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Materials Science

D-Index
74
Citations
20234
World Ranking
3620
National Ranking
1159

Chemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
20108
World Ranking
4669
National Ranking
875

Yongquan Qu publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yongquan Qu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 179 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Yongquan Qu D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yongquan Qu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yongquan Qu is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and is active in research related to materials science, chemistry, and energy. Their work spans several key areas, including materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, electrical and electronic engineering, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry.

The main topics investigated by Yongquan Qu focus on electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, and nanomaterials for catalytic reactions. Additional research interests include advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, advanced battery technologies, ammonia synthesis and nitrogen reduction, and advanced photocatalysis techniques.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Nano Research, Small, Nature Communications, ACS Catalysis, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Yongquan Qu are:

  • A fundamental viewpoint on the hydrogen spillover phenomenon of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Recent progress on the long-term stability of hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts (2022, InfoMat)
  • Boosting Electrocatalytic Activity of Ru for Acidic Hydrogen Evolution through Hydrogen Spillover Strategy (2022, ACS Energy Letters)
  • Insights on catalytic mechanism of CeO2 as multiple nanozymes (2022, Nano Research)
  • Bioinspired porous three-coordinated single-atom Fe nanozyme with oxidase-like activity for tumor visual identification via glutathione (2023, Nature Communications)

Yongquan Qu frequently collaborates with coauthors including Sai Zhang, Yuanyuan Ma, Zhimin Tian, Mingkai Zhang, and Wangyan Gou, with dozens of joint publications among them.

Best Publications

  • Progress, challenge and perspective of heterogeneous photocatalysts

    Yongquan Qu;Yongquan Qu;Xiangfeng Duan

  • High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

    Lei Liao;Yung Chen Lin;Mingqiang Bao;Rui Cheng

  • Mechanistic Insights on Ternary Ni2−xCoxP for Hydrogen Evolution and Their Hybrids with Graphene as Highly Efficient and Robust Catalysts for Overall Water Splitting

    Jiayuan Li;Ming Yan;Xuemei Zhou;Zheng-Qing Huang

  • A fundamental viewpoint on the hydrogen spillover phenomenon of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.

    Jiayuan Li;Jun Hu;Mingkai Zhang;Wangyan Gou

  • Towards highly efficient photocatalysts using semiconductor nanoarchitectures

    Hailong Zhou;Yongquan Qu;Tahani Zeid;Xiangfeng Duan

  • High Catalytic Activity and Chemoselectivity of Sub-nanometric Pd Clusters on Porous Nanorods of CeO2 for Hydrogenation of Nitroarenes

    Sai Zhang;Chun-Ran Chang;Zheng-Qing Huang;Jing Li

  • Solid frustrated-Lewis-pair catalysts constructed by regulations on surface defects of porous nanorods of CeO 2

    Sai Zhang;Zheng-Qing Huang;Yuanyuan Ma;Wei Gao

  • Ethylene-glycol ligand environment facilitates highly efficient hydrogen evolution of Pt/CoP through proton concentration and hydrogen spillover

    Jiayuan Li;Han-Xuan Liu;Wangyan Gou;Mingkai Zhang

  • Terthiophene-Based D–A Polymer with an Asymmetric Arrangement of Alkyl Chains That Enables Efficient Polymer Solar Cells

    Huawei Hu;Kui Jiang;Guofang Yang;Jing Liu

  • Plasmonic Modulation of the Upconversion Fluorescence in NaYF4:Yb/Tm Hexaplate Nanocrystals Using Gold Nanoparticles or Nanoshells

    Hua Zhang;Yujing Li;Ivan A. Ivanov;Yongquan Qu

  • Graphene‐Supported Hemin as a Highly Active Biomimetic Oxidation Catalyst

    Teng Xue;Shan Jiang;Yongquan Qu;Qiao Su

  • Electrically conductive and optically active porous silicon nanowires.

    Yongquan Qu;Lei Liao;Yujing Li;Hua Zhang

  • Nanoscale energy deposition by X-ray absorbing nanostructures.

    Joshua D Carter;Neal N Cheng;Yongquan Qu;George D Suarez

  • Highly sensitive and robust peroxidase-like activity of porous nanorods of ceria and their application for breast cancer detection.

    Zhimin Tian;Jing Li;Zhiyun Zhang;Wei Gao

  • Modulating electronic structure of CoP electrocatalysts towards enhanced hydrogen evolution by Ce chemical doping in both acidic and basic media

    Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Ming Yan;Ho-Yuen Cheung;Zhaoming Xia

  • Highly Efficient and Robust Nickel Phosphides as Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Overall Water-Splitting.

    Jiayuan Li;Jing Li;Xuemei Zhou;Zhaoming Xia

  • Interfacial Frustrated Lewis Pairs of CeO2 Activate CO2 for Selective Tandem Transformation of Olefins and CO2 into Cyclic Carbonates.

    Sai Zhang;Zhaoming Xia;Yong Zou;Fangxian Cao

  • Boosting Electrocatalytic Activity of Ru for Acidic Hydrogen Evolution through Hydrogen Spillover Strategy

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  • Hierarchical NiMo-based 3D electrocatalysts for highly-efficient hydrogen evolution in alkaline conditions

    Ming Fang;Wei Gao;Wei Gao;Guofa Dong;Zhaoming Xia

  • Hollow Fluffy Co3O4 Cages as Efficient Electroactive Materials for Supercapacitors and Oxygen Evolution Reaction

    Xuemei Zhou;Xuetao Shen;Zhaoming Xia;Zhiyun Zhang

  • Strong electronic metal-support interaction of Pt/CeO2 enables efficient and selective hydrogenation of quinolines at room temperature

    Sai Zhang;Zhaoming Xia;Ting Ni;Zhiyun Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wei Gao
Wei Gao Soochow University
Xiangfeng Duan
Xiangfeng Duan University of California, Los Angeles
Lei Liao
Lei Liao Hunan University
Johnny C. Ho
Johnny C. Ho City University of Hong Kong
Shuang Xiao
Shuang Xiao Peking University
Xiao Chen
Xiao Chen Zhejiang University
Shihe Yang
Shihe Yang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zhiping Zheng
Zhiping Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Yujing Li
Yujing Li Beijing Institute of Technology
Richard B. Kaner
Richard B. Kaner University of California, Los Angeles

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