Kun Xu

12.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
131 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Kun Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kun Xu has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 64 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 38 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kun Xu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (54 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (37 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (25 papers). Kun Xu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (54 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (37 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (25 papers). Kun Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Kun Xu's co-authors include Changzheng Wu, Yi Xie, Pengzuo Chen, Yun Tong, Hui Ding, Wangsheng Chu, Xiuli Lu, Tianpei Zhou, Xiaojun Wu and Lidong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kun Xu

119 papers receiving 11.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Metallic Nickel Nitride Nanosheets Realizing Enhanced Electrochemical Water Oxidation

2015 1.0k citations Kun Xu et al. profile →
Atomically Dispersed Iron–Nitrogen Species as Electrocatalysts for Bifunctional Oxygen Evolution and Reduction Reactions

2016 1.0k citations Kun Xu et al. profile →
Metallic Co₄N Porous Nanowire Arrays Activated by Surface Oxidation as Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2015 742 citations Kun Xu et al. profile →
A Bifunctional Hybrid Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Evolution: Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles Strongly Coupled to B,N‐Decorated Graphene

2017 474 citations Kun Xu et al. profile →
Strong Electronic Interaction in Dual‐Cation‐Incorporated NiSe₂ Nanosheets with Lattice Distortion for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting

2018 436 citations Yiqiang Sun, Kun Xu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Reversed Charge Transfer and Enhanced Hydrogen Spillover in Platinum Nanoclusters Anchored on Titanium Oxide with Rich Oxygen Vacancies Boost Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

2021 334 citations Kun Xu et al. profile →
Modulating Built‐In Electric Field via Variable Oxygen Affinity for Robust Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Neutral Media

2022 287 citations Yongqi Zhang, Kun Xu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kun Xu China	44	8.8k	7.8k	3.7k	1.6k	1.3k	131	11.4k
Mufan Li United States	27	5.3k 0.6×	5.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	752 0.6×	43	8.1k
Chundong Wang China	62	7.9k 0.9×	8.0k 1.0×	4.8k 1.3×	2.8k 1.8×	939 0.7×	251	12.8k
Lawrence Yoon Suk Lee Hong Kong	43	6.0k 0.7×	5.2k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	802 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	136	9.2k
Hui Liu China	48	5.9k 0.7×	5.9k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	826 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	215	8.6k
Wenchao Sheng United States	30	9.9k 1.1×	7.8k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	640 0.4×	2.0k 1.6×	48	11.0k
Yun Zong Singapore	58	6.3k 0.7×	8.4k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	2.8k 1.8×	829 0.7×	128	12.0k
Deborah J. Myers United States	56	8.9k 1.0×	8.6k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	528 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	157	10.6k
Sung Jong Yoo South Korea	55	8.1k 0.9×	8.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.8×	789 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	324	11.2k
Kai Wang China	47	4.8k 0.5×	5.2k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	614 0.5×	132	8.1k
Svitlana Pylypenko United States	42	5.1k 0.6×	5.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	871 0.6×	660 0.5×	164	7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kun Xu

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Zhang, Jing, Yuchun Liu, Xingwu Zhai, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Ni–O Bonding Induced by Orbital Degeneracy Breaking for Efficient Li ₂ CO ₃ Decomposition. Advanced Materials. 38(6). e17957–e17957.

Ouyang, Bo, Haonan Qin, Chen Li, et al.. (2025). Phase-tailored CoCrFeNiAl nitride for enhanced electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution via cooling-mediated plasma strategy. Nanoscale. 17(16). 10177–10186. 1 indexed citations

Li, Qibin, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Radical‐Polar Crossover Enabled Multi‐ester Functionalized O‐Containing Heterocycles Synthesis. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 367(10). 2 indexed citations

Lin, Yunxiang, Ruiting Zheng, Wei Chen, et al.. (2025). Optimizing surface active sites via burying single atom into subsurface lattice for boosted methanol electrooxidation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 286–286. 18 indexed citations

Lin, Cuiping, Shanghai Yu, Yuxin Zhang, et al.. (2025). Interstitial Cobalt in Pt Shell of Pd@Pt Mesoporous Core–Shell Nanospheres with Strong d–d Orbital Hybridization for Enhanced Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 37(47). e11476–e11476. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Kun, et al.. (2025). Eddy Current Magneto-Optical Imaging Based on Phase Change for CFRP Defects. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(8). 13850–13858.

Gao, Yanan, Bo Ouyang, Yu-An Shen, et al.. (2025). Electron‐Rich Ru Clusters Anchored on Pure Phase W₂C Enables Highly Active and CO‐Resistant Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(23). 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Lei, Wen Cheng, Mingzhe Wang, et al.. (2024). Iridium Cluster Anchored onto Cubic Molybdenum Carbide with Strong Electronic Interactions for Robust Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Medium. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(44). 21 indexed citations

Wang, Tong, et al.. (2024). Nano-Cu Derived from a Copper Nitride Precatalyst for Reductive Coupling of Nitroaromatics to Azo Compounds. Inorganic Chemistry. 63(9). 4328–4336.

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Mao, Li, et al.. (2024). Efficient electrosynthesis of urea using CO₂ and nitrate over a bifunctional In₄SnS₈ catalyst. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(18). 6010–6019. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Hao, Min Zhang, Viboon Saetang, et al.. (2023). Laser-induced localized and maskless electrodeposition of micro-copper structure on silicon surface: Simulation and experimental study. Optics & Laser Technology. 170. 110315–110315. 15 indexed citations

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Yu, Yifan, Lei Wang, Lei Zhao, et al.. (2023). Carbon‐Doped Nickle Via a Fast Decarbonization Route for Enhanced Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in Alkaline Media. Small. 19(38). e2303142–e2303142. 13 indexed citations

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Hu, Guyu, et al.. (2023). Semantics-preserved Graph Siamese Representation Learning. Information Processing & Management. 60(6). 103505–103505. 1 indexed citations

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Gan, Changsheng, Cheng Rong, Kun Xu, et al.. (2023). Preparation and physicochemical properties of coenzyme Q10 loaded niosomal hydrogels based on carbomer and scleroglucan. Polymer Engineering and Science. 63(9). 2999–3012. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lei, Yiqiang Sun, Yunxiang Lin, et al.. (2023). Tuning Electron Transfer in Atomic-Scale Pt-Supported Catalysts for the Alkaline Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(12). 5032–5039. 11 indexed citations

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Yu, Guohao, Xin Zhou, Li Zhang, et al.. (2023). Comparative Analysis of the GaN Nonpolar Plane Morphology by Wet Treatment and Its Effect on Electrical Properties in Trench MOSFET. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(21). 26159–26165. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Kun, Linlin Sun, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Potassium deficiency diagnosis method of apple leaves based on MLR-LDA-SVM. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1271933–1271933. 5 indexed citations

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Huang, Jun, et al.. (2019). Movement of a-type dislocations in AlN under electron beam irradiation. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(6). 65105–65105. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Kun, Yiqiang Sun, Yuanmiao Sun, et al.. (2018). Yin-Yang Harmony: Metal and Nonmetal Dual-Doping Boosts Electrocatalytic Activity for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Energy Letters. 3(11). 2750–2756. 164 indexed citations

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Zhou, Taofei, et al.. (2016). Quasi-transverse optical phonon mode in self-generated semipolar AlN grains embedded in c-oriented AlN matrix grown on sapphire using hydride vapor phase epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics. 119(20). 1 indexed citations

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