Mingkai Liu

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Mingkai Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingkai Liu has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Mingkai Liu's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (26 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers). Mingkai Liu is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (26 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (25 papers). Mingkai Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Mingkai Liu's co-authors include Tianxi Liu, Yan Yan, Weng Weei Tjiu, Chao Zhang, Zehua Qu, Huisheng Peng, Zhibin Yang, Yue‐E Miao, Chao Lai and Jisheng Pan 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

Mingkai Liu

99 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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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.

Conductive carbon nanofiber interpenetrated graphene architecture for ultra-stable sodium ion battery

2019 324 citations Mingkai Liu, Zehua Qu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Isolated Copper Atoms Boost *NO₃ Adsorption and Active Hydrogen Retention over Zinc Oxide for Ammonia Electrosynthesis at Ampere-Level Current Densities

2025 43 citations Zhipeng Chen, Gen Liu et al. profile →
Electronic Structure Modulation in N, P, S Tri‐Doped Nanofibers with Interpenetrated Pores for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2025 35 citations Yan Yan, Mingkai Liu et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mingkai Liu China	37	2.4k	1.3k	1.3k	1.1k	725	107	4.2k
Xiaotian Guo China	39	3.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	453 0.6×	105	5.2k
Shujin Hou China	33	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	576 0.8×	75	3.8k
P. Suresh Kumar Singapore	40	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	770 0.7×	812 1.1×	67	4.9k
Yuanjun Liu China	34	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	515 0.7×	173	3.9k
Yingying Wang China	36	2.9k 1.2×	925 0.7×	2.1k 1.6×	2.0k 1.8×	363 0.5×	141	4.6k
Yingying Zhao China	37	2.3k 0.9×	715 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	696 0.6×	418 0.6×	134	3.4k
Xiaodong Hao China	34	2.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	690 1.0×	157	4.9k
Qiang Sun China	31	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	579 0.5×	406 0.6×	111	4.1k
Dahong Chen China	32	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	215 0.3×	67	4.6k
Jiarui Huang China	37	3.5k 1.4×	774 0.6×	1.9k 1.5×	636 0.6×	1.4k 1.9×	166	4.5k

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Yan, Yan, Mingkai Liu, Zehua Qu, et al.. (2025). General synthesis of neighboring dual-atomic sites with a specific pre-designed distance via an interfacial-fixing strategy. Nature Communications. 16(1). 334–334. 22 indexed citations

Zheng, Yong, Hui Li, Youfang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Emerging Nitrogen and Sulfur Co‐doped Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion. Small. 21(11). e2412191–e2412191. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Pan, Niu Huang, Guijie Liang, et al.. (2025). Triazine Engineering in Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Hydrogen Peroxide Photosynthesis. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(48). 2 indexed citations

Ke, Qingping, Jun Tang, Chao Wan, et al.. (2025). Plasmonic Double Perovskite LaSrCoMnO₆ Drives Efficient and Selective Photothermal Catalytic Styrene Epoxidation. Nano Letters. 25(41). 14946–14952. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Chenxiao, Fang Chen, Yiwei Gao, et al.. (2025). Polyvinylimidazolium/polyacrylonitrile nanofiber separator with enhanced polysulfide adsorption toward durable lithium–sulfur batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159329–159329. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Zhipeng, Gen Liu, Hongna Zhang, et al.. (2025). Turning the Selectivity of CO Electroreduction from Acetate to Ethanol by Alloying FCC-Phased Cu with Atomically Dispersed Mn Atoms. Nano Letters. 25(16). 6771–6779. 3 indexed citations

Fan, Wenxuan, Yuan Kong, Cong Xu, et al.. (2025). Anti‐Perovskite Type Ni ₃ InC _0.5 Anchored on Defective Nano Diamond‐Graphene for Highly Efficient Acetylene Semi‐Hydrogenation. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(46).

Liu, Mingkai, et al.. (2024). Enhanced hydrogen production of mid-temperature chemical looping steam methane reforming using lithium-based sorbent particles. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 155522–155522. 15 indexed citations

Tian, Di, Zefeng Wang, Zhou Xu, et al.. (2024). Elevating CO2 selective conversion: Insights into copper-based single atom alloy catalysts. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 8(1). 7 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yu-Xiao, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen Removal Performance and Microbial Response of Anammox Under Multiantibiotic Stress: Effect of Static Magnetic Field. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 63(28). 12350–12360. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Mingkai, et al.. (2024). Compressively Strained and Interconnected Platinum Cones with Greatly Enhanced Activity and Durability toward Oxygen Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(45). 14 indexed citations

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Lin, Chenxiao, Xiaoqin Chen, Yiwei Gao, et al.. (2024). Safe, Facile, and Straightforward Fabrication of Poly(N‐vinyl imidazole)/Polyacrylonitrile Nanofiber Modified Separator as Efficient Polysulfide Barrier Toward Durable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(1). 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenjing, et al.. (2023). Clinical evaluation of a new COVID-19 antigen rapid test kit for detection of SARS-CoV-2. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 108(2). 116136–116136. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhipeng, Dongdong Zhang, Hongna Zhang, et al.. (2023). In-situ reconstruction of Bi60In2O93 nanotube for stable electroreduction of CO2 at ampere-current densities. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 341. 123342–123342. 15 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Haoyan Cheng, Zehua Qu, et al.. (2021). Recent progress on the synthesis and oxygen reduction applications of Fe-based single-atom and double-atom catalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 19489–19507. 149 indexed citations

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Zhu, Min, Yanyan Yu, Junfeng Zhu, et al.. (2020). Single nucleotide variant discrimination by toehold exchange spherical nucleic acids modulated on hierarchical molybdenum disulfide acanthospheres. Chemical Communications. 56(61). 8599–8602. 3 indexed citations

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Yan, Yan, Peng Zhang, Zehua Qu, et al.. (2020). Carbon/Sulfur Aerogel with Adequate Mesoporous Channels as Robust Polysulfide Confinement Matrix for Highly Stable Lithium–Sulfur Battery. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7662–7669. 145 indexed citations

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Peng, Hua‐Ping, Zhongnan Huang, Weihua Wu, et al.. (2019). Versatile High-Performance Electrochemiluminescence ELISA Platform Based on a Gold Nanocluster Probe. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(27). 24812–24819. 75 indexed citations

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Liu, Yuqing, Yan Yan, Kun Li, et al.. (2018). A high-areal-capacity lithium–sulfur cathode achieved by a boron-doped carbon–sulfur aerogel with consecutive core–shell structures. Chemical Communications. 55(8). 1084–1087. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Yuqing Liu, Yan Yan, et al.. (2018). High Areal Capacitance for Lithium Ion Storage Achieved by a Hierarchical Carbon/MoS₂ Aerogel with Vertically Aligned Pores. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(9). 4814–4823. 22 indexed citations

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