Yawei Yang

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Yawei Yang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yawei Yang has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 43 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 43 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yawei Yang's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (23 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (20 papers). Yawei Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (23 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (20 papers). Yawei Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, Taiwan and United States. Yawei Yang's co-authors include Wenxiu Que, Xingtian Yin, Jianqiu Zhao, Meidan Que, Chenhui Yang, Yapeng Tian, Han Yan, Wenxiu Que, Jie Liu and Fahad Nawaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Yawei Yang

89 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

A hydrophobic surface enabled salt-blocking 2D Ti3C2MXene... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. A hydrophobic surface enabled salt-blocking 2D Ti3C2MXene membrane for efficient and stable solar desalination
    2018 429 citations Yawei Yang, Xingtian Yin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yawei Yang China 33 2.3k 1.6k 1.4k 866 429 90 3.6k
Mingzhan Wang China 19 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 372 0.4× 465 1.1× 39 3.1k
Wei Li Ong Singapore 23 1.5k 0.6× 998 0.6× 662 0.5× 350 0.4× 390 0.9× 47 2.3k
Wenke Xie China 23 987 0.4× 907 0.6× 881 0.6× 328 0.4× 585 1.4× 37 2.4k
Petri Murto United Kingdom 27 931 0.4× 506 0.3× 762 0.5× 405 0.5× 292 0.7× 57 2.1k
Feifan Wang China 17 1.1k 0.5× 975 0.6× 745 0.5× 315 0.4× 180 0.4× 27 2.0k
Liguo Sun China 21 681 0.3× 499 0.3× 481 0.3× 367 0.4× 422 1.0× 63 1.7k
Şehmus Özden United States 29 508 0.2× 1.3k 0.8× 826 0.6× 134 0.2× 583 1.4× 61 2.4k
Jiaxuan Liao China 27 394 0.2× 1.1k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 138 0.2× 231 0.5× 128 2.9k
Tianchao Guo China 24 223 0.1× 930 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 205 0.2× 560 1.3× 43 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yawei Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yawei Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yawei Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yawei Yang 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 Yawei Yang. Yawei Yang 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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Yang, Yawei, et al.. (2025). Energy-force coupling in interfacial solar vapor generation: A pathway to sustainable salt management. Desalination. 608. 118854–118854. 5 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, Yumeng Wei, Yawei Yang, et al.. (2025). Architectural and real-time monitoring design of multi-stage solar still for solar water purification. Renewable Energy. 244. 122660–122660. 9 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, et al.. (2025). Elastic and Conductive Photocatalytic Membrane. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 9(3). 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Bowen, Yawei Yang, Mo Zhou, et al.. (2025). Solar‐Driven Dual‐functional Adsorvaporator Enabling Efficient Lithium Concentration and Freshwater Generation with Life Cycle Assessment Evaluation. Small. 21(32). e2505347–e2505347. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, Yawei Yang, Xinye Xu, et al.. (2024). Highly transparent hydrogel-based condenser for solar vapor collection. Separation and Purification Technology. 361. 131249–131249. 13 indexed citations
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Hu, Haowei, Jin Wang, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2024). Interfacial evaporation and salt-blocking kinetics in Janus membrane for solar desalination. Desalination. 592. 118129–118129. 11 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, et al.. (2024). Achieving “Ion Diode” Salt Resistance in Solar Interfacial Evaporation by a Tesla Valve‐Like Water Transport Structure. Small. 20(43). e2403606–e2403606. 14 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Fahad, et al.. (2024). Trapezoidal solar evaporators with salt resistant and extraction working modes. Solar Energy. 283. 112998–112998. 2 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Fahad, Yawei Yang, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2024). Can the Interfacial Solar Vapor Generation Performance Be Really “Beyond” Theoretical Limit?. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(22). 53 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, Yawei Yang, Hui Zhu, et al.. (2023). Low vaporization enthalpy hydrogels for highly efficient solar-driven interfacial evaporation. Desalination. 568. 116999–116999. 106 indexed citations
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Wang, Cong, et al.. (2023). A Novel Pressure-Controlled Molecular Dynamics Simulation Method for Nanoscale Boiling Heat Transfer. Energies. 16(5). 2131–2131. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Tom, Yawei Yang, Qi Zhao, et al.. (2023). Photocatalytic Membranes Toward Practical Environmental Remediation: Fundamental, Fabrication, and Application. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 8(3). 5 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qi, et al.. (2023). Integrated strategy of solar evaporator and steam collector configurations for interfacial evaporation water purification. Solar Energy. 266. 112187–112187. 26 indexed citations
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Sheng, Minhao, Xiaoqing Bin, Yawei Yang, Zhong Chen, & Wenxiu Que. (2023). A Green and Fluorine‐Free Fabrication of 3D Self‐Supporting MXene by Combining Anodic Electrochemical In Situ Etching with Cathodic Electrophoretic Deposition for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Materials Technologies. 9(3). 19 indexed citations
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Cai, Weihua, Xinyu Ma, Jin Chen, et al.. (2023). Synergy of oxygen vacancy and piezoelectricity effect promotes the CO2 photoreduction by BaTiO3. Applied Surface Science. 619. 156773–156773. 23 indexed citations
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Yang, Yawei, et al.. (2023). Industrially Scalable and Refreshable Photocatalytic Foam. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 7(6). 6 indexed citations
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Yang, Yawei, Wenxiu Que, Yu Qiu, et al.. (2022). A Diode‐like Scalable Asymmetric Solar Evaporator with Ultra‐high Salt Resistance. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(6). 94 indexed citations
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Xing, Yonglei, Wenxiu Que, Xingtian Yin, et al.. (2016). In2O3/Bi2Sn2O7 heterostructured nanoparticles with enhanced photocatalytic activity. Applied Surface Science. 387. 36–44. 63 indexed citations
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Yang, Yawei, Wenxiu Que, Xinyu Zhang, et al.. (2016). Facile synthesis of ZnO/CuInS2 nanorod arrays for photocatalytic pollutants degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 317. 430–439. 73 indexed citations

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