Zhi Gen Yu

7.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
140 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Zhi Gen Yu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhi Gen Yu has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 67 papers in Materials Chemistry and 39 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Zhi Gen Yu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (21 papers). Zhi Gen Yu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (32 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (21 papers). Zhi Gen Yu collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United States. Zhi Gen Yu's co-authors include Yong‐Wei Zhang, Junmin Xue, Wee Siang Vincent Lee, Hao Gong, Yonghua Du, Ting Xiong, Shibo Xi, Stephen J. Pennycook, Jingsheng Chen and Zachary H. Aitken and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zhi Gen Yu

128 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Defect Engineering of Oxygen‐Deficient Manganese Oxide to Achieve High‐Performing Aqueous Zinc Ion Battery

2019 625 citations Ting Xiong, Zhi Gen Yu et al. profile →
Pivotal role of reversible NiO6 geometric conversion in oxygen evolution

2022 443 citations Xiaopeng Wang, Shibo Xi et al. Nature profile →
Simultaneously enhancing the ultimate strength and ductility of high-entropy alloys via short-range ordering

2021 265 citations Shuai Chen, Zachary H. Aitken et al. Nature Communications profile →
Wafer-scale solution-processed 2D material analog resistive memory array for memory-based computing

2022 170 citations Baoshan Tang, Hasita Veluri et al. Nature Communications profile →
High-spin Co3+ in cobalt oxyhydroxide for efficient water oxidation

2024 149 citations Haoyin Zhong, Qi Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Optimization of oxygen evolution activity by tuning e*g band broadening in nickel oxyhydroxide

2023 146 citations Haoyin Zhong, Xiaopeng Wang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhi Gen Yu Singapore	39	3.6k	2.4k	2.2k	898	871	140	6.2k
Tao Yang China	40	2.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	940 1.0×	606 0.7×	214	5.0k
Shengwu Guo China	39	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.2k 1.4×	91	4.9k
Kai Huang China	39	2.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	260 0.3×	155	5.5k
Ungyu Paik South Korea	36	4.1k 1.1×	3.5k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	151	7.3k
Chee Lip Gan Singapore	34	3.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	870 1.0×	221	5.9k
Pei Dong United States	48	5.4k 1.5×	2.8k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 2.1×	308 0.4×	116	7.9k
Mingjie Xu United States	40	2.2k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	440 0.5×	810 0.9×	143	6.0k
Jinlong Gao China	34	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	824 0.9×	86	4.5k
Zhaohui Yang China	34	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	954 1.1×	514 0.6×	169	4.2k
Taeseup Song South Korea	55	8.5k 2.4×	3.4k 1.4×	3.8k 1.7×	3.2k 3.6×	905 1.0×	231	11.2k

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Wu, Yong-Chao, Xiaoya Chang, Zhi Gen Yu, Yong‐Wei Zhang, & Jian-Li Shao. (2025). Revealing the role of Al4C3 in the mechanical behavior of aluminum/graphene composites through machine learning potential-driven atomistic simulations. Mechanics of Materials. 209. 105428–105428. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhi Gen, et al.. (2025). Cobweb-like porous architecture engineering for silicon-rich composite anode. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1014. 178766–178766. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Dantong, Minghua Xu, Depeng Meng, et al.. (2025). Balanced Spin‐State Energy Level Splitting Boosts Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation on Amorphous NiFeAl‐LDH Engineered BiVO ₄. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(17).

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Aitken, Zachary H., V. Sorkin, Zhi Gen Yu, et al.. (2024). Controlling screw dislocation core structure and Peierls barrier in BCC interatomic potentials. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 303. 113004–113004. 1 indexed citations

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Zou, Anqi, Chao Wu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Promoting Surface Reconstruction in Spinel Oxides via Tetrahedral‐Octahedral Phase Boundary Construction for Efficient Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(42). e202409912–e202409912. 15 indexed citations

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Chen, Kaifei, Seyed Hesam Mousavi, Zhi Gen Yu, et al.. (2024). Molecular Insight into the Electric Field Regulation of N₂ and CH₄ Adsorption in the Trapdoor ZSM-25 Zeolites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(38). 51129–51138. 4 indexed citations

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Zou, Anqi, Chao Wu, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Promoting Surface Reconstruction in Spinel Oxides via Tetrahedral‐Octahedral Phase Boundary Construction for Efficient Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 136(42). 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Siwen, Jiazhuo Li, Ying Sun, et al.. (2024). Organic‐Inorganic Coupling Strategy: Clamp Effect to Capture Mg²⁺ for Aqueous Magnesium Ion Capacitor. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(52). e202412735–e202412735. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Shuai, Zachary H. Aitken, Subrahmanyam Pattamatta, et al.. (2023). Short-range ordering alters the dislocation nucleation and propagation in refractory high-entropy alloys. Materials Today. 65. 14–25. 57 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhi Gen, et al.. (2023). Research Progress on the Structural Design and Optimization of Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries: A Mini-Review. Coatings. 13(9). 1502–1502. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Kaifei, Zhi Gen Yu, Seyed Hesam Mousavi, et al.. (2023). Regulating adsorption performance of zeolites by pre-activation in electric fields. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5479–5479. 13 indexed citations

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Qi, Zichen, Ting Xiong, Zhi Gen Yu, et al.. (2023). Suppressing zinc dendrite growth in aqueous battery via Zn–Al alloying with spatially confined zinc reservoirs. Journal of Power Sources. 558. 232628–232628. 30 indexed citations

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Tang, Baoshan, Hasita Veluri, Yida Li, et al.. (2022). Wafer-scale solution-processed 2D material analog resistive memory array for memory-based computing. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3037–3037. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Xiaopeng, Shibo Xi, Pengru Huang, et al.. (2022). Pivotal role of reversible NiO6 geometric conversion in oxygen evolution. Nature. 611(7937). 702–708. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aitken, Zachary H., V. Sorkin, Zhi Gen Yu, et al.. (2021). Modified embedded-atom method potentials for the plasticity and fracture behaviors of unary fcc metals. Physical review. B.. 103(9). 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Shuai, Zachary H. Aitken, Subrahmanyam Pattamatta, et al.. (2021). Simultaneously enhancing the ultimate strength and ductility of high-entropy alloys via short-range ordering. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4953–4953. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Xiaopeng, Shibo Xi, Wee Siang Vincent Lee, et al.. (2020). Materializing efficient methanol oxidation via electron delocalization in nickel hydroxide nanoribbon. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4647–4647. 192 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiangjun, Zhi Gen Yu, Gang Zhang, & Yong‐Wei Zhang. (2020). Remarkably high thermal-driven MoS₂ grain boundary migration mobility and its implications on defect healing. Nanoscale. 12(34). 17746–17753. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Ling, Haijun Wu, Shibo Xi, et al.. (2019). Nitrogen-Doped Cobalt Phosphide for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution Activity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(19). 17359–17367. 51 indexed citations

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Tang, Baoshan, Zhi Gen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, et al.. (2019). Metal–organic framework-derived hierarchical MoS₂/CoS₂ nanotube arrays as pH-universal electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(21). 13339–13346. 148 indexed citations

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