Hang Lei

4.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
45 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Hang Lei is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Hang Lei has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 12 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Hang Lei's work include Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers). Hang Lei is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers). Hang Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Pakistan. Hang Lei's co-authors include Wenjie Mai, Zilong Wang, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Shaozao Tan, Botian Liu, Jinliang Li, Junpeng Xie, Liang Ma, Xiang Cai and Nian Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Hang Lei

43 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Activating lattice oxygen in NiFe-based (oxy)hydroxide for water electrolysis

2022 497 citations Zuyun He, Jun Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
2D V2O5 nanosheets as a binder-free high-energy cathode for ultrafast aqueous and flexible Zn-ion batteries

2020 310 citations Muhammad Sufyan Javed, Hang Lei et al. Nano Energy profile →
Promoting Surface Reconstruction of NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution

2022 305 citations Hang Lei, Liang Ma et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Pt‐Quantum‐Dot‐Modified Sulfur‐Doped NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide for High‐Current‐Density Alkaline Water Splitting at Industrial Temperature

2023 163 citations Hang Lei, Shaozao Tan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hang Lei China	26	2.7k	1.6k	1.0k	815	262	45	3.6k
Tingting Yang China	31	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	442 0.4×	641 0.8×	398 1.5×	78	2.8k
Wei Qu Canada	30	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	859 0.8×	1.7k 2.1×	200 0.8×	76	3.6k
Yaping Zhang China	30	2.6k 1.0×	747 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	771 0.9×	622 2.4×	124	3.4k
Oi Lun Li South Korea	29	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	597 0.6×	696 0.9×	144 0.5×	114	2.6k
Sivakumar Pasupathi South Africa	33	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	134 0.1×	1.2k 1.5×	225 0.9×	96	3.1k
Jiayin Li China	35	3.4k 1.3×	659 0.4×	1.8k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	467 1.8×	207	4.2k
L. Cindrella India	27	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	177 0.2×	882 1.1×	87 0.3×	61	2.5k
Svein Sunde Norway	34	2.4k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	289 0.3×	1.4k 1.7×	145 0.6×	129	3.6k
Chengwei Deng China	28	1.1k 0.4×	971 0.6×	350 0.3×	560 0.7×	153 0.6×	95	2.1k
Limin Chang China	30	1.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	544 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	132 0.5×	81	2.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lei, Hang, et al.. (2026). Carbonation of Alkali-Fused Ash from Biomass Power Plants: A Novel Approach for High Extraction Yield of Nano-Silica. Processes. 14(2). 301–301.

Zhao, Yunfang, Zhiyuan Wu, Hang Lei, et al.. (2025). Manipulating weak interactions between host/guest and analytes in Cu(I)-cluster-based MOF for fluorescent gas sensing towards chlorinated volatile organic compounds. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159923–159923. 5 indexed citations

Xie, Junpeng, Zheng Hu, Zhibin Li, et al.. (2025). Weakly solvated perfluorinated electrolyte for high-temperature sodium-layered oxide cathodes. Chemical Communications. 61(27). 5130–5133.

Cheng, Jiarun, Chaojie Lyu, Hang Lei, et al.. (2024). Fluorine atoms incorporation strengthens the strong metal-support interaction of PtNi@NFGC for enhanced methanol oxidation reaction performance under alkaline media. Nano Energy. 129. 110013–110013. 14 indexed citations

Chen, Liangjun, et al.. (2024). Large-scale fabrication of ZIF-derived electrocatalysts for industrial oxygen evolution. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(9). 2702–2708. 1 indexed citations

Qiu, Daping, Yuehui Wang, Lulu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Regulating the oxygen-atom configuration of carbon anode enabling extremely fast-charging potassium-ion hybrid capacitors. Nano Research. 18(1). 94907033–94907033. 5 indexed citations

Lei, Hang, et al.. (2023). Structure and defect dual-engineering of cobalt oxides for low-temperature Zn-air batteries. Nano Research. 17(5). 4108–4117. 10 indexed citations

He, Zuyun, Jun Zhang, Zhiheng Gong, et al.. (2022). Activating lattice oxygen in NiFe-based (oxy)hydroxide for water electrolysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2191–2191. 497 indexed citations breakdown →

Lei, Hang, Jinliang Li, Xiyun Zhang, et al.. (2022). A review of hard carbon anode: Rational design and advanced characterization in potassium ion batteries. InfoMat. 4(2). 154 indexed citations

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Lei, Hang, Liang Ma, Muhammad Sufyan Javed, et al.. (2021). Coordination and interface engineering to boost catalytic property of two-dimensional ZIFs for wearable Zn-air batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 68. 78–86. 45 indexed citations

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Lei, Hang, Zhibin Li, Liang Ma, et al.. (2021). 3D Porous Nb₂C MXene/reduced graphene oxide aerogel coupled with NiFe alloy nanoparticles for wearable Zn–air batteries. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 5(19). 7315–7322. 19 indexed citations

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Wu, Kun, et al.. (2020). The removal of tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and chlortetracycline by manganese oxide–doped copper oxide: the behaviors and insights of Cu-Mn combination for enhancing antibiotics removal. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27(11). 12613–12623. 25 indexed citations

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Xie, Junpeng, Jinliang Li, Xiaodan Li, et al.. (2020). Ultrahigh “Relative Energy Density” and Mass Loading of Carbon Cloth Anodes for K-Ion Batteries. CCS Chemistry. 3(2). 791–799. 93 indexed citations

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Li, Zhen, Shengfan Wu, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2020). Hybrid Perovskite‐Organic Flexible Tandem Solar Cell Enabling Highly Efficient Electrocatalysis Overall Water Splitting. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(18). 105 indexed citations

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Liang, Yongyin, Wenchen Zhuo, Hang Lei, et al.. (2020). Freestanding polypyrrole/carbon nanotube electrodes with high mass loading for robust flexible supercapacitors. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 5(3). 1324–1329. 35 indexed citations

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Lei, Hang, et al.. (2019). Ratiometric fluorescence determination of the anthrax biomarker 2,6-dipicolinic acid using a Eu³⁺/Tb³⁺-doped nickel coordination polymer. New Journal of Chemistry. 43(46). 18259–18267. 31 indexed citations

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Wu, Kun, et al.. (2018). Adsorptive removal of fluoride from water by granular zirconium–aluminum hybrid adsorbent: performance and mechanisms. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 25(16). 15390–15403. 17 indexed citations

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Xie, Junpeng, Hang Lei, Weiling Zhu, et al.. (2018). Rational design of metal organic framework-derived FeS₂ hollow nanocages@reduced graphene oxide for K-ion storage. Nanoscale. 10(36). 17092–17098. 142 indexed citations

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Li, Jinliang, Wei Qin, Junpeng Xie, et al.. (2018). Sulphur-doped reduced graphene oxide sponges as high-performance free-standing anodes for K-ion storage. Nano Energy. 53. 415–424. 202 indexed citations

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Lei, Hang & Zhaoqiang Ge. (2011). Properties of mild solution for the first order inhomogeneous time varying singular distributed parameter systems in hilbert space. Chinese Control Conference. 6443–6448. 1 indexed citations

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