Pinxian Xi

18.1k total citations · 11 hit papers
175 papers, 16.1k citations indexed

About

Pinxian Xi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Pinxian Xi has authored 175 papers receiving a total of 16.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 106 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 51 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Pinxian Xi's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (116 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (79 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (39 papers). Pinxian Xi is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (116 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (79 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (39 papers). Pinxian Xi collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Pinxian Xi's co-authors include Jie Yin, Li An, Chun‐Hua Yan, Min Lu, Daqiang Gao, Fangyi Cheng, Jingyan Zhang, Zhengzhi Zeng, Bolong Huang and Fengjuan Chen 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

Pinxian Xi

168 papers receiving 15.9k 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.

Recent Development of Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts in Acidic Environment

2021 716 citations Li An, Pinxian Xi et al. profile →
Oxygen Vacancies Dominated NiS₂/CoS₂ Interface Porous Nanowires for Portable Zn–Air Batteries Driven Water Splitting Devices

2017 602 citations Jie Yin, Yuxuan Li et al. profile →
NiO/CoN Porous Nanowires as Efficient Bifunctional Catalysts for Zn–Air Batteries

2017 485 citations Jie Yin, Fangyi Cheng et al. profile →
Epitaxial Heterogeneous Interfaces on N‐NiMoO₄/NiS₂ Nanowires/Nanosheets to Boost Hydrogen and Oxygen Production for Overall Water Splitting

2018 474 citations Li An, Rui Wang et al. profile →
Iridium Single Atoms Coupling with Oxygen Vacancies Boosts Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acid Media

2020 468 citations Jie Yin, Jing Jin et al. profile →
MOF‐Derived Hollow CoS Decorated with CeO_x Nanoparticles for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis

2018 437 citations Huajie Xu, Jing Cao et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Surface Activation and Ni‐S Stabilization in NiO/NiS₂for Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2022 270 citations Nan Zhang, Yang Hu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Understanding the sulphur-oxygen exchange process of metal sulphides prior to oxygen evolution reaction

2023 221 citations Yang Hu, Yao Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
High‐Performance Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis with Anomalous Chloride Promoted Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2023 155 citations Hao Liu, Wei Shen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Rare-Earth-Modified NiS₂ Improves OH Coverage for an Industrial Alkaline Water Electrolyzer

2024 91 citations Wei Shen, Yao Zheng et al. profile →
Corrosion Protection of Rare Earth for Kilowatt-Level Alkaline Seawater Electrolyzer

2025 22 citations Wei Shen, Yang Hu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pinxian Xi China	66	11.9k	10.2k	5.0k	2.2k	1.7k	175	16.1k
Wei Zhang China	76	12.2k 1.0×	9.5k 0.9×	6.5k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	301	17.9k
Cheng Wang China	56	7.1k 0.6×	7.1k 0.7×	4.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	380	13.0k
Yukou Du China	79	13.7k 1.2×	11.6k 1.1×	9.2k 1.9×	4.4k 2.0×	2.2k 1.4×	466	21.0k
Jingqi Tian China	66	9.8k 0.8×	9.8k 1.0×	9.1k 1.8×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	136	18.6k
T. Maiyalagan India	60	7.5k 0.6×	9.2k 0.9×	5.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	4.1k 2.5×	286	15.2k
Fan Lv China	65	9.9k 0.8×	9.7k 0.9×	5.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.5×	127	14.9k
Jia Huo China	43	7.4k 0.6×	6.9k 0.7×	4.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	139	12.2k
Lu Shang China	60	12.4k 1.0×	8.4k 0.8×	8.0k 1.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.1×	136	16.9k
Gongzhen Cheng China	65	7.6k 0.6×	5.7k 0.6×	5.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	954 0.6×	202	12.5k
Baizeng Fang China	67	8.7k 0.7×	8.1k 0.8×	7.0k 1.4×	648 0.3×	3.3k 2.0×	232	14.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhang, Nan, Yang Hu, Zhuang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Crystallinity-dependent structural evolution of CoS2 catalysts for enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9306–9306. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jinli, et al.. (2025). Dual-Channel Regulation of Spin Polarization Achieves 1 + 1 > 2 Electrocatalytic Performance in Spinel Ferrites. Nano Letters. 25(26). 10337–10344. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Guangshe, Nan Liu, Wei Shen, et al.. (2024). Topological rearrangement-derived edge-sharing [MO6] motifs on perovskite oxide for optimizing O-O bonding in water oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 502. 157869–157869. 2 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiamin, Yue Zhai, Yang Hu, et al.. (2024). Surface Cladding Engineering via Oxygen Sulfur Distribution for Stable Electrocatalytic Oxygen Production. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 4 indexed citations

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Tang, Jie, Yunlei Zhang, Bin Li, et al.. (2024). Robust and Lubricating Interface Semi‐Interpenetrating Network on Inert Polymer Substrates Enabled by Subsurface‐Initiated Polymerization. Small. 20(43). e2403303–e2403303. 13 indexed citations

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Liu, Hao, Wei Shen, Huanyu Jin, et al.. (2023). High‐Performance Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis with Anomalous Chloride Promoted Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(46). e202311674–e202311674. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Jianyi, Li An, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Regulation of perovskite oxides composition for the efficient electrocatalytic reactions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). e20220005–e20220005. 20 indexed citations

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Shen, Wei, Jiamin Zhu, Yang Hu, et al.. (2023). Applications of Rare Earth Promoted Transition Metal Sulfides in Electrocatalysis^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(14). 1740–1752. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Jianyi, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in direct seawater splitting for producing hydrogen. Chemical Communications. 59(65). 9792–9802. 36 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Jie Yin, Hongbo Liu, et al.. (2021). Atomic Sulfur Filling Oxygen Vacancies Optimizes H Absorption and Boosts the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14236–14242. 38 indexed citations

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Jin, Jing, Jie Yin, Hongbo Liu, et al.. (2021). Atomic Sulfur Filling Oxygen Vacancies Optimizes H Absorption and Boosts the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(25). 14117–14123. 188 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingyan, Jinmei Qian, Jiaqi Ran, et al.. (2020). Engineering Lower Coordination Atoms onto NiO/Co₃O₄ Heterointerfaces for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reactions. ACS Catalysis. 10(21). 12376–12384. 305 indexed citations

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Xu, Huajie, Bingkai Wang, Changfu Shan, et al.. (2018). Ce-Doped NiFe-Layered Double Hydroxide Ultrathin Nanosheets/Nanocarbon Hierarchical Nanocomposite as an Efficient Oxygen Evolution Catalyst. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(7). 6336–6345. 339 indexed citations

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Xu, Huajie, Jing Cao, Changfu Shan, et al.. (2018). MOF‐Derived Hollow CoS Decorated with CeO_x Nanoparticles for Boosting Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(28). 8654–8658. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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Munyemana, Jean Claude, Huixia He, Shenglong Ding, et al.. (2018). Controlled fabrication of collagen-zinc phosphate hierarchical hybrid nanoflowers via a biomineralization process. New Journal of Chemistry. 42(15). 12824–12829. 7 indexed citations

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Munyemana, Jean Claude, Huixia He, Shenglong Ding, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of manganese phosphate hybrid nanoflowers by collagen-templated biomineralization. RSC Advances. 8(5). 2708–2713. 22 indexed citations

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Li, Yuxuan, Yu Wang, Brian Pattengale, et al.. (2017). High-index faceted CuFeS₂ nanosheets with enhanced behavior for boosting hydrogen evolution reaction. Nanoscale. 9(26). 9230–9237. 73 indexed citations

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Liu, Tao, Xiaoyu Yan, Pinxian Xi, et al.. (2017). Nickel–Cobalt phosphide nanowires supported on Ni foam as a highly efficient catalyst for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 42(20). 14124–14132. 62 indexed citations

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Xi, Pinxian, Changfu Shan, Hao Chen, et al.. (2017). In Situ Growth of Ceria on Cerium–Nitrogen–Carbon as Promoter for Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 4(13). 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingyan, Wen Xiao, Pinxian Xi, et al.. (2017). Activating and Optimizing Activity of CoS₂ for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction through the Synergic Effect of N Dopants and S Vacancies. ACS Energy Letters. 2(5). 1022–1028. 272 indexed citations

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