Hai‐Wei Liang

28.5k total citations · 14 hit papers
196 papers, 24.7k citations indexed

About

Hai‐Wei Liang is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hai‐Wei Liang has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 24.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 94 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 85 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hai‐Wei Liang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (103 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (60 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (43 papers). Hai‐Wei Liang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (103 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (60 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (43 papers). Hai‐Wei Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Hai‐Wei Liang's co-authors include Shu‐Hong Yu, Xinliang Feng, Lifeng Chen, Zhenyu Wu, Kläus Müllen, Qing‐Fang Guan, Wei Wei, Bicheng Hu, Zhihong Huang and Sebastian Brüller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hai‐Wei Liang

192 papers receiving 24.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Carbon Nanofibers as an Efficient Electrode Material for Supercapacitors

2012 1.6k citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Ping Chen et al. profile →
Mesoporous Metal–Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Highly Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2013 1.1k citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Xinliang Feng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Hierarchically porous carbons with optimized nitrogen doping as highly active electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction

2014 973 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Xinliang Feng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Non-iridium-based electrocatalyst for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis

2022 721 citations Zhenyu Wu, Qiangqiang Yan et al. profile →
Ultralight, Flexible, and Fire‐Resistant Carbon Nanofiber Aerogels from Bacterial Cellulose

2013 700 citations Zhenyu Wu, Hai‐Wei Liang et al. profile →
Sulfur-anchoring synthesis of platinum intermetallic nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells

2021 661 citations Chenglong Yang, Peng Yin et al. profile →
Macroscopic‐Scale Template Synthesis of Robust Carbonaceous Nanofiber Hydrogels and Aerogels and Their Applications

2012 610 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Shu‐Hong Yu et al. profile →
Iron Carbide Nanoparticles Encapsulated in Mesoporous Fe‐N‐Doped Carbon Nanofibers for Efficient Electrocatalysis

2015 606 citations Zhenyu Wu, Bicheng Hu et al. profile →
Molecular metal–Nx centres in porous carbon for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

2015 602 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Xinliang Feng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Bacterial‐Cellulose‐Derived Carbon Nanofiber@MnO₂ and Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanofiber Electrode Materials: An Asymmetric Supercapacitor with High Energy and Power Density

2013 582 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Shu‐Hong Yu et al. profile →
Three‐Dimensional Heteroatom‐Doped Carbon Nanofiber Networks Derived from Bacterial Cellulose for Supercapacitors

2014 561 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Shu‐Hong Yu et al. profile →
Large‐Area, Free‐Standing, Two‐Dimensional Supramolecular Polymer Single‐Layer Sheets for Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

2015 557 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Xinliang Feng et al. profile →
Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanosheets with Size‐Defined Mesopores as Highly Efficient Metal‐Free Catalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2014 512 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Xiaodong Zhuang et al. profile →
Flexible all-solid-state high-power supercapacitor fabricated with nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber electrode material derived from bacterial cellulose

2013 499 citations Hai‐Wei Liang, Shu‐Hong Yu et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Hai‐Wei Liang	13.8k	12.2k	8.6k	7.5k	3.2k	196	24.7k
Zhenyu Wu	9.4k 0.7×	10.3k 0.8×	6.4k 0.7×	4.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	190	20.1k
Dongjiang Yang	11.6k 0.8×	12.2k 1.0×	8.0k 0.9×	4.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	284	21.7k
Yong Zhou	10.0k 0.7×	16.1k 1.3×	18.3k 2.1×	3.9k 0.5×	3.0k 0.9×	505	28.2k
Xue Duan	11.6k 0.8×	13.3k 1.1×	23.2k 2.7×	7.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	390	35.2k
Huaiguo Xue	14.9k 1.1×	6.0k 0.5×	8.0k 0.9×	11.3k 1.5×	4.0k 1.2×	276	25.3k
Jong‐Beom Baek	17.7k 1.3×	16.5k 1.4×	15.0k 1.7×	6.6k 0.9×	3.7k 1.1×	361	32.5k
Yang Yang	17.9k 1.3×	16.1k 1.3×	14.4k 1.7×	7.1k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	611	33.4k
Jeonghun Kim	8.3k 0.6×	6.0k 0.5×	7.0k 0.8×	5.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	255	18.3k
Aiping Yu	21.3k 1.5×	10.4k 0.9×	10.7k 1.3×	8.2k 1.1×	3.9k 1.2×	297	32.6k
Jianmin Ma	26.0k 1.9×	9.5k 0.8×	10.9k 1.3×	11.1k 1.5×	2.7k 0.8×	472	36.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hai‐Wei Liang

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Li, Siming, Zhichao Liu, Jieyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Carbon Support Engineering in Composite Catalyst Layer for High‐Performance PEM Fuel Cells. Carbon Energy. 7(12). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Le, Lei Tong, Zirui Li, et al.. (2025). Scalable Preparation of Intermetallic PtCo Fuel Cell Catalysts from Commercial Pt/C Catalysts. ChemCatChem. 17(11).

Han, Xiao, Yanan Zhou, Xiaolin Tai, et al.. (2024). In-situ atomic tracking of intermetallic compound formation during thermal annealing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7200–7200. 18 indexed citations

Song, Tian‐Wei, Lu‐Jie Zuo, Ming J. Zuo, & Hai‐Wei Liang. (2023). Breaking trade-off between particle size and ordering degree of intermetallic catalysts for fuel cells. Journal of Catalysis. 419. 19–25. 17 indexed citations

Yang, Qianqian, et al.. (2023). Mercaptopropane-assisted synthesis of graphitic carbon-supported Pt nanoparticles for enhancing fuel cell start-stop performance. JUSTC. 53(6). 603–603. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhenhua, Wei-Jie Zeng, Tian‐Wei Song, et al.. (2023). Promoting ordering degree of intermetallic fuel cell catalysts by low-melting-point metal doping. Nature Communications. 14(1). 67 indexed citations

Yin, Peng, Lu‐Jie Zuo, Wei-Jie Zeng, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of platinum intermetallic nanoparticle fuel cell catalysts within secure inter-particle distance on carbon blacks. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 328. 122543–122543. 15 indexed citations

Xu, Weicheng, Zhipeng Zhu, Yucheng Wang, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen doping to accelerate the phase transition to ordered intermetallic Pt₃Co catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(8). 4078–4087. 23 indexed citations

Wu, Qianbao, Junwu Liang, Chang Long, et al.. (2023). Non-covalent ligand-oxide interaction promotes oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 997–997. 62 indexed citations

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Xu, Shi‐Long, Peng Yin, Lu‐Jie Zuo, et al.. (2023). Scalable Synthesis of Low-Pt PtCu₃ Intermetallic Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts via Sulfur-Containing Inorganic Salt-Assisted Strategy. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(32). 12093–12101. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Ming‐Xi, Yue Liu, Tian‐Wei Song, et al.. (2022). Intermetallic PdCd Core Promoting CO Tolerance of Pd Shell for Electrocatalytic Formic Acid Oxidation^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(18). 2161–2168. 8 indexed citations

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Yin, Peng, Sulei Hu, Kun Qian, et al.. (2021). Quantification of critical particle distance for mitigating catalyst sintering. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4865–4865. 119 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lele, Lei Tong, Yanwei Ding, et al.. (2021). “Cooking” hierarchically porous carbons with phenolic molecules and zinc salts. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 5(10). 3927–3935. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Shi‐Long, Shan‐Cheng Shen, Shuai Zhao, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of carbon-supported sub-2 nanometer bimetallic catalysts by strong metal–sulfur interaction. Chemical Science. 11(30). 7933–7939. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Ming‐Xi, Lei Tong, & Hai‐Wei Liang. (2020). Understanding the Catalytic Sites of Metal–Nitrogen–Carbon Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(1). 145–157. 37 indexed citations

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Tong, Lei, Yucheng Wang, Ming‐Xi Chen, et al.. (2019). Hierarchically porous carbons as supports for fuel cell electrocatalysts with atomically dispersed Fe–N_x moieties. Chemical Science. 10(35). 8236–8240. 43 indexed citations

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Wang, Lei, Ming‐Xi Chen, Qiangqiang Yan, et al.. (2019). A sulfur-tethering synthesis strategy toward high-loading atomically dispersed noble metal catalysts. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax6322–eaax6322. 233 indexed citations

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Han, Xin‐Bao, Xingyan Tang, Yue Lin, et al.. (2018). Ultrasmall Abundant Metal-Based Clusters as Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(1). 232–239. 62 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhenyu, Shi‐Long Xu, Qiangqiang Yan, et al.. (2018). Transition metal–assisted carbonization of small organic molecules toward functional carbon materials. Science Advances. 4(7). eaat0788–eaat0788. 207 indexed citations

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Wu, Zhenyu, Hai‐Wei Liang, Bicheng Hu, & Shu‐Hong Yu. (2018). Kohlenstoffnanofaser‐Aerogele: Vergleich von Chemosynthese und Biosynthese. Angewandte Chemie. 130(48). 15872–15889. 8 indexed citations

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