Mengran Li

9.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
127 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Mengran Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mengran Li has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 54 papers in Materials Chemistry and 41 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mengran Li's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (33 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers). Mengran Li is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (33 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (30 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers). Mengran Li collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Netherlands. Mengran Li's co-authors include Lei Ge, Zhonghua Zhu, Linzhou Zhuang, Yi Jia, Xiangdong Yao, Yisu Yang, Wei Zhou, Thomas Burdyny, Thomas E. Rufford and Hesamoddin Rabiee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Mengran Li

119 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

Ultrathin Iron‐Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets with Abundant Oxygen Vacancies for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2017 1.3k citations Lei Ge, Mengran Li et al. profile →
Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation

2020 573 citations Yangli Pan, Xiaomin Xu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dinitrogen to value-added products: a review

2021 389 citations Hesamoddin Rabiee, Lei Ge et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Electrochemical CO2 reduction in membrane-electrode assemblies

2022 214 citations Lei Ge, Hesamoddin Rabiee et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mengran Li Australia	45	5.1k	3.4k	2.6k	1.7k	810	127	7.5k
Peixin Cui China	50	5.5k 1.1×	3.6k 1.1×	3.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	725 0.9×	162	9.1k
Jinyu Ye China	41	5.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	359 0.4×	133	7.0k
Ying‐Rui Lu Taiwan	46	7.8k 1.5×	5.6k 1.7×	4.3k 1.7×	1.4k 0.9×	896 1.1×	184	10.7k
Peng Fei Liu China	41	6.0k 1.2×	3.8k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	436 0.5×	238	7.2k
Jing Gu China	40	4.6k 0.9×	3.7k 1.1×	4.2k 1.6×	815 0.5×	652 0.8×	136	8.4k
Li Shi China	53	5.8k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	5.4k 2.1×	1.3k 0.8×	677 0.8×	163	9.6k
Tao Ma China	37	3.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	684 0.8×	111	6.4k
Liheng Wu United States	25	3.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	2.9k 1.1×	977 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	46	6.2k
Pengfei An China	43	7.6k 1.5×	4.7k 1.4×	4.6k 1.8×	1.2k 0.7×	829 1.0×	131	10.4k
Jun Bao China	44	2.8k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	3.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.0×	586 0.7×	176	5.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Mengran, Vanessa K. Peterson, Rijia Lin, et al.. (2025). In Situ Formation of a Melt‐Solid Interface Toward Stable Oxygen Reduction in Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(12). 7 indexed citations

Peterson, Vanessa K., Rijia Lin, Anita M. D’Angelo, et al.. (2025). Selective In Situ Phase Segregation Enabling Efficient and Stable Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell Cathode Performance. Small. 21(31). e2411223–e2411223. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Wenjie, Lianhai Zu, Xiao Wang, et al.. (2024). Revisiting self-discharge of supercapacitors with multilayered graphene membrane as a model nanoporous electrode. Energy storage materials. 74. 103969–103969. 5 indexed citations

Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Mengran Li, Penghui Yan, et al.. (2024). Rational Designing Microenvironment of Gas‐Diffusion Electrodes via Microgel‐Augmented CO₂ Availability for High‐Rate and Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethylene. Advanced Science. 11(40). e2402964–e2402964. 15 indexed citations

Yuan, Tiange, Min Li, Siddhartha Subramanian, et al.. (2024). Sequential electrocatalytic reactions along a membrane electrode assembly drive efficient nitrate-to-ammonia conversion. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(6). 101977–101977. 7 indexed citations

Li, Mengran, Eric W. Lees, Wen Ju, et al.. (2024). Local ionic transport enables selective PGM-free bipolar membrane electrode assembly. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8222–8222. 10 indexed citations

Montfort, Hugo‐Pieter Iglesias van, Siddhartha Subramanian, Erdem Irtem, et al.. (2023). An Advanced Guide to Assembly and Operation of CO₂ Electrolyzers. ACS Energy Letters. 8(10). 4156–4161. 49 indexed citations

Abdinejad, Maryam, Tiange Yuan, Keith Tang, et al.. (2022). Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Acetate using Heterogenized Hydrophilic Manganese Porphyrins. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(14). e202203977–e202203977. 19 indexed citations

Wu, Xinhao, Yanan Guo, Yuxing Gu, et al.. (2022). In operando‐formed interface between silver and perovskite oxide for efficient electroreduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. Carbon Energy. 5(4). 8 indexed citations

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Li, Mengran, Erdem Irtem, Hugo‐Pieter Iglesias van Montfort, Maryam Abdinejad, & Thomas Burdyny. (2022). Energy comparison of sequential and integrated CO2 capture and electrochemical conversion. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5398–5398. 103 indexed citations

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Abdinejad, Maryam, Erdem Irtem, Mark Sassenburg, et al.. (2022). CO₂ Electrolysis via Surface-Engineering Electrografted Pyridines on Silver Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 12(13). 7862–7876. 51 indexed citations

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Zhang, Siyu, Weiyan Hu, Mengran Li, et al.. (2021). Multiscale research on spatial supply-demand mismatches and synergic strategies of multifunctional cultivated land. Journal of Environmental Management. 299. 113605–113605. 58 indexed citations

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Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Lei Ge, Xueqin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Gas diffusion electrodes (GDEs) for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and dinitrogen to value-added products: a review. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(4). 1959–2008. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rabiee, Hesamoddin, Lei Ge, Xueqin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Stand-alone asymmetric hollow fiber gas-diffusion electrodes with distinguished bronze phases for high-efficiency CO2 electrochemical reduction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 298. 120538–120538. 59 indexed citations

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Zhong, Yu, Baojian Chen, Mengran Li, et al.. (2020). A DMP-triggered in vivo maternal haploid induction system in the dicotyledonous Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 6(5). 466–472. 98 indexed citations

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Sun, Hainan, Bin Hu, Daqin Guan, et al.. (2020). Bulk and Surface Properties Regulation of Single/Double Perovskites to Realize Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reactivity. ChemSusChem. 13(11). 3045–3052. 39 indexed citations

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Pan, Yangli, Xiaomin Xu, Yijun Zhong, et al.. (2020). Direct evidence of boosted oxygen evolution over perovskite by enhanced lattice oxygen participation. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2002–2002. 573 indexed citations breakdown →

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Garg, Sahil, Mengran Li, Thomas E. Rufford, et al.. (2019). Catalyst–Electrolyte Interactions in Aqueous Reline Solutions for Highly Selective Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. ChemSusChem. 13(2). 304–311. 32 indexed citations

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Rehman, Ateeq Ur, Mengran Li, Ruth Knibbe, et al.. (2019). Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and CO₂ Tolerance of Cathode for Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells by in Situ Formation of Carbonates. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(30). 26909–26919. 47 indexed citations

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Li, Mengran, Mingwen Zhao, Feng Li, et al.. (2017). A niobium and tantalum co-doped perovskite cathode for solid oxide fuel cells operating below 500 °C. Nature Communications. 8(1). 13990–13990. 218 indexed citations

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