Yicui Kang

566 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 376 citations indexed

About

Yicui Kang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yicui Kang has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 376 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yicui Kang's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (4 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (4 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (3 papers). Yicui Kang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (4 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (4 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (3 papers). Yicui Kang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Taiwan. Yicui Kang's co-authors include Emiliano Cortés, Rui Lin, Simone Ezendam, Ana Sousa‐Castillo, Matías Herran, Nan Lin, Christoph Gruber, Julián Gargiulo, Junwei Fu and Min Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yicui Kang

9 papers receiving 370 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.

Metal vacancies in semiconductor oxides enhance hole mobility for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting

2025 42 citations Jun Wang, Kang Liu et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yicui Kang Germany	6	268	213	82	75	67	9	376
Zhen He Hong Kong	9	299 1.1×	238 1.1×	153 1.9×	38 0.5×	95 1.4×	14	459
Rishi Verma India	9	356 1.3×	358 1.7×	67 0.8×	95 1.3×	98 1.5×	11	566
Zhiguang Sun China	10	278 1.0×	310 1.5×	159 1.9×	56 0.7×	47 0.7×	27	431
Haoyue Sun Australia	11	168 0.6×	183 0.9×	85 1.0×	17 0.2×	57 0.9×	31	293
Hsiang‐Ting Lien Taiwan	8	248 0.9×	217 1.0×	146 1.8×	25 0.3×	28 0.4×	11	376
Suresh Kukunuri Japan	10	334 1.2×	186 0.9×	208 2.5×	46 0.6×	77 1.1×	10	452
Jamie A. Trindell United States	10	262 1.0×	210 1.0×	121 1.5×	42 0.6×	106 1.6×	16	420
Xingmo Zhang Australia	11	197 0.7×	216 1.0×	139 1.7×	28 0.4×	57 0.9×	31	354
Francesco Tavella Italy	13	472 1.8×	279 1.3×	145 1.8×	34 0.5×	122 1.8×	20	561
Sheng‐Chih Lin Taiwan	11	306 1.1×	167 0.8×	164 2.0×	66 0.9×	101 1.5×	15	425

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yicui Kang

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

All Works

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Wang, Jun, Kang Liu, Wanru Liao, et al.. (2025). Metal vacancies in semiconductor oxides enhance hole mobility for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting. Nature Catalysis. 8(3). 229–238. 42 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kang, Yicui, Wenjie Tian, Huayang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Promoting Formation and Suppressing Decomposition of H ₂ O ₂ via Photocarrier Flow at Au@TiO ₂ Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47244–47254. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Li, Kang Liu, Hui Li, et al.. (2025). Plasmon-Enhanced C₂H₄ Generation in the CO₂ Electroreduction Reaction on a CuPd Tandem Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(36). 33003–33009. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jun, Wanru Liao, Olivier Henrotte, et al.. (2025). Transfer dynamics of photo-generated carriers in catalysis. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(13). 6553–6596. 21 indexed citations

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Liang, Suzhe, Yicui Kang, Evangelina Pensa, et al.. (2024). High-Power Impulse Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Ag on Self-Assembled Au Nanoparticle Arrays at Low-Temperature Dewetting Conditions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(30). 40286–40296. 4 indexed citations

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Kang, Yicui, Rui Lin, Kang Liu, et al.. (2024). Effect of crystal facets in plasmonic catalysis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3923–3923. 37 indexed citations

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Cai, Chao, Bao Liu, Kang Liu, et al.. (2022). Heteroatoms Induce Localization of the Electric Field and Promote a Wide Potential‐Window Selectivity Towards CO in the CO₂ Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(44). 8 indexed citations

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Ezendam, Simone, Matías Herran, Nan Lin, et al.. (2022). Hybrid Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Generation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 7(2). 778–815. 181 indexed citations

9.

Cai, Chao, Bao Liu, Kang Liu, et al.. (2022). Heteroatoms Induce Localization of the Electric Field and Promote a Wide Potential‐Window Selectivity Towards CO in the CO₂ Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(44). e202212640–e202212640. 81 indexed citations

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