Ranming Niu

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ranming Niu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Metals and Alloys. According to data from OpenAlex, Ranming Niu has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Materials Chemistry, 12 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 8 papers in Metals and Alloys. Recurrent topics in Ranming Niu's work include Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (8 papers), Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (6 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (5 papers). Ranming Niu is often cited by papers focused on Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (8 papers), Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (6 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (5 papers). Ranming Niu collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Taiwan. Ranming Niu's co-authors include Xiaozhou Liao, Julie M. Cairney, Yi‐Sheng Chen, Simon P. Ringer, Pang-Yu Liu, Hongzhou Lu, Hung‐Wei Yen, Jiaxi Jiang, Xiaoyan Li and Hanyu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ranming Niu

34 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrahigh specific strength in a magnesium alloy strength... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2024 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Ultrahigh specific strength in a magnesium alloy strengthened by spinodal decomposition
    2021 261 citations Tongzheng Xin, Yuhong Zhao et al. Science Advances profile →
  2. Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in metals – A review
    2024 122 citations Yi‐Sheng Chen, Chao Huang et al. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ranming Niu Australia 18 737 591 243 242 182 36 1.2k
Ehsan Rahimi Netherlands 17 495 0.7× 420 0.7× 133 0.5× 275 1.1× 126 0.7× 49 918
Marc Mantel France 19 762 1.0× 551 0.9× 225 0.9× 469 1.9× 271 1.5× 56 1.3k
Zhihao Feng China 20 861 1.2× 693 1.2× 153 0.6× 153 0.6× 229 1.3× 85 1.2k
X.Y. Zhang China 23 1.1k 1.5× 942 1.6× 128 0.5× 114 0.5× 261 1.4× 76 1.5k
Zhibin Zheng China 23 742 1.0× 924 1.6× 564 2.3× 312 1.3× 265 1.5× 71 1.4k
Gerald Luckeneder Austria 18 1.2k 1.7× 321 0.5× 252 1.0× 350 1.4× 288 1.6× 54 1.4k
Nicholas Stevens United Kingdom 17 426 0.6× 399 0.7× 104 0.4× 309 1.3× 198 1.1× 45 896
C.R. Feng United States 19 758 1.0× 1.2k 2.0× 397 1.6× 115 0.5× 299 1.6× 90 1.6k
Benoît Ter-Ovanessian France 17 466 0.6× 360 0.6× 129 0.5× 247 1.0× 133 0.7× 52 764
Maryam Soleimani Iran 15 732 1.0× 762 1.3× 82 0.3× 254 1.0× 234 1.3× 34 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ranming Niu

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Ying, Huazhang Zhang, Konstantin Shapovalov, et al.. (2025). Vortices and antivortices in antiferroelectric PbZrO3. Nature Materials. 24(9). 1359–1363. 2 indexed citations
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Huang, Chao, Chuanjie Cui, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2025). Strong hydrogen trapping by tangled dislocations in cold-drawn pearlitic steels. Acta Materialia. 296. 121231–121231. 8 indexed citations
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Han, Ke, et al.. (2025). Mechanical Properties of a Ni-Co-Cr-Mo Alloy. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 35(5). 1–5.
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Zhou, Ziyang, Zhengquan Wang, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing maritime corrosion resistance of epoxy coating on steels by using rust conversion and graphene-based composites. Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing. 192. 108793–108793. 3 indexed citations
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Niu, Ranming, et al.. (2024). Coral-shaped AlSi anode materials for Li-ion batteries enabled by THF-based electrolyte. Journal of Energy Storage. 96. 112597–112597. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Yingang, Jingqi Zhang, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2024). Manufacturing of high strength and high conductivity copper with laser powder bed fusion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1283–1283. 53 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, Ranming Niu, David Pesquera, et al.. (2024). Coexistence of ferroelectric and ferrielectric phases in ultrathin antiferroelectric PbZrO3 thin films. Microstructures. 4(4). 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, Xianghan Xu, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2024). Ferroelectric Translational Boundaries Separating Antiferroelectric Domains in Y-Doped HfO2. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(12). 9040–9046. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Pang-Yu, Boning Zhang, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2024). Engineering metal-carbide hydrogen traps in steels. Nature Communications. 15(1). 724–724. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi‐Sheng, Chao Huang, Pang-Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in metals – A review. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 136. 789–821. 122 indexed citations breakdown →
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Niu, Ranming, Hanyu Li, Pang-Yu Liu, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen-enhanced deformation in pearlite. Acta Materialia. 281. 120327–120327. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhengquan, Ranming Niu, Pang-Yu Liu, et al.. (2023). Cryogenic atom probe tomography and its applications: a review. Microstructures. 3(4). 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yingtang, Sajjad S. Mofarah, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2023). Efficient and stable piezo-photocatalytic splitting of water and seawater by interfacial engineering of Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3/Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 self-generated heterojunctions. Nano Energy. 116. 108830–108830. 24 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qian, Ranming Niu, Ying Liu, et al.. (2023). Room-temperature super-elongation in high-entropy alloy nanopillars. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7469–7469. 42 indexed citations
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Song, Zizheng, Ranming Niu, Xiangyuan Cui, et al.. (2023). Mechanism of room-temperature superplasticity in ultrafine-grained Al–Zn alloys. Acta Materialia. 246. 118671–118671. 50 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, Ranming Niu, A. Majchrowski, et al.. (2023). Translational Boundaries as Incipient Ferrielectric Domains in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3. Physical Review Letters. 130(21). 216801–216801. 18 indexed citations
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Liu, Ying, Xiangyuan Cui, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2022). Giant room temperature compression and bending in ferroelectric oxide pillars. Nature Communications. 13(1). 335–335. 27 indexed citations
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Chen, Yi‐Sheng, Pang-Yu Liu, Ranming Niu, et al.. (2022). Atom Probe Tomography for the Observation of Hydrogen in Materials: A Review. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(1). 1–15. 37 indexed citations
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Xin, Tongzheng, Yuhong Zhao, Reza Mahjoub, et al.. (2021). Ultrahigh specific strength in a magnesium alloy strengthened by spinodal decomposition. Science Advances. 7(23). 261 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Ying, Ranming Niu, Scott D. Moss, et al.. (2021). Atomic coordinates and polarization map around a pair of 12a[011¯] dislocation cores produced by plastic deformation in relaxor ferroelectric PIN–PMN–PT. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(23). 6 indexed citations

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