Fan Xu

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
199 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Fan Xu is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Fan Xu has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 64 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 61 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Fan Xu's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (64 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (40 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (28 papers). Fan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (64 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (40 papers) and Structural Analysis and Optimization (28 papers). Fan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Fan Xu's co-authors include Yong Wang, Jing Wang, Haiyan Jin, Yiqing Chen, Michel Potier‐Ferry, Jian Xie, Qi Liu, Yongzhong Huo, Meixian Wang and Conghua Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Fan Xu

186 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Non‐Noble Metal‐based Carbon Composites in Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: Fundamentals to Applications

2017 1.6k citations Fan Xu et al. profile →
Functionalized helical fibre bundles of carbon nanotubes as electrochemical sensors for long-term in vivo monitoring of multiple disease biomarkers

2019 298 citations Yifan Yang, Fan Xu et al. profile →
Industry needs for practical lithium-metal battery designs in electric vehicles

2024 77 citations Fan Xu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fan Xu China	38	2.8k	1.9k	1.7k	1.4k	992	199	6.0k
Yan Zhao China	45	1.8k 0.7×	676 0.4×	2.6k 1.5×	704 0.5×	2.1k 2.1×	206	7.0k
Kwok Ho Lam Hong Kong	42	2.8k 1.0×	669 0.3×	2.7k 1.6×	614 0.4×	3.0k 3.1×	253	6.6k
Jianfeng Zang China	46	3.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	3.2k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 2.0×	110	7.9k
Huaping Wu China	46	1.3k 0.5×	796 0.4×	2.9k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.8×	249	6.9k
Pil J. Yoo South Korea	51	5.6k 2.0×	2.4k 1.3×	2.9k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	4.1k 4.1×	237	11.5k
Guisheng Zou China	39	2.6k 0.9×	521 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	1.0k 1.0×	188	5.4k
Tianpeng Ding China	38	2.3k 0.8×	3.7k 1.9×	3.1k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	57	7.6k
Jianbo Tang Australia	37	2.0k 0.7×	644 0.3×	2.3k 1.4×	801 0.6×	1.8k 1.8×	135	4.8k
Jung Woo Lee South Korea	38	3.1k 1.1×	897 0.5×	2.3k 1.3×	540 0.4×	2.7k 2.8×	167	6.8k
Jiajun Gu China	54	3.8k 1.4×	3.3k 1.7×	1.5k 0.9×	834 0.6×	4.3k 4.4×	178	9.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Fan Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fan Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fan Xu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Fan, et al.. (2025). A chiral C4,z-symmetric metasurface for chromatic arbitrary linear polarization rotation. Optics Communications. 582. 131627–131627. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yiwei, et al.. (2025). Spontaneous Shear Strain Governed Bending of Dielectric Nematic Elastomer Sheets With In-Plane Director Orientation Gradients. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 92(7).

Chen, Yijian, et al.. (2025). Unusual stretching–twisting of liquid crystal elastomer bilayers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 198. 106066–106066. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Ping, et al.. (2024). Effects of Cu2+ substitution on the sintering behavior, crystal structure and microwave dielectric properties of Li3Mg4NbO8 ceramics. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 316. 129118–129118. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Ting, et al.. (2024). Morphomechanics of growing curled petals and leaves. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 184. 105534–105534. 14 indexed citations

Wang, Ya‐Wen, et al.. (2024). Comparison of immune effects of porcine circovirus type 2d (PCV2d) capsid protein expressed by Escherichia coli and baculovirus-insect cells. Vaccine. 42(11). 2848–2857. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Fan, Jianghua Wu, Hanghui Liu, et al.. (2024). Cobalt doped K-birnessite as ultrastable cathode for aqueous calcium-ion batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 602. 234342–234342. 8 indexed citations

Yang, Yifan, Maoyuan Li, & Fan Xu. (2024). A solid-shell model of hard-magnetic soft materials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 271. 109129–109129. 19 indexed citations

Chen, Lichuan, Luyao Zhang, Jiang Yu, et al.. (2024). Regulation of surface oxygen functional groups in starch-derived hard carbon via pre-oxidation: A strategy for enhanced sodium storage performance. Materials Today Chemistry. 41. 102314–102314. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yafei, Xingmei Chen, Fucheng Wang, et al.. (2024). Electroactive differential growth and delayed instability in accelerated healing tissues. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 193. 105867–105867. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Yafei, et al.. (2023). Substantial curvature effects on compliant serpentine mechanics. Mechanics of Materials. 184. 104732–104732. 6 indexed citations

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Feng, Shizhe, et al.. (2023). Controlling and visualizing fracture of 2D crystals by wrinkling. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 174. 105253–105253. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Yiwei, et al.. (2023). Programmable electric-field-induced bending shapes of dielectric liquid crystal elastomer sheets. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 60. 101982–101982. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Yafei, et al.. (2023). Strain stiffening retards growth instability in residually stressed biological tissues. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 178. 105360–105360. 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Junting, Yifan Yang, Maoyuan Li, & Fan Xu. (2023). A meshfree model of hard-magnetic soft materials. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 258. 108566–108566. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qian, Ranming Niu, Ying Liu, et al.. (2023). Room-temperature super-elongation in high-entropy alloy nanopillars. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7469–7469. 42 indexed citations

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Gao, Fei, Donglei Yang, Fan Xu, Xiaowei Ma, & Pengfei Wang. (2022). Promoting Cell Fusion by Polyvalent DNA Ligands. Nano Letters. 22(7). 3018–3025. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Fan, Baijun Dong, Xue Li, et al.. (2021). Profiling and Regulating Proteins That Adsorb to DNA Materials in Human Serum. Analytical Chemistry. 93(24). 8671–8679. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Xue, Fan Xu, Donglei Yang, & Pengfei Wang. (2021). A DNA-binding, albumin-targeting fusion protein promotes the cellular uptake and bioavailability of framework DNA nanostructures. Nanoscale. 13(12). 6038–6042. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chunyang, Yanjun Yang, Haofei Li, et al.. (2020). Programming Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering of DNA Origami-templated Metamolecules. Nano Letters. 20(5). 3155–3159. 39 indexed citations

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