Lifeng Liu

19.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
378 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

Lifeng Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Lifeng Liu has authored 378 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 165 papers in Materials Chemistry and 109 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Lifeng Liu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (96 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (57 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (44 papers). Lifeng Liu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (96 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (57 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (44 papers). Lifeng Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Portugal and Germany. Lifeng Liu's co-authors include Dehua Xiong, Wei Li, Xiaoguang Wang, Junyuan Xu, Isilda Amorim, Zhipeng Yu, Xiao‐Qing Bao, Yury V. Kolen’ko, U. Gösele and Li Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lifeng Liu

357 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Bifunctional Nickel Phosphide Nanocatalysts Supported on Carbon Fiber Paper for Highly Efficient and Stable Overall Water Splitting

2016 643 citations Dehua Xiong, Lifeng Liu et al. profile →
One‐Step Synthesis of Self‐Supported Nickel Phosphide Nanosheet Array Cathodes for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

2015 528 citations Lifeng Liu et al. profile →
Trends in activity for the oxygen evolution reaction on transition metal (M = Fe, Co, Ni) phosphide pre-catalysts

2018 496 citations Dehua Xiong, Isilda Amorim et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lifeng Liu China	71	10.0k	7.8k	6.5k	3.6k	2.1k	378	16.8k
Sen Zhang China	66	8.5k 0.8×	8.2k 1.0×	6.4k 1.0×	1.9k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	308	16.2k
Jing Li China	73	9.7k 1.0×	9.5k 1.2×	9.6k 1.5×	3.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	719	23.2k
Jing Tang China	71	11.6k 1.2×	9.1k 1.2×	8.5k 1.3×	7.3k 2.1×	2.8k 1.3×	284	22.3k
Junjie Li China	57	6.2k 0.6×	4.1k 0.5×	5.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	392	13.3k
Hong Li China	56	8.9k 0.9×	6.8k 0.9×	12.9k 2.0×	1.9k 0.5×	2.8k 1.3×	327	19.6k
Ji Liang China	59	11.8k 1.2×	8.2k 1.1×	6.1k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	296	18.3k
Jia Li China	77	11.2k 1.1×	5.6k 0.7×	9.3k 1.4×	3.1k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	447	20.4k
Xiaolin Zheng United States	65	8.3k 0.8×	9.2k 1.2×	10.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.4×	4.2k 2.0×	272	19.3k
Yan Wang China	63	6.8k 0.7×	4.9k 0.6×	5.2k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.2×	493	15.5k
Weijia Zhou China	78	12.3k 1.2×	14.5k 1.9×	9.1k 1.4×	3.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	378	22.7k

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Wang, Wei, Jianguo Si, Liguo Yue, et al.. (2025). Bimetallic active sites with tailored d-bands boost multistep sulfur redox reactions for enhanced lithium-sulfur battery performance. Chemical Engineering Journal. 507. 160363–160363. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Lifeng, et al.. (2025). Short-range order based ultra fast large-scale modeling of high-entropy alloys. Computational Materials Science. 253. 113792–113792.

Li, Pengfei, Jinfei Hu, Wanqiang Yao, et al.. (2025). Comparing methods of assessing uncertainty in DEM of difference for soil erosion detection based on UAV laser scanning data. Geomorphology. 491. 110034–110034.

Li, Pengfei, Jinfei Hu, Xiao Bai, et al.. (2025). Mapping Catchment-Scale Soil Erosion and Deposition Using an Improved DoD Method Based on Multitemporal UAV-Borne Laser Scanning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–13.

Zhang, Xiaoxue, Wei Li, Lifeng Liu, et al.. (2025). Three-dimensional interface engineering via CoMoO4@Co3O4 immobilized on nickel foam for sulfamethoxazole degradation with enhanced electron transfer and high-efficiency peroxymonosulfate activation. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 376. 125453–125453. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Yang, Yanan Wang, Zhipeng Yu, et al.. (2025). Gold Single Atom Doped Defective Nanoporous Copper Octahedrons for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Ethylene. ACS Nano. 19(4). 4505–4514. 16 indexed citations

Wang, Wei, Xinying Wang, Huanhuan Yang, et al.. (2025). Design rules for anion-doped catalysts revealed by p-p-s orbital coupling in Li-S chemistry. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10895–10895.

Syrek, Karolina, et al.. (2025). Novel anodic WO3-SeO2-CuO photoelectrode operating under solar illumination for water-splitting applications. Journal of Power Sources. 640. 236656–236656. 3 indexed citations

Zheng, Wei, Feng Xie, Linghu Meng, et al.. (2025). Heteroatom dopants overcome the activity-stability trade-off in RuO2 for acidic oxygen evolution. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6716–6716. 11 indexed citations

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Xia, Zhonghong, Yan Wang, Kaiyang Xu, et al.. (2025). Cavities-Induced Compressive Strain in Unique Nanotubes Boosts the C1 Pathway of Ethanol Oxidation Electrocatalysis. ACS Nano. 19(7). 7379–7390. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Lifeng, et al.. (2024). Management information platform based on Internet of Things. Measurement Sensors. 34. 101262–101262. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhipeng, Danil W. Boukhvalov, Hao Tan, et al.. (2024). Sulfur and phosphorus co-doped FeCoNiCrMn high-entropy alloys as efficient sulfion oxidation reaction catalysts enabling self-powered asymmetric seawater electrolysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 494. 153094–153094. 25 indexed citations

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Piecha, Dorothea, Mateusz Marzec, Tomasz Uchacz, et al.. (2024). Formation of 2H and 1T/2H MoSe2 via thermal selenization of electrodeposited Mo thin films and nanowires. Applied Surface Science. 684. 161801–161801. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Lifeng, et al.. (2024). Understorey Plant Functional Traits of Platycladus orientalis Depends on Crown Closure and Soil Properties in the Loess Plateau, China. Forests. 15(6). 1042–1042. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jingwei, Lejuan Cai, Zhipeng Yu, et al.. (2024). Oxygen-defective ruthenium oxide as an efficient and durable electrocatalyst for acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(1). 312–324. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Diancheng, et al.. (2024). A Janus Separator Regulating Zinc Deposition Behavior Synergistically by Cellulose and ZrO₂ Nanoparticles Toward High‐Performance Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries. Small. 21(6). e2411463–e2411463. 9 indexed citations

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Marzec, Mateusz, et al.. (2024). Ni–Ru Electrodeposition from Ethaline Deep Eutectic Solvent: Material Preparation and Thermal Selenization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(39). 16320–16333. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhipeng, Chaowei Si, Alec P. LaGrow, et al.. (2023). Defective Ru-doped α-MnO2 nanorods enabling efficient hydrazine oxidation for energy-saving hydrogen production via proton exchange membranes at near-neutral pH. Chemical Engineering Journal. 470. 144050–144050. 41 indexed citations

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Amorim, Isilda, Zhipeng Yu, Fátima Bento, & Lifeng Liu. (2023). Towards an Improved Electrocatalytic Material for Detection of Polyphenols Based on Transition Metal Phosphides Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(2). 27506–27506. 9 indexed citations

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Amorim, Isilda & Lifeng Liu. (2022). Transition metal tellurides as emerging catalysts for electrochemical water splitting. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 34. 101031–101031. 47 indexed citations

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