Yang Hu

3.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Yang Hu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Hu has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 25 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yang Hu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Yang Hu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Yang Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Yang Hu's co-authors include Pinxian Xi, Chun‐Hua Yan, Jie Yin, Li An, Xiao Hu, Enzhou Liu, Yong Peng, Bolong Huang, Min Lu and Mingzi Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yang Hu

63 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Surface Activation and Ni‐S Stabilization in NiO/NiS₂for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2022 270 citations Nan Zhang, Yang Hu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction

2023 221 citations Yang Hu, Yao Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rare-Earth-Modified NiS₂ Improves OH Coverage for an Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolyzer

2024 91 citations Wei Shen, Yao Zheng et al. profile →
Corrosion Protection of Rare Earth for Kilowatt-Level Alkaline Seawater Electrolyzer

2025 22 citations Wei Shen, Yang Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Hu China	26	2.0k	1.4k	1.1k	332	194	65	2.4k
Hengli Duan China	20	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	991 0.9×	261 0.8×	207 1.1×	43	2.3k
Ching‐Wei Tung Taiwan	17	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	906 0.9×	224 0.7×	228 1.2×	38	2.0k
Xueqin Mu China	28	2.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	743 0.7×	360 1.1×	172 0.9×	59	2.6k
Lili Li China	20	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	696 0.7×	285 0.9×	271 1.4×	36	1.9k
Ximing Qu China	24	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	806 0.8×	302 0.9×	143 0.7×	33	2.4k
Junheng Huang China	21	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	983 0.9×	352 1.1×	305 1.6×	40	2.8k
Vincent Goellner France	7	2.3k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	718 0.7×	245 0.7×	189 1.0×	8	2.6k
Adam Riese Canada	10	2.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	239 0.7×	169 0.9×	13	2.5k
Yiyang Lin China	11	2.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	847 0.8×	304 0.9×	126 0.6×	17	2.6k
Carolina Galeano Germany	11	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	721 0.7×	287 0.9×	208 1.1×	13	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Hu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Hu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhang, Nan, Yang Hu, Zhuang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Crystallinity-dependent structural evolution of CoS2 catalysts for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9306–9306. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Wenbo, Yachao Xu, Xiaohua Guo, et al.. (2025). p‐d Orbital Hybridization of S‐Pt‐C Atomic Site Enables Durable Mg‐CO ₂ Battery. Advanced Materials. 38(8). e14286–e14286.

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Zhu, Jiamin, Yue Zhai, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Surface Cladding Engineering via Oxygen Sulfur Distribution for Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413348–e202413348. 11 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiamin, Yue Zhai, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Surface Cladding Engineering via Oxygen Sulfur Distribution for Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Production. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 4 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Xinyao Wang, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Precisely Control Relationship between Sulfur Vacancy and H Absorption for Boosting Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 63–63. 36 indexed citations

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Yang, Zi, Zhi Li, Zidong He, et al.. (2023). Ceo₂/Cus Nanoplates Electroreduce Co₂ to Ethanol with Stabilized Cu⁺ Species. Small. 19(40). e2303099–e2303099. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinliang, Ling Peng, Wenjun Xu, Jiayi Liu, & Yang Hu. (2023). Digital Twin-Based Model Reconfiguration Method for Ship Design Using NSGA-II. 95–101.

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Mu, Xijiao, Yang Hu, Liangliang Liu, et al.. (2023). A General Preparation of Solid Solution‐Oxide Heterojunction Photocatalysts through Metal–Organic Framework Transformation Induced Pre‐nucleation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(26). e202302986–e202302986. 30 indexed citations

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Mu, Xijiao, Yang Hu, Liangliang Liu, et al.. (2023). A General Preparation of Solid Solution‐Oxide Heterojunction Photocatalysts through Metal–Organic Framework Transformation Induced Pre‐nucleation. Angewandte Chemie. 135(26). 4 indexed citations

10.

Shen, Wei, Jiamin Zhu, Yang Hu, et al.. (2023). Applications of Rare Earth Promoted Transition Metal Sulfides in Electrocatalysis^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(14). 1740–1752. 41 indexed citations

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Hu, Yang, Yao Zheng, Yong Peng, et al.. (2023). Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1949–1949. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

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Da, Pengfei, Yao Zheng, Yang Hu, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Bandgap‐tunable Transition Metal Sulfides through Gas‐phase Cation Exchange‐induced Topological Transformation. Angewandte Chemie. 135(18). 10 indexed citations

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Li, Hongli, Yantao Wang, Junwei Zhang, et al.. (2022). The design and synthesis of spinel one-dimensional multi-shelled nanostructures for Li-ion batteries. Nanoscale. 14(20). 7692–7701. 3 indexed citations

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An, Haiyan, Yang Hu, Nan Song, et al.. (2022). Two-dimensional heterostructures built from ultrathin CeO₂ nanosheet surface-coordinated and confined metal–organic frameworks with enhanced stability and catalytic performance. Chemical Science. 13(10). 3035–3044. 51 indexed citations

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An, Li, Yang Hu, Jianyi Li, et al.. (2022). Tailoring Oxygen Reduction Reaction Pathway on Spinel Oxides via Surficial Geometrical‐Site Occupation Modification Driven by the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Materials. 34(28). e2202874–e2202874. 100 indexed citations

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Wei, Yupeng, Junzhi Zhu, Jianzhuang Jiang, et al.. (2021). Achieving C/CuO microfiber composites with efficient microwave absorbing performance at low thickness. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 32(21). 25973–25986. 5 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Jie Yin, Hongbo Liu, et al.. (2021). Atomic Sulfur Filling Oxygen Vacancies Optimizes H Absorption and Boosts the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14236–14242. 38 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Jie Yin, Hongbo Liu, et al.. (2021). Atomic Sulfur Filling Oxygen Vacancies Optimizes H Absorption and Boosts the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(25). 14117–14123. 188 indexed citations

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Zhang, Junwei, Yong Peng, Hongbin Ma, et al.. (2020). Magnetotransport Mechanism of Individual Nanostructures via Direct Magnetoresistance Measurement in situ SEM. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(35). 39798–39806. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Liu, Xia Deng, Yang Hu, et al.. (2018). Atomic-scale imaging of the ferrimagnetic/diamagnetic interface in Au-Fe₃O₄ nanodimers and correlated exchange-bias origin. Nanoscale. 10(45). 21499–21508. 6 indexed citations

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