Yongquan Qu

19.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
207 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Yongquan Qu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongquan Qu has authored 207 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Materials Chemistry, 85 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 81 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yongquan Qu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (47 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (33 papers). Yongquan Qu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (60 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (47 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (33 papers). Yongquan Qu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Yongquan Qu's co-authors include Xiangfeng Duan, Yuanyuan Ma, Sai Zhang, Zhaoming Xia, Yu Huang, Wei Gao, Xuemei Zhou, Chun‐Ran Chang, Lei Liao and Zhimin Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yongquan Qu

203 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Progress, challenge and perspective of heterogeneous photocatalysts

2012 1.3k citations Yongquan Qu et al. profile →
High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

2010 1.1k citations Yongquan Qu et al. profile →
Mechanistic Insights on Ternary Ni₂₋_xCo_xP for Hydrogen Evolution and Their Hybrids with Graphene as Highly Efficient and Robust Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting

2016 533 citations Xuemei Zhou, Zhaoming Xia et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
A fundamental viewpoint on the hydrogen spillover phenomenon of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

2021 461 citations Mingkai Zhang, Wangyan Gou et al. Nature Communications profile →
High Catalytic Activity and Chemoselectivity of Sub-nanometric Pd Clusters on Porous Nanorods of CeO₂ for Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes

2016 428 citations Sai Zhang, Yuanyuan Ma et al. profile →
Ethylene-glycol ligand environment facilitates highly efficient hydrogen evolution of Pt/CoP through proton concentration and hydrogen spillover

2019 372 citations Wangyan Gou, Mingkai Zhang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Recent progress on the long‐term stability of hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts

2022 239 citations Wenfang Zhai, Yuanyuan Ma et al. profile →
Bioinspired porous three-coordinated single-atom Fe nanozyme with oxidase-like activity for tumor visual identification via glutathione

2023 130 citations Zhaoming Xia, Wangyan Gou 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
Yongquan Qu China	68	9.8k	7.5k	7.2k	2.6k	1.9k	207	16.7k
Kwangyeol Lee South Korea	67	7.5k 0.8×	7.3k 1.0×	7.5k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	296	16.4k
Qing Peng China	59	15.1k 1.5×	8.2k 1.1×	6.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.4×	128	20.3k
Guangxu Chen China	47	6.3k 0.6×	7.4k 1.0×	6.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 0.9×	122	13.9k
Qing Peng China	78	12.2k 1.2×	14.0k 1.9×	12.3k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.4×	158	24.2k
Yihan Zhu China	63	10.4k 1.1×	5.9k 0.8×	5.9k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	225	16.6k
Yujie Sun United States	62	5.2k 0.5×	14.2k 1.9×	10.1k 1.4×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	167	18.5k
Jeong Woo Han South Korea	66	9.2k 0.9×	6.4k 0.9×	6.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	794 0.4×	359	15.3k
Wenyu Huang United States	58	8.0k 0.8×	5.4k 0.7×	4.0k 0.6×	3.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.6×	237	15.7k
Jun Zhong China	77	12.8k 1.3×	16.5k 2.2×	10.7k 1.5×	2.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.1×	332	25.5k
Dongpeng Yan China	84	15.5k 1.6×	5.7k 0.8×	8.8k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	305	21.5k

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Gou, Wangyan, Mingkai Zhang, Xiaohe Tan, et al.. (2025). Spillover of active oxygen intermediates of binary RuO ₂ /Nb ₂ O ₅ nanowires for highly active and robust acidic oxygen evolution. Nanoscale Horizons. 10(3). 586–595. 7 indexed citations

Wang, You, et al.. (2025). Indirect methanol synthesis from CO2 through high-efficient dimethyl carbonate hydrogenation as a bridge below 100°C. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10588–10588.

Li, Wenbin, et al.. (2025). Reaction-induced regioselective reconstruction of Ni-doped Ce(OH)3/CeO2 enables exceptional activity and selectivity for reverse water-shift reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7335–7335. 2 indexed citations

Zhai, Wenfang, Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu, et al.. (2024). Covalently Bonded Ni Sites in Black Phosphorene with Electron Redistribution for Efficient Metal-Lightweighted Water Electrolysis. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 115–115. 44 indexed citations

Gou, Wangyan, Shishi Zhang, Yichen Wang, et al.. (2024). Oxygen spillover from RuO ₂ to MoO ₃ enhances the activity and durability of RuO ₂ for acidic oxygen evolution. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(18). 6755–6765. 61 indexed citations

Kang, Ning, Lingwen Liao, Xue Zhang, et al.. (2024). Engineering the axial coordination of cobalt single atom catalysts for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Nano Research. 17(6). 5114–5121. 14 indexed citations

Guo, Zhixiong, Da Chen, T. K. Kwei, Yongquan Qu, & Zhimin Tian. (2024). Ce-UiO-66 nanozymes with charge-regulated uricase-like activity for enzyme/reagent-free detection of uric acid. Nano Research. 18(2). 94907115–94907115. 1 indexed citations

Gou, Wangyan, Yichen Wang, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2024). A review on fundamentals for designing stable ruthenium-based catalysts for the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 60. 68–106. 37 indexed citations

Cheng, Xiaozhe, Hong Lian, Hongen Guo, et al.. (2024). Efficiency enhancement of organic light-emitting diodes with multifunctional magnetic composite nanoparticles of Fe3O4@Au@SiO2. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 1011. 123123–123123. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Linsen, et al.. (2024). Tandem Electrocatalytic Alkyne Semihydrogenation over Bicomponent Catalysts through Hydrogen Spillover. Angewandte Chemie. 136(15).

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Zhao, Liang, Xiaozhe Cheng, Lingling Yao, et al.. (2023). Highly thermal stable and efficient carbazole/pyridine/dibenzothiophene based bipolar host material for red phosphorescent light-emitting diodes. Thin Solid Films. 770. 139767–139767. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xuemei, Yuwei Jin, Shuo Yang, et al.. (2023). Rhenium Suppresses Iridium (IV) Oxide Crystallization and Enables Efficient, Stable Electrochemical Water Oxidation. Small. 19(19). e2207847–e2207847. 43 indexed citations

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Zhai, Wenfang, Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu, et al.. (2023). Bimetal‐Incorporated Black Phosphorene with Surface Electron Deficiency for Efficient Anti‐Reconstruction Water Electrolysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(25). 40 indexed citations

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Tian, Zhimin, et al.. (2023). One-step reagentless colorimetric analysis platform of biomineralized Ce-UiO-66 for universal detection of biomarkers. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 397. 134705–134705. 5 indexed citations

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Luo, Qian‐Cheng, Lei Qin, Zhimin Tian, et al.. (2022). Photoinduced Phase Transition of Ce-UiO-66 to Ce-BDC-OH. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(25). 9557–9563. 10 indexed citations

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Lian, Hong, Mingao Pan, Xiaozhe Cheng, et al.. (2021). A MoSe₂ quantum dot modified hole extraction layer enables binary organic solar cells with improved efficiency and stability. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(30). 16500–16509. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Sai, Jie Gan, Zhaoming Xia, et al.. (2020). Dual-Active-Sites Design of Co@C Catalysts for Ultrahigh Selective Hydrogenation of N-Heteroarenes. Chem. 6(11). 2994–3006. 66 indexed citations

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Wang, Huan, Fangxian Cao, Yonghong Song, et al.. (2019). Two-step hydrothermally synthesized Ce1-xZrxO2 for oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with carbon dioxide. Journal of CO2 Utilization. 34. 99–107. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Xueying, et al.. (2018). Carbon-assisted conversion reaction-based oxide nanomaterials for lithium-ion batteries. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(6). 1124–1140. 31 indexed citations

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Xiao, Shuang, Chen Hu, He Lin, et al.. (2017). Integration of inverse nanocone array based bismuth vanadate photoanodes and bandgap-tunable perovskite solar cells for efficient self-powered solar water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(36). 19091–19097. 58 indexed citations

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