Yao Xu

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
135 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Yao Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Xu has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yao Xu's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (22 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers). Yao Xu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (22 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (15 papers). Yao Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yao Xu's co-authors include Dong Wu, Baozhong Sun, Ding Ma, Bin Ren, Feng Deng, Yuhan Sun, Bowen Liu, Baoliang Lv, Lili Lin and Xuetao Qin 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

Yao Xu

126 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Tuning the Selectivity of Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation over Iridium/Cerium Oxide Catalysts with a Strong Metal–Support Interaction

2017 469 citations Siwei Li, Yao Xu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Fully exposed palladium cluster catalysts enable hydrogen production from nitrogen heterocycles

2022 282 citations Zirui Gao, Mi Peng et al. profile →

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Broadband performance of multi-degree-of-freedom septum liners under high-velocity grazing flows 2025 ·Chinese Journal of Aeronautics ·Yujie Wang, (unknown), Xiaodong Jing, (unknown), Song Ji, (unknown), Yao Xu, Xiaofeng Sun	1
2	Flame-retardant electrolytes with electrochemically-inert and weakly coordinating dichloroalkane diluents for practical lithium metal batteries 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Guirong Su, Yiwen Gao, Jiangyan Xue, (unknown), Yao Xu, Kun Liang, Ke Wang, Fengrui Zhang, Zhifeng Qin, Jieyun Zheng, Qing Wang, Jingjing Xu, Liquan Chen, Hong Li, Xiaodong Wu	0
3	Co₁Ni single‐atom alloy an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for amines N‐methylation using methanol 2025 ·AIChE Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Chaoqun Feng, Feng Yang, (unknown), Siyu Yao, Yao Xu, Siwei Li, (unknown), Lili Lin	0
4	Advanced Self‐Phase‐Separating Electrolytes for High‐Performance Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Yao Xu, Zhicheng Wang, (unknown), Haifeng Tu, Jingjing Xu, (unknown), Kun Liang, (unknown), Anqi Chen, Shenghua Xu, (unknown), Ke Wang, Fengrui Zhang, Jieyun Zheng, Xiaodong Wu, Hong Li	0
5	Advanced Self‐Phase‐Separating Electrolytes for High‐Performance Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yao Xu, Zhicheng Wang, (unknown), Haifeng Tu, Jingjing Xu, (unknown), Kun Liang, (unknown), Anqi Chen, Shenghua Xu, (unknown), Ke Wang, Fengrui Zhang, Jieyun Zheng, Xiaodong Wu, Hong Li	0
6	Multiscale electromagnetic–thermal–fluid field coupling model for oil-immersed transformers 2025 ·Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering ·(unknown), Yao Xu, (unknown), Tiantian Liu, Yu Wang, (unknown)	0
7	Gap-free hybridized plasmonics with tunable decay channels for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy 2024 ·Sensors and Actuators B Chemical ·Yao Xu, Sen Yan, Kang Yang, Yi‐Fan Bao, (unknown), Xiang Wang	3
8	A Highly Active Molybdenum Carbide Catalyst with Dynamic Carbon Flux for Reverse Water‐Gas Shift Reaction 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Mengtao Zhang, Yuchen Zhu, Jie Yan, (unknown), Tao Yu, Mi Peng, J. Zhao, Yao Xu, (unknown), Chun‐Jiang Jia, Lin He, Meng Wang, Wu Zhou, Rongming Wang, Hong Jiang, Chuan Shi, José A. Rodríguez, (unknown)	8
9	Construction of iron oxyhydroxide/nickel sulfate hydroxide hybrid electrocatalyst for efficient oxygen evolution 2024 ·Rare Metals ·Bingrong Guo, Mengxin Chen, Siwei Li, (unknown), (unknown), Xiaoqian Ren, Jefferson Zhe Liu, Xun Cao, Jia Liu, Yani Ding, Ping Xu, Yao Xu	14
10	Interplay Between Metal and Acid Sites Tunes the Catalytic Selectivity Over Pd/Nanodiamond Catalysts 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Jie Zhang, Shixiang Yu, Xingwu Liu, Maolin Wang, Zirui Gao, Xuetao Qin, Yao Xu, Meng Wang, Ding Ma	12
11	Carbonate Hydrogenated to Formate in the Aqueous Phase over Nickel/TiO₂ Catalysts 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xiaochen Zhang, Aowen Li, (unknown), Yao Xu, Xuetao Qin, Zheng Jiang, Qiaolin Yu, Wu Zhou, Liwei Chen, Meng Wang, Xi Liu, Ding Ma	11
12	Quantitatively Deciphering Electronic Properties of Defects at Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides 2022 ·ACS Nano ·Si-Si Wu, Teng-Xiang Huang, Xiaolan Xu, Yi‐Fan Bao, (unknown), Yao Xu, Maofeng Cao, Kai‐Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang, Dongdong Wang, Bin Ren	16
13	Upconversion luminescence–based aptasensor for the detection of thyroid-stimulating hormone in serum 2022 ·Microchimica Acta ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yaokun Xia, Yao Xu, Fang Wu, Chunyan Li, Jinghua Chen, Xi Zhang, Jianming Lan	9
14	Boron adsorption and its effect on stability and CO activation of χ-Fe5C2 catalyst: An ab initio DFT study 2021 ·Applied Catalysis A General ·Huabo Zhao, Hong Jiang, Meng Cheng, (unknown), (unknown), Yao Xu, (unknown), Jin‐Xun Liu, Zhuowu Men, Ding Ma	2
15	Maximizing the Synergistic Effect of CoNi Catalyst on α-MoC for Robust Hydrogen Production 2020 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Yuzhen Ge, Xuetao Qin, Aowen Li, Yuchen Deng, Lili Lin, Mengtao Zhang, Qiaolin Yu, Siwei Li, Mi Peng, Yao Xu, (unknown), Mingquan Xu, Wu Zhou, Siyu Yao, Ding Ma	198
16	Synergy between β-Mo2C Nanorods and Non-thermal Plasma for Selective CO2 Reduction to CO 2020 ·Chem ·Xiao Zhang, Yang Liu, Mengtao Zhang, Tao Yu, Bingbing Chen, Yao Xu, Mark Crocker, Xiaobing Zhu, Yuchen Zhu, Rongming Wang, Dequan Xiao, Mingshu Bi, Ding Ma, Chuan Shi	86
17	Probing the edge-related properties of atomically thin MoS2 at nanoscale 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Teng-Xiang Huang, Xin Cong, Si-Si Wu, Kai‐Qiang Lin, Yao Xu, Yuhan He, Jiangbin Wu, Yi‐Fan Bao, Sheng‐Chao Huang, Xiang Wang, Ping‐Heng Tan, Bin Ren	133
18	Photo-induced exfoliation of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors 2019 ·2D Materials ·Si-Si Wu, Teng-Xiang Huang, Kai‐Qiang Lin, Yao Xu, Jingting Hu, (unknown), Yi‐Fan Bao, Bin Ren	13
19	Design of high-gain broadband low-RCS waveguide slot antenna 2014 ·Acta Physica Sinica ·(unknown), (unknown), Di Zhang, Yao Xu, Sijia Li, Huanhuan Yang, Wenqiang Li	2
20	The gold-nanoparticle-based surface plasmon resonance light scattering and visual DNA aptasensor for lysozyme 2011 ·Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Xinyi Wang, Yao Xu, Yang Chen, Limei Li, Feng Liu, Na Li	40

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