Lianfeng Zou

8.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
60 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Lianfeng Zou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lianfeng Zou has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 26 papers in Automotive Engineering and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lianfeng Zou's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (41 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (38 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (26 papers). Lianfeng Zou is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (41 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (38 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (26 papers). Lianfeng Zou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Lianfeng Zou's co-authors include Chongmin Wang, Ji‐Guang Zhang, Mark Engelhard, Wu Xu, Xiaodi Ren, Xia Cao, Bethany E. Matthews, Wengao Zhao, Chaojiang Niu and Jun Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lianfeng Zou

58 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Enabling High-Voltage Lithium-Metal Batteries under Pract... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 2020 2019 2019 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Enabling High-Voltage Lithium-Metal Batteries under Practical Conditions
    2019 883 citations Xiaodi Ren, Lianfeng Zou et al. profile →
  2. Monolithic solid–electrolyte interphases formed in fluorinated orthoformate-based electrolytes minimize Li depletion and pulverization
    2019 809 citations Xia Cao, Xiaodi Ren et al. profile →
  3. Crack-free single-crystalline Ni-rich layered NCM cathode enable superior cycling performance of lithium-ion batteries
    2020 528 citations Wengao Zhao, Haiping Jia et al. profile →
  4. High-Concentration Ether Electrolytes for Stable High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries
    2019 416 citations Xiaodi Ren, Lianfeng Zou et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
  5. Joint Charge Storage for High‐Rate Aqueous Zinc–Manganese Dioxide Batteries
    2019 379 citations Yan Jin, Lianfeng Zou et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  6. In situ inorganic conductive network formation in high-voltage single-crystal Ni-rich cathodes
    2021 365 citations Wengao Zhao, Lianfeng Zou et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Effects of fluorinated solvents on electrolyte solvation structures and electrode/electrolyte interphases for lithium metal batteries
    2021 251 citations Xia Cao, Peiyuan Gao 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
Lianfeng Zou United States 37 6.7k 3.6k 1.1k 997 716 60 7.4k
Lea de Biasi Germany 16 3.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 885 0.8× 593 0.6× 990 1.4× 22 4.1k
Wei Xiang China 43 5.8k 0.9× 1.6k 0.5× 818 0.8× 2.2k 2.2× 986 1.4× 145 6.2k
Hideki Iba Japan 28 5.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 2.0k 1.9× 559 0.6× 589 0.8× 87 6.1k
Mickaël Dollé Canada 31 4.0k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 694 1.0× 132 4.8k
Bohang Song Singapore 33 4.9k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 736 0.7× 1.8k 1.8× 900 1.3× 52 5.2k
Haodong Liu United States 30 5.5k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 699 0.6× 1.6k 1.6× 726 1.0× 53 5.8k
Loïc Baggetto United States 41 4.8k 0.7× 1.6k 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 644 0.9× 68 5.4k
Peng Lu United States 24 4.5k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 490 0.5× 1.0k 1.0× 454 0.6× 39 4.8k
Rahul Malik United States 22 5.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.3× 1.3k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 631 0.9× 65 5.7k
Lide M. Rodriguez‐Martínez Spain 31 4.3k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 1.8k 1.8× 159 0.2× 64 6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lianfeng Zou

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Yecheng, Zihong Wang, Hehe Zhang, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the effect of alkali cations on Fe single atom catalysts with high coordination numbers. Chemical Science. 16(15). 6366–6375. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Dongxiang, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Surface Restructuring in Cu(Au) Alloys Driven by Oxygen-Mediated Au Mobility. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(28). 7280–7287.
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Zou, Lianfeng, Howard Wang, Jingshu Hui, et al.. (2024). Morphology of Thin-Film Nafion on Carbon as an Analogue of Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(3). 3311–3324. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Weixin, Hehe Zhang, Xia Lu, et al.. (2024). Dual‐Site Doping in Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Enables High‐Voltage Stability of Na‐Ion Batteries. Small. 20(40). e2401915–e2401915. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, Pei, Tao Huang, Biwei Xiao, et al.. (2024). Ultra‐thin and Mechanically Stable LiCoO2‐Electrolyte Interphase Enabled by Mg2+ Involved Electrolyte. Small. 20(28). e2311520–e2311520. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Tianhang, Lianfeng Zou, Heng Jiang, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the Structural Stability and Electrochemical Performance of High-Nickel Cathode Materials through Ti Doping with an Exothermic Non-oxide Precursor. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(26). 33285–33293. 1 indexed citations
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Cao, Xia, Yaobin Xu, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2023). Stability of solid electrolyte interphases and calendar life of lithium metal batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(4). 1548–1559. 50 indexed citations
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Sun, Xianhu, Dongxiang Wu, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2022). Dislocation-induced stop-and-go kinetics of interfacial transformations. Nature. 607(7920). 708–713. 102 indexed citations
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Zou, Lianfeng, Penghui Cao, Yinkai Lei, et al.. (2020). Atomic-scale phase separation induced clustering of solute atoms. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3934–3934. 14 indexed citations
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Jia, Haiping, Peiyuan Gao, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2020). Controlling Ion Coordination Structure and Diffusion Kinetics for Optimized Electrode-Electrolyte Interphases and High-Performance Si Anodes. Chemistry of Materials. 32(20). 8956–8964. 47 indexed citations
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Zou, Lianfeng, Wengao Zhao, Haiping Jia, et al.. (2020). The Role of Secondary Particle Structures in Surface Phase Transitions of Ni-Rich Cathodes. Chemistry of Materials. 32(7). 2884–2892. 80 indexed citations
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Jin, Yan, Lianfeng Zou, Lili Liu, et al.. (2019). Joint Charge Storage for High‐Rate Aqueous Zinc–Manganese Dioxide Batteries. Advanced Materials. 31(29). e1900567–e1900567. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ren, Xiaodi, Lianfeng Zou, Shuhong Jiao, et al.. (2019). High-Concentration Ether Electrolytes for Stable High-Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 4(4). 896–902. 416 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zou, Lianfeng, Wissam A. Saidi, Yinkai Lei, et al.. (2018). Segregation induced order-disorder transition in Cu(Au) surface alloys. Acta Materialia. 154. 220–227. 15 indexed citations
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Luo, Langli, Mao Su, Pengfei Yan, et al.. (2018). Atomic origins of water-vapour-promoted alloy oxidation. Nature Materials. 17(6). 514–518. 146 indexed citations
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Chen, Xiaobo, Dongxiang Wu, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2018). In situatomic-scale observation of inhomogeneous oxide reduction. Chemical Communications. 54(53). 7342–7345. 10 indexed citations
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Zou, Lianfeng, Yinkai Lei, Dmitri N. Zakharov, et al.. (2017). Dislocation nucleation facilitated by atomic segregation. Nature Materials. 17(1). 56–63. 109 indexed citations
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Zou, Lianfeng, Jonathan Li, Dmitri N. Zakharov, et al.. (2017). Atomically Visualizing Elemental Segregation-Induced Surface Alloying and Restructuring. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(24). 6035–6040. 11 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qing, Lianfeng Zou, Guangwen Zhou, Wissam A. Saidi, & Judith C. Yang. (2016). Early and transient stages of Cu oxidation: Atomistic insights from theoretical simulations and in situ experiments. Surface Science. 652. 98–113. 44 indexed citations
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Tian, Shuangshuang, et al.. (2009). INTERNAL OXIDATION KINETICS & DIFFUSION MECHANISM OF OXYGEN IN Cu-Al SINTERED ALLOY. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters). 9(5). 387–390.

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