Yu Duan

7.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
53 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yu Duan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Duan has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 23 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yu Duan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (8 papers). Yu Duan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (8 papers). Yu Duan collaborates with scholars based in China, Poland and United States. Yu Duan's co-authors include Min‐Rui Gao, Shu‐Hong Yu, Ziyou Yu, Xingxing Yu, Xingyu Feng, Chaochao Lang, Ya‐Rong Zheng, Xiaolong Zhang, Xusheng Zheng and Junfa Zhu 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

Yu Duan

50 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Clean and Affordable Hydrogen Fuel from Alkaline Water Splitting: Past, Recent Progress, and Future Prospects

2021 1.5k citations Ziyou Yu, Yu Duan et al. profile →
Ni–Mo–O nanorod-derived composite catalysts for efficient alkaline water-to-hydrogen conversion via urea electrolysis

2018 729 citations Ziyou Yu, Chaochao Lang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Protecting Copper Oxidation State via Intermediate Confinement for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to C₂₊ Fuels

2020 610 citations Peng‐Peng Yang, Xiaolong Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Scaled‐Up Synthesis of Amorphous NiFeMo Oxides and Their Rapid Surface Reconstruction for Superior Oxygen Evolution Catalysis

2019 556 citations Yu Duan, Ziyou Yu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
“Superaerophobic” Nickel Phosphide Nanoarray Catalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution at Ultrahigh Current Densities

2019 512 citations Xingxing Yu, Ziyou Yu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Yu Duan

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Tatsuya Shinagawa Saudi Arabia

Zengcai Liu United States

Seunghwa Lee South Korea

Hui Su China

Carlos G. Morales‐Guio United States

Yingnan Qin China

Yujin Ji China

Siraj Sultan South Korea

Hyeyoung Shin South Korea

Seok‐Jin Kim South Korea

Tatsuya Shinagawa Saudi Arabia

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3.0k ×0.8

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1.2k ×1.4

CATAL

970 ×1.4

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Citations per year, relative to Yu Duan Yu Duan (= 1×) peers Tatsuya Shinagawa

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Duan

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Duan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Duan

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Shi, M., Peng Zhang, Kaicheng Qian, et al.. (2025). In situ evolution of MOF-derived C@NiCoP/NF promotes urea-assisted electrocatalytic hydrogen production. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 371. 125210–125210. 27 indexed citations

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Tan, Mingwu, Jichao Shi, Lili Zhang, et al.. (2025). Accelerating Oxygen Evolution Activity via Premagnetization-Induced Active Sites in Ferromagnetic Nickel–Iron Hydroxide Catalysts. JACS Au. 5(6). 2500–2512. 4 indexed citations

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Duan, Yu, Deen Sun, Sam Zhang, et al.. (2023). Multi-strategy coordination enables WSe2 to achieve high-performance real-world detection of NO2. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 403. 135183–135183. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Yanru, Rui Cao, Yi Li, et al.. (2022). Reduction-Controlled Atomic Migration for Single Atom Alloy Library. Nano Letters. 22(10). 4232–4239. 33 indexed citations

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Gao, Fei‐Yue, Jiacheng Ge, Xiaolong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Nickel–molybdenum–niobium metallic glass for efficient hydrogen oxidation in hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells. Nature Catalysis. 5(11). 993–1005. 148 indexed citations

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Yu, Ziyou, Yu Duan, Yuan Kong, et al.. (2022). General Synthesis of Tube-like Nanostructured Perovskite Oxides with Tunable Transition Metal–Oxygen Covalency for Efficient Water Electrooxidation in Neutral Media. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(29). 13163–13173. 90 indexed citations

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Duan, Yu, et al.. (2022). Recyclable Fe/S co-doped nanocarbon derived from metal–organic framework as a peroxymonosulfate activator for efficient removal of 2,4-dichlorophenol. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(3). 6906–6918. 6 indexed citations

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Qin, Shuai, Yu Duan, Xiaolong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Ternary nickel–tungsten–copper alloy rivals platinum for catalyzing alkaline hydrogen oxidation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2686–2686. 150 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaolong, Xiaozhi Su, Ya‐Rong Zheng, et al.. (2021). Strongly Coupled Cobalt Diselenide Monolayers for Selective Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction to H₂O₂ under Acidic Conditions. Angewandte Chemie. 133(52). 27128–27137. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaolong, Peng‐Peng Yang, Ya‐Rong Zheng, et al.. (2021). An Efficient Turing‐Type Ag₂Se‐CoSe₂ Multi‐Interfacial Oxygen‐Evolving Electrocatalyst**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(12). 6553–6560. 74 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaolong, Peng‐Peng Yang, Ya‐Rong Zheng, et al.. (2021). An Efficient Turing‐Type Ag₂Se‐CoSe₂ Multi‐Interfacial Oxygen‐Evolving Electrocatalyst**. Angewandte Chemie. 133(12). 6627–6634. 14 indexed citations

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Bao, Jing, Huisi Yang, Jiaying Zhao, et al.. (2021). In Situ Detection of Released H₂O₂ from Living Cells by Carbon Cloth-Supported Graphene/Au–Pt Nanoparticles. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(9). 9449–9458. 14 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaolong, Xiaozhi Su, Ya‐Rong Zheng, et al.. (2021). Strongly Coupled Cobalt Diselenide Monolayers for Selective Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction to H₂O₂ under Acidic Conditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(52). 26922–26931. 103 indexed citations

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Liu, Yan, Tao Zhang, Yu Duan, et al.. (2021). N,O-codoped carbon spheres with uniform mesoporous entangled Co3O4 nanoparticles as a highly efficient electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction in a Zn-air battery. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 604. 746–756. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Rui, Tao Ma, Jinlong Wang, et al.. (2021). Large‐Area Crystalline Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Thin Films. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14243–14249. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Peng‐Peng, Xiaolong Zhang, Fei‐Yue Gao, et al.. (2020). Protecting Copper Oxidation State via Intermediate Confinement for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to C₂₊ Fuels. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(13). 6400–6408. 610 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Xingxing, Ziyou Yu, Xiaolong Zhang, et al.. (2019). “Superaerophobic” Nickel Phosphide Nanoarray Catalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution at Ultrahigh Current Densities. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(18). 7537–7543. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Ziyou, Yu Duan, Jiandang Liu, et al.. (2019). Unconventional CN vacancies suppress iron-leaching in Prussian blue analogue pre-catalyst for boosted oxygen evolution catalysis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2799–2799. 299 indexed citations

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Duan, Yu, Ziyou Yu, Shao‐Jin Hu, et al.. (2019). Scaled‐Up Synthesis of Amorphous NiFeMo Oxides and Their Rapid Surface Reconstruction for Superior Oxygen Evolution Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(44). 15772–15777. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Ziyou, Chaochao Lang, Min‐Rui Gao, et al.. (2018). Ni–Mo–O nanorod-derived composite catalysts for efficient alkaline water-to-hydrogen conversion via urea electrolysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(7). 1890–1897. 729 indexed citations breakdown →

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