Yan Su

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
221 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Yan Su is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Su has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Materials Chemistry, 62 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 49 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Su's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (39 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (17 papers). Yan Su is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (39 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (17 papers). Yan Su collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Ethiopia. Yan Su's co-authors include Hongtao Yu, Xie Quan, Shuo Chen, Jijun Zhao, Yaobin Zhang, Yanming Liu, Kun Zhao, Na Lu, Ning Liu and Xinfei Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yan Su

208 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon

2018 536 citations Yanming Liu, Yan Su et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Su China	42	3.6k	3.4k	2.1k	1.0k	738	221	7.1k
Yan Wu China	50	5.1k 1.4×	2.9k 0.8×	3.3k 1.6×	416 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	380	9.0k
Shuangliang Zhao China	41	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	519 0.5×	368 0.5×	279	6.3k
Bo Han China	49	3.6k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	3.4k 1.7×	383 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	352	8.8k
Chun He China	50	3.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	428 0.4×	1.8k 2.4×	243	8.0k
Jean‐Sabin McEwen United States	38	3.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	316 0.4×	143	6.1k
Hui Li China	39	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	209 0.2×	492 0.7×	241	7.2k
Pei Liu China	44	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	514 0.5×	512 0.7×	171	5.9k
Yuandong Niu China	51	5.9k 1.7×	4.9k 1.4×	4.2k 2.1×	945 0.9×	190 0.3×	220	11.0k
Elisabet Ahlberg Sweden	37	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	361 0.4×	388 0.5×	174	5.0k
Takahiro Kondo Japan	29	2.9k 0.8×	3.5k 1.0×	3.5k 1.7×	368 0.4×	202 0.3×	158	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yan Su

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Su

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

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Du, Jingjing, Maosen Wang, Xueting Zhang, et al.. (2025). The synergistic effect of electrode spacing and aeration intensity on the performance of pyrite based constructed wetland-microbial fuel cells. Chemical Engineering Journal. 505. 159787–159787. 5 indexed citations

Cheng, Kai, Peng Wu, Shijie Guo, et al.. (2025). A first-principles study on the effects of 3d transition metal dopants on the valleytronic properties of Janus-type 2H-MoSeTe monolayers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(43). 23127–23138.

Cheng, Kai, Peng Wu, Wenbo Hu, et al.. (2025). 2D layered BP/group-IV monochalcogenide van der Waals heterostructures for photovoltaics: electronic structure, band alignment, and carrier dynamics. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(22). 12060–12068.

Shi, Tiancong, Xi Chen, Xiaolong Li, et al.. (2025). Charge Transfer-Mediated J-Aggregates of Azaindole Cyanine with 160 nm Absorption Redshift for Efficient NIR-II Photothermal Tumor Therapy. ACS Nano. 19(30). 27845–27859. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Peike, Shuo Chen, Hongtao Yu, et al.. (2025). Oxygen-doped carbon nanospheres embedded with Fe2C nanoparticles as heterogeneous electro-Fenton catalyst for efficient hydroxyl radical production. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 381. 125854–125854.

Du, Jingjing, Xueting Zhang, Maosen Wang, et al.. (2024). Importance of natural pyrite in treating carbon-constraint wastewater by constructed wetland-microbial fuel cells. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 194. 1597–1604. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Peike, et al.. (2024). Highly efficient electrocatalysis of oxygen to hydroxyl radical by FeN2O2 single-atom catalyst for refractory organic pollutant removal. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 355. 124170–124170. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Yaqi, Yanming Liu, Peike Cao, et al.. (2024). Promoting CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethane by Iodide-Derived Copper with the Hydrophobic Surface. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(16). 20587–20596. 2 indexed citations

Cheng, Kai, Wenbo Hu, Li‐Fan Wu, et al.. (2024). The effect of surface orientation on band alignment and carrier transfer at WS2/CdS interface: Insight from first-principles calculations. Journal of Applied Physics. 135(20). 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Kai, Jinke Xu, Peng Wu, et al.. (2024). Piezoelectricity of Janus group-III monochalcogenide monolayers, multilayers and their vdW heterostructures: Insight from first-principles calculations. Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures. 165. 116072–116072.

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Cheng, Kai, Wenbo Hu, Xu Guo, et al.. (2023). Electronic structures and photovoltaic applications of vdW heterostructures based on Janus group-IV monochalcogenides: insights from first-principles calculations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(7). 5663–5672. 7 indexed citations

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Cheng, Kai, Jinke Xu, Xu Guo, San‐Dong Guo, & Yan Su. (2023). 2D layered BP/InSe and BP/Janus In₂SeX (X = S or Te) type-II van der Waals heterostructures for photovoltaics: insight from first-principles calculations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(26). 17360–17369. 8 indexed citations

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Jiang, Ze D., et al.. (2023). Use of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Diagnosing Lung Abscesses Caused by Oral Bacteria. Future Microbiology. 18(8). 465–469. 4 indexed citations

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Cheng, Kai, Jinke Xu, Sihao Wang, et al.. (2023). The effect of intrinsic electric field on electronic structures: The case of polar Janus group-III monochalcogenides and their van der Waals heterostructures. APL Materials. 11(6). 5 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xueyang, Kun Zhao, Yanming Liu, et al.. (2022). Highly Efficient Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on a Precise Homonuclear Diatomic Fe–Fe Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 12(18). 11412–11420. 92 indexed citations

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Li, Xiuping, Yan Su, Xiaona Li, & Meng Liu. (2022). An origami paper-based analytical device for rapid detection of testosterone in healthcare food. Analytical Methods. 14(7). 689–693. 4 indexed citations

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Su, Yan, et al.. (2021). Compression behavior of energetic ε‐CL‐20 crystals from density functional theory calculations. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 52(10). 1764–1771. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanming, Qi Xu, Xinfei Fan, et al.. (2019). Electrochemical reduction of N₂ to ammonia on Co single atom embedded N-doped porous carbon under ambient conditions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(46). 26358–26363. 55 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanming, Yan Su, Xie Quan, et al.. (2018). Facile Ammonia Synthesis from Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction under Ambient Conditions on N-Doped Porous Carbon. ACS Catalysis. 8(2). 1186–1191. 536 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Zhaoyang, et al.. (2017). First-principle simulation of solid nitrobenzene under uniaxial compression. Acta Physica Sinica. 66(3). 36101–36101. 2 indexed citations

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