Yun Tong

11.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Yun Tong is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yun Tong has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 78 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yun Tong's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (59 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers). Yun Tong is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (59 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers). Yun Tong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Switzerland. Yun Tong's co-authors include Pengzuo Chen, Changzheng Wu, Yi Xie, Kun Xu, Wangsheng Chu, Tianpei Zhou, Lidong Zhang, Hui Ding, Junchi Wu and Wensheng Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yun Tong

118 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Metallic Nickel Nitride Nanosheets Realizing Enhanced Ele... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 2015 2017 2017 250 500 750 1000
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. Metallic Nickel Nitride Nanosheets Realizing Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation
    2015 1.0k citations Kun Xu, Pengzuo Chen et al. profile →
  2. Atomically Dispersed Iron–Nitrogen Species as Electrocatalysts for Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions
    2016 1.0k citations Pengzuo Chen, Kun Xu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Metallic Co4N Porous Nanowire Arrays Activated by Surface Oxidation as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
    2015 742 citations Pengzuo Chen, Kun Xu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. 3D Nitrogen‐Anion‐Decorated Nickel Sulfides for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting
    2017 611 citations Pengzuo Chen, Yun Tong et al. profile →
  5. A Bifunctional Hybrid Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution: Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles Strongly Coupled to B,N‐Decorated Graphene
    2017 474 citations Yun Tong, Pengzuo Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yun Tong China 44 8.6k 6.9k 2.5k 1.4k 1.1k 121 10.4k
Li Xiao China 47 5.8k 0.7× 6.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 735 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 200 9.1k
Zhenxing Liang China 49 5.2k 0.6× 5.4k 0.8× 2.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 528 0.5× 176 7.8k
Yinlong Zhu China 53 7.6k 0.9× 6.6k 0.9× 4.6k 1.8× 1.0k 0.7× 905 0.8× 113 10.7k
Elena Pastor Spain 47 4.8k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 867 0.8× 210 6.3k
Mehtap Oezaslan Germany 33 5.3k 0.6× 4.1k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 404 0.4× 83 6.6k
Matthias Arenz Denmark 54 11.0k 1.3× 8.8k 1.3× 5.0k 2.0× 3.0k 2.2× 1.0k 0.9× 203 13.4k
Pengju Ren China 32 6.0k 0.7× 4.3k 0.6× 3.7k 1.5× 652 0.5× 1.2k 1.1× 90 8.4k
John Rick Taiwan 45 2.6k 0.3× 4.0k 0.6× 2.4k 1.0× 613 0.5× 611 0.6× 94 7.0k
Yu Duan China 24 5.3k 0.6× 3.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.7× 716 0.5× 837 0.8× 53 6.2k
Pei Chen China 41 3.8k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 431 0.3× 735 0.7× 240 6.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Xuefeng, Yun Tong, Cheng Fang, et al.. (2025). Foundations, Design Strategies, and Further Considerations for High-Energy Al-S Batteries. Electrochemical Energy Reviews. 8(1).
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Cheng, Fan, et al.. (2025). Customizing copper current collector with a lithium-philic transmission channel enables dendrite-free Li metal anode. Journal of Power Sources. 644. 237151–237151.
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Rong, Xin, Zhen‐Wei Wei, Xiuli Lu, Yun Tong, & Zhuofeng Ke. (2025). Engineering grain boundaries in porous Ru/RuO2 heterogeneous nanosheets for high-efficiency and durable acidic oxygen evolution. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 700(Pt 2). 138483–138483. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xuefeng, Yun Tong, Meng Yu, et al.. (2025). Local electronic regulation of single-atom catalysts to accelerate aluminum-sulfur conversion kinetics. Journal of Energy Storage. 129. 117320–117320.
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Tong, Yun, Guorong Zhou, Jinfeng He, et al.. (2024). Oxygen-deficient NiCo2O4 porous nanowire for superior electrosynthesis of ammonia coupling with valorization of ethylene glycol. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 154220–154220. 17 indexed citations
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He, Jinfeng, Yun Tong, Zhe Wang, et al.. (2024). Oxygenate-induced structural evolution of high-entropy electrocatalysts for multifunctional alcohol electrooxidation integrated with hydrogen production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(30). e2405846121–e2405846121. 60 indexed citations
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Feng, Dongmei, et al.. (2023). Engineering cobalt molybdate nanosheet arrays with phosphorus-modified nickel as heterogeneous electrodes for highly-active energy-saving water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 636. 425–434. 30 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiaye, et al.. (2023). Metal oxides heterojunction derived Bi-In hybrid electrocatalyst for robust electroreduction of CO2 to formate. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 83. 180–188. 58 indexed citations
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Feng, Dongmei, Xuhui Ren, & Yun Tong. (2023). Rational design of tungsten-doped cobalt molybdate nanosheet arrays for highly active ethanol-assisted hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(88). 34244–34254. 38 indexed citations
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Li, Kaixun, Yun Tong, Jinfeng He, Xiang‐Yang Liu, & Pengzuo Chen. (2023). Anion-modulated CoP electrode as bifunctional electrocatalyst for anion-exchange membrane hydrazine-assisted water electrolyser. Materials Horizons. 10(11). 5277–5287. 61 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xu, Jiajun Yang, Yun Tong, et al.. (2023). Efficient all-inorganic CsPbIBr2 perovskite solar cells with an open voltage over 1.33 V by dual-additive strategy. Surfaces and Interfaces. 40. 103145–103145. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Kaixun, Jinfeng He, Xuze Guan, et al.. (2023). Phosphorus‐Modified Amorphous High‐Entropy CoFeNiCrMn Compound as High‐Performance Electrocatalyst for Hydrazine‐Assisted Water Electrolysis. Small. 19(42). e2302130–e2302130. 89 indexed citations
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Li, Kaixun, Yun Tong, Dongmei Feng, & Pengzuo Chen. (2022). Fluorine-anion engineering endows superior bifunctional activity of nickel sulfide/phosphide heterostructure for overall water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 625. 576–584. 49 indexed citations
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Feng, Dongmei, et al.. (2022). Carbon-encapsulated Co2P/P-modified NiMoO4 hierarchical heterojunction as superior pH-universal electrocatalyst for hydrogen production. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 634. 693–702. 54 indexed citations
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Ma, Xinyu, Wenyan Liao, Huaxu Zhou, et al.. (2020). Highly sensitive detection of rutin in pharmaceuticals and human serum using ITO electrodes modified with vertically-ordered mesoporous silica–graphene nanocomposite films. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 8(46). 10630–10636. 34 indexed citations
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Yan, Fei, Xinyu Ma, Yun Tong, et al.. (2020). Phenylboronic acid-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica films for selective electrochemical determination of fluoride ion in tap water. Microchimica Acta. 187(8). 470–470. 38 indexed citations
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Tong, Yun, et al.. (2020). Confinement of fluorine anions in nickel-based catalysts for greatly enhancing oxygen evolution activity. Chemical Communications. 56(30). 4196–4199. 49 indexed citations
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Chen, Pengzuo, Kun Xu, Zhiwei Fang, et al.. (2015). Metallic Co4N Porous Nanowire Arrays Activated by Surface Oxidation as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(49). 14710–14714. 742 indexed citations breakdown →
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