Ben Xu

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ben Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Xu has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 24 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ben Xu's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (21 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (18 papers). Ben Xu is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (21 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (18 papers). Ben Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Ben Xu's co-authors include Daofeng Sun, Hao Mei, Haobing Zhang, Fangna Dai, Zhenyu Xiao, Weidong Fan, Rongming Wang, Lili Fan, Wenpei Kang and Yingjie Mei and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Ben Xu

54 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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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.

Recent progress in metal-organic framework-based supercapacitor electrode materials

2020 400 citations Ben Xu, Haobing Zhang et al. profile →
Controlled Hydrolysis of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Hierarchical Ni/Co-Layered Double Hydroxide Microspheres for High-Performance Supercapacitors

2019 363 citations Zhenyu Xiao, Yingjie Mei et al. ACS Nano profile →

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Ben Xu

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Lichao Tan China

Rumin Li China

Yuzhen Han China

Zhuxian Yang United Kingdom

Mkhulu Mathe South Africa

Nobuhiro Kumada Japan

Shichao Wang China

Suyuan Zeng China

Rui‐Qin Zhong China

Julien Reboul Japan

Lichao Tan China

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Xu 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 Ben Xu. Ben Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Qun, et al.. (2025). Regulating hydrogen bonds within multi-crosslinking hydrogel electrolytes for improved water retention and frost resistance. Journal of Power Sources. 653. 237728–237728. 1 indexed citations

Li, Ziyi, Yongxin Wang, Fei Zhao, et al.. (2025). Moss-like two-dimensional MBene-Ni/Co bimetallic metal-organic framework composite as efficient cathode for alkaline zinc batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 633. 236437–236437. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Xu, et al.. (2024). Deep-learning enabled atomic insights into the phase transitions and nanodomain topology of lead-free (K,Na)NbO3 ferroelectrics. Science China Materials. 67(9). 3029–3038. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Hongyan, Xiaokang Wang, Xinlei Yang, et al.. (2023). Metal-ion-tuned metal-organic frameworks for C2H2/CO2 separation. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 42(9). 100146–100146. 20 indexed citations

Xu, Ben, et al.. (2023). Promoting the electrocatalytic activity through the introduction of oxygen vacancies to core–shell NiO hollow sphere catalysts for efficient oxygen evolution. New Journal of Chemistry. 47(36). 16879–16883. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Meng, Xiaokang Wang, Fei Gao, et al.. (2023). Synthesis strategies of metal-organic frameworks for CO₂ capture. Microstructures. 3(4). 14 indexed citations

Mei, Hao, Zhaodi Huang, Ben Xu, et al.. (2020). NiSe2/Ni(OH)2 Heterojunction Composite through Epitaxial-like Strategy as High-Rate Battery-Type Electrode Material. Nano-Micro Letters. 12(1). 61–61. 77 indexed citations

Dai, Fangna, Xiaokang Wang, Shuanghao Zheng, et al.. (2020). Toward high-performance and flexible all-solid-state micro-supercapacitors: MOF bulk vs. MOF nanosheets. Chemical Engineering Journal. 413. 127520–127520. 61 indexed citations

Xiao, Zhenyu, Yingjie Mei, Shuai Yuan, et al.. (2019). Controlled Hydrolysis of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Hierarchical Ni/Co-Layered Double Hydroxide Microspheres for High-Performance Supercapacitors. ACS Nano. 13(6). 7024–7030. 363 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fan, Weidong, Xia Wang, Xiurong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Fine-Tuning the Pore Environment of the Microporous Cu-MOF for High Propylene Storage and Efficient Separation of Light Hydrocarbons. ACS Central Science. 5(7). 1261–1268. 182 indexed citations

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Zhang, Minghui, Bingbing Guo, Feng Yang, et al.. (2019). Amphipathic Pentiptycene-Based Water-Resistant Cu-MOF for Efficient Oil/Water Separation. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(9). 5384–5387. 25 indexed citations

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Kang, Zixi, Sasa Wang, Rongming Wang, et al.. (2018). Sandwich membranes through a two-dimensional confinement strategy for gas separation. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 2(10). 1911–1919. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haobing, Ben Xu, Zhenyu Xiao, et al.. (2018). Optimizing crystallinity and porosity of hierarchical Ni(OH)₂ through conformal transformation of metal–organic framework template for supercapacitor applications. CrystEngComm. 20(30). 4313–4320. 36 indexed citations

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Fan, Weidong, Xia Wang, Xiuping Liu, et al.. (2018). Regulating C₂H₂ and CO₂ Storage and Separation through Pore Environment Modification in a Microporous Ni-MOF. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(2). 2134–2140. 142 indexed citations

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Fan, Weidong, Xia Wang, Ben Xu, et al.. (2018). Amino-functionalized MOFs with high physicochemical stability for efficient gas storage/separation, dye adsorption and catalytic performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(47). 24486–24495. 199 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhaodi, Jianhua Liu, Zhenyu Xiao, et al.. (2018). A MOF-derived coral-like NiSe@NC nanohybrid: an efficient electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction at all pH values. Nanoscale. 10(48). 22758–22765. 86 indexed citations

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Kang, Zixi, Ben Xu, Lili Fan, et al.. (2017). Wettability switchable metal-organic framework membranes for pervaporation of water/ethanol mixtures. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 82. 64–67. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Ben, Yingjie Mei, Zhenyu Xiao, et al.. (2017). Monitoring thermally induced structural deformation and framework decomposition of ZIF-8 through in situ temperature dependent measurements. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(40). 27178–27183. 48 indexed citations

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Xu, Ben, Michael B. Toffolo, Lior Regev, Elisabetta Boaretto, & Kristin M. Poduska. (2015). Structural differences in archaeologically relevant calcite. Analytical Methods. 7(21). 9304–9309. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Ben. (2011). Determination of water colority by spectrophotometry in visible spectrum. Optical Technique. 3 indexed citations

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