Yunzhen Wu

5.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
49 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Yunzhen Wu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunzhen Wu has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yunzhen Wu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (31 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Yunzhen Wu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (31 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Yunzhen Wu collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and Ethiopia. Yunzhen Wu's co-authors include Jungang Hou, Licheng Sun, Shuyan Cao, Zhuwei Li, Bo Zhang, Panlong Zhai, Yiqing Sun, Junfeng Gao, Zhanming Gao and Zheshuai Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yunzhen Wu

49 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Engineering single-atomic ruthenium catalytic sites on defective nickel-iron layered double hydroxide for overall water splitting

2021 642 citations Panlong Zhai, Mingyue Xia et al. Nature Communications profile →
Engineering active sites on hierarchical transition bimetal oxides/sulfides heterostructure array enabling robust overall water splitting

2020 578 citations Panlong Zhai, Yanxue Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rational Design of Nanoarray Architectures for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

2019 439 citations Jungang Hou, Yunzhen Wu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Triggering Lattice Oxygen Activation of Single‐Atomic Mo Sites Anchored on Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxides Nanoarrays for Electrochemical Water Oxidation

2022 229 citations Yunzhen Wu, Panlong Zhai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunzhen Wu China	28	4.3k	2.9k	1.9k	484	414	49	4.8k
Yao Wang China	37	3.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	524 1.1×	504 1.2×	91	4.4k
Jinhui Hao China	28	1.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	339 0.7×	279 0.7×	74	2.7k
Jonathan Hwang United States	21	3.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	631 1.3×	662 1.6×	28	4.3k
Xiaolin Li China	16	1.4k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	750 0.4×	222 0.5×	107 0.3×	41	2.0k
Xueqing Gao China	21	828 0.2×	730 0.3×	637 0.3×	203 0.4×	202 0.5×	57	1.6k
Yanjie Wang China	29	1.4k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	48 0.1×	135 0.3×	82	2.4k
Zhonghong Xia China	26	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	289 0.6×	251 0.6×	50	3.0k
Xuesi Wang China	16	2.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	797 0.4×	262 0.5×	586 1.4×	20	2.9k
Alexander Botz Germany	14	1.4k 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	361 0.2×	429 0.9×	83 0.2×	20	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wu, Yunzhen, Jingya Yuan, Like Shen, et al.. (2025). A phosphorylation-regulated NPF transporter determines salt tolerance by mediating chloride uptake in soybean plants. The EMBO Journal. 44(3). 923–946. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yunzhen. (2023). The Anticancer Effects of Artemisinin and Two Key Derivatives Dihydroartemisinin and Artesunate. Highlights in Science Engineering and Technology. 65. 93–98. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Guangqiang, Junjiao Yang, Meng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Wheat TaPUB1 Regulates Cd Uptake and Tolerance by Promoting the Degradation of TaIRT1 and TaIAA17. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 69(21). 5818–5829. 18 indexed citations

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Zhai, Panlong, Mingyue Xia, Yunzhen Wu, et al.. (2021). Engineering single-atomic ruthenium catalytic sites on defective nickel-iron layered double hydroxide for overall water splitting. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4587–4587. 642 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Guangqiang, Junjiao Yang, Xiaoyu Zhao, et al.. (2021). Wheat TaPUB1 protein mediates ABA response and seed development through ubiquitination. Plant Science. 309. 110913–110913. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Chen, Panlong Zhai, Mingyue Xia, et al.. (2021). Engineering Lattice Oxygen Activation of Iridium Clusters Stabilized on Amorphous Bimetal Borides Array for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(52). 27126–27134. 191 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanting, Lei Ran, Yanxue Zhang, et al.. (2021). Two-Dimensional Defective Boron-Doped Niobic Acid Nanosheets for Robust Nitrogen Photofixation. ACS Nano. 15(11). 17820–17830. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Chen, Panlong Zhai, Mingyue Xia, et al.. (2021). Engineering Lattice Oxygen Activation of Iridium Clusters Stabilized on Amorphous Bimetal Borides Array for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 133(52). 27332–27340. 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Yunzhen, Wenlong Wang, Qinxue Li, et al.. (2020). The wheat E3 ligase TaPUB26 is a negative regulator in response to salt stress in transgenic Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Science. 294. 110441–110441. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenlong, Yunzhen Wu, Ruirui Shi, et al.. (2020). Overexpression of wheat α-mannosidase gene TaMP impairs salt tolerance in transgenic Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Cell Reports. 39(5). 653–667. 9 indexed citations

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Wu, Yunzhen, Shuyan Cao, Jungang Hou, et al.. (2020). Rational Design of Nanocatalysts with Nonmetal Species Modification for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(29). 66 indexed citations

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Zhai, Panlong, Yanxue Zhang, Yunzhen Wu, et al.. (2020). Engineering active sites on hierarchical transition bimetal oxides/sulfides heterostructure array enabling robust overall water splitting. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5462–5462. 578 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Wenlong, Wenqiang Wang, Yunzhen Wu, et al.. (2019). The involvement of wheat U‐box E3 ubiquitin ligase TaPUB1 in salt stress tolerance. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 62(5). 631–651. 77 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenqiang, Qinxue Li, Fengxia Tian, et al.. (2019). Wheat NILs contrasting in grain size show different expansin expression, carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism that are correlated with grain yield. Field Crops Research. 241. 107564–107564. 7 indexed citations

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An, Jie, Qinxue Li, Junjiao Yang, et al.. (2019). Wheat F-box Protein TaFBA1 Positively Regulates Plant Drought Tolerance but Negatively Regulates Stomatal Closure. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1242–1242. 54 indexed citations

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Ran, Lei, Jungang Hou, Shuyan Cao, et al.. (2019). Defect Engineering of Photocatalysts for Solar Energy Conversion. Solar RRL. 4(4). 102 indexed citations

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Li, Zhuwei, Jungang Hou, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2019). Two-dimensional Janus heterostructures for superior Z-scheme photocatalytic water splitting. Nano Energy. 59. 537–544. 150 indexed citations

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Hou, Jungang, Bo Zhang, Zhuwei Li, et al.. (2018). Vertically Aligned Oxygenated-CoS₂–MoS₂ Heteronanosheet Architecture from Polyoxometalate for Efficient and Stable Overall Water Splitting. ACS Catalysis. 8(5). 4612–4621. 320 indexed citations

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Hou, Jungang, Yiqing Sun, Zhuwei Li, et al.. (2018). Overall Water Splitting: Electrical Behavior and Electron Transfer Modulation of Nickel–Copper Nanoalloys Confined in Nickel–Copper Nitrides Nanowires Array Encapsulated in Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Framework as Robust Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting (Adv. Funct. Mater. 37/2018). Advanced Functional Materials. 28(37). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yi, Zhongxuan Luo, Juncheng Liu, et al.. (2013). Real-time estimation of hand gestures based on manifold learning from monocular videos. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 71(2). 555–574. 3 indexed citations

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