Aoni Xu

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
62 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Aoni Xu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Aoni Xu has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 29 papers in Materials Chemistry and 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Aoni Xu's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers) and Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (11 papers). Aoni Xu is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers) and Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (11 papers). Aoni Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Denmark. Aoni Xu's co-authors include Fengwang Li, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton, Dae‐Hyun Nam, Joshua Wicks, Ziyun Wang, Karen Chan, Yuhang Wang, Mingchuan Luo and Jun Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Aoni Xu

56 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper–Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption

2020 1.1k citations Yuhang Wang, Aoni Xu et al. profile →
Continuous-flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation

2023 393 citations Xianbiao Fu, Jakob B. Pedersen et al. Science profile →
Long-term continuous ammonia electrosynthesis

2024 126 citations Shaofeng Li, Yuanyuan Zhou et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aoni Xu China	26	2.8k	2.6k	1.5k	809	632	62	4.0k
Yilin Deng China	20	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	49 0.1×	1.5k 2.4×	64	3.7k
Abhijit Dutta Switzerland	32	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	79 0.1×	1.0k 1.7×	77	3.3k
Subiao Liu Canada	32	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	17 0.0×	1.2k 1.8×	67	4.0k
Hengjie Liu China	34	3.6k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	243 0.3×	1.7k 2.6×	90	4.7k
Meikun Xia Canada	18	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	245 0.3×	410 0.6×	21	3.1k
Jonghee Han South Korea	36	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.7k 1.8×	20 0.0×	1.8k 2.9×	150	4.3k
Li Lin China	24	264 0.1×	688 0.3×	1.2k 0.8×	32 0.0×	300 0.5×	78	1.9k
Thành Trần‐Phú Australia	25	1.4k 0.5×	748 0.3×	884 0.6×	195 0.2×	787 1.2×	52	2.1k
Yusen Yang China	31	1.2k 0.4×	952 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	21 0.0×	552 0.9×	119	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Xue, Wence Xu, Jiewen Xiao, et al.. (2025). Tuning Active Hydrogen via Spillover Enables the Wide‐Potential Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia. Advanced Materials. 38(9). e18272–e18272.

Li, Fengwang, et al.. (2025). AI-Accelerated Discovery of Electrocatalyst Materials. ACS Materials Au. 6(1). 72–89. 2 indexed citations

Li, Zheng, Yuting Zhou, Hao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the Dual Dependence of Surface and NH ₃ Concentration on Cobalt-Catalyzed Ammonia Decomposition. ACS Catalysis. 15(23). 20243–20250.

Liu, Jiyuan, et al.. (2025). Enhancing data reproducibility and relevance for performance-mechanism studies in CO2 electrocatalysis. Joule. 9(7). 101970–101970. 1 indexed citations

Yan, Yuchen, et al.. (2025). The Geochemical Characteristics and Exploitation Threshold of Copper in the Cultivated Soils of Guanzhong Plain, Shaanxi Province. Agronomy. 15(2). 256–256.

Li, Shaofeng, Yuanyuan Zhou, Xianbiao Fu, et al.. (2024). Long-term continuous ammonia electrosynthesis. Nature. 629(8010). 92–97. 126 indexed citations breakdown →

Deng, Wanyu, Peng Zhang, Georg Kastlunger, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the rate-determining step of C2+ products during electrochemical CO reduction. Nature Communications. 15(1). 892–892. 45 indexed citations

Fu, Xianbiao, Aoni Xu, Jakob B. Pedersen, et al.. (2024). Phenol as proton shuttle and buffer for lithium-mediated ammonia electrosynthesis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2417–2417. 59 indexed citations

Zhang, Lingling, et al.. (2024). Multi-objective optimization prediction model for building parameters of photovoltaic windows based on NSGA II-BP. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 64. 105500–105500. 6 indexed citations

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Fu, Xianbiao, Jakob B. Pedersen, Yuanyuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Continuous-flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation. Science. 379(6633). 707–712. 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fu, Xianbiao, Valerie A. Niemann, Yuanyuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Calcium-mediated nitrogen reduction for electrochemical ammonia synthesis. Nature Materials. 23(1). 101–107. 113 indexed citations

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Ma, Ming, Wanyu Deng, Aoni Xu, et al.. (2022). Local reaction environment for selective electroreduction of carbon monoxide. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(6). 2470–2478. 57 indexed citations

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Hochfilzer, Degenhart, Aoni Xu, Jakob Ejler Sørensen, et al.. (2022). Transients in Electrochemical CO Reduction Explained by Mass Transport of Buffers. ACS Catalysis. 12(9). 5155–5161. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Qiucheng, Aoni Xu, Sahil Garg, et al.. (2022). Enriching Surface‐Accessible CO₂ in the Zero‐Gap Anion‐Exchange‐Membrane‐Based CO₂ Electrolyzer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(3). e202214383–e202214383. 35 indexed citations

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Xu, Qiucheng, Aoni Xu, Sahil Garg, et al.. (2022). Enriching Surface‐Accessible CO₂ in the Zero‐Gap Anion‐Exchange‐Membrane‐Based CO₂ Electrolyzer. Angewandte Chemie. 135(3). 1 indexed citations

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Hung, Sung‐Fu, Aoni Xu, Xue Wang, et al.. (2022). A metal-supported single-atom catalytic site enables carbon dioxide hydrogenation. Nature Communications. 13(1). 819–819. 161 indexed citations

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Xu, Aoni, et al.. (2021). Plasma-Engraved Co₂N Nanostructures toward High-Performance Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(18). 21231–21240. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Yi, Fengwang Li, Aoni Xu, et al.. (2021). Low coordination number copper catalysts for electrochemical CO2 methanation in a membrane electrode assembly. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2932–2932. 169 indexed citations

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Li, Yuhang, Aoni Xu, Yanwei Lum, et al.. (2020). Promoting CO2 methanation via ligand-stabilized metal oxide clusters as hydrogen-donating motifs. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6190–6190. 127 indexed citations

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Luo, Mingchuan, Ziyun Wang, Yuguang Li, et al.. (2019). Hydroxide promotes carbon dioxide electroreduction to ethanol on copper via tuning of adsorbed hydrogen. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5814–5814. 325 indexed citations

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