Yao Tan

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Yao Tan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Tan has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Yao Tan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (9 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (8 papers). Yao Tan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (9 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (8 papers). Yao Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Yao Tan's co-authors include Xu Deng, Junwei Fu, Min Liu, Junchang Guo, Wenluan Zhang, Hongmei Li, Chenglin Zhang, Zhengnan Sun, Xiaobing Zhou and Xiqing Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yao Tan

51 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water R... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water Reorientation for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2023 129 citations Chao Cai, Kang Liu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yao Tan China 17 795 399 350 285 257 54 1.3k
Lei Tang China 17 859 1.1× 673 1.7× 608 1.7× 93 0.3× 166 0.6× 33 1.4k
Myung‐Geun Jeong South Korea 24 267 0.3× 418 1.0× 704 2.0× 304 1.1× 422 1.6× 50 1.5k
Xiang Yu China 18 495 0.6× 317 0.8× 944 2.7× 384 1.3× 288 1.1× 63 1.6k
Xinzuo Fang China 17 815 1.0× 414 1.0× 817 2.3× 68 0.2× 230 0.9× 35 1.6k
Liang Hao China 19 803 1.0× 312 0.8× 593 1.7× 117 0.4× 113 0.4× 106 1.3k
Nien‐Chu Lai China 23 357 0.4× 822 2.1× 622 1.8× 176 0.6× 211 0.8× 57 1.7k
Jifu Shi China 26 600 0.8× 1.3k 3.1× 651 1.9× 118 0.4× 156 0.6× 57 2.2k
Valérie Flaud France 20 430 0.5× 298 0.7× 444 1.3× 220 0.8× 152 0.6× 44 978
Gwan Hyun Choi South Korea 19 573 0.7× 572 1.4× 477 1.4× 33 0.1× 214 0.8× 42 1.2k
Jie Zhu China 19 448 0.6× 824 2.1× 401 1.1× 36 0.1× 159 0.6× 54 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yao Tan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Tan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Tan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Tan 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 Yao Tan. Yao Tan 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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Chen, Qin, Yao Tan, Xiqing Wang, et al.. (2025). Long-term stable acidic electroreduction of CO2 to C2 products at industrial current density using passivated copper. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8468–8468. 2 indexed citations
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Tan, Yao, Yi Wang, Gang Zhou, et al.. (2025). Near-Infrared Spectral MEMS Gas Sensor for Multi-Component Food Gas Detection. Micromachines. 16(2). 135–135. 1 indexed citations
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Tan, Yao, et al.. (2025). Y-Doped Na4Fe3(PO4)2(P2O7) as a High-Performance Cathode Material for Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(14). 5260–5268. 6 indexed citations
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Tan, Yao, et al.. (2025). Flexible iontronic pressure sensors with responsive and enhanced adhesion. Chemical Engineering Journal. 524. 169027–169027.
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Yin, Yiming, Yao Tan, Yuanyuan Lü, et al.. (2025). A soft carbon/hard carbon composite synthesized from asphalt/pecan shells as an anode material for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 113. 115649–115649. 17 indexed citations
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Liao, Wanru, Jun Wang, Yao Tan, et al.. (2025). Near-Unity Nitrate to Ammonia conversion via reactant enrichment at the solid-liquid interface. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5715–5715. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Qiyou, Yuxiang Liu, Yao Tan, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Acidic CO 2 ‐to‐C 2+ Reduction via Ionic Liquid Layer Modification. Small. 21(12). e2412293–e2412293. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Kejun, Yao Tan, Qiuwen Liu, et al.. (2024). Proton feeding from defect-rich carbon support to cobalt phthalocyanine for efficient CO2 electroreduction. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 62. 190–197. 5 indexed citations
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He, Huaqiang, Yao Tan, Li Chen, et al.. (2024). A desert beetle-like mesh membrane by decorating superhydrophilic Fe-doped Cu-MOFs onto superhydrophobic CuC2O4 bowknot-like arrays for boosting water-in-oil emulsion separation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(6). 114673–114673. 2 indexed citations
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Lü, Yuanyuan, Yiming Yin, Yao Tan, et al.. (2024). Effect of Y-doping on high voltage stability of NaNi1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3O2 as a cathode material for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 623. 235481–235481. 6 indexed citations
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Zi, Xin, Yajiao Zhou, Li Zhu, et al.. (2023). Breaking K+ Concentration Limit on Cu Nanoneedles for Acidic Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Multi‐Carbon Products. Angewandte Chemie. 135(42). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiqing, Yajiao Zhou, Yao Tan, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to C2+ Products in Flow Cells. Advanced Materials. 36(5). e2303902–e2303902. 122 indexed citations
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Zi, Xin, Yajiao Zhou, Li Zhu, et al.. (2023). Breaking K+ Concentration Limit on Cu Nanoneedles for Acidic Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Multi‐Carbon Products. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(42). e202309351–e202309351. 127 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiqing, Qin Chen, Yajiao Zhou, et al.. (2023). Gas diffusion in catalyst layer of flow cell for CO2 electroreduction toward C2+ products. Nano Research. 17(3). 1101–1106. 38 indexed citations
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Cai, Chao, Kang Liu, Long Zhang, et al.. (2023). Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water Reorientation for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(26). e202300873–e202300873. 129 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Qiyou, Yao Tan, Xin Zi, et al.. (2023). Cooperative alkaline hydrogen evolution via inducing local electric field and electron localization. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 54. 229–237. 74 indexed citations
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Yan, Lei, et al.. (2015). SYNTHESIS, CRYSTAL STRUCTURES, AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF A SERIES OF HYDRAZONE COMPOUNDS DERIVED FROM 4-METHYLBENZOHYDRAZIDE. Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society. 60(2). 2961–2965. 8 indexed citations
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