Yi Cui

11.7k citations

214 papers · 9.7k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 51

Catalysis top 0.5%
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction 13
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming 12
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.5%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 42
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 21
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 13
Process Chemistry and Technology top 0.5%
Materials Chemistry top 0.5%
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science 59
- Graphene research and applications 31
Electrochemistry top 1%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Advanced battery technologies research 24

Co-authors: Bao‐Hang Han Xinhe Bao Qiang Fu Zhuyin Sui Jianhua Zhu Zhongmiao Gong Xiulian Pan Wei‐Xue Li
Cited by: Catalysis Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Process Chemistry and Technology
Journals: Nature Communications (18 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (15 papers)ACS Catalysis (13 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Yi Cui

207 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

2025 Nature Communications
2023 Nature Communications
2023 Nature Communications
2022 Nature Communications
2022 Advanced Materials
2022 Advanced Materials
2011 Chemistry of Materials

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1	Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion Angewandte Chemie ·И. В. Резниченко,Yilin Zhao,Yifan Li,Jun Ma,R. Guillem-Cogollos,斉子柴田,Yanhua Luo,Guang Yang,Yi Cui,Dong Liu,Yujie Xiong	2025	1
2	Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reactionbreakdown → Nature Communications ·Zhi‐Gang Chen,Minghao Yang,Yifan Li,Wenbin Gong,Juan Wang,Tong Liu,N LiukkonenTapani,Shuang Hou,Guang Yang,Hao Li,Ye Jin,Chunyan Zhang,Zhongqing Tian,Fancheng Meng,Yi Cui	2025	41
3	Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·И. В. Резниченко,Yilin Zhao,Yifan Li,Jun Ma,R. Guillem-Cogollos,Cheng Liu,Yanhua Luo,Guang Yang,Yi Cui,Dong Liu,Yujie Xiong	2025	12
4	Phase segregation dynamics in mixed-halide perovskites revealed by plunge-freeze cryo-electron microscopy Cell Reports Physical Science ·Xavier Marshall,Yi Cui,Yanbin Li,Julian A. Vigil,B. Kardan,Partha Nandi,Robert Colby,Eduard Rübel,Hemamala I. Karunadasa,Aaron M. Lindenberg	2025	2
5	Effect of the dielectric barrier discharge plasma on Cu-based catalysts supported on SiO2 for acetylene hydration Molecular Catalysis ·Yi Cui,大石武士,Bernhard Zeifang,Shui Liu,E. L. G.,Caixia Xu	2025	0
6	Tailoring OH Formation and Desorption on Nickel Catalysts via Surface Oxidation for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Stability and Kinetics ACS Catalysis ·Yu Kang,Chunyu Zhang,Xinlong Qin,Yifan Li,สมดี อนันต์ปฏิเวธ,Rong Huang,K. Prokofiev,Yin Yujing,Xunhua Zhao,Yi Cui	2025	1
7	Electrosynthesis of NH3 from NO with ampere-level current density in a pressurized electrolyzer Nature Communications ·Wenqiang Yang,Huan Liu,Xiaoxia Chang,Yunlong Zhang,Yafeng Cai,Yifan Li,Yi Cui,Bingjun Xu,Liang Yu,Xiaoju Cui,Dehui Deng	2025	18
8	Phase-controlled CoMo-based heterostructures for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ·壮律金,Guang Yang,I. von Schlachta,Chunyu Zhang,Yifan Li,Guoliang Gao,Yi Cui	2024	2
9	Enhanced catalytic performance in acetylene hydration: A novel Cu-based catalyst anchored via P-O bonds on a CN supporter Surfaces and Interfaces ·大石武士,Zongyuan Wang,王琢,Rui Hu,Yi Cui,Bernhard Zeifang,Bin Dai,Caixia Xu	2024	2
10	An efficient Cu-based catalyst prepared by the one-step method of phytic acid assisted glucose for acetylene hydration Molecular Catalysis ·Rui Hu,Yi Cui,大石武士,Caixia Xu	2024	2
11	Molecular tuning boosts asymmetric C-C coupling for CO conversion to acetate Nature Communications ·Jie Ding,Fuhua Li,Xinyi Ren,Yuhang Liu,Yifan Li,Zheng Shen,Tian Wang,Weijue Wang,Yang‐Gang Wang,Yi Cui,Hongbin Yang,Ivón A. Crespo Terán,Bin Liu	2024	43
12	Atomically tailoring synergistic active centers on molybdenum sulfide basal planes for alkaline hydrogen generation CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION) ·T. McRae,Ying Wang,Xiong Jianglei,Lu Liu,Shiying Guo,Yi Cui,Xiaoyong Xu	2024	5
13	Visualizing Catalytic Dynamics of Single-Cu-Atom-Modified SnS₂ in CO₂ Electroreduction via Rapid Freeze-Quench Mössbauer Spectroscopy Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ruru Chen,Jian Zhao,Xiong Zhang,Qiao Zhao,Yifan Li,Yi Cui,Miao Zhong,Junhu Wang,Xuning Li,Yanqiang Huang,Bin Liu	2024	29
14	Boosting C–C coupling to multicarbon products via high-pressure CO electroreduction Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Wenqiang Yang,Huan Liu,Yutai Qi,Yifan Li,Yi Cui,Liang Yu,Xiaoju Cui,Dehui Deng	2023	13
15	Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopic Tracking the Metastable State of Atomically Dispersed Tin in Copper Oxide for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ruru Chen,Jian Zhao,Yifan Li,Yi Cui,Ying‐Rui Lu,Sung‐Fu Hung,Shifu Wang,Weijue Wang,J. Fidom,Yang Zhao,Wei Liu,Junhu Wang,Hai Xiao,Xuning Li,Yanqiang Huang,Bin Liu	2023	57
16	Nano-crumples induced Sn-Bi bimetallic interface pattern with moderate electron bank for highly efficient CO2 electroreductionbreakdown → Nature Communications ·Bohua Ren,Guobin Wen,Rui Gao,Dan Luo,Zhen Zhang,Weibin Qiu,Qianyi Ma,Xin Wang,Yi Cui,Luis Ricardez‐Sandoval,Aiping Yu,Zhongwei Chen	2022	217
17	The active sites of Cu–ZnO catalysts for water gas shift and CO hydrogenation reactions Nature Communications ·Zhenhua Zhang,Xuanye Chen,Jincan Kang,Zongyou Yu,Jie Tian,Zhongmiao Gong,Aiping Jia,Rui You,Kun Qian,Shun He,Botao Teng,Yi Cui,Ye Wang,Wenhua Zhang,Weixin Huang	2021	154
18	Unravelling the electrocatalytic activity of bismuth nanosheets towards carbon dioxide reduction: Edge plane versus basal plane Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Dan Wang,Kuan Chang,Yaning Zhang,Yanying Wang,Qixin Liu,Zhenlin Wang,Ding Ding,Yi Cui,Chengsi Pan,Yang Lou,Yongfa Zhu,Ying Zhang	2021	54
19	The Nature of Loading-Dependent Reaction Barriers over Mixed RuO₂/TiO₂ Catalysts ACS Catalysis ·Hao Li,Shenjun Zha,Zhi‐Jian Zhao,Hao Tian,Sai Chen,Zhongmiao Gong,Maoyou Chu,Yanan Wang,Yi Cui,Liang Zeng,Rentao Mu,Jinlong Gong	2018	38
20	Formation of Magic Isophorone Islands on Au(111): Interplay between Dipole Interactions and Hydrogen Bonding The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Yi Cui,Yi Pan,Thomas J. Meyer,Niklas Nilius	2017	3

About Yi Cui

Yi Cui is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, having authored 214 papers that have together received 9.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (59 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers), Graphene research and applications (31 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (24 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (21 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (13 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Catalysis (1.8k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (3.8k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (520 citations), Materials Chemistry (5.5k citations) and Electrochemistry (373 citations). Yi Cui has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Bao‐Hang Han, Xinhe Bao, Qiang Fu, Zhuyin Sui, Jianhua Zhu, Zhongmiao Gong, Xiulian Pan, Wei‐Xue Li, Liang Yu and Dehui Deng. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Catalysis, Nano Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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