Yuyan Shao

46.9k total citations · 31 hit papers
179 papers, 40.9k citations indexed

About

Yuyan Shao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuyan Shao has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 40.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 84 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 33 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yuyan Shao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (84 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (73 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (64 papers). Yuyan Shao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (84 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (73 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (64 papers). Yuyan Shao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Yuyan Shao's co-authors include Yuehe Lin, Geping Yin, Jun Liu, Mark Engelhard, Chongmin Wang, Yunzhi Gao, Jun Liu, Ji‐Guang Zhang, Jie Xiao and İlhan A. Aksay and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yuyan Shao

176 papers receiving 40.3k citations

Hit Papers

Reversible aqueous zinc/m... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2016 2010 2013 2010 2017 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Reversible aqueous zinc/manganese oxide energy storage from conversion reactions
    2016 2.7k citations Huilin Pan, Yuyan Shao et al. Nature Energy profile →
  2. Graphene Based Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: A Review
    2010 2.6k citations Yuyan Shao, Jun Liu et al. profile →
  3. Dendrite-Free Lithium Deposition via Self-Healing Electrostatic Shield Mechanism
    2013 1.9k citations Wu Xu, Yuyan Shao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Nitrogen-Doped Graphene and Its Application in Electrochemical Biosensing
    2010 1.9k citations Yuyan Shao et al. profile →
  5. Single Atomic Iron Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: Particle Size Control and Thermal Activation
    2017 1.4k citations Hanguang Zhang, Sooyeon Hwang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Water‐Lubricated Intercalation in V2O5·nH2O for High‐Capacity and High‐Rate Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc Batteries
    2017 1.3k citations Ying Chen, Yuyan Shao et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  7. Understanding and approaches for the durability issues of Pt-based catalysts for PEM fuel cell
    2007 1.0k citations Yuyan Shao et al. profile →
  8. Nitrogen‐Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
    2018 1.0k citations Sooyeon Hwang, Maoyu Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  9. Nitrogen-doped graphene and its electrochemical applications
    2010 964 citations Yuyan Shao, Mark Engelhard et al. profile →
  10. Manipulating Adsorption–Insertion Mechanisms in Nanostructured Carbon Materials for High‐Efficiency Sodium Ion Storage
    2017 862 citations Lifen Xiao, Kee Sung Han et al. profile →
  11. Carbon‐Based Metal‐Free ORR Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells: Past, Present, and Future
    2019 859 citations Lijun Yang, Jianglan Shui et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  12. Nanostructured carbon for energy storage and conversion
    2011 841 citations Yuyan Shao, Ji‐Guang Zhang et al. profile →
  13. Facile and controllable electrochemical reduction of graphene oxide and its applications
    2009 751 citations Yuyan Shao, Mark Engelhard et al. profile →
  14. Nitrogen-doped carbon nanostructures and their composites as catalytic materials for proton exchange membrane fuel cell
    2007 673 citations Yuyan Shao et al. profile →
  15. Failure Mechanism for Fast‐Charged Lithium Metal Batteries with Liquid Electrolytes
    2014 649 citations Yuyan Shao, Ji‐Guang Zhang et al. profile →
  16. Materials Science and Materials Chemistry for Large Scale Electrochemical Energy Storage: From Transportation to Electrical Grid
    2012 621 citations Ji‐Guang Zhang, Jian Zhi Hu et al. profile →
  17. Novel catalyst support materials for PEMfuelcells: current status and future prospects
    2008 568 citations Yuyan Shao, Yong Wang et al. profile →
  18. Oxygen electrocatalysts for water electrolyzers and reversible fuel cells: status and perspective
    2012 528 citations Yuyan Shao, Jun Liu et al. profile →
  19. Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Environment: Material Challenges and Solutions
    2022 527 citations Xiaohong Xie, Lei Du et al. profile →
  20. Enhanced activity and stability of Pt catalysts on functionalized graphene sheets for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction
    2009 520 citations Yuyan Shao, Mark Engelhard et al. profile →
  21. PGM‐Free Cathode Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells: A Mini‐Review on Stability Challenges
    2019 485 citations Yuyan Shao, Gang Wu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  22. Making Li‐Air Batteries Rechargeable: Material Challenges
    2012 483 citations Yuyan Shao, Wu Xu et al. profile →
  23. Controlling SEI Formation on SnSb‐Porous Carbon Nanofibers for Improved Na Ion Storage
    2014 455 citations Yuyan Shao, Mark Engelhard et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  24. Bismuth Nanoparticle Decorating Graphite Felt as a High-Performance Electrode for an All-Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
    2013 419 citations Zimin Nie, Yuyan Shao et al. Nano Letters profile →
  25. Electrocatalysts for Nonaqueous Lithium–Air Batteries: Status, Challenges, and Perspective
    2012 413 citations Yuyan Shao, Ji‐Guang Zhang et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  26. 3D printing technologies for electrochemical energy storage
    2017 412 citations Yuyan Shao, Gang Wu et al. profile →
  27. Joint Charge Storage for High‐Rate Aqueous Zinc–Manganese Dioxide Batteries
    2019 379 citations Mark Engelhard, Zimin Nie et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  28. Design strategies for nonaqueous multivalent-ion and monovalent-ion battery anodes
    2020 378 citations Yuyan Shao et al. profile →
  29. A Highly Reversible Zn Anode with Intrinsically Safe Organic Electrolyte for Long‐Cycle‐Life Batteries
    2019 327 citations Yuyan Shao, Jun Liu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  30. Stabilizing Zinc Anode Reactions by Polyethylene Oxide Polymer in Mild Aqueous Electrolytes
    2020 311 citations Kee Sung Han, Yuyan Shao et al. profile →
  31. Ta–TiOx nanoparticles as radical scavengers to improve the durability of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction catalysts
    2022 214 citations Hua Xie, Xiaohong Xie et al. Nature Energy profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yuyan Shao 33.7k 14.5k 10.6k 9.3k 5.8k 179 40.9k
Bing−Joe Hwang 28.2k 0.8× 11.0k 0.8× 11.1k 1.0× 6.5k 0.7× 6.5k 1.1× 588 37.5k
Jim Yang Lee 22.5k 0.7× 8.4k 0.6× 18.4k 1.7× 13.6k 1.5× 2.4k 0.4× 382 38.5k
Shaojun Guo 29.3k 0.9× 25.4k 1.7× 16.0k 1.5× 7.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.3× 355 44.0k
Jianmin Ma 26.0k 0.8× 9.5k 0.7× 10.9k 1.0× 11.1k 1.2× 4.2k 0.7× 472 36.4k
Yung‐Eun Sung 23.9k 0.7× 18.0k 1.2× 11.8k 1.1× 5.5k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 633 34.3k
John Wang 31.1k 0.9× 13.0k 0.9× 18.5k 1.7× 21.6k 2.3× 2.7k 0.5× 576 47.9k
Xiaobo Ji 41.2k 1.2× 5.9k 0.4× 9.9k 0.9× 18.3k 2.0× 7.4k 1.3× 700 48.0k
Zhenhai Wen 21.3k 0.6× 16.7k 1.1× 11.0k 1.0× 7.8k 0.8× 1.0k 0.2× 441 31.7k
Hao Liu 22.1k 0.7× 7.6k 0.5× 11.0k 1.0× 9.4k 1.0× 3.7k 0.6× 602 31.2k
Xueliang Sun 60.2k 1.8× 16.1k 1.1× 22.9k 2.2× 14.8k 1.6× 14.8k 2.6× 857 74.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meng, Ying Shirley, et al.. (2025). Weakly solvating electrolytes: a solvation-centric paradigm for rechargeable metal batteries. Chemical Science. 16(44). 20694–20717.
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Lee, Sang‐Jun, et al.. (2025). Porous transport electrodes for oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis -cells: Materials, designs, and diagnoses. Chemical Engineering Journal. 507. 160473–160473. 7 indexed citations
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Song, Minyung, Jaegeon Ryu, Peng Zuo, et al.. (2024). Nano Scale Poly(vinylidene chloride-co-acrylonitrile) Protection for Reversible and Stable Mg Anode Interface. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(4). 40532–40532. 1 indexed citations
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Feng, Ruozhu, Xueyun Zheng, Peter S. Rice, et al.. (2024). Redox Activity Modulation in Extended Fluorenone-Based Flow Battery Electrolytes with π-π Stacking Effect. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 171(9). 90501–90501. 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Litao, Yuyan Shao, & Wei Wang. (2023). A Hydrogen Iron Flow Battery with High Current Density and Long Cyclability Enabled Through Circular Water Management. Energy & environment materials. 6(4). 3 indexed citations
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Qiu, Yang, Debmalya Ray, Litao Yan, et al.. (2023). Proton Relay for the Rate Enhancement of Electrochemical Hydrogen Reactions at Heterogeneous Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(48). 26016–26027. 16 indexed citations
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Kim, Kyu‐Su, et al.. (2023). Substrate‐Driven Catalyst Reducibility for Oxygen Evolution and Its Effect on the Operation of Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 6 indexed citations
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Song, Chunshan, Stanislaus S. Wong, Randall E. Winans, et al.. (2022). Highlights of the 2021–2022 Award-Winning Research Accomplishments in the ACS Energy and Fuels Division. ACS Energy Letters. 8(1). 381–386. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Hua, Xiaohong Xie, Guoxiang Hu, et al.. (2022). Ta–TiOx nanoparticles as radical scavengers to improve the durability of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction catalysts. Nature Energy. 7(3). 281–289. 214 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qiao, Yun, Chaoji Chen, Yang Liu, et al.. (2021). Continuous Fly-Through High-Temperature Synthesis of Nanocatalysts. Nano Letters. 21(11). 4517–4523. 24 indexed citations
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Feng, Ruozhu, Xin Zhang, Vijayakumar Murugesan, et al.. (2021). Reversible ketone hydrogenation and dehydrogenation for aqueous organic redox flow batteries. Science. 372(6544). 836–840. 211 indexed citations
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Hollas, Aaron, Kaining Duanmu, Vijayakumar Murugesan, et al.. (2021). Decomposition pathways and mitigation strategies for highly-stable hydroxyphenazine flow battery anolytes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(38). 21918–21928. 36 indexed citations
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Xie, Xiaohong, Miao Song, Luguang Wang, et al.. (2019). Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral pH Solutions: Dual-Phase Synergy. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 8712–8718. 125 indexed citations
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Xiao, Lifen, Ziqi Zeng, Xuemei Liu, et al.. (2019). Stable Li Metal Anode with “Ion–Solvent-Coordinated” Nonflammable Electrolyte for Safe Li Metal Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 4(2). 483–488. 188 indexed citations
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Yang, Lijun, Jianglan Shui, Lei Du, et al.. (2019). Carbon‐Based Metal‐Free ORR Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells: Past, Present, and Future. Advanced Materials. 31(13). e1804799–e1804799. 859 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yin, Yongfeng, et al.. (2019). A Flexible Cyber Security Experimentation Platform Architecture Based on Docker. 413–420. 5 indexed citations
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Luo, Langli, Mark Engelhard, Yuyan Shao, & Chongmin Wang. (2017). Revealing the Dynamics of Platinum Nanoparticle Catalysts on Carbon in Oxygen and Water Using Environmental TEM. ACS Catalysis. 7(11). 7658–7664. 42 indexed citations
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Chen, Junzheng, Wesley A. Henderson, Huilin Pan, et al.. (2017). Improving Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance under Lean Electrolyte through Nanoscale Confinement in Soft Swellable Gels. Nano Letters. 17(5). 3061–3067. 128 indexed citations
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Pan, Huilin, Junzheng Chen, Ruiguo Cao, et al.. (2017). Non-encapsulation approach for high-performance Li–S batteries through controlled nucleation and growth. Nature Energy. 2(10). 813–820. 373 indexed citations
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Zhang, Hanguang, Sooyeon Hwang, Maoyu Wang, et al.. (2017). Single Atomic Iron Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: Particle Size Control and Thermal Activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(40). 14143–14149. 1364 indexed citations breakdown →

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