Yanghua He

8.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
44 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Yanghua He is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanghua He has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yanghua He's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Yanghua He is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Yanghua He collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Yanghua He's co-authors include Gang Wu, Dong Su, Sooyeon Hwang, Jacob S. Spendelow, David A. Cullen, Xiao Xia Wang, Qiurong Shi, Karren L. More, S. Karakalos and Mengjie Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yanghua He

43 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

Nitrogen‐Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxy... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 2018 2020 2020 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. Nitrogen‐Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
    2018 1.0k citations Xiao Xia Wang, David A. Cullen et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites
    2020 820 citations Yuxuan Wang, Hongyang Su et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  3. Highly active atomically dispersed CoN4 fuel cell cathode catalysts derived from surfactant-assisted MOFs: carbon-shell confinement strategy
    2018 797 citations Yanghua He, Sooyeon Hwang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  4. Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement
    2020 618 citations Yanghua He, Shengwen Liu et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  5. Zinc‐Mediated Template Synthesis of Fe‐N‐C Electrocatalysts with Densely Accessible Fe‐Nx Active Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction
    2020 395 citations Guangbo Chen, Pan Liu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers

Yanghua He
Lishan Peng China
Siguo Chen China
Xiulin Yang China
Xiangwen Zhang China
Wenjie Zang Singapore
Kuang‐Hsu Wu Australia
Jiao Deng China
Xuerong Zheng China
Wenzhang Li China
Lishan Peng China
Yanghua He
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanghua He

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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He, Yanghua, David A. Cullen, Angelica Benavidez, et al.. (2025). Atomically Dispersed Ni‐N‐C Catalysts for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction. Small. 21(10). e2412162–e2412162. 5 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, Zhenyi Liu, Mingzhi Li, et al.. (2023). The Damage to Thick Steel Plates by Local Contact Explosions. Materials. 16(8). 2966–2966. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Guangbo, Yun An, Shengwen Liu, et al.. (2022). Highly accessible and dense surface single metal FeN4 active sites for promoting the oxygen reduction reaction. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(6). 2619–2628. 161 indexed citations
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Osmieri, Luigi, Yanghua He, Hoon T Chung, et al.. (2022). La–Sr–Co oxide catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer: The role of electrode fabrication on performance and durability. Journal of Power Sources. 556. 232484–232484. 21 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, et al.. (2022). Numerical simulation study on the effect of large explosive contact pipeline explosion on pipeline damage. Thin-Walled Structures. 174. 109146–109146. 15 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, et al.. (2022). Microstructure evolution of 6252 armor steel under hypervelocity impact. International Journal of Impact Engineering. 170. 104356–104356. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Xing, Yanghua He, Shaobo Cheng, et al.. (2021). Atomic Structure Evolution of Pt–Co Binary Catalysts: Single Metal Sites versus Intermetallic Nanocrystals. Advanced Materials. 33(48). e2106371–e2106371. 104 indexed citations
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Miao, Zhengpei, Xiaoming Wang, Zhonglong Zhao, et al.. (2021). Improving the Stability of Non‐Noble‐Metal M–N–C Catalysts for Proton‐Exchange‐Membrane Fuel Cells through M–N Bond Length and Coordination Regulation. Advanced Materials. 33(39). e2006613–e2006613. 154 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, Qiurong Shi, Weitao Shan, et al.. (2021). Dynamically Unveiling Metal–Nitrogen Coordination during Thermal Activation to Design High‐Efficient Atomically Dispersed CoN4 Active Sites. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(17). 9516–9526. 174 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, Qiurong Shi, Weitao Shan, et al.. (2021). Dynamically Unveiling Metal–Nitrogen Coordination during Thermal Activation to Design High‐Efficient Atomically Dispersed CoN4 Active Sites. Angewandte Chemie. 133(17). 9602–9612. 30 indexed citations
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Wang, Fanan, Gang Xu, Yanghua He, et al.. (2020). Into the “secret” double layer: Alkali cation mediates the hydrogen evolution reaction in basic medium. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 51. 101–104. 12 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, Shengwen Liu, Cameron Priest, Qiurong Shi, & Gang Wu. (2020). Atomically dispersed metal–nitrogen–carbon catalysts for fuel cells: advances in catalyst design, electrode performance, and durability improvement. Chemical Society Reviews. 49(11). 3484–3524. 618 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Yuxuan, Hongyang Su, Yanghua He, et al.. (2020). Advanced Electrocatalysts with Single-Metal-Atom Active Sites. Chemical Reviews. 120(21). 12217–12314. 820 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qiao, Zhi, Sooyeon Hwang, Xing Li, et al.. (2019). 3D porous graphitic nanocarbon for enhancing the performance and durability of Pt catalysts: a balance between graphitization and hierarchical porosity. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(9). 2830–2841. 290 indexed citations
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Chen, Mengjie, Yanghua He, Jacob S. Spendelow, & Gang Wu. (2019). Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 4(7). 1619–1633. 277 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yuanzhi, Joshua Sokolowski, Xiancheng Song, et al.. (2019). Engineering Local Coordination Environments of Atomically Dispersed and Heteroatom‐Coordinated Single Metal Site Electrocatalysts for Clean Energy‐Conversion. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(11). 363 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiao Xia, Sooyeon Hwang, Yung‐Tin Pan, et al.. (2018). Ordered Pt3Co Intermetallic Nanoparticles Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks for Oxygen Reduction. Nano Letters. 18(7). 4163–4171. 362 indexed citations
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He, Yanghua, Jinming Xu, Fanan Wang, et al.. (2017). In-situ carbonization approach for the binder-free Ir-dispersed ordered mesoporous carbon hydrogen evolution electrode. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 26(6). 1140–1146. 11 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yong, et al.. (1997). Study of mismatch between two different blocks in Bi-system superconductors. Physica C Superconductivity. 282-287. 831–832. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yong, et al.. (1995). Magnetic-field-dependent vortex-glass scaling behaviour in V doped YBa2Cu3O7−y system. Physica C Superconductivity. 248(3-4). 328–334. 1 indexed citations

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