Yichao Hou

772 total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 602 citations indexed

About

Yichao Hou is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichao Hou has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 602 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Yichao Hou's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (4 papers). Yichao Hou is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (4 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (4 papers). Yichao Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Australia. Yichao Hou's co-authors include Pinxian Xi, Yang Hu, Wei Shen, Chun‐Hua Yan, Jie Yin, Li An, Yao Zheng, Min Lu, Yong Peng and Nan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yichao Hou

10 papers receiving 596 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.

Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction

2023 221 citations Yang Hu, Yao Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rare-Earth-Modified NiS₂ Improves OH Coverage for an Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolyzer

2024 91 citations Wei Shen, Yao Zheng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yichao Hou China	9	476	370	199	124	93	11	602
Kyu‐Su Kim South Korea	13	525 1.1×	449 1.2×	214 1.1×	79 0.6×	63 0.7×	32	671
Zenan Bian China	11	373 0.8×	326 0.9×	148 0.7×	68 0.5×	68 0.7×	18	515
Gyeong Ho Han South Korea	13	514 1.1×	375 1.0×	183 0.9×	49 0.4×	95 1.0×	28	632
Gabriel C. da Silva Brazil	13	541 1.1×	449 1.2×	162 0.8×	76 0.6×	53 0.6×	21	621
Ana Araújo Portugal	12	905 1.9×	729 2.0×	229 1.2×	141 1.1×	102 1.1×	14	1.0k
Guangliang Lin China	10	372 0.8×	281 0.8×	136 0.7×	48 0.4×	57 0.6×	15	466
Anna K. Mechler Germany	13	603 1.3×	497 1.3×	150 0.8×	124 1.0×	47 0.5×	35	689
Guanchao He China	10	609 1.3×	425 1.1×	272 1.4×	88 0.7×	67 0.7×	12	707
Caidi Han China	8	402 0.8×	349 0.9×	113 0.6×	84 0.7×	39 0.4×	8	483
Jordy J. J. Eggebeen Netherlands	6	376 0.8×	274 0.7×	147 0.7×	114 0.9×	54 0.6×	7	482

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichao Hou

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Yang, Zi, Yichao Hou, Zidong He, et al.. (2025). Rare‐Earth Y–O Skeleton‐Mediated Stabilization of Cu ²⁺ for Efficient CO ₂ Electroreduction to CH ₄. Small. 21(27). e2503169–e2503169.

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Zhang, Zhuang, Pengfei Da, Li An, et al.. (2024). Ceria‐Optimized Oxygen‐Species Exchange in Hierarchical Bimetallic Hydroxide for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2406682–e2406682. 49 indexed citations

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Hou, Yichao, Jie Yin, Jiayi Yang, et al.. (2024). CeO_2−δ as Electron Donor in Co_0.07Ce_0.93O_2−δ Solid Solution Boosts Alkaline Water Splitting. Advanced Science. 12(4). e2411845–e2411845. 5 indexed citations

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Shen, Wei, Yao Zheng, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Rare-Earth-Modified NiS₂ Improves OH Coverage for an Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolyzer. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(8). 5324–5332. 91 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yang, Zi, Zhi Li, Zidong He, et al.. (2023). Ceo₂/Cus Nanoplates Electroreduce Co₂ to Ethanol with Stabilized Cu⁺ Species. Small. 19(40). e2303099–e2303099. 62 indexed citations

6.

Hu, Yang, Yao Zheng, Yong Peng, et al.. (2023). Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1949–1949. 221 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Li, Qingyu, Yichao Hou, Jie Yin, & Pinxian Xi. (2023). The Evolution of Hexagonal Cobalt Nanosheets for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction Reaction. Catalysts. 13(10). 1384–1384. 11 indexed citations

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Tian, Meng, et al.. (2023). Doping and pretreatment optimized the adsorption of *OCHO on bismuth for the electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂to formate. Nanoscale. 15(9). 4477–4487. 10 indexed citations

9.

Wang, Kai, Jimin Qiu, Fuchen Hou, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the Role of Surficial Oxygen Vacancies in Stabilizing Li‐Rich Layered Oxides. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(32). 71 indexed citations

10.

Shen, Wei, Jie Yin, Yang Hu, et al.. (2022). Progress in In Situ Research on Dynamic Surface Reconstruction of Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(8). 39 indexed citations

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Shen, Wei, Jing Jin, Yang Hu, et al.. (2022). Surface chlorine doped perovskite-type cobaltate lanthanum for water oxidation. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 43(6). 1485–1492. 43 indexed citations

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