Yecan Pi

5.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Yecan Pi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yecan Pi has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 27 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yecan Pi's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (45 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (25 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (11 papers). Yecan Pi is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (45 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (25 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (11 papers). Yecan Pi collaborates with scholars based in China, Taiwan and Germany. Yecan Pi's co-authors include Xiaoqing Huang, Qi Shao, Jun Guo, Huan Pang, Pengtang Wang, Ziming Qiu, Nan Zhang, Shaojun Guo, Yang Bai and Yongsong Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yecan Pi

67 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

MXene‐Copper/Cobalt Hybrids via Lewis Acidic Molten Salts Etching for High Performance Symmetric Supercapacitors

2021 392 citations Yang Bai, Tingting Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Facilitating alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction on the hetero-interfaced Ru/RuO2 through Pt single atoms doping

2024 260 citations Yiming Zhu, Malte Klingenhof et al. Nature Communications profile →
Micro/nano metal–organic frameworks meet energy chemistry: A review of materials synthesis and applications

2023 227 citations Zhenyang Meng, Ziming Qiu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yecan Pi China	33	3.5k	2.8k	1.6k	680	538	70	4.6k
Peiqun Yin China	20	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	543 0.8×	331 0.6×	32	4.5k
Yanna Guo Australia	25	3.8k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	550 0.8×	612 1.1×	55	4.8k
Philipp Weide Germany	23	2.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	506 0.7×	375 0.7×	30	3.6k
Haiyan Jin China	17	4.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	435 0.6×	644 1.2×	21	4.9k
Yanqing Jiao China	38	3.8k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	518 0.8×	403 0.7×	80	5.0k
Xiuli Lu China	26	4.3k 1.2×	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.4×	598 0.9×	430 0.8×	38	5.1k
Xiangwen Zhang China	20	5.0k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.1×	561 0.8×	880 1.6×	61	6.0k
Zhiqing Zou China	39	3.9k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	424 0.6×	485 0.9×	109	5.0k
Zhenghang Zhao United States	19	4.9k 1.4×	4.3k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	458 0.9×	21	6.0k
Sivasankara Rao Ede India	26	4.0k 1.2×	3.7k 1.3×	1.4k 0.9×	887 1.3×	824 1.5×	48	5.3k

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Zhu, Yiming, Jiaao Wang, G. Weiser, et al.. (2025). Ru Single Atoms and Sulfur Anions Dual‐Doped NiFe Layered Double Hydroxides for High‐Current‐Density Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(23). 27 indexed citations

Yao, Jin, Xing Fan, Qiming Li, et al.. (2025). Self‐Reconstruction of High Entropy Alloys for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Small. 21(8). e2408165–e2408165. 9 indexed citations

Huang, Xingyu, Songtao Zhang, Yong Li, et al.. (2025). 2D boehmite/mesoporous nanosphere composites with hierarchical ion transport for efficient capacitive deionization. Chemical Communications. 61(70). 13181–13184.

Zhang, Wenjun, Jian Xie, Zhuoya Wang, et al.. (2025). Androgen deficiency-induced loss of Lactobacillus salivarius extracellular vesicles is associated with the pathogenesis of osteoporosis. Microbiological Research. 293. 128047–128047. 5 indexed citations

Fan, Xing, Xiaopeng Liu, Haiping Lin, et al.. (2025). Hexagonal close-packed platinum–tin for efficient hydrogen production via aqueous phase reforming. Nano Energy. 140. 111052–111052. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Zhuoya, et al.. (2025). Orally administered degradable nanoarmor-assisted probiotics for remodeling the gut microenvironment and treating osteoporosis. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 23(1). 660–660. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Jinlong, Ziming Qiu, Zhenyang Meng, et al.. (2025). Two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic framework nanosheets: Synthesis and applications. Nano Research. 19(1). 94907889–94907889. 1 indexed citations

Meng, Zhenyang, Ziming Qiu, Nian‐Tzu Suen, et al.. (2025). Boosting hydrogen oxidation performance of bimetallic telluride by electrochemical surface engineering. Rare Metals. 44(7). 4669–4678. 3 indexed citations

Jin, Mengyuan, Shuangyan Li, Yecan Pi, et al.. (2024). Interfacial engineering of ruthenium-nickel for efficient hydrogen electrocatalysis in alkaline medium. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt A). 272–280. 4 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yiming, Malte Klingenhof, Chenlong Gao, et al.. (2024). Facilitating alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction on the hetero-interfaced Ru/RuO2 through Pt single atoms doping. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1447–1447. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qiu, Ziming, Xiaotian Guo, Shuai Cao, et al.. (2024). High‐Entropy Ag−Ru‐Based Electrocatalysts with Dual‐Active‐Center for Highly Stable Ultra‐Low‐Temperature Zinc‐Air Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 7 indexed citations

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Fu, Hui, Ting Zhu, Cun Chen, et al.. (2024). p–d Orbital Hybridization in Pd₃Sn Metallic Aerogels Boosts Alcohol Electrooxidation. Chemistry of Materials. 36(19). 9741–9749. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Xia, Mingrui Guo, Yecan Pi, et al.. (2023). Stable and Ordered Body‐Centered Cubic PdCu Phase for Highly Selective Hydrogenation. Small Methods. 7(3). e2201356–e2201356. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Xia, Mingrui Guo, Yecan Pi, et al.. (2023). Stable and Ordered Body‐Centered Cubic PdCu Phase for Highly Selective Hydrogenation (Small Methods 3/2023). Small Methods. 7(3). 1 indexed citations

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Pi, Yecan, Ziming Qiu, Yi Sun, et al.. (2023). Synergistic Mechanism of Sub‐Nanometric Ru Clusters Anchored on Tungsten Oxide Nanowires for High‐Efficient Bifunctional Hydrogen Electrocatalysis. Advanced Science. 10(7). e2206096–e2206096. 120 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ting, Shangheng Liu, Bin Huang, et al.. (2021). High-performance diluted nickel nanoclusters decorating ruthenium nanowires for pH-universal overall water splitting. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(5). 3194–3202. 78 indexed citations

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Qiu, Ziming, Yang Bai, Yidan Gao, et al.. (2021). MXenes nanocomposites for energy storage and conversion. Rare Metals. 41(4). 1101–1128. 68 indexed citations

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Bu, Lingzheng, Qi Shao, Yecan Pi, et al.. (2018). Coupled s-p-d Exchange in Facet-Controlled Pd3Pb Tripods Enhances Oxygen Reduction Catalysis. Chem. 4(2). 359–371. 109 indexed citations

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Pi, Yecan, Qi Shao, Pengtang Wang, et al.. (2017). Trimetallic Oxyhydroxide Coralloids for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 129(16). 4573–4577. 71 indexed citations

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Pi, Yecan, Qi Shao, Pengtang Wang, et al.. (2017). Trimetallic Oxyhydroxide Coralloids for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(16). 4502–4506. 246 indexed citations

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