Ali Han

5.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
58 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Ali Han is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Han has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ali Han's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (21 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers). Ali Han is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (21 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers). Ali Han collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Saudi Arabia. Ali Han's co-authors include Pingwu Du, Zijun Sun, Dingsheng Wang, Lain‐Jong Li, Yadong Li, Xijun Wang, Huanlin Chen, Hanyu Zhang, Hengxing Ji and Xixiang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ali Han

58 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

An Adjacent Atomic Platinum Site Enables Single‐Atom Iron with High Oxygen Reduction Reaction Performance

2021 384 citations Ali Han, Xijun Wang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Construction of Co₄ Atomic Clusters to Enable Fe−N₄ Motifs with Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction Performance

2023 228 citations Ali Han, Xijun Wang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts with Integrated Oxidation and Reduction Atomic Active Centers for Improved CO₂Conversion

2022 215 citations Honghui Ou, Shangbo Ning et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Self-Triggering a Locally Alkaline Microenvironment of Co₄Fe₆ for Highly Efficient Neutral Ammonia Electrosynthesis

2025 26 citations Yang Yang, Yuting Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Han China	32	2.8k	2.6k	2.6k	414	384	58	4.6k
Christopher Koenigsmann United States	25	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	377 0.9×	377 1.0×	42	3.0k
Lei Jin China	32	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	233 0.6×	491 1.3×	79	3.4k
A.J. Esswein United States	14	3.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	424 1.0×	342 0.9×	15	4.4k
Haining Tian Sweden	46	5.3k 1.9×	2.7k 1.0×	4.5k 1.7×	161 0.4×	207 0.5×	123	7.4k
Xiaobo He China	32	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	937 0.4×	235 0.6×	495 1.3×	122	3.3k
Longhua Li China	34	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	156 0.4×	904 2.4×	131	3.3k
Xiaoyu Fang China	38	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	130 0.3×	447 1.2×	90	4.7k
Zhaoming Xia China	33	3.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	522 1.3×	312 0.8×	51	4.1k
Tao‐Tao Zhuang China	26	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	217 0.5×	289 0.8×	50	3.9k
Min Tang China	28	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 0.6×	293 0.7×	329 0.9×	83	2.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Han

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All Works

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Wang, Yuning, Wenyu Zhang, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). A Self‐Recycling Ruthenium Incorporated CuFe ₂ O ₄ Electrocatalyst for Efficient Neutral Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Advanced Materials. 37(39). e2507277–e2507277. 11 indexed citations

Dai, Hao, et al.. (2025). NIR-triggering cobalt single-atom enzyme switches off-to-on for boosting the interactive dynamic effects of multimodal phototherapy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2058–2058. 11 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Yuting Sun, Yuning Wang, et al.. (2025). Self-Triggering a Locally Alkaline Microenvironment of Co₄Fe₆ for Highly Efficient Neutral Ammonia Electrosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(10). 8893–8905. 26 indexed citations breakdown →

Xu, Haitao, Ali Han, Yang Yang, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of Ultrathin Mesoporous Cu_xRu Nanomeshes for Efficient Kilowatt‐Level Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia. Advanced Materials. 37(30). e2507892–e2507892. 12 indexed citations

Xu, Haitao, Yang Yang, Ali Han, et al.. (2025). Promoting Ampere‐Level Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia Through Strong Oxide–Oxide Interaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(39). e202510450–e202510450. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Haitao, Yang Yang, Ali Han, et al.. (2025). Promoting Ampere‐Level Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia Through Strong Oxide–Oxide Interaction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(39). 1 indexed citations

Han, Ali & Gang Liu. (2023). Recent advances in metal-based electrocatalysts: from fundamentals and structural regulations to applications in anion-exchange membrane fuel cells. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 8(4). 903–929. 17 indexed citations

Li, Feng, Canglang Yao, Jong‐Pil Jeon, et al.. (2023). Rhodium and Carbon Sites with Strong d–p Orbital Interaction for Efficient Bifunctional Catalysis. ACS Nano. 17(23). 24282–24289. 9 indexed citations

Ou, Honghui, Shangbo Ning, Peng Zhu, et al.. (2022). Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts with Integrated Oxidation and Reduction Atomic Active Centers for Improved CO₂Conversion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(34). e202206579–e202206579. 215 indexed citations breakdown →

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Han, Ali, Zedong Zhang, Jiarui Yang, Dingsheng Wang, & Yadong Li. (2021). Carbon‐Supported Single‐Atom Catalysts for Formic Acid Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reactions. Small. 17(16). e2004500–e2004500. 85 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Xiaofeng Zhou, Xijun Wang, et al.. (2021). One-step synthesis of single-site vanadium substitution in 1T-WS2 monolayers for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 709–709. 213 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Areej Aljarb, Sheng Liu, et al.. (2019). Growth of 2H stacked WSe₂ bilayers on sapphire. Nanoscale Horizons. 4(6). 1434–1442. 27 indexed citations

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Wei, Qilin, Ruiping Li, Changqing Lin, et al.. (2019). Quasi-Two-Dimensional Se-Terminated Bismuth Oxychalcogenide (Bi₂O₂Se). ACS Nano. 13(11). 13439–13444. 87 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Huanlin Chen, Hanyu Zhang, Zijun Sun, & Pingwu Du. (2016). Ternary metal phosphide nanosheets as a highly efficient electrocatalyst for water reduction to hydrogen over a wide pH range from 0 to 14. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 4(26). 10195–10202. 117 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Song Jin, Huanlin Chen, et al.. (2014). A robust hydrogen evolution catalyst based on crystalline nickel phosphide nanoflakes on three-dimensional graphene/nickel foam: high performance for electrocatalytic hydrogen production from pH 0–14. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(5). 1941–1946. 140 indexed citations

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Yu, Xingxing, Peng Xu, Tianyi Hua, et al.. (2014). Multi-walled carbon nanotubes supported porous nickel oxide as noble metal-free electrocatalysts for efficient water oxidation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 39(20). 10467–10475. 32 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Haotian Wu, Zijun Sun, et al.. (2014). Green Cobalt Oxide (CoO_x) Film with Nanoribbon Structures Electrodeposited from the BF₂-Annulated Cobaloxime Precursor for Efficient Water Oxidation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 6(14). 10929–10934. 46 indexed citations

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Lei, Haitao, Ali Han, Fengwang Li, et al.. (2013). Electrochemical, spectroscopic and theoretical studies of a simple bifunctional cobalt corrole catalyst for oxygen evolution and hydrogen production. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(5). 1883–1893. 191 indexed citations

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Han, Ali, Haotian Wu, Zijun Sun, Hongxing Jia, & Pingwu Du. (2013). Facile deposition of nanostructured cobalt oxide catalysts from molecular cobaloximes for efficient water oxidation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(30). 12534–12534. 42 indexed citations

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Oh, Jang‐Hee, et al.. (2002). Dual anode LIGBT on SOI substrates. 45. 153–156. 2 indexed citations

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