Yu Zhou

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
269 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Yu Zhou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Zhou has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Materials Chemistry, 69 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 59 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yu Zhou's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (44 papers) and Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications (42 papers). Yu Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (44 papers) and Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications (42 papers). Yu Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Yu Zhou's co-authors include Jun Wang, Guojian Chen, Zengjing Guo, Jun Wang, Xiaochen Wang, Yangqing Liu, Zhouyang Long, Jingyan Xie, Jing Li and Qian Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Yu Zhou

255 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A molecular sieve with ultrafast adsorption kinetics for propylene separation

2023 171 citations Jiyu Cui, Zhaoqiang Zhang et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yu Zhou	4.1k	2.1k	1.9k	1.6k	1.6k	269	7.5k
Haihong Wu	4.9k 1.2×	3.4k 1.6×	3.2k 1.7×	3.7k 2.3×	1.0k 0.6×	329	12.5k
Raksh V. Jasra	4.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	2.8k 1.8×	549 0.3×	275	9.8k
Yong Lu	4.5k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	822 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	562 0.4×	285	6.8k
José Antonio López-Sánchez	6.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.8×	535 0.3×	91	8.9k
Guomin Xiao	2.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	925 0.5×	852 0.5×	761 0.5×	240	6.9k
Michele Rossi	5.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	3.7k 2.3×	429 0.3×	138	9.6k
Sadegh Rostamnia	3.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	4.5k 2.8×	330 0.2×	223	9.6k
Chandrashekhar V. Rode	2.9k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	719 0.4×	2.6k 1.6×	454 0.3×	224	7.3k
Tiancun Xiao	4.9k 1.2×	675 0.3×	3.4k 1.8×	758 0.5×	337 0.2×	161	8.5k
Shuai Wang	2.1k 0.5×	819 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	298 0.2×	188	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Zhou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gao, Jian, Yu Zhou, B. Wang, et al.. (2025). K-doped LaAlO3 A-sites: Regulating surface basicity and oxygen species composition for highly efficient organosulfur hydrolysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 520. 146088–146088.

Zhao, Tianshou, et al.. (2025). Trends in pretreatment and determination methods for furfurals in foods: Update since 2017. Food Research International. 201. 115600–115600. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Yu, et al.. (2025). Surface ammonification regulates oxygen vacancies and acidic sites in δ-MnO2 to enhance low-temperature selective catalytic oxidation activity of ammonia. Journal of Environmental Management. 380. 124949–124949. 2 indexed citations

Gong, Pengjian, et al.. (2025). Theoretical Study of the Reversible Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formate on Mn‐Pincer Complexes. ChemPhysChem. 26(7). e202400906–e202400906. 2 indexed citations

Xiong, Zhuo, Biao Meng, Cailing Chen, et al.. (2024). Encapsulation of Pt species into MFI zeolite with tunable acid sites boosts reductive amination towards tertiary amines. AIChE Journal. 71(4). 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yue, Cailing Chen, Zhuo Xiong, et al.. (2024). Metal-acid synergistic catalysis accelerates the hydrogen borrowing amination of alcohols by confining Ru sites in Beta zeolite. Chemical Engineering Journal. 493. 152457–152457. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Cailing, Chao‐Liang Wu, Xiaoling Liu, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic insight into the synergy between nickel single atoms and nanoparticles on N-doped carbon for electroreduction of CO2. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 100. 327–336. 21 indexed citations

Yu, Zhi, Jianing Yang, Seyed Hesam Mousavi, et al.. (2024). Fe-mordenite for high-performance N2 rejection. Chemical Engineering Journal. 500. 157224–157224. 4 indexed citations

Shen, Yao, Yong Chen, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2024). N-doped Cu2O with the tunable Cu0 and Cu+ sites for selective CO2 electrochemical reduction to ethylene. Journal of Environmental Sciences. 150. 246–253. 18 indexed citations

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Wang, Qian, Yuan Zhang, Yu Zhou, Fang Chen, & Xuesong Feng. (2024). Recent advances in microextraction techniques for sensitive determination of synthetic musks in complex samples. Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry. 44. e00241–e00241. 3 indexed citations

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Chang, Yajun, et al.. (2023). A Modular Coupling System for EfficientTreatment of Rural Domestic Wastewater. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies. 32(2). 1371–1381. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhe, Chao Wu, Xiaoling Liu, et al.. (2023). Boosting H2O2 utilization efficiency in benzene hydroxylation to phenol via isolated single VO4 site on hydrophobic poly(ionic liquid)-derivative. Chemical Engineering Journal. 479. 147501–147501. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaoling, Yitong Liu, Yue Wu, et al.. (2023). Room temperature removal of high-space-velocity formaldehyde boosted by fixing Pt nanoparticles into Beta zeolite framework. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 458. 131848–131848. 22 indexed citations

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Zhong, Xiu, Enxian Yuan, Fu Yang, et al.. (2023). Optimizing oxygen vacancies through grain boundary engineering to enhance electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(40). e2306673120–e2306673120. 77 indexed citations

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Zhang, Nan, et al.. (2023). Construction of α-MnO2/g-C3N4 Z-scheme heterojunction for photothermal synergistic catalytic decomposition of formaldehyde. Chemical Engineering Journal. 466. 143160–143160. 57 indexed citations

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Cui, Jiyu, Zhaoqiang Zhang, Lifeng Yang, et al.. (2023). A molecular sieve with ultrafast adsorption kinetics for propylene separation. Science. 383(6679). 179–183. 171 indexed citations breakdown →

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Qiao, Na, et al.. (2022). Construction of two Ln(III)2 (Ln = Dy and Er) compounds by a polydentate Schiff-based ligand: Structure and remarkable single-molecule magnet behavior. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1263. 133072–133072. 3 indexed citations

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He, Taohong, Danni Ding, Yu Zhou, & Shaopeng Rong. (2022). Site-Selective Nitrogen-Doped α-MnO₂ for Catalytic Oxidation of Carcinogenic HCHO in Indoor Air. ACS ES&T Engineering. 2(8). 1403–1413. 31 indexed citations

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He, Taohong, Yu Zhou, Danni Ding, & Shaopeng Rong. (2021). Engineering Manganese Defects in Mn₃O₄ for Catalytic Oxidation of Carcinogenic Formaldehyde. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(25). 29664–29675. 59 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yu, Junjie Tang, Ning Yan, et al.. (2018). Immediate hydroxylation of arenes to phenols via V-containing all-silica ZSM-22 zeolite triggered non-radical mechanism. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2931–2931. 82 indexed citations

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