding Pt/γ-Mo2N by inert nano-overlays enables stable H2 production
    2025 36 citations Zirui Gao, Aowen Li et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wu Zhou China 93 26.8k 16.9k 14.3k 3.7k 3.7k 295 38.9k
Yafei Li China 83 16.4k 0.6× 12.4k 0.7× 15.9k 1.1× 2.5k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 291 28.7k
Chao Ma China 83 13.8k 0.5× 11.1k 0.7× 12.4k 0.9× 3.2k 0.9× 4.5k 1.2× 526 27.2k
Ying Dai China 92 25.4k 0.9× 11.7k 0.7× 19.8k 1.4× 4.8k 1.3× 2.0k 0.6× 652 34.3k
Yue Lin China 96 18.3k 0.7× 18.9k 1.1× 23.4k 1.6× 4.1k 1.1× 5.1k 1.4× 365 38.1k
Qinghua Zhang China 116 20.6k 0.8× 23.5k 1.4× 22.3k 1.6× 6.9k 1.8× 3.5k 0.9× 533 45.1k
Hui Pan China 81 13.8k 0.5× 9.6k 0.6× 9.3k 0.6× 4.0k 1.1× 1.8k 0.5× 584 24.4k
Xiao Zhang China 85 18.4k 0.7× 15.8k 0.9× 11.3k 0.8× 6.1k 1.6× 1.6k 0.4× 514 33.5k
Jin Zhang China 99 23.0k 0.9× 14.2k 0.8× 8.1k 0.6× 7.7k 2.1× 1.7k 0.5× 774 37.7k
Gengfeng Zheng China 96 12.3k 0.5× 14.7k 0.9× 16.9k 1.2× 4.1k 1.1× 6.9k 1.9× 321 33.8k
Martin Muhler Germany 89 20.0k 0.7× 10.5k 0.6× 13.8k 1.0× 3.4k 0.9× 9.7k 2.6× 626 33.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Aowen, et al.. (2024). Low-voltage single-atom electron microscopy with carbon-based nanomaterials. Micron. 186. 103706–103706. 1 indexed citations
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Guzmán, Roger, Hongtao Liu, Ce Bian, et al.. (2024). Temperature‐Induced Structural Evolution and Magnetism in Self‐Intercalated V1+xSe2 Nanoplates. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(36). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Gui, Ruichun Luo, Junhao Ma, et al.. (2024). Sub‐Nanometer Pt Nanowires with Disordered Shells for Highly Active Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Formic Acid. Angewandte Chemie. 137(12).
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Hu, Pengfei, Youwei Zhang, Aowen Li, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-doped amorphous monolayer carbon. Nature. 634(8032). 80–84. 41 indexed citations
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Xu, Mingquan, et al.. (2024). Systematic Absences of Optical Phonon Modes in Phonon Dispersion Measured by Electron Microscopy. Physical Review Letters. 133(4). 46101–46101. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Hao, Hui Guo, Roger Guzmán, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Non‐Volatile Floating‐Gate Memory Based on All‐2D Materials. Advanced Materials. 36(24). e2311652–e2311652. 35 indexed citations
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Wang, Ziqian, Meng Gao, Siyuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Real-Space Observation of Ripple-Induced Symmetry Crossover in Ultrathin MnPS3. ACS Nano. 17(3). 1916–1924. 7 indexed citations
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Gao, Zirui, Yao Xü, Xuetao Qin, et al.. (2023). Cu-supported nano-ZrZnOx as a highly active inverse catalyst for low temperature methanol synthesis from CO2 hydrogenation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 344. 123656–123656. 27 indexed citations
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Yu, Fuqiang, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of a Nature-like Bypass for Non-Salmonids in the Sesan River. Water. 15(3). 421–421. 4 indexed citations
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Pan, Yu, Roger Guzmán, Wanjin Xu, et al.. (2022). Heteroepitaxy of semiconducting 2H-MoTe2 thin films on arbitrary surfaces for large-scale heterogeneous integration. Nature Synthesis. 1(9). 701–708. 35 indexed citations
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Zhou, Zhang, Xiaoxu Zhao, Liangmei Wu, et al.. (2022). Dimensional crossover in self-intercalated antiferromagnetic V5S8 nanoflakes. Physical review. B.. 105(23). 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoxu, Jingsi Qiao, Jing Li, et al.. (2021). Unveiling Atomic-Scale Moiré Features and Atomic Reconstructions in High-Angle Commensurately Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Homobilayers. Nano Letters. 21(7). 3262–3270. 22 indexed citations
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Li, Siwei, Jinjia Liu, Zhen Yin, et al.. (2019). Impact of the Coordination Environment on Atomically Dispersed Pt Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 10(1). 907–913. 140 indexed citations
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Wang, Tingting, Miao Wang, Hao Yang, et al.. (2019). Weakening hydrogen adsorption on nickel via interstitial nitrogen doping promotes bifunctional hydrogen electrocatalysis in alkaline solution. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(12). 3522–3529. 223 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoxu, Yujin Ji, Jianyi Chen, et al.. (2019). Healing of Planar Defects in 2D Materials via Grain Boundary Sliding. Advanced Materials. 31(16). e1900237–e1900237. 45 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoxu, Zijing Ding, Jianyi Chen, et al.. (2018). Strain Modulation by van der Waals Coupling in Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide. ACS Nano. 12(2). 1940–1948. 57 indexed citations
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Zhou, Wu, Yuyang Zhang, Jianyi Chen, et al.. (2018). Dislocation-driven growth of two-dimensional lateral quantum-well superlattices. Science Advances. 4(3). eaap9096–eaap9096. 43 indexed citations
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Poh, Sock Mui, Xiaoxu Zhao, Sherman J. R. Tan, et al.. (2018). Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Highly Crystalline MoSe2 on Hexagonal Boron Nitride. ACS Nano. 12(8). 7562–7570. 94 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xiaoxu, Deyi Fu, Zijing Ding, et al.. (2017). Mo-Terminated Edge Reconstructions in Nanoporous Molybdenum Disulfide Film. Nano Letters. 18(1). 482–490. 113 indexed citations
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Tan, Sherman J. R., Ibrahim Abdelwahab, Zijing Ding, et al.. (2017). Chemical Stabilization of 1T′ Phase Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Giant Optical Kerr Nonlinearity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(6). 2504–2511. 181 indexed citations

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