Yi Zheng

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
82 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yi Zheng is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Zheng has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 38 papers in Materials Chemistry and 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yi Zheng's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (29 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (15 papers) and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (9 papers). Yi Zheng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (29 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (15 papers) and Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (9 papers). Yi Zheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Yi Zheng's co-authors include Gang Chen, Yaoguang Yu, Yansong Zhou, Fang He, Sue Hao, Feng Jiang, Zhengyang Yu, Haiming Xu, Ningsheng Cai and Yixiang Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Journal of Power Sources and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yi Zheng

75 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

3D Printed Cellulose Nanofiber Aerogel Scaffold with Hier... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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. 3D Printed Cellulose Nanofiber Aerogel Scaffold with Hierarchical Porous Structures for Fast Solar‐Driven Atmospheric Water Harvesting
    2023 129 citations Penghui Zhu, Zhengyang Yu et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yi Zheng China 23 1.1k 1.1k 821 294 210 82 1.9k
Xiaojing Li China 27 1.2k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 976 1.2× 247 0.8× 420 2.0× 44 2.7k
Yanqing Zhu China 22 385 0.4× 579 0.5× 768 0.9× 345 1.2× 266 1.3× 75 1.6k
Wei Feng China 27 1.0k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 834 1.0× 287 1.0× 266 1.3× 123 2.3k
Anqi Wang China 24 522 0.5× 585 0.6× 1.0k 1.3× 335 1.1× 341 1.6× 69 1.9k
Yong Yang China 29 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.7× 401 1.4× 451 2.1× 95 2.8k
Shiyi Cao China 23 592 0.5× 649 0.6× 622 0.8× 171 0.6× 204 1.0× 65 1.5k
Jiahao Lin China 24 676 0.6× 731 0.7× 769 0.9× 278 0.9× 259 1.2× 44 1.6k
Guang Zhu China 25 707 0.6× 844 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 184 0.6× 251 1.2× 87 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yi Zheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yi Zheng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yi Zheng. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yi Zheng. The network helps show where Yi Zheng may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Zheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yi Zheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yi Zheng 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 Zheng. Yi Zheng 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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Zheng, Yi, et al.. (2025). Multivalent Rh@RhOx and MnOx-Modified CdS for Robust and Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(19). 14149–14159. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Wen, et al.. (2025). Research progress on antimony selenide photocathode for photocatalytic water splitting. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology. 53(7). 1025–1037.
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Qin, Hailan, et al.. (2024). Boosting carriers transfer efficiency by 3D vector channels for ameliorating photosynthesis H2O2. Separation and Purification Technology. 355. 129785–129785. 1 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yi, et al.. (2024). Fe3O4@BA-Imid-Pyrim-Pd(0) Nanocomposite: An Efficient and Recoverable Catalyst for Azidation/Carbonylation Coupling Reactions. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials. 35(4). 2487–2501. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Yi, et al.. (2024). Influence of confinement on the thermophysical property of paraffin wax/Kevlar nanofibrous phase change film. Journal of Energy Storage. 104. 114553–114553.
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Zhu, Penghui, Zhengyang Yu, Hao Sun, et al.. (2023). 3D Printed Cellulose Nanofiber Aerogel Scaffold with Hierarchical Porous Structures for Fast Solar‐Driven Atmospheric Water Harvesting. Advanced Materials. 36(1). e2306653–e2306653. 129 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Jianjun, Ting Zhang, Yuxia Shen, et al.. (2022). Polyethylene Glycol / Nanofibrous Kevlar Aerogel Composite: Fabrication, Confinement Effect, Thermal Energy Storage and Insulation Performance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yi, Hale Oğuzlu, Alberto Baldelli, et al.. (2022). Sprayable cellulose nanofibrils stabilized phase change material Pickering emulsion for spray coating application. Carbohydrate Polymers. 291. 119583–119583. 42 indexed citations
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Chen, Lan, et al.. (2021). Third-order nonlinear optical properties of axially modified indium phthalocyanines with alkyl chains. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(22). 10021–10030. 9 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yi, Junqing Shi, Haiming Xu, et al.. (2021). The bifunctional Lewis acid site improved reactive oxygen species production: a detailed study of surface acid site modulation of TiO2 using ethanol and Br−. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(2). 565–571. 8 indexed citations
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Zhai, Ming, et al.. (2019). Numerical study on the fusion gasification characteristics for a char particle. Powder Technology. 361. 719–726. 2 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yi, et al.. (2018). MFSC: Mean-Field-Theory and Spreading-Coefficient Based Degree Distribution Analysis in Social Network. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems. 12(8).
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He, Fang, Gang Chen, Yaoguang Yu, et al.. (2015). The synthesis of condensed C-PDA–g-C3N4 composites with superior photocatalytic performance. Chemical Communications. 51(31). 6824–6827. 105 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yi, Qi‐Yue Yu, Weixiao Meng, & Cheng Li. (2013). A red-based discard strategy for unacknowledged mode RLC in LTE. 4753–4758. 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Ying, Wei Gao, Qin Zhou, Yi Zheng, & Zheng You. (2010). Characterization of the gas sensors based on polymer-coated resonant microcantilevers for the detection of volatile organic compounds. Analytica Chimica Acta. 671(1-2). 85–91. 52 indexed citations
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Cai, Qiang, et al.. (1999). Phase separation of CaO·Al2O3 ·SiO2 glasses induced by electric field. Journal of Materials Science. 34(14). 3455–3459. 8 indexed citations
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Xie, Jun, Yi Zheng, & Jia Feng. (1997). Investigations on structural properties of carbon nitride films synthesized by reactive ionized cluster beam deposition. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 122(2). 239–243. 16 indexed citations

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