Liguo Ma

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Liguo Ma is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liguo Ma has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liguo Ma's work include 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (6 papers). Liguo Ma is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers), Graphene research and applications (6 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (6 papers). Liguo Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Liguo Ma's co-authors include Yuanbo Zhang, Xian Hui Chen, Yijun Yu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Xiu Fang Lu, Sejoong Kim, Xiaohai Niu, Donglai Feng and Maojun Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Liguo Ma

34 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Gate-tunable phase transitions in thin flakes of 1T-TaS2

2015 593 citations Yijun Yu, Fangyuan Yang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liguo Ma China	20	1.9k	793	749	589	378	34	2.5k
Minghu Pan China	27	2.4k 1.3×	775 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	743 1.3×	415 1.1×	110	3.2k
Surajit Saha India	24	1.3k 0.7×	368 0.5×	935 1.2×	605 1.0×	423 1.1×	107	2.2k
Yusong Bai United States	21	2.2k 1.2×	721 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	322 0.5×	193 0.5×	40	2.8k
R. T. Lechner Austria	25	1.4k 0.7×	766 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	825 1.4×	200 0.5×	51	2.6k
R. H. Miwa Brazil	30	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	1.4k 1.9×	280 0.5×	354 0.9×	162	3.3k
Fei Sun China	20	883 0.5×	376 0.5×	478 0.6×	434 0.7×	191 0.5×	69	1.5k
Cyril Chacon France	24	1.1k 0.6×	826 1.0×	702 0.9×	700 1.2×	301 0.8×	86	1.9k
Zhiying Zhao China	16	1.6k 0.8×	593 0.7×	497 0.7×	695 1.2×	487 1.3×	90	2.2k
Liuyan Zhao United States	25	2.5k 1.4×	822 1.0×	1.4k 1.8×	996 1.7×	589 1.6×	57	3.5k
F. Lucari Italy	20	1.0k 0.6×	899 1.1×	356 0.5×	572 1.0×	440 1.2×	77	1.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ma, Liguo, et al.. (2025). Relativistic Mott transition in twisted WSe2 tetralayers. Nature Materials. 24(12). 1935–1941. 2 indexed citations

Ma, Liguo, et al.. (2025). Perfect Coulomb drag in a dipolar excitonic insulator. Science. 388(6744). 274–278. 9 indexed citations

Zhao, Xuan, Liguo Ma, Feng Jin, et al.. (2024). Interlayer Fermi Polarons of Excited Exciton States in Quantizing Magnetic Fields. Nano Letters. 24(23). 7077–7083. 1 indexed citations

Tao, Zui, Bowen Shen, Shengwei Jiang, et al.. (2024). Valley-Coherent Quantum Anomalous Hall State in AB-Stacked MoTe2/WSe2 Bilayers. Physical Review X. 14(1). 25 indexed citations

Tian, Ning, Zhe Huang, Fangyuan Yang, et al.. (2023). An ultra-high vacuum system for fabricating clean two-dimensional material devices. Review of Scientific Instruments. 94(1). 13903–13903. 8 indexed citations

Gu, Jie, Liguo Ma, Song Liu, et al.. (2022). Dipolar excitonic insulator in a moiré lattice. Nature Physics. 18(4). 395–400. 99 indexed citations

Ma, Liguo, Zefang Wang, Yongxin Zeng, et al.. (2021). Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers. Nature. 598(7882). 585–589. 171 indexed citations

Ma, Liguo, et al.. (2019). One-Step In Situ Self-Assembly of Cypress Leaf-Like Cu(OH)2 Nanostructure/Graphene Nanosheets Composite with Excellent Cycling Stability for Supercapacitors. Nanoscale Research Letters. 14(1). 167–167. 23 indexed citations

Ma, Liguo, Yuanyuan Cao, Yingying Duan, Lu Han, & Shunai Che. (2017). Silver Films with Hierarchical Chirality. Angewandte Chemie. 129(30). 8783–8788. 3 indexed citations

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Song, Jingnan, Maojun Zheng, Xiaoliang Yuan, et al.. (2017). Electrochemically induced Ti3+ self-doping of TiO2 nanotube arrays for improved photoelectrochemical water splitting. Journal of Materials Science. 52(12). 6976–6986. 62 indexed citations

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Song, Jingnan, Maojun Zheng, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2016). Fast Growth of Highly Ordered TiO2 Nanotube Arrays on Si Substrate under High-Field Anodization. Nano-Micro Letters. 9(2). 13–13. 14 indexed citations

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Ma, Liguo, Cun Ye, Yijun Yu, et al.. (2016). A metallic mosaic phase and the origin of Mott-insulating state in 1T-TaS2. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10956–10956. 206 indexed citations

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Ma, Liguo, Maojun Zheng, Shaohua Liu, et al.. (2016). Synchronous exfoliation and assembly of graphene on 3D Ni(OH)₂ for supercapacitors. Chemical Communications. 52(91). 13373–13376. 26 indexed citations

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Li, Qiang, Maojun Zheng, Miao Zhong, et al.. (2016). Engineering MoSx/Ti/InP Hybrid Photocathode for Improved Solar Hydrogen Production. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29738–29738. 19 indexed citations

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Duan, Yingying, Lu Han, Shunsuke Asahina, et al.. (2015). Optically Active Nanostructured ZnO Films. Angewandte Chemie. 127(50). 15385–15390. 19 indexed citations

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Duan, Yingying, Lu Han, Shunsuke Asahina, et al.. (2015). Optically Active Nanostructured ZnO Films. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(50). 15170–15175. 93 indexed citations

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Yu, Yijun, Fangyuan Yang, Xiu Fang Lu, et al.. (2015). Gate-tunable phase transitions in thin flakes of 1T-TaS2. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(3). 270–276. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Liguo, Yingying Duan, Yuanyuan Cao, et al.. (2013). Synthesis of chiral metal oxide complexes with tunable electron transition-based optical activity. Chemical Communications. 49(99). 11686–11686. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Shaohua, Lu Han, Yingying Duan, et al.. (2012). Synthesis of chiral TiO2 nanofibre with electron transition-based optical activity. Nature Communications. 3(1). 1215–1215. 157 indexed citations

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Zhong, Miao, et al.. (2008). Direct integration of vertical In2O3 nanowire arrays, nanosheet chains, and photoinduced reversible switching of wettability. Applied Physics Letters. 92(9). 12 indexed citations

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