Yifan Li

2.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Yifan Li is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Li has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yifan Li's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Yifan Li is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Yifan Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yifan Li's co-authors include Yi Cui, Xinhe Bao, Shuang Hou, Wenbin Gong, Guang Yang, Qiang Fu, Juan Wang, Rui Gao, Bin Liu and Changfeng Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Li

66 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Metallic W/WO2 solid-acid catalyst boosts hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline electrolyte

2023 152 citations Wenbin Gong, Shuang Hou et al. Nature Communications profile →
Stress-mediated copper-molybdenum alloy enables boosted hydrogen evolution activity

2025 43 citations Yuming Xie, Yifan Li et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

2025 41 citations Zhi‐Gang Chen, Minghao Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Li

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microstructure and degradation behavior of Mg-6Zn-1Y-0.5Zr-0.5Cu alloy for fracturing ball applications 2025 ·Materials Today Communications ·Hongmin Jia, Wenzhe Guo, Yifan Li, Yuntao Xi, (unknown), Lei Wang	0
2	Stress-mediated copper-molybdenum alloy enables boosted hydrogen evolution activity breakdown → 2025 ·Acta Materialia ·Yuming Xie, (unknown), Yifan Li, Xiaotian Ma, Naijie Wang, Xiangchen Meng, Yongxian Huang	43
3	Highly Dispersed Cobalt Phosphide in Zeolites: Unlocking Superior Efficiency in Ammonia Borane Hydrolysis 2025 ·Small ·Shiqi Wang, Yicheng Yu, Tengfei Jiang, Tianjun Zhang, Yifan Li, Qiming Sun	1
4	Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), Yilin Zhao, Yifan Li, Jun Ma, (unknown), (unknown), Yanhua Luo, Guang Yang, Yi Cui, Dong Liu, Yujie Xiong	1
5	Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction breakdown → 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Zhi‐Gang Chen, Minghao Yang, Yifan Li, Wenbin Gong, Juan Wang, Tong Liu, (unknown), Shuang Hou, Guang Yang, Hao Li, Ye Jin, Chunyan Zhang, Zhongqing Tian, Fancheng Meng, Yi Cui	41
6	Tailoring Oxygen Vacancies with Atomically Dispersed Cu Sites for Stable and Efficient Photothermal CO ₂ Conversion 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Yilin Zhao, Yifan Li, Jun Ma, (unknown), Cheng Liu, Yanhua Luo, Guang Yang, Yi Cui, Dong Liu, Yujie Xiong	12
7	Alcohol Use Disorder During Pregnancy: Harmonizing Multiple Datasets 2025 ·Journal of Addiction Medicine ·(unknown), Yifan Li, Yezhe Lin, Hendrée E. Jones, Richard A. Grucza, Caitlin E. Martin, (unknown), Kevin Y. Xu	1
8	Tailoring OH Formation and Desorption on Nickel Catalysts via Surface Oxidation for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Stability and Kinetics 2025 ·ACS Catalysis ·Yu Kang, Chunyu Zhang, (unknown), Yifan Li, (unknown), Rong Huang, (unknown), (unknown), Xunhua Zhao, Yi Cui	1
9	Electrosynthesis of NH3 from NO with ampere-level current density in a pressurized electrolyzer 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Wenqiang Yang, Huan Liu, Xiaoxia Chang, Yunlong Zhang, Yafeng Cai, Yifan Li, Yi Cui, Bingjun Xu, Liang Yu, Xiaoju Cui, Dehui Deng	18
10	Integrating photochemical and photothermal effects for selective oxidative coupling of methane into C2+ hydrocarbons with multiple active sites 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Hui Song, Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, Shangbo Ning, Shengyao Wang, Zhuan Wang, Yuxiang Weng, Yi Cui, Yifan Li, Xusheng Wang, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Zhou‐jun Wang, Jinhua Ye	13
11	Phase-controlled CoMo-based heterostructures for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media 2024 ·International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ·(unknown), Guang Yang, (unknown), Chunyu Zhang, Yifan Li, Guoliang Gao, Yi Cui	2
12	Cannabidiol prescribing in the United States: An analysis of real-world data 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), (unknown), Yifan Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jacob T. Borodovsky, Fábio A. Nascimento, Kevin Y. Xu	3
13	Molecular tuning boosts asymmetric C-C coupling for CO conversion to acetate 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Jie Ding, Fuhua Li, Xinyi Ren, Yuhang Liu, Yifan Li, Zheng Shen, Tian Wang, Weijue Wang, Yang‐Gang Wang, Yi Cui, Hongbin Yang, (unknown), Bin Liu	43
14	Boosting Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction via Axial Coordination Engineering on Single‐Iron‐Atom Catalysts 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Yang Yang, (unknown), Xuehai Tan, Keren Jiang, Shengli Zhai, Yifan Li, Xuesong Xie, Ning Chen, Hao Zhang, Zhi Li	40
15	Visualizing Catalytic Dynamics of Single-Cu-Atom-Modified SnS₂ in CO₂ Electroreduction via Rapid Freeze-Quench Mössbauer Spectroscopy 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ruru Chen, Jian Zhao, Xiong Zhang, Qiao Zhao, Yifan Li, Yi Cui, Miao Zhong, Junhu Wang, Xuning Li, Yanqiang Huang, Bin Liu	29
16	LaCl3-based sodium halide solid electrolytes with high ionic conductivity for all-solid-state batteries 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Chengyu Fu, Yifan Li, Wenjie Xu, Xuyong Feng, (unknown), Jue Liu, Wenwen Deng, Wei Wang, Milinda Abeykoon, Laisuo Su, Lingyun Zhu, Xiaojun Wu, Hongfa Xiang	47
17	Theoretical insights into the extraction behaviors of neptunium(VI) and plutonium(IV) based on the structure of organophosphorus ligands 2023 ·Separation and Purification Technology ·(unknown), Yizhi Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Yifan Li, Hui He, Mingzhang Lin	4
18	Boosting C–C coupling to multicarbon products via high-pressure CO electroreduction 2023 ·Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Wenqiang Yang, Huan Liu, Yutai Qi, Yifan Li, Yi Cui, Liang Yu, Xiaoju Cui, Dehui Deng	13
19	Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopic Tracking the Metastable State of Atomically Dispersed Tin in Copper Oxide for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction 2023 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ruru Chen, Jian Zhao, Yifan Li, Yi Cui, Ying‐Rui Lu, Sung‐Fu Hung, Shifu Wang, Weijue Wang, (unknown), Yang Zhao, Wei Liu, Junhu Wang, Hai Xiao, Xuning Li, Yanqiang Huang, Bin Liu	57
20	Observing the reconstruction of cobalt oxide model catalyst in electrocatalytic water oxidation 2023 ·Applied Surface Science ·(unknown), Xuefei Weng, Yu Kang, (unknown), Yifan Li, Cheng Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), Tong Liu, Wei Wei, Zhongmiao Gong, (unknown), Zhi‐Gang Chen, Yi Cui	11

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