Ningyan Cheng

10.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
69 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Ningyan Cheng is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ningyan Cheng has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 38 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 30 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ningyan Cheng's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (38 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Ningyan Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (38 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (16 papers). Ningyan Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Ningyan Cheng's co-authors include Xuping Sun, Abdullah M. Asiri, Jingqi Tian, Qian Liu, Wei Xing, Zonghua Pu, Chun Tang, Wei Cui, Ping Jiang and Yi Du and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ningyan Cheng

67 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

NiSe Nanowire Film Supported on Nickel Foam: An Efficient and Stable 3D Bifunctional Electrode for Full Water Splitting

2015 1.4k citations Chun Tang, Ningyan Cheng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with CoP Nanocrystals: A Highly Active Non‐Noble‐Metal Nanohybrid Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution

2014 1.1k citations Qian Liu, Jingqi Tian et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Self‐Supported Cu₃P Nanowire Arrays as an Integrated High‐Performance Three‐Dimensional Cathode for Generating Hydrogen from Water

2014 821 citations Jingqi Tian, Qian Liu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Au-Nanoparticle-Loaded Graphitic Carbon Nitride Nanosheets: Green Photocatalytic Synthesis and Application toward the Degradation of Organic Pollutants

2013 494 citations Ningyan Cheng, Jingqi Tian et al. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces profile →
A Yolk–Shell Structured Silicon Anode with Superior Conductivity and High Tap Density for Full Lithium‐Ion Batteries

2019 330 citations Lei Zhang, Ningyan Cheng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ningyan Cheng	6.9k	6.1k	2.6k	1.1k	1.0k	69	8.6k
Zexing Wu	7.8k 1.1×	6.7k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	230	9.3k
Zhaohui Xiao	6.9k 1.0×	5.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	961 0.9×	43	8.3k
Gongquan Sun	6.0k 0.9×	6.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	139	8.0k
Meiling Xiao	6.6k 0.9×	5.0k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	687 0.6×	815 0.8×	112	7.6k
Svitlana Pylypenko	5.1k 0.7×	5.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	660 0.6×	871 0.8×	164	7.3k
Jie Yin	6.8k 1.0×	5.9k 1.0×	3.3k 1.3×	983 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	156	9.4k
Zhenxing Liang	5.2k 0.8×	5.4k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	963 0.9×	176	7.8k
Juan Herranz	6.3k 0.9×	5.3k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	922 0.9×	480 0.5×	80	7.3k
Haijing Yan	5.7k 0.8×	4.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	673 0.6×	781 0.7×	80	6.9k
Jun Guo	6.5k 0.9×	5.4k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	100	8.1k

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Xu, Shengjie, Ming Yang, Jingwei Zhang, et al.. (2025). Controllable and continuous quantum phase transitions in intrinsic magnetic topological insulators. Physical review. B.. 112(4). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Wenxuan, Lifu Zhang, Dan Mu, et al.. (2025). Coalescence of multiple topological orders in quasi-one-dimensional bismuth halide chains. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1163–1163.

Santra, Saswati, Verena Streibel, Ningyan Cheng, et al.. (2024). Tuning Carbon Dioxide Reduction Reaction Selectivity of Bi Single‐Atom Electrocatalysts with Controlled Coordination Environments. ChemSusChem. 17(10). e202301452–e202301452. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingwei, He‐Ping Li, Ningyan Cheng, et al.. (2024). Large Magnetic Anisotropy in van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe₃GaTe₂ above Room Temperature. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(43). 10802–10810. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Ningyan, Keren Li, Hang Xu, et al.. (2024). Modulation of Kondo Behavior in a Two-Dimensional Epitaxial Bilayer Bi(111)/Fe₃GeTe₂ Moiré Heterostructure. ACS Nano. 18(34). 22958–22964. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jingwei, He‐Ping Li, Jingyi Chen, et al.. (2024). Dynamic Behavior of Above-Room-Temperature Robust Skyrmions in 2D Van der Waals Magnet. Nano Letters. 24(36). 11246–11254. 5 indexed citations

Park, Junbeom, Ningyan Cheng, Binghui Ge, et al.. (2024). Titanium Nitride Microelectrode: A New Candidate for In Situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy Study. Advanced Engineering Materials. 26(10). 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Lei, Quanchao Zhuang, Hamidreza Arandiyan, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in in situ and operando characterization techniques for Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂-based solid-state lithium batteries. Materials Horizons. 10(5). 1479–1538. 32 indexed citations

Yang, Ming, Yaqi Li, Dan Mu, et al.. (2023). Towards layer-selective quantum spin hall channels in weak topological insulator Bi4Br2I2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 15 indexed citations

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Ji, Jiapeng, Junxian Liu, Lei Shi, et al.. (2023). Ruthenium Oxide Clusters Immobilized in Cationic Vacancies of 2D Titanium Oxide for Chlorine Evolution Reaction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(3). 30 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhangsheng, Xun Han, Wenqiang Wu, et al.. (2023). Controlled on-chip fabrication of large-scale perovskite single crystal arrays for high-performance laser and photodetector integration. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 67–67. 57 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiaobo, Tobias U. Schülli, Xiaowei Yang, et al.. (2022). Epitaxial growth of an atom-thin layer on a LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cathode for stable Li-ion battery cycling. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1565–1565. 85 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunting, Ningyan Cheng, Zhongchao Bai, et al.. (2022). A general synthesis of inorganic nanotubes as high-rate anode materials of sodium ion batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 77. 369–375. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Ningyan Cheng, Mengjiao Li, et al.. (2020). Transition-Metal Substitution-Induced Lattice Strain and Electrical Polarity Reversal in Monolayer WS₂. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(16). 18650–18659. 25 indexed citations

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Cheng, Ningyan, Long Ren, Xun Xu, Yi Du, & Shi Xue Dou. (2020). Application of organic-inorganic hybrids in lithium batteries. Materials Today Physics. 15. 100289–100289. 30 indexed citations

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Liu, Na, Hui Qiao, Kang Xu, et al.. (2020). Hydrogen Terminated Germanene for a Robust Self‐Powered Flexible Photoelectrochemical Photodetector. Small. 16(23). e2000283–e2000283. 78 indexed citations

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Feng, Haifeng, Ningyan Cheng, Yi Du, et al.. (2018). Formation mechanism of rhombohedral L11 phase in CoPt films grown on glass substrate. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 471. 406–410. 9 indexed citations

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Tang, Chun, Ningyan Cheng, Zonghua Pu, Wei Xing, & Xuping Sun. (2015). NiSe Nanowire Film Supported on Nickel Foam: An Efficient and Stable 3D Bifunctional Electrode for Full Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(32). 9351–9355. 1391 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tian, Jingqi, Qian Liu, Ningyan Cheng, Abdullah M. Asiri, & Xuping Sun. (2014). Self‐Supported Cu₃P Nanowire Arrays as an Integrated High‐Performance Three‐Dimensional Cathode for Generating Hydrogen from Water. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(36). 9577–9581. 821 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Qian, Jingqi Tian, Wei Cui, et al.. (2014). Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with CoP Nanocrystals: A Highly Active Non‐Noble‐Metal Nanohybrid Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(26). 6710–6714. 1073 indexed citations breakdown →

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