Ping Niu

12.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
76 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Ping Niu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ping Niu has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 41 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 38 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ping Niu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (43 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (18 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers). Ping Niu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (43 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (18 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (15 papers). Ping Niu collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Ping Niu's co-authors include Gang Liu, Hui–Ming Cheng, Lili Zhang, Lichang Yin, Gao Qing Lu, Zhigang Chen, Sean C. Smith, Chenghua Sun, Li Li and Shulan Wang 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

Ping Niu

75 papers receiving 11.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Graphene‐Like Carbon Nitride Nanosheets for Improved Photocatalytic Activities

2012 3.3k citations Ping Niu, Gang Liu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Unique Electronic Structure Induced High Photoreactivity of Sulfur-Doped Graphitic C₃N₄

2010 1.9k citations Gang Liu, Ping Niu et al. profile →
Increasing the Visible Light Absorption of Graphitic Carbon Nitride (Melon) Photocatalysts by Homogeneous Self‐Modification with Nitrogen Vacancies

2014 709 citations Ping Niu, Lichang Yin et al. profile →
Nitrogen Vacancy-Promoted Photocatalytic Activity of Graphitic Carbon Nitride

2012 621 citations Ping Niu, Gang Liu et al. profile →
Porous Two-Dimensional Materials for Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Applications

2020 363 citations Ping Niu, Shulan Wang et al. Matter profile →
A durable half-metallic diatomic catalyst for efficient oxygen reduction

2022 260 citations Hongguan Li, Shuanlong Di et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ping Niu China	36	9.2k	8.3k	5.7k	1.4k	433	76	11.5k
Gang Xin China	12	10.1k 1.1×	9.1k 1.1×	4.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	408 0.9×	38	11.6k
Dejun Wang China	63	9.9k 1.1×	7.5k 0.9×	5.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	608 1.4×	185	12.6k
Yung‐Jung Hsu Taiwan	55	6.0k 0.6×	7.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	753 1.7×	153	8.9k
Tengfeng Xie China	66	10.3k 1.1×	9.4k 1.1×	5.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 2.5×	265	13.4k
Xianliang Fu China	57	7.8k 0.9×	6.9k 0.8×	3.5k 0.6×	797 0.6×	368 0.8×	149	9.2k
Jun Di China	66	13.0k 1.4×	11.2k 1.3×	6.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	499 1.2×	199	15.0k
Stephen A. Shevlin United Kingdom	35	5.8k 0.6×	6.4k 0.8×	3.1k 0.5×	749 0.5×	356 0.8×	52	8.6k
Yun Zheng China	30	5.1k 0.6×	4.7k 0.6×	2.5k 0.4×	899 0.6×	383 0.9×	83	6.4k
Ji‐Wook Jang South Korea	45	6.4k 0.7×	5.0k 0.6×	2.9k 0.5×	754 0.5×	369 0.9×	99	7.9k
Tae Woo Kim South Korea	29	5.2k 0.6×	4.9k 0.6×	3.0k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	282 0.7×	85	6.9k

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Liu, Yuan, et al.. (2025). Periodic Macroporous K₂Ta₂O₆ Fabricated for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Pure Water Splitting. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(8). 3979–3988. 1 indexed citations

Niu, Ping, Haoqing Zhang, Jian Zeng, et al.. (2024). Carbon incorporated isotype heterojunction of poly(heptazine imide) for efficient visible light photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. EES Catalysis. 3(1). 119–127. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Chen, Shuanlong Di, Jiarui He, et al.. (2024). Crystallinity engineering of carbon nitride protective coating for ultra‐stable Zn metal anodes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 20 indexed citations

Zhai, Boyin, Jian Zeng, Ying Wang, et al.. (2024). Achieving near-infrared photocatalytic overall water splitting with singular crystalline C3N4 from semi-molten-salt treatment. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 359. 124496–124496. 35 indexed citations

Wang, Ying, Hongguan Li, Boyin Zhai, et al.. (2024). Highly Crystalline Poly(heptazine imide)-Based Carbonaceous Anodes for Ultralong Lifespan and Low-Temperature Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Nano. 18(4). 3456–3467. 32 indexed citations

Wang, Ying, Hongguan Li, Shuanlong Di, et al.. (2023). Constructing long‐cycling crystalline C₃N₄‐based carbonaceous anodes for sodium‐ion battery via N configuration control. Carbon Energy. 6(1). 44 indexed citations

Di, Shuanlong, Hongguan Li, Boyin Zhai, et al.. (2023). A crystalline carbon nitride–based separator for high-performance lithium metal batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(33). e2302375120–e2302375120. 35 indexed citations

Xu, Tingting, Ping Niu, Shulan Wang, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of crystalline g-C3N4 with rock/molten salts for efficient photocatalysis and piezocatalysis. Green Energy & Environment. 9(5). 890–898. 26 indexed citations

Zhang, Haoqing, Ping Niu, Xiaojuan Zhi, et al.. (2022). Piezoelectric induced reverse photocatalytic performances of carbon nitride with different structures. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(17). 5372–5378. 15 indexed citations

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Zhi, Xiaojuan, et al.. (2022). Crystallinity improvement of poly(heptazine imide) for high photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Scripta Materialia. 221. 114992–114992. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Hongguan, Shuanlong Di, Ping Niu, et al.. (2022). A durable half-metallic diatomic catalyst for efficient oxygen reduction. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(4). 1601–1610. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Shijie, Haoqing Zhang, Chenxi Zhao, et al.. (2022). Effective modification of photocatalytic and piezocatalytic performances for poly(heptazine imide) by carbon dots decoration. Dalton Transactions. 51(34). 13015–13021. 10 indexed citations

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Zhai, Boyin, Hongguan Li, Guangying Gao, et al.. (2022). A Crystalline Carbon Nitride Based Near‐Infrared Active Photocatalyst. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(47). 174 indexed citations

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Niu, Ping, et al.. (2021). Photocatalytic overall water splitting by graphitic carbon nitride. InfoMat. 3(9). 931–961. 116 indexed citations

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Xu, Tingting, et al.. (2021). Constructing Crystalline g‐C₃N₄/g‐C₃N_4−xS_x Isotype Heterostructure for Efficient Photocatalytic and Piezocatalytic Performances. Energy & environment materials. 6(2). 51 indexed citations

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Niu, Ping & Li Li. (2021). Photocatalytic overall water splitting of carbon nitride by band-structure modulation. Matter. 4(6). 1765–1767. 27 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiao, Chengshuai Chang, Yunqiang Zhang, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of Co-based Prussian Blue Analogues/Dual-Doped Hollow Carbon Microsphere Hybrids as High-Performance Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Evolution and Overall Water Splitting. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(22). 8318–8326. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2018). Study of the Abundance Features of the Metal-poor Star HD 94028. The Astrophysical Journal. 856(1). 58–58. 3 indexed citations

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Niu, Ping, Wenyuan Cui, & Bo Zhang. (2015). STUDY OF THE ELEMENT ABUNDANCES IN HD 140283: THE ABUNDANCE ROBUSTNESS OF THE WEAK r- AND MAIN r-PROCESS STARS. The Astrophysical Journal. 813(1). 56–56. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Gang, Lichang Yin, Ping Niu, Wei Jiao, & Hui–Ming Cheng. (2013). Visible‐Light‐Responsive β‐Rhombohedral Boron Photocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(24). 6242–6245. 96 indexed citations

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