Kun Liang

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
219 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Kun Liang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Liang has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 76 papers in Materials Chemistry and 56 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kun Liang's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (35 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (33 papers). Kun Liang is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (35 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (33 papers). Kun Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Kun Liang's co-authors include Yang Yang, Wencheng Hu, Kyle Marcus, Xianzhong Tang, Beng Kang Tay, Le Zhou, Congxiang Lu, Bowen Zhu, Dingwei Li and Zhao Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kun Liang

202 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Chemical scissor–mediated structural editing of layered transition metal carbides

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kun Liang China	46	4.4k	2.9k	2.2k	1.7k	1.3k	219	7.2k
Sui‐Dong Wang China	48	4.4k 1.0×	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	936 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	199	7.6k
Kuibo Yin China	45	4.8k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	2.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	181	9.0k
Zegao Wang China	53	5.4k 1.2×	4.3k 1.5×	1.4k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	212	8.9k
Guozhong Xing China	53	3.7k 0.8×	5.6k 1.9×	3.0k 1.4×	773 0.4×	1.7k 1.3×	178	8.6k
Xiaolong Zhao China	41	3.3k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	589 0.5×	201	6.2k
Sumeet Walia Australia	49	4.5k 1.0×	4.9k 1.7×	1.3k 0.6×	830 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	182	8.1k
Yeonwoong Jung United States	48	5.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.6×	2.7k 1.2×	980 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	126	7.9k
Hong-Liang Lü China	50	5.2k 1.2×	4.1k 1.4×	1.4k 0.6×	878 0.5×	2.2k 1.7×	309	8.0k
Kang Wang China	48	3.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.4×	783 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	316	7.6k
Huigao Duan China	59	6.6k 1.5×	2.4k 0.8×	5.3k 2.4×	1.3k 0.7×	3.4k 2.6×	225	11.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Liang

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Huang, Hua, Kun Liang, Bin Cui, et al.. (2025). Analysis of wear resistance deterioration at elevated temperature of medium carbon alloy steel treated by composite strengthening method of nitriding and microshot peening. Engineering Failure Analysis. 171. 109416–109416. 3 indexed citations

Tang, Yuxiang, Nan Lei, Kun Liang, et al.. (2025). Estimated Exposure to Televised Alcohol Advertisements Among Children and Adolescents. JAMA Network Open. 8(7). e2521819–e2521819.

Fan, Qi, Yingchang Yang, Long Jiang, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Multifunctional Potential of MXenes in Rechargeable Batteries beyond Electrode Active Materials. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2505584–e2505584. 6 indexed citations

Su, Guirong, Yiwen Gao, Jiangyan Xue, et al.. (2025). Flame-retardant electrolytes with electrochemically-inert and weakly coordinating dichloroalkane diluents for practical lithium metal batteries. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10188–10188.

Wang, Peng, et al.. (2024). A flexible magneto-electric sensor with enhanced performance through flower-shaped BTO fillers in P(VDF-TrFE) matrix. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 373. 115426–115426. 4 indexed citations

Zeng, Hong, Xin Huang, Han Zhang, et al.. (2024). Investigation of azathioprine and its local-structure molecules as levelers for through-holes copper electroplating. Surfaces and Interfaces. 53. 105073–105073. 5 indexed citations

Gu, Jincui, Yi Zhang, Peng Xiao, et al.. (2024). Sunflower-inspired hydrogel evaporator with mutual reinforcement of evaporation and photodegradation for integrated water management. Chemical Engineering Journal. 490. 151550–151550. 31 indexed citations

Sun, Baolong, Ni Wang, Xingchen Xie, et al.. (2024). Flexible Aqueous Cr‐Ion Hybrid Supercapacitors with Remarkable Electrochemical Properties in all Climates. Angewandte Chemie. 136(33). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Qinghua, et al.. (2024). SiOC/CNTs composites as anodes for lithium-ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 493. 152610–152610. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Dianhui, Ping Cai, Lixian Sun, et al.. (2024). Significantly Enhanced Oxidation Resistance and Electrochemical Performance of Hydrothermal Ti₃C₂T_x MXene and Tannic Acid Composite for High-Performance Flexible Supercapacitors. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(41). 55555–55568. 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jie, Jie Zhou, Peng Wu, & Kun Liang. (2024). Boosting e-commerce sales with live streaming: the power of barrages. Electronic Commerce Research. 26(1). 147–184. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Han, et al.. (2023). Photothermal cyclic self-healing coating with long-term corrosion protection based on bifunctional graphene. Chemical Engineering Journal. 473. 145164–145164. 24 indexed citations

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Liang, Kun, et al.. (2023). Rh nanoparticles anchored on phosphorous-doped porous carbon for efficiently catalytic hydroformylation of alkenes. Molecular Catalysis. 550. 113548–113548. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Xinwen, Aimin Du, Zhaohua Li, et al.. (2023). Heat transfer of single-phase spray cooling on heated vibrating surfaces. Case Studies in Thermal Engineering. 50. 103489–103489. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Yitong, Min Zhang, Dingwei Li, et al.. (2023). Bidirectional Synaptic Phototransistor Based on Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Semiconductor for Mixed Color Pattern Recognition. ACS Nano. 17(13). 12499–12509. 41 indexed citations

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Chen, Wei, Danhao Wang, Weiyi Wang, et al.. (2023). Manipulating Surface Band Bending of III‐Nitride Nanowires with Ambipolar Charge‐Transfer Characteristics: A Pathway Toward Advanced Photoswitching Logic Gates and Encrypted Optical Communication. Advanced Materials. 36(1). e2307779–e2307779. 48 indexed citations

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Li, Dingwei, Zhenrong Jia, Yingjie Tang, et al.. (2022). Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Phototransistor Array with Enhanced Photogating Effect for Dynamic Near-Infrared Light Sensing and Image Preprocessing. Nano Letters. 22(13). 5434–5442. 36 indexed citations

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Liang, Kun, Manish Kothakonda, Xiaodong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Two-dimensional titanium carbonitride MXene as a highly efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 100075–100075. 52 indexed citations

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Husmann, Samantha, Öznil Budak, Hwirim Shim, et al.. (2020). Ionic liquid-based synthesis of MXene. Chemical Communications. 56(75). 11082–11085. 104 indexed citations

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Liang, Kun, et al.. (2018). Interaction of Airy beams in photorefractive media. Modern Physics Letters B. 32(27). 1850323–1850323. 4 indexed citations

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