Yufei Zhao

2.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Yufei Zhao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yufei Zhao has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 11 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yufei Zhao's work include Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (10 papers). Yufei Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (11 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (10 papers). Yufei Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Yufei Zhao's co-authors include Hao Liu, Guoxiu Wang, Xianjun Cao, Jinqiang Zhang, Juanjuan Huo, Junpeng Qu, Weihua Chen, Chuntai Liu, Lu Li and Dengsong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yufei Zhao

30 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

High valence metals engineering strategies of Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts for boosted OER electrocatalysis

2022 293 citations Xianjun Cao, Juanjuan Huo et al. profile →
Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis

2022 247 citations Yufei Zhao, Priyank V. Kumar et al. Nature Communications profile →
Engineering Strategies for Suppressing the Shuttle Effect in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

2023 168 citations Jiayi Li, Li Gao et al. Nano-Micro Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yufei Zhao China	20	1.3k	1.1k	949	365	232	34	2.0k
Rong Zhao China	27	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	785 0.8×	328 0.9×	290 1.3×	57	2.1k
Duojie Wu China	26	1.5k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	787 0.8×	547 1.5×	147 0.6×	47	2.6k
Liuxuan Luo China	25	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	668 0.7×	313 0.9×	120 0.5×	64	1.8k
Tianqi Yu China	29	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	594 0.6×	341 0.9×	114 0.5×	60	2.2k
Junming Zhang China	17	2.0k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	734 0.8×	241 0.7×	119 0.5×	26	2.4k
Yueyu Tong China	23	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	912 1.0×	477 1.3×	67 0.3×	32	2.2k
Yunzhou Wen China	20	1.9k 1.5×	1.5k 1.4×	685 0.7×	442 1.2×	70 0.3×	30	2.4k
Yasir A. Haleem China	16	1.3k 1.0×	1000 0.9×	789 0.8×	134 0.4×	92 0.4×	34	1.8k
Insoo Choi South Korea	23	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	460 0.5×	263 0.7×	83 0.4×	51	2.0k
Changmin Kim South Korea	21	1.1k 0.9×	901 0.9×	632 0.7×	350 1.0×	69 0.3×	45	1.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wáng, Yì, et al.. (2026). Optimizing f ‐ d Hybridization Descriptor in Rare‐Earth Oxides for Efficient Sulfur Catalysis in all Solid‐State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 38(14). e20011–e20011.

Zhang, Bohan, Jiwei Shi, Junwei Han, et al.. (2025). Molecular Templating and Boron‐Doping Guides Twisted Microcrystalline Formation in Coal‐Derived Hard Carbons for High‐Rate Sodium‐Ion Storage. Angewandte Chemie. 137(52).

Shi, Jiwei, Junwei Han, Mengyao Li, et al.. (2025). Molecular Templating and Boron‐Doping Guides Twisted Microcrystalline Formation in Coal‐Derived Hard Carbons for High‐Rate Sodium‐Ion Storage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(52). e18589–e18589.

Zhao, Wen, Dong‐Ping Zhang, & Yufei Zhao. (2025). The impact of carbon emissions trading on agricultural economic development: Evidence from China's carbon emissions trading pilot policies. International Review of Economics & Finance. 101. 104150–104150. 1 indexed citations

Li, Jiayi, et al.. (2025). Potential‐Tailored Aryl–Sodium Reagent with Moderate Ionic Binding Strength Enables Precise yet Fast Hard Carbon Presodiation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(6). e19792–e19792.

Cao, Xianjun, Li Gao, Jiayi Li, et al.. (2025). Immobilizing Zwitterionic Molecular Brush in Functional Organic Interfacial Layers for Ultra-Stable Zn-Ion Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 262–262. 4 indexed citations

Shen, Ziyan, Xianjun Cao, Yiming Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ordered mesoporous carbon with binary CoFe atomic species for highly efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. Nanoscale. 16(18). 8960–8967. 4 indexed citations

Qu, Junpeng, Xianjun Cao, Gao Li, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Ethylene: From Mechanistic Understanding to Catalyst Surface Engineering. Nano-Micro Letters. 15(1). 178–178. 75 indexed citations

Nie, Xin, Ye Tian, Chenghua Zong, et al.. (2023). A green analysis detection of formaldehyde in grooming products by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Materials Today Sustainability. 22. 100303–100303. 4 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Ziyan Shen, Juanjuan Huo, et al.. (2023). Epoxy‐rich Fe Single Atom Sites Boost Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 135(36). 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Jinqiang Zhang, Xin Guo, et al.. (2023). Engineering strategies and active site identification of MXene-based catalysts for electrochemical conversion reactions. Chemical Society Reviews. 52(9). 3215–3264. 126 indexed citations

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Huo, Juanjuan, Xianjun Cao, Yaping Tian, et al.. (2023). Atomically dispersed Mn atoms coordinated with N and O within an N-doped porous carbon framework for boosted oxygen reduction catalysis. Nanoscale. 15(11). 5448–5457. 51 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Ziyan Shen, Juanjuan Huo, et al.. (2023). Epoxy‐rich Fe Single Atom Sites Boost Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(36). e202308349–e202308349. 78 indexed citations

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Cao, Xianjun, Gao Li, Junpeng Qu, et al.. (2023). Modulating Electronic Structure of PtCo‐Pt_rich Nanowires with Ru atoms for Boosted Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis. Small. 19(41). e2302639–e2302639. 17 indexed citations

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Tsounis, Constantine, Bijil Subhash, Priyank V. Kumar, et al.. (2022). Pt Single Atom Electrocatalysts at Graphene Edges for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(38). 111 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinqiang, Yufei Zhao, Bing Sun, et al.. (2022). A long-life lithium-oxygen battery via a molecular quenching/mediating mechanism. Science Advances. 8(3). eabm1899–eabm1899. 52 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Priyank V. Kumar, Xin Tan, et al.. (2022). Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2430–2430. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Penglu, et al.. (2022). NO_x Reduction over Smart Catalysts with Self-Created Targeted Antipoisoning Sites. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(10). 6668–6677. 45 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Wenjie Jiang, Jinqiang Zhang, et al.. (2021). Anchoring Sites Engineering in Single‐Atom Catalysts for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Energy Conversion Reactions. Advanced Materials. 33(41). e2102801–e2102801. 97 indexed citations

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Lan, Tianwei, Yufei Zhao, Jiang Deng, et al.. (2020). Selective catalytic oxidation of NH₃over noble metal-based catalysts: state of the art and future prospects. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(17). 5792–5810. 131 indexed citations

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