Kunlong Liu

2.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
49 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kunlong Liu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunlong Liu has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 25 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kunlong Liu's work include Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (20 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers). Kunlong Liu is often cited by papers focused on Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (20 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers). Kunlong Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia. Kunlong Liu's co-authors include Nanfeng Zheng, Ruixuan Qin, Qingyuan Wu, Gang Fu, Sung‐Fu Hung, Pengxin Liu, Lin Gu, Hao Ming Chen, Lingyun Zhou and Lizhi Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kunlong Liu

40 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Surface Coordination Chemistry of Atomically Dispersed Me... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2020 2025 2025 2025 100 200 300 400
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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. Surface Coordination Chemistry of Atomically Dispersed Metal Catalysts
    2020 464 citations Ruixuan Qin, Kunlong Liu et al. profile →
  2. Facet engineering accelerates spillover hydrogenation on highly diluted metal nanocatalysts
    2020 313 citations Lizhi Jiang, Kunlong Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  3. Poly(triazine imide) Crystals for Efficient CO2 Photoreduction: Surface Pyridine Nitrogen Dominates the Performance
    2025 47 citations Jing Deng, Bo Su et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  4. Electrochemical Synthesis of High-Efficiency Water Electrolysis Catalysts
    2025 42 citations Kunlong Liu, Sibo Wang et al. profile →
  5. Synergistic Ru Species on Poly(heptazine imide) Enabling Efficient Photocatalytic CO 2 Reduction with H 2 O beyond 800 nm
    2025 32 citations Bo Su, Sibo Wang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  6. Activating Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Efficient and Stable Photothermal Dry Reforming of Methane
    2025 28 citations Jilong Li, Jiwu Zhao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kunlong Liu China 20 1.3k 1.2k 603 538 402 49 2.2k
Qiaoqiao Guan China 13 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 534 0.9× 663 1.2× 396 1.0× 16 2.1k
Yuan Tan China 22 1.2k 0.9× 792 0.7× 363 0.6× 421 0.8× 213 0.5× 48 1.9k
Davide Albani Switzerland 13 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 931 1.5× 496 0.9× 555 1.4× 13 2.5k
Selina K. Kaiser Switzerland 16 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 674 1.1× 652 1.2× 249 0.6× 25 2.1k
Valérie Caps France 31 2.3k 1.8× 1.0k 0.9× 628 1.0× 926 1.7× 380 0.9× 64 2.8k
Haisheng Wei China 16 1.3k 1.0× 835 0.7× 960 1.6× 488 0.9× 329 0.8× 29 1.8k
Xuelu Ma China 18 922 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 387 0.6× 882 1.6× 228 0.6× 35 1.9k
Carlos Hernández Mejía Netherlands 12 1.6k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 486 0.8× 999 1.9× 199 0.5× 13 2.4k
Evgeniya Vorobyeva Switzerland 11 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 585 1.0× 267 0.5× 221 0.5× 15 1.7k
Edvin Fako Spain 18 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 0.9× 695 1.2× 380 0.7× 254 0.6× 30 1.9k

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All Works

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Liu, Kunlong, Meirong Huang, Jianjie Ma, et al.. (2026). Photo-enhanced spillover hydrogenation over semiconductor-supported Pd nanocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 9(3). 338–347.
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Yang, Qiuyue, Guowei Yang, Xinran Sun, et al.. (2025). Carbon-supported platinum-based electrocatalysts for alkaline hydrogen evolution. EES Catalysis. 3(5). 972–993. 3 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jiwu, Yuchun Liu, Sung‐Fu Hung, et al.. (2025). Photocatalytic ethylene production over defective NiO through lattice oxygen participation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6586–6586. 7 indexed citations
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Li, Jilong, Jiwu Zhao, Sibo Wang, et al.. (2025). Activating Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Efficient and Stable Photothermal Dry Reforming of Methane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14705–14714. 28 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deng, Jing, Bo Su, Kunlong Liu, et al.. (2025). Poly(triazine imide) Crystals for Efficient CO2 Photoreduction: Surface Pyridine Nitrogen Dominates the Performance. ACS Catalysis. 15(2). 1018–1026. 47 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Yuchun, Sibo Wang, Hansong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Organic Surface Passivation on Rh@CeO2 Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie. 137(40).
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Sun, Xinran, Jiaqing Liu, Min Shen, et al.. (2025). Bifunctional Arrays of NiRu Single-Atom Alloy Nanoparticles Confined in a Porous Carbon Nanosheet for Sustained Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis. Nano Letters. 25(30). 11680–11688. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Yuchun, Sibo Wang, Hansong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Organic Surface Passivation on Rh@CeO2 Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(40). e202513029–e202513029.
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Shi, Xinzhe, et al.. (2024). Semi-supervised single-view 3D reconstruction via multi shape prior fusion strategy and self-attention. Computers & Graphics. 126. 104142–104142. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Teng, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen spillover enhances the selective hydrogenation of α,β-unsaturated aldehydes on the Cu–O–Ce interface. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 44(1). 100438–100438. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Ping, Yaxin Yang, Yuanjie Xu, et al.. (2024). The promoting role of carbon monoxide in mild conversion of methane to acetic acid on atomically dispersed Ir catalyst anchored in ZSM-5. Journal of Catalysis. 438. 115683–115683. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Ning, Bili Chen, Kunlong Liu, et al.. (2023). Ensemble Effect of the Nickel–Silica Interface Promotes the Water–Gas Shift Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 13(11). 7347–7357. 10 indexed citations
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Mo, Shiguang, Weijie Zhang, Kunlong Liu, et al.. (2023). Self-reduction synthesis of supported ultrafine Pd nanoparticles with high activity and stability in hydrogenation. Science China Materials. 66(7). 2708–2714. 5 indexed citations
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Ruan, Pengpeng, Bili Chen, Hansong Zhang, et al.. (2022). Upgrading heterogeneous Ni catalysts with thiol modification. The Innovation. 4(1). 100362–100362. 24 indexed citations
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Qin, Ruixuan, Pei Wang, Pengxin Liu, et al.. (2020). Carbon Monoxide Promotes the Catalytic Hydrogenation on Metal Cluster Catalysts. Research. 2020. 4172794–4172794. 20 indexed citations
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Jiang, Lizhi, Kunlong Liu, Sung‐Fu Hung, et al.. (2020). Facet engineering accelerates spillover hydrogenation on highly diluted metal nanocatalysts. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(10). 848–853. 313 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qin, Ruixuan, Lingyun Zhou, Pengxin Liu, et al.. (2020). Alkali ions secure hydrides for catalytic hydrogenation. Nature Catalysis. 3(9). 703–709. 196 indexed citations

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