Yipeng Zang

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Yipeng Zang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yipeng Zang has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 31 papers in Materials Chemistry and 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yipeng Zang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Yipeng Zang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Yipeng Zang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yipeng Zang's co-authors include Gongming Wang, Jinyan Cai, Xusheng Zheng, Shuwen Niu, Yishang Wu, Xiaojing Liu, Junfa Zhu, Yun Liu, Yao Song and Dongdong Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yipeng Zang

69 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Tailoring the d‐Band Centers Enables Co₄N Nanosheets To Be Highly Active for Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis

2018 971 citations Yao Song, Jinyan Cai et al. profile →
Freestanding crystalline oxide perovskites down to the monolayer limit

2019 484 citations Dianxiang Ji, Songhua Cai et al. profile →
Tuning orbital orientation endows molybdenum disulfide with exceptional alkaline hydrogen evolution capability

2019 373 citations Yipeng Zang, Shuwen Niu 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
Yipeng Zang China	33	4.0k	3.1k	2.2k	768	684	71	5.6k
Xueqiang Qi China	39	4.1k 1.0×	3.9k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	398 0.6×	138	5.9k
Yiqiong Zhang China	34	3.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	535 0.8×	62	6.1k
Tao Peng China	39	2.5k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	988 1.3×	692 1.0×	124	5.0k
Xingxing Yu China	23	4.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	325 0.4×	862 1.3×	49	5.0k
Zengcai Liu United States	29	4.3k 1.1×	5.9k 1.9×	2.4k 1.1×	506 0.7×	817 1.2×	47	8.1k
Zhiping Lin China	33	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	498 0.6×	236 0.3×	56	4.4k
Yuanyuan Ma China	40	3.4k 0.8×	4.6k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 2.3×	418 0.6×	90	6.6k
Xuerong Zheng China	47	5.0k 1.2×	5.0k 1.6×	2.4k 1.1×	977 1.3×	518 0.8×	151	7.2k
Meiling Xiao China	40	6.6k 1.6×	5.0k 1.6×	2.5k 1.1×	815 1.1×	676 1.0×	112	7.6k
Elena A. Baranova Canada	37	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	412 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	158	4.3k

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All Works

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Sun, Jiachen, Hua Qiu, Enbo Zhou, et al.. (2026). Metal Single Atoms Beyond Catalysis as Quantum Modulators for Programmable Electronic Structures and Adaptive Electronics. Advanced Materials. 38(13). e21186–e21186.

Zang, Yipeng, Di Chen, Xuejun Yan, et al.. (2025). Suppressing Thermal Conductivity in SrTiO₃ by Introducing Oxygen Isotope Disorder. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(8). 1817–1822. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Qin, Xiu Wang, Ji‐Guang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ethylene electrosynthesis at low voltages enabled by dopant-induced modulation of the rate-determining step. Nature Synthesis. 4(11). 1396–1407. 2 indexed citations

Zang, Yipeng, Yan Liu, Ruihu Lu, et al.. (2025). Tuning Transition Metal 3d Spin state on Single‐atom Catalysts for Selective Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Materials. 37(16). e2417034–e2417034. 27 indexed citations

Zang, Yipeng, Haitao Li, Yan Sun, et al.. (2025). Controlling the Activity and Selectivity of Cu Catalysts toward Industrially Relevant Ethanol Electrosynthesis via High-Index Step Density Engineering. ACS Nano. 19(13). 13436–13445. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaohong, Yawei Li, Sara Ajmal, et al.. (2025). Tensile-strained PtSnBiPdIn high-entropy-alloy nanoparticles with nanopore structures for efficient ethylene glycol oxidation performance. Nano Research. 18(12). 94907754–94907754. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongjie, et al.. (2024). Metal–phenolic coating on membrane for ultrafast antibiotics adsorptive removal from water. npj Clean Water. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

Wang, Yi, Shuo Wang, Yunfan Fu, et al.. (2024). Synergistic catalytic conversion of nitrate into ammonia on copper phthalocyanine and FeNC two-component catalyst. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 56. 104–113. 20 indexed citations

Wang, Mengqi, Pei Yu, Yipeng Zang, et al.. (2023). A spin-based magnetic scanning microscope for in-situ strain tuning of soft matter. Chinese Physics B. 32(5). 57504–57504.

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Sun, Haoying, Jiahui Gu, Yongqiang Li, et al.. (2023). Prominent Size Effects without a Depolarization Field Observed in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Oxide Membranes. Physical Review Letters. 130(12). 126801–126801. 26 indexed citations

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Ma, Xingyue, Mengqi Wang, Yipeng Zang, et al.. (2023). Observation of Uniaxial Strain Tuned Spin Cycloid in a Freestanding BiFeO₃ Film. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(30). 12 indexed citations

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Cai, Songhua, Yingzhuo Lun, Dianxiang Ji, et al.. (2022). Enhanced polarization and abnormal flexural deformation in bent freestanding perovskite oxides. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5116–5116. 74 indexed citations

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Zang, Yipeng, et al.. (2021). A rapid and rapid method to quantify poly (γ-glutamic acid) content via copper ion complexation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 180. 411–417. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Mengmeng, Yipeng Zang, Xiaofeng Zhao, et al.. (2021). Preparation of pH-sensitive carboxymethyl cellulose/chitosan/alginate hydrogel beads with reticulated shell structure to deliver Bacillus subtilis natto. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 192. 684–691. 46 indexed citations

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Xiao, Ke, Jin Wen, Qiaolei Han, et al.. (2020). Solution-Processed Monolithic All-Perovskite Triple-Junction Solar Cells with Efficiency Exceeding 20%. ACS Energy Letters. 5(9). 2819–2826. 96 indexed citations

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Han, Lu, et al.. (2020). Giant Uniaxial Strain Ferroelectric Domain Tuning in Freestanding PbTiO₃ Films. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 7(7). 64 indexed citations

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Cai, Jinyan, Yao Song, Yipeng Zang, et al.. (2020). N-induced lattice contraction generally boosts the hydrogen evolution catalysis of P-rich metal phosphides. Science Advances. 6(1). eaaw8113–eaaw8113. 272 indexed citations

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Wang, Li, et al.. (2020). Inhibition of nattokinase against the production of poly (γ-glutamic Acid) in Bacillus subtilis natto. Biotechnology Letters. 42(11). 2285–2291. 4 indexed citations

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Liu, Ning, et al.. (2020). Fabrication of a porous chitosan/poly-(γ-glutamic acid) hydrogel with a high absorption capacity by electrostatic contacts. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 159. 986–994. 21 indexed citations

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Zang, Yipeng, Shuwen Niu, Yishang Wu, et al.. (2019). Tuning orbital orientation endows molybdenum disulfide with exceptional alkaline hydrogen evolution capability. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1217–1217. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

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