Yifan Ye

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
102 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Yifan Ye is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yifan Ye has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 44 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yifan Ye's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (18 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers). Yifan Ye is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (18 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers). Yifan Ye collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Yifan Ye's co-authors include Jinghua Guo, Junfa Zhu, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao, Fan Cai, Rui Si, Shu Miao, Haihua Wu, Yanshuo Li and Haobo Li 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

Yifan Ye

99 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Coordinatively unsaturated nickel–nitrogen sites towards selective and high-rate CO₂electroreduction

2018 709 citations Yifan Ye et al. profile →
High-Rate, Ultralong Cycle-Life Lithium/Sulfur Batteries Enabled by Nitrogen-Doped Graphene

2014 681 citations Yifan Ye, Jinghua Guo et al. profile →
Promoting nickel oxidation state transitions in single-layer NiFeB hydroxide nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution

2022 256 citations Yu Wu, Xichen Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yifan Ye China	35	3.8k	3.6k	2.5k	1.1k	668	102	6.7k
Xiaobo Zheng China	36	3.5k 0.9×	3.7k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	795 0.7×	412 0.6×	91	6.2k
Tian Sheng China	48	4.8k 1.3×	4.2k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	355 0.5×	177	7.7k
Yuguang Li China	39	4.8k 1.3×	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 2.4×	804 1.2×	145	9.1k
Shunning Li China	39	2.0k 0.5×	3.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	832 0.7×	698 1.0×	128	6.2k
Xiongwu Kang China	43	3.2k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	733 0.6×	221 0.3×	112	5.2k
Ming Qiu China	44	5.7k 1.5×	5.0k 1.4×	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	147 0.2×	169	8.5k
Jong Hyun Jang South Korea	59	6.9k 1.8×	7.8k 2.2×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	541 0.8×	265	10.9k
Magali Ferrandon United States	38	2.5k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	157 0.2×	80	5.5k
Ning Zhang China	52	5.4k 1.4×	5.1k 1.4×	4.8k 1.9×	936 0.8×	395 0.6×	301	10.2k
Mohsen Shakouri Canada	33	3.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	1.9k 1.7×	145 0.2×	122	5.1k

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Ni, Baoxin, Huazhang Guo, Hao Yang, et al.. (2025). Oxygen functionalization of carbon quantum dots enables efficient acidic hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis. Nature Communications. 17(1). 221–221. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jiawei, Bifa Ji, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2025). Copper‐Catalysed Electrochemical CO₂ Methanation via the Alloying of Single Cobalt Atoms. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202417008–e202417008. 8 indexed citations

Li, Jiawei, Bifa Ji, Sunpei Hu, et al.. (2025). Copper‐Catalysed Electrochemical CO₂ Methanation via the Alloying of Single Cobalt Atoms. Angewandte Chemie. 137(8).

Tu, Yi, Dongling Zhang, Jun Hu, et al.. (2024). Modulating Nanoparticle Structure by Metal–Metal Oxide Interfacial Interaction in a CeO₂-Supported Bimetallic System: The Ni–Cu Case. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(15). 4096–4104. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Xiangru, Grayson Johnson, Yifan Ye, et al.. (2023). Surfactants Used in Colloidal Synthesis Modulate Ni Nanoparticle Surface Evolution for Selective CO₂ Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(26). 14298–14306. 25 indexed citations

Wu, Yu, Xichen Zhou, Yifan Ye, et al.. (2022). Promoting nickel oxidation state transitions in single-layer NiFeB hydroxide nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6094–6094. 256 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Guiji, Fan Zheng, Junrui Li, et al.. (2021). Investigation and mitigation of degradation mechanisms in Cu2O photoelectrodes for CO2 reduction to ethylene. Nature Energy. 6(12). 1124–1132. 139 indexed citations

Su, Hongyang, Yifan Ye, Kyung Jae Lee, Jie Zeng, & Ethan J. Crumlin. (2021). Probing the nickel corrosion phenomena in alkaline electrolyte using tender x-ray ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(37). 374001–374001. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Hao, Fábio R. Negreiros, Qintao Sun, et al.. (2021). Predictions of Chemical Shifts for Reactive Intermediates in CO₂ Reduction under Operando Conditions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(27). 31554–31560. 13 indexed citations

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Su, Hongyang, Yifan Ye, Kyung Jae Lee, et al.. (2020). Probing the surface chemistry for reverse water gas shift reaction on Pt(1 1 1) using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Catalysis. 391. 123–131. 18 indexed citations

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Leclerc, Maxime, et al.. (2020). An APXPS Probe of Cu/Pd Bimetallic Catalyst Surface Chemistry of CO₂ Toward CO in the Presence of H₂O and H₂. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(31). 17085–17094. 3 indexed citations

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Ye, Yifan, Jin Qian, Hao Yang, et al.. (2020). Synergy between a Silver–Copper Surface Alloy Composition and Carbon Dioxide Adsorption and Activation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(22). 25374–25382. 20 indexed citations

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Yun, Dong‐Jin, Monika Blum, Yifan Ye, et al.. (2020). Revealing In Situ Li Metal Anode Surface Evolution upon Exposure to CO₂ Using Ambient Pressure X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(23). 26607–26613. 32 indexed citations

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Lee, Soo Hong, John C. Lin, Maryam Farmand, et al.. (2020). Oxidation State and Surface Reconstruction of Cu under CO₂ Reduction Conditions from In Situ X-ray Characterization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(2). 588–592. 279 indexed citations

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Ye, Yifan, Hao Yang, Jin Qian, et al.. (2019). Dramatic differences in carbon dioxide adsorption and initial steps of reduction between silver and copper. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1875–1875. 90 indexed citations

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Qian, Jin, Yifan Ye, Hao Yang, et al.. (2019). Initial Steps in Forming the Electrode–Electrolyte Interface: H₂O Adsorption and Complex Formation on the Ag(111) Surface from Combining Quantum Mechanics Calculations and Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(17). 6946–6954. 24 indexed citations

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Farmand, Maryam, Alan Landers, John C. Lin, et al.. (2019). Electrochemical flow cell enabling operando probing of electrocatalyst surfaces by X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(10). 5402–5408. 48 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lan, Aniketa Shinde, Joseph H. Montoya, et al.. (2018). Rutile Alloys in the Mn–Sb–O System Stabilize Mn³⁺ To Enable Oxygen Evolution in Strong Acid. ACS Catalysis. 8(12). 10938–10948. 127 indexed citations

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Comer, Benjamin M., Marm Dixit, Kelsey B. Hatzell, et al.. (2018). The Role of Adventitious Carbon in Photo-catalytic Nitrogen Fixation by Titania. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(45). 15157–15160. 94 indexed citations

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Ye, Yifan, James E. Thorne, Chenghao Wu, et al.. (2017). Strong O 2p–Fe 3d Hybridization Observed in Solution-Grown Hematite Films by Soft X-ray Spectroscopies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(2). 927–932. 22 indexed citations

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