Zhenhua Pan

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Zhenhua Pan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenhua Pan has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 59 papers in Materials Chemistry and 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhenhua Pan's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (64 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (31 papers) and Iron oxide chemistry and applications (13 papers). Zhenhua Pan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (64 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (31 papers) and Iron oxide chemistry and applications (13 papers). Zhenhua Pan collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Zhenhua Pan's co-authors include Kazunari Domen, Takashi Hisatomi, Tsuyoshi Takata, Qian Wang, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Naoya Shibata, Yudong Xue, Yunting Wang, Taro Yamada and Zheng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhenhua Pan

93 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Oxysulfide photocatalyst for visible-light-driven overall water splitting

2019 527 citations Mamiko Nakabayashi, Takashi Hisatomi et al. profile →
Overall photosynthesis of H2O2 by an inorganic semiconductor

2022 259 citations Tian Liu, Zhenhua Pan et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhenhua Pan Japan	30	3.2k	2.6k	1.4k	366	327	97	4.2k
Aqil Jamal Saudi Arabia	29	575 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	421 0.3×	483 1.3×	461 1.4×	73	3.1k
Jianming Li China	33	2.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	22 0.1×	84 0.3×	127	3.7k
Yu. I. Aristov Russia	55	2.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	299 0.2×	43 0.1×	81 0.2×	231	8.7k
Bo Feng China	39	476 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	533 0.4×	180 0.5×	98 0.3×	127	4.5k
Jun Shi China	27	447 0.1×	1.0k 0.4×	357 0.3×	249 0.7×	88 0.3×	108	2.3k
Alessandro Lavacchi Italy	38	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	2.3k 1.6×	24 0.1×	56 0.2×	162	4.6k
Silvia Lenaerts Belgium	33	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 0.7×	844 0.6×	26 0.1×	33 0.1×	109	3.4k
Daniel R. Jones United Kingdom	22	426 0.1×	719 0.3×	497 0.3×	51 0.1×	47 0.1×	54	1.4k
Hao Tang China	24	177 0.1×	813 0.3×	544 0.4×	193 0.5×	243 0.7×	79	2.2k
Zepeng Li China	24	161 0.1×	955 0.4×	279 0.2×	362 1.0×	232 0.7×	73	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenhua Pan

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

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Fu, Han, et al.. (2025). Green hydrogen production via a photocatalyst-enabled optical fiber system: A promising route to net-zero emissions. 6. 100175–100175. 7 indexed citations

Fu, Han, et al.. (2025). Transition-Metal-Doped Perovskite Oxide Materials: A Key Pathway for Photocatalytic Water Splitting Under Visible-Light Irradiation. ACS Catalysis. 16(1). 31–56. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Xiaoshan, Zhenhua Pan, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, et al.. (2025). Nanoscale reduction-site-selective oxygen regulation for promoting hydrogen peroxide production. Nature Communications. 17(1). 269–269.

Zheng, Xiaoshan, Zhenhua Pan, Junye Ma, et al.. (2025). A Synthetic Hydrophyte for Sunlight-Driven Water Purification. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(28). 14597–14604.

Zheng, Xiaoshan, Rito Yanagi, Zhenhua Pan, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen peroxide photosynthesis from water and air using a scaled-up 1-m2 flow reactor. Chem Catalysis. 5(3). 101238–101238. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Siyan, et al.. (2024). A robust methodology for PEC performance analysis of photoanodes using machine learning and analytical data. The Analyst. 149(16). 4193–4207. 7 indexed citations

Pan, Zhenhua, et al.. (2024). Combined Effect of Underlayer and Deposition Solution to Optimize the Alignment of Hematite Photoanodes. Langmuir. 40(22). 11526–11533. 4 indexed citations

Pan, Zhenhua, et al.. (2024). Charge carrier recombination in TiO2 and SrTiO3 single crystals: Impact of CoOx cocatalyst loading. Journal of Applied Physics. 136(20). 1 indexed citations

Pan, Zhenhua, et al.. (2023). Investigation of the origin of the enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of gradient W-doped bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) photoanodes. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 54. 1544–1551. 11 indexed citations

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Pan, Zhenhua, et al.. (2023). Convolutional neural network prediction of the photocurrent–voltage curve directly from scanning electron microscopy images. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(41). 22522–22532. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaojun, Zhenhua Pan, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, et al.. (2023). Co-doping of a La₅Ti₂Cu_0.9Ag_0.1O₇S₅ photocatalyst (λ < 700 nm) with Ga and Al to enhance photocatalytic H₂ evolution. Chemical Communications. 59(45). 6913–6916. 3 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Hiroaki, Zhenhua Pan, Vikas Nandal, et al.. (2023). An Oxysulfide Photocatalyst Evolving Hydrogen with an Apparent Quantum Efficiency of 30 % under Visible Light. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(46). e202312938–e202312938. 20 indexed citations

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Kim, Ji Hyun, Jeong‐Ki Min, Zhenhua Pan, & Woon Yong Sohn. (2023). Revealing the roles of surface treatments on hematite (α-Fe2O3) photoanode in the shift of the onset potential. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 445. 115037–115037. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Huihui, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, Takashi Hisatomi, et al.. (2022). Zr-doped BaTaO₂N photocatalyst modified with Na–Pt cocatalyst for efficient hydrogen evolution and Z-scheme water splitting. EES Catalysis. 1(1). 26–35. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Tian, Zhenhua Pan, Kosaku Kato, et al.. (2022). A general interfacial-energetics-tuning strategy for enhanced artificial photosynthesis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7783–7783. 57 indexed citations

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Li, Huihui, Jiadong Xiao, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, et al.. (2022). One-Step Excitation Overall Water Splitting over a Modified Mg-Doped BaTaO₂N Photocatalyst. ACS Catalysis. 12(16). 10179–10185. 67 indexed citations

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Liu, Tian, Zhenhua Pan, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, et al.. (2022). Overall photosynthesis of H2O2 by an inorganic semiconductor. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1034–1034. 259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Jiadong, Junie Jhon M. Vequizo, Takashi Hisatomi, et al.. (2021). Simultaneously Tuning the Defects and Surface Properties of Ta₃N₅ Nanoparticles by Mg–Zr Codoping for Significantly Accelerated Photocatalytic H₂ Evolution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(27). 10059–10064. 86 indexed citations

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Xue, Yudong, Zachary S. Fishman, Yunting Wang, et al.. (2019). Hydrogen evolution activity tuning via two-dimensional electron accumulation at buried interfaces. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(36). 20696–20705. 13 indexed citations

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Chu, Chiheng, Dahong Huang, Qianhong Zhu, et al.. (2018). Electronic Tuning of Metal Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Peroxide Production. ACS Catalysis. 9(1). 626–631. 131 indexed citations

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