Yi Xu

10.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
93 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Yi Xu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Xu has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 28 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Yi Xu's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (40 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers). Yi Xu is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (40 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers). Yi Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Yi Xu's co-authors include David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent, Christine M. Gabardo, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Jonathan P. Edwards, Jun Li, Colin P. O’Brien, Jianan Erick Huang, Rui Kai Miao and Fengwang Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yi Xu

86 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

CO ₂ electrolysis to multicarbon products in strong acid

2021 1.0k citations Jianan Erick Huang, Fengwang Li et al. profile →
Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly

2019 491 citations Christine M. Gabardo, Colin P. O’Brien et al. Joule profile →
Self-Cleaning CO₂ Reduction Systems: Unsteady Electrochemical Forcing Enables Stability

2021 290 citations Yi Xu, Jonathan P. Edwards et al. profile →
Conversion of CO2 to multicarbon products in strong acid by controlling the catalyst microenvironment

2023 205 citations Yong Zhao, Long Hao et al. Nature Synthesis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Xu China	33	4.4k	2.7k	1.5k	1.3k	836	93	5.6k
Feng Yang China	37	823 0.2×	573 0.2×	1.4k 0.9×	3.4k 2.6×	149 0.2×	161	4.8k
Sergio Rojas Spain	48	3.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.7×	3.3k 2.5×	311 0.4×	194	6.8k
Hao Ma China	21	816 0.2×	1.8k 0.7×	412 0.3×	2.1k 1.7×	218 0.3×	69	3.4k
J. Anibal Boscoboinik United States	35	1.1k 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	2.8k 2.2×	313 0.4×	158	4.4k
Jakub Drnec France	35	3.5k 0.8×	605 0.2×	2.7k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	89 0.1×	145	4.7k
Hongliang Dong China	42	1.5k 0.3×	407 0.1×	2.2k 1.4×	2.3k 1.8×	34 0.0×	176	4.7k
Qing Ma United States	28	2.5k 0.6×	874 0.3×	2.3k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	226 0.3×	107	4.8k
Xiaohu Yu China	35	1.5k 0.3×	757 0.3×	677 0.4×	2.1k 1.7×	102 0.1×	121	3.2k
Goutam Deo India	44	447 0.1×	4.7k 1.7×	256 0.2×	5.3k 4.2×	316 0.4×	109	6.2k
Weixin Huang United States	30	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	2.9k 2.3×	73 0.1×	57	4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Xu

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

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Cheng, Yingying, Yiyong Wang, Ran Duan, et al.. (2025). Imidazolium radical-mediated electron transfer enhances electrochemical C–N coupling for glycine synthesis. Nature Synthesis. 5(1). 74–83. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Yuanjun, Xinyue Wang, Xiaoyan Li, et al.. (2025). Electrified synthesis of n-propanol using a dilute alloy catalyst. Nature Catalysis. 8(3). 239–247. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Yiyong, Yingying Cheng, Yaoyu Yin, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction to Multicarbon Products by Modulating the Surface Microenvironment of Electrode with Polyethylene Glycol. Angewandte Chemie. 137(9). 2 indexed citations

Oh, Dongrak, Dong Yeon Kim, Jin‐Young Lee, et al.. (2025). Unassisted electrochemical H2O2 production coupled to glycerol oxidation. Nature Synthesis. 4(8). 931–939. 16 indexed citations

Yin, Yaoyu, Jiapeng Jiao, Yiyong Wang, et al.. (2025). Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethylene in Acidic Solution by Optimizing Cation Configuration on the Cu Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(29). 25584–25591. 3 indexed citations

He, H.-Y., Jingjing Wang, Waqas Ahmad, et al.. (2025). A novel surface-enhanced raman scattering strategy integrating spectral and mapping data for stable and rapid detection of aflatoxin B1 via supervised learning. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 497. 139609–139609. 2 indexed citations

Oh, Dongrak, Jin‐Young Lee, Jongkyoung Kim, et al.. (2024). Homogeneously Mixed Cu–Co Bimetallic Catalyst Derived from Hydroxy Double Salt for Industrial-Level High-Rate Nitrate-to-Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(40). 27417–27428. 60 indexed citations

Xu, Yi, et al.. (2024). Photoelectrochemical-Type Photodetectors Based on Ball Milling InSe for Underwater Optoelectronic Devices. Nanomaterials. 15(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Yi, Wenjing Li, Huai Qin Fu, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Microenvironment in Monolayer MgAl Layered Double Hydroxide for CO₂‐to‐Ethylene Electrocatalysis in Neutral Media. Angewandte Chemie. 135(19). 9 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yong, Long Hao, Adnan Ozden, et al.. (2023). Conversion of CO2 to multicarbon products in strong acid by controlling the catalyst microenvironment. Nature Synthesis. 205 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ge, Yuancai, Fei Wang, Ying Yang, et al.. (2022). Atomically Thin TaSe₂ Film as a High‐Performance Substrate for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Scattering. Small. 18(15). e2107027–e2107027. 42 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Rui Kai Miao, Jonathan P. Edwards, et al.. (2022). A microchanneled solid electrolyte for carbon-efficient CO2 electrolysis. Joule. 6(6). 1333–1343. 98 indexed citations

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Kokorelias, Kristina M., et al.. (2019). “Caregiving is a full‐time job” impacting stroke caregivers' health and well‐being: A qualitative meta‐synthesis. Health & Social Care in the Community. 28(2). 325–340. 63 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, Chang Lu, Yi Xu, et al.. (2018). Nanoscale Phase Measurement for the Shale Challenge: Multicomponent Fluids in Multiscale Volumes. Langmuir. 34(34). 9927–9935. 59 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, Ali Abedini, Lining Xu, et al.. (2018). Nanomodel visualization of fluid injections in tight formations. Nanoscale. 10(46). 21994–22002. 62 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, Jason Riordon, Seyed Hadi Zandavi, et al.. (2018). Capillary Condensation in 8 nm Deep Channels. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(3). 497–503. 72 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, et al.. (2018). Direct Visualization of Evaporation in a Two-Dimensional Nanoporous Model for Unconventional Natural Gas. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 1(3). 1332–1338. 49 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, et al.. (2018). Fluorescence in sub-10 nm channels with an optical enhancement layer. Lab on a Chip. 18(4). 568–573. 14 indexed citations

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Zhong, Junjie, Yuanjie Pang, Seyed Hadi Zandavi, et al.. (2017). Direct visualization of fluid dynamics in sub-10 nm nanochannels. Nanoscale. 9(27). 9556–9561. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Wulin, et al.. (2016). Determination of 15 phthalate esters in plastic products by ultra performance convergence chromatography. Chinese Journal of Chromatography. 34(8). 795–795. 2 indexed citations

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