Yunnan Gao

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yunnan Gao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunnan Gao has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Catalysis and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yunnan Gao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (6 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (4 papers). Yunnan Gao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (6 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (4 papers). Yunnan Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Canada. Yunnan Gao's co-authors include Zhenyu Sun, Hengcong Tao, Chao Yan, Alex W. Robertson, Zishan Han, Song Hong, John Texter, Qun Fan, Shizhen Liu and Zheng Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yunnan Gao

18 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Nitrogen Fixation by Ru Single-Atom Electrocatalytic Reduction

2018 851 citations Hengcong Tao, Changhyeok Choi et al. Chem profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunnan Gao China	13	1.3k	971	856	493	201	19	1.9k
Gaocan Qi China	24	1.6k 1.2×	748 0.8×	683 0.8×	815 1.7×	107 0.5×	43	2.0k
Yanhong Lyu China	19	1.3k 1.0×	750 0.8×	643 0.8×	539 1.1×	184 0.9×	33	1.7k
Jingrui Han China	23	1.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 2.0×	281 1.4×	45	2.6k
Hongtao Xie China	20	867 0.7×	555 0.6×	610 0.7×	387 0.8×	171 0.9×	43	1.3k
Stefan Dieckhöfer Germany	19	1.9k 1.5×	530 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	840 1.7×	418 2.1×	39	2.3k
Xingyou Liang China	18	798 0.6×	815 0.8×	560 0.7×	430 0.9×	185 0.9×	24	1.3k
Ruilun Wang China	9	1.2k 0.9×	713 0.7×	500 0.6×	638 1.3×	137 0.7×	10	1.6k
Bin Chang China	30	1.6k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	495 0.6×	952 1.9×	67 0.3×	56	2.3k
Zhouhong Ren China	20	1.4k 1.1×	938 1.0×	720 0.8×	765 1.6×	71 0.4×	46	2.2k
Shuli Yin China	29	1.9k 1.4×	720 0.7×	490 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	167 0.8×	74	2.1k

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Dong, Hongzhou, Tingzhou Yang, Chuangwei Liu, et al.. (2025). Controllable and scalable prelithiation of dry silicon-based anodes for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 75. 104072–104072. 8 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Engineering of Solvent‐Free Cathodes with High Loading for High‐Energy‐Density Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46).

Wang, Yan, Tingzhou Yang, Jingwei Liu, et al.. (2024). Air-stable manganese-based layered oxide cathode enabled by surface modification and doping strategy for advanced sodium-ion batteries. Nano Energy. 131. 110260–110260. 25 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, Ling Liu, Yi Jiang, et al.. (2024). Design Principles and Mechanistic Understandings of Non-Noble-Metal Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Zinc–Air Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 162–162. 56 indexed citations

Hua, Lei, et al.. (2024). A new photoionization-induced substitution reaction chemical ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry for highly sensitive detection of trace exhaled ethylene. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1317. 342910–342910. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, Yi Yang, Tingzhou Yang, et al.. (2024). Design Lithium Exchanged Zeolite Based Multifunctional Electrode Additive for Ultra‐High Loading Electrode Toward High Energy Density Lithium Metal Battery. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(5). 14 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, Yang Yang, Leiduan Hao, et al.. (2022). Single Nb atom modified anatase TiO2(110) for efficient electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction. Chem Catalysis. 2(9). 2275–2288. 36 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, Qineng Xia, Leiduan Hao, Alex W. Robertson, & Zhenyu Sun. (2022). Design of Porous Core–Shell Manganese Oxides to Boost Electrocatalytic Dinitrogen Reduction. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(3). 1316–1322. 20 indexed citations

Gao, Yunnan, Zishan Han, Song Hong, et al.. (2019). ZIF-67-Derived Cobalt/Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Composites for Efficient Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(8). 6071–6077. 84 indexed citations

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Gao, Yunnan, Mingli Zhang, Jingjing Ding, et al.. (2018). Simple synthesis of two-dimensional MoP2 nanosheets for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Electrochemistry Communications. 97. 27–31. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Shizhen, Zhenqing Zhao, Yunnan Gao, & Zhenyu Sun. (2018). Graphene and its Hybrids for Photocatalysis. 2(2). 79–96. 1 indexed citations

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Gao, Yunnan, Shizhen Liu, Zhenqing Zhao, Hengcong Tao, & Zhenyu Sun. (2018). Heterogeneous Catalysis of CO<sub>2</sub> Hydrogenation to C<sub>2+</sub> Products. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 34(8). 858–872. 46 indexed citations

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Tao, Hengcong, Changhyeok Choi, Liang‐Xin Ding, et al.. (2018). Nitrogen Fixation by Ru Single-Atom Electrocatalytic Reduction. Chem. 5(1). 204–214. 851 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tao, Hengcong, Jingjing Ding, Chao Xie, et al.. (2017). Supercritical diethylamine facilitated loading of ultrafine Ru particles on few-layer graphene for solvent-free hydrogenation of levulinic acid to γ-valerolactone. Nanotechnology. 29(7). 75708–75708. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Tao, Qun Fan, Hengcong Tao, et al.. (2017). Heterogeneous electrochemical CO₂ reduction using nonmetallic carbon-based catalysts: current status and future challenges. Nanotechnology. 28(47). 472001–472001. 88 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yuqin, Hengcong Tao, Yunnan Gao, et al.. (2017). Graphene/Porous Beta TiO₂ Nanocomposites Prepared Through a Simple Hydrothermal Method. 1(1). 5 indexed citations

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Tao, Hengcong, Yunnan Gao, Neetu Talreja, et al.. (2017). Two-dimensional nanosheets for electrocatalysis in energy generation and conversion. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(16). 7257–7284. 228 indexed citations

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Tao, Hengcong, Yuqin Zhang, Yunnan Gao, et al.. (2016). Scalable exfoliation and dispersion of two-dimensional materials – an update. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(2). 921–960. 271 indexed citations

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Tao, Hengcong, Chao Yan, Alex W. Robertson, et al.. (2016). N-Doping of graphene oxide at low temperature for the oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Communications. 53(5). 873–876. 128 indexed citations

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