Alain Y. Li

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 906 citations indexed

About

Alain Y. Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Y. Li has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 906 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 6 papers in Organic Chemistry and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alain Y. Li's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (5 papers). Alain Y. Li is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (5 papers). Alain Y. Li collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Japan. Alain Y. Li's co-authors include Maria‐Magdalena Titirici, Jesús Barrio, Ifan E. L. Stephens, Audrey Moores, Hui Luo, Ludmilla Steier, Nilay Shah, Nixon Sunny, Angus Pedersen and Chao‐Jun Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Alain Y. Li

15 papers receiving 898 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Progress and Perspectives in Photo‐ and Electrochemical‐Oxidation of Biomass for Sustainable Chemicals and Hydrogen Production

2021 342 citations Hui Luo, Jesús Barrio et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Y. Li United Kingdom	10	609	322	318	161	147	15	906
Grayson Johnson United States	13	562 0.9×	611 1.9×	327 1.0×	142 0.9×	138 0.9×	23	953
Mark A. Bajada United Kingdom	14	616 1.0×	467 1.5×	236 0.7×	124 0.8×	216 1.5×	19	1.0k
Avinash A. Chaugule South Korea	16	426 0.7×	247 0.8×	189 0.6×	169 1.0×	124 0.8×	22	909
Seungwoo Choi South Korea	14	611 1.0×	246 0.8×	329 1.0×	91 0.6×	117 0.8×	32	896
Bo Cao China	17	723 1.2×	455 1.4×	379 1.2×	68 0.4×	121 0.8×	32	1.0k
Melike Sevim Türkiye	22	650 1.1×	621 1.9×	530 1.7×	136 0.8×	221 1.5×	45	1.3k
Hongqiang Jin China	14	513 0.8×	498 1.5×	242 0.8×	89 0.6×	272 1.9×	18	876
Jiahui Xian China	15	782 1.3×	387 1.2×	453 1.4×	96 0.6×	174 1.2×	26	1.1k
Manuela Bevilacqua Italy	17	1.1k 1.8×	349 1.1×	661 2.1×	158 1.0×	129 0.9×	23	1.3k
Ghada E. Khedr Egypt	15	322 0.5×	243 0.8×	220 0.7×	90 0.6×	91 0.6×	52	626

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15 of 15 papers shown

Luo, Hui, Sihang Liu, Hossein Yadegari, et al.. (2024). Selective glycerol to lactic acid conversion via a tandem effect between platinum and metal oxides with abundant acid groups. EES Catalysis. 3(1). 87–96. 3 indexed citations

Favero, Silvia, et al.. (2024). Poly(ionic liquid) Ionomers Help Prevent Active Site Aggregation, in Single-Site Oxygen Reduction Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 14(10). 7937–7948. 8 indexed citations

Barrio, Jesús, Angus Pedersen, Saurav Ch. Sarma, et al.. (2023). FeNC Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalyst with High Utilization Penta‐Coordinated Sites. Advanced Materials. 35(14). e2211022–e2211022. 105 indexed citations

Barrio, Jesús, Angus Pedersen, Jingyu Feng, et al.. (2022). Metal coordination in C₂N-like materials towards dual atom catalysts for oxygen reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(11). 6023–6030. 32 indexed citations

Pedersen, Angus, Jesús Barrio, Alain Y. Li, et al.. (2022). Dual‐Metal Atom Electrocatalysts: Theory, Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications (Adv. Energy Mater. 3/2022). Advanced Energy Materials. 12(3). 1 indexed citations

Barrio, Jesús, Angus Pedersen, Silvia Favero, et al.. (2022). Bioinspired and Bioderived Aqueous Electrocatalysis. Chemical Reviews. 123(5). 2311–2348. 46 indexed citations

Pedersen, Angus, Jesús Barrio, Alain Y. Li, et al.. (2021). Dual‐Metal Atom Electrocatalysts: Theory, Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(3). 149 indexed citations

Luo, Hui, Jesús Barrio, Nixon Sunny, et al.. (2021). Progress and Perspectives in Photo‐ and Electrochemical‐Oxidation of Biomass for Sustainable Chemicals and Hydrogen Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(43). 342 indexed citations breakdown →

Bao, Huizhi, et al.. (2021). Ultra-fast Cu-based A³-coupling catalysts: faceted Cu₂O microcrystals as efficient catalyst-delivery systems in batch and flow conditions. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 100(3). 217–223. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Alain Y. & Audrey Moores. (2019). Carbonyl Reduction and Biomass: A Case Study of Sustainable Catalysis. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(12). 10182–10197. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Alain Y., et al.. (2019). Plasma‐Made (Ni_0.5Cu_0.5)Fe₂O₄ Nanoparticles for Alcohol Amination under Microwave Heating. ChemCatChem. 11(16). 3959–3972. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Alain Y., Sabina A. Nicolae, Mo Qiao, et al.. (2019). Homogenous Meets Heterogenous and Electro‐Catalysis: Iron‐Nitrogen Molecular Complexes within Carbon Materials for Catalytic Applications. ChemCatChem. 11(16). 3602–3625. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Alain Y., et al.. (2017). Mechanochemical Metal-Free Transfer Hydrogenation of Carbonyls Using Polymethylhydrosiloxane as the Hydrogen Source. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(12). 11752–11760. 44 indexed citations

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Li, Alain Y., Madhu Kaushik, Chao‐Jun Li, & Audrey Moores. (2016). Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Magnetic Carboxymethyl Cellulose-Embedded Ag–Fe₃O₄ Nanocatalysts for Selective Carbonyl Hydrogenation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 4(3). 965–973. 58 indexed citations

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Kaushik, Madhu, et al.. (2015). Reversing aggregation: direct synthesis of nanocatalysts from bulk metal. Cellulose nanocrystals as active support to access efficient hydrogenation silver nanocatalysts. Green Chemistry. 18(1). 129–133. 48 indexed citations

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