Boyang Liu

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Boyang Liu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Boyang Liu has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Boyang Liu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (5 papers). Boyang Liu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (6 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (5 papers). Boyang Liu collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, China and United States. Boyang Liu's co-authors include Frank M. F. de Groot, Yongwen Tan, Ming Peng, Yang Zhao, Min Luo, Ying‐Rui Lu, Shoucong Ning, Ting‐Shan Chan, Kang Jiang and Liangbing Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Boyang Liu

24 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Single platinum atoms embedded in nanoporous cobalt selenide as electrocatalyst for accelerating hydrogen evolution reaction

2019 590 citations Kang Jiang, Boyang Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Boyang Liu Netherlands	12	1.0k	793	475	163	150	24	1.4k
Songqi Gu China	14	1.3k 1.2×	919 1.2×	525 1.1×	122 0.7×	214 1.4×	31	1.6k
Haibo Tang China	21	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	566 1.2×	168 1.0×	181 1.2×	50	1.8k
Minyeong Je South Korea	17	915 0.9×	840 1.1×	636 1.3×	230 1.4×	106 0.7×	31	1.4k
José Luis Gómez de la Fuente Spain	23	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	547 1.2×	211 1.3×	271 1.8×	36	1.6k
Zhanzhao Li China	14	893 0.9×	745 0.9×	549 1.2×	137 0.8×	90 0.6×	34	1.4k
Deyao Wu China	18	1.3k 1.2×	846 1.1×	559 1.2×	107 0.7×	185 1.2×	25	1.6k
Tomasz Kosmala Italy	19	965 0.9×	788 1.0×	490 1.0×	114 0.7×	223 1.5×	30	1.3k
Xueru Zhao China	21	1.6k 1.6×	1.2k 1.5×	643 1.4×	96 0.6×	241 1.6×	37	1.9k
Ruiqin Gao China	22	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	573 1.2×	145 0.9×	204 1.4×	52	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Boyang Liu

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Liu, Xinmei, Bingna Zheng, Wenlong Yang, Guobin Zhu, & Boyang Liu. (2025). Six-branched Cu2O@Cu micro-crystals with enhanced and multifunctional sensor performances. Microchemical Journal. 210. 112910–112910. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xinmei, Guobin Zhu, Bingna Zheng, Wenlong Yang, & Boyang Liu. (2025). Surfactant-free octahedral Cu2O@Pd nanocrystals with enhanced and multifunctional sensor performances. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 190. 109364–109364. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Y.P., et al.. (2023). Medium Rock-Soil Temperature Distribution Characteristics at Different Time Scales and New Layout Forms in the Application of Medium-Deep Borehole Heat Exchangers. Energies. 16(19). 6970–6970. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Boyang, et al.. (2023). Long-Term Investigation of a Borehole Heat Exchanger (BHE) Array with the Influence of Same Inlet Temperature (SIT) and Same Heat Load (SHL) Boundaries. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2023. 1–9. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Siyu, et al.. (2023). Facile fabrication of a novel g-C3N4/CdS Composites Catalysts with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performances. ES Energy & Environments. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Ru‐Pan, Atsushi Hariki, J. Okamoto, et al.. (2022). Analyzing the Local Electronic Structure of Co₃O₄ Using 2p3d Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(20). 8752–8759. 19 indexed citations

Liu, Boyang, Liuyue Pu, Yan Sun, et al.. (2021). Photocatalytic oxidation removal of fluoride ion in wastewater by g-C3N4/TiO2 under simulated visible light. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 4(2). 339–349. 60 indexed citations

Oversteeg, Christina H. M. van, Mario Ulises Delgado‐Jaime, Tsu-Chien Weng, et al.. (2019). Nature of cobalt species during the in situ sulfurization of Co(Ni)Mo/Al₂O₃ hydrodesulfurization catalysts. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 26(3). 811–818. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Ru‐Pan, Hebatalla Elnaggar, Yorick A. Birkhölzer, et al.. (2019). Low-energy orbital excitations in strained LaCoO3 films. Physical review. B.. 100(16). 10 indexed citations

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Jiang, Kang, Boyang Liu, Min Luo, et al.. (2019). Single platinum atoms embedded in nanoporous cobalt selenide as electrocatalyst for accelerating hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1743–1743. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Yang, Min Luo, Shufen Chu, et al.. (2019). 3D nanoporous iridium-based alloy microwires for efficient oxygen evolution in acidic media. Nano Energy. 59. 146–153. 158 indexed citations

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Casavola, Marianna, Boyang Liu, Alexandre Gloter, et al.. (2019). Atomic-Scale Investigation of the Structural and Electronic Properties of Cobalt–Iron Bimetallic Fischer–Tropsch Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 7998–8011. 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Boyang, Elliot N. Glass, Ru‐Pan Wang, et al.. (2018). Cobalt-to-vanadium charge transfer in polyoxometalate water oxidation catalysts revealed by 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(6). 4554–4562. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Yiju, Tingting Gao, Yonggang Yao, et al.. (2018). In Situ “Chainmail Catalyst” Assembly in Low‐Tortuosity, Hierarchical Carbon Frameworks for Efficient and Stable Hydrogen Generation. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(25). 97 indexed citations

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Xu, Shaomao, Yanan Chen, Yiju Li, et al.. (2017). Universal, In Situ Transformation of Bulky Compounds into Nanoscale Catalysts by High-Temperature Pulse. Nano Letters. 17(9). 5817–5822. 33 indexed citations

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Liu, Boyang, Matti M. van Schooneveld, Yi‐Tao Cui, et al.. (2017). In-Situ 2p3d Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Tracking Cobalt Nanoparticle Reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(32). 17450–17456. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Boyang, Cínthia Piamonteze, Mario Ulises Delgado‐Jaime, et al.. (2017). Sum rule distortions in fluorescence-yield x-ray magnetic circular dichroism. Physical review. B.. 96(5). 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Ru‐Pan, Boyang Liu, Robert J. Green, et al.. (2017). Charge-Transfer Analysis of 2p3d Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering of Cobalt Sulfide and Halides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(45). 24919–24928. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Yanan, Shaomao Xu, Yuanchang Li, et al.. (2017). FeS₂ Nanoparticles Embedded in Reduced Graphene Oxide toward Robust, High‐Performance Electrocatalysts. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(19). 161 indexed citations

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Liu, Boyang, Ru‐Pan Wang, Elliot N. Glass, et al.. (2016). Distorted Tetrahedral Co^II in K₅H[CoW₁₂O₄₀]·xH₂O Probed by 2p3d Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering. Inorganic Chemistry. 55(20). 10152–10160. 8 indexed citations

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