Pengfei Tian

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Pengfei Tian is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengfei Tian has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Materials Chemistry, 33 papers in Catalysis and 27 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Pengfei Tian's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (40 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (16 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers). Pengfei Tian is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (40 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (16 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers). Pengfei Tian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Pengfei Tian's co-authors include Yi‐Fan Han, Jing Xu, Minghui Zhu, Like Ouyang, Zixu Yang, Xianglin Liu, Israel E. Wachs, Fu‐Zhen Xuan, Yang Sun and Jiacheng Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Pengfei Tian

58 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

Induced activation of the commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol

2022 348 citations Didi Li, Fang Xu et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pengfei Tian China	31	2.4k	1.5k	1.5k	535	507	64	3.3k
Yang Lou China	32	3.2k 1.4×	1.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.5×	488 0.9×	539 1.1×	86	4.3k
Michalis Konsolakis Greece	38	3.9k 1.6×	2.8k 1.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 2.0×	621 1.2×	116	4.7k
Venkata D. B. C. Dasireddy South Africa	34	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	619 0.4×	512 1.0×	401 0.8×	91	2.8k
Lixia Ling China	30	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	729 0.5×	768 1.4×	409 0.8×	190	3.0k
Yuhai Sun China	23	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	847 0.6×	435 0.8×	361 0.7×	56	2.8k
Hanfeng Lu China	31	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	799 0.5×	747 1.4×	328 0.6×	101	2.7k
Guilin Zhou China	34	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	613 0.4×	874 1.6×	289 0.6×	123	3.5k
Shiying Fan China	35	2.0k 0.9×	936 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	417 0.8×	436 0.9×	106	3.6k
M.C. Román-Martı́nez Spain	29	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	623 0.4×	571 1.1×	379 0.7×	88	2.9k

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Yang, Zixu, et al.. (2025). Dual-Mechanism Study of Metal-Free g-C3N4 Catalysts for Advanced Oxidation Under Non-Photocatalytic Conditions. Molecules. 30(2). 247–247. 3 indexed citations

Tian, Pengfei, et al.. (2025). Direct Imaging of the Organic–Inorganic Interfacial Transformation. Nano Letters. 25(11). 4408–4415.

Tian, Pengfei, Yuecheng Shen, Zilong Chen, et al.. (2025). Study on the modulation mechanism of calcium lignosulfonate-modified Ca(OH)2 and its application in flue gas desulfurization. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 202. 110172–110172.

Kang, Yan, et al.. (2025). Optimization of the mechanical performance of TDI-based polyurethanes via orthogonal design and response surface methodology. RSC Advances. 15(27). 22023–22034.

Wang, Weizhi, et al.. (2025). Tuning strain of Platinum-Cobalt-Zinc trimetallic nanoparticles for efficient oxygen reduction Catalysis. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 698. 138046–138046.

Dong, Lei, Yanbin Qi, Wangxin Ge, et al.. (2024). Ru‐supported Cu nanowire catalyst enabling to suppress C–C coupling for high‐selectivity ethylamine electrosynthesis. AIChE Journal. 70(5). 7 indexed citations

Tian, Pengfei, et al.. (2023). Manipulation of the PdAu‒PdAuOx interface on Pd-Au bimetallic catalysts for the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide. Chinese Chemical Letters. 34(11). 108446–108446. 10 indexed citations

Yu, Xinhai, et al.. (2023). Oxidizing- and sintering- resistant PdZn@ZnO catalyst concerning methanol steam reforming for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cell vehicles. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(100). 40017–40028. 9 indexed citations

Zhou, Lei, Pengfei Tian, Bowei Zhang, & Fu‐Zhen Xuan. (2023). Data-driven rational design of single-atom materials for hydrogen evolution and sensing. Nano Research. 17(4). 3352–3358. 18 indexed citations

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Li, Didi, Fang Xu, Xuan Tang, et al.. (2022). Induced activation of the commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol. Nature Catalysis. 5(2). 99–108. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Minjie, Xianglin Liu, Guiyao Song, et al.. (2022). Regulating iron species compositions by Fe-Al interaction in CO2 hydrogenation. Journal of Catalysis. 413. 331–341. 36 indexed citations

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Xu, Minjie, Xianglin Liu, Guiyao Song, et al.. (2022). Regulating Iron Species Compositions by Fe-Al Interaction in Co2 Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Tian, Pengfei, Shijie Liu, Huaqiang He, et al.. (2021). Enhanced catalytic performance of atomically dispersed Pd on Pr-doped CeO2 nanorod in CO oxidation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 426. 127793–127793. 58 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoyuan, Rongyao Wu, Pengfei Tian, et al.. (2021). Borophene Nanoribbons via Strain Engineering for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction: A First-Principles Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(31). 16955–16962. 23 indexed citations

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Zhu, Minghui, Pengfei Tian, Michael E. Ford, et al.. (2020). Nature of Reactive Oxygen Intermediates on Copper-Promoted Iron–Chromium Oxide Catalysts during CO₂ Activation. ACS Catalysis. 10(14). 7857–7863. 56 indexed citations

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Tian, Pengfei, Fu‐Zhen Xuan, Yang Sun, et al.. (2020). Revealing the role of tellurium in palladium-tellurium catalysts for the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide. Journal of Catalysis. 385. 21–29. 41 indexed citations

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Zhu, Minghui, Pengfei Tian, Jiayu Li, et al.. (2019). Structure‐Tunable Copper–Indium Catalysts for Highly Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to CO or HCOOH. ChemSusChem. 12(17). 3955–3959. 65 indexed citations

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Sun, Yang, Pengfei Tian, Zixu Yang, et al.. (2019). Revealing the active species of Cu-based catalysts for heterogeneous Fenton reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 258. 117985–117985. 150 indexed citations

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Li, Zhongping, Xin Chen, Chong Lu, et al.. (2015). Pressure-crystallized carbon nanotube-core/polymer-sheath nanocables for drug delivery. Journal of Controlled Release. 213. e61–e62. 1 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Like, Pengfei Tian, Xinchao Xu, et al.. (2014). The origin of active sites for direct synthesis of H 2 O 2 on Pd/TiO 2 catalysts: Interfaces of Pd and PdO domains. Journal of Catalysis. 321. 70–80. 132 indexed citations

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