Yang Qu

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Yang Qu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang Qu has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 84 papers in Materials Chemistry and 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yang Qu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (97 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (31 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (28 papers). Yang Qu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (97 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (31 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (28 papers). Yang Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Yang Qu's co-authors include Liqiang Jing, Honggang Fu, Wei Zhou, Muhammad Humayun, Fazal Raziq, Xuliang Zhang, Amir Zada, Zhijun Li, Kai Pan and Ying Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yang Qu

129 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Ordered Mesoporous Black TiO₂ as Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Photocatalyst

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang Qu China	46	5.7k	4.9k	2.6k	916	439	130	7.2k
Xipeng Pu China	53	6.0k 1.0×	5.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.3×	817 0.9×	471 1.1×	189	7.6k
Jum Suk Jang South Korea	51	7.6k 1.3×	6.6k 1.3×	3.2k 1.2×	996 1.1×	344 0.8×	195	9.6k
Yuning Huo China	35	4.6k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	643 0.7×	399 0.9×	70	5.8k
Bocheng Qiu China	43	6.4k 1.1×	4.7k 1.0×	3.6k 1.4×	923 1.0×	578 1.3×	81	8.2k
Daimei Chen China	48	5.2k 0.9×	4.8k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	513 0.6×	421 1.0×	91	7.0k
Lihong Tian China	39	5.0k 0.9×	3.4k 0.7×	3.1k 1.2×	907 1.0×	305 0.7×	88	6.6k
Guohui Tian China	53	8.2k 1.4×	6.9k 1.4×	3.8k 1.4×	927 1.0×	545 1.2×	143	10.0k
Longlu Wang China	51	5.8k 1.0×	5.2k 1.1×	4.0k 1.5×	1.0k 1.1×	456 1.0×	125	8.5k
Fazal Raziq China	44	4.7k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	730 0.8×	382 0.9×	106	6.6k
Kai Yang China	49	5.2k 0.9×	5.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	655 0.7×	445 1.0×	182	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang Qu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bai, Linlu, Xiaoyu Chu, Yang Qu, et al.. (2024). Effects of nanosized Au on the interface of zinc phthalocyanine/TiO2 for CO2 photoreduction. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(2). 109931–109931. 2 indexed citations

Shaheen, Shabana, Shuai Xu, Ji Bian, et al.. (2024). Facile synthesis of hierarchical NiO/NiFe ₂ O ₄ microsphere composite as efficient visible photocatalyst for 2,4‐DCP degradation. Rare Metals. 43(4). 1580–1588. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai, Bingquan Xia, Yang Qu, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic production of ethylene and propionic acid from plastic waste by titania-supported atomically dispersed Pd species. Science Advances. 9(49). eadk2407–eadk2407. 55 indexed citations

Li, Zhijun, et al.. (2022). N-Rich Doped Anatase TiO2 with Smart Defect Engineering as Efficient Photocatalysts for Acetaldehyde Degradation. Nanomaterials. 12(9). 1564–1564. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Ziqing, Linlu Bai, Zhijun Li, Yang Qu, & Liqiang Jing. (2019). Review of strategies for the fabrication of heterojunctional nanocomposites as efficient visible-light catalysts by modulating excited electrons with appropriate thermodynamic energy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(18). 10879–10897. 116 indexed citations

Ali, Sharafat, Zhijun Li, Shuangying Chen, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of activated carbon-supported TiO2-based nano-photocatalysts with well recycling for efficiently degrading high-concentration pollutants. Catalysis Today. 335. 557–564. 70 indexed citations

Khan, Iltaf, Ning Sun, Ziqing Zhang, et al.. (2019). Improved visible-light photoactivities of porous LaFeO₃ by coupling with nanosized alkaline earth metal oxides and mechanism insight. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(12). 3149–3157. 45 indexed citations

Sun, Liqun, Bin Li, Xiaoyu Chu, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of Si–O-Bridged g-C₃N₄/WO₃ 2D-Heterojunctional Nanocomposites as Efficient Photocatalysts for Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation and Mechanism Insight. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(11). 9916–9927. 48 indexed citations

Bian, Ji, Yang Qu, Xuliang Zhang, et al.. (2018). Dimension-matched plasmonic Au/TiO₂/BiVO₄ nanocomposites as efficient wide-visible-light photocatalysts to convert CO₂ and mechanistic insights. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(25). 11838–11845. 74 indexed citations

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Qu, Yang, Ning Sun, Muhammad Humayun, et al.. (2018). Improved visible-light activities of nanocrystalline CdS by coupling with ultrafine NbN with lattice matching for hydrogen evolution. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(3). 549–552. 38 indexed citations

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Lu, Hongwei, Yang Qu, Liqun Sun, et al.. (2018). Improved Visible-Light Activities of Rutile Nanorod by Comodifying Highly Dispersed Surface Plasmon Resonance Au Nanoparticles and HF Groups for Aerobic Selective Alcohol Oxidation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6(11). 14652–14659. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Liqun, Yuying Wang, Fazal Raziq, et al.. (2017). Enhanced photoelectrochemical activities for water oxidation and phenol degradation on WO3 nanoplates by transferring electrons and trapping holes. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 30 indexed citations

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Hu, Kang, Zhijun Li, Shuangying Chen, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of Silicate‐Bridged Heterojunctional SnO₂/BiVO₄ Nanoplates as Efficient Photocatalysts to Convert CO₂ and Degrade 2,4‐Dichlorophenol. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 35(1). 13 indexed citations

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Sun, Ning, Yang Qu, Shuangying Chen, et al.. (2017). Efficient photodecomposition of 2,4-dichlorophenol on recyclable phase-mixed hierarchically structured Bi₂O₃ coupled with phosphate-bridged nano-SnO₂. Environmental Science Nano. 4(5). 1147–1154. 38 indexed citations

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Raziq, Fazal, Liqun Sun, Yuying Wang, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of Large Surface‐Area g‐C₃N₄ Comodified with MnO_x and Au‐TiO₂ as Efficient Visible‐Light Photocatalysts for Fuel Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(3). 177 indexed citations

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Liu, Chong, Fazal Raziq, Zhijun Li, et al.. (2017). 高光催化活性的磷氧桥连TiO 2 /g-C 3 N 4 纳米复合体的合成. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 38(6). 1072–1078. 30 indexed citations

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Cai, Ming, Fan Zhang, Chao Zhang, et al.. (2017). Cobaloxime anchored MoS₂ nanosheets as electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(1). 138–144. 54 indexed citations

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Humayun, Muhammad, Yang Qu, Fazal Raziq, et al.. (2016). Exceptional Visible-Light Activities of TiO₂-Coupled N-Doped Porous Perovskite LaFeO₃ for 2,4-Dichlorophenol Decomposition and CO₂ Conversion. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(24). 13600–13610. 149 indexed citations

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Raziq, Fazal, Yang Qu, Muhammad Humayun, et al.. (2016). Synthesis of SnO2/B-P codoped g-C3N4 nanocomposites as efficient cocatalyst-free visible-light photocatalysts for CO2 conversion and pollutant degradation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 201. 486–494. 263 indexed citations

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Humayun, Muhammad, Amir Zada, Zhijun Li, et al.. (2015). Enhanced visible-light activities of porous BiFeO3 by coupling with nanocrystalline TiO2 and mechanism. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 180. 219–226. 226 indexed citations

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