Erjun Kan

11.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
269 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Erjun Kan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Erjun Kan has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Materials Chemistry, 108 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 77 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Erjun Kan's work include 2D Materials and Applications (90 papers), Graphene research and applications (68 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (43 papers). Erjun Kan is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (90 papers), Graphene research and applications (68 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (43 papers). Erjun Kan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Erjun Kan's co-authors include Jinlong Yang, Hongjun Xiang, Chengxi Huang, Kaiming Deng, Zhenyu Li, Fang Wu, Haiping Wu, Jian Hou, Myung‐Hwan Whangbo and Kaiming Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Erjun Kan

249 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Semiconducting Group 15 M... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2015 2008 200 400 600
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. Semiconducting Group 15 Monolayers: A Broad Range of Band Gaps and High Carrier Mobilities
    2015 734 citations Shengli Zhang, Meiqiu Xie et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Half-Metallicity in Edge-Modified Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons
    2008 602 citations Erjun Kan et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Erjun Kan 7.3k 3.8k 2.6k 1.8k 1.5k 269 9.8k
Yu Xie 9.6k 1.3× 5.1k 1.3× 2.1k 0.8× 2.3k 1.3× 797 0.5× 122 12.1k
Liangzhi Kou 10.0k 1.4× 4.6k 1.2× 1.4k 0.5× 2.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 213 11.9k
Wenguang Zhu 6.7k 0.9× 3.3k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 1.7k 1.0× 2.3k 1.5× 143 8.7k
Jiaou Wang 5.4k 0.7× 4.0k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 3.5k 2.0× 874 0.6× 221 8.7k
W. T. Geng 5.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 867 0.6× 112 8.1k
Ming Yang 5.1k 0.7× 3.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 226 7.2k
C. H. A. Huan 6.1k 0.8× 5.0k 1.3× 1.6k 0.6× 997 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 261 8.7k
Xuebin Zhu 6.3k 0.9× 4.2k 1.1× 5.1k 2.0× 1.0k 0.6× 525 0.4× 449 10.1k
Jun Hu 3.2k 0.4× 2.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 131 5.4k
Jun Zhou 3.4k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 2.6k 1.0× 752 0.4× 603 0.4× 177 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erjun Kan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erjun Kan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ouyang, Bo, Fangyong Yu, Zheng Zhang, et al.. (2025). Controllable reduction mechanism of rust via thermal-field-modulated plasma strategy. Applied Surface Science. 698. 163116–163116.
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Ouyang, Bo, Haonan Qin, Chen Li, et al.. (2025). Phase-tailored CoCrFeNiAl nitride for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution via cooling-mediated plasma strategy. Nanoscale. 17(16). 10177–10186. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhen, Mingliang Liu, Wei Tong, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the autocatalytic growth of Li2S crystals at the solid-liquid interface in lithium-sulfur batteries. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9535–9535. 47 indexed citations
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Zhang, Conglin, Zeyan Wang, Chenghua Sun, et al.. (2024). Bottom-up strategy: A typical way to create multi-directional auxeticity in Si2O-based layered material. Vacuum. 222. 113068–113068.
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Ouyang, Bo, et al.. (2024). Operando facet control of hydrophobic iron nitride nano-coral for surface protection via field-modulated plasma strategy. Applied Surface Science. 675. 160972–160972. 3 indexed citations
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Wu, Haiping, et al.. (2024). Prediction of pure carbon crystals with intrinsic antiferromagnetism: polymerized from C20 fullerenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(29). 19685–19695. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Yashi, et al.. (2024). Strain-controlled spin regulation in Fe–N–C catalysts for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(36). 24530–24541. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, Xin, Ting Hu, Yujun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Flexomagnetoelectric Effect in Sr2IrO4 Thin Films. Physical Review Letters. 133(15). 156505–156505. 3 indexed citations
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Ju, Qiang, Hailing Huo, Chengxi Huang, et al.. (2023). Unlocking the photocatalytic overall water splitting ability of indium sulfide to produce H2 and H2O2. Chemical Engineering Science. 284. 119507–119507. 6 indexed citations
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Deng, Kaiming, et al.. (2023). Second-order Jahn–Teller effect induced high-temperature ferroelectricity in two-dimensional NbO2X (X = I, Br). Nanoscale Advances. 5(11). 2979–2985. 3 indexed citations
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Zhou, Jintang, Jiaqi Tao, Yansong Gu, et al.. (2023). Dielectric loss compensation induced by hydroxyl surface grafting protects against microwave absorption attenuation. Carbon. 216. 118571–118571. 9 indexed citations
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Ouyang, Bo, Chao Sun, Xi Wang, et al.. (2023). Structural control of heterostructured Co3N-Co nano-corals for boosting electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution based on insulator-confined plasma engineering. Chemical Engineering Journal. 466. 143211–143211. 16 indexed citations
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Kan, Erjun, et al.. (2023). Synergic Effects of Surface Chemistry and Applied Potentials on the Kinetics of the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction in IrO2. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(23). 11963–11972. 6 indexed citations
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Deng, Kaiming, et al.. (2023). Exploring the catalytic activity of graphene-based TM-NxC4-xsingle atom catalysts for the oxygen reduction reactionviadensity functional theory calculation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(20). 13913–13922. 14 indexed citations
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Wan, Yi, Xing Cheng, Yanfang Li, et al.. (2021). Manipulating the Raman scattering rotation via magnetic field in an MoS2 monolayer. RSC Advances. 11(7). 4035–4041. 7 indexed citations
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Ma, Yong, Sheng-Yu Wang, Junfei Ding, et al.. (2019). Accurate K-edge X-ray photoelectron and absorption spectra of g-C3N4 nanosheets by first-principles simulations and reinterpretations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(41). 22819–22830. 105 indexed citations
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Huang, Chengxi, et al.. (2019). Boosting the Curie Temperature of Two-Dimensional Semiconducting CrI3 Monolayer through van der Waals Heterostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(29). 17987–17993. 80 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shengli, Meiqiu Xie, Fengyu Li, et al.. (2015). Semiconducting Group 15 Monolayers: A Broad Range of Band Gaps and High Carrier Mobilities. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(5). 1666–1669. 734 indexed citations breakdown →

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