Li‐Wu Fan

11.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
196 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Li‐Wu Fan is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Li‐Wu Fan has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 50 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Li‐Wu Fan's work include Phase Change Materials Research (75 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (44 papers) and Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (42 papers). Li‐Wu Fan is often cited by papers focused on Phase Change Materials Research (75 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (44 papers) and Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (42 papers). Li‐Wu Fan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Sweden. Li‐Wu Fan's co-authors include J. M. Khodadadi, Zi‐Tao Yu, Kefa Cen, Yi Zeng, Ya-Cai Hu, Zitao Yu, Nan Hu, Zi-Qin Zhu, Ahmad Pesaran and Xin Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Li‐Wu Fan

187 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Thermal conductivity enhancement of phase change materials for thermal energy storage: A review

2010 834 citations Li‐Wu Fan et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →
A parametric study on thermal management of an air-cooled lithium-ion battery module for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

2013 443 citations Li‐Wu Fan et al. profile →
Ligand-channel-enabled ultrafast Li-ion conduction

2024 351 citations Di Lu, Ruhong Li et al. Nature profile →
Anion–Diluent Pairing for Stable High-Energy Li Metal Batteries

2022 233 citations Chunnan Zhu, Chuangchao Sun et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
50C Fast‐Charge Li‐Ion Batteries using a Graphite Anode

2022 218 citations Chuangchao Sun, Xiao Ji et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Deciphering and modulating energetics of solvation structure enables aggressive high-voltage chemistry of Li metal batteries

2022 200 citations Zunchun Wu, Ruhong Li et al. Chem profile →
Tackling realistic Li+ flux for high-energy lithium metal batteries

2022 173 citations Shuo‐Qing Zhang, Ruhong Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Eco-friendly electrolytes via a robust bond design for high-energy Li metal batteries

2022 166 citations Yiqiang Huang, Ruhong Li et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Multifunctional solvent molecule design enables high-voltage Li-ion batteries

2023 139 citations Junbo Zhang, Haikuo Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
High power and energy density graphene phase change composite materials for efficient thermal management of Li-ion batteries

2025 24 citations Li‐Wu Fan et al. Energy storage materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Li‐Wu Fan China	48	5.8k	3.1k	2.7k	1.6k	1.6k	196	9.5k
Shuangfeng Wang China	58	5.9k 1.0×	2.8k 0.9×	6.7k 2.5×	1.6k 1.0×	6.5k 4.0×	211	13.7k
Majid Bahrami Canada	47	2.8k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	984 0.6×	834 0.5×	267	6.3k
Zhonghao Rao China	61	6.5k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	7.4k 2.8×	1.9k 1.2×	6.9k 4.3×	337	15.1k
Srinivas Garimella United States	42	5.9k 1.0×	663 0.2×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	289	8.9k
Tomohiro Akiyama Japan	55	6.9k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	298 0.2×	349	11.1k
Tahar Laoui Saudi Arabia	42	4.8k 0.8×	636 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	3.6k 2.2×	1.9k 1.2×	180	10.8k
Chao Xu China	44	3.4k 0.6×	3.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	709 0.4×	462 0.3×	262	6.4k
Liwen Jin China	37	3.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	869 0.5×	983 0.6×	194	5.1k
Xinwei Li China	48	2.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	234	7.0k
Zhiqiang Sun China	39	1.8k 0.3×	1.1k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	578 0.4×	237	4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Li‐Wu Fan

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

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Li, Ruhong, Xiaoteng Huang, Haikuo Zhang, et al.. (2025). A path towards high lithium-metal electrode coulombic efficiency based on electrolyte interaction motif descriptor. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4672–4672. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Qing, et al.. (2024). Study on the effective thermal conductivity of typical light petroleum hydrocarbons-contaminated soil at low temperatures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 236. 126293–126293. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Liang, et al.. (2024). Determination on the inherent thermal conductivity and thermal contact resistance of individual thin-layer materials in Li-ion batteries. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 230. 125741–125741. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Yuming, Nan Hu, Jiayi Zhang, et al.. (2024). High‐Performance Boiling Surfaces Enabled by an Electrode‐Transpose All‐Electrochemical Strategy. Advanced Science. 12(7). e2413142–e2413142. 6 indexed citations

Yang, Sheng, et al.. (2024). Hydroxylated boron nitride-enabled erythritol composite phase change material with highly increased thermal conductivity and compensated heat storage density loss. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 282. 113344–113344. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Tianyu, Lizhong Yang, Yuchen Zhang, Li‐Wu Fan, & Chun Yang. (2024). Temperature-gradient-enabled prohibition of condensation frosting on fin surfaces. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(6). 101970–101970. 5 indexed citations

Li, Ruhong, Zunchun Wu, Shuo‐Qing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Upgrading Electrolyte Antioxidant Chemistry by Constructing Potential Scaling Relationship. Angewandte Chemie. 136(31). 7 indexed citations

Li, Ruhong, Zunchun Wu, Shuo‐Qing Zhang, et al.. (2024). Upgrading Electrolyte Antioxidant Chemistry by Constructing Potential Scaling Relationship. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(31). e202406122–e202406122. 9 indexed citations

Lu, Di, Ruhong Li, Muhammad Mominur Rahman, et al.. (2024). Ligand-channel-enabled ultrafast Li-ion conduction. Nature. 627(8002). 101–107. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Zirui, et al.. (2023). Synergistic enhancement strategy on the heat charging process of a shell-and-tube thermal storage device based on close-contact melting mechanism and nano-enhanced phase change material. Journal of Energy Storage. 72. 108529–108529. 6 indexed citations

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Shao, Xuefeng, Sheng Yang, Hongyi Shi, Li‐Wu Fan, & Yanping Yuan. (2023). A comprehensive evaluation on the cycling stability of sugar alcohols for medium-temperature latent heat storage. Journal of Energy Storage. 64. 107190–107190. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Junbo, Haikuo Zhang, Suting Weng, et al.. (2023). Multifunctional solvent molecule design enables high-voltage Li-ion batteries. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2211–2211. 139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Zirui, Nan Hu, & Li‐Wu Fan. (2022). Nanocomposite phase change materials for high-performance thermal energy storage: A critical review. Energy storage materials. 55. 727–753. 149 indexed citations

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Sun, Chuangchao, Xiao Ji, Suting Weng, et al.. (2022). 50C Fast‐Charge Li‐Ion Batteries using a Graphite Anode. Advanced Materials. 34(43). e2206020–e2206020. 218 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Yang, Xuewei Zhang, Jinglan Liu, et al.. (2022). Using Scalable Graphene via Press-and-Peel: A Robust and Storable Tape. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(12). 14513–14519. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chunnan, Chuangchao Sun, Ruhong Li, et al.. (2022). Anion–Diluent Pairing for Stable High-Energy Li Metal Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 7(4). 1338–1347. 233 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lu, Di, Xincheng Lei, Suting Weng, et al.. (2022). A self-purifying electrolyte enables high energy Li ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(8). 3331–3342. 79 indexed citations

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Wu, Zunchun, Ruhong Li, Shuo‐Qing Zhang, et al.. (2022). Deciphering and modulating energetics of solvation structure enables aggressive high-voltage chemistry of Li metal batteries. Chem. 9(3). 650–664. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Jiaqi, Kazi Fazle Rabbi, Wuchen Fu, et al.. (2021). Liquid film–induced critical heat flux enhancement on structured surfaces. Science Advances. 7(26). 80 indexed citations

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Hu, Nan, et al.. (2021). Rapid charging for latent heat thermal energy storage: A state-of-the-art review of close-contact melting. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 155. 111918–111918. 74 indexed citations

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