Zefeng Ren

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Zefeng Ren is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Zefeng Ren has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Zefeng Ren's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (33 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (22 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (21 papers). Zefeng Ren is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (33 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (22 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (21 papers). Zefeng Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Zefeng Ren's co-authors include Xueming Yang, Chuanyao Zhou, Zhibo Ma, Dongxu Dai, Qing Guo, Hongjun Fan, Qing Guo, Li Che, Xiuyan Wang and Wenshao Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Zefeng Ren

83 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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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.

Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles

2022 403 citations Ruotian Chen, Zefeng Ren et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Zefeng Ren	2.2k	1.7k	998	829	572	86	3.6k
Marlies Hankel	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	776 0.8×	1.8k 2.1×	381 0.7×	65	3.7k
Mei‐Shan Wang	2.0k 0.9×	728 0.4×	817 0.8×	957 1.2×	338 0.6×	277	3.1k
Roger A. Bennett	2.3k 1.1×	732 0.4×	1.3k 1.3×	703 0.8×	408 0.7×	100	3.6k
Walter S. Drisdell	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	358 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	186 0.3×	54	3.1k
Thorsten Klüner	1.4k 0.6×	459 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	570 0.7×	241 0.4×	138	2.8k
J. Mathias Weber	889 0.4×	626 0.4×	1.6k 1.6×	313 0.4×	799 1.4×	114	3.0k
Ralph Gebauer	1.3k 0.6×	754 0.4×	815 0.8×	645 0.8×	150 0.3×	85	2.6k
Takayoshi Ishimoto	772 0.4×	373 0.2×	757 0.8×	420 0.5×	449 0.8×	148	1.9k
Karl Sohlberg	1.7k 0.8×	450 0.3×	586 0.6×	770 0.9×	253 0.4×	133	2.8k

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Wen, Bo, et al.. (2025). Anisotropic Valence Band Structure of Anatase TiO₂(101) Studied by Polarization-Dependent Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(7). 3817–3825. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Yajie, Qunqing Hao, Zhiqiang Wang, et al.. (2025). Disentangling the Contribution of Surface and Bulk Ti³⁺ Defects to the Band Gap States of Rutile TiO₂(011). JACS Au. 5(4). 1822–1832. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Nan, Yuting Deng, Rui Li, et al.. (2025). Engineering a manganese superoxide dismutase with enhanced thermostability and activity via protein language Models: Toward antioxidant and anti-inflammatory applications in biomedicine and skincare. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 239. 565–578.

Zhang, Nan, Zefeng Ren, Dongsheng Wei, et al.. (2025). Discovery, expression, and characterization of highly tolerant superoxide dismutases from extremophiles for potential industrial applications. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 319(Pt 1). 145272–145272. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Jiannong, Jungmin Park, Lei Gao, et al.. (2025). Temperature-dependent trapping and polaron annihilation on ultrafast time scales in metal-halide perovskites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(38). 9925–9932.

Wang, Zhiqiang, Yajie Gao, Wei Chen, et al.. (2024). Photocatalyzed oxidation of water on oxygen pretreated rutile TiO2(110). Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(4). 110602–110602. 3 indexed citations

Luo, Ting, et al.. (2024). Vibronic coupling of Rhodamine 6G molecules studied by doubly resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy with narrowband infrared and broadband visible. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(2). 5 indexed citations

Khan, Tanveer Ahmad, Dan Qu, Zhiqiang Wang, et al.. (2024). Icelike water molecules with single hydrogen bond donor on the surface of nano anatase and rutile particles by IR spectroscopy. Chemical Physics Letters. 856. 141666–141666. 3 indexed citations

Li, Bohan, et al.. (2024). Noncollinear Optical Parametric Amplification of Broadband Infrared Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(9). 2470–2475. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Huang, Xingan Wang, Zefeng Ren, et al.. (2023). Diffusion effect on the decay of time-resolved photoluminescence under low illumination in lead halide perovskites. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 66(8). 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Lina, Yu Liang, Julong Sun, et al.. (2023). Development of in situ characterization of two-dimensional materials grown on insulator substrates with spectroscopic photoemission and low energy electron microscopy. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 264. 147318–147318.

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Li, Bohan, Feiyi Liao, Chen Zhao, et al.. (2023). Regulating 3D Phase in Quasi‐2D Perovskite Films for High‐Performance and Stable Photodetectors. Advanced Science. 10(26). e2302917–e2302917. 9 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yong, Wei Chen, Zhaoxian Qin, et al.. (2023). An apparatus for investigating the kinetics of plasmonic catalysis. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. 36(3). 249–258. 1 indexed citations

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Zeng, Qiong, et al.. (2023). Validation of broadband infrared normalization in sum-frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy through simultaneous chiral terms on α-quartz crystal. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. 36(3). 265–271. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Bohan, Huang Li, Jiacheng Wang, et al.. (2023). Probing the Genuine Carrier Dynamics of Semiconducting Perovskites under Sunlight. JACS Au. 3(2). 441–448. 23 indexed citations

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Dong, Shan‐Shan, Jialong Li, Weiqing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Temperature-programmed desorption spectrometer combining minimum gas load, fast substrate replacement, and comprehensive temperature control. Chinese Journal of Chemical Physics. 36(4). 373–383. 2 indexed citations

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Schwarzmüller, Stefan, Daniel Souchay, G. Wagner, et al.. (2022). Endotaxial Intergrowth of Copper Telluride in GeTe-Rich Germanium Antimony Tellurides Leads to High Thermoelectric Performance. Chemistry of Materials. 34(22). 10025–10039. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianyu, Jianyu Zhang, Anfeng Li, et al.. (2022). Top-Seed Solution-Based Growth of Perovskite Cs₃Bi₂I₉ Single Crystal for High Performance X-ray Detection. ACS Photonics. 9(2). 641–651. 36 indexed citations

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Chen, Ruotian, Zefeng Ren, Yu Liang, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal imaging of charge transfer in photocatalyst particles. Nature. 610(7931). 296–301. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ren, Zefeng, Zhigang Sun, Donghui Zhang, & Xueming Yang. (2016). A review of dynamical resonances in A + BC chemical reactions. Reports on Progress in Physics. 80(2). 26401–26401. 14 indexed citations

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