Yang Lou

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Yang Lou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Lou has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 41 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Yang Lou's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (45 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (30 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (29 papers). Yang Lou is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (45 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (30 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (29 papers). Yang Lou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Yang Lou's co-authors include Yongfa Zhu, Chengsi Pan, Jing Xu, Yun Guo, Li Wang, Jingyue Liu, Yanglong Guo, Qiguang Dai, Ying Zhang and Wangcheng Zhan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yang Lou

81 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

H2O2 generation from O2 and H2O on a near-infrared absorbing porphyrin supramolecular photocatalyst

2023 407 citations Yaning Zhang, Chengsi Pan et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Lou China	32	3.2k	2.3k	1.7k	853	539	86	4.3k
Mingyuan Zhang China	36	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	302 0.6×	115	3.9k
Toru Murayama Japan	37	3.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	725 0.8×	836 1.6×	143	4.1k
Qinghai Cai China	37	2.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	829 1.5×	156	4.5k
Chongqi Chen China	35	3.7k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	886 1.0×	527 1.0×	91	4.5k
Débora Motta Meira United States	31	2.8k 0.9×	3.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	602 1.1×	87	5.1k
Ichiro Yamanaka Japan	34	2.2k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	474 0.9×	161	4.1k
Pengfei Tian China	31	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	397 0.5×	507 0.9×	64	3.3k
Ruihua Gao China	28	3.6k 1.1×	959 0.4×	2.1k 1.2×	857 1.0×	849 1.6×	47	4.3k
Xingyi Lin China	30	3.7k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	924 1.1×	528 1.0×	61	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Yang Lou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yang Lou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Lou

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

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He, Feng, Huaiyuan Wang, Kaijie Liu, et al.. (2025). Single-atom Pd1O4Ce2/CeO2 catalyst with unique local fields for methane-catalyzed combustion. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 685. 1184–1194. 1 indexed citations

Li, Wenlong, Xuan Tang, Lu Cheng, et al.. (2025). Fe-(μ-O)-Zn dual-atom boosting C-C coupling for direct oxidation of methane to acetic acid using O2. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9471–9471.

Huang, Pu, Zhenghan Yang, Jing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Balancing *CHO/*CO Intermediate Flux via Carbonyl-Hydroxyl Motif Synergy Enables High-Selectivity Ethanol Electrosynthesis from Dilute CO₂. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(25). 22062–22071. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Jing, Mingyue Zhang, Yamei Lin, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the fundamental insights underlying “confinement effects” in enhanced electrocatalysis. Nano Energy. 125. 109529–109529. 27 indexed citations

Yu, Xi, Zhouping Wang, Yang Lou, et al.. (2024). Highly efficient elimination performance of graphene/supramolecular porphyrin-based photocatalysis-self-Fenton system towards sulfonamide antibiotics, resistant bacteria and resistance genes. Chemical Engineering Journal. 484. 149552–149552. 25 indexed citations

Zhang, Ying, Bo Zhang, Dan Wang, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Effects of Co–Fe Boosts the Transformation of CO₂ into C₆₊ Dicarboxylic Acids up to Gram-Scale under Mild Conditions. ACS Catalysis. 14(3). 1459–1467. 15 indexed citations

Ni, Lijun, Yuwei Zhou, Wei Tan, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric coordinative modulation boosting the activity and thermal stability of Pt1/CeO2 for CO oxidation under harsh condition. Chemical Engineering Journal. 501. 157250–157250. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Dan, Qingqing Song, Yang Lou, et al.. (2024). Regulating the local microenvironment on porous Cu nanosheets for enhancing electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction selectivity to ethylene. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(20). 11968–11974. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Yang, Weiyu Song, Jianghao Wang, et al.. (2024). Strong Cu/ZnO Interfacial Interaction Induced by ZrO₂ Promoter Suppressing the Ethanol Formation in Industrial Methanol Synthesis. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 63(28). 12459–12467. 4 indexed citations

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Gu, Qingqing, Dong Wang, Bing Yang, et al.. (2024). Edge-Confined Rh₂/MoS₂ Dual-Atom Catalyst for Selective Activation of Nitro Group to Amino Group at Room Temperature. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 63(39). 16762–16769. 5 indexed citations

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Xie, Yuanming, Xuelin Wang, Qingqing Song, et al.. (2024). Nanocrystalline High-Dimensional Nb₂O₅ for Efficient Electroreductive Dicarboxylation of CO₂ with Cycloalkane. ACS Catalysis. 14(24). 18624–18632. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lu, Bing Yang, Hong Li, et al.. (2024). Surface hydroxyl group dominating aerobic oxidation of methane below room temperature. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(21). 8127–8139. 24 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yaning, Chengsi Pan, Jing Xu, et al.. (2023). H2O2 generation from O2 and H2O on a near-infrared absorbing porphyrin supramolecular photocatalyst. Nature Energy. 8(4). 361–371. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Ying, Chenchen Zhang, Dan Wang, et al.. (2023). In situ formed copper nanoparticles via strong electronic interaction with organic skeleton for pH-universal electrocatalytic CO₂ reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(42). 22992–23000. 11 indexed citations

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Chang, Kuan, Qingqing Gu, Bing Yang, et al.. (2022). Noble Metal-Free 2D 1T-MoS₂ Edge Sites Boosting Selective Hydrogenation of Maleic Anhydride. ACS Catalysis. 12(15). 8986–8994. 39 indexed citations

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Cheng, Lu, Qingqing Gu, Bing Yang, et al.. (2022). ZSM-5-confined Cr₁–O₄ active sites boost methane direct oxidation to C1 oxygenates under mild conditions. EES Catalysis. 1(2). 153–161. 21 indexed citations

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Wang, Fei, Jing Xu, Zhouping Wang, et al.. (2022). Unprecedentedly efficient mineralization performance of photocatalysis-self-Fenton system towards organic pollutants over oxygen-doped porous g-C3N4 nanosheets. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 312. 121438–121438. 192 indexed citations

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Wang, Dan, Kuan Chang, Yaning Zhang, et al.. (2021). Unravelling the electrocatalytic activity of bismuth nanosheets towards carbon dioxide reduction: Edge plane versus basal plane. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 299. 120693–120693. 54 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ying, et al.. (2021). Research progress on methane conversion coupling photocatalysis and thermocatalysis. Carbon Energy. 3(4). 519–540. 107 indexed citations

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Zhu, Guoxiang, Wei Zhu, Yang Lou, et al.. (2021). Encapsulate α-MnO2 nanofiber within graphene layer to tune surface electronic structure for efficient ozone decomposition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4152–4152. 203 indexed citations

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