Yu Hou

7.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
180 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Yu Hou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Hou has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Materials Chemistry, 76 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 45 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yu Hou's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (65 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (40 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (36 papers). Yu Hou is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (65 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (40 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (36 papers). Yu Hou collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yu Hou's co-authors include Hua Gui Yang, Shuang Yang, Huijun Zhao, Bo Zhang, Xiao Yang, Craig L. Hill, May Nyman, Xiao Chen, Hong Qiao and Mark A. Rodriguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yu Hou

175 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Graphene-polymer reinforcement of perovskite lattices for durable solar cells

2025 57 citations Qing Li, Yichu Zheng et al. Science profile →
Photomechanically accelerated degradation of perovskite solar cells

2025 26 citations Haonan Wang, Qing Li et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Hou China	44	4.0k	2.5k	1.9k	1.1k	969	180	6.2k
Kaifeng Lin China	36	3.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	496 0.5×	151	5.6k
Min Zhao China	44	3.5k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	806 0.7×	977 1.0×	262	6.7k
Yulin Yang China	47	5.0k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	2.8k 2.6×	1.2k 1.2×	360	8.2k
Bin Huang China	40	2.7k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	797 0.4×	549 0.5×	680 0.7×	231	5.1k
Shan Wang China	36	4.9k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 2.1×	399 0.4×	135	6.5k
Qingyi Lu China	47	4.5k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	798 0.7×	460 0.5×	140	6.8k
Greta R. Patzke Switzerland	49	5.2k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	4.1k 2.2×	1.4k 1.3×	704 0.7×	176	8.6k
Chun‐Hong Kuo Taiwan	30	4.1k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	996 0.9×	829 0.9×	70	6.6k
Anxiang Yin China	32	5.3k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	308 0.3×	70	7.4k
Yaru Li China	39	1.7k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	914 0.5×	508 0.5×	902 0.9×	171	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Hou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Tongtong, Huilin Chen, Yu Hou, et al.. (2025). Red emitting carbon dots for detection of endogenous glutathione with fluorescence enhancement and cell imaging. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 333. 125901–125901. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Rui, Xinyi Liu, Yanqiu Zhu, et al.. (2025). What determines the iodine oxidation reaction kinetics in halide perovskite solar cells?. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 9(20). 3057–3065.

Wang, Haonan, Qing Li, Yanqiu Zhu, et al.. (2025). Photomechanically accelerated degradation of perovskite solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(5). 2254–2263. 26 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Qing, Yichu Zheng, Haonan Wang, et al.. (2025). Graphene-polymer reinforcement of perovskite lattices for durable solar cells. Science. 387(6738). 1069–1077. 57 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhu, Yuchen, Qing Li, Mengyao Song, et al.. (2025). One-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halide with Polymer-like Flexible Inorganic Chains and Glass-Forming Ability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(39). 35627–35637.

Li, Wenjing, Haiyang Yuan, Xiaopeng Fu, et al.. (2025). Inhibiting Overoxidation of Dynamically Evolved RuO₂ to Achieve a Win–Win in Activity–Stability for Acidic Water Electrolysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(12). 10446–10458. 17 indexed citations

Wu, Xiaofei, Xiaoqi Zhao, Yu Hou, et al.. (2025). Enhanced curcumin delivery behavior of starch-based emulsion-filled gel by granular and molecular starch transformation: From gel formation to controlled release. Carbohydrate Polymers. 367. 124014–124014. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Junhui, Bin Zhang, Yangyang Liu, et al.. (2025). Selective Introduction of Pentagon Defects into Co‐N ₄ Sites for Boosting Fenton‐Like Activity. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(33). 7 indexed citations

Yu, Jiaxing, Shaohan Wang, Yu Hou, et al.. (2024). Two major deactivation mechanisms in carbon-based advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) dominated by electron-transfer pathway (ETP). Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 364. 124850–124850. 22 indexed citations

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Hou, Yu, et al.. (2024). High-Throughput screening of metal nitrides for electrochemical nitrogen reduction. Applied Surface Science. 665. 160289–160289. 4 indexed citations

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Yuan, Haiyang, Chen Zhu, Yu Hou, Hua Gui Yang, & Haifeng Wang. (2024). Optimizing the Lattice Nitrogen Coordination to Break the Performance Limitation of Metal Nitrides for Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Reduction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(8). 3038–3048. 5 indexed citations

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Guo, Song, Chun‐Jern Pan, Min Hou, et al.. (2024). Dual Regulation of Sensitizers and Cluster Catalysts in Metal–Organic Frameworks to Boost H₂ Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 137(8). 1 indexed citations

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He, Jingjing, Xinyi Liu, Qing Li, et al.. (2023). Nano-capillary induced assemble of quantum dots on perovskite grain boundaries for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 83. 595–601. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, Yu Peng, Shuang Yang, Hua Gui Yang, & Yu Hou. (2023). Recent progress in metal halide perovskite photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(20). 4635–4657. 20 indexed citations

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Wei, Zhanpeng, Jingjing He, Yiheng Shi, et al.. (2023). Understanding the temperature sensitivity of the photovoltaic parameters of perovskite solar cells. Solar Energy. 264. 112040–112040. 11 indexed citations

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Hou, Yu, Huangsheng Yang, Qi Fu, et al.. (2023). Peroxymonosulfate based in situ chemical oxidation: An efficient strategy for mitigation of membrane fouling in real seawater reverse osmosis desalination. Chemical Engineering Journal. 473. 145416–145416. 13 indexed citations

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He, Jingjing, Xinyi Liu, Qing Li, et al.. (2023). Low‐Temperature Synthesis of SnO₂ Nanocrystals as Electron Transport Layers for High‐Efficiency CsPbI₂Br Perovskite Solar Cells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(4). 2200112–2200112. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Wenjing, et al.. (2022). Structural rule of N-coordinated single-atom catalysts for electrochemical CO₂ reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(7). 3585–3594. 26 indexed citations

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Yang, He S., Yu Hou, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Machine Learning Highlights Downtrending of COVID-19 Patients with a Distinct Laboratory Profile. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2021. 7574903–7574903. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, He S., Yu Hou, Ljiljana V. Vasović, et al.. (2020). Routine Laboratory Blood Tests Predict SARS-CoV-2 Infection Using Machine Learning. Clinical Chemistry. 66(11). 1396–1404. 76 indexed citations

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