Zhengwei Ye

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Zhengwei Ye is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengwei Ye has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 8 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhengwei Ye's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (5 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (5 papers). Zhengwei Ye is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (5 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (5 papers). Zhengwei Ye collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Korea. Zhengwei Ye's co-authors include Zetian Mi, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, Yixin Xiao, Peng Zhou, Baowen Zhou, Kai Sun, Ping Wang, Yongjin Ma, Kejun Wang and Xiaoqiong Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhengwei Ye

21 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting

2023 920 citations Peng Zhou, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid et al. Nature profile →

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Shi‐Long Xu China

Zhipeng Ma Australia

Fangxu Lin China

Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid United States

Youzi Zhang China

Haoqiang Ai Macao

Zhifu Liang China

Xueru Zhao China

Libo Zhang China

Xiaofei Xing China

Shi‐Long Xu China

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhengwei Ye

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mondal, Shubham, Jinghan Gao, Jiangnan Liu, et al.. (2025). Unprecedented enhancement of piezoelectricity of wurtzite nitride semiconductors via thermal annealing. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4130–4130. 3 indexed citations

Ye, Zhengwei, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Light Weight Polypyrrole Aerogel Towards Improved Reflection Loss With High Efficiency and Wide Band Absorption. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 142(19).

Dong, Wan Jae, Kejian Li, Zhengwei Ye, et al.. (2025). Nitrate reduction to ammonia catalyzed by GaN/Si photoelectrodes with metal clusters. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3383–3383. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Bingxing, Zhiheng Zhao, Yuyang Pan, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting at the Integrated Rh–MoRhO _x Cluster Heterostructure on InGaN/GaN Nanowires. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(2). e20831–e20831. 1 indexed citations

Ye, Zhengwei, Zhuoran Long, Bingxing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic Conversion of Methane to Ethane and Propane Using Cobalt‐Cluster‐Activated GaN Nanowires. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(14). e202500158–e202500158. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Bingxing, Zhengwei Ye, Wan Jae Dong, et al.. (2025). Rational Pathways Tuning Facilitates Photoelectrochemical Upcycling of Nitrite to Ammonia Using CuPd Nanoalloy on GaN/Si Photocathode. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(40). 21715–21725. 1 indexed citations

Navid, Ishtiaque Ahmed, et al.. (2025). Long-term stability of GaN-based photocatalyst nanostructures through dynamic oxide protection. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(37). 31642–31653. 1 indexed citations

Dong, Wan Jae, Zhengwei Ye, Zhuoran Long, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Metal‐Support Interactions in Au/GaN Catalysts for Photoelectrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Small. 21(11). e2412089–e2412089. 4 indexed citations

Ye, Zhengwei, et al.. (2025). Self-Templated Sputtering Synthesis of III-Nitride Nanowire Array for Solar Water Splitting. Nano Letters. 25(42). 15305–15312.

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Zhang, Bingxing, Peng Zhou, Zhengwei Ye, et al.. (2024). Interfacially coupled Cu-cluster/GaN photocathode for efficient CO2 to ethylene conversion. Nature Synthesis. 3(12). 1567–1576. 14 indexed citations

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Dong, Wan Jae, Zhengwei Ye, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, et al.. (2024). Photoelectrochemical Urea Synthesis from Nitrate and Carbon Dioxide on GaN Nanowires. ACS Catalysis. 14(4). 2588–2596. 20 indexed citations

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Dong, Wan Jae, Zhengwei Ye, Songtao Tang, et al.. (2024). Concentrated Solar Light Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting for Stable and High‐Yield Hydrogen Production. Advanced Science. 11(26). e2309548–e2309548. 24 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng, Songtao Tang, Zhengwei Ye, et al.. (2023). Water-promoted selective photocatalytic methane oxidation for methanol production. Chemical Science. 15(4). 1505–1510. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Baowen, Yongjin Ma, Pengfei Ou, et al.. (2023). Light-driven synthesis of C2H6 from CO2 and H2O on a bimetallic AuIr composite supported on InGaN nanowires. Nature Catalysis. 6(11). 987–995. 106 indexed citations

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Ye, Zhengwei, et al.. (2023). Nano-Fe3O4 decorated on carbon aerogel framework: Coupling microstructures synergistic effect for electromagnetic wave absorption. Advanced Powder Technology. 35(1). 104301–104301. 9 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yixin, Xianghua Kong, Srinivas Vanka, et al.. (2023). Oxynitrides enabled photoelectrochemical water splitting with over 3,000 hrs stable operation in practical two-electrode configuration. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2047–2047. 41 indexed citations

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Dong, Wan Jae, Yixin Xiao, Ke Yang, et al.. (2023). Pt nanoclusters on GaN nanowires for solar-asssisted seawater hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 179–179. 76 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng, Ishtiaque Ahmed Navid, Yongjin Ma, et al.. (2023). Solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of more than 9% in photocatalytic water splitting. Nature. 613(7942). 66–70. 920 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Kejun, et al.. (2022). Nanoporous resorcinol-formaldehyde based carbon aerogel for lightweight and tunable microwave absorption. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 278. 125718–125718. 34 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lin, Jiaojiao Tian, Kai Liao, et al.. (2022). Transcriptomic analysis reveals the mechanism of low/high temperature resistance in an outstanding diet alga Nannochloropsis oceanica. Aquaculture Reports. 27. 101365–101365. 8 indexed citations

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