Yanfen Wu

1.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
16 papers, 761 citations indexed

About

Yanfen Wu is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanfen Wu has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 761 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Pollution, 7 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yanfen Wu's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers). Yanfen Wu is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (8 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (7 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers). Yanfen Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Yanfen Wu's co-authors include Zhiqiang Niu, Yu‐Xiao Zhang, Shengbo Zhang, Mingze Sun, Shuyan Gong, Qikun Hu, Helai Huang, Ting Tan, Zhongbin Zhuang and Haoyue Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yanfen Wu

15 papers receiving 739 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.

Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling

2023 180 citations Shengbo Zhang, Qikun Hu et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
General Synthesis of a Diatomic Catalyst Library via a Macrocyclic Precursor-Mediated Approach

2023 173 citations Yu‐Xiao Zhang, Shengbo Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Enhancing H₂O₂ Electrosynthesis at Industrial-Relevant Current in Acidic Media on Diatomic Cobalt Sites

2024 96 citations Helai Huang, Mingze Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanfen Wu China	12	373	325	179	159	145	16	761
Ruochen Cao China	8	306 0.8×	236 0.7×	135 0.8×	199 1.3×	163 1.1×	9	663
Montaha Anjass Germany	16	278 0.7×	568 1.7×	238 1.3×	126 0.8×	117 0.8×	42	946
Zexun Hu China	12	406 1.1×	269 0.8×	240 1.3×	224 1.4×	223 1.5×	16	868
Subhajit Bhattacharjee United Kingdom	16	690 1.8×	345 1.1×	203 1.1×	170 1.1×	152 1.0×	22	983
Ruxin Yang China	11	352 0.9×	311 1.0×	200 1.1×	151 0.9×	130 0.9×	18	787
Dongting Zhao United States	9	416 1.1×	228 0.7×	261 1.5×	110 0.7×	120 0.8×	9	955
Yeji Park South Korea	11	346 0.9×	136 0.4×	272 1.5×	121 0.8×	88 0.6×	25	565
Christian M. Pichler Austria	17	652 1.7×	437 1.3×	183 1.0×	322 2.0×	262 1.8×	37	1.3k
Shuheng Tian China	9	240 0.6×	294 0.9×	66 0.4×	134 0.8×	121 0.8×	26	648
Shibashish D. Jaydev Switzerland	7	196 0.5×	273 0.8×	92 0.5×	286 1.8×	263 1.8×	8	929

Countries citing papers authored by Yanfen Wu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanfen Wu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanfen Wu

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

All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Huang, Helai, Mingze Sun, Xin Tang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of Mn‐based Catalyst for Durable Two‐electron Oxygen Reduction in Acid at High Current Densities. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202511844–e202511844. 3 indexed citations

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Huang, Helai, Mingze Sun, Xin Tang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the Potential of Mn‐based Catalyst for Durable Two‐electron Oxygen Reduction in Acid at High Current Densities. Angewandte Chemie. 137(33). 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shengbo, Penghui Li, Qikun Hu, et al.. (2025). Diatomic Zn‐Functionalized Carbon Sphere for Microplastics Remediation in Natural Seawater at Environmentally Relevant Concentration. Advanced Materials. 37(42). e08428–e08428. 3 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, Xin Tang, Helai Huang, et al.. (2025). Efficient chemical recycling of mixed plastics by intramolecular glycolysis. AIChE Journal. 71(12).

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Nondestructive Recovery of Cotton from Waste Polycotton Textiles by Catalytic Hydrolysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(28). 10446–10454. 14 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Opportunities and challenges for plastic depolymerization by biomimetic catalysis. Chemical Science. 15(17). 6200–6217. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Embedding an esterase mimic inside polyesters to realize rapid and complete degradation without compromising their utility. Green Chemistry. 26(5). 2851–2857. 12 indexed citations

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Huang, Helai, Mingze Sun, Shuwei Li, et al.. (2024). Enhancing H₂O₂ Electrosynthesis at Industrial-Relevant Current in Acidic Media on Diatomic Cobalt Sites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(13). 9434–9443. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Yanfen, et al.. (2024). Oxidative degradation and upcycling of polyethylene wastes. Science China Chemistry. 68(2). 430–443. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shengbo, Yingying Xue, Yanfen Wu, et al.. (2023). PET recycling under mild conditions via substituent-modulated intramolecular hydrolysis. Chemical Science. 14(24). 6558–6563. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Beibei, Ruonan Ma, Lei Chen, et al.. (2023). Diatomic iron nanozyme with lipoxidase-like activity for efficient inactivation of enveloped virus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7312–7312. 50 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shengbo, Qikun Hu, Yu‐Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2023). Depolymerization of polyesters by a binuclear catalyst for plastic recycling. Nature Sustainability. 6(8). 965–973. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Yu‐Xiao, Shengbo Zhang, Helai Huang, et al.. (2023). General Synthesis of a Diatomic Catalyst Library via a Macrocyclic Precursor-Mediated Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(8). 4819–4827. 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Shengbo, Yanfen Wu, Yu‐Xiao Zhang, & Zhiqiang Niu. (2021). Dual-atom catalysts: controllable synthesis and electrocatalytic applications. Science China Chemistry. 64(11). 1908–1922. 81 indexed citations

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Wu, Yanfen, Yao Liu, Qingwen Guan, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of carbon dots with a tunable photoluminescence and their applications for the detection of acetone and hydrogen peroxide. Chinese Chemical Letters. 31(2). 487–493. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Ya, Miaoran Zhang, Yanfen Wu, et al.. (2019). Multicolor tunable highly luminescent carbon dots for remote force measurement and white light emitting diodes. Chemical Communications. 55(81). 12164–12167. 38 indexed citations

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