Yu Mao

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
151 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Yu Mao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Mao has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Materials Chemistry, 58 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 47 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yu Mao's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (20 papers). Yu Mao is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (30 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (20 papers). Yu Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Yu Mao's co-authors include P. Hu, Haifeng Wang, Jianfu Chen, Ziyun Wang, Hongqing Wang, Zhiwu Liang, Hao Qu, Chenxi Guo, Zihao Yao and Yuyuan Wang 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 Mao

142 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Engineering the Lewis Acidity of Fe Single-Atom Sites via Atomic-Level Tuning of Spatial Coordination Configuration for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu Mao China	33	2.0k	1.3k	1.1k	616	468	151	3.5k
Shun Lu China	34	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	371 0.6×	342 0.7×	172	3.3k
Zhenwei Wu China	37	2.4k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	942 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	632 1.4×	103	4.4k
Yuan Qiu China	39	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.7×	398 0.9×	117	4.1k
Yuhao Wang China	33	2.4k 1.2×	865 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	768 1.2×	712 1.5×	139	3.8k
Xinyuan Li China	32	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	404 0.7×	399 0.9×	138	3.5k
Xiaolu Wang China	27	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	353 0.6×	347 0.7×	105	3.7k
Xiaoning Wang China	39	2.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	201 0.3×	621 1.3×	152	5.1k
Weiwei Yang China	43	2.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.6×	1.6k 1.4×	272 0.4×	690 1.5×	113	5.2k
Deyu Liu China	35	2.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	288 0.5×	736 1.6×	136	5.3k
Xue Zhao China	36	1.7k 0.9×	2.4k 1.8×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 2.2×	423 0.9×	155	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yu Mao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yu Mao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Mao

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mao, Yu, Ziyun Wang, & Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse. (2025). Understanding light olefin selectivity during Fischer–Tropsch syntheses over zeolites: A DFT exploration of the key role of ketene intermediates. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(5). 118822–118822.

Ye, Cuizhu, Yan Liu, Weiming Chen, et al.. (2025). Thermally-Driven ZnO-Mediated Atomization of FeCu _x O Nanoparticles into FeZnCu Trimetallic Atomic Sites for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 15(22). 19475–19488.

Mao, Yu, Yuanyuan Huang, Yu Deng, et al.. (2025). Interface‐Engineered Band Alignment and Defect Passivation Enabling 13.64% Efficient Inkjet‐Printed CZTSSe Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(1). 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Yi, Yu Mao, Shuang Yin, et al.. (2025). Tuning rainbow trapping in higher-order topological insulators. Physics Letters A. 541. 130406–130406.

Gao, Shengjie, et al.. (2025). An adaptive and label-free colorimetric assay for EDTA using copper(II)-aptamer complexes as soft nanozymes. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1373. 344498–344498. 1 indexed citations

Lü, Kun, Hongliang He, Jizi Liu, et al.. (2025). Regional Electron Transfer and Band Regulation by Cluster‐Constrained Nanozyme Growth for Enhanced Catalytic Effect. Small. 21(47). e08011–e08011.

Mao, Yu, et al.. (2025). ChEdu: A Guided AI Teaching Assistant for Chemistry Education and Exam Support. Journal of Chemical Education. 102(12). 5347–5354.

Wang, Tao, Yu Mao, & Ziyun Wang. (2024). Plasmonic‐assisted Electrocatalysis for CO₂ Reduction Reaction. ChemElectroChem. 11(8). 12 indexed citations

Mao, Yu, Huan Li, Yuchen Li, et al.. (2024). Ionic thermoelectric gels and devices: Progress, opportunities, and challenges. 6(3). 100123–100123. 42 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuai, Hao Qu, Yu Mao, et al.. (2024). Nanozyme-integrated alcogel colorimetric sensor for rapid and on-site detection of tert-butyl hydroquinone. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 469. 133962–133962. 14 indexed citations

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Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N., Yu Mao, Ziyun Wang, et al.. (2024). Lead-free halide perovskites and Bi-BTC frameworks: Engineering S-scheme heterojunctions for photocatalytic CO2 conversion. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 365. 124942–124942. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haorui, Yu Mao, Zheng Nie, et al.. (2024). Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Engineered Macrophage-Derived Exosomes for Targeted Pathological Angiogenesis Therapy. ACS Nano. 18(10). 7644–7655. 34 indexed citations

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Fang, Wensheng, Ruihu Lu, Fumin Li, et al.. (2024). Low‐coordination Nanocrystalline Copper‐based Catalysts through Theory‐guided Electrochemical Restructuring for Selective CO₂ Reduction to Ethylene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(16). e202319936–e202319936. 67 indexed citations

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Bai, Zhangjun, Tian Sheng, Lang Chen, et al.. (2023). Multi-dimensional lead-free hybrid double perovskite toward efficient and stable photocatalytic selective oxidation of toluene. Chemical Engineering Science. 282. 119334–119334. 7 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Tong, Bo Jin, Yu Mao, Wei Ding, & Zhiwu Liang. (2023). Control of strong electronic oxide-support interaction in iron-based redox catalysts for highly efficient chemical looping CO2 conversion. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123531–123531. 21 indexed citations

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Ding, He, Yuxin Zhang, Yu Mao, et al.. (2023). Modulation of macrophage polarization by iron-based nanoparticles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 105–122. 22 indexed citations

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Mao, Yu, Xiao‐Gang Chen, Zhuxiao Gu, et al.. (2022). Homochiral Multiferroic Cyanido‐Bridged Dimetallic Complexes Assembled by C−F⋅⋅⋅K Interactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(32). e202204135–e202204135. 31 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Huijian Wang, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2022). Recognition of the catalytic activities of graphitic N for zinc-iodine batteries. Energy storage materials. 53. 544–551. 165 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaohua, et al.. (2020). Vehicle Transport Security System Based on the Self-Security Intelligence of Radioactive Material. Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations. 2020. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Qin, Zhiguo, Bo Chen, Yu Mao, et al.. (2020). Achieving Ultrasmall Prussian Blue Nanoparticles as High-Performance Biomedical Agents with Multifunctions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(51). 57382–57390. 78 indexed citations

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