Lequan Liu

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Lequan Liu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lequan Liu has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 84 papers in Materials Chemistry and 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lequan Liu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (81 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (38 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (25 papers). Lequan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (81 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (38 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (25 papers). Lequan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Lequan Liu's co-authors include Jinhua Ye, Shuxin Ouyang, Defa Wang, Hua Xu, Peng Li, Xianguang Meng, Tao Wang, Qing Kang, Wei Zhou and Kun Chang 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

Lequan Liu

103 papers receiving 7.5k citations

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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.

Nanometals for Solar‐to‐Chemical Energy Conversion: From Semiconductor‐Based Photocatalysis to Plasmon‐Mediated Photocatalysis and Photo‐Thermocatalysis

2016 554 citations Lequan Liu, Shuxin Ouyang et al. profile →
Reduced TiO2 nanotube arrays for photoelectrochemical water splitting

2013 523 citations Qing Kang, Lequan Liu et al. Journal of Materials Chemistry A profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Integrating photochemical and photothermal effects for selective oxidative coupling of methane into C2+ hydrocarbons with multiple active sites 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Hui Song, Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, Shangbo Ning, Shengyao Wang, Zhuan Wang, Yuxiang Weng, Yi Cui, Yifan Li, Xusheng Wang, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Zhou‐jun Wang, Jinhua Ye	13
2	Solar-Driven C–N Coupling over Pd/TiO ₂ Enables High-Yield Synthesis of Methylamine Hydrochlorides from Methanol and Ammonium Chloride 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Kai Sun, Hengming Huang, Haijiao Lu, Bernt Johannessen, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Hui Song	0
3	Synergistic Enhancement of Electron and Hole Transport by Pd Single Atoms and Gradient‐Distributed Ti ³⁺ Species for High‐Performance Photocatalytic Oxidation of CH ₄ to Oxygenates 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Kai Sun, (unknown), Shengyao Wang, Xusheng Wang, Panzhe Qiao, Defa Wang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Hui Song	0
4	Anchoring Cs⁺ Ions on Carbon Vacancies for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to CO at High Current Densities in Membrane Electrode Assembly Electrolyzers 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yan‐Hui Sun, Junxiang Chen, Xuemei Du, Jiwei Cui, Xin Chen, (unknown), Xinmin Yang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye	13
5	Construction of a flow-through catalytic reactor employing O₃–Fe/TiO₂ for efficient catalytic ozonation disinfection 2024 ·Catalysis Science & Technology ·Jiaxuan Li, Xin Chen, Siyu Li, Kunrong Mei, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye	4
6	Boosting photocatalytic overall water splitting over single-layer graphene coated metal cocatalyst 2023 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Xinmin Yang, Jiwei Cui, Xiaolu Liu, Qiqi Zhang, Defa Wang, Jinhua Ye, Lequan Liu	22
7	Partial oxidation of methane by photocatalysis 2023 ·Chinese Chemical Letters ·Zhongshan Yang, Qiqi Zhang, Hui Song, Xin Chen, Jiwei Cui, Yan‐Hui Sun, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye	8
8	Polar-surface-dominated zigzag GaN nanowires with alternate H2 and O2 evolution sites for photocatalytic overall water splitting 2023 ·Applied Catalysis A General ·Hong Pang, Wei Zhou, Huilin Hu, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye, Defa Wang	13
9	Surface Unsaturated Sulfur Modulates Pt Sub‐Nanoparticles on Tandem Homojunction CdS for Efficient Electron Extraction 2023 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Yuan Tang, Xiaofang Jia, Yu-Chen Guo, Zikang Geng, Chunyang Wang, Lequan Liu, Junying Zhang, Wanqian Guo, Xin Tan, Tao Yu, Jinhua Ye	41
10	Revealing the illumination effect on the discharge products in high‐performance Li–O₂ batteries with heterostructured photocatalysts 2022 ·Carbon Energy ·Hao Gong, Tao Wang, Kun Chang, Peng Li, Lequan Liu, Xingyu Yu, Bin Gao, Hairong Xue, Renzhi Ma, Jianping He, Jinhua Ye	48
11	Hydrated electrons mediated in-situ construction of cubic phase CdS/Cd thin layer on a millimeter-scale support for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution 2021 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Yizhong Zhang, Wei Zhou, Junyan Wang, Lixia Jia, Lequan Liu, Xin Tan, Tao Yu, Jinhua Ye	25
12	Regulating the surface state of ZnIn₂S₄ by gamma-ray irradiation for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution 2021 ·Catalysis Science & Technology ·Siyu Wang, Peng Li, (unknown), Lizhu Song, Rui Zang, Shuaishuai Liu, Lequan Liu, Wei Zhou	13
13	Structure, Optical Properties, and Photocatalytic Activity towards H₂Generation and CO₂Reduction of GaN Nanowires via Vapor-Liquid-Solid Process 2014 ·International Journal of Photoenergy ·Hong Pang, Lequan Liu, Shuxin Ouyang, Hua Xu, Yunxiang Li, Defa Wang	6
14	Recent advances in TiO 2 -based photocatalysis 2014 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry ·Hua Xu, Shuxin Ouyang, Lequan Liu, Pakpoom Reunchan, Naoto Umezawa, Jinhua Ye	12
15	TiO 2 系光触媒の最近の進歩 2014 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·(unknown), (unknown), Lequan Liu, Pakpoom Reunchan, Naoto Umezawa, (unknown)	3
16	効率的CO 2 光還元に向けた多孔性構造化Cu 2 O/TiO 2 ナノ接合物質 2014 ·Nanotechnology ·(unknown), (unknown), Lequan Liu, Defa Wang, Tetsuya Kako, (unknown)	11
17	Efficient photochemical oxygen generation from water by phosphorus-doped H₂MoO₅ 2014 ·Chemical Communications ·Qing Kang, (unknown), Tao Wang, Kun Chang, Lequan Liu, Jinhua Ye	5
18	Visible-light photodecomposition of acetaldehyde by TiO₂-coated gold nanocages: plasmon-mediated hot electron transport via defect states 2014 ·Chemical Communications ·Rajesh Kodiyath, Maidhily Manikandan, Lequan Liu, Gubbala V. Ramesh, (unknown), Masahiro Miyauchi, Yoshiki Sakuma, Toyokazu Tanabe, Takao Gunji, Thang Duy Dao, Shigenori Ueda, Tadaaki Nagao, Jinhua Ye, Hideki Abe	33
19	Chlorine as an Indicator in the Controllable Preparation of Active Nano-Gold Catalyst 2013 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Lequan Liu, Xinjiang Cui, Lirong Zheng, Youquan Deng, Feng Shi	15
20	GC-MS analysis of aroma components of different Chaenomeles _fruits 2007 ·Xibei Nong-Lin Keji Daxue xuebao. Ziran kexue ban ·(unknown), Lequan Liu, Huaide Xu	0

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