Yaoxin Zhang

6.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
122 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Yaoxin Zhang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaoxin Zhang has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 24 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yaoxin Zhang's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (41 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (18 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers). Yaoxin Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (41 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (18 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (17 papers). Yaoxin Zhang collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Yaoxin Zhang's co-authors include Swee Ching Tan, Dilip Krishna Nandakumar, Ting Xiong, Sai Kishore Ravi, Shuai Guo, Hao Qu, Wee Siang Vincent Lee, Junmin Xue, Jiachen Yang and Xueping Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Yaoxin Zhang

117 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Structure Architecting for Salt‐Rejecting Solar Interfaci... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2020 2023 2023 2023 100 200 300
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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. Structure Architecting for Salt‐Rejecting Solar Interfacial Desalination to Achieve High‐Performance Evaporation With In Situ Energy Generation
    2020 362 citations Yaoxin Zhang, Ting Xiong et al. profile →
  2. Defect Engineering in Manganese‐Based Oxides for Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc‐Ion Batteries: A Review
    2020 351 citations Ting Xiong, Yaoxin Zhang et al. profile →
  3. MXene Functionalized, Highly Breathable and Sensitive Pressure Sensors with Multi‐Layered Porous Structure
    2023 178 citations Xianhong Zheng, Songlin Zhang et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
  4. Device design and optimization of sorption-based atmospheric water harvesters
    2023 152 citations Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang et al. profile →
  5. All‐Day Multicyclic Atmospheric Water Harvesting Enabled by Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel with Hybrid Desorption Mode
    2023 140 citations Hao Qu, Yaoxin Zhang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. Precisely manipulating polymer chain interactions for multifunctional hydrogels
    2025 74 citations Shuai Guo, Songlin Zhang et al. Matter profile →
  7. Functionalizing solar-driven steam generation towards water and energy sustainability
    2025 69 citations Yaoxin Zhang, Swee Ching Tan et al. profile →
  8. Leaf-based energy harvesting and storage utilizing hygroscopic iron hydrogel for continuous power generation
    2025 48 citations Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Self-powered green energy–harvesting and sensing interfaces based on hygroscopic gel and water-locking effects
    2025 26 citations Shuai Guo, Shubham Patel et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yaoxin Zhang Singapore 38 3.4k 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 878 122 5.7k
Le Shi China 28 4.2k 1.2× 2.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 804 0.9× 72 5.9k
Yaxin Huang China 33 2.8k 0.8× 833 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 2.3k 2.1× 1.1k 1.2× 82 5.2k
Siddhartha Das United States 39 2.6k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 1.6k 1.2× 2.8k 2.5× 762 0.9× 203 7.9k
Seung‐Hyun Hong South Korea 28 2.6k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 713 0.5× 965 0.9× 903 1.0× 84 4.6k
Yusuf Shi Saudi Arabia 28 3.9k 1.1× 2.1k 1.4× 688 0.5× 849 0.7× 954 1.1× 36 5.0k
Xuan Wu China 46 6.4k 1.9× 3.0k 2.0× 1.1k 0.9× 737 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 192 8.7k
Ran Niu China 36 2.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 542 0.4× 637 0.6× 687 0.8× 132 4.2k
Qian Chen China 35 2.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 910 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 973 1.1× 115 4.2k
Swee Ching Tan Singapore 53 4.4k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 1.9k 1.5× 2.3k 2.0× 1.5k 1.7× 153 8.7k
Wen Shi China 25 3.5k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 504 0.4× 841 0.7× 839 1.0× 59 4.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hu, Rong, Mengting Liu, Yaoxin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Stable isotope tracing reveals glucose metabolism characteristics of drug-resistant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1352. 343884–343884.
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Yu, Zhen, Yaoxin Zhang, Wenzhong Xiang, et al.. (2025). Solar-driven fast and selective extraction of lithium from seawater enabled by unidirectional photothermal conversion and confined crystallization with facile synthesis of nanoarray evaporator. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159990–159990. 12 indexed citations
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Guo, Shuai, Songlin Zhang, Siqi Liu, et al.. (2025). Precisely manipulating polymer chain interactions for multifunctional hydrogels. Matter. 8(4). 101785–101785. 74 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Zhen, Zhengyi Mao, Shuai Guo, et al.. (2025). Adsorption-responsive bionic photothermal ion pump for reversible seawater lithium extraction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8825–8825. 3 indexed citations
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Guo, Shuai, Shubham Patel, Junhui Wang, et al.. (2025). Self-powered green energy–harvesting and sensing interfaces based on hygroscopic gel and water-locking effects. Science Advances. 11(27). eadw5991–eadw5991. 26 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guo, Shuai, Yaoxin Zhang, Zhen Yu, et al.. (2025). Leaf-based energy harvesting and storage utilizing hygroscopic iron hydrogel for continuous power generation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5267–5267. 48 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Xin, Dan Yang, Heru Setyawan, Yaoxin Zhang, & Ting Xiong. (2025). Engineering defects in MoS2 cathodes for high-performance aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Storage. 134. 118115–118115. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue, et al.. (2024). Lag in pollutant removal efficiency relative to microbial community dynamics in a denitrifying phosphorus removal bioreactor. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154498–154498. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xueping, Hao Qu, Xiangyu Li, et al.. (2024). Autonomous Atmospheric Water Harvesting over a Wide RH Range Enabled by Super Hygroscopic Composite Aerogels. Advanced Materials. 36(41). e2310219–e2310219. 52 indexed citations
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Wu, Haoming, et al.. (2024). Urban and agricultural land use led to niche differentiation of AOA, AOB and comammox along the Beiyun River continuum. Water Research. 255. 121480–121480. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Wulong, Yaoxin Zhang, Shuai Guo, et al.. (2024). Multifunctional Sandwich‐Structured Super‐Hygroscopic Zinc‐Based MOF‐Overlayed Cooling Wearables for Special Personal Thermal Management. Small. 20(23). e2311272–e2311272. 28 indexed citations
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Li, Wulong, Zhen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, et al.. (2024). Scalable multifunctional MOFs-textiles via diazonium chemistry. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5297–5297. 30 indexed citations
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Wang, Xue, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic pressure induced discontinuities of microbial communities along the river. Journal of Environmental Management. 373. 123764–123764. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guoyu, Aizhong Ding, En Xie, et al.. (2023). Distinctive species interaction patterns under high nitrite stress shape inefficient denitrifying phosphorus removal performance. Bioresource Technology. 394. 130269–130269. 11 indexed citations
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Suresh, Lakshmi, Jaemin Seo, Yaoxin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Electrohydrodynamically printed solid-state Photo-electro protein micro-capacitors. Energy storage materials. 61. 102839–102839. 6 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xianhong, Songlin Zhang, Mengjuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). MXene Functionalized, Highly Breathable and Sensitive Pressure Sensors with Multi‐Layered Porous Structure. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(19). 178 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Wulong, Yaoxin Zhang, Zhen Yu, et al.. (2022). In Situ Growth of a Stable Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) on Flexible Fabric via a Layer-by-Layer Strategy for Versatile Applications. ACS Nano. 16(9). 14779–14791. 136 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yaoxin, Hong Zhang, Ting Xiong, et al.. (2020). Manipulating unidirectional fluid transportation to drive sustainable solar water extraction and brine-drenching induced energy generation. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(12). 4891–4902. 216 indexed citations
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Tang, Baoshan, Zhi Gen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, et al.. (2019). Metal–organic framework-derived hierarchical MoS2/CoS2 nanotube arrays as pH-universal electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(21). 13339–13346. 148 indexed citations

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