Zedong Zhang

10.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
120 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Zedong Zhang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Zedong Zhang has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 44 papers in Materials Chemistry and 24 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Zedong Zhang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (22 papers). Zedong Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (22 papers). Zedong Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Zedong Zhang's co-authors include Dingsheng Wang, Yadong Li, Shufang Ji, Yuanjun Chen, Xiaolu Wang, Liang Xiao, Wenxing Chen, Lirong Zheng, Wenming Sun and Shenghua Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zedong Zhang

105 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

Chemical Synthesis of Single Atomic Site Catalysts 2019 2026 2021 2023 2020 2020 2019 2020 2021 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. Chemical Synthesis of Single Atomic Site Catalysts
    2020 1.2k citations Shufang Ji, Yuanjun Chen et al. profile →
  2. Atomic‐Level Modulation of Electronic Density at Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks: Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Performance
    2020 585 citations Yuanjun Chen, Rui Gao et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Engineering the Atomic Interface with Single Platinum Atoms for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
    2019 434 citations Yuanjun Chen, Shufang Ji et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Rare‐Earth Single Erbium Atoms for Enhanced Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction
    2020 427 citations Shufang Ji, Yuanjun Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Theory-oriented screening and discovery of advanced energy transformation materials in electrocatalysis
    2021 387 citations Peng Zhu, Zedong Zhang et al. profile →
  6. An Adjacent Atomic Platinum Site Enables Single‐Atom Iron with High Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance
    2021 384 citations Kun Tang, Zedong Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  7. Atomic‐Level Regulation of Cobalt Single‐Atom Nanozymes: Engineering High‐Efficiency Catalase Mimics
    2023 174 citations Yuanjun Chen, Haigang Hao et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  8. Reversible hydrogen spillover at the atomic interface for efficient alkaline hydrogen evolution
    2024 130 citations Zedong Zhang, Dingsheng Wang et al. profile →
  9. Overcoming Electrostatic Interaction via Pulsed Electroreduction for Boosting the Electrocatalytic Urea Synthesis
    2024 125 citations Zedong Zhang, Zechao Zhuang 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
Zedong Zhang China 43 5.6k 3.8k 2.4k 1.6k 937 120 7.8k
Mohamed S. Hamdy Saudi Arabia 53 4.4k 0.8× 4.0k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 2.9k 1.8× 942 1.0× 273 8.2k
Weijie Yang China 49 4.1k 0.7× 4.8k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 779 0.8× 181 8.1k
Yafei Li China 32 4.4k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 2.2k 0.9× 2.0k 1.3× 638 0.7× 112 5.9k
Ji Yang China 29 3.0k 0.5× 2.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 600 0.6× 52 5.0k
Xiaolong Zhang China 40 4.9k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 2.9k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 454 0.5× 143 6.4k
Kebin Zhou China 39 2.8k 0.5× 5.6k 1.5× 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 86 7.5k
Jun Ke China 42 4.0k 0.7× 4.1k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 634 0.4× 572 0.6× 97 6.1k
Anuj Kumar India 45 4.1k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 3.6k 1.5× 705 0.4× 684 0.7× 242 7.6k
Wen Luo China 39 2.3k 0.4× 2.5k 0.6× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.9× 383 0.4× 188 5.1k
Minghui Zhu China 57 4.7k 0.8× 5.6k 1.5× 1.6k 0.7× 4.8k 3.0× 1.2k 1.3× 239 9.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zedong Zhang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zedong Zhang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zedong Zhang 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 Zedong Zhang. Zedong Zhang 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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Khiarak, Behnam Nourmohammadi, Hengzhou Liu, Thành Trần‐Phú, et al.. (2025). Recoverable operation strategy for selective and stable electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to methane. Nature Energy. 10(11). 1360–1370.
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Hu, Shouyao, Jiaxin Gong, Jianping Guan, et al.. (2025). Coordination-in-pipe engineering of Pt-based intermetallic compounds with nanometer to angstrom precision. Chemical Science. 16(10). 4311–4319.
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Cai, Lei, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of titanium silicalite-1 supported zinc catalysts for efficient and clean epoxidation of 1-hexene and methyl oleate. Materials Research Bulletin. 179. 112929–112929. 2 indexed citations
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Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2024). Atomic Pt Sites Anchored in the Interface between Grains on Vacancy‐Enriched CeO2 Nanosheets: One‐Step Precursor Combustion Synthesis. Advanced Materials. 36(25). e2401055–e2401055. 25 indexed citations
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Feng, Xueting, Jiyuan Liu, Ya Kong, et al.. (2024). Cu/CuxO/Graphdiyne Tandem Catalyst for Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Materials. 36(44). e2405660–e2405660. 61 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zedong, Chang Liu, Jianguo Dong, et al.. (2024). Self-Referenced Au Nanoparticles-Coated Glass Wafers for In Situ SERS Monitoring of Cell Secretion. ACS Sensors. 9(8). 4154–4165. 9 indexed citations
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Yuan, Xinxin, Xue Mi, Chang Liu, et al.. (2023). Ultrasensitive iodide detection in biofluids based on hot electron-induced reduction of p-Nitrothiophenol on Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 235. 115365–115365. 12 indexed citations
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Song, Guangchun, Zedong Zhang, Marie‐Laure Fauconnier, et al.. (2023). Bimodal single-atom iron nanozyme biosensor for volatile amine and food freshness detection. Nano Today. 53. 102025–102025. 56 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zedong, et al.. (2023). Effects of Shaft Tuyere Parameters on Gas Movement Behavior and Burden Reduction in Oxygen Blast Furnace. Sustainability. 15(12). 9159–9159. 1 indexed citations
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Gao, Huxin, Changsheng Li, Zedong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Modeling and Compensation of Stiffness-Dependent Hysteresis for Stiffness-Tunable Tendon-Sheath Mechanism in Flexible Endoscopic Robots. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 71(8). 9328–9338. 15 indexed citations
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Lin, Rui, Tingting Cui, Zedong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Optimization of p-Type Cu2O Nanocube Photocatalysts Based on Electronic Effects. ACS Catalysis. 13(17). 11352–11361. 20 indexed citations
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Liu, Chang, Jianguo Dong, Zedong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Four-Color SERS Monitoring of Size-dependent Nanoparticle Delivery in the Same Tumor. Analytical Chemistry. 95(37). 13880–13888. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zedong, Shenghua Chen, Jiexin Zhu, et al.. (2023). Charge-Separated Pdδ−–Cuδ+ Atom Pairs Promote CO2 Reduction to C2. Nano Letters. 23(6). 2312–2320. 54 indexed citations
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Xu, Qi, Chenxi Guo, Beibei Li, et al.. (2022). Al3+ Dopants Induced Mg2+ Vacancies Stabilizing Single-Atom Cu Catalyst for Efficient Free-Radical Hydrophosphinylation of Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(10). 4321–4326. 59 indexed citations
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Chen, Shenghua, Zedong Zhang, Wenjun Jiang, et al.. (2022). Engineering Water Molecules Activation Center on Multisite Electrocatalysts for Enhanced CO2 Methanation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(28). 12807–12815. 164 indexed citations
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Ali, Sajid, Wei Liu, Zedong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Countrywide inter‐epidemic region migration pattern suggests the role of southwestern population in wheat stripe rust epidemics in China. Environmental Microbiology. 24(10). 4684–4701. 13 indexed citations
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Qiu, Yajun, Jian Zhang, Jing Jin, et al.. (2021). Construction of Pd-Zn dual sites to enhance the performance for ethanol electro-oxidation reaction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5273–5273. 145 indexed citations
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He, Lin, Jian Zhang, Yajun Qiu, et al.. (2021). Decreasing the coordinated N atoms in a single-atom Cu catalyst to achieve selective transfer hydrogenation of alkynes. Chemical Science. 12(43). 14599–14605. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuanjun, Rui Gao, Shufang Ji, et al.. (2020). Atomic‐Level Modulation of Electronic Density at Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks: Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(6). 3212–3221. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xiaolu, et al.. (2018). Quantitative analysis of distributed and centralized development of renewable energy. Global Energy Interconnection. 1(5). 576–584. 8 indexed citations

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