Chengrong Xu

492 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 357 citations indexed

About

Chengrong Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bioengineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengrong Xu has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 357 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 4 papers in Bioengineering and 4 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Chengrong Xu's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (11 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (7 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (4 papers). Chengrong Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (11 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (7 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (4 papers). Chengrong Xu collaborates with scholars based in China. Chengrong Xu's co-authors include Zhengcui Wu, Feng Gao, Yaqin Wu, Hao Yu, Haoshen Zhou, Shaohua Guo, Yin Ye, Hao Wan, Tao Yang and Tong Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Chengrong Xu

15 papers receiving 344 citations

Hit Papers

A “grafting technique” to tailor the interfacial behavior... 2025 2026 2025 5 10 15 20 25
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.

  1. A “grafting technique” to tailor the interfacial behavior of hard carbon anodes for stable sodium-ion batteries
    2025 28 citations Yu Sun, Daxian Zuo et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chengrong Xu China 11 238 111 87 69 55 17 357
Ghzzai Almutairi Saudi Arabia 12 230 1.0× 221 2.0× 88 1.0× 52 0.8× 76 1.4× 29 449
Tim Tichter Germany 10 219 0.9× 55 0.5× 71 0.8× 114 1.7× 90 1.6× 26 327
Jeonghyun Ha South Korea 6 430 1.8× 196 1.8× 223 2.6× 48 0.7× 103 1.9× 8 522
Peng Yan China 13 322 1.4× 92 0.8× 87 1.0× 28 0.4× 35 0.6× 16 381
Chengxiang Yang China 12 293 1.2× 152 1.4× 167 1.9× 126 1.8× 19 0.3× 23 437
Junya Cui China 10 286 1.2× 126 1.1× 76 0.9× 54 0.8× 13 0.2× 11 374
Jiao Yin China 6 211 0.9× 279 2.5× 56 0.6× 259 3.8× 30 0.5× 6 418
Dongxun Lyu United Kingdom 4 268 1.1× 61 0.5× 198 2.3× 77 1.1× 30 0.5× 4 377
Yuta Shudo Japan 12 181 0.8× 155 1.4× 60 0.7× 102 1.5× 14 0.3× 22 332
Shivraj Mahadik South Korea 10 204 0.9× 119 1.1× 108 1.2× 189 2.7× 34 0.6× 12 348

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chengrong Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chengrong Xu

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Du, Junjie, et al.. (2026). Polymer-induced solid–electrolyte interphase on hard carbon enabling 5C fast-charging practical sodium-ion pouch cell. National Science Review. 13(4). nwag025–nwag025.
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Xu, Chengrong, et al.. (2025). A Bipolar Solvent Molecule Design for Wide‐Temperature High‐Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2505285–e2505285. 3 indexed citations
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Shi, Tianze, Ruilin Hou, Linlin Zheng, et al.. (2025). Modulating Double‐Layer Solvation Structure via Dual‐Weak‐Interaction for Stable Sodium‐Metal Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(20). 16 indexed citations
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Chu, Shiyong, Sheng Xu, Qi Wang, et al.. (2025). Steric Effect Enhancing Reversible Oxygen Redox and Minimizing Voltage Decay in Layered Sodium Cathodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(23).
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Sun, Yu, Daxian Zuo, Chengrong Xu, et al.. (2025). A “grafting technique” to tailor the interfacial behavior of hard carbon anodes for stable sodium-ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(4). 1911–1919. 28 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Chengrong, et al.. (2025). High energy density lithium battery systems: from key cathode materials to pouch cell design. Chemical Society Reviews. 54(21). 10245–10303. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Bo, Sheng Xu, Jie Yang, et al.. (2024). A Customized Strategy Realizes Stable Cycle of Large‐Capacity and High‐Voltage Layered Cathode for Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(50). e202411618–e202411618. 26 indexed citations
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Peng, Bo, Zihao Zhou, Sheng Xu, et al.. (2024). A Customized Strategy Realizes Stable Cycle of Large‐Capacity and High‐Voltage Layered Cathode for Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 136(50). 1 indexed citations
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Chu, Shiyong, Jiaming Tian, Jingyang Wang, et al.. (2023). High Entropy-Induced Kinetics Improvement and Phase Transition Suppression in K-Ion Battery Layered Cathodes. ACS Nano. 18(1). 337–346. 52 indexed citations
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Tian, Shuang, Qinting Jiang, Chengrong Xu, et al.. (2022). A V2O5-based freestanding anode with high rate and superior cycle life for potassium storage. Composites Communications. 32. 101172–101172. 8 indexed citations
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Xu, Chengrong, Jinglin Mu, Tong Zhou, et al.. (2022). Surface Redox Pseudocapacitance Boosting Vanadium Nitride for High‐Power and Ultra‐Stable Potassium‐Ion Capacitors. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(38). 49 indexed citations
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Jia, Minyu, Shitao Geng, Qinting Jiang, et al.. (2020). A strategy to prepare activated carbon fiber membranes for flexible solid-state supercapacitor applications. Journal of Materials Science. 56(5). 3911–3924. 15 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhengcui, Chengrong Xu, Hua-Mao Chen, et al.. (2013). α-Nickel hydroxide 3D hierarchical architectures: Controlled synthesis and their applications on electrochemical determination of H2O2. Materials Research Bulletin. 48(6). 2340–2346. 10 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhengcui, Chengrong Xu, Yaqin Wu, et al.. (2013). ZnO nanorods/Ag nanoparticles heterostructures with tunable Ag contents: A facile solution-phase synthesis and applications in photocatalysis. CrystEngComm. 15(30). 5994–5994. 67 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhengcui, Chengrong Xu, Hua-Mao Chen, et al.. (2013). Mesoporous MgO nanosheets: 1,6-hexanediamin-assisted synthesis and their applications on electrochemical detection of toxic metal ions. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 74(7). 1032–1038. 27 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhengcui, et al.. (2012). Synthesis of mesoporous NiO nanosheet and its application on mercury (II) sensor. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry. 16(10). 3171–3177. 41 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhengcui, et al.. (2011). Synthesis of folding flake-like CuO sub-microstructure and its application on mercury (II) sensor. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 23(4). 858–864. 11 indexed citations

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