Liang Ma

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Liang Ma is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang Ma has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Materials Chemistry, 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 24 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Liang Ma's work include 2D Materials and Applications (31 papers), Graphene research and applications (25 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (24 papers). Liang Ma is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (31 papers), Graphene research and applications (25 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (24 papers). Liang Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Liang Ma's co-authors include Xiao Cheng Zeng, Jun Dai, Jinlan Wang, Ming‐Gang Ju, Xingbo Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Feng Ding, Wenyuan Li, Nitin P. Padture and Min Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Liang Ma

134 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Earth-Abundant Nontoxic Titanium(IV)-based Vacancy-Ordered Double Perovskite Halides with Tunable 1.0 to 1.8 eV Bandgaps for Photovoltaic Applications

2017 399 citations Ming‐Gang Ju, Min Chen et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
Uniform nucleation and epitaxy of bilayer molybdenum disulfide on sapphire

2022 322 citations Lei Liu, Taotao Li et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang Ma China	39	4.0k	2.8k	735	687	570	140	5.4k
Joohoon Kang South Korea	33	3.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	496 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	698 1.2×	136	5.0k
Xin Jiang China	36	2.6k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	944 1.3×	806 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	133	4.9k
Yonghui Zhang China	40	3.6k 0.9×	3.4k 1.2×	573 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	1.2k 2.2×	160	5.6k
Sudipta Som India	41	4.0k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	486 0.7×	770 1.1×	510 0.9×	163	6.0k
Nouar Tabet Saudi Arabia	33	3.4k 0.9×	3.2k 1.2×	607 0.8×	474 0.7×	795 1.4×	151	5.0k
Qinghong Yuan China	35	3.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	549 0.7×	763 1.1×	590 1.0×	91	4.4k
Xiaopeng Hao China	43	3.5k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	668 1.0×	1.7k 2.9×	197	5.9k
Minoru Mizuhata Japan	30	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	464 0.6×	713 1.0×	814 1.4×	192	3.6k
Jun Liu China	34	2.4k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	436 0.6×	446 0.6×	1.1k 2.0×	179	4.1k
Guoxing Li China	40	3.9k 1.0×	4.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	836 1.2×	1.4k 2.5×	139	8.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xiaoyu, Liang Ma, Yannan Zhou, et al.. (2025). Graphene oxide membrane with recognition sites for efficient separation of mono-/di-valent metal ions. Desalination. 604. 118617–118617. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Tengfei, Yuqiang Bai, Lin Wang, et al.. (2025). Edge-Dominated Epitaxy of Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃ with Ultrabroadband Response. ACS Nano. 19(28). 26055–26064.

Ma, Liang, et al.. (2025). A π-conjugated organic molecule-modified strategy to achieve high-performance metal nitrate birefringent crystals. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(17). 5046–5053. 3 indexed citations

Zhu, Lin, Zengyan Wei, Yuhao Liu, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of hierarchical carbon Nanofibers-CoNi/C composites for enhanced microwave absorption efficiency. Applied Surface Science. 681. 161506–161506. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Shaojie, Yuhao Liu, Xiaoxiao Huang, et al.. (2024). Synergistic microwave absorption effect of graphene-BN-Fe3O4 composite at thin thickness. Applied Surface Science. 675. 160959–160959. 14 indexed citations

Zhao, Yan, Bei Zhang, Zonghao Liu, et al.. (2024). Defect Engineering Boosted Peroxydisulfate Activation of Dual-Vacancy Cu–Fe Spinel Oxides for Soil Organics Decontamination. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(8). 2025–2035. 16 indexed citations

Xing, Yu, Xiwen Zhang, Liang Ma, & Jinlan Wang. (2024). Giant Tunneling Electro‐Resistance in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions: The Interface Barrier Gain Mechanism. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(49). 2 indexed citations

Gong, Xiaoshu, Qiang Li, Ruikang Dong, Jinlan Wang, & Liang Ma. (2024). Mechanism of Thermodynamically Rationalized Selective Growth of a Two-Dimensional Ternary Ferromagnet on Insulating Substrates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(44). 10918–10926. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Lingfeng, Wenyuan Li, Michael P. Brady, et al.. (2023). Long-term oxidation and chromium evaporation behavior of Al2O3-forming austenitic stainless steel for 900 °C balance-of-plant components applications in solid oxide fuel cells. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 50. 1109–1125. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Lei, Taotao Li, Liang Ma, et al.. (2022). Uniform nucleation and epitaxy of bilayer molybdenum disulfide on sapphire. Nature. 605(7908). 69–75. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhou, Zhaobo, Xiwen Zhang, Yilv Guo, et al.. (2021). Ultralong lifetime for fully photogenerated spin-polarized current in two-dimensional ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic semiconductor heterostructures. Physical review. B.. 103(24). 19 indexed citations

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Pan, Jing, et al.. (2020). Organic Dye Molecules Sensitization-Enhanced Photocatalytic Water-Splitting Activity of MoS₂ from First-Principles Calculations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(12). 6580–6587. 15 indexed citations

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Ju, Ming‐Gang, Jun Dai, Liang Ma, et al.. (2019). Lead-free low-dimensional tin halide perovskites with functional organic spacers: breaking the charge-transport bottleneck. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(28). 16742–16747. 30 indexed citations

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Lu, Shuaihua, Qionghua Zhou, Liang Ma, Yilv Guo, & Jinlan Wang. (2019). Rapid Discovery of Ferroelectric Photovoltaic Perovskites and Material Descriptors via Machine Learning. Small Methods. 3(11). 95 indexed citations

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Dai, Jun, Ming‐Gang Ju, Liang Ma, & Xiao Cheng Zeng. (2019). Bi(Sb)NCa₃: Expansion of Perovskite Photovoltaics into All-Inorganic Anti-Perovskite Materials. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(11). 6363–6369. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Bing, Yehui Zhang, Liang Ma, et al.. (2019). MnX (X = P, As) monolayers: a new type of two-dimensional intrinsic room temperature ferromagnetic half-metallic material with large magnetic anisotropy. Nanoscale. 11(10). 4204–4209. 153 indexed citations

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Wu, Qisheng, Wen Wu Xu, Liang Ma, Jinlan Wang, & Xiao Cheng Zeng. (2018). Two-Dimensional AuMX₂(M = Al, Ga, In; X = S, Se) Monolayers Featuring Intracrystalline Aurophilic Interactions with Novel Electronic and Optical Properties. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(19). 16739–16746. 13 indexed citations

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Ma, Liang & Xiao Cheng Zeng. (2018). Unravelling the Role of Topological Defects on Catalytic Unzipping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Single Transition Metal Atom. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(23). 6801–6807. 10 indexed citations

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Wu, Qisheng, Wen Wu Xu, Bingyan Qu, et al.. (2017). Au₆S₂monolayer sheets: metallic and semiconducting polymorphs. Materials Horizons. 4(6). 1085–1091. 30 indexed citations

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Ju, Ming‐Gang, Min Chen, Yuanyuan Zhou, et al.. (2017). Earth-Abundant Nontoxic Titanium(IV)-based Vacancy-Ordered Double Perovskite Halides with Tunable 1.0 to 1.8 eV Bandgaps for Photovoltaic Applications. ACS Energy Letters. 3(2). 297–304. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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