Lei Du

10.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
198 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Lei Du is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Du has authored 198 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 107 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 53 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lei Du's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (104 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (73 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (52 papers). Lei Du is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (104 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (73 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (52 papers). Lei Du collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Lei Du's co-authors include Geping Yin, Yuyan Shao, Chunyu Du, Shuhui Sun, Gaixia Zhang, Jun Liu, Xiaohong Xie, Yunzhi Gao, Lixin Xing and Jianglan Shui and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lei Du

177 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Carbon‐Based Metal‐Free ORR Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells: Past, Present, and Future

2019 859 citations Lijun Yang, Jianglan Shui et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Environment: Material Challenges and Solutions

2022 527 citations Xiaohong Xie, Lei Du et al. profile →
Carbonized Nanoscale Metal–Organic Frameworks as High Performance Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2014 489 citations Lei Du, Geping Yin et al. profile →
Engineering the Electronic Structure of Single‐Atom Iron Sites with Boosted Oxygen Bifunctional Activity for Zinc–Air Batteries

2022 206 citations Lei Du et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Geometric and Electronic Engineering of Atomically Dispersed Copper‐Cobalt Diatomic Sites for Synergistic Promotion of Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Zinc–Air Batteries

2023 205 citations Lei Du et al. Advanced Materials profile →
A dynamic Ni(OH)2-NiOOH/NiFeP heterojunction enabling high-performance E-upgrading of hydroxymethylfurfural

2022 199 citations Lixin Xing, Ning Wang et al. profile →
Recent Advances on PEM Fuel Cells: From Key Materials to Membrane Electrode Assembly

2023 155 citations Lei Du, Ling Meng et al. Electrochemical Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lei Du China	50	6.4k	6.0k	2.5k	1.4k	869	198	9.0k
Lei Zhao China	56	4.9k 0.8×	5.6k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	512 0.6×	258	8.8k
Wenjie Jiang China	53	9.1k 1.4×	7.6k 1.3×	3.4k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	195	11.3k
Tanja Kallio Finland	44	3.5k 0.5×	4.3k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	687 0.8×	214	6.7k
Yunzhi Gao China	59	5.5k 0.8×	11.1k 1.9×	3.3k 1.3×	2.7k 1.9×	815 0.9×	227	13.5k
Shan Ji China	49	4.7k 0.7×	5.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	2.6k 1.9×	798 0.9×	265	7.7k
Shenghua Ye China	35	4.5k 0.7×	4.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	791 0.9×	169	7.0k
Jie Yu China	44	4.1k 0.6×	4.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	504 0.6×	128	7.1k
Meng‐Chang Lin China	37	3.6k 0.6×	7.9k 1.3×	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	770 0.9×	101	10.1k
Carlos Ponce de León United Kingdom	56	5.1k 0.8×	8.4k 1.4×	2.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 2.0×	208	11.8k
Chunyu Du China	63	4.1k 0.6×	10.4k 1.7×	2.7k 1.1×	3.1k 2.2×	579 0.7×	262	12.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Du

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Yang, Xiaohua, et al.. (2025). The fate of FeNC catalysts: Influence of storage conditions on structure and performance evolution. Chemical Engineering Journal. 524. 169514–169514.

Lin, Yu‐Feng, et al.. (2025). Long-term vegetation succession increases aquatic animal structural stability and functional vulnerability following pond-to-mangrove restoration. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03838–e03838.

Xu, Yisheng, Liang Gao, Liquan Wang, et al.. (2025). De Novo Design of Polyimides Leveraging Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent. Advanced Materials. 38(2). e11099–e11099.

Zhang, Chengjie, Wei Wang, Ming-Yu Liu, et al.. (2025). Oxidative Electrocyclization Assembles 2,2‐Dimethyl‐2 H ‐pyran in Fungal Indole Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(31). e202506276–e202506276.

Xu, Jiangming, Jun Ye, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Multi-wavelength pump enabled spectral manipulation scalability of random Raman fiber laser. APL Photonics. 10(8).

Li, Jiayang, Chunmei Tang, Ruijiang Hong, et al.. (2024). Progress of Ir/Ru-based catalysts for electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction in acidic environments. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 92. 657–671. 12 indexed citations

Ye, Jun, Yang Zhang, Lei Du, et al.. (2024). High power spectrum-tailorable superfluorescent fiber source. Optics & Laser Technology. 178. 111237–111237. 2 indexed citations

Du, Lei, Yang Li, Ping Zhu, & Zhiming Jiang. (2024). Phosphorus hybrid coating for flame-retardant microfiber synthetic leather via sol-gel technique. Surfaces and Interfaces. 50. 104523–104523. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Hongyang, Xuejing Cao, Yumiao Han, et al.. (2024). Experimental study on the impact of “IDS + JFCS” complex wetting agent on the characteristics of coal bodies. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7163–7163. 1 indexed citations

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Peng, Yuqin, Lixin Xing, Chunmei Tang, et al.. (2024). Unraveling a volcanic relationship of Co/N/C@Pt_xCo catalysts toward oxygen electro-reduction. Nanoscale. 16(10). 5215–5221. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Jiangming, Jun Ye, Yang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Kilowatt-level spectrum-programmable multi-wavelength fiber laser. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 12. 1 indexed citations

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Tang, Chunmei, Yao Yao, Ning Wang, et al.. (2023). Green hydrogen production by intermediate‐temperature protonic solid oxide electrolysis cells: Advances, challenges, and perspectives. InfoMat. 6(3). 34 indexed citations

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Zhang, Gong, Yanzhe Liu, Zizheng Wang, et al.. (2023). 18F-FDG-PET/CT-based deep learning model for fully automated prediction of pathological grading for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma before surgery. EJNMMI Research. 13(1). 49–49. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Lingfeng, Guokang Han, Yuxin Liu, et al.. (2023). Solvent effect to modulate nitrogen dopant in Co-N-C catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction acceleration. Fuel. 345. 128199–128199. 8 indexed citations

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Du, Lei, Ling Meng, Ning Wang, et al.. (2023). Recent Advances on PEM Fuel Cells: From Key Materials to Membrane Electrode Assembly. Electrochemical Energy Reviews. 6(1). 155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Mengru, et al.. (2022). Effect of grain size of graphite powder in carbon paper on the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell. Journal of Power Sources. 548. 232012–232012. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jianghao, Junming Sun, Libor Kovařík, et al.. (2020). Surface engineering of earth-abundant Fe catalysts for selective hydrodeoxygenation of phenolics in liquid phase. Chemical Science. 11(23). 5874–5880. 21 indexed citations

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Xie, Xiaohong, Miao Song, Luguang Wang, et al.. (2019). Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral pH Solutions: Dual-Phase Synergy. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 8712–8718. 125 indexed citations

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Yang, Lijun, Jianglan Shui, Lei Du, et al.. (2019). Carbon‐Based Metal‐Free ORR Electrocatalysts for Fuel Cells: Past, Present, and Future. Advanced Materials. 31(13). e1804799–e1804799. 859 indexed citations breakdown →

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Du, Lei. (2011). Investigation on Interface of AZ-1 Modified Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polytriazole Composites. 1 indexed citations

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