Peilin Liao

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
48 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Peilin Liao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Peilin Liao has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Peilin Liao's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (7 papers). Peilin Liao is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (11 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (7 papers). Peilin Liao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and India. Peilin Liao's co-authors include Emily A. Carter, John A. Keith, Maytal Caspary Toroker, Jiaqi Yang, Pilsun Yoo, Randall Q. Snurr, Nicholas J. Mosey, Fuzhan Song, Yujie Sun and Guan‐Qun Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Peilin Liao

47 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Destruction of chemical warfare agents using metal–organic frameworks

2015 831 citations Peilin Liao, Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
Water Oxidation on Pure and Doped Hematite (0001) Surfaces: Prediction of Co and Ni as Effective Dopants for Electrocatalysis

2012 519 citations Peilin Liao, Emily A. Carter et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Interfacing nickel nitride and nickel boosts both electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions

2018 512 citations Fuzhan Song, Wei Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells

2019 415 citations Yao Gao, Enzheng Shi et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peilin Liao United States	27	3.5k	2.6k	2.3k	870	492	48	5.6k
Wenyue Guo China	44	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	432 0.9×	233	6.6k
Alexander J. Cowan United Kingdom	46	4.0k 1.2×	6.4k 2.5×	2.2k 1.0×	683 0.8×	327 0.7×	102	8.0k
Xiyou Li China	51	5.5k 1.6×	2.8k 1.1×	3.5k 1.5×	863 1.0×	1.0k 2.1×	257	8.7k
Sebastian C. Peter India	47	3.7k 1.1×	3.5k 1.4×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	1.3k 2.6×	212	7.3k
Andrew J. Logsdail United Kingdom	25	3.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	955 0.4×	376 0.4×	421 0.9×	79	4.3k
Sebastian Polarz Germany	44	4.5k 1.3×	813 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	948 1.1×	759 1.5×	173	5.9k
Hu Xu China	48	4.8k 1.4×	3.0k 1.2×	3.3k 1.4×	403 0.5×	676 1.4×	261	7.7k
Hansong Cheng China	45	3.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.2×	520 0.6×	451 0.9×	168	6.7k
Moussab Harb Saudi Arabia	36	3.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	268 0.3×	662 1.3×	104	4.9k
Jun Kim South Korea	40	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	3.1k 3.5×	616 1.3×	98	6.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Wenwen, et al.. (2025). Carbon Doping and Nanosheet Architecture Engineered Bismuth Oxychloride with Improved Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation Activity. Langmuir. 41(33). 22200–22210.

Yoo, Pilsun & Peilin Liao. (2023). Multiple redox mechanisms for water-gas shift reaction on Fe3O4 (1 1 1) surface: A density functional theory and mean-field microkinetic modeling study. Applied Surface Science. 630. 157501–157501. 9 indexed citations

Liang, Aihui, Yao Gao, Reza Asadpour, et al.. (2021). Ligand-Driven Grain Engineering of High Mobility Two-Dimensional Perovskite Thin-Film Transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(37). 15215–15223. 91 indexed citations

Akriti, Akriti, Enzheng Shi, Stephen B. Shiring, et al.. (2021). Layer-by-layer anionic diffusion in two-dimensional halide perovskite vertical heterostructures. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(5). 584–591. 117 indexed citations

Wu, Yu, et al.. (2021). Construction of p-n junctions in single-unit-cell ZnIn2S4 nanosheet arrays toward promoted photoelectrochemical performance. Journal of Catalysis. 401. 262–270. 24 indexed citations

Liang, Tingyu, Pilsun Yoo, Erik Sarnello, et al.. (2021). Catalytic Light Alkanes Conversion through Anaerobic Ammodehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 11(13). 7987–7995. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Yao, Enzheng Shi, Shibin Deng, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells. Nature Chemistry. 13(3). 290–290. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yixiu, S. Jin, Qingxiao Wang, et al.. (2020). Parallel Nanoimprint Forming of One-Dimensional Chiral Semiconductor for Strain-Engineered Optical Properties. Nano-Micro Letters. 12(1). 160–160. 17 indexed citations

Gao, Yao, Enzheng Shi, Shibin Deng, et al.. (2019). Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells. Nature Chemistry. 11(12). 1151–1157. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gao, Yao, Zitang Wei, Pilsun Yoo, et al.. (2019). Highly Stable Lead-Free Perovskite Field-Effect Transistors Incorporating Linear π-Conjugated Organic Ligands. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(39). 15577–15585. 248 indexed citations

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Song, Fuzhan, Wei Li, Jiaqi Yang, et al.. (2019). Interfacial Sites between Cobalt Nitride and Cobalt Act as Bifunctional Catalysts for Hydrogen Electrochemistry. ACS Energy Letters. 4(7). 1594–1601. 155 indexed citations

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Yoo, Pilsun & Peilin Liao. (2018). Metal-to-insulator transition in SmNiO ₃ induced by chemical doping: a first principles study. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 3(1). 264–274. 26 indexed citations

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Song, Fuzhan, Wei Li, Jiaqi Yang, et al.. (2018). Interfacing nickel nitride and nickel boosts both electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4531–4531. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Jing, Xiangyu Fu, Qiwei Chen, et al.. (2016). Stabilizing surface Ag adatoms into tunable single atom arrays by terminal alkyne assembly. Chemical Communications. 52(88). 12944–12947. 14 indexed citations

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Kwon, Stephanie, Peilin Liao, Peter C. Stair, & Randall Q. Snurr. (2016). Alkaline-earth metal-oxide overlayers on TiO₂: application toward CO₂ photoreduction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 6(21). 7885–7895. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yajie, Peilin Liao, Jing‐Lan Kan, et al.. (2015). Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy study on the electronic properties of a double-decker DyPc₂molecule at the surface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 17(40). 27019–27026. 21 indexed citations

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Liao, Peilin & Emily A. Carter. (2012). New concepts and modeling strategies to design and evaluate photo-electro-catalysts based on transition metal oxides. Chemical Society Reviews. 42(6). 2401–2422. 209 indexed citations

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Liao, Peilin & Emily A. Carter. (2012). Hole transport in pure and doped hematite. Journal of Applied Physics. 112(1). 87 indexed citations

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Liao, Peilin & Emily A. Carter. (2011). Testing variations of the GW approximation on strongly correlated transition metal oxides: hematite (α-Fe2O3) as a benchmark. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(33). 15189–15189. 137 indexed citations

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Liao, Peilin & Emily A. Carter. (2010). Ab initio DFT + U predictions of tensile properties of iron oxides. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 20(32). 6703–6703. 46 indexed citations

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