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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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.

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, Hai‐Wei Liang 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 →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Synergistic Carbon Support Engineering in Composite Catalyst Layer for High‐Performance PEM Fuel Cells 2025 ·Carbon Energy ·Siming Li, (unknown), (unknown), Zhichao Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Junjie Li, Huili Chen, Hai‐Wei Liang, Zhonghua Xiang, Min Wang, Yawei Li	1
2	Scalable Preparation of Intermetallic PtCo Fuel Cell Catalysts from Commercial Pt/C Catalysts 2025 ·ChemCatChem ·Le Zhang, Lei Tong, Zirui Li, (unknown), Shuai Li, (unknown), Tian‐Wei Song, (unknown), Wanqun Zhang, Hai‐Wei Liang	0
3	Air oxidation of carbon supports boosts the low-humidity fuel cell performance 2024 ·Chemical Communications ·Ang Li, Lele Zhang, (unknown), Junjie Li, Cong Xu, Shuai Li, Lei Tong, Hai‐Wei Liang	2
4	Breaking trade-off between particle size and ordering degree of intermetallic catalysts for fuel cells 2023 ·Journal of Catalysis ·Tian‐Wei Song, Lu‐Jie Zuo, Ming J. Zuo, Hai‐Wei Liang	17
5	Mercaptopropane-assisted synthesis of graphitic carbon-supported Pt nanoparticles for enhancing fuel cell start-stop performance 2023 ·JUSTC ·Qianqian Yang, Tian‐Wei Song, (unknown), Le Zhang, (unknown), Lei Tong, Hai‐Wei Liang	1
6	Promoting ordering degree of intermetallic fuel cell catalysts by low-melting-point metal doping 2023 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Zhenhua Zhou, Wei-Jie Zeng, Tian‐Wei Song, Peng Yin, Ang Li, (unknown), Lei Tong, Yuan Kong, Hai‐Wei Liang	67
7	Synthesis of platinum intermetallic nanoparticle fuel cell catalysts within secure inter-particle distance on carbon blacks 2023 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Peng Yin, Lu‐Jie Zuo, Wei-Jie Zeng, Ming J. Zuo, Lei Tong, Xian‐Zhu Fu, Hai‐Wei Liang	15
8	Nitrogen doping to accelerate the phase transition to ordered intermetallic Pt₃Co catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells 2023 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Weicheng Xu, Zhipeng Zhu, Yucheng Wang, Peixin Cui, Lei Tong, Kuangmin Zhao, Jiayin Yuan, Zhi‐You Zhou, Hai‐Wei Liang, Na Tian, Shi‐Gang Sun	23
9	Scalable Synthesis of Low-Pt PtCu₃ Intermetallic Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts via Sulfur-Containing Inorganic Salt-Assisted Strategy 2023 ·ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Shi‐Long Xu, Peng Yin, Lu‐Jie Zuo, (unknown), Yue Lin, Wanqun Zhang, Shengqi Chu, Hai‐Wei Liang, Xian‐Zhu Fu	10
10	Intermetallic PdCd Core Promoting CO Tolerance of Pd Shell for Electrocatalytic Formic Acid Oxidation^† 2022 ·Chinese Journal of Chemistry ·Ming‐Xi Chen, Yue Liu, Tian‐Wei Song, Ruilin Wei, Xiaodong Zhuang, Yao‐Yue Yang, Hai‐Wei Liang	8
11	Annealing-temperature-dependent relation between alloying degree, particle size, and fuel cell performance of PtCo catalysts 2022 ·Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry ·Wei-Jie Zeng, Lei Tong, Jun Liu, Hai‐Wei Liang	18
12	Quantification of critical particle distance for mitigating catalyst sintering 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Peng Yin, Sulei Hu, Kun Qian, Zeyue Wei, Lele Zhang, Yue Lin, Weixin Huang, Haifeng Xiong, Wei‐Xue Li, Hai‐Wei Liang	119
13	Microporous Sulfur-Doped Carbon Atoms as Supports for Sintering-Resistant Platinum Nanocluster Catalysts 2021 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·Lei Tong, (unknown), Wei-Jie Zeng, (unknown), Qianqian Yang, Le Zhang, (unknown), Shengqi Chu, Hai‐Wei Liang	11
14	Understanding the Catalytic Sites of Metal–Nitrogen–Carbon Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts 2020 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Ming‐Xi Chen, Lei Tong, Hai‐Wei Liang	37
15	Synthesis of carbon-supported sub-2 nanometer bimetallic catalysts by strong metal–sulfur interaction 2020 ·Chemical Science ·Shi‐Long Xu, Shan‐Cheng Shen, Shuai Zhao, Yanwei Ding, Shengqi Chu, Ping Chen, Yue Lin, Hai‐Wei Liang	22
16	Hierarchically porous carbons as supports for fuel cell electrocatalysts with atomically dispersed Fe–N_x moieties 2019 ·Chemical Science ·Lei Tong, Yucheng Wang, Ming‐Xi Chen, Zhiqing Chen, Qiangqiang Yan, Chenglong Yang, Zhi‐You Zhou, Shengqi Chu, Xinliang Feng, Hai‐Wei Liang	43
17	Reversing the charge transfer between platinum and sulfur-doped carbon support for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Qiangqiang Yan, Daoxiong Wu, Shengqi Chu, (unknown), Yue Lin, Ming‐Xi Chen, Jing Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, Hai‐Wei Liang	380
18	A sulfur-tethering synthesis strategy toward high-loading atomically dispersed noble metal catalysts 2019 ·Science Advances ·Lei Wang, Ming‐Xi Chen, Qiangqiang Yan, Shi‐Long Xu, Shengqi Chu, Ping Chen, Yue Lin, Hai‐Wei Liang	233
19	Transition metal–assisted carbonization of small organic molecules toward functional carbon materials 2018 ·Science Advances ·Zhenyu Wu, Shi‐Long Xu, Qiangqiang Yan, (unknown), Yanwei Ding, C. Li, Hai‐Wei Liang, Shu‐Hong Yu	207
20	Ultrasmall Abundant Metal-Based Clusters as Oxygen-Evolving Catalysts 2018 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xin‐Bao Han, Xingyan Tang, Yue Lin, Eduardo Gracia‐Espino, Sangui Liu, Hai‐Wei Liang, Guangzhi Hu, (unknown), Hong‐Gang Liao, Yuan‐Zhi Tan, Thomas Wågberg, Su‐Yuan Xie, Lan‐Sun Zheng	62

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