An‐Quan Xie

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 898 citations indexed

About

An‐Quan Xie is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, An‐Quan Xie has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 898 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in An‐Quan Xie's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (6 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (6 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (5 papers). An‐Quan Xie is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (6 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (6 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (5 papers). An‐Quan Xie collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Taiwan. An‐Quan Xie's co-authors include Su Chen, Liangliang Zhu, Jiazhuang Guo, Cai‐Feng Wang, Ge Li, Qing Li, Zhiwu Liu, Yunzheng Liang, Jian Mao and Zhibin Liang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

An‐Quan Xie

18 papers receiving 891 citations

Hit Papers

Yellow‐Emissive Carbon Dots with High Solid‐State Photolu... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Yellow‐Emissive Carbon Dots with High Solid‐State Photoluminescence
    2022 177 citations Jiazhuang Guo, An‐Quan Xie et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
An‐Quan Xie China 14 398 329 167 145 97 18 898
Shujing Zhao China 16 194 0.5× 343 1.0× 159 1.0× 214 1.5× 136 1.4× 33 727
Chao‐Qun Ma China 14 220 0.6× 129 0.4× 86 0.5× 35 0.2× 82 0.8× 36 784
Sainan Ma China 19 383 1.0× 777 2.4× 104 0.6× 208 1.4× 603 6.2× 52 1.3k
Xiangyu Hou China 21 707 1.8× 201 0.6× 245 1.5× 124 0.9× 289 3.0× 49 1.1k
Ziyang Huang China 11 259 0.7× 172 0.5× 224 1.3× 195 1.3× 147 1.5× 23 655
Siyi Chen China 17 380 1.0× 253 0.8× 100 0.6× 101 0.7× 130 1.3× 37 854
Dongjie Liu China 18 439 1.1× 337 1.0× 103 0.6× 46 0.3× 225 2.3× 59 891
Zhi Huang China 15 245 0.6× 361 1.1× 147 0.9× 140 1.0× 180 1.9× 43 836
Minsu Kim South Korea 14 253 0.6× 155 0.5× 151 0.9× 38 0.3× 179 1.8× 19 506

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Fields of papers citing papers by An‐Quan Xie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of An‐Quan Xie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of An‐Quan Xie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of An‐Quan Xie based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with An‐Quan Xie. An‐Quan Xie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Qian, Xiaowen, et al.. (2025). All-fibrous sandwich-structured humidity actuators enabling multimodal adaptive thermal comfort management. Chemical Engineering Journal. 523. 168469–168469. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, Hui Qiu, Yusheng Wang, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Spectrally Selective Daytime Radiative Cooling Materials. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 264–264. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhe, Yusheng Wang, An‐Quan Xie, et al.. (2025). Bioinspired Programmable and Ultrastretchable Janus Helical Hydrogel Fibers for Strain-Invariant Thermoelectric Body Heat Harvesting and Sensation. Nano Letters. 25(6). 2509–2518. 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiao‐Qiao, An‐Quan Xie, Jian Yang, et al.. (2024). Structuring and Shaping of Mechanically Robust and Functional Hydrogels toward Wearable and Implantable Applications. Advanced Materials. 36(23). e2309952–e2309952. 44 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, et al.. (2023). Assembly of Crack-Free Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals, Emerging Strategies, and Perspectives. Accounts of Materials Research. 4(5). 403–415. 26 indexed citations
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Guo, Jiazhuang, An‐Quan Xie, Ge Li, et al.. (2022). Yellow‐Emissive Carbon Dots with High Solid‐State Photoluminescence. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(20). 177 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liang, Yunzheng, Jinɡjinɡ Li, Jian Mao, et al.. (2022). Robust and Flexible 3D Photothermal Evaporator with Heat Storage for High‐Performance Solar‐Driven Evaporation. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 6(10). 25 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, Liangliang Zhu, Yunzheng Liang, et al.. (2022). Fiber‐spinning Asymmetric Assembly for Janus‐structured Bifunctional Nanofiber Films towards All‐Weather Smart Textile. Angewandte Chemie. 134(40). 11 indexed citations
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Mao, Jian, Jinɡjinɡ Li, An‐Quan Xie, et al.. (2022). High‐Performance Integrated Solar Steam Generator for Synergetic Freshwater Production, Salt Harvesting, and Electricity Generation. Solar RRL. 6(9). 23 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, Liangliang Zhu, Yunzheng Liang, et al.. (2022). Fiber‐spinning Asymmetric Assembly for Janus‐structured Bifunctional Nanofiber Films towards All‐Weather Smart Textile. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(40). e202208592–e202208592. 54 indexed citations
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Mao, Jian, et al.. (2022). Synergistic enhanced solar-driven water purification and CO2 reduction via photothermal catalytic membrane distillation. Separation and Purification Technology. 309. 123003–123003. 25 indexed citations
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Liu, Chang, An‐Quan Xie, Guoxing Li, et al.. (2021). Carbon Dot-Functionalized Colloidal Particles for Patterning and Controllable Layer-Structured Photonic Crystals Construction. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 3(12). 6130–6137. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhiwu, Ren‐Kun Qing, An‐Quan Xie, et al.. (2021). Self-contained Janus Aerogel with Antifouling and Salt-Rejecting Properties for Stable Solar Evaporation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(16). 18829–18837. 120 indexed citations
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Liang, Yunzheng, Yuting Bai, An‐Quan Xie, et al.. (2021). Solar‐Initiated Frontal Polymerization of Photothermic Hydrogels with High Swelling Properties for Efficient Water Evaporation. Solar RRL. 6(2). 23 indexed citations
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Liu, Hao, Honggang Ye, Minmin Gao, et al.. (2021). Conformal Microfluidic‐Blow‐Spun 3D Photothermal Catalytic Spherical Evaporator for Omnidirectional Enhanced Solar Steam Generation and CO2 Reduction. Advanced Science. 8(19). e2101232–e2101232. 99 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, Jiazhuang Guo, Liangliang Zhu, & Su Chen. (2021). Carbon dots promoted photonic crystal for optical information storage and sensing. Chemical Engineering Journal. 415. 128950–128950. 63 indexed citations
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Xie, An‐Quan, Tingting Cui, Rui Cheng, et al.. (2020). Robust Nanofiber Films Prepared by Electro‐Microfluidic Spinning for Flexible Highly Stable Quantum‐Dot Displays. Advanced Electronic Materials. 7(1). 20 indexed citations
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Guo, Jiazhuang, He Li, Luting Ling, et al.. (2019). Green Synthesis of Carbon Dots toward Anti-Counterfeiting. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(3). 1566–1572. 152 indexed citations

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