Ye Chen

15.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
229 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Ye Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Ye Chen has authored 229 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 99 papers in Materials Chemistry and 61 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Ye Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (34 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (30 papers). Ye Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (41 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (34 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (30 papers). Ye Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Ye Chen's co-authors include Hua Zhang, Zhanxi Fan, Bo Chen, Zhuangchai Lai, Ratna R. Sharma-Shivappa, Bing Li, Zhicheng Zhang, Nailiang Yang, Xiao Zhang and Chaoliang Tan and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ye Chen

216 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Two-Dimensional Metal Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

2018 814 citations Ye Chen, Zhanxi Fan et al. profile →
A comparison of chemical pretreatment methods for improving saccharification of cotton stalks

2006 665 citations Ye Chen et al. profile →
Phase engineering of nanomaterials

2020 590 citations Ye Chen, Zhuangchai Lai et al. Nature Reviews Chemistry profile →
Interfacing Manganese Oxide and Cobalt in Porous Graphitic Carbon Polyhedrons Boosts Oxygen Electrocatalysis for Zn–Air Batteries

2019 495 citations Ye Chen, Shuyan Gao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Thermal and Environmental Stability of Semi‐Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells for Tandems Enabled by a Solution‐Processed Nanoparticle Buffer Layer and Sputtered ITO Electrode

2016 445 citations Ye Chen et al. Advanced Materials profile →
An Overview and Future Perspectives of Rechargeable Zinc Batteries

2020 322 citations Ye Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ye Chen China	52	4.8k	4.6k	4.5k	2.2k	1.4k	229	11.0k
Ting Zhang China	59	5.5k 1.2×	4.2k 0.9×	5.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	419	12.3k
Shaoqin Liu China	57	5.6k 1.2×	4.8k 1.1×	5.7k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	207	13.5k
Chao Chen China	49	3.5k 0.7×	5.2k 1.1×	5.8k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.7×	307	10.8k
Chong Liu United States	46	3.9k 0.8×	6.7k 1.5×	6.3k 1.4×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	153	12.5k
Yueming Li China	45	5.9k 1.2×	3.6k 0.8×	5.5k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.8×	189	11.8k
Tao Wang China	56	3.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	5.4k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	451	12.2k
Feng Yu China	57	5.6k 1.2×	3.1k 0.7×	4.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.8×	454	11.2k
Guoliang Liu China	49	2.5k 0.5×	2.7k 0.6×	3.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	212	9.3k
Shaohua Liu China	44	6.0k 1.3×	5.2k 1.2×	3.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	190	10.2k
Biao Kong China	59	5.4k 1.1×	4.0k 0.9×	6.1k 1.3×	2.9k 1.3×	2.0k 1.4×	195	13.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ye Chen

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

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Chen, Ye, Yiyang Qiu, Wei Kong, et al.. (2025). The curvature structure unlocks an ultra-efficient metal-free carbon catalyst surpassing gold for acetylene hydrochlorination. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 70. 260–271. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Ye, et al.. (2025). Effect of B/N Doping on Enhanced Hydrogen Storage in Transition Metal-Modified Graphene: A First-Principles DFT Study. Materials. 18(19). 4635–4635.

Yang, Zunxian, Yuliang Ye, Zhiming Cheng, et al.. (2024). Highly uniform organic nanowire synaptic arrays with excellent performance for associative memory. Chemical Engineering Journal. 492. 152244–152244. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Mengran, Canyu Liu, Tianfang Yang, et al.. (2024). High-efficiency electrochemical H2O2 synthesis by heteroatom-doped NiX/Ni nanocomposites with honeycomb-like porous carbon. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 66. 212–222. 6 indexed citations

Zeng, Shuaibo, Ye Chen, Wei Xu, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen doped multistage porous carbon for enhancing the adsorption-catalytic conversion of polysulfides in Li–S batteries. Applied Surface Science. 649. 159115–159115. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Ye, Yan Zhang, Shikun Chen, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of g-C3N4/Ag/CoFe1.95Eu0.05O4 heterojunctions with enhanced photocatalytic degradation activity. Materials Letters. 354. 135245–135245.

Zha, Jiajia, Huide Wang, Siyuan Li, et al.. (2023). Plasma-optimized contact for high-performance PdSe2 nanoflake-based field-effect transistors. Applied Physics Letters. 123(4). 4 indexed citations

Shen, Zihong, Zunxian Yang, Yuliang Ye, et al.. (2023). Highly uniform photonic synapse arrays based on TIPS-pentacene nanowires/CsPbBr₃ heterojunctions. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 11(44). 15616–15623. 3 indexed citations

Zeng, Ming, Hui Liu, Ye Chen, et al.. (2022). Ion-induced electron emission cathode for a micro-newton HEMP thruster. Vacuum. 205. 111486–111486. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenbin, Junlei Qi, Li Zhai, et al.. (2022). Preparation of 2D Molybdenum Phosphide via Surface‐Confined Atomic Substitution. Advanced Materials. 34(35). e2203220–e2203220. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhanxin, Lihua Wang, Libo Fu, et al.. (2022). Deformation-Induced Phase Transformations in Gold Nanoribbons with the 4H Phase. ACS Nano. 16(2). 3272–3279. 7 indexed citations

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Xing, Yan, et al.. (2021). Application of the evolutionary kinetic Monte Carlo method for the simulation of anisotropic wet etching of sapphire. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 31(6). 65001–65001. 6 indexed citations

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Gong, Ming, et al.. (2021). Dimensions of fluorescence kinetic concentration of doped morphology homologs synthesized by TCPP and UiO-66 MOF. Applied Materials Today. 23. 100982–100982. 21 indexed citations

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Fan, Zhanxi, Michel Bosman, Zhiqi Huang, et al.. (2020). Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3293–3293. 120 indexed citations

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Lu, Qin, et al.. (2020). Structural and electric properties of Ce‐doped Na _0.5 Bi _4.5 Ti ₄ O ₁₅ piezoceramics with high Curie temperatures. Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 103(8). 4083–4089. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Bo, Gengzhi Sun, Jie Wang, et al.. (2020). Transition metal dichalcogenide/multi-walled carbon nanotube-based fibers as flexible electrodes for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Chemical Communications. 56(38). 5131–5134. 34 indexed citations

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Barbiero, Martina, Stefania Castelletto, Qiming Zhang, et al.. (2020). Nanoscale magnetic imaging enabled by nitrogen vacancy centres in nanodiamonds labelled by iron–oxide nanoparticles. Nanoscale. 12(16). 8847–8857. 20 indexed citations

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Chen, Ye, Zhuangchai Lai, Xiao Zhang, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Phase engineering of nanomaterials. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 4(5). 269–269. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Qian, Wenxin Niu, Xingchen Liu, et al.. (2018). Pressure-Induced Phase Engineering of Gold Nanostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(46). 15783–15790. 71 indexed citations

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Xiao, Jiayi, et al.. (2005). A study of pollen and climatic stratigraphy in the northern Jiangsu basin since Late Pleistocene. 44(4). 591–598. 1 indexed citations

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