Hao Li

32.1k total citations · 15 hit papers
749 papers, 24.7k citations indexed

About

Hao Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Hao Li has authored 749 papers receiving a total of 24.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 304 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 292 papers in Materials Chemistry and 237 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Hao Li's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (189 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (120 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (116 papers). Hao Li is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (189 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (120 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (116 papers). Hao Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Hao Li's co-authors include Graeme Henkelman, Zhien Zhang, Yawen Tang, Gengtao Fu, Jiang Xu, Zhijian Liu, Wei Li, Tianyi Ma, Kihyun Shin and Gregory V. Lowry and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Hao Li

697 papers receiving 24.4k 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.

Recent advances in carbon dioxide utilization

2020 543 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Dual Single‐Atomic Ni‐N₄ and Fe‐N₄ Sites Constructing Janus Hollow Graphene for Selective Oxygen Electrocatalysis

2020 503 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Defect Chemistry in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recognition, Understanding, and Utilization

2020 490 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Sulfur Loading and Speciation Control the Hydrophobicity, Electron Transfer, Reactivity, and Selectivity of Sulfidized Nanoscale Zerovalent Iron

2020 316 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Reinforcing CoO Covalency via Ce(4f)─O(2p)─Co(3d) Gradient Orbital Coupling for High‐Efficiency Oxygen Evolution

2023 289 citations Dongmei Sun, Hao Li et al. profile →
Analysis of the limitations in the oxygen reduction activity of transition metal oxide surfaces

2021 269 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Progress and Perspective: MXene and MXene‐Based Nanomaterials for High‐Performance Energy Storage Devices

2021 247 citations Hao Li et al. profile →
Ce‐Induced Differentiated Regulation of Co Sites via Gradient Orbital Coupling for Bifunctional Water‐Splitting Reactions

2023 221 citations Dongmei Sun, Hao Li et al. profile →
Efficient and stable noble-metal-free catalyst for acidic water oxidation

2022 219 citations Hao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Unraveling the pH-Dependent Oxygen Reduction Performance on Single-Atom Catalysts: From Single- to Dual-Sabatier Optima

2024 122 citations Di Zhang, Hao Li et al. profile →
Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction

2025 41 citations Zhi‐Gang Chen, Minghao Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Effectiveness of strain and dopants on breaking the activity-stability trade-off of RuO2 acidic oxygen evolution electrocatalysts

2025 36 citations Hao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Rational design of precatalysts and controlled evolution of catalyst-electrolyte interface for efficient hydrogen production

2025 33 citations Heng Liu, Hao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Why Do Weak-Binding M–N–C Single-Atom Catalysts Possess Anomalously High Oxygen Reduction Activity?

2025 32 citations Di Zhang, Hao Li et al. profile →
Balancing Electronic Spin State via Atomically-Dispersed Heteronuclear Fe–Co Pairs for High-Performance Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

2025 26 citations Hao Li et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Hao Li	11.6k	10.0k	8.6k	4.0k	3.3k	749	24.7k
Wei Liu	11.7k 1.0×	13.0k 1.3×	7.7k 0.9×	5.8k 1.5×	2.7k 0.8×	669	24.2k
Tao Li	7.3k 0.6×	10.8k 1.1×	10.4k 1.2×	2.1k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	850	25.7k
Yu Zhang	13.9k 1.2×	11.7k 1.2×	17.1k 2.0×	3.0k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	775	31.0k
Michael K.H. Leung	10.9k 0.9×	9.9k 1.0×	6.7k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	5.0k 1.5×	286	22.5k
Hong Wang	8.5k 0.7×	8.2k 0.8×	6.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.3×	3.2k 1.0×	745	20.0k
Yu Chen	21.8k 1.9×	14.3k 1.4×	17.7k 2.1×	4.6k 1.2×	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k	38.5k
Jianguo Wang	7.2k 0.6×	7.4k 0.7×	6.3k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	421	16.2k
Wei Zhang	10.7k 0.9×	14.6k 1.5×	16.3k 1.9×	1.8k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	911	30.6k
Jinping Li	5.6k 0.5×	9.4k 0.9×	5.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	789	20.5k
Bo Chen	12.4k 1.1×	14.9k 1.5×	12.5k 1.5×	1.2k 0.3×	4.4k 1.3×	569	30.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hao Li

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Wang, Qian, et al.. (2025). Understanding Mg-ion deposition behavior on MgBi alloy in solid-state form. Energy Materials. 5(2). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Heng, Sihua Feng, Xiaozhi Su, et al.. (2025). Temperature-dependent mechanism evolution on RhRu3Ox for acidic water oxidation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9261–9261.

Nguyen, Thanh-Tung, et al.. (2025). LLMs are not Zero-Shot Reasoners for Biomedical Information Extraction. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 106–120. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Zhi‐Gang, Minghao Yang, Yifan Li, et al.. (2025). Termination-acidity tailoring of molybdenum carbides for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 418–418. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Hao, et al.. (2024). Supercritical carbon dioxide cycle thermodynamic and exergoeconomic improvements using a bidirectional coupling strategy. Energy. 296. 131140–131140. 1 indexed citations

Li, Hao, et al.. (2024). Study on the electrical-thermal properties of lithium-ion battery materials in the NCM622/graphite system. Frontiers in Chemistry. 12. 1403696–1403696. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Yingbo, et al.. (2024). Electrostatic self‐assembly of barnacle‐like modified BN@ND hetero‐structured fillers to synergistic enhanced thermal conductivity of PI composite films. Polymer Composites. 46(3). 2209–2220. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Tingyu, Jing Li, J. J. Ying, et al.. (2024). Synergistic Effects of Ruthenium and Zinc Active Sites Fine Tune the Electronic Structures of Augmented Electrocatalysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(17). 6 indexed citations

Xing, Xiujing, et al.. (2024). MOF Derived Cobalt Ferrite Cubic Rod‐Like Materials for Highly Efficient Electrochemical Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Heavy Metal Ions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(14). e202404298–e202404298. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Yunhe, et al.. (2023). Synthetic effect of supports in Cu-Mn–doped oxide catalysts for promoting ozone decomposition under humid environment. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(46). 102880–102893. 5 indexed citations

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Xiong, Wei, et al.. (2023). Constructing Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles in nitrogen-doped carbon materials to enhance the electrochemical sensing performance of Pb²⁺ and Cd²⁺. Dalton Transactions. 52(37). 13413–13425. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Chuangwei, Tianyi Wang, Zhongyuan Guo, et al.. (2023). The role of single-boron of N-doped graphene for effective nitrogen reduction. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 159. 244–250. 17 indexed citations

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Li, Pengfei, Yingbo Chen, Fan Xiao, et al.. (2023). Efficient proton exchange membranes based on bifunctional metal–organic frameworks. Journal of Materials Science. 58(35). 14154–14176. 17 indexed citations

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Jing, Jieying, Zhongyuan Guo, Ze Li, et al.. (2023). Enhancing phenanthrene hydrogenation via controllable phosphate deposition over Ni2P/Al2O3 catalysts. Chemical Engineering Science. 282. 119251–119251. 10 indexed citations

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Liang, Yan, Dan Song, Jiayu Liang, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of highly efficient Rh-doped cobalt–nickel-layered double hydroxide/MXene-based electrocatalyst with rich oxygen vacancies for hydrogen evolution. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 640. 338–347. 54 indexed citations

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Li, Hao, et al.. (2023). Effect of different structure of Cu/Mn catalysts on ozone decomposition ability. Research on Chemical Intermediates. 49(10). 4461–4479. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Hao, Esmaeil Heydari, Yinyan Li, et al.. (2023). Multi-Mode Lanthanide-Doped Ratiometric Luminescent Nanothermometer for Near-Infrared Imaging within Biological Windows. Nanomaterials. 13(1). 219–219. 12 indexed citations

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Zhou, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). Opportunities and challenges in aqueous nitrate and nitrite reduction beyond electrocatalysis. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(16). 4610–4631. 38 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaofang, Yue Lu, Huibin Zheng, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Mediation by Sn And S Vacancies of p‐SnS/n‐ZnIn₂S₄ for Enhancing Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution with New Scheme of Type‐I Heterojunction. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(50). 94 indexed citations

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Song, Xiaoxiao, Huafeng Liu, Guangbin Dou, et al.. (2018). A method for alleviating the effect of pinhole defects in inter-metal dielectric films. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 29(1). 15012–15012. 4 indexed citations

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