Yaping Du

20.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
296 papers, 17.5k citations indexed

About

Yaping Du is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaping Du has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 17.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Materials Chemistry, 142 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 94 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yaping Du's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (55 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (45 papers). Yaping Du is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (55 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (45 papers). Yaping Du collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Yaping Du's co-authors include Chun‐Hua Yan, Zongyou Yin, Hongyang Zhao, Hua Zhang, Bolong Huang, Zhiyuan Zeng, Ya‐Wen Zhang, Zhengqing Liu, Xiao Huang and Mingzi Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yaping Du

289 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Synthesis of Few‐Layer MoS₂ Nanosheet‐Coated TiO₂ Nanobelt Heterostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activities

2012 1.2k citations Zongyou Yin, Yaping Du et al. Small profile →
Surface strategies for catalytic CO₂reduction: from two-dimensional materials to nanoclusters to single atoms

2019 762 citations Yaping Du, Zongyou Yin et al. profile →
Near-Infrared Photoluminescent Ag₂S Quantum Dots from a Single Source Precursor

2010 580 citations Yaping Du et al. profile →
One-pot synthesis of CoFe₂O₄/graphene oxide hybrids and their conversion into FeCo/graphene hybrids for lightweight and highly efficient microwave absorber

2015 516 citations Yaping Du, Hao‐Li Zhang et al. profile →
pH-responsive injectable hydrogels with mucosal adhesiveness based on chitosan-grafted-dihydrocaffeic acid and oxidized pullulan for localized drug delivery

2018 373 citations Yaping Du et al. profile →
Rare-earth-containing perovskite nanomaterials: design, synthesis, properties and applications

2020 322 citations Zhichao Zeng, Zongyou Yin et al. profile →
Heteroatom‐Driven Coordination Fields Altering Single Cerium Atom Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2023 175 citations Leilei Yin, Shuai Zhang et al. profile →
Pt-Modified High Entropy Rare Earth Oxide for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution in pH-Universal Environments

2024 90 citations Zhong Liang, Mingzi Sun et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaping Du China	74	9.4k	7.8k	7.0k	3.0k	2.0k	296	17.5k
Bing Li China	72	8.3k 0.9×	8.8k 1.1×	8.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	278	18.0k
Rong Xu Singapore	78	12.5k 1.3×	7.3k 0.9×	11.5k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	248	20.9k
Xiaoping Dong China	63	7.5k 0.8×	4.9k 0.6×	6.3k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	219	12.9k
Mingyi Zhang China	64	9.5k 1.0×	6.6k 0.8×	9.4k 1.3×	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	306	15.6k
Ranbo Yu China	61	8.0k 0.9×	6.9k 0.9×	4.5k 0.6×	3.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	281	13.9k
Yunfeng Lu United States	65	7.3k 0.8×	7.0k 0.9×	4.1k 0.6×	3.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	204	15.5k
Mingwang Shao China	66	9.4k 1.0×	6.2k 0.8×	6.3k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	3.6k 1.8×	341	15.4k
Ziqi Sun Australia	69	7.5k 0.8×	7.3k 0.9×	4.8k 0.7×	3.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	244	15.1k
Shuang Li China	74	9.4k 1.0×	11.6k 1.5×	10.0k 1.4×	4.3k 1.4×	3.2k 1.7×	472	23.2k
S. Wageh Saudi Arabia	56	13.5k 1.4×	7.7k 1.0×	12.9k 1.8×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	271	19.5k

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Liu, Hengjun, et al.. (2025). In‐Plane Creation of Rare Earth‐Induced Spin Filtering Effect in Ultrathin Nanosheets for Enhanced Water Oxidation. Advanced Functional Materials.

Zhang, Jinzhu, Yaping Du, Guangyu Li, et al.. (2025). Oceanobacter antarcticus sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 75(2).

Yin, Leilei, Shuai Zhang, Yongkang Huang, Chun‐Hua Yan, & Yaping Du. (2024). Cerium contained advanced materials: Shining star under electrocatalysis. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 518. 216111–216111. 19 indexed citations

Zeng, Zhichao, Haolin Lu, Zhengwei Yang, et al.. (2024). Increasing the Magnetic Transition Dipole Moment of Chiral Perovskite Through Eu³⁺ Doping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(12). 6 indexed citations

Zhai, Xinyun, Yongkang Huang, Mengzhen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Biocompatible Silica‐Coated Europium‐Doped CsPbBr ₃ Nanoparticles with Luminescence in Water for Zebrafish Bioimaging. Small. 20(26). e2310238–e2310238. 14 indexed citations

Niu, Xinyi, Zhichao Zeng, Zhaoyu Wang, et al.. (2024). The first chiral cerium halide towards circularly-polarized luminescence in the UV region. Science China Chemistry. 67(6). 1961–1968. 42 indexed citations

Yin, Leilei, Shuai Zhang, Mingzi Sun, et al.. (2024). Non-bonding modulations between single atomic cerium and monodispersed selenium sites towards efficient oxygen reduction. Nano Research. 17(6). 4753–4763. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Shuai, Leilei Yin, & Yaping Du. (2024). Regulating Rh-based rare earth nanoalloy electrocatalysts by scandium, yttrium for accelerated hydrogen evolution kinetics. Journal of Rare Earths. 43(6). 1188–1194. 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Qian, et al.. (2024). Silane-modified HMMM gel polymer electrolyte with wide electrochemical window and high flame retardance for lithium metal battery. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 967. 118465–118465. 3 indexed citations

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Du, Yaping, et al.. (2024). Halogen Engineering Strategy-Induced Color-Tunable Room Temperature Phosphorescence in Metal–Organic Halides. Inorganic Chemistry. 63(37). 17127–17133. 5 indexed citations

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Liang, Zhong, Lianpeng Song, Mingzi Sun, Bolong Huang, & Yaping Du. (2023). Atomically dispersed indium and cerium sites for selectively electroreduction of CO2 to formate. Nano Research. 16(7). 8757–8764. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shuai, Leilei Yin, Qingqing Li, et al.. (2023). Laves phase Ir₂Sm intermetallic nanoparticles as a highly active electrocatalyst for acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Chemical Science. 14(22). 5887–5893. 21 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shuai, Mingzi Sun, Leilei Yin, et al.. (2023). Tailoring the Electronic Structure of Ir Alloy Electrocatalysts through Lanthanide (La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) for Acidic Oxygen Evolution Enhancement. Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research. 4(9). 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Xingcai, et al.. (2023). Construction and utilization of rare earth complexes as efficient corrosion inhibitor in epoxy coating. Progress in Organic Coatings. 186. 108024–108024. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Zhihao, Huajian Gao, Caixin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Facet Selectivity Guided Assembly of Nanoarchitectures onto Two‐Dimensional Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(32). 17564–17569. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiupian, Qiliang Lai, Fengqin Sun, et al.. (2021). Solimonas marina sp. nov., isolated from deep seawater of the Pacific Ocean. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 71(1). 4 indexed citations

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Liang, Zhong, Leilei Yin, Hang Yin, Zongyou Yin, & Yaping Du. (2021). Rare earth element based single-atom catalysts: synthesis, characterization and applications in photo/electro-catalytic reactions. Nanoscale Horizons. 7(1). 31–40. 43 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Kun Liu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2021). Advances in solid lithium ion electrolyte based on the composites of polymer and LLTO/LLZO of rare earth oxides. Engineering Reports. 4(1). 15 indexed citations

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He, Kai, Zhenpeng Yao, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2017). Kinetically-Driven Phase Transformation during Lithiation in Copper Sulfide Nanoflakes. Nano Letters. 17(9). 5726–5733. 68 indexed citations

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Du, Yaping. (2009). TOA Location Algorithm Using Virtual Matrix. Dianzi Ke-ji Daxue xuebao. 1 indexed citations

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