Lei Liu

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Lei Liu is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Liu has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Organic Chemistry, 52 papers in Materials Chemistry and 43 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Lei Liu's work include Ionic liquids properties and applications (31 papers), Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (27 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (19 papers). Lei Liu is often cited by papers focused on Ionic liquids properties and applications (31 papers), Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (27 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (19 papers). Lei Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Lei Liu's co-authors include Xiaosong Li, H. Bernhard Schlegel, Yao Fu, Todd B. Marder, Patrick G. Steel, Chu‐Ting Yang, Thomas Heine, Sanford A. Asher, Warren C. W. Chan and H. C. Fischer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lei Liu

154 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

On the Physical Origin of Blue-Shifted Hydrogen Bonds

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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
Lei Liu China	39	2.5k	1.4k	1.1k	706	539	161	5.4k
Werner R. Thiel Germany	40	4.7k 1.9×	3.3k 2.3×	2.3k 2.0×	504 0.7×	528 1.0×	236	7.7k
John C. Warner United States	21	4.1k 1.7×	1.6k 1.1×	939 0.8×	787 1.1×	380 0.7×	77	8.7k
Paul D. Boyle United States	40	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	531 0.8×	221 0.4×	201	5.8k
Jonathan R. Dilworth United Kingdom	44	3.8k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	2.9k 2.6×	728 1.0×	1.1k 2.1×	265	8.6k
Chun‐Hsing Chen United States	38	3.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	341 0.5×	476 0.9×	123	4.8k
Dohyun Moon South Korea	45	1.7k 0.7×	4.2k 3.0×	3.6k 3.1×	542 0.8×	473 0.9×	287	7.4k
Elisabeth Bouwman Netherlands	39	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	2.5k 2.2×	339 0.5×	1.2k 2.3×	213	5.8k
Geoffrey A. Lawrance Australia	41	1.6k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	381 0.5×	362 0.7×	233	5.7k
José A. Mayoral Spain	47	4.8k 1.9×	2.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.7×	866 1.2×	208 0.4×	263	7.6k
Zhiyuan Zhang China	48	2.6k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	612 0.5×	430 0.6×	1.9k 3.5×	224	8.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Liu

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Zhang, Tiantian, et al.. (2025). Constructing N, B co-doped carbon nanosheets with pyridine N–B sites for boosting sodium-ion storage. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(7).

Yang, Ziyuan, Shasha Li, Yue Hao, et al.. (2025). Surface Behavior Regulation of Intermediates on the Copper‐Based Catalysts for Enhancing Electrocatalytic CO ₂ Reduction to Ethylene. Small. 21(51). e10845–e10845.

Wang, Xiaohong, et al.. (2024). Novel benzene sulfonate surfactants: Alkyl-tetralin sulfonates synthesized via coal chemical route. Chemical Engineering Science. 301. 120797–120797. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Ting, Jiayuan Yu, Changjiu Xia, et al.. (2024). Aerobic Thiols Oxidative Coupling to Disulfides over Robust CoO_x Nanoclusters Confined within Hierarchical Silicalite-1 Zeolite. Inorganic Chemistry. 63(45). 21577–21589. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Peng, Mengya Guo, Fujiang Wang, et al.. (2024). Correction: Constructing PdZn alloy in Pd/ZnO catalyst for selective hydrogenation of anthracene to symmetrical octahydroanthracene. Journal of Materials Science. 60(2). 1041–1041. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Chen, Xudong Zhang, Qiong Tang, et al.. (2023). Understanding the catalytic behavior of ionic liquids in tetralin alkylation with α-olefins through experiment and COSMO-RS model. Chemical Engineering Science. 276. 118794–118794. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Hao, Esfandiar Pakdel, Bin Tang, et al.. (2023). The adsorption kinetics and mechanism of odorous gases onto textile fibers. RSC Sustainability. 1(2). 357–367. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Lei, Jie Lin, Zhensheng Zhang, et al.. (2023). NHPI/O₂‐Mediated Electrochemical Intermolecular Cyclization/Dehydrogenation for the Construction of Polycyclic Quinazolinones. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 365(13). 2248–2254. 12 indexed citations

Feng, Jiaqi, Lirong Zheng, Chongyang Jiang, et al.. (2021). Constructing single Cu–N₃ sites for CO₂ electrochemical reduction over a wide potential range. Green Chemistry. 23(15). 5461–5466. 30 indexed citations

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Ji, Xiuling, Zhuang Li, Yanrong Liu, et al.. (2021). Ionozyme: ionic liquids as solvent and stabilizer for efficient bioactivation of CO₂. Green Chemistry. 23(18). 6990–7000. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Junwu, Kun Dong, Lei Liu, Xiangping Zhang, & Suojiang Zhang. (2021). Anti-electrostatic hydrogen bonding between anions of ionic liquids: a density functional theory study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(12). 7426–7433. 13 indexed citations

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Ge, Lei, Yangli Pan, Qinghong Yuan, et al.. (2021). Catalysis based on ferroelectrics: controllable chemical reaction with boosted efficiency. Nanoscale. 13(15). 7096–7107. 48 indexed citations

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Gong, Zhiqiang, et al.. (2020). Study on the Migration Characteristics of As, Pb, and Ni during Oily Sludge Incineration with CaO Additive. Energy & Fuels. 34(12). 16341–16349. 21 indexed citations

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Yang, Zifeng, Lei Liu, Chenhao Li, et al.. (2020). Cost-Effective Synthesis of High Molecular Weight Biobased Polycarbonate via Melt Polymerization of Isosorbide and Dimethyl Carbonate. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(27). 9968–9979. 37 indexed citations

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Zeng, Shaojuan, Xiaochun Zhang, Xuezhong He, et al.. (2019). Strategy Combining Free Volume Theory and Fragment Contribution Corresponding State Method for Predicting Viscosities of Ionic Liquids. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 58(14). 5640–5649. 9 indexed citations

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Guo, Shuai, Fan Chen, Lei Liu, et al.. (2019). Effects of the Water Content on the Transport Properties of Ionic Liquids. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 58(42). 19661–19669. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fanyu, Bingxing Zhang, Jiaqi Feng, et al.. (2019). Highly Mesoporous Ru-MIL-125-NH₂ Produced by Supercritical Fluid for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(7). 4964–4970. 43 indexed citations

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Zeng, Shaojuan, Lei Liu, Dawei Shang, et al.. (2018). Efficient and reversible absorption of ammonia by cobalt ionic liquids through Lewis acid–base and cooperative hydrogen bond interactions. Green Chemistry. 20(9). 2075–2083. 130 indexed citations

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Liu, Lei, et al.. (2010). Impact of polyurea structure on grease properties. Lubrication Science. 22(9). 405–413. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Lei, Zhangyong Hong, & Chi‐Huey Wong. (2006). Convergent Glycopeptide Synthesis by Traceless Staudinger Ligation and Enzymatic Coupling. ChemBioChem. 7(3). 429–432. 48 indexed citations

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