Yuanfu Ren

568 total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 420 citations indexed

About

Yuanfu Ren is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuanfu Ren has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 420 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yuanfu Ren's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers). Yuanfu Ren is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers). Yuanfu Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and United States. Yuanfu Ren's co-authors include Ting Zhu, Zhiliang He, Huabin Zhang, Shouwei Zuo, Chengyang Feng, Wei Zeng, Quanbing Liu, Qingyu Yan, Zhi‐Peng Wu and H. Miao and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Yuanfu Ren

16 papers receiving 412 citations

Hit Papers

Cooperative tungsten centers in polymeric carbon nitride ... 2024 2026 2025 2024 2025 25 50 75
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.

  1. Cooperative tungsten centers in polymeric carbon nitride for efficient overall photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide
    2024 94 citations Chengyang Feng, Jun Luo et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  2. Proton Exchange Membrane Water Splitting: Advances in Electrode Structure and Mass‐Charge Transport Optimization
    2025 40 citations Wenting Feng, Bin Chang et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers

Yuanfu Ren
Haishan Cong China
Lixiang He China
Yindong Gu China
Zheng‐Hong Huang China
Ashalatha Vazhayil India
Yanan Lu China
Kaisheng Sun China
Omeshwari Yadorao Bisen India
Wenyang Zhou China
Haishan Cong China
Yuanfu Ren
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Countries citing papers authored by Yuanfu Ren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yuanfu Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuanfu Ren

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Chang, Bin, Xiaoyan Liu, Shouwei Zuo, et al.. (2025). Dynamic construction of a durable epitaxial catalytic layer for industrial alkaline water splitting. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7959–7959. 4 indexed citations
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Ren, Yuanfu, Kuo‐Wei Huang, & Huabin Zhang. (2025). Pursuing spatiotemporal coordination in electrocatalysis. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 9(8). 501–503.
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Chang, Bin, Yuanfu Ren, Shouwei Zuo, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Redox Induced Localized Charge Accumulation Accelerating Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysis. Advanced Materials. 37(7). e2405447–e2405447. 16 indexed citations
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Feng, Wenting, Bin Chang, Yuanfu Ren, et al.. (2025). Proton Exchange Membrane Water Splitting: Advances in Electrode Structure and Mass‐Charge Transport Optimization. Advanced Materials. 37(15). e2416012–e2416012. 40 indexed citations breakdown →
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Feng, Chengyang, Fazal Raziq, H. Miao, et al.. (2024). Photoexcitation Altered Reaction Pathway Greatly Facilitate Ammonia Synthesis Over Isolated Ru Sites. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(28). 15 indexed citations
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Feng, Chengyang, Jun Luo, Cailing Chen, et al.. (2024). Cooperative tungsten centers in polymeric carbon nitride for efficient overall photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(4). 1520–1530. 94 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gu, Jianan, Shouwei Zuo, Yuanfu Ren, Meicheng Li, & Huabin Zhang. (2024). Constructing single-atom Fe sites into defective carbon for efficient oxygen reduction. Chem Catalysis. 4(6). 101013–101013. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Li, Shouwei Zuo, Linrui Wen, et al.. (2024). Integrating Interactive Ir Atoms into Titanium Oxide Lattice for Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysis. Advanced Materials. 37(3). e2407386–e2407386. 14 indexed citations
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Zhu, Ting, et al.. (2022). Graphene oxide wrapped hollow mesoporous carbon spheres as a dynamically bipolar host for lithium–sulfur batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(45). 24422–24433. 33 indexed citations
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Feng, Chengyang, Yuanfu Ren, Fazal Raziq, Wenhuan Huang, & Huabin Zhang. (2022). An ingenious strategy toward single-atom photocatalytic methane conversion. Matter. 5(10). 3099–3101. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Ting, Ying Xiao, Yuanfu Ren, et al.. (2021). Unusual Formation of CoS0.61Se0.25 Anion Solid Solution with Sulfur Defects to Promote Electrocatalytic Water Reduction. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(4). 2976–2982. 13 indexed citations
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Ren, Yuanfu, et al.. (2021). Fabrication of MOF‐derived mixed metal oxides with carbon residues for pseudocapacitors with long cycle life. Rare Metals. 41(3). 830–835. 75 indexed citations
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Ren, Yuanfu, Ting Zhu, Yadong Liu, Quanbing Liu, & Qingyu Yan. (2021). Direct Utilization of Photoinduced Charge Carriers to Promote Electrochemical Energy Storage. Small. 17(21). e2008047–e2008047. 48 indexed citations
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Ren, Yuanfu, Guoqiang Liu, & Ting Zhu. (2021). Fabrication of Core‐Shell Nanocolloids with Various Core Sizes to Promote Light Capture for Green Fuels. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 16(7). 761–768. 5 indexed citations
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Zeng, Wei, Yuanfu Ren, Yuying Zheng, Anqiang Pan, & Ting Zhu. (2020). In‐situ Copper Doping with ZnO/ZnS Heterostructures to Promote Interfacial Photocatalysis of Microsized Particles. ChemCatChem. 13(2). 564–573. 22 indexed citations
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Xu, Hai, Shengjie Zhao, Yuanfu Ren, et al.. (2016). Primary investigation of the optical limiting performance of cyclo[8]pyrrole with a wide optical limiting window. RSC Advances. 6(25). 21067–21071. 8 indexed citations

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