Mingquan Xu

4.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Mingquan Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingquan Xu has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mingquan Xu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (6 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (6 papers). Mingquan Xu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (6 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (6 papers). Mingquan Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Mingquan Xu's co-authors include Wu Zhou, Yanguang Li, Jun Deng, Weifeng Wei, Yong Zhu, Yafei Li, Qiufang Gong, Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng and Jun Lü and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mingquan Xu

32 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Structural defects on converted bismuth oxide nanotubes enable highly active electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction

2019 596 citations Qiufang Gong, Pan Ding et al. Nature Communications profile →
Dynamic Behavior of Single-Atom Catalysts in Electrocatalysis: Identification of Cu-N₃ as an Active Site for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2021 410 citations Mingquan Xu, Wu Zhou et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition

2021 267 citations Lingjia Meng, Zhang Zhou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mingquan Xu China	22	1.9k	1.5k	1.3k	764	351	33	3.1k
Sunmoon Yu United States	30	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	472 1.3×	39	3.5k
Genxiang Wang China	30	3.1k 1.6×	1.2k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	884 1.2×	653 1.9×	52	4.0k
Wentuan Bi China	27	3.4k 1.8×	2.7k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	761 1.0×	603 1.7×	47	4.6k
Geng Wu China	27	3.7k 1.9×	1.8k 1.2×	2.1k 1.6×	949 1.2×	295 0.8×	53	4.6k
Junrui Li China	29	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	460 0.6×	299 0.9×	57	3.4k
Jiangtao Qu Australia	23	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	862 0.7×	565 0.7×	332 0.9×	74	2.5k
Fuzhan Song China	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	349 0.5×	932 2.7×	71	3.1k
Ketao Zang China	23	2.8k 1.4×	2.6k 1.8×	2.2k 1.7×	973 1.3×	373 1.1×	24	4.8k
Shouwei Zuo China	35	2.9k 1.5×	2.6k 1.8×	2.2k 1.7×	458 0.6×	461 1.3×	81	4.7k
Jonathan Hwang United States	21	3.2k 1.7×	1.9k 1.3×	2.5k 1.9×	662 0.9×	502 1.4×	28	4.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cui, Lijuan, Mingquan Xu, Chao Liu, et al.. (2025). Towards Reliable Healthcare Imaging: A Multifaceted Approach in Class Imbalance Handling for Medical Image Segmentation. Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences. 17(3). 614–633.

Cheng, Qing, Huahai Mao, Xiaoqing Li, et al.. (2025). Microstructural analysis and its correlation to anneal hardening in a cobalt-nickel-based superalloy. Acta Materialia. 286. 120705–120705. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, et al.. (2024). Progress of fluorescence imaging in lymph node dissection surgery for prostate and bladder cancer. Frontiers in Oncology. 14. 1395284–1395284. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, et al.. (2024). Systematic Absences of Optical Phonon Modes in Phonon Dispersion Measured by Electron Microscopy. Physical Review Letters. 133(4). 46101–46101. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang‐Peng Gao, & Wu Zhou. (2023). Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity. Physical Review Letters. 131(18). 186202–186202. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, et al.. (2023). Phonon vortices at heavy impurities in two-dimensional materials. Nanoscale Horizons. 9(2). 248–253. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Ziqian, Meng Gao, Siyuan Zhou, et al.. (2023). Real-Space Observation of Ripple-Induced Symmetry Crossover in Ultrathin MnPS₃. ACS Nano. 17(3). 1916–1924. 7 indexed citations

Xu, Mingquan, De‐Liang Bao, Aowen Li, et al.. (2023). Single-atom vibrational spectroscopy with chemical-bonding sensitivity. Nature Materials. 22(5). 612–618. 42 indexed citations

Jiang, Huaning, Weiwei Yang, Mingquan Xu, et al.. (2022). Single atom catalysts in Van der Waals gaps. Nature Communications. 13(1). 59 indexed citations

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Meng, Lingjia, Zhang Zhou, Mingquan Xu, et al.. (2021). Anomalous thickness dependence of Curie temperature in air-stable two-dimensional ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe2 grown by chemical vapor deposition. Nature Communications. 12(1). 809–809. 267 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Leilei, Chuwei Zhu, Mingquan Xu, et al.. (2021). Boosting Activity and Stability of Metal Single-Atom Catalysts via Regulation of Coordination Number and Local Composition. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(45). 18854–18858. 160 indexed citations

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Li, Jiachen, Yun Kuang, Yongtao Meng, et al.. (2020). Electroreduction of CO₂ to Formate on a Copper-Based Electrocatalyst at High Pressures with High Energy Conversion Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(16). 7276–7282. 241 indexed citations

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Xu, Mingquan, Aowen Li, Meng Gao, & Wu Zhou. (2020). Single-atom electron microscopy for energy-related nanomaterials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(32). 16142–16165. 22 indexed citations

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Ge, Yuzhen, Xuetao Qin, Aowen Li, et al.. (2020). Maximizing the Synergistic Effect of CoNi Catalyst on α-MoC for Robust Hydrogen Production. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(2). 628–633. 198 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Maolin Yu, Jiadong Zhou, et al.. (2020). Strain-driven growth of ultra-long two-dimensional nano-channels. Nature Communications. 11(1). 772–772. 41 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhongli, Jaecheol Choi, Mingquan Xu, et al.. (2019). Optimizing Electron Densities of Ni‐N‐C Complexes by Hybrid Coordination for Efficient Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction. ChemSusChem. 13(5). 929–937. 90 indexed citations

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Wang, Tingting, Miao Wang, Hao Yang, et al.. (2019). Weakening hydrogen adsorption on nickel via interstitial nitrogen doping promotes bifunctional hydrogen electrocatalysis in alkaline solution. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(12). 3522–3529. 223 indexed citations

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Gong, Qiufang, Pan Ding, Mingquan Xu, et al.. (2019). Structural defects on converted bismuth oxide nanotubes enable highly active electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2807–2807. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ding, Zhengping, Mingquan Xu, Jiatu Liu, et al.. (2017). Understanding the Enhanced Kinetics of Gradient-Chemical-Doped Lithium-Rich Cathode Material. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(24). 20519–20526. 45 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinfang, Cheng Ma, Qingbing Xia, et al.. (2015). Composite electrolyte membranes incorporating viscous copolymers with cellulose for high performance lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Membrane Science. 497. 259–269. 67 indexed citations

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