Yunxi Yao

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Yunxi Yao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunxi Yao has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yunxi Yao's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (13 papers). Yunxi Yao is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (35 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (13 papers). Yunxi Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Yunxi Yao's co-authors include Xinhe Bao, Qiang Fu, Hui Zhang, Zhen Wang, D. Wayne Goodman, Hongyang Liu, Wei‐Xue Li, Bing Wang, Limin Chen and Hai‐Yan Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yunxi Yao

70 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Interface-Confined Ferrous Centers for Catalytic Oxidation 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 250 500 750
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. Interface-Confined Ferrous Centers for Catalytic Oxidation
    2010 923 citations Qiang Fu, Yunxi Yao et al. profile →

Peers

Yunxi Yao
Stephanus Axnanda United States
M. A. Van Spronsen United States
Russ Renzas United States
Josef Mysliveček Czechia
Cheol-Woo Yi United States
Fábio R. Negreiros Italy
Emily A. Lewis United States
Beien Zhu China
Witold Piskorz Poland
William E. Kaden United States
Stephanus Axnanda United States
Yunxi Yao
Citations per year, relative to Yunxi Yao Yunxi Yao (= 1×) peers Stephanus Axnanda

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunxi Yao

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Jun, Bomin Feng, Hongbing Wang, et al.. (2025). Engineering metal-oxide interfacial structures over (FeCoNiCrMo)3O4/CNT spinel high entropy oxide for efficient overall water splitting. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 128. 656–664. 5 indexed citations
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Feng, Bomin, Lingya Yi, Jun Chen, et al.. (2025). Engineering NiFe (oxy)hydroxide electrocatalyst by reactive radio-frequency water plasma for efficient alkaline water oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 512. 162327–162327. 2 indexed citations
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Mao, Xinchun, Bin Zhao, Linsen Zhou, et al.. (2024). Protective film on cerium metal through in-situ formation of a dense CeO2 oxide layer using air plasma. Chemical Engineering Journal. 503. 158285–158285. 2 indexed citations
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Zhong, Changyin, Yifei Yang, Jun Chen, et al.. (2024). Morphology Effect of La2O2CO3 on CO2 Methanation over Ni-Based Catalysts. Catalysis Letters. 154(10). 5601–5613. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongbing, Yifei Yang, Shixiang Yu, et al.. (2024). Insight into the hydrogen mobility upon Pt/ZSM-5 and its catalytic function during liquid-phase hydrogen isotopes exchange. Journal of Catalysis. 430. 115345–115345. 4 indexed citations
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Bi, Jiapeng, Panpan Zhou, Huaqin Kou, et al.. (2024). Poisoning Mechanism Map for Metal Hydride Hydrogen Storage Materials. Advanced Science. 11(43). e2408522–e2408522. 11 indexed citations
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Zhong, Changyin, Yifei Yang, Jun Chen, et al.. (2024). Nickel Nanoparticles Supported on Lanthanum Oxycarbonate with Interfacial Oxygen Vacancies as Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methane. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(12). 14057–14068. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongbing, Yifei Yang, Yida Zhou, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Interfacial Hydrogen Transfer between Pt and the Siliceous Framework and Its Promotional Effect on the Isotope Catalytic Exchange. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(24). 31126–31136. 1 indexed citations
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Guo, Yakun, Qi Wang, Guozong Yue, et al.. (2024). Ambient hydrogenation of solid aromatics enabled by a high entropy alloy nanocatalyst. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5806–5806. 22 indexed citations
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Wang, Hongbing, Yifei Yang, Linsen Zhou, et al.. (2023). Reactive Pt-TiN interfacial sites for H2O activation and the low-temperature water gas shift. Applied Surface Science. 639. 158174–158174. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Mao, Yifei Yang, Jun Chen, et al.. (2023). Adsorption of water, hydrogen and oxygen on graphene/Pt(111) surfaces: 2D graphene cover effect studied by temperature programmed desorption. Surfaces and Interfaces. 44. 103735–103735. 3 indexed citations
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Feng, Bomin, Yawei Hao, Jun Chen, et al.. (2023). Nanostructured NiFe (oxy)hydroxide fabricated on nickel foams by laser-induced water plasma for enhanced alkaline oxygen evolution reaction. Applied Surface Science. 622. 156934–156934. 10 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi, Philip Shushkov, Thomas F. Miller, & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2019). Direct dioxygen evolution in collisions of carbon dioxide with surfaces. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2294–2294. 21 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2017). Intramolecular water-splitting reaction in single collisions of water ions with surfaces. Chemical Science. 8(4). 2852–2858. 5 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2017). Dynamic molecular oxygen production in cometary comae. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15298–15298. 23 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2016). Tuning Charge Transfer in Ion–Surface Collisions at Hyperthermal Energies. ChemPhysChem. 17(10). 1430–1434. 5 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2016). Direct Hydrogenation of Dinitrogen and Dioxygen via Eley–Rideal Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(38). 11595–11599. 7 indexed citations
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Yao, Yunxi & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2016). Direct Hydrogenation of Dinitrogen and Dioxygen via Eley–Rideal Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 128(38). 11767–11771. 1 indexed citations
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Fu, Qiang, Yunxi Yao, Xiaoguang Guo, et al.. (2013). Reversible structural transformation of FeOx nanostructures on Pt under cycling redox conditions and its effect on oxidation catalysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(35). 14708–14708. 51 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaojie, M. Hupalo, Yunxi Yao, et al.. (2012). Correlation between adatom adsorption properties and growth morphology of metal on graphene. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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