Li Xu

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Li Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Li Xu has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Materials Chemistry, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Li Xu's work include 2D Materials and Applications (11 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers) and Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (7 papers). Li Xu is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (11 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers) and Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography (7 papers). Li Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Li Xu's co-authors include Jia Xu, Jingyue Liu, Chengbo Zhaı, Yang Zhou, Jinnan Wang, Aimin Li, Jie Zeng, Jiankang Zhao, Xavier Isidro Pereira Hernández and Yizhen Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Li Xu

105 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Functional CeOx nanoglues for robust atomically dispersed catalysts

2022 361 citations Li Xu, Jiankang Zhao et al. profile →
Ultrafine metal nanoparticles isolated on oxide nano-islands as exceptional sintering-resistant catalysts

2025 41 citations Li Xu, Jiankang Zhao et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Li Xu China	23	1.1k	547	371	309	263	115	2.2k
Mikhail A. Soldatov Russia	25	1.2k 1.1×	424 0.8×	528 1.4×	328 1.1×	123 0.5×	90	2.2k
Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis United States	28	1.6k 1.5×	299 0.5×	318 0.9×	263 0.9×	293 1.1×	78	3.1k
Doris Segets Germany	29	1.4k 1.3×	845 1.5×	646 1.7×	393 1.3×	357 1.4×	121	2.5k
Seyed Mohamad Moosavi Switzerland	24	2.1k 1.9×	409 0.7×	265 0.7×	420 1.4×	204 0.8×	39	3.4k
Xiaofang Chen China	25	628 0.6×	316 0.6×	158 0.4×	181 0.6×	146 0.6×	86	1.8k
Qi Pan China	30	1.3k 1.2×	403 0.7×	328 0.9×	314 1.0×	988 3.8×	107	2.7k
Linghong Lu China	33	1.0k 1.0×	537 1.0×	423 1.1×	983 3.2×	178 0.7×	109	2.7k
Alexander A. Guda Russia	32	2.2k 2.1×	901 1.6×	1.0k 2.7×	361 1.2×	360 1.4×	163	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Li Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Li Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Li Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Li Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Li Xu 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 Xu. Li Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Li, Jiankang Zhao, Lei Luo, et al.. (2025). Ultrafine metal nanoparticles isolated on oxide nano-islands as exceptional sintering-resistant catalysts. Nature Materials. 24(6). 891–899. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Xu, Li, et al.. (2025). Study on the pyrolysis process of engineered wood material with multicomponent modeling and peaks deconvolution analysis. Renewable Energy. 248. 123158–123158.

Lu, Kaiju, Zhibin Zhang, Lin Xue, et al.. (2024). Simultaneously improving strength and corrosion resistance of CoCrNi-based multi-principal element alloys via alloying with Mo content. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1010. 177119–177119. 10 indexed citations

Xu, Li, et al.. (2024). Effect of different boundary conditions on the combustion properties and fire characteristics of typical woods. Energy. 307. 132696–132696. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Li, et al.. (2024). In-situ fabrication of MoO2/MoxC heterojunction on rodlike carbon-coated zirconia for enhanced oxidative desulfurization of fuel oils. Separation and Purification Technology. 349. 127726–127726. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Danni, Yusheng Wang, Songyang Li, et al.. (2024). Electronic properties of InSe/CNT heterojunctions with the modulation of electric field and vacancy defects. Computational Materials Science. 246. 113339–113339. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Li, Xingyue Ma, Lan Chen, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Switching of Sliding Polarization and Dynamical Magnetic Field in van der Waals Bilayers Induced by Light. Physical Review Letters. 133(12). 126801–126801. 23 indexed citations

Xu, Li, Jinbo Ouyang, Jiangtao Lei, et al.. (2024). Harmonic and anharmonic studies on THz spectra of two vanillin polymorphs. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 309. 123869–123869. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Jiayi, et al.. (2024). Anti-Drift Gas Detection Algorithm Based on Neural Network. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 73. 1–8. 26 indexed citations

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Xu, Li, et al.. (2024). Sliding- and twist-tunable valley polarization in bilayer NiI2. Physical review. B.. 110(20). 3 indexed citations

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Tian, Hao, Li Xu, Liang-Jun Zhai, et al.. (2024). Pressure-Induced Topological Phase Transition and Large Rashba Effect in Halide Double Perovskite. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(5). 1477–1483. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Li, Hao Tian, H. Sang, et al.. (2023). Electric field induced large Rashba effect and topological phase transition in halide perovskite superlattices. Physical review. B.. 108(4). 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Li, Hao Tian, Hong Jian Zhao, et al.. (2022). Simultaneously improving Rashba-type and Zeeman effects in two-dimensional multiferroics. Physical review. B.. 106(20). 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hong Jian, Rémi Arras, Charles Paillard, et al.. (2020). Purely Cubic Spin Splittings with Persistent Spin Textures. Physical Review Letters. 125(21). 216405–216405. 56 indexed citations

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Liu, Tian, N. Zhou, Li Xu, et al.. (2019). Prediction of colossal magnetocrystalline anisotropy for transition metal triiodides. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(29). 295801–295801. 13 indexed citations

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Jannat, Azmira, Kai Xu, Chunhua Zhou, et al.. (2019). Exciton-Driven Chemical Sensors Based on Excitation-Dependent Photoluminescent Two-Dimensional SnS. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(45). 42462–42468. 49 indexed citations

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Xu, Li, et al.. (2015). Effect of SiH4 Inductively Coupled Plasma Surface Treatment On Low Temperature and Low Resistance Ohmic Contact for AlGaN/GaN-Based Power Device. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam).

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Xu, Li. (2010). Application of Turbo Code in Deep-space Communication.

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Xu, Li. (2009). Primary study of an offline dose compensation technique in a repeatable cyclic way to compensate for uncertainties after online correction with CBCT for NSCLC. Zhonghua zhongliu fangzhi zazhi. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Li, M. Kurouchi, Shigeru Kishimoto, Takashi Mizutani, & Fumihiko Nakamura. (2008). Normally-off mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with p-InGaN Cap Layer. 108(321). 125–130. 1 indexed citations

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