Rong Xiang

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
222 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Rong Xiang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rong Xiang has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Materials Chemistry, 67 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 33 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rong Xiang's work include Graphene research and applications (76 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (71 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (26 papers). Rong Xiang is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (76 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (71 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (26 papers). Rong Xiang collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and United States. Rong Xiang's co-authors include Shigeo Maruyama, Qiang Zhang, Zikang Tang, Shohei Chiashi, Jia‐Qi Huang, Xuchun Gui, James A. Wilkins, Taiki Inoue, Erik Einarsson and Maria‐Magdalena Titirici 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

Rong Xiang

211 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Review of Functional Binders in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

2018 385 citations Rong Xiang et al. profile →
Ultrahigh-Aspect-Ratio Boron Nitride Nanosheets Leading to Superhigh In-Plane Thermal Conductivity of Foldable Heat Spreader

2021 306 citations Rong Xiang, Shigeo Maruyama et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rong Xiang China	45	4.0k	2.4k	1.4k	894	707	222	6.7k
Xinqi Chen China	41	4.8k 1.2×	4.0k 1.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 2.0×	728 1.0×	131	8.5k
Baolin Wang China	42	2.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	907 0.6×	887 1.0×	368 0.5×	219	6.0k
Shih‐Yuan Lu Taiwan	55	4.2k 1.1×	5.9k 2.4×	1.5k 1.1×	2.9k 3.2×	995 1.4×	223	10.5k
Zheng He China	40	3.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	880 0.6×	2.0k 2.2×	302 0.4×	212	6.4k
Zhiyong Wang China	45	3.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	2.4k 2.6×	776 1.1×	202	7.5k
Ralf Moos Germany	47	4.9k 1.2×	6.0k 2.4×	2.7k 1.9×	879 1.0×	763 1.1×	435	9.2k
Yu Lei China	45	2.7k 0.7×	3.5k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	564 0.8×	175	6.8k
Lin Zhu China	43	1.8k 0.5×	3.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	610 0.7×	500 0.7×	200	5.7k
Shuai Yuan China	47	1.9k 0.5×	3.6k 1.5×	558 0.4×	811 0.9×	548 0.8×	211	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Rong Xiang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rong Xiang

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Xiaoqing, et al.. (2025). Procyanidin C1 ameliorates osteoarthritis through epigenetic modulation of RAGEs. Food & Function. 16(23). 9022–9032.

Zheng, Yongjia, Akihito Kumamoto, Yanlin Gao, et al.. (2025). Metallic NbS₂ One-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 19(36). 32800–32809.

Cui, Hao, Pan Wang, Feng Tang, et al.. (2025). Bandgap‐Engineered Semiconductors Spectrometers. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(14).

Du, Bin, Qian Tang, Wei Chen, et al.. (2023). Insight into the purification of algael water by a novel flocculant with enhanced branched nanochitosan structure. Journal of Environmental Management. 331. 117283–117283. 12 indexed citations

Feng, Ya, Yuta Sato, Taiki Inoue, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube with Axial Tensile Strain Enabled by Boron Nitride Nanotube Anchoring. Small. 20(16). e2308571–e2308571. 5 indexed citations

Acauan, Luiz H., Haozhe Wang, Yongjia Zheng, et al.. (2022). Micro- and Macrostructures of Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotube Arrays. ACS Nano. 16(11). 18178–18186. 10 indexed citations

Xiang, Rong, et al.. (2021). Fault diagnosis of mine asynchronous motor based on MEEMD energy entropy and ANN. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 92. 107070–107070. 35 indexed citations

Wang, Zhiyu, Cheng‐Chieh Lin, Ya‐Lun Ho, et al.. (2021). Self‐Patterned CsPbBr₃ Nanocrystal Based Plasmonic Hot‐Carrier Photodetector at Telecommunications Wavelengths. Advanced Optical Materials. 9(24). 10 indexed citations

Chisaka, Mitsuharu, Rong Xiang, Shigeo Maruyama, & Hirofumi Daiguji. (2021). Twofold Effects of Zirconium Doping into TiN on Durability and Oxygen Reduction Reactivity in an Acidic Environment. Energy & Fuels. 36(1). 539–547. 7 indexed citations

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Feng, Ya, Rong Xiang, Taiki Inoue, et al.. (2021). Phenomenological model of thermal transport in carbon nanotube and hetero-nanotube films. Nanotechnology. 32(20). 205708–205708. 4 indexed citations

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Okada, Morihiro, Taiki Inoue, Xiyuan Cheng, et al.. (2020). Dry Drawability of Few-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Grown by Alcohol Chemical Vapor Deposition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(31). 17331–17339. 2 indexed citations

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ARAI, H., Taiki Inoue, Rong Xiang, Shigeo Maruyama, & Shohei Chiashi. (2020). Non-catalytic heteroepitaxial growth of aligned, large-sized hexagonal boron nitride single-crystals on graphite. Nanoscale. 12(18). 10399–10406. 12 indexed citations

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Chisaka, Mitsuharu, Rong Xiang, Shigeo Maruyama, & Hirofumi Daiguji. (2020). Efficient Phosphorus Doping into the Surface Oxide Layers on TiN to Enhance Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity in Acidic Media. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(10). 9866–9876. 10 indexed citations

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Seo, Seungju, Il Jeon, Rong Xiang, et al.. (2019). Semiconducting carbon nanotubes as crystal growth templates and grain bridges in perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(21). 12987–12992. 61 indexed citations

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Inoue, Taiki, Shun Yamamoto, Keigo Otsuka, et al.. (2019). Regrowth and catalytic etching of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes studied by isotope labeling and growth interruption. Carbon. 155. 635–642. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Qian, Hua An, Taiki Inoue, et al.. (2018). A Comparison Between Reduced and Intentionally Oxidized Metal Catalysts for Growth of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes. physica status solidi (b). 255(12). 9 indexed citations

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Xiang, Rong, Yaerim Lee, Keigo Otsuka, et al.. (2018). Fabrication, characterization, and high temperature surface enhanced Raman spectroscopic performance of SiO₂ coated silver particles. Nanoscale. 10(12). 5449–5456. 26 indexed citations

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Feng, Ya, Taiki Inoue, Hua An, et al.. (2018). Quantitative study of bundle size effect on thermal conductivity of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Applied Physics Letters. 112(19). 38 indexed citations

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Gui, Xuchun, Zhiping Zeng, Yuan Zhu, et al.. (2014). Carbon Nanotubes: Three‐Dimensional Carbon Nanotube Sponge‐Array Architectures with High Energy Dissipation (Adv. Mater. 8/2014). Advanced Materials. 26(8). 1307–1307. 4 indexed citations

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Xiang, Rong. (2003). Modeling for Doubly-Salient Electro-Magnet Motor Based on Nonlinear Inductance. Nanjing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue xuebao. 2 indexed citations

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