Xiaozhang Yao

598 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 492 citations indexed

About

Xiaozhang Yao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaozhang Yao has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 492 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xiaozhang Yao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (8 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers). Xiaozhang Yao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (8 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers). Xiaozhang Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Germany. Xiaozhang Yao's co-authors include Lin Gan, Zhongxiang Wang, Yongqiang Kang, Dongsheng Xia, Linqing Miao, Yinping Wei, Xueliang Sun, Hongda Du, Jia Li and Fei Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaozhang Yao

13 papers receiving 483 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.

Superionic amorphous NaTaCl6 halide electrolyte for highly reversible all-solid-state Na-ion batteries

2024 76 citations Yang Hu, Jiamin Fu et al. Matter profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaozhang Yao China	11	374	367	192	44	31	16	492
Wenqi Wu China	7	288 0.8×	354 1.0×	127 0.7×	58 1.3×	33 1.1×	10	428
Changfei Jing China	5	203 0.5×	318 0.9×	248 1.3×	32 0.7×	39 1.3×	10	425
Hyunwoo Jun South Korea	8	301 0.8×	396 1.1×	140 0.7×	56 1.3×	35 1.1×	10	467
Bowen Peng China	6	249 0.7×	357 1.0×	109 0.6×	64 1.5×	63 2.0×	10	439
Hyoung-Juhn Kim South Korea	9	223 0.6×	277 0.8×	107 0.6×	34 0.8×	30 1.0×	9	359
Huiting Niu China	8	246 0.7×	284 0.8×	117 0.6×	42 1.0×	38 1.2×	10	382
Hanzhi Yu China	9	287 0.8×	430 1.2×	192 1.0×	62 1.4×	53 1.7×	11	521
Lingya Yi China	11	342 0.9×	464 1.3×	123 0.6×	87 2.0×	52 1.7×	18	526
Liyue Yu China	7	304 0.8×	365 1.0×	132 0.7×	36 0.8×	19 0.6×	8	437
Zachary P. Ifkovits United States	9	267 0.7×	359 1.0×	158 0.8×	62 1.4×	31 1.0×	14	451

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaozhang Yao

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Hao, Xiaoge, Jiabin Ma, Weihan Li, et al.. (2025). A Universal Solid Reaction Enabling Nanosized Li ₂ S in an Amorphous Matrix for All-Solid-State Li–S Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(46). 42184–42193.

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Zhang, Jingyan, Zhongxin Song, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2025). Precisely constructing asymmetric triple atoms for highly efficient electrocatalysis. Chem. 11(9). 102498–102498. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingyan, Zhongxin Song, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2025). Protocol for constructing asymmetric triple-atoms supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes via atomic layer deposition. STAR Protocols. 6(3). 104005–104005.

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Yao, Xiaozhang, Chuang Xue, Zhongxin Song, et al.. (2025). Engineering Relative Spatial Structure of Dual Atomic Sites with Asymmetric Coordination for High‐Performance Hydrogen Evolution Activity. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(15).

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Song, Zhongxin, Chuang Xue, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2024). Atomic Phosphorus Sites for Anchoring Platinum–Tungsten Dimers to Facilitate Proton Transfer in All‐pH Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(1). 10 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiaozhang, Zhongxin Song, Xue Yao, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Ni−W Dimer Sites Induced Stable Compressive Strain for Boosting the Performance of Pt as Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 136(21). 4 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiaozhang, Zhongxin Song, Xue Yao, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Ni−W Dimer Sites Induced Stable Compressive Strain for Boosting the Performance of Pt as Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(21). e202318872–e202318872. 19 indexed citations

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Hu, Yang, Jiamin Fu, Jing Luo, et al.. (2024). Superionic amorphous NaTaCl6 halide electrolyte for highly reversible all-solid-state Na-ion batteries. Matter. 7(3). 1018–1034. 76 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Ke, et al.. (2022). Chemical vapor deposition of two-dimensional transition metal sulfides on carbon paper for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. New Carbon Materials. 37(6). 1183–1191. 15 indexed citations

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Xia, Dongsheng, Fei Tang, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2020). Seeded growth of branched iron–nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as a high performance and durable non-precious fuel cell cathode. Carbon. 162. 300–307. 20 indexed citations

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Yao, Xiaozhang, Yinping Wei, Zhongxiang Wang, & Lin Gan. (2020). Revealing the Role of Surface Composition on the Particle Mobility and Coalescence of Carbon-Supported Pt Alloy Fuel Cell Catalysts by In Situ Heating (S)TEM. ACS Catalysis. 10(13). 7381–7388. 41 indexed citations

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Wu, Yongle, Zhongxiang Wang, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2020). Mitigating Metal Dissolution and Redeposition of Pt-Co Catalysts in PEM Fuel Cells: Impacts of Structural Ordering and Particle Size. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 167(6). 64520–64520. 39 indexed citations

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Guo, Weihua, et al.. (2019). Platinum monolayers stabilized on dealloyed AuCu core-shell nanoparticles for improved activity and stability on methanol oxidation reaction. Chinese Chemical Letters. 31(3). 836–840. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhongxiang, Xiaozhang Yao, Yongqiang Kang, et al.. (2019). Structurally Ordered Low‐Pt Intermetallic Electrocatalysts toward Durably High Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(35). 181 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhongxiang, Xiaozhang Yao, Yongqiang Kang, Dongsheng Xia, & Lin Gan. (2019). Rational Development of Structurally Ordered Platinum Ternary Intermetallic Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Catalysts. 9(7). 569–569. 36 indexed citations

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Ma, Yangbo, Weihua Guo, Xiaozhang Yao, et al.. (2018). Modulating Surface Composition and Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activities of Pt–Ni Octahedral Nanoparticles by Microwave-Enhanced Surface Diffusion during Solvothermal Synthesis. Chemistry of Materials. 30(13). 4355–4360. 24 indexed citations

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