Li An

5.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
43 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Li An is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Li An has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Li An's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (34 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (25 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers). Li An is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (34 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (25 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers). Li An collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Li An's co-authors include Pinxian Xi, Jie Yin, Chun‐Hua Yan, Min Lu, Fangyi Cheng, Hanwen Liu, Chuan Li, Bin Yang, Weimin Huang and Rui Wang 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

Li An

42 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Recent Development of Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalyst... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2021 2018 2022 2023 2024 200 400 600
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.

  1. Recent Development of Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts in Acidic Environment
    2021 716 citations Li An, Min Lu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  2. Epitaxial Heterogeneous Interfaces on N‐NiMoO4/NiS2 Nanowires/Nanosheets to Boost Hydrogen and Oxygen Production for Overall Water Splitting
    2018 474 citations Li An, Rui Wang et al. profile →
  3. Surface Activation and Ni‐S Stabilization in NiO/NiS2for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction
    2022 270 citations Nan Zhang, Yang Hu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction
    2023 221 citations Yang Hu, Yao Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Rare-Earth-Modified NiS2 Improves OH Coverage for an Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolyzer
    2024 91 citations Wei Shen, Yao Zheng et al. profile →
  6. Corrosion Protection of Rare Earth for Kilowatt-Level Alkaline Seawater Electrolyzer
    2025 22 citations Wei Shen, Yang Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Li An China 24 3.4k 2.9k 1.3k 729 532 43 4.5k
Wei Yan China 35 1.6k 0.5× 3.0k 1.0× 1.0k 0.8× 591 0.8× 614 1.2× 93 4.1k
Zhaolin Liu Singapore 24 1.9k 0.6× 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 259 0.4× 267 0.5× 41 3.9k
Fathy M. Hassan Canada 36 2.6k 0.8× 4.0k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 249 0.3× 443 0.8× 76 5.0k
Kwadwo Asare Owusu China 32 2.6k 0.7× 4.3k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 321 0.4× 529 1.0× 48 5.4k
Enrico Negro Italy 39 1.7k 0.5× 3.5k 1.2× 769 0.6× 195 0.3× 660 1.2× 124 4.2k
Mohammad Zhiani Iran 27 1.5k 0.4× 1.9k 0.6× 743 0.6× 309 0.4× 385 0.7× 89 2.5k
Xiaodong Yang China 30 1.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 932 0.7× 189 0.3× 257 0.5× 84 2.5k
Xiongwei Zhong China 36 1.6k 0.5× 3.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.1× 154 0.2× 410 0.8× 61 4.6k
Frode Seland Norway 30 1.7k 0.5× 2.0k 0.7× 832 0.7× 385 0.5× 167 0.3× 96 2.7k
Jinghuang Lin China 38 2.5k 0.7× 3.9k 1.3× 1.6k 1.2× 398 0.5× 400 0.8× 76 5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Li An

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Nan, Yang Hu, Zhuang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Crystallinity-dependent structural evolution of CoS2 catalysts for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9306–9306. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiamin, Shuhui Li, Yue Zhai, et al.. (2025). Oxygen radical coupling on asymmetric Ni-Co dual-sites induced by rare earth hydroxides for enhanced alkaline oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Rare Earths. 44(2). 577–585.
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Hou, Zhuang, Jiamin Zhu, Rui Wang, et al.. (2025). Rational Design of Rare Earth-Based Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic Reactions. ACS Nano. 19(18). 17087–17113. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiamin, Yue Zhai, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Surface Cladding Engineering via Oxygen Sulfur Distribution for Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413348–e202413348. 11 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jiamin, Yue Zhai, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Surface Cladding Engineering via Oxygen Sulfur Distribution for Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Production. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhuang, Pengfei Da, Li An, et al.. (2024). Ceria‐Optimized Oxygen‐Species Exchange in Hierarchical Bimetallic Hydroxide for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2406682–e2406682. 49 indexed citations
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An, Li, Jianyi Li, Yuanmiao Sun, et al.. (2024). Deciphering Water Oxidation Catalysts: The Dominant Role of Surface Chemistry over Reconstruction Degree in Activity Promotion. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 70–70. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Jianyi, Li An, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Regulation of perovskite oxides composition for the efficient electrocatalytic reactions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e20220005–e20220005. 20 indexed citations
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Hu, Yang, Yao Zheng, Yong Peng, et al.. (2023). Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1949–1949. 221 indexed citations breakdown →
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An, Li, Yang Hu, Jianyi Li, et al.. (2022). Tailoring Oxygen Reduction Reaction Pathway on Spinel Oxides via Surficial Geometrical‐Site Occupation Modification Driven by the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Materials. 34(28). e2202874–e2202874. 100 indexed citations
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An, Li, Hong Zhang, Jiamin Zhu, et al.. (2022). Balancing Activity and Stability in Spinel Cobalt Oxides through Geometrical Sites Occupation towards Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 135(3). 3 indexed citations
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Lu, Min, Li An, Jie Yin, et al.. (2022). Electronic engineering of amorphous Fe–Co–S sites in hetero-nanoframes for oxygen evolution and flexible Al–air batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(37). 19757–19768. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Nan, Yang Hu, Li An, et al.. (2022). Surface Activation and Ni‐S Stabilization in NiO/NiS2for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(35). 6 indexed citations
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An, Li, Hong Zhang, Jiamin Zhu, et al.. (2022). Balancing Activity and Stability in Spinel Cobalt Oxides through Geometrical Sites Occupation towards Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(3). e202214600–e202214600. 92 indexed citations
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Li, Yuxuan, Yu Wang, Brian Pattengale, et al.. (2017). High-index faceted CuFeS2 nanosheets with enhanced behavior for boosting hydrogen evolution reaction. Nanoscale. 9(26). 9230–9237. 73 indexed citations
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An, Li, Liang Huang, Hongyan Liu, et al.. (2015). High‐Quality Copper Sulfide Nanocrystals with Diverse Shapes and Their Catalysis for Electrochemical Reduction of H2O2. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 32(5). 536–541. 21 indexed citations
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An, Li, Brian Pattengale, Qingyu Kong, et al.. (2015). Ultrafast Hole Trapping and Relaxation Dynamics in p-Type CuS Nanodisks. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 6(14). 2671–2675. 119 indexed citations
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Yin, Jie, Panpan Zhou, Li An, et al.. (2015). Self-supported nanoporous NiCo2O4nanowires with cobalt–nickel layered oxide nanosheets for overall water splitting. Nanoscale. 8(3). 1390–1400. 180 indexed citations

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