Aowen Li

4.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
28 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Aowen Li is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Aowen Li has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Materials Chemistry, 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 6 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Aowen Li's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Aowen Li is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (5 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (4 papers). Aowen Li collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Aowen Li's co-authors include Wu Zhou, Xusheng Zheng, Hongliang Li, Jie Zeng, Ding Ma, Mi Peng, Qiaolin Yu, Shu‐Hong Yu, Weijie Yang and Juntong Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Aowen Li

27 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Copper-catalysed exclusive CO2 to pure formic acid conversion via single-atom alloying

2021 552 citations Tingting Zheng, Chunxiao Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Non-Bonding Interaction of Neighboring Fe and Ni Single-Atom Pairs on MOF-Derived N-Doped Carbon for Enhanced CO₂ Electroreduction

2021 545 citations Long Jiao, Juntong Zhu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene by ultrathin CuO nanoplate arrays

2022 358 citations Wei Liu, Aowen Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Shielding Pt/γ-Mo2N by inert nano-overlays enables stable H2 production

2025 36 citations Zirui Gao, Aowen Li 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
Aowen Li China	17	2.3k	1.6k	1.2k	810	375	28	3.3k
Sihang Liu China	26	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	784 1.0×	264 0.7×	63	3.0k
Yongli Shen China	28	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	740 0.6×	885 1.1×	302 0.8×	89	2.8k
Xiangdong Kong China	26	3.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	838 1.0×	296 0.8×	48	3.7k
Molly Meng‐Jung Li Hong Kong	31	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	953 1.2×	415 1.1×	78	4.1k
Kaidi Yuan China	20	2.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	959 1.2×	189 0.5×	31	3.2k
Bingbao Mei China	37	3.4k 1.5×	2.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 2.1×	623 1.7×	81	4.6k
Bari Wulan China	23	3.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	2.0k 1.6×	739 0.9×	453 1.2×	40	4.1k
Yike Huang China	22	1.3k 0.6×	2.4k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	571 0.7×	556 1.5×	45	3.1k
Geng Wu China	27	3.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	949 0.8×	2.1k 2.5×	346 0.9×	53	4.6k
Xuetao Qin China	27	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	471 0.6×	621 1.7×	60	2.9k

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Gao, Zirui, Aowen Li, Xingwu Liu, et al.. (2025). Shielding Pt/γ-Mo2N by inert nano-overlays enables stable H2 production. Nature. 638(8051). 690–696. 36 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Hongping, et al.. (2025). A MnCl₂-catalyzed synthesis of aldehydes from organohalides by using samarium metal in DMF. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 23(13). 3137–3142.

Li, Aowen, et al.. (2024). Low-voltage single-atom electron microscopy with carbon-based nanomaterials. Micron. 186. 103706–103706. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Pengfei, Youwei Zhang, Aowen Li, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-doped amorphous monolayer carbon. Nature. 634(8032). 80–84. 41 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaochen, Aowen Li, Yao Xu, et al.. (2023). Carbonate Hydrogenated to Formate in the Aqueous Phase over Nickel/TiO₂ Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(41). e202307061–e202307061. 11 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang‐Peng Gao, & Wu Zhou. (2023). Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity. Physical Review Letters. 131(18). 186202–186202. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, et al.. (2023). Phonon vortices at heavy impurities in two-dimensional materials. Nanoscale Horizons. 9(2). 248–253. 6 indexed citations

Fan, Jinchang, Yunlong Zhang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2023). Ligand-confined two-dimensional rhodium hydride boosts hydrogen evolution. Matter. 6(11). 3877–3888. 9 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, De‐Liang Bao, Aowen Li, et al.. (2023). Single-atom vibrational spectroscopy with chemical-bonding sensitivity. Nature Materials. 22(5). 612–618. 42 indexed citations

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Zheng, Tingting, Chunxiao Liu, Chenxi Guo, et al.. (2021). Copper-catalysed exclusive CO2 to pure formic acid conversion via single-atom alloying. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(12). 1386–1393. 552 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zou, Wei, Pengbo Wang, Aowen Li, et al.. (2021). Preparation and Characterization of Hollow Zinc Oxide Nanofibers and Investigation of Its Photocatalytic Properties. Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics. 16(1). 64–71. 2 indexed citations

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Jiao, Long, Juntong Zhu, Yan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Non-Bonding Interaction of Neighboring Fe and Ni Single-Atom Pairs on MOF-Derived N-Doped Carbon for Enhanced CO₂ Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(46). 19417–19424. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Jiachen, Yun Kuang, Yongtao Meng, et al.. (2020). Electroreduction of CO₂ to Formate on a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst at High Pressures with High Energy Conversion Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(16). 7276–7282. 241 indexed citations

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Xu, Mingquan, Aowen Li, Meng Gao, & Wu Zhou. (2020). Single-atom electron microscopy for energy-related nanomaterials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(32). 16142–16165. 22 indexed citations

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Ge, Yuzhen, Xuetao Qin, Aowen Li, et al.. (2020). Maximizing the Synergistic Effect of CoNi Catalyst on α-MoC for Robust Hydrogen Production. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(2). 628–633. 198 indexed citations

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Li, Aowen, et al.. (2020). Deposition of MOFs on Polydopamine-Modified Electrospun Polyvinyl Alcohol/Silica Nanofibers Mats for Chloramphenicol Adsorption in Water. NANO. 15(4). 2050046–2050046. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Junjie, et al.. (2017). Chemisorption of hydrogen on graphene: insights from atomistic simulations. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 29(19). 195001–195001. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Meimei, Yi‐nan Wu, Pingping Luo, et al.. (2017). Fabrication of free-standing membranes with tunable pore structures based on the combination of electrospinning and self-assembly of block copolymers. RSC Advances. 7(78). 49568–49575. 11 indexed citations

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Wang, Liangbing, Hongliang Li, Wenbo Zhang, et al.. (2017). Supported Rhodium Catalysts for Ammonia–Borane Hydrolysis: Dependence of the Catalytic Activity on the Highest Occupied State of the Single Rhodium Atoms. Angewandte Chemie. 129(17). 4790–4796. 27 indexed citations

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Wang, Liangbing, Shenpeng Wang, Zehua Gao, et al.. (2016). Atomic-level insights in optimizing reaction paths for hydroformylation reaction over Rh/CoO single-atom catalyst. Nature Communications. 7(1). 14036–14036. 337 indexed citations

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