Zhengkun Yang

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Zhengkun Yang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengkun Yang has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhengkun Yang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Zhengkun Yang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (24 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (13 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Zhengkun Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Zhengkun Yang's co-authors include Yuen Wu, Yunteng Qu, Yadong Li, Changming Zhao, Fangyao Zhou, Wenxing Chen, Zhijun Li, Yue Lin, Tongwei Yuan and An‐Wu Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhengkun Yang

46 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

  1. Direct transformation of bulk copper into copper single sites via emitting and trapping of atoms
    2018 886 citations Yunteng Qu, Zhijun Li et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  2. Synergistic effect of well-defined dual sites boosting the oxygen reduction reaction
    2018 757 citations Jing Wang, Wei Liu et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  3. Trifunctional Self‐Supporting Cobalt‐Embedded Carbon Nanotube Films for ORR, OER, and HER Triggered by Solid Diffusion from Bulk Metal
    2019 389 citations Zhengkun Yang, Changming Zhao et al. profile →

Peers

Zhengkun Yang
Yi Huang China
Fengxiang Yin China
Siraj Sultan South Korea
Li An China
Estevam V. Spinacé Brazil
Yu Xiong China
Jiajun Wang China
Gan Luo China
Dongdong Zhu China
Yi Huang China
Zhengkun Yang
Citations per year, relative to Zhengkun Yang Zhengkun Yang (= 1×) peers Yi Huang

Countries citing papers authored by Zhengkun Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhengkun Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhengkun Yang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Zhengkun Yang. The network helps show where Zhengkun Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhengkun Yang

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

All Works

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He, Jiaxin, Qingyi Li, Chenchen Qin, et al.. (2025). Biomimetic Square Pyramidal N 1 ‐Fe‐N 4 Single Sites with Optimized Electron Distribution for the Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Small. 21(13). e2500897–e2500897. 1 indexed citations
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Ding, Jiayi, et al.. (2025). Protein acylation in inflammatory diseases: from mechanisms to therapeutic strategies. Cell Communication and Signaling. 23(1). 488–488.
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Tang, Pan, Juxing Tang, Bin Lin, et al.. (2025). Genesis of the South Pit Deposit in Jiama District, Tibet: Constraints from Geology, Geochronology and Amphibole Geochemistry. Journal of Earth Science. 36(4). 1479–1492. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiaoxuan, Qiudong Yang, Zhengkun Yang, et al.. (2024). Autophagy mediates the impact of Porphyromonas gingivalis on short-chain fatty acids metabolism in periodontitis-induced gut dysbiosis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 26291–26291. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Jun, Xifan Chen, Zhengkun Yang, et al.. (2024). Isolated cobalt–nitrogen sites on high-curvature carbon achieving industrial-level current density and pH-universal CO2 electroreduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(15). 9147–9154. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhiyuan, Yan Zhang, Xifan Chen, et al.. (2024). Graphene benefits penta-nitrogen coordinated iron and catalytic stability of oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 154141–154141. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Jun, Jian Yang, Zhengkun Yang, et al.. (2024). Boosting Hydrogen Production of a MOF‐based Multicomponent Photocatalyst with Clean Interface via Facile One‐pot Electrosynthesis. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(15). e202303886–e202303886. 5 indexed citations
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Qin, Chenchen, Li Xu, Jian Zhang, et al.. (2023). Phase Interface Regulating on Amorphous/Crystalline Bismuth Catalyst for Boosted Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Formate. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(40). 47016–47024. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhengkun, et al.. (2023). Circularly Polarized Conformal Antenna with Dual V-shaped Coupling Feed Lines. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Letters. 108. 85–92. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Peng, Zhijun Li, Wenxing Chen, et al.. (2019). 2D MOF induced accessible and exclusive Co single sites for an efficient O-silylation of alcohols with silanes. Chemical Communications. 55(46). 6563–6566. 38 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhengkun, Yu Wang, Mengzhao Zhu, et al.. (2019). Boosting Oxygen Reduction Catalysis with Fe–N4 Sites Decorated Porous Carbons toward Fuel Cells. ACS Catalysis. 9(3). 2158–2163. 345 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhengkun, Bingxu Chen, Wenxing Chen, et al.. (2019). Directly transforming copper (I) oxide bulk into isolated single-atom copper sites catalyst through gas-transport approach. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3734–3734. 317 indexed citations
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Qu, Yunteng, Zhijun Li, Wenxing Chen, et al.. (2018). Direct transformation of bulk copper into copper single sites via emitting and trapping of atoms. Nature Catalysis. 1(10). 781–786. 886 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Jing, Wei Liu, Gan Luo, et al.. (2018). Synergistic effect of well-defined dual sites boosting the oxygen reduction reaction. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(12). 3375–3379. 757 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, Cheng‐Zong, Yifan Jiang, Zhou Wang, et al.. (2016). Cobalt phosphate nanoparticles decorated with nitrogen-doped carbon layers as highly active and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 4(21). 8155–8160. 242 indexed citations
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Du, Hong, Xiao Xie, Qing Zhu, et al.. (2015). Metallic MoO2cocatalyst significantly enhances visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production over MoO2/Zn0.5Cd0.5S heterojunction. Nanoscale. 7(13). 5752–5759. 98 indexed citations

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