Yifan Nie

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yifan Nie is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Nie has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yifan Nie's work include 2D Materials and Applications (14 papers), Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (11 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (10 papers). Yifan Nie is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (14 papers), Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (11 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (10 papers). Yifan Nie collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Yifan Nie's co-authors include Kyeongjae Cho, Xinyu Bai, Qidong Hou, Meiting Ju, Hengli Qian, Yongping Zheng, Chaoping Liang, Chuanyunlong Bai, Meinan Zhen and Robert M. Wallace and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yifan Nie

59 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

  1. Biorefinery roadmap based on catalytic production and upgrading 5-hydroxymethylfurfural
    2020 341 citations Qidong Hou, Meinan Zhen et al. profile →

Peers

Yifan Nie
Si Wang China
Jiahao Chen China
Wen He China
Jiaqiang Li China
Qiang Zhao China
Jingyuan Zhou China
Pu Liu China
Ming Yin China
Hao Sun China
Xing Li China
Si Wang China
Yifan Nie
Citations per year, relative to Yifan Nie Yifan Nie (= 1×) peers Si Wang

Countries citing papers authored by Yifan Nie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yifan Nie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yifan Nie

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

All Works

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Nie, Yifan, Chang Liu, Muhammad Dilawer Hayat, et al.. (2025). A high-strength and ductile titanium alloy fabricated by metal injection molding. Materials Science and Engineering A. 940. 148562–148562.
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Zhang, Qiubo, et al.. (2024). In situ atomic observation of transformation twinning in nanocrystals. Nano Today. 60. 102547–102547.
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Peng, Xinxing, Junyi Shangguan, Qiubo Zhang, et al.. (2024). Unveiling Corrosion Pathways of Sn Nanocrystals through High-Resolution Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy. Nano Letters. 24(4). 1168–1175. 11 indexed citations
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Yao, Wei, et al.. (2023). Study on the Recognition of Coal Miners’ Unsafe Behavior and Status in the Hoist Cage Based on Machine Vision. Sensors. 23(21). 8794–8794. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiubo, Xinxing Peng, Yifan Nie, et al.. (2022). Defect-mediated ripening of core-shell nanostructures. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2211–2211. 32 indexed citations
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Hou, Qidong, Meinan Zhen, Hengli Qian, et al.. (2021). Upcycling and catalytic degradation of plastic wastes. Cell Reports Physical Science. 2(8). 100514–100514. 247 indexed citations
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Yeon, Han‐Wool, Peng Lin, Chanyeol Choi, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Alloying conducting channels for reliable neuromorphic computing. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 615–615. 4 indexed citations
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Yeon, Han‐Wool, Peng Lin, Chanyeol Choi, et al.. (2020). Alloying conducting channels for reliable neuromorphic computing. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(7). 574–579. 218 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yongping, Sampreetha Thampy, Nickolas Ashburn, et al.. (2019). Stable and Active Oxidation Catalysis by Cooperative Lattice Oxygen Redox on SmMn2O5 Mullite Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(27). 10722–10728. 82 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hui, Rafik Addou, Yifan Nie, et al.. (2019). Surface and interfacial study of atomic layer deposited Al 2 O 3 on MoTe 2 and WTe 2. Nanotechnology. 31(5). 55704–55704. 14 indexed citations
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Pan, Yi, Stefan Fölsch, Yu‐Chuan Lin, et al.. (2018). WSe 2 homojunctions and quantum dots created by patterned hydrogenation of epitaxial graphene substrates. 2D Materials. 6(2). 21001–21001. 10 indexed citations
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Liang, Chaoping, Roberto C. Longo, Fantai Kong, et al.. (2018). Ab Initio Study on Surface Segregation and Anisotropy of Ni-Rich LiNi1–2yCoyMnyO2 (NCM) (y ≤ 0.1) Cathodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(7). 6673–6680. 68 indexed citations
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Nie, Yifan, Alessandro Sordoni, & Jian‐Yun Nie. (2018). Multi-level Abstraction Convolutional Model with Weak Supervision for Information Retrieval. 985–988. 11 indexed citations
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Nie, Yifan, Adam T. Barton, Rafik Addou, et al.. (2018). Dislocation driven spiral and non-spiral growth in layered chalcogenides. Nanoscale. 10(31). 15023–15034. 29 indexed citations
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Kong, Fantai, Roberto C. Longo, Chaoping Liang, et al.. (2017). Charge-transfer modified embedded atom method dynamic charge potential for Li–Co–O system. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 29(47). 475903–475903. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Qingbo, Chaoping Liang, Yongping Zheng, et al.. (2017). First principles study of the Mn-doping effect on the physical and chemical properties of mullite-family Al2SiO5. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(36). 24991–25001. 3 indexed citations
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Nie, Yifan, Chaoping Liang, Pil-Ryung Cha, et al.. (2017). A kinetic Monte Carlo simulation method of van der Waals epitaxy for atomistic nucleation-growth processes of transition metal dichalcogenides. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2977–2977. 76 indexed citations
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Lin, Yu‐Chuan, Jun Li, Sergio C. de la Barrera, et al.. (2016). Tuning electronic transport in epitaxial graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures. Nanoscale. 8(16). 8947–8954. 19 indexed citations
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