Yiran Ying

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Yiran Ying is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiran Ying has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 32 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yiran Ying's work include Advanced battery technologies research (22 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers). Yiran Ying is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (22 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (18 papers). Yiran Ying collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and Australia. Yiran Ying's co-authors include Haitao Huang, Xin Luo, Longtao Ma, Shengmei Chen, Jinli Qiao, Chunyi Zhi, Ke Fan, Linfeng Fei, Qing Li and Fei‐Xiang Ma 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

Yiran Ying

65 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Toward Practical High‐Areal‐Capacity Aqueous Zinc‐Metal B... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2024 2024 200 400 600
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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. Toward Practical High‐Areal‐Capacity Aqueous Zinc‐Metal Batteries: Quantifying Hydrogen Evolution and a Solid‐Ion Conductor for Stable Zinc Anodes
    2021 661 citations Longtao Ma, Yiran Ying et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Oxygen Vacancies Trigger Rapid Charge Transport Channels at the Engineered Interface of S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photocatalytic Performance
    2024 161 citations Di Zu, Yiran Ying et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Asymmetric Anion Zinc Salt Derived Solid Electrolyte Interphase Enabled Long‐Lifespan Aqueous Zinc Bromine Batteries
    2024 72 citations Shengmei Chen, Longtao Ma et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers

Yiran Ying
Xinchuan Du China
Zechao Zhuang China
Dengke Zhao China
Khang Ngoc Dinh Singapore
Mohammad Asadi United States
Pengfang Zhang China
Hui Gao China
Zhimeng Hao China
Quanbing Liu China
Lixue Xia China
Xinchuan Du China
Yiran Ying
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yiran Ying

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

All Works

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Gong, Shanhe, Yanjie Zhai, Chengkai Jin, et al.. (2025). Interface engineering of single-molecular heterojunction catalysts for CO2 electroreduction in strong acid medium. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8704–8704.
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Chen, Gao, Yiran Ying, Sixuan She, et al.. (2025). Balance Between Oxygen 2p Holes and Oxygen Vacancies for Optimal Water Oxidation. Small. 22(2). e12440–e12440.
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Chen, Tianyou, Yiran Ying, Jing Wu, Xuan‐He Liu, & Hongwei Huang. (2025). Fe─N 4 ‐Anchored Carbon Layer Patched TiO 2 Cavities to Construct an “In‐Lattice Heterojunction” for Enhanced Photocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(36). e202509705–e202509705. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Zezhou, Zhihang Xu, Yiran Ying, et al.. (2025). Nano‐Particulate Surface Pinning of CeO 2 Enables Durable High‐Voltage Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials. 38(3). e17074–e17074.
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Wang, Xinyu, Yiran Ying, Shengmei Chen, et al.. (2025). Piezoelectric gradient electrolytes for environmentally adaptive and stable zinc batteries. Energy storage materials. 82. 104586–104586.
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Xing, Chunxian, Min Gan, Yiran Ying, et al.. (2024). Multiscale observations on mechanisms for direct regeneration of degraded NCM cathode materials. Energy storage materials. 65. 103182–103182. 28 indexed citations
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Ying, Yiran, Yuting Li, & Jing Wu. (2024). Construction of a novel chemiluminescence system based on mixed-ligand metal-organic frameworks. Journal of Luminescence. 277. 120989–120989. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Zezhou, Yiran Ying, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2024). A multifunctional zeolite film enables stable high-voltage operation of a LiCoO2 cathode. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(1). 334–346. 10 indexed citations
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Zu, Di, Yiran Ying, Qi Wei, et al.. (2024). Oxygen Vacancies Trigger Rapid Charge Transport Channels at the Engineered Interface of S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photocatalytic Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(31). e202405756–e202405756. 161 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Shuyun, Yiran Ying, Shengmei Chen, et al.. (2023). Highly reversible zinc metal anode enabled by zinc fluoroborate salt-based hydrous organic electrolyte. Energy storage materials. 63. 102971–102971. 33 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinyu, Yiran Ying, Shengmei Chen, et al.. (2023). Lean-water electrolyte to stabilize zinc anode and suppress manganese dissolution of cathode for ampere-hour zinc batteries. Nano Energy. 119. 109099–109099. 47 indexed citations
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Chen, Shengmei, Yiran Ying, Shengnan Wang, et al.. (2023). Solid Interhalogen Compounds with Effective Br0 Fixing for Stable High‐energy Zinc Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 135(19). 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhouyang, Yiran Ying, Jiawei Huang, et al.. (2023). Direct observation on single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformation via lattice-matched nucleation and growth. Acta Materialia. 258. 119206–119206. 7 indexed citations
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Zu, Di, Yiran Ying, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2023). Molten salt-lithium process induced controllable surface defects in titanium oxide for efficient photocatalysis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 328. 122494–122494. 15 indexed citations
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Wang, Shuyun, Shengmei Chen, Yiran Ying, et al.. (2023). Fast Reaction Kinetics and Commendable Low‐Temperature Adaptability of Zinc Batteries Enabled by Aprotic Water‐Acetamide Symbiotic Solvation Sheath. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(8). e202316841–e202316841. 43 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guoge, Xiao Ma, Yan Liu, et al.. (2021). A fast and general approach to produce a carbon coated Janus metal/oxide hybrid for catalytic water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(12). 7606–7616. 25 indexed citations
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Ying, Yiran, Dengrong Sun, Zhouyang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Highly Efficient Porous Carbon Electrocatalyst with Controllable N‐Species Content for Selective CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(8). 3244–3251. 230 indexed citations
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Ying, Yiran, Dengrong Sun, Zhouyang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Highly Efficient Porous Carbon Electrocatalyst with Controllable N‐Species Content for Selective CO2 Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 132(8). 3270–3277. 23 indexed citations

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