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Engineering and Technology
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2025
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Environmental Sciences
China
2023

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
77
Citations
21524
World Ranking
660
National Ranking
108

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
19390
World Ranking
1342
National Ranking
128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in China Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in China Leader Award

Overview

Ye Wu is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has an extensive record of research within the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their work predominantly addresses issues related to vehicle emissions, air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and the environmental impacts of transportation technologies.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Ye Wu's contributions are published frequently in notable venues such as:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Progress of Air Pollution Control in China and Its Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecological Civilization Era" (2020), published in Engineering
  • "Four-Month Changes in Air Quality during and after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Six Megacities in China" (2020), published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters
  • "On-road emission measurements of reactive nitrogen compounds from heavy-duty diesel trucks in China" (2020), published in Environmental Pollution
  • "Combined solar power and storage as cost-competitive and grid-compatible supply for China's future carbon-neutral electricity system" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Emission trends of air pollutants and CO 2 in China from 2005 to 2021" (2023), published in Earth System Science Data

Frequent collaborators in their research include Shaojun Zhang, Yifan Wen, Xuan Zheng, Xiaomeng Wu, and Liqiang He. These co-authors have worked together on multiple projects, contributing to the breadth and depth of the studies.

The subfields Ye Wu focuses on incorporate specialized areas such as Automotive Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This interdisciplinary foundation supports their investigations into the complex interactions between vehicle emissions, air pollution, and human health.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic mercury emissions in China

    David G. Streets;Jiming Hao;Ye Wu;Jingkun Jiang

  • All Inorganic Halide Perovskites Nanosystem: Synthesis, Structural Features, Optical Properties and Optoelectronic Applications.

    Xiaoming Li;Xiaoming Li;Fei Cao;Dejian Yu;Jun Chen

  • On-road vehicle emissions and their control in China: A review and outlook.

    Ye Wu;Shaojun Zhang;Jiming Hao;Huan Liu

  • Trends in anthropogenic mercury emissions in China from 1995 to 2003.

    Ye Wu;Shuxiao Wang;David G Streets;Jiming Hao

  • In Situ Passivation of PbBr64– Octahedra toward Blue Luminescent CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelets with Near 100% Absolute Quantum Yield

    Ye Wu;Changting Wei;Xiaoming Li;Yuelei Li

  • CsPbBr3 Quantum Dots 2.0: Benzenesulfonic Acid Equivalent Ligand Awakens Complete Purification.

    Dandan Yang;Xiaoming Li;Wenhan Zhou;Shengli Zhang

  • Projections of Global Mercury Emissions in 2050

    David G. Streets;Qiang Zhang;Ye Wu

  • Progress of Air Pollution Control in China and Its Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecological Civilization Era

    Xi Lu;Shaojun Zhang;Jia Xing;Yunjie Wang

  • Updated Emission Inventories for Speciated Atmospheric Mercury from Anthropogenic Sources in China

    Lei Zhang;Shuxiao Wang;Long Wang;Ye Wu

  • Mercury emission and speciation of coal-fired power plants in China

    S. X. Wang;L. Zhang;G. H. Li;Y. Wu

  • Quantifying the Air Pollutants Emission Reduction during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing

    Shuxiao Wang;Meng Zhao;Jia Xing;Ye Wu

  • Two-decadal aerosol trends as a likely explanation of the global dimming/brightening transition

    David G. Streets;Ye Wu;Mian Chin

  • Constructing Fast Carrier Tracks into Flexible Perovskite Photodetectors To Greatly Improve Responsivity

    Xiaoming Li;Dejian Yu;Jun Chen;Yue Wang

  • Real-world performance of battery electric buses and their life-cycle benefits with respect to energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions

    Boya Zhou;Ye Wu;Bin Zhou;Renjie Wang

  • The impact of transportation control measures on emission reductions during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China

    Yu Zhou;Ye Wu;Liu Yang;Lixin Fu

  • Anthropogenic and natural contributions to regional trends in aerosol optical depth, 1980–2006

    David G. Streets;Fang Yan;Fang Yan;Mian Chin;Thomas Diehl

  • Electric vehicles in China: emissions and health impacts.

    Shuguang Ji;Christopher R. Cherry;Matthew J. Bechle;Ye Wu

  • Revisiting China's CO emissions after the Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific (TRACE-P) mission: Synthesis of inventories, atmospheric modeling, and observations

    David G. Streets;Qiang Zhang;Qiang Zhang;Litao Wang;Kebin He

  • Air quality and health benefits from fleet electrification in China

    Xinyu Liang;Shaojun Zhang;Shaojun Zhang;Ye Wu;Jia Xing

  • Real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of urban public buses in Beijing

    Shaojun Zhang;Ye Wu;Huan Liu;Ruikun Huang

  • The important role of the bromo group in improving the properties of organic nonlinear optical materials

    B. Zhao;W.-Q. Lu;Z.-H. Zhou;Y. Wu

  • Development and applications of GREET 2.7 -- The Transportation Vehicle-CycleModel.

    A. Burnham;M. Q. Wang;Y. Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiming Hao
Jiming Hao Tsinghua University
Shaojun Zhang
Shaojun Zhang Tsinghua University
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University
K. Max Zhang
K. Max Zhang Cornell University
David G. Streets
David G. Streets Harvard University
Huan Liu
Huan Liu Tsinghua University
Shaojie Song
Shaojie Song Nankai University
Jingkun Jiang
Jingkun Jiang Tsinghua University
Jinghua Xiao
Jinghua Xiao Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jürgen Kurths
Jürgen Kurths Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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