Zhi Zou

7.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
72 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Zhi Zou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhi Zou has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Materials Chemistry, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Zhi Zou's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (9 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (7 papers). Zhi Zou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Biochemical and Structural Characterization (9 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (7 papers). Zhi Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Switzerland. Zhi Zou's co-authors include Shicheng Yan, Tao Yu, Feng Gao, Shuai Dong, Jun‐Min Liu, Zheng Ren, Kuibo Yin, Fang Yuan, Jinhua Ye and Ulrich Schwaneberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhi Zou

69 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Photodegradation Performance of g-C₃N₄ Fabricated by Directly Heating Melamine

2009 2.5k citations Zhi Zou et al. profile →
Photodegradation of Rhodamine B and Methyl Orange over Boron-Doped g-C₃N₄ under Visible Light Irradiation

2010 1.6k citations Zhi Zou et al. profile →
Visible‐Light Photocatalytic Properties of Weak Magnetic BiFeO₃ Nanoparticles

2007 830 citations Zhi Zou et al. profile →
Performance, combustion and emission characteristics investigations on a diesel engine fueled with diesel/ ethanol /n-butanol blends

2022 159 citations Zhi Zou 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 Zou China	24	4.6k	4.5k	2.4k	1.2k	495	72	6.7k
Zaiwang Zhao China	40	5.1k 1.1×	4.7k 1.0×	4.1k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	584 1.2×	78	7.8k
Jun Wan China	46	4.4k 0.9×	4.2k 0.9×	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	908 1.8×	272	8.2k
Yongjun Yuan China	47	5.4k 1.2×	6.1k 1.3×	3.2k 1.3×	779 0.6×	440 0.9×	163	8.1k
Jizhou Jiang China	52	4.6k 1.0×	6.1k 1.4×	3.3k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.2k 2.4×	185	8.9k
Zhiyu Ren China	44	4.4k 1.0×	3.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.3×	856 0.7×	626 1.3×	131	6.6k
Pengfei Fang China	48	4.4k 1.0×	5.2k 1.1×	2.9k 1.2×	858 0.7×	1.0k 2.0×	262	8.4k
Shengsen Zhang China	45	4.1k 0.9×	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	570 0.5×	422 0.9×	141	5.7k
Jiajia Zhang China	32	6.8k 1.5×	5.1k 1.1×	5.4k 2.3×	1.1k 0.9×	710 1.4×	111	9.9k
Gui‐Fang Huang China	45	4.7k 1.0×	5.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.1×	628 0.5×	314 0.6×	220	6.8k
Jianshe Wang China	38	3.4k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	754 0.6×	681 1.4×	139	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhi Zou

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zheng, Wei, Zeyang Zhou, Tao Zhu, et al.. (2025). Construction of ICT-based fluorescence probes for the imaging of biothios. Microchemical Journal. 210. 112968–112968. 9 indexed citations

Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2025). De novo design and evolution of an artificial metathase for cytoplasmic olefin metathesis. Nature Catalysis. 8(11). 1208–1219.

Zou, Zhi, Bin Xie, Hang Liu, et al.. (2025). Insights into the Role of Fluoride Impurities in Direct Regeneration of Ni-Rich Layered Cathodes. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 13(48). 20649–20660. 1 indexed citations

Yin, Yunchao, Yan Li, Xueshan Hu, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast, in situ transformation of a protective layer on lithium-rich manganese-based layered oxides for high-performance Li-ion batteries. Green Chemistry. 26(17). 9346–9356. 1 indexed citations

Hua, Yong, Zhi Zou, Alessandro Prescimone, et al.. (2024). NSPs: chromogenic linkers for fast, selective, and irreversible cysteine modification. Chemical Science. 15(28). 10997–11004. 2 indexed citations

Vorobieva, Anastassia A., Ryo Tachibana, Roman P. Jakob, et al.. (2024). An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1656–1664. 12 indexed citations

Tachibana, Ryo, et al.. (2023). A Customized Bayesian Algorithm to Optimize Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(33). 12336–12344. 22 indexed citations

Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2023). Empowering Site‐Specific Bioconjugations In Vitro and In Vivo: Advances in Sortase Engineering and Sortase‐Mediated Ligation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(12). e202310910–e202310910. 19 indexed citations

Zou, Zhi, Lei Wu, Fangqi Yang, et al.. (2022). Delicate Tuning of the Ni/Co Ratio in Bimetal Layered Double Hydroxides for Efficient N₂ Electroreduction. ChemSusChem. 15(6). e202200127–e202200127. 11 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, Letícia Célia de Lencastre Novaes, Guilherme Dilarri, et al.. (2021). A peptide‐based coating toolbox to enable click chemistry on polymers, metals, and silicon through sortagging. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 118(4). 1520–1530. 15 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2020). Designed Streptococcus pyogenes Sortase A Accepts Branched Amines as Nucleophiles in Sortagging. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 31(11). 2476–2481. 11 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2020). Enhancing Robustness of Sortase A by Loop Engineering and Backbone Cyclization. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(60). 13568–13572. 12 indexed citations

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Huang, Yifeng, Fangqi Yang, Zhi Zou, et al.. (2020). Enhanced electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction activity by incorporation of a carbon layer on SnS microflowers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(39). 20677–20686. 23 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2020). Enhancing Robustness of Sortase A by Loop Engineering and Backbone Cyclization. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(60). 13537–13537. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lingling, et al.. (2019). Directed Evolution of a Bacterial Laccase (CueO) for Enzymatic Biofuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 131(14). 4610–4613. 7 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2019). Selective Functionalization of Microgels with Enzymes by Sortagging. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 30(11). 2859–2869. 24 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lingling, et al.. (2019). Directed Evolution of a Bacterial Laccase (CueO) for Enzymatic Biofuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(14). 4562–4565. 59 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, Diana M. Maté, Kristin Rübsam, Felix Jakob, & Ulrich Schwaneberg. (2018). Sortase-Mediated High-Throughput Screening Platform for Directed Enzyme Evolution. ACS Combinatorial Science. 20(4). 203–211. 31 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2018). Directed sortase A evolution for efficient site-specific bioconjugations in organic co-solvents. Chemical Communications. 54(81). 11467–11470. 24 indexed citations

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Zou, Zhi, et al.. (2018). [Emergy analysis of four typical planting modes in Karst faulted basins of Yunnan Province, China.]. PubMed. 29(8). 2641–2650. 1 indexed citations

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