Kefeng Xie

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
140 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Kefeng Xie is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kefeng Xie has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 69 papers in Materials Chemistry and 27 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kefeng Xie's work include Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (35 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Kefeng Xie is often cited by papers focused on Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (35 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (18 papers). Kefeng Xie collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United Kingdom. Kefeng Xie's co-authors include Yonghui Zhang, Hao‐Li Zhang, Shaoming Fang, Feilong Gong, Li Fu, Wensheng Gao, Wen‐Kui Dong, Kai‐Ge Zhou, Junli Chen and Xuanyu Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kefeng Xie

125 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Alloying of Cu with Ru Enabling the Relay Catalysis for Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia

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Noémie Elgrishi United States

Lin Wang China

Manickam Sasidharan India

Maoguo Li China

Yanfeng Tang China

Rongmei Kong China

Qiuju Li China

Xiaoqiang Liu China

Baozhan Zheng China

Claudia Barolo Italy

Noémie Elgrishi United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kefeng Xie

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Ju, Shenghong, Li-Juan Yue, Jianyong Yuan, et al.. (2025). Defect sites induced activation of oxygen species for enhanced 3-hydroxy-2-butanone sensing based on ZnIn2S4/In2O3 heterostructure. Applied Surface Science. 711. 164081–164081.

Yang, Xuanyu, Siyu Liu, Li-Juan Yue, et al.. (2025). Oxygen vacancy engineering over Pd-SnO2-Co3O4 heterostructures for rapid and selective detection of hydrogen. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 444. 138452–138452.

Xie, Kefeng, et al.. (2024). Orbital-scale understanding of the surface effect of the MgCl2 in the Ziegler–Natta catalyst for ethylene polymerization: A computational study. Chemical Engineering Science. 295. 120178–120178. 4 indexed citations

Yue, Li-Juan, Jiajia Zhou, Jianyong Yuan, et al.. (2024). Tannic acid induced surface functional strategy to synthesize Ni-doped SnO2 nanosheets for enhanced HCHO sensing. Applied Surface Science. 666. 160339–160339. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Kai, et al.. (2024). Ligand engineering regulates the electronic structure of Ni-N-C sites to promote electrocatalytic acetylene semi-hydrogenation. Journal of Catalysis. 439. 115784–115784. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Xuanyu, Wenjie Zhang, Li-Juan Yue, et al.. (2024). Coupling Cu+ species and Au nanoparticles on ZnO nanosheets for robust ethanol sensing. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 418. 136289–136289. 13 indexed citations

Yang, Xuanyu, et al.. (2024). General synthesis of porous metal oxides nanosheets for gas sensing by gradient crystallization induced spatial confinement approach. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 155298–155298. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Junli, et al.. (2024). Ultrathin 2D 2D WO3-x-C3N4 heterostructure-based high-efficiency photocatalyst for selective oxidation of toluene. Diamond and Related Materials. 149. 111534–111534. 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Yuchen, Simin Dai, Bei Qi, et al.. (2024). Mediation of the electrochemical polarization for durable zinc anode. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(39). 26568–26577. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Xuanyu, Haonan Chen, Li-Juan Yue, et al.. (2024). Surface engineering of 1D Na-doped Pd/WO3 nanorods for chemiresistive H2 sensing. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 423. 136825–136825. 9 indexed citations

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Xie, Kefeng, et al.. (2023). Theoretical investigation on CO oxidation by single nickel atom within two-dimensional porphyrin sheet. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1286. 135580–135580. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Mingliang, Yingnan Cao, Kefeng Xie, & Jinyao Tang. (2023). Molecular Engineering on Kinetics‐Driven Self‐Assembled Monolayers Working as Auxiliary Layers on Dielectrics in Organic Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials. 10(3). 5 indexed citations

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Li, Mingliang, Jing Zheng, Xiaoge Wang, et al.. (2022). Light-responsive self-strained organic semiconductor for large flexible OFET sensing array. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4912–4912. 53 indexed citations

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An, Ning, Congcong Meng, Kefeng Xie, et al.. (2022). High-density active site COFs with a flower-like morphology for energy storage applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(20). 11030–11038. 53 indexed citations

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Xie, Kefeng, et al.. (2021). A NOVEL TETRANUCLEAR NICKEL(II) SALAMO-BASED COMPLEX ADOPTING TWO OPEN CUBIC STRUCTURES: SYNTHESIS, CHRACTERIZATION, DFT CALCULATION, HIRSHFELD ANALYSIS, AND FLUORESCENT PROPERTIES. Journal of Structural Chemistry. 62(6). 876–888.

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An, Ning, Zhen Guo, Xin Jiao, et al.. (2021). Hierarchical porous covalent organic framework/graphene aerogel electrode for high-performance supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(31). 16824–16833. 110 indexed citations

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Li, Mingliang, Kefeng Xie, Guozhi Wang, et al.. (2021). A Formaldehyde Sensor Based on Self-Assembled Monolayers of Oxidized Thiophene Derivatives. Langmuir. 37(19). 5916–5922. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yonghui, Yuliang Li, Feilong Gong, et al.. (2019). Al doped narcissus-like ZnO for enhanced NO2 sensing performance: An experimental and DFT investigation. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 305. 127489–127489. 99 indexed citations

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Xie, Kefeng, et al.. (2019). Two-dimensional porphyrin sheet as an electric and optical sensor material for pH detection: A DFT study. Computational Materials Science. 174. 109485–109485. 26 indexed citations

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An, Xiao‐Xin, Chang Liu, Zhuangzhuang Chen, Kefeng Xie, & Yang Zhang. (2019). Fluorescence Properties and Density Functional Theory Calculation of a Structurally Characterized Heterotetranuclear [ZnII2–SmIII2] 4,4′-Bipy-Salamo-Constructed Complex. Crystals. 9(11). 602–602. 58 indexed citations

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