Yanfei Zhu

6.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
77 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Yanfei Zhu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfei Zhu has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yanfei Zhu's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (17 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (14 papers). Yanfei Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (17 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (14 papers). Yanfei Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Australia. Yanfei Zhu's co-authors include Zhiyong Tang, Jun Guo, Yin Zhang, Shaoqin Liu, Ke Hou, Chang Long, Jiawei Lv, Xiaofei Zhang, Xueying Qiu and Meiting Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Yanfei Zhu

74 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Structural transformation of highly active metal–organic framework electrocatalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction

2020 900 citations Shenlong Zhao, Chun Hui Tan et al. Nature Energy profile →
Self-assembled inorganic chiral superstructures

2022 199 citations Jiawei Lv, Yanfei Zhu et al. profile →
Long‐Life Regenerated LiFePO₄ from Spent Cathode by Elevating the d‐Band Center of Fe

2022 160 citations Kai Jia, Junxiong Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Mechanisms of the Accelerated Li⁺ Conduction in MOF‐Based Solid‐State Polymer Electrolytes for All‐Solid‐State Lithium Metal Batteries

2024 106 citations Yanfei Zhu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A locally solvent-tethered polymer electrolyte for long-life lithium metal batteries

2024 90 citations Yanfei Zhu, Zhoujie Lao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation

2024 62 citations Junxiong Wang, Zheng Liang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanfei Zhu China	36	2.5k	2.4k	2.0k	1.0k	954	77	5.4k
Pengcheng Dai China	40	2.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	103	5.2k
Suyuan Zeng China	43	2.3k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.7k 1.6×	702 0.7×	179	5.5k
Xiaodong Yan China	43	2.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	3.3k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	849 0.9×	137	5.7k
Zhenyu Xiao China	39	2.2k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	182	5.2k
Jeng‐Lung Chen Taiwan	39	2.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	721 0.7×	476 0.5×	178	5.2k
Liting Yan China	30	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	637 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	76	3.9k
Sang Uck Lee South Korea	42	2.4k 1.0×	3.5k 1.5×	2.4k 1.2×	932 0.9×	351 0.4×	180	5.9k
Aihua Yuan China	34	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	976 0.5×	1.8k 1.7×	848 0.9×	200	4.3k
Jinghai Liu China	37	3.9k 1.5×	3.1k 1.3×	4.3k 2.1×	1.2k 1.2×	393 0.4×	161	6.8k
Jianshe Wang China	38	3.1k 1.2×	2.4k 1.0×	3.4k 1.7×	754 0.7×	366 0.4×	139	5.5k

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Qu, Haotian, Zhoujie Lao, Xiao Xiao, et al.. (2025). Creating Vacancy Strong Interaction to Enable Homogeneous High‐Throughput Ion Transport for Efficient Solid‐State Lithium Batteries. Advanced Materials. 37(18). e2419271–e2419271. 15 indexed citations

Lao, Zhoujie, Kehao Tao, Xiao Xiao, et al.. (2025). Data-driven exploration of weak coordination microenvironment in solid-state electrolyte for safe and energy-dense batteries. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1075–1075. 13 indexed citations

Zhu, Yanfei, et al.. (2025). Multifunctional Nanocarrier Drug Delivery Systems: From Diverse Design to Precise Biomedical Applications. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 15(2). e02178–e02178. 1 indexed citations

Qu, Haotian, Chaohong Guan, Chuang Li, et al.. (2025). An oriented design of a π-conjugated polymer framework for high-performance solid-state lithium batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(4). 1835–1846. 19 indexed citations

Zhu, Yanfei, Ning Li, Alan J. McCue, et al.. (2025). Integrating isolated metal sites and sulfur vacancies in supported Ni catalysts for selective catalysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159932–159932. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Yanfei, Zhoujie Lao, Mengtian Zhang, et al.. (2024). A locally solvent-tethered polymer electrolyte for long-life lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3914–3914. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

Yan, Jiawei, et al.. (2024). Coupling homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for the efficient and selective activation of H₂O₂. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(28). 17565–17573. 3 indexed citations

Cao, Yang, Junfeng Li, Di Tang, et al.. (2024). Targeted Defect Repair and Multi‐functional Interface Construction for the Direct Regeneration of Spent LiFePO₄ Cathodes. Advanced Materials. 36(48). e2414048–e2414048. 47 indexed citations

Jia, Kai, Jun Ma, Junxiong Wang, et al.. (2023). Long‐Life Regenerated LiFePO₄ from Spent Cathode by Elevating the d‐Band Center of Fe (Adv. Mater. 5/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(5). 5 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yuheng, Wenshi Zhao, Siyang Li, et al.. (2022). Elevating Photooxidation of Methane to Formaldehyde via TiO₂ Crystal Phase Engineering. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(35). 15977–15987. 187 indexed citations

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Guo, Jun, Yutian Qin, Yanfei Zhu, et al.. (2021). Metal–organic frameworks as catalytic selectivity regulators for organic transformations. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(9). 5366–5396. 193 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhen, Guobin Wen, Dan Luo, et al.. (2021). “Two Ships in a Bottle” Design for Zn–Ag–O Catalyst Enabling Selective and Long-Lasting CO₂ Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(18). 6855–6864. 209 indexed citations

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Liu, Zheng, Yanfei Zhu, Kuikui Xiao, et al.. (2021). Fe/Fe₃C Embedded in N-Doped Worm-like Porous Carbon for High-Rate Catalysis in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(21). 24710–24722. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Jilei, Yanfei Zhu, Aiping Hu, et al.. (2020). Confining Sb nanoparticles in bamboo-like hierarchical porous aligned carbon nanotubes for use as an anode for sodium ion batteries with ultralong cycling performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(4). 2152–2160. 32 indexed citations

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Zhao, Shenlong, Chun Hui Tan, Chun‐Ting He, et al.. (2020). Structural transformation of highly active metal–organic framework electrocatalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Energy. 5(11). 881–890. 900 indexed citations breakdown →

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Luo, Dan, Zhen Zhang, Gaoran Li, et al.. (2020). Revealing the Rapid Electrocatalytic Behavior of Ultrafine Amorphous Defective Nb₂O_5–x Nanocluster toward Superior Li–S Performance. ACS Nano. 14(4). 4849–4860. 233 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yanfei & Zhiyong Tang. (2020). Conductive 2D MOF Coupled with Superprotonic Conduction and Interfacial Pseudo-capacitance. Matter. 2(4). 798–800. 19 indexed citations

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Shi, Lin, Lingyun Zhu, Jun Guo, et al.. (2017). Self‐Assembly of Chiral Gold Clusters into Crystalline Nanocubes of Exceptional Optical Activity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(48). 15397–15401. 230 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yanfei, Wentao Li, Yiqiong Zhang, et al.. (2015). Tucked flower-like SnS2/Co3O4 composite for high-performance anode material in lithium-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 190. 843–851. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yiqiong, Yiwen Wu, Lin Li, et al.. (2015). Self-assembled Co 3 O 4 nanostructure with controllable morphology towards high performance anode for lithium ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 188. 909–916. 35 indexed citations

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