Qianling Zhang

15.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
341 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Qianling Zhang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Qianling Zhang has authored 341 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 113 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 70 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Qianling Zhang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (90 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (70 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (62 papers). Qianling Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (90 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (70 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (62 papers). Qianling Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Qianling Zhang's co-authors include Jianhong Liu, Chuanxin He, Qi Hu, Xiangzhong Ren, Hengpan Yang, Yongliang Li, Shenghua Ye, Jin‐Gang Liu, Xiaoyan Chai and Liang‐Nian Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Qianling Zhang

320 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

Scalable Production of Efficient Single-Atom Copper Decorated Carbon Membranes for CO₂ Electroreduction to Methanol

2019 688 citations Hengpan Yang, Yu Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Highly stable single Pt atomic sites anchored on aniline-stacked graphene for hydrogen evolution reaction

2018 458 citations Shenghua Ye, Qianling Zhang et al. profile →
Carbon dioxide electroreduction on single-atom nickel decorated carbon membranes with industry compatible current densities

2020 434 citations Hengpan Yang, Lin Qing et al. profile →
Elucidating the activity, mechanism and application of selective electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrate on cobalt phosphide

2021 317 citations Shenghua Ye, Wenda Chen et al. profile →
Emerging Applications, Developments, Prospects, and Challenges of Electrochemical Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Conversion

2023 253 citations Wenda Chen, Zhi‐Jun Ou et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qianling Zhang China	59	6.1k	5.4k	3.7k	2.0k	1.8k	341	13.2k
Tong‐Bu Lu China	79	11.8k 1.9×	5.9k 1.1×	11.4k 3.1×	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.3×	436	20.8k
Lili Han China	56	6.6k 1.1×	5.1k 0.9×	4.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	250	12.5k
Ayman Nafady Saudi Arabia	55	2.6k 0.4×	2.7k 0.5×	5.3k 1.4×	557 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	378	10.3k
Zhongyi Liu China	56	4.2k 0.7×	6.3k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	954 0.5×	783 0.4×	340	12.7k
Rui Cao China	70	12.5k 2.1×	9.5k 1.8×	6.6k 1.8×	807 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	414	18.3k
Yangguang Li China	83	6.1k 1.0×	4.5k 0.8×	16.9k 4.5×	780 0.4×	2.7k 1.5×	507	23.7k
Xia Zhang China	53	3.3k 0.5×	3.8k 0.7×	4.9k 1.3×	543 0.3×	973 0.5×	574	11.1k
Miao Du China	84	2.6k 0.4×	3.4k 0.6×	10.0k 2.7×	546 0.3×	2.6k 1.4×	480	22.9k
Dong Liu China	55	3.2k 0.5×	4.5k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	575 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	277	9.0k
Fengli Qu China	66	5.9k 1.0×	7.3k 1.3×	5.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	808 0.4×	263	14.6k

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Zhang, Qianling, Xiaoxiao Li, Zhengyu Jin, Birte Svensson, & Yuxiang Bai. (2025). Enzymatic-chemical modification of cassava starch as a sauce thickener to regulate the balance between processing and edible quality. Carbohydrate Polymers. 375. 124768–124768.

Huang, Zhencheng, Xi Chen, Luyi Yang, et al.. (2025). Interface Engineering and Optimization Strategies for High‐Energy‐Density Batteries Based on Polymer Composite Electrolytes. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e04186–e04186.

Li, Xingyan, Xi Chen, Meng Li, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies of Gas Generation in Sodium-Ion Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 177–177. 7 indexed citations

Deng, Jiaojiao, Liang Hu, Qiang Cai, et al.. (2024). Functionally gradient materials for sustainable and high-energy rechargeable lithium batteries: Design principles, progress, and perspectives. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 99. 426–449. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Pengtao, Jixiao Li, Zhaoyan Luo, et al.. (2024). Polar groups promoting in-situ polymerization phase separation for solid electrolytes enabling solid-state lithium batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt A). 53–62. 9 indexed citations

Li, Liewu, Zhencheng Huang, Tao Huang, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen bond interaction derived homogeneous graphene coating on submicron silicon anode. Battery energy. 3(3). 8 indexed citations

Huang, Junhao, Qianling Zhang, Jiahao Li, et al.. (2024). Combinatory effect of ALA-PDT and itraconazole in the treatment of cutaneous protothecosis. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 49. 104332–104332.

Ye, Shenghua, Wenda Chen, Zhi‐Jun Ou, et al.. (2024). Harnessing the Synergistic Interplay between Atomic‐Scale Vacancies and Ligand Effect to Optimize the Oxygen Reduction Activity and Tolerance Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414989–e202414989. 17 indexed citations

Zhang, Qianling, et al.. (2023). A portable thermostatic molecular diagnosis device based on high-efficiency photothermal conversion material for rapid field detection of SARS-CoV-2. Talanta. 258. 124422–124422. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Xianliang, Zhaoyan Luo, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2023). N, S heteroatom co-doped carbon-based materials carrying Mn and Co atoms as bifunctional catalysts for stable rechargeable zinc-air batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 939. 168756–168756. 13 indexed citations

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Ren, Zhiheng, Jixiao Li, Jianneng Liang, et al.. (2022). Anin situformed copolymer electrolyte with high ionic conductivity and high lithium-ion transference number for dendrite-free solid-state lithium metal batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(4). 1966–1977. 78 indexed citations

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Guan, Yi, Nan Li, Jiao He, et al.. (2021). Tuning and understanding the electronic effect of Co–Mo–O sites in bifunctional electrocatalysts for ultralong-lasting rechargeable zinc–air batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(38). 21716–21722. 21 indexed citations

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Han, Zhen, Qi Hu, Cheng Zhong, et al.. (2020). High‐Performance Overall CO₂ Splitting on Hierarchical Structured Cobalt Disulfide with Partially Removed Sulfur Edges. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(25). 27 indexed citations

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Guan, Yi, Nan Li, Yongliang Li, et al.. (2020). Two dimensional ZIF-derived ultra-thin Cu–N/C nanosheets as high performance oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-performance Zn–air batteries. Nanoscale. 12(26). 14259–14266. 37 indexed citations

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Hu, Qi, Guomin Li, Zhen Han, et al.. (2019). General Synthesis of Ultrathin Metal Borate Nanomeshes Enabled by 3D Bark‐Like N‐Doped Carbon for Electrocatalysis. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(28). 58 indexed citations

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Yang, Hengpan, Yu Wu, Guodong Li, et al.. (2019). Scalable Production of Efficient Single-Atom Copper Decorated Carbon Membranes for CO₂ Electroreduction to Methanol. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(32). 12717–12723. 688 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hu, Qi, Xiufang Liu, Bin Zhu, et al.. (2018). Redox route to ultrathin metal sulfides nanosheet arrays-anchored MnO 2 nanoparticles as self-supported electrocatalysts for efficient water splitting. Journal of Power Sources. 398. 159–166. 44 indexed citations

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Yang, Hengpan, Hanwen Zhang, Yu Wu, et al.. (2018). A Core–Shell‐Structured Silver Nanowire/Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Catalyst for Enhanced and Multifunctional Electrofixation of CO₂. ChemSusChem. 11(22). 3905–3910. 42 indexed citations

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Hu, Qi, Guodong Li, Xiufang Liu, et al.. (2018). Coupling pentlandite nanoparticles and dual-doped carbon networks to yield efficient and stable electrocatalysts for acid water oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(2). 461–468. 65 indexed citations

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Hong, Fei, Jinxin Liu, Jinxin Liu, et al.. (2016). High-Performance Non-Noble Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Using Fluidic Acrylonitrile Telomer as Precursor. Electrochimica Acta. 211. 814–821. 1 indexed citations

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