Yanzhen Guo

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Yanzhen Guo is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yanzhen Guo has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Materials Chemistry, 32 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yanzhen Guo's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (28 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (9 papers). Yanzhen Guo is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (28 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (9 papers). Yanzhen Guo collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Yanzhen Guo's co-authors include Baocheng Yang, Jianfang Wang, J. Joshua Yang, Ruibin Jiang, Binbin Chang, Wenzheng Lu, Shouren Zhang, Jimmy C. Yu, Ting Bin Wen and Han Zhang 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

Yanzhen Guo

61 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

High-Efficiency “Working-in-Tandem” Nitrogen Photofixation Achieved by Assembling Plasmonic Gold Nanocrystals on Ultrathin Titania Nanosheets

2018 433 citations Yanzhen Guo, Ruibin Jiang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yanzhen Guo China	26	1.6k	1.6k	674	636	611	61	2.6k
Hung‐Lung Chou Taiwan	29	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	941 1.4×	367 0.6×	384 0.6×	59	2.6k
Jinxing Gu China	21	1.8k 1.1×	3.1k 2.0×	2.0k 3.0×	1.1k 1.7×	391 0.6×	39	4.2k
Mingpeng Chen China	34	1.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	2.3k 3.4×	413 0.6×	438 0.7×	104	3.8k
Daoxiong Wu China	25	1.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	1.4k 2.1×	785 1.2×	220 0.4×	80	3.3k
Xin Ge China	28	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 2.2×	400 0.6×	229 0.4×	54	2.7k
Faling Ling China	27	1.8k 1.1×	692 0.4×	1.2k 1.7×	202 0.3×	412 0.7×	68	2.4k
Yunxiang Lin China	30	1.6k 1.0×	2.8k 1.8×	2.0k 2.9×	519 0.8×	321 0.5×	65	3.6k
Pengfei Yin China	28	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	227 0.4×	271 0.4×	82	2.5k
Mingquan Xu China	22	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.9×	764 1.2×	351 0.6×	33	3.1k
Cunku Dong China	36	1.7k 1.1×	3.6k 2.3×	2.3k 3.3×	745 1.2×	279 0.5×	101	4.4k

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Bai, Xiaopeng, Ke An, Yanzhen Guo, et al.. (2025). Dual-Functional Schottky-Barrier-Free Plasmonic TiN/TiO₂ Photocatalyst for Efficient NH₃ and H₂ Production. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(25). 36773–36783. 3 indexed citations

Hu, Jingtian, Ke An, Yifei Ren, et al.. (2025). Plasmonic MoO ₃₋ _x /Ag Photocatalyst for the Fixation of N ₂ from Air with the Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency Reaching over 0.28%. Advanced Materials. 37(43). e09652–e09652. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Man, Weiwei Shi, Huili Liu, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Tailoring Porosity and Surface Chemistry of Ultramicroporous Carbon Spheres for Highly Selective Post-combustion CO₂ Capture. ACS Materials Au. 5(2). 397–408. 9 indexed citations

Guo, Yanzhen, et al.. (2025). Pmma-C44: A novel 3D carbon-based anode with dual-specification pore structure for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Materials Today Communications. 49. 113747–113747. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Weiwei, et al.. (2025). Dynamic tailoring of the gradient porosity of biomass-derived porous carbons for highly effective CO₂ capture. Green Chemistry. 27(37). 11416–11428. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Yao, Yanzhen Guo, Zhang Shao, et al.. (2024). Promoting Proton Donation through Hydrogen Bond Breaking on Carbon Nitride for Enhanced H₂O₂ Photosynthesis. ACS Nano. 18(31). 20435–20448. 24 indexed citations

Wang, Lei, et al.. (2024). Leveraging porosity and morphology in hierarchically porous carbon microtubes for CO2 capture and separation from humid flue gases. Separation and Purification Technology. 354. 128910–128910. 17 indexed citations

Wang, Jing, et al.. (2024). Versatile Ce(III)‐Terephthalic Acid@Au Metal Organic Frameworks for ROS Elimination and Photothermal Sterilization. ChemNanoMat. 10(7). 2 indexed citations

Xue, Wei, Juanjuan Wang, Ziwei Wang, et al.. (2023). Facile synthesis of O-doped carbon nitride nanofibers for two-step single-electron oxygen reduction to H₂O₂. New Journal of Chemistry. 47(46). 21371–21380. 1 indexed citations

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Yin, Hang, Yanzhen Guo, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Boosting photoelectrochemical water oxidation by sandwiching gold nanoparticles between BiVO₄ and NiFeOOH. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(44). 24239–24247. 14 indexed citations

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Liu, Yangyang, Peng Jin, Wei Xue, et al.. (2022). Favoring the generation and utilization of photocatalytic reactive species over g-C₃N₄ nanosheets by controllable edge C modification. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 7(3). 890–903. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Juan, Han Zhang, Yanzhen Guo, et al.. (2021). A novel deposition mechanism of Au on Ag nanostructures involving galvanic replacement and reduction reactions. Chemical Communications. 57(67). 8332–8335. 16 indexed citations

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He, Guangli, Yue Zhou, Yanzhen Guo, et al.. (2021). Bioinspired Synthesis of ZnO@polydopamine/Au for Label-Free Photoelectrochemical Immunoassay of Amyloid-β Protein. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 9. 777344–777344. 6 indexed citations

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Gao, Fengli, Weiqiang Kong, Guangli He, et al.. (2021). SERS-active vertically aligned silver/tungsten oxide nanoflakes for ultrasensitive and reliable detection of thiram. Microchemical Journal. 165. 106046–106046. 16 indexed citations

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Guo, Yanzhen, Binbin Chang, Ting Bin Wen, et al.. (2020). A Z-scheme photocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic H2 evolution, constructed by growth of 2D plasmonic MoO3-x nanoplates onto 2D g-C3N4 nanosheets. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 567. 213–223. 93 indexed citations

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Hu, Jinhui, et al.. (2018). Colloidal porous gold nanoparticles. Nanoscale. 10(39). 18473–18481. 34 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yannan, Yonggang Wang, Ting Bin Wen, et al.. (2016). Mesoporous Cd1−Zn S microspheres with tunable bandgap and high specific surface areas for enhanced visible-light-driven hydrogen generation. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 467. 97–104. 48 indexed citations

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Guo, Yanzhen, Binbin Chang, Ting Bin Wen, et al.. (2016). One-pot synthesis of graphene/zinc oxide by microwave irradiation with enhanced supercapacitor performance. RSC Advances. 6(23). 19394–19403. 60 indexed citations

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Chang, Binbin, Yanzhen Guo, Yanchun Li, & Baocheng Yang. (2015). Hierarchical porous carbon derived from recycled waste filter paper as high-performance supercapacitor electrodes. RSC Advances. 5(88). 72019–72027. 44 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yannan, Yonggang Wang, Ting Bin Wen, et al.. (2015). Enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalytic activity in yellow and black orthorhombic NaTaO 3 nanocubes by surface modification and simultaneous N/Ta 4+ co-doping. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 461. 185–194. 19 indexed citations

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