Li Gu

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Li Gu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Li Gu has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 37 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 34 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Li Gu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Li Gu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers). Li Gu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Li Gu's co-authors include Dan Xiao, Hongyan Yuan, Ying Lei, Xuebo Cao, Yanyan Wang, Jing Li, Paula T. Hammond, Chuan Zhao, Hua Xu and Xiupei Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Li Gu

109 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

Rapid Microwave-Assisted Green Synthesis of 3D Hierarchic... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2015 100 200 300 400
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. Rapid Microwave-Assisted Green Synthesis of 3D Hierarchical Flower-Shaped NiCo2O4Microsphere for High-Performance Supercapacitor
    2014 494 citations Li Gu et al. profile →
  2. Green Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Selective Detection of Tartrazine in Food Samples
    2015 410 citations Li Gu 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 Gu China 35 2.1k 1.8k 1.5k 1.4k 877 113 4.9k
Gao Cheng China 46 2.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 161 6.0k
Juan Wu China 37 2.2k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 866 0.6× 1.3k 1.5× 131 5.3k
Shengyan Yin China 39 1.5k 0.7× 2.6k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.7× 112 4.8k
Jungmok You South Korea 46 1.7k 0.8× 2.5k 1.4× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 2.1k 2.4× 133 6.6k
Fengyu Qu China 44 1.9k 0.9× 3.5k 1.9× 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 2.3k 2.6× 199 6.5k
R. Ramesh India 37 2.2k 1.0× 2.5k 1.4× 2.1k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 478 0.5× 193 4.9k
Qianqian Liu China 43 3.1k 1.4× 2.8k 1.6× 971 0.7× 2.3k 1.7× 540 0.6× 320 6.2k
Zhihong Zhu China 44 3.9k 1.9× 1.6k 0.9× 2.4k 1.6× 1.9k 1.4× 977 1.1× 140 6.6k
Yan Zhao China 39 2.4k 1.1× 2.7k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 534 0.4× 1.5k 1.7× 196 5.9k
Wensheng Yang China 43 3.9k 1.9× 2.3k 1.3× 1.4k 1.0× 935 0.7× 922 1.1× 141 6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Li Gu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Li Gu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Li Gu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Li Gu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Li Gu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Li Gu. Li Gu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wu, Jun, et al.. (2024). Hollow tubes constructed by carbon nanotubes self-assembly for CO2 capture. Journal of Central South University. 31(7). 2256–2267.
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Dang, Chenyang, Xingtian Zhang, Lin Huang, et al.. (2023). Design of solar evaporator with well-aligned and multi-scale fluid channels based on convection tuning for stable and efficient brine desalination. Desalination. 550. 116408–116408. 44 indexed citations
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Wu, Jun, et al.. (2023). Aqueous 2-Ethyl-4-methylimidazole Solution for Efficient CO2 Separation and Purification. Separations. 10(4). 236–236. 2 indexed citations
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Kang, Jianqiang, et al.. (2022). Blending fiber-shaped long-range conductive additives for better battery performance: Mechanism study based on heterogeneous electrode model. Journal of Power Sources. 542. 231746–231746. 17 indexed citations
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Dang, Xiangnan, Neelkanth M. Bardhan, Jifa Qi, et al.. (2019). Deep-tissue optical imaging of near cellular-sized features. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3873–3873. 76 indexed citations
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Gu, Li, Zhou J. Deng, Sweta Roy, & Paula T. Hammond. (2017). A Combination RNAi-Chemotherapy Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticle for Systemic Targeting of KRAS/P53 with Cisplatin to Treat Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 23(23). 7312–7323. 77 indexed citations
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Gu, Li, Han Zhu, Songge Zhang, et al.. (2017). A Facile Strategy to Synthesize Cobalt‐Based Self‐Supported Material for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 34(10). 25 indexed citations
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Zhu, Han, Li Gu, Danni Yu, et al.. (2016). The marriage and integration of nanostructures with different dimensions for synergistic electrocatalysis. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(1). 321–330. 109 indexed citations
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Correa, Santiago, Erik C. Dreaden, Li Gu, & Paula T. Hammond. (2016). Engineering nanolayered particles for modular drug delivery. Journal of Controlled Release. 240. 364–386. 105 indexed citations
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Zhao, Bo, Ling Pei, Changqing Xu, & Li Gu. (2015). Graph-based Efficient WiFi Fingerprint Training Using Un-supervised Learning. 2301–2310. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Jun, Lian‐Wen Zhu, Dan Deng, et al.. (2015). A nanotubular framework with customized conductivity and porosity for efficient oxidation and reduction of water. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(20). 11040–11047. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shiyi, Andrew M. Bellinger, Dean L. Glettig, et al.. (2015). A pH-responsive supramolecular polymer gel as an enteric elastomer for use in gastric devices. PMC. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Shiyi, Andrew M. Bellinger, Dean L. Glettig, et al.. (2015). A pH-responsive supramolecular polymer gel as an enteric elastomer for use in gastric devices. Nature Materials. 14(10). 1065–1071. 281 indexed citations
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Gu, Li, et al.. (2014). Cationic amphiphilic macromolecule (CAM)–lipid complexes for efficient siRNA gene silencing. Journal of Controlled Release. 184. 28–35. 17 indexed citations
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Qu, Zhibei, et al.. (2013). Boronic acid functionalized graphene quantum dots as a fluorescent probe for selective and sensitive glucose determination in microdialysate. Chemical Communications. 49(84). 9830–9830. 169 indexed citations
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Gu, Li, Xiaoying Jiang, Ying Liang, Tianshu Zhou, & Guoyue Shi. (2013). Double recognition of dopamine based on a boronic acid functionalized poly(aniline-co-anthranilic acid)–molecularly imprinted polymer composite. The Analyst. 138(18). 5461–5461. 50 indexed citations
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Fu, Weiwei, Robert E. Dickinson, Li Gu, & Forrest M. Hoffman. (2012). Estimation of Terrestrial COS Uptake From a Global Carbon Cycle Model (CLM-4.0). AGUFM. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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