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Yuanjian Zhang

Yuanjian Zhang

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Materials Science

D-Index
75
Citations
21167
World Ranking
3440
National Ranking
1101

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
20344
World Ranking
4438
National Ranking
836

Overview

Yuanjian Zhang is affiliated with Southeast University in China and specializes in research across multiple scientific disciplines. Their main fields of study encompass Materials Science, Engineering, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader categories, their work often focuses on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Biomedical Engineering.

The research topics most prominently addressed by Yuanjian Zhang include advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, advanced nanomaterials in catalysis, advanced photocatalysis techniques, electrochemical sensors and biosensors, electrochemical analysis and applications, nanocluster synthesis and applications, and biosensors and analytical detection.

Yuanjian Zhang has contributed to various scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chinese Chemical Letters

Their recent papers of note include:

  • Unraveling fundamental active units in carbon nitride for photocatalytic oxidation reactions (2021, Nature Communications)
  • The Fe-N-C Nanozyme with Both Accelerated and Inhibited Biocatalytic Activities Capable of Accessing Drug-Drug Interactions (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Single 2D MXene precursor-derived TiO2 nanosheets with a uniform decoration of amorphous carbon for enhancing photocatalytic water splitting (2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental)
  • Facile Preparation of WO 3−x Dots with Remarkably Low Toxicity and Uncompromised Activity as Co-reactants for Clinical Diagnosis by Electrochemiluminescence (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Extended Conjugation Tuning Carbon Nitride for Non-sacrificial H2O2 Photosynthesis and Hypoxic Tumor Therapy (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

Yuanjian Zhang frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Songqin Liu
  • Yanfei Shen
  • Kaiqing Wu
  • Hong Yang

Best Publications

  • Phosphorus-doped carbon nitride solid : enhanced electrical conductivity and photocurrent generation

    Yuanjian Zhang;Toshiyuki Mori;Jinhua Ye;Markus Antonietti

  • Activation of Carbon Nitride Solids by Protonation: Morphology Changes, Enhanced Ionic Conductivity, and Photoconduction Experiments

    Yuanjian Zhang;Arne Thomas;Markus Antonietti;Xinchen Wang

  • Three-dimensional strutted graphene grown by substrate-free sugar blowing for high-power-density supercapacitors

    Xuebin Wang;Yuanjian Zhang;Chunyi Zhi;Xi Wang

  • Reduced TiO2 nanotube arrays for photoelectrochemical water splitting

    Qing Kang;Junyu Cao;Yuanjian Zhang;Lequan Liu

  • Molecular engineering of polymeric carbon nitride: advancing applications from photocatalysis to biosensing and more

    Zhixin Zhou;Yuye Zhang;Yanfei Shen;Songqin Liu

  • Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal oxygen electroreduction catalysts.

    Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie;Ulrike I. Kramm;Julian Steinberg;Yuanjian Zhang

  • One‐Step Solvothermal Synthesis of a Carbon@TiO2 Dyade Structure Effectively Promoting Visible‐Light Photocatalysis

    Li Zhao;Xiufang Chen;Xinchen Wang;Yuanjian Zhang

  • Non-covalent doping of graphitic carbon nitride polymer with graphene: controlled electronic structure and enhanced optoelectronic conversion

    Yuanjian Zhang;Toshiyuki Mori;Li Niu;Jinhua Ye

  • Sustainable nitrogen-doped carbonaceous materials from biomass derivatives

    Li Zhao;Niki Baccile;Silvia Gross;Yuanjian Zhang

  • Surface-alkalinization-induced enhancement of photocatalytic H2 evolution over SrTiO3-based photocatalysts.

    Shuxin Ouyang;Hua Tong;Hua Tong;Naoto Umezawa;Naoto Umezawa;Naoto Umezawa;Junyu Cao

  • Facile One‐Pot Synthesis of Nanoporous Carbon Nitride Solids by Using Soft Templates

    Yong Wang;Xinchen Wang;Markus Antonietti;Yuanjian Zhang

  • Photocurrent Generation by Polymeric Carbon Nitride Solids: An Initial Step towards a Novel Photovoltaic System

    Yuanjian Zhang;Markus Antonietti

  • Dissolution and Liquid Crystals Phase of 2D Polymeric Carbon Nitride

    Zhixin Zhou;Jianhai Wang;Jiachao Yu;Yanfei Shen

  • Wet chemical synthesis of nitrogen-doped graphene towards oxygen reduction electrocatalysts without high-temperature pyrolysis

    Yuanjian Zhang;Keisuke Fugane;Toshiyuki Mori;Li Niu

  • Soft and hard templating of graphitic carbon nitride

    Zhao Yang;Yuanjian Zhang;Zoe Schnepp

  • Simultaneous Noncovalent Modification and Exfoliation of 2D Carbon Nitride for Enhanced Electrochemiluminescent Biosensing

    Jingjing Ji;Jing Wen;Yanfei Shen;Yanqin Lv

  • Chemical Cleavage of Layered Carbon Nitride with Enhanced Photoluminescent Performances and Photoconduction

    Zhixin Zhou;Yanfei Shen;Ying Li;Anran Liu

  • Self-doped SrTiO3−δ photocatalyst with enhanced activity for artificial photosynthesis under visible light

    Kui Xie;Naoto Umezawa;Naoto Umezawa;Ning Zhang;Pakpoom Reunchan

  • Unraveling fundamental active units in carbon nitride for photocatalytic oxidation reactions.

    Chaofeng Huang;Yaping Wen;Jin Ma;Dandan Dong

  • Nitrogen- and phosphorus-co-doped carbons with tunable enhanced surface areas promoted by the doping additives.

    Jens Peter Paraknowitsch;Yuanjian Zhang;Björn Wienert;Arne Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Songqin Liu
Songqin Liu Southeast University
Li Niu
Li Niu Guangzhou University
Jinhua Ye
Jinhua Ye National Institute for Materials Science
Jinghong Li
Jinghong Li Tsinghua University
Junhua Yuan
Junhua Yuan Zhejiang Normal University
Toshiyuki Mori
Toshiyuki Mori National Institute for Materials Science
Arne Thomas
Arne Thomas Technical University of Berlin
Naoto Umezawa
Naoto Umezawa Samsung (South Korea)
Ari Ivaska
Ari Ivaska Åbo Akademi University
Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society

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