Wei Xia

14.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
238 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Wei Xia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Wei Xia has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 92 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 72 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Wei Xia's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (62 papers), Graphene research and applications (38 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (36 papers). Wei Xia is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (62 papers), Graphene research and applications (38 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (36 papers). Wei Xia collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United States. Wei Xia's co-authors include Martin Muhler, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Justus Masa, Shankhamala Kundu, Philipp Weide, Yuemin Wang, Anqi Zhao, Ilya Sinev, Zhenyu Sun and Roland A. Fischer 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

Wei Xia

231 papers receiving 12.7k 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.

Co@Co₃O₄ Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotube‐Grafted Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Polyhedra as an Advanced Bifunctional Oxygen Electrode

2016 1.1k citations Wei Xia, Martin Muhler et al. profile →
Thermal Stability and Reducibility of Oxygen-Containing Functional Groups on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Surfaces: A Quantitative High-Resolution XPS and TPD/TPR Study

2008 832 citations Wei Xia, Martin Muhler et al. profile →
Amorphous Cobalt Boride (Co₂B) as a Highly Efficient Nonprecious Catalyst for Electrochemical Water Splitting: Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution

2016 783 citations Wei Xia, Christoph Somsen et al. profile →
On the Role of Metals in Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction

2015 607 citations Wei Xia, Martin Muhler et al. profile →
Mn_xO_y/NC and Co_xO_y/NC Nanoparticles Embedded in a Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Matrix for High‐Performance Bifunctional Oxygen Electrodes

2014 499 citations Wei Xia, Martin Muhler et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wei Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wei Xia based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Wei Xia. Wei Xia is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Direct Synthesis of para-Xylene from CO₂ Hydrogenation with a Record-High Space-Time Yield 2025 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Lijun Zhang, Teng Li, Wenjie Xiang, Zhiwei Ye, (unknown), Wei Xia, Hao Huang, (unknown), (unknown), Guangbo Liu, Zhiliang Jin, Weizhe Gao, Hongliang Li, Jie Zeng, Noritatsu Tsubaki	3
2	Direct Visualization of the Impurity Occupancy Road Map in Ni-Substituted van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe₃GaTe₂ 2025 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Lu Sun, Zhenhai Yu, (unknown), Wei Xia, Xia Wang, Xuerong Liu, Yu-Lin Chen, Shihao Zhang, Xuewen Fu, (unknown), Zhenzhong Yang, Yanfeng Guo	0
3	Long-Term CO₂ Hydrogenation into Liquid Fuels with a Record-High Single-Pass Yield of 31.7% over Interfacial Fe–Zn Sites 2025 ·Nano Letters ·Lijun Zhang, Jiankang Zhao, Teng Li, Weizhe Gao, Hongliang Li, (unknown), Wei Xia, (unknown), Chengwei Wang, Fan Wang, Shuhei Yasuda, Xiaoyu Guo, Yingluo He, Guohui Yang, Guangbo Liu, Zhiliang Jin, Jie Zeng, Noritatsu Tsubaki	3
4	Porous materials with terminal zinc hydride sites to capture high-temperature carbon dioxide 2025 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Wei Xia, Xiubing Huang	0
5	Dual anion-regulated solvation structure enables LiFePO4 batteries with ultra-wide temperature operation (−40–130 °C) 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Caili Xu, Cheng Chen, Wei Xia, Haiping Zhou, Shuang‐Nan Zhang, (unknown)	0
6	Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ZGS521 attenuates colitis by regulating intestinal epithelial proliferation and differentiation and the gut microbiota 2025 ·Food & Function ·Wei Xia, Xinyue Li, Wei Liu, Tao Zhou	1
7	π-Bridge engineering strategy: tailoring S-xanthene dyes with strong absorption for high-efficiency photothermal therapy 2025 ·Materials Horizons ·Yu Zhao, Ruirui Zhang, Nan Wang, Xiaoli Tian, (unknown), Wei Xia, Zhouyu Wang, Xiaoqi Yu, Kun Li	1
8	Microwave plasma conversion of food waste using carbon foam: Production of heteroatom-doped graphene and combustible gas 2024 ·Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis ·Zhiyang Liu, Kun Chen, (unknown), Weining Li, Minghui Gong, (unknown), Wei Xia, Cheng‐Di Dong	3
9	Fabricating highly active Pt atomically dispersed catalysts with the co-existence of Pt-O1Ni1 single atoms and Pt sub-nanoclusters for improved hydrogen evolution 2024 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Wei Xia, Mengyao Ma, (unknown), Liang Qiao, Kebin Chi, Xiaoyan Guo, (unknown), Dengfeng Wu, Dong Cao, Daojian Cheng	37
10	Constructing Ag Single Atoms and Nanoparticles Co‐Decorated CoO(O)H as Highly Active Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Reaction under Large Current Density 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xiaoyan Guo, Huimin Zhang, Wei Xia, Mengyao Ma, Dong Cao, Daojian Cheng	25
11	Enhanced activity and coke resistivity of NiCoFe nanoalloy catalyst in CO2 reforming of methane 2023 ·Journal of the Indian Chemical Society ·Subhasis Das, (unknown), Wei Xia, Martin Muhler	2
12	Bioinformatics analysis of the common targets of miR-223-3p, miR-122-5p, and miR-93-5p in polycystic ovarian syndrome 2023 ·Frontiers in Genetics ·Liping Zou, (unknown), Wei Xia, Changhong Zhu	2
13	Recombinase Polymerase Amplification-Based Biosensors for Rapid Zoonoses Screening 2023 ·International Journal of Nanomedicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhe Sun, (unknown), Chen Zhao, Wei Xia	15
14	Research on design and milling performance of unequal gradient helix and variable pitch end mill 2023 ·Journal of Manufacturing Processes ·(unknown), Xianli Liu, Caixu Yue, (unknown), Wei Xia	4
15	Quantitative and systematic designing of fluorophores enables ultrasensitive distinguishing carbonyls 2021 ·New Journal of Chemistry ·Lei Shi, Chenxu Yan, (unknown), Lixiang Yang, (unknown), Wei Xia, Lingfan Zhang, Yu Chen, Wenqing Zhang	5
16	Preparing hydroxyapatite-silicon composite suspensions with homogeneous distribution of multi-walled carbon nano-tubes for electrophoretic coating of NiTi bone implant and their effect on the surface morphology 2016 ·Applied Surface Science ·Vida Khalili, Jafar Khalil‐Allafi, Wei Xia, A.B. Parsa, Jan Frenzel, Christoph Somsen, Gunther Eggeler	30
17	Purified oxygen- and nitrogen-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes as metal-free catalysts for selective olefin hydrogenation 2013 ·(unknown), Peirong Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kunpeng Xie, M. Martin, Martin Muhler, Wei Wei, Wei Xia	23
18	The Molecular Density of States in Bacterial Nanowires 2008 ·Biophysical Journal ·Mohamed Y. El‐Naggar, Yuri A. Gorby, Wei Xia, Kenneth H. Nealson	97
19	Matching the emitting wavelength from a very-small-aperture laser to the resonant property of a nanometric C-aperture 2007 ·Applied Optics ·(unknown), Jia Wang, Qian Tian, Wei Xia, Xiangang Xu	4
20	Preparation of a Porous Iron Oxyhydroxide from Layered Double Hydroxides Precursors 2006 ·Clay science ·Wei Xia, (unknown), Kongjun Zhu, Ranbo Yu, Xianran Xing, Dan Wang	1

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