Yang Gan

676 total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 578 citations indexed

About

Yang Gan is a scholar working on Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Gan has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 578 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Yang Gan's work include Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (4 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (2 papers). Yang Gan is often cited by papers focused on Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (4 papers) and Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions (2 papers). Yang Gan collaborates with scholars based in China and United States. Yang Gan's co-authors include Huawei Chen, Liwen Zhang, Deyuan Zhang, Tong Ran, Yi Zhang, Lei Jiang, Jiajia Zhou, Guang Liu, Dengke Chen and Yan Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yang Gan

11 papers receiving 572 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.

Ultrafast water harvesting and transport in hierarchical microchannels

2018 437 citations Huawei Chen, Tong Ran et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Gan China	8	401	215	158	151	110	11	578
Tong Ran China	7	460 1.1×	221 1.0×	165 1.0×	162 1.1×	106 1.0×	9	630
Zehang Cui China	13	340 0.8×	193 0.9×	148 0.9×	117 0.8×	74 0.7×	22	486
Minfei Li China	8	324 0.8×	206 1.0×	213 1.3×	226 1.5×	124 1.1×	12	642
Zhouchen Huang China	10	379 0.9×	205 1.0×	143 0.9×	129 0.9×	80 0.7×	10	507
Bojie Xu China	16	281 0.7×	319 1.5×	109 0.7×	261 1.7×	83 0.8×	27	625
Keyu Han China	11	236 0.6×	180 0.8×	52 0.3×	111 0.7×	57 0.5×	19	437
Shihui Zhan China	6	545 1.4×	311 1.4×	110 0.7×	151 1.0×	120 1.1×	9	772
Shuang Ben China	13	453 1.1×	314 1.5×	131 0.8×	273 1.8×	140 1.3×	19	875
Anjishnu Sarkar Canada	5	178 0.4×	230 1.1×	53 0.3×	76 0.5×	105 1.0×	5	429

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Gan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Gan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Gan

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Liu, Guang, Tong Ran, Yi Zhang, et al.. (2023). High-Efficient Microdroplet Harvesting and Detaching Inspired from Sarracenia Lid Trichome. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(50). 59075–59086. 5 indexed citations

2.

Zhang, Yi, Yang Gan, Liwen Zhang, et al.. (2022). Controllable Directional Liquid Transport in Open Channel. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(14). 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Guang, Liwen Zhang, Yang Gan, et al.. (2022). Liquid transport with direction guidance and speed enhancement from gradient and magnetized micro-cilia surface. Applied Physics Letters. 120(19). 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Liwen Zhang, Yurun Guo, et al.. (2021). Air Bubble Bridge‐Based Bioinspired Underwater Adhesion. Small. 17(42). e2103423–e2103423. 25 indexed citations

5.

Chen, Huawei, Tong Ran, Dengke Chen, et al.. (2021). Highly Efficient Multiscale Fog Collector Inspired by Sarracenia Trichome Hierarchical Structure. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(12). 2100087–2100087. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Yan, Liwen Zhang, Yurun Guo, et al.. (2021). Air Bubble Bridge‐Based Bioinspired Underwater Adhesion (Small 42/2021). Small. 17(42). 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Liwen, Guang Liu, Huawei Chen, et al.. (2021). Bioinspired Unidirectional Liquid Transport Micro-nano Structures: A Review. Journal of Bionic Engineering. 18(1). 1–29. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, Yang Gan, Liwen Zhang, Deyuan Zhang, & Huawei Chen. (2020). Surface-Tension-Confined Channel with Biomimetic Microstructures for Unidirectional Liquid Spreading. Micromachines. 11(11). 978–978. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Huawei, Tong Ran, Yang Gan, et al.. (2018). Ultrafast water harvesting and transport in hierarchical microchannels. Nature Materials. 17(10). 935–942. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gan, Yang, Huawei Chen, Tong Ran, Pengfei Zhang, & Deyuan Zhang. (2018). The prey capture mechanism of micro structure on the Sarracenia Judith Hindle inner surface. Journal of Bionic Engineering. 15(1). 34–41. 8 indexed citations

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Gan, Yang. (2014). Application of EMD in the Ocean Internal Waves Research. 1 indexed citations

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