Yanwei Gu

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Yanwei Gu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanwei Gu has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Materials Chemistry, 25 papers in Organic Chemistry and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yanwei Gu's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (18 papers), Graphene research and applications (15 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (11 papers). Yanwei Gu is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (18 papers), Graphene research and applications (15 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (11 papers). Yanwei Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Germany. Yanwei Gu's co-authors include Kläus Müllen, Zijie Qiu, Jishan Wu, Tullimilli Y. Gopalakrishna, Hoa Phan, Deng‐Ke Cao, Xiaojin Wu, Yi Han, Michael D. Ward and Yinjun Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yanwei Gu

43 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons as Multitalents of... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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.

  1. Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons as Multitalents of Present and Future Materials Science
    2022 185 citations Yanwei Gu, Zijie Qiu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yanwei Gu China 20 831 636 376 175 145 45 1.2k
Juan Wei China 15 777 0.9× 282 0.4× 449 1.2× 217 1.2× 114 0.8× 37 1.2k
Shaoqiang Dong Singapore 23 798 1.0× 874 1.4× 695 1.8× 82 0.5× 181 1.2× 45 1.6k
Fumitaka Ishiwari Japan 22 864 1.0× 818 1.3× 608 1.6× 252 1.4× 93 0.6× 100 1.8k
Juri Ugolotti Czechia 19 579 0.7× 624 1.0× 282 0.8× 165 0.9× 210 1.4× 35 1.3k
Michihiro Nishikawa Japan 17 556 0.7× 489 0.8× 252 0.7× 139 0.8× 304 2.1× 33 1.2k
Matthew R. Golder United States 19 715 0.9× 1.3k 2.1× 336 0.9× 112 0.6× 60 0.4× 36 1.7k
Thomas J. Sisto United States 18 712 0.9× 1.1k 1.7× 624 1.7× 97 0.6× 124 0.9× 21 1.7k
Taifeng Liu China 20 763 0.9× 524 0.8× 798 2.1× 117 0.7× 170 1.2× 34 1.6k
A. Abu El‐Fadl Egypt 17 842 1.0× 422 0.7× 265 0.7× 154 0.9× 497 3.4× 82 1.4k
Cristina Cebrián France 20 510 0.6× 564 0.9× 465 1.2× 96 0.5× 127 0.9× 35 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yanwei Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yanwei Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yanwei Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yanwei Gu 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 Yanwei Gu. Yanwei Gu 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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Hu, Yue, Yanwei Gu, Yifan Dong, et al.. (2025). Selective and Efficient Upcycling of Polyesters from Waste Plastic Blends Enabled by a Rationally Designed Manganese Pincer Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 137(14). 1 indexed citations
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Hu, Yue, Yanwei Gu, Yifan Dong, et al.. (2025). Selective and Efficient Upcycling of Polyesters from Waste Plastic Blends Enabled by a Rationally Designed Manganese Pincer Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(14). e202502923–e202502923. 2 indexed citations
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Xiang, Feifei, Li‐Syuan Lu, Yanwei Gu, et al.. (2025). Atomic-Scale Imaging of Transferred Graphene Nanoribbons for Nanoelectronic Device Integration. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8(33). 16457–16464.
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Xiang, Feifei, Yanwei Gu, Andres Ortega‐Guerrero, et al.. (2025). Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions. Nature Chemistry. 17(9). 1356–1363. 2 indexed citations
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Hinaut, Antoine, Yanwei Gu, J. G. Vilhena, et al.. (2024). The Role of Alkyl Chains in the Thermoresponse of Supramolecular Network. Small. 20(51). e2405472–e2405472. 2 indexed citations
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Wu, Hao, Hiroki Hanayama, Yanwei Gu, et al.. (2024). Stable π-Extended Thio[7]helicene-Based Diradical with Predominant Through-Space Spin–Spin Coupling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7480–7486. 15 indexed citations
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Gu, Yanwei, et al.. (2024). Cobalt-and-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanoparticle Catalysts for Selective Hydrogen Transfer Reactions. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(9). 10130–10136. 2 indexed citations
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Gu, Yanwei, Feifei Xiang, Zijie Qiu, et al.. (2024). A Poly(2,7‐anthrylene) with peri ‐Fused Porphyrin Edges. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(4). e202417129–e202417129. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Min‐Jie, et al.. (2024). Recent Advances in Reversible Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier Systems: From Hydrogen Carriers to Catalysts. Advanced Materials. 36(37). e2311355–e2311355. 61 indexed citations
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Gu, Yanwei, Yikun Zhu, Zheng Wei, et al.. (2023). Twisted Diindeno‐Fused Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene Derivatives and their Dianions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(34). e202307750–e202307750. 3 indexed citations
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Muñoz‐Mármol, Rafael, José M. Villalvilla, Pedro G. Boj, et al.. (2021). Near‐Infrared Lasing in Four‐Zigzag Edged Nanographenes by 1D versus 2D Electronic π‐Conjugation. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(41). 37 indexed citations
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Dumslaff, Tim, Yanwei Gu, Giuseppe M. Paternò, et al.. (2020). Hexa-peri-benzocoronene with two extra K-regions in anortho-configuration. Chemical Science. 11(47). 12816–12821. 15 indexed citations
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Muñoz‐Mármol, Rafael, Giuseppe M. Paternò, Pedro G. Boj, et al.. (2020). Dual Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Lasing from Nanographene Films. Nanomaterials. 10(8). 1525–1525. 18 indexed citations
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Gu, Yanwei, Rafael Muñoz‐Mármol, Shaofei Wu, et al.. (2020). Cove‐Edged Nanographenes with Localized Double Bonds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(21). 8113–8117. 32 indexed citations
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Xiang, Qin, Jing Guo, Jun Xu, et al.. (2020). Stable Olympicenyl Radicals and Their π-Dimers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(25). 11022–11031. 88 indexed citations
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Muñoz‐Mármol, Rafael, Marta Morales‐Vidal, José M. Villalvilla, et al.. (2019). Solution-processed nanographene distributed feedback lasers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3327–3327. 72 indexed citations
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Gu, Yanwei, et al.. (2018). 四つのジグザグエッジを持つグラフェン様分子【JST・京大機械翻訳】. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 130(22). 6651–6655. 4 indexed citations
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Cao, Deng‐Ke, et al.. (2013). Phosphonates containing 8-hydroxyquinoline moiety and their metal complexes: structures, fluorescent and magnetic properties. Dalton Transactions. 42(34). 12228–12228. 12 indexed citations
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Zheng, Peng, et al.. (1988). Structure of guanidinium pentamolybdobis(n-propylarsenate) dihydrate. Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 44(9). 1503–1505. 3 indexed citations

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