Yan Liu

17.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
327 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Yan Liu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Liu has authored 327 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Materials Chemistry, 157 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 69 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yan Liu's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (151 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (93 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (29 papers). Yan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (151 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (93 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (29 papers). Yan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yan Liu's co-authors include Yong Cui, Xing Han, Weimin Xuan, Jinqiao Dong, Wei Gong, Yuan Chen, Xiaowei Wu, Jinjing Huang, Chunxia Tan and Zi‐Jian Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yan Liu

304 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Engineering Homochiral Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis and Enantioselective Separation

2010 810 citations Yan Liu, Yong Cui et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Homochiral 2D Porous Covalent Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Asymmetric Catalysis

2016 471 citations Xing Han, Jie Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Chiral 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks for High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Enantioseparation

2018 454 citations Xing Han, Yan Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Metal–Covalent Organic Frameworks (MCOFs): A Bridge Between Metal–Organic Frameworks and Covalent Organic Frameworks

2020 429 citations Xing Han, Yan Liu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Chiral Metal–Organic Frameworks

2022 396 citations Wei Gong, Yan Liu et al. profile →
Healable and Transparent Ionic Conductive Hydrogels Based on PNATF as Multiple-Signal Sensors

2025 42 citations Yan Liu et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Liu

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Last Piece of the Puzzle: Access to 7‐Connected Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks for Hexane Separation 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xianhui Tang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yongwei Chen, Xiang‐Jing Kong, Zi‐Ming Ye, Haomiao Xie, Wei Gong, (unknown), Yan Liu, Kent O. Kirlikovali, Omar K. Farha, Yong Cui	10
2	Photocatalytic Germylation via Direct Hydrogen Atom Transfer 2025 ·Chinese Journal of Chemistry ·(unknown), Yan Liu, (unknown), Igor B. Krylov, Alexander O. Terent’ev, Shuxia Cao, Kai Sun, Xiaolan Chen, Lingbo Qu, Bing Yu	2
3	Cation/Anion-Dual regulation in Na3MnTi(PO4)3 cathode achieves the enhanced electrochemical properties of Sodium-Ion batteries 2024 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Shuying Li, (unknown), Zhen‐Yi Gu, Yan Liu, Yanning Liu, Meng‐Yuan Su, Xing‐Long Wu	12
4	A Method for Enhancing the Accuracy of Pet Breeds Identification Model in Complex Environments 2024 ·Applied Sciences ·(unknown), Haiying Xia, Yan Liu, (unknown), Cong Wang	0
5	Porous Polypyrrolidines for Highly Efficient Recovery of Precious Metals through Reductive Adsorption Mechanism 2024 ·Advanced Materials ·Jing Shi, (unknown), Boya Kuang, Shuifeng Wang, Yan Liu, (unknown), Xiaodong Li, Mu‐Hua Huang	33
6	Covalent Organic Frameworks with Tunable Chirality for Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xing Han, Chao Jiang, Bang Hou, Yan Liu, Yong Cui	35
7	Detection of Scratch Defects on Metal Surfaces Based on MSDD-UNet 2024 ·Electronics ·Yan Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Haiying Xia, Cong Wang	4
8	Homochiral π‐Rich Covalent Organic Frameworks Enabled Chirality Imprinting in Conjugated Polymers: Confined Polymerization and Chiral Memory from Scratch 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Xinfa Chen, Shiguo Fu, Ziping Cao, Wei Gong, Yan Liu, Yong Cui	13
9	Hard-carbon hybrid Li-ion/metal anode enabled by preferred mesoporous uniform lithium growth mechanism 2023 ·Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Fang Yan, Yan Liu, Yuan Li, Yan Wang, (unknown), Meng Li, (unknown), (unknown), Ting Li, Jingyi Qiu, Gaoping Cao, Shaobo Huang, Biyan Wang, Hao Zhang	11
10	Interactions of Essential Oil Components to Their Payloads in Supramolecular Particulate Carriers of Cyclodextrin Metal-Organic Frameworks 2023 ·Journal of Oleo Science ·(unknown), Caifen Wang, Yan Liu, Abid Naeem, Qin Zheng, Ming Yang, Jiwen Zhang, Li Wu, Tao Guo	2
11	Effect of O addition on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-Nb alloys with various β stability 2023 ·Vacuum ·Qiang Li, Yan Liu, (unknown), Masaaki Nakai, Mitsuo Niinomi, Kenta Yamanaka, Akihiko Chiba, Takuya Ishimoto, Takayoshi Nakano	8
12	Synthesis of MnO(OH) nanorods via hydrothermal method as efficient low-temperature SCR catalysts 2023 ·Materials Letters ·Zhenzhao Pei, Jiaqi Xu, (unknown), Lichun Shen, (unknown), Yan Liu, (unknown), Haiyang Zhao, Jie Ji, (unknown), (unknown), Zhi‐Ren Zhang	5
13	Preparation of α-Al2O3 by low-temperature calcining γ-Al2O3 with α-phase seed in-situ obtained by ball milling 2023 ·Materials Today Communications ·Jianhui Su, Yan Liu, Xiujing Peng, Guoxin Sun, Xuchuan Jiang	3
14	Flame retardant and multifunctional BC/MXene/MSiCnw/FRTPU aerogel composites with superior electromagnetic interference shielding via “Consolidating” method 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Hengrui Wang, Kexin Chen, Yongqian Shi, (unknown), (unknown), Yan Liu, Shijie Wu, (unknown), Libi Fu, Yuezhan Feng, Pingan Song	115
15	Chiral DHIP- and Pyrrolidine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks for Asymmetric Catalysis 2019 ·ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Jie Zhang, Xing Han, Xiaowei Wu, Yan Liu, Yong Cui	63
16	Cotemplating Assembly and Structural Variation of Three-Dimensional Open-Framework Sulfides 2019 ·Inorganic Chemistry ·Yanhua Li, Yan Liu, Yongkang Guo, Yu Sun, Min Ji, Zhong‐Lu You, Yong‐Lin An	14
17	Permanent porous hydrogen-bonded frameworks with two types of Brønsted acid sites for heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Wei Gong, Dandan Chu, Hong Jiang, Xu Chen, Yong Cui, Yan Liu	149
18	Chiral Phosphoric Acids in Metal–Organic Frameworks with Enhanced Acidity and Tunable Catalytic Selectivity 2019 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Xu Chen, Hong Jiang, Xu Li, Bang Hou, Wei Gong, Xiaowei Wu, Xing Han, (unknown), Yan Liu, Jianwen Jiang, Yong Cui	20
19	Highly Stable Zr(IV)-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks with Chiral Phosphoric Acids for Catalytic Asymmetric Tandem Reactions 2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Wei Gong, Xu Chen, Hong Jiang, Dandan Chu, Yong Cui, Yan Liu	129
20	Boosting Chemical Stability, Catalytic Activity, and Enantioselectivity of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Batch and Flow Reactions 2017 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xu Chen, Hong Jiang, Bang Hou, Wei Gong, Yan Liu, Yong Cui	115

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