Xiaoyuan Zhou

12.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
250 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Xiaoyuan Zhou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoyuan Zhou has authored 250 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 184 papers in Materials Chemistry, 110 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 62 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xiaoyuan Zhou's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (117 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (60 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (40 papers). Xiaoyuan Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (117 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (60 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (40 papers). Xiaoyuan Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaoyuan Zhou's co-authors include Guozhong Cao, Qifeng Zhang, Christopher S. Dandeneau, Xu Lu, Guoyu Wang, Li‐Yong Gan, Xiaodong Han, Cong Wang, Ctirad Uher and Guang Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoyuan Zhou

230 papers receiving 9.6k 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.

ZnO Nanostructures for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

2009 1.6k citations Xiaoyuan Zhou et al. profile →
Unraveling the dual defect sites in graphite carbon nitride for ultra-high photocatalytic H₂O₂ evolution

2022 676 citations Li‐Yong Gan, Xiaoyuan Zhou et al. profile →
Broad temperature plateau for high ZTs in heavily doped p-type SnSe single crystals

2015 408 citations Xu Lu, Jiyan Dai et al. profile →
Routes for high-performance thermoelectric materials

2018 319 citations Xiaoyuan Zhou, Xu Lu et al. profile →
Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

2023 160 citations Aifeng Wang, Xiaoyuan Zhou et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoyuan Zhou China	44	6.9k	4.4k	3.5k	1.4k	695	250	9.7k
Hua Yang China	53	6.8k 1.0×	4.4k 1.0×	4.3k 1.2×	3.5k 2.4×	1.5k 2.1×	395	11.5k
Kun Zheng China	44	5.5k 0.8×	3.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	796 0.6×	1.5k 2.1×	205	8.1k
Christina Scheu Germany	51	7.4k 1.1×	4.5k 1.0×	3.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	367	11.8k
Lijun Wu United States	56	4.4k 0.6×	6.8k 1.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.9k 2.0×	449 0.6×	224	10.8k
Zheng Ren United States	34	4.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	3.0k 2.1×	558 0.8×	78	7.2k
Carlos R. Cabrera Puerto Rico	40	3.8k 0.6×	3.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	665 0.5×	498 0.7×	222	7.1k
Woon‐Ming Lau China	61	5.7k 0.8×	7.2k 1.6×	2.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 2.2×	334	11.9k
Xiaodong Han China	55	7.8k 1.1×	2.9k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.9k 2.7×	241	11.3k
Jane Y. Howe United States	47	5.1k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	205	9.4k
Yi Yu China	62	10.6k 1.5×	9.9k 2.3×	5.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 2.0×	258	18.0k

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Ruan, Lujie, Xiangyu Li, Yuxuan Wang, et al.. (2025). Silver-modified Bi2WO6 nanosheets for efficient hydrogen production via piezo-photo-catalysis. Surfaces and Interfaces. 62. 106263–106263. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Yao, Zizhen Zhou, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Lattice Overdamping Induced Anisotropy Decoupling of Phonon and Carrier Transports in Quasi‐1D KCu ₇ S ₄ Textured Materials. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(41). 5 indexed citations

Ban, Chaogang, Bing Li, Jiangping Ma, et al.. (2024). Plasmonic Au–TiO2 interactions for augmented photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Ceramics International. 50(9). 15444–15451. 22 indexed citations

Ma, Jiangping, Xia Lü, Di Wu, et al.. (2024). High-efficiency CO2 conversion via mechano-driven dynamic strain engineering of ZnO nanostructures. Nano Energy. 121. 109258–109258. 21 indexed citations

Wang, Yang, Chaogang Ban, Yajie Feng, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the synergistic role of nitrogen vacancies and Z-scheme heterojunction in g-C3N4/β-Bi2O3 hybrids for enhanced CO2 photoreduction. Nano Energy. 124. 109494–109494. 34 indexed citations

Zhou, Rundong, Di Wu, Jiangping Ma, et al.. (2024). Boosting CO2 piezo-reduction via metal-support interactions in Au/ZnO based catalysts. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 661. 512–519. 17 indexed citations

Ban, Chaogang, Yang Wang, Jiangping Ma, et al.. (2024). Metal–oxygen hybridization in Agcluster/TiO2 for selective CO2 photoreduction to CH4. Chemical Engineering Journal. 488. 150845–150845. 22 indexed citations

Zhang, Min, et al.. (2024). Realizing ampere-level CO₂ electrolysis at low voltage over a woven network of few-atom-layer ultralong silverene nanobelts with ultrahigh aspect ratio by pairing with formaldehyde oxidation. Nanoscale. 16(14). 7076–7084. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Ziyuan, Shiming Zhou, Ruotong Yin, et al.. (2024). Discovery of a long-ranged charge order with 1/4 Ge1-dimerization in an antiferromagnetic Kagome metal. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6262–6262. 19 indexed citations

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Yu, Jian, Zizhen Zhou, Xiaofang Liu, et al.. (2024). Rational composition engineering toward high thermoelectric performance in p-type EuMg2Sb2-based materials. Chemical Engineering Journal. 499. 156111–156111. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiong, Bin Zhang, Hong Wu, et al.. (2024). Roles of Cu doping in YbZn ₂ Sb ₂ for thermoelectric performance enhancement. Rare Metals. 43(6). 2869–2875. 2 indexed citations

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Ban, Chaogang, Yang Wang, Jiangping Ma, et al.. (2023). Constructing C-doped TiO2/β-Bi2O3 hybrids Z-scheme heterojunction for enhanced CO2 photoreduction. Separation and Purification Technology. 326. 124745–124745. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Ying, et al.. (2023). An efficient NiFe binary alloy anode catalyst for direct borohydride fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 472. 145097–145097. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Yang, Kaiwen Wang, Jiazhi Meng, et al.. (2023). Constructing atomic surface concaves on Bi5O7Br nanotube for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Nano Energy. 109. 108305–108305. 51 indexed citations

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Xiong, Xin, Yang Wang, Jiangping Ma, et al.. (2023). Oxygen vacancy engineering of zinc oxide for boosting piezo-electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Applied Surface Science. 616. 156556–156556. 49 indexed citations

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Chang, Cong, Shenghai Yang, Shanshan Liu, et al.. (2023). Metallic bismuth morphology and microstructure control during the membrane electro-deposition in methane-sulfonic acid system. Separation and Purification Technology. 315. 123700–123700. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Min, Amin Cao, Chaogang Ban, et al.. (2023). Strongly Coupled Ag/Sn–SnO2 Nanosheets Toward CO2 Electroreduction to Pure HCOOH Solutions at Ampere-Level Current. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 50–50. 24 indexed citations

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Liu, Xue, Shaojie Jing, Chaogang Ban, et al.. (2023). Decoration of Ir clusters accelerates the generation of active species for high-efficient overall water splitting. Applied Surface Science. 626. 157204–157204. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Ting, Xiyang Wang, Yimin A. Wu, et al.. (2023). Manipulating lattice distortion to promote average thermoelectric power factor in metavalently bonded AgBiSe2. Acta Materialia. 259. 119260–119260. 12 indexed citations

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Kumar, Vineet, Bin Zhang, Susumu Fujii, et al.. (2022). Engineering Transport Properties in Interconnected Enargite‐Stannite Type Cu_2+xMn_1−xGeS₄ Nanocomposites. Angewandte Chemie. 134(49).

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