Cong Liu

13.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
291 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Cong Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Cong Liu has authored 291 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 93 papers in Materials Chemistry and 63 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Cong Liu's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (55 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (42 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (38 papers). Cong Liu is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (55 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (42 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (38 papers). Cong Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Cong Liu's co-authors include Larry A. Curtiss, Ross A. Widenhoefer, Peter Zapol, Jianhui Wang, Mohammad Asadi, Amin Salehi‐Khojin, Angela K. Wilson, Jun Lü, Reza Shahbazian‐Yassar and Thomas R. Cundari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Cong Liu

267 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO ₂ reduction in ionic liquid

2016 817 citations Cong Liu et al. profile →
Highly selective electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethanol by metallic clusters dynamically formed from atomically dispersed copper

2020 592 citations Cong Liu, Di‐Jia Liu et al. profile →
A lithium–oxygen battery with a long cycle life in an air-like atmosphere

2018 496 citations Cong Liu et al. profile →
Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu2O particle photocatalyst for CO2 reduction to methanol

2019 471 citations Cong Liu et al. profile →
Burning lithium in CS2 for high-performing compact Li2S–graphene nanocapsules for Li–S batteries

2017 402 citations Cong Liu et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cong Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cong Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cong Liu 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 Cong Liu. Cong Liu 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Site-specific surface reactivity on SnO2: Evaluating selective atomic layer deposition processes 2025 ·Applied Surface Science ·Jiayi Xu, (unknown), Ethan P. Kamphaus, (unknown), Alex B. F. Martinson, Cong Liu	0
2	Perylene Diimide-Based A-D-A-Type Organic Additives for Efficient and Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Shaojian Li, Kai Chen, (unknown), Desheng Li, (unknown), Zedong Lin, Cong Liu, Xudong Guo, Lang Zhou, (unknown), Tao Liu, Bingsuo Zou	1
3	Pt–Ti Coordination at Oxygen Vacancies Activates Single‐Atom Catalysis for Broad‐pH Hydrogen Evolution 2025 ·Carbon Energy ·Qing Zhang, Ding Yuan, Kepeng Song, (unknown), Cong Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Jingjing Wu, Dingsheng Wang, Shi Xue Dou, Yuhai Dou	0
4	Sequential Infiltration Synthesis of Cadmium Sulfide Discrete Atom Clusters 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Shana Havenridge, Ashley R. Bielinski, Kihoon Kim, Niklas B. Thompson, Justin M. Hoffman, (unknown), (unknown), Rajesh Pathak, Jeffrey W. Elam, Cong Liu, Karen L. Mulfort, Alex B. F. Martinson	3
5	Efficient green synthesis of biocompatible MPN fluorescent microspheres via hydrophobic-force-driven strategy for enhanced immunochromatographic assays 2024 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Xiaocui Lai, Shihai Huang, Ganggang Zhang, Edison Huixiang Ang, (unknown), (unknown), Cong Liu, (unknown), Weihua Lai	4
6	Simultaneous and efficient removal of nitrogen, phosphorus, COD and Vibrios from aquaculture tailwater based on synthetic microbial communities 2024 ·Journal of environmental chemical engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weizhong Wang, (unknown), Cong Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Jun Wang	2
7	Tunable topological edge states and energy harvesting of piezoelectric-inductance phononic crystals based on Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model 2024 ·Physics Letters A ·Cong Liu, (unknown), Yongqiang Zhang, Zhuhua Tan	4
8	In Situ Preparation of Highly Active and Selective Fe‐MOF/V–C₃N₄ for Photocatalytic Hydroxylation of Benzene to Phenol 2024 ·ChemNanoMat ·Xu Jia, (unknown), (unknown), Cong Liu, Liuxue Zhang, Mengge Liu, Huiqin Zhang, (unknown), Shuyan Jiao, Xiulian Wang	1
9	Polydopamine-modulated anisotropic co-growth plasmonic blackbody for efficient ultra-broad-spectrum quenching to establish multicolor fluorescent immunoassay 2024 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Xiaocui Lai, Ganggang Zhang, Gan Zhang, (unknown), Cong Liu, Weihua He, Edison Huixiang Ang, Weihua Lai, (unknown)	9
10	In Situ Construction of a Type II Heterojunction UiO/BMO‐x for Improving the Photocatalytic Reduction of Cr (VI) 2024 ·ChemistrySelect ·Cong Liu, Liuxue Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Xu Jia, (unknown), Xiulian Wang	0
11	Intercalative Redox Tuning for Cu/Li_xMn₂O₄-Catalyzed Oxidative Alkyne Coupling 2024 ·ACS Catalysis ·Jacklyn N. Hall, Alon Chapovetsky, Magali Ferrandon, (unknown), (unknown), Katherine B. McCullough, Cong Liu, A. Jeremy Kropf, Massimiliano Delferro, David M. Kaphan	1
12	Vacancy-clusters in-situ induced via microwave-irradiation enable high-durability and capacitor-level rate li-ion storage 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Tingting Zhao, Cong Liu, Tao Meng, Fenyun Yi, Aimei Gao, Fan Zhang, Dong Shu, Yexiang Tong	4
13	Novel supramolecular deep eutectic solvent pretreatment for obtaining fluorescent lignin and promoting biomass pyrolytic saccharification 2023 ·Bioresource Technology ·Zhiwen Jia, Shiyang Wang, (unknown), Wanyu Li, (unknown), (unknown), Cong Liu, Zijian Ye, Yan Sun, Xiwei Xu	15
14	Superhydrophilic All‐pH‐Adaptable Redox Conjugated Porous Polymers as Universal and Ultrarobust Ion Hosts for Diverse Energy Storage with Chemical Self‐Chargeability 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Linfeng Zhong, Jing Li, Cong Liu, Long Fang, Zhongke Yuan, Dingshan Yu, Xudong Chen	15
15	Understanding the dynamic evolution of atomically dispersed Cu catalyst for CO2 electrochemical conversion using integrated XANES analysis and mechanistic studies 2023 ·Journal of Catalysis ·Jiayi Xu, (unknown), Di‐Jia Liu, Tao Xu, Cong Liu	9
16	Insight into Nb-sbustitution effects on Li1.17Mn0.57Ni0.24Nb0.02O2 cathode material for lithium-ion batteries application 2023 ·Solid State Sciences ·Manman Wu, (unknown), (unknown), Chengfei Yang, Yubo Yang, Cong Liu, Xiaowei Miao, Gang Yang	2
17	Ultralight porous carbon loaded Co-doped MoS2 as an efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic and alkaline media 2023 ·Journal of Alloys and Compounds ·(unknown), Han-Qiao Liu, Cong Liu, Qiu‐Feng Lü	19
18	A Facile Candle-Soot Nanoparticle Decoration Enables Dendrite-Free Zn Anodes for Long-Cycling Aqueous Batteries 2023 ·ACS Applied Energy Materials ·(unknown), Cong Liu, Xiutao Li, (unknown), Xiaowen Zhan, Shan Gao	10
19	Tale of Three Molecular Nitrides: Mononuclear Vanadium (V) and (IV) Nitrides As Well As a Mixed-Valence Trivanadium Nitride Having a V₃N₄ Double-Diamond Core 2022 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Dominik Fehn, Anders Reinholdt, (unknown), (unknown), Michael R. Gau, Patrick J. Carroll, J. Krzystek, Cong Liu, Andrew Ozarowski, Joshua Telser, Massimiliano Delferro, Karsten Meyer, Daniel J. Mindiola	8
20	Mesoporous carbon based non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction: Effect of metal species and valence state 2019 ·International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ·Cong Liu, Fang Dong, (unknown), Jianing Guo, Yang Yang, Qiaojuan Gong, Jinli Qiao	10

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