Kun Liu

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Kun Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Liu has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 30 papers in Materials Chemistry and 25 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kun Liu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Kun Liu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Kun Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Germany. Kun Liu's co-authors include Gengtao Fu, Meng Li, Dongmei Sun, Yawen Tang, Jiang Wu, Xiaohong Guan, Zhanbo Xu, Xuan Wang, Hao Li and Kai Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kun Liu

62 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Reinforcing CoO Covalency via Ce(4f)─O(2p)─Co(3d) Gradien... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 2023 50 100 150 200 250
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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.

  1. Reinforcing CoO Covalency via Ce(4f)─O(2p)─Co(3d) Gradient Orbital Coupling for High‐Efficiency Oxygen Evolution
    2023 289 citations Meng Li, Xuan Wang et al. profile →
  2. Ce‐Induced Differentiated Regulation of Co Sites via Gradient Orbital Coupling for Bifunctional Water‐Splitting Reactions
    2023 221 citations Meng Li, Xuan Wang et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers

Kun Liu
Xiaoyu Wu China
Abdoulaye Djire United States
Aditya Narayan Singh South Korea
Qijiao He Hong Kong
Alessandro Hugo Monteverde Videla Italy
Kensaku Nagasawa Japan
Zhuang Cai China
Yanzhi Wang China
Jianxin Kang China
Xiaoyu Wu China
Kun Liu
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Countries citing papers authored by Kun Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kun Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kun Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kun Liu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kun Liu. Kun Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Zhanbo, et al.. (2025). Coordinated integration of hydrogen-enabled multi-energy systems to achieve zero-carbon buildings. Building and Environment. 284. 113433–113433. 1 indexed citations
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Lu, Qi, et al.. (2025). Copper-Catalyzed Selective N-Sulfenylation of Tryptophan-Containing Peptides. Organic Letters. 27(50). 14107–14111.
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (2025). Boosting oxygen evolution reaction of NiCo2O3 Nanoflowers by Se incorporation. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 990. 119134–119134.
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (2024). Controlled graphene interfacial carbon nitride preparation for carbon negative electrodes of lithium-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 493. 144219–144219. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (2024). Insight into the evolution of membrane chemical degradation in proton exchange membrane fuel cells:From theoretical analysis to model developing. Journal of Power Sources. 599. 234238–234238. 29 indexed citations
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Lu, Lu, Kun Liu, Ruyi Zhang, Shao‐Dong Cheng, & Shao‐Bo Mi. (2023). Epitaxial growth and interface of (1 1 1)-oriented spinel Li0.5Fe2.5O4 film on SrTiO3(0 0 1) substrate. Materials Letters. 351. 135037–135037. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Meng, Xuan Wang, Kun Liu, et al.. (2023). Ce‐Induced Differentiated Regulation of Co Sites via Gradient Orbital Coupling for Bifunctional Water‐Splitting Reactions. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(30). 221 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shen, Meng, Kun Liu, Guanghui Zhang, et al.. (2023). Thermoelectric coupling effect in BNT-BZT-xGaN pyroelectric ceramics for low-grade temperature-driven energy harvesting. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7907–7907. 26 indexed citations
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Zhou, Na, Rui Wang, & Kun Liu. (2023). Integrating PtCo nanoparticles on N, S doped pore carbon nanosheets as high-performance bifunctional catalysts for oxygen reduction and hydrogen evolution reactions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 654(Pt B). 1186–1198. 10 indexed citations
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Ming, Wuyi, Peiyan Sun, Zhen Zhang, et al.. (2022). A systematic review of machine learning methods applied to fuel cells in performance evaluation, durability prediction, and application monitoring. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(13). 5197–5228. 135 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (2022). Robust Constraints-Based Supply-Demand Coordination With Storage Systems of Enterprise Microgrid. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. 20(4). 2795–2807. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Meng, Xiaodong Wu, Kun Liu, et al.. (2022). Nitrogen vacancies enriched Ce-doped Ni3N hierarchical nanosheets triggering highly-efficient urea oxidation reaction in urea-assisted energy-saving electrolysis. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 69. 506–515. 160 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, Zhuoya Zhu, Mengqi Jiang, et al.. (2022). Boosting Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution over Ce−Co9S8 Core–Shell Nanoneedle Arrays by Electronic and Architectural Dual Engineering. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(32). e202200664–e202200664. 26 indexed citations
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Chen, Jingjing, Shuai Gu, Rui Hao, et al.. (2022). Co single atoms and nanoparticles dispersed on N‐doped carbon nanotube as high‐performance catalysts for Zn‐air batteries. Rare Metals. 41(6). 2055–2062. 60 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, Ruyi Zhang, Lu Lu, et al.. (2019). Formation of antiphase boundaries in CuFe2O4 films induced by rough MgAl2O4 (001) substrates. Thin Solid Films. 680. 55–59. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yue, Lijun Wang, Chuanlong Guo, et al.. (2018). Metal Complexes of Thiosemicarbazones as Potent Anticancer Agents: a Minireview. 20180009. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun. (2012). Government-Enterprise Alliance and the Dilemma of Competition within Local Governments. China Industrial Economy. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, et al.. (1982). Reduction of iron ore in unique sequences of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

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