Yifan Chen

5.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
92 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Yifan Chen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Chen has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 29 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yifan Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers). Yifan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers). Yifan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Yifan Chen's co-authors include Yawen Tang, Gengtao Fu, Dongmei Sun, Jong‐Min Lee, John B. Goodenough, Lin Xu, Zhiming Cui, Zhijuan Li, Yutao Li and Xiaoxiao Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Chen

85 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Atomic Fe Dispersed on N‐Doped Carbon Hollow Nanospheres for High‐Efficiency Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction

2018 627 citations Yifan Chen, Dongmei Sun et al. profile →
Boosting Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis with 3D Graphene Aerogel‐Supported Ni/MnO Particles

2017 606 citations Gengtao Fu, Yifan Chen et al. profile →
Ni₃Fe‐N Doped Carbon Sheets as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Air Cathodes

2016 373 citations Gengtao Fu, Yifan Chen et al. profile →
Exploring Indium‐Based Ternary Thiospinel as Conceivable High‐Potential Air‐Cathode for Rechargeable Zn–Air Batteries

2018 257 citations Gengtao Fu, Yifan Chen et al. profile →

Peers

Yifan Chen

RESE

EEE

EOMM

Yan Zhou China

Jingwen Sun China

N. Rajalakshmi India

Jin Young Kim South Korea

Rui Wang China

Cristina Flox Spain

Bo Yu China

Soorathep Kheawhom Thailand

Huimin Yu China

Zhong‐Jie Jiang China

Yan Zhou China

Yifan Chen

1.9k ×0.7

RESE

2.0k ×0.7

EEE

1.2k ×1.3

541 ×0.6

EOMM

187 ×0.6

Citations per year, relative to Yifan Chen Yifan Chen (= 1×) peers Yan Zhou

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Chen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Chen

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

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Jin, Meng, Ming‐Cheng Luo, Ying Hu, et al.. (2025). A supramolecular approach to improve the performance and operational stability of all-perovskite tandem solar cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7173–7173. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yifan, Bincheng Xu, Krisztina László, & Ying Wang. (2024). Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction: The synthesis, recovery and upgradation of ammonia. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(2). 112348–112348. 22 indexed citations

Jiang, Qing, Lei Wang, Haipeng Wei, et al.. (2024). A Kinetically Stabilized Dianthraceno[2,3‐a:3′,2′‐h]‐s‐Indacene: Stable Kekulé Diradical Polycyclic Hydrocarbon with Triplet Ground State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(12). e202422994–e202422994. 6 indexed citations

Chen, Yifan, et al.. (2024). Refinement of Norrbin Model via Correlations between Dimensionless Cross-Flow Coefficient and Hydrodynamic Derivatives. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 12(5). 752–752.

Li, Rong, et al.. (2023). Activation of Peracetic Acid by CoFe2O4 for Efficient Degradation of Ofloxacin: Reactive Species and Mechanism. Molecules. 28(23). 7906–7906. 17 indexed citations

Niu, Xiaogang, Nan Li, Yifan Chen, et al.. (2023). Structure Evolution of V₂O₅ as Electrode Materials for Metal‐Ion Batteries. Batteries & Supercaps. 6(9). 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Hao, Qingxin Yang, Changgeng Zhang, Yongjian Li, & Yifan Chen. (2023). Magnetic Properties Simulation of Electrical Steel Sheet Based on Recurrent Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 60(3). 1–4. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yifan, et al.. (2023). Classification and prediction of radon stable zone in uranium tailings pond: a case study from uranium tailings pond in sothern China. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 332(2). 251–259. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Kun, Jingwen Li, Ye Kuang, et al.. (2023). Rainfall–Runoff Process Simulation in the Karst Spring Basins Using a SAC–Tank Model. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering. 28(9). 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yujie, Yifan Chen, Qiang Wu, et al.. (2022). Improved Hydrophobic, UV Barrier and Antibacterial Properties of Multifunctional PVA Nanocomposite Films Reinforced with Modified Lignin Contained Cellulose Nanofibers. Polymers. 14(9). 1705–1705. 34 indexed citations

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Lin, Yu‐Liang, et al.. (2022). Photoresponsive Single-Ion Nanocomposite Hydrogels: Competition of Host–Guest Interactions. Macromolecules. 55(19). 8940–8949. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Yifan, Qingxin Yang, Changgeng Zhang, Yongjian Li, & Jiajun Wang. (2021). Magnetic-Thermal Coupling Analysis of Saturable Reactor. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 58(2). 1–5. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Alexander N., et al.. (2021). Galvanic replacement of intermetallic nanocrystals as a route toward complex heterostructures. Nanoscale. 13(4). 2618–2625. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Yifan, Xun Zhan, Sandra L. A. Bueno, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of monodisperse high entropy alloy nanocatalysts from core@shell nanoparticles. Nanoscale Horizons. 6(3). 231–237. 96 indexed citations

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Gamler, Jocelyn T. L., Kihyun Shin, Hannah M. Ashberry, et al.. (2020). Intermetallic Pd₃Pb nanocubes with high selectivity for the 4-electron oxygen reduction reaction pathway. Nanoscale. 12(4). 2532–2541. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Yifan, Qian Li, Yujie Li, et al.. (2020). Fabrication of Cellulose Nanocrystal-g-Poly(Acrylic Acid-Co-Acrylamide) Aerogels for Efficient Pb(II) Removal. Polymers. 12(2). 333–333. 38 indexed citations

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Fu, Gengtao, Yu Liu, Yifan Chen, et al.. (2018). Robust N-doped carbon aerogels strongly coupled with iron–cobalt particles as efficient bifunctional catalysts for rechargeable Zn–air batteries. Nanoscale. 10(42). 19937–19944. 157 indexed citations

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Fu, Gengtao, Xian Jiang, Yifan Chen, et al.. (2018). Robust bifunctional oxygen electrocatalyst with a “rigid and flexible” structure for air-cathodes. NPG Asia Materials. 10(7). 618–629. 82 indexed citations

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Chen, Yifan, Yifan Yang, Gengtao Fu, et al.. (2018). Core–shell CuPd@Pd tetrahedra with concave structures and Pd-enriched surface boost formic acid oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(23). 10632–10638. 81 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yingfang, Yan Xia, Saisai Yan, et al.. (2018). One-step green synthesis of composition-tunable Pt–Cu alloy nanowire networks with high catalytic activity for 4-nitrophenol reduction. Dalton Transactions. 47(48). 17461–17468. 25 indexed citations

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