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

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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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Wei Xia	6.9k	6.6k	4.6k	2.4k	1.5k	238	12.9k
Wei Li	9.5k 1.4×	8.0k 1.2×	5.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	319	15.7k
Zhenhua Li	5.0k 0.7×	6.6k 1.0×	4.1k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	202	11.7k
Cheng Wang	7.1k 1.0×	7.1k 1.1×	4.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	984 0.6×	380	13.0k
Abdullah M. Al‐Enizi	4.8k 0.7×	5.2k 0.8×	5.7k 1.3×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	377	12.6k
Jiatao Zhang	6.1k 0.9×	7.1k 1.1×	8.7k 1.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.9k 1.3×	294	15.2k
Jayaraman Theerthagiri	5.1k 0.7×	5.7k 0.9×	5.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	182	10.9k
Yihua Zhu	7.1k 1.0×	5.9k 0.9×	8.4k 1.8×	2.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.8×	268	15.8k
Sheng Zhang	5.4k 0.8×	7.5k 1.1×	4.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	191	11.7k
Feng Yu	5.6k 0.8×	3.1k 0.5×	4.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	454	11.2k
Xiaoqiang Cui	6.7k 1.0×	6.7k 1.0×	6.8k 1.5×	2.0k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	294	15.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wei Xia

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Lu, Zhenhai Yu, Wei Xia, et al.. (2025). Direct Visualization of the Impurity Occupancy Road Map in Ni-Substituted van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe₃GaTe₂. Nano Letters. 25(11). 4260–4266.

Zhang, Lijun, Teng Li, Wenjie Xiang, et al.. (2025). Direct Synthesis of para-Xylene from CO₂ Hydrogenation with a Record-High Space-Time Yield. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(28). 24442–24450. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Lijun, Jiankang Zhao, Teng Li, et al.. (2025). Long-Term CO₂ Hydrogenation into Liquid Fuels with a Record-High Single-Pass Yield of 31.7% over Interfacial Fe–Zn Sites. Nano Letters. 25(12). 4904–4912. 3 indexed citations

Xia, Wei, et al.. (2025). Porous materials with terminal zinc hydride sites to capture high-temperature carbon dioxide. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 301–302.

Xu, Caili, et al.. (2025). Dual anion-regulated solvation structure enables LiFePO4 batteries with ultra-wide temperature operation (−40–130 °C). Chemical Engineering Journal. 522. 168146–168146.

Zhao, Yu, Ruirui Zhang, Nan Wang, et al.. (2025). π-Bridge engineering strategy: tailoring S-xanthene dyes with strong absorption for high-efficiency photothermal therapy. Materials Horizons. 12(24). 10698–10708. 1 indexed citations

Deng, Shaohui, Lijun Hu, Zecong Xiao, et al.. (2025). A PD‐L1 siRNA‐Loaded Boron Nanoparticle for Targeted Cancer Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy. Advanced Materials. 37(13). e2419418–e2419418. 14 indexed citations

Xia, Wei, Xinyue Li, Wei Liu, & Tao Zhou. (2025). Lactiplantibacillus plantarum ZGS521 attenuates colitis by regulating intestinal epithelial proliferation and differentiation and the gut microbiota. Food & Function. 16(18). 7134–7153. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Chengxin, Ying Zhang, Hui Kong, et al.. (2025). Ru-decorated defective tantalum oxide via laser synthesis for efficient photothermal CO2 methanation. Chinese Chemical Letters. 111345–111345.

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Liu, Zhiyang, Kun Chen, Weining Li, et al.. (2024). Microwave plasma conversion of food waste using carbon foam: Production of heteroatom-doped graphene and combustible gas. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 183. 106785–106785. 3 indexed citations

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Xia, Wei, Mengyao Ma, Liang Qiao, et al.. (2024). Fabricating highly active Pt atomically dispersed catalysts with the co-existence of Pt-O1Ni1 single atoms and Pt sub-nanoclusters for improved hydrogen evolution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 354. 124074–124074. 37 indexed citations

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Zou, Liping, et al.. (2023). Bioinformatics analysis of the common targets of miR-223-3p, miR-122-5p, and miR-93-5p in polycystic ovarian syndrome. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1097706–1097706. 2 indexed citations

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Das, Subhasis, et al.. (2023). Enhanced activity and coke resistivity of NiCoFe nanoalloy catalyst in CO2 reforming of methane. Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. 100(8). 101049–101049. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Recombinase Polymerase Amplification-Based Biosensors for Rapid Zoonoses Screening. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 18. 6311–6331. 15 indexed citations

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Liu, Xianli, et al.. (2023). Research on design and milling performance of unequal gradient helix and variable pitch end mill. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 106. 347–362. 4 indexed citations

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Ma, Mengyao, Wei Xia, Wenhao Liu, et al.. (2023). Constructing NiMoP nanorod arrays with a highly active Ni₂P/NiMoP₂ interface for hydrogen evolution in 0.5 M H₂SO₄ and 1.0 M KOH media. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(18). 4029–4039. 7 indexed citations

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Shi, Lei, Chenxu Yan, Lixiang Yang, et al.. (2021). Quantitative and systematic designing of fluorophores enables ultrasensitive distinguishing carbonyls. New Journal of Chemistry. 45(28). 12661–12668. 5 indexed citations

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Khalili, Vida, Jafar Khalil‐Allafi, Wei Xia, et al.. (2016). 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. Applied Surface Science. 366. 158–165. 30 indexed citations

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Chen, Peirong, Kunpeng Xie, M. Martin, et al.. (2013). Purified oxygen- and nitrogen-modified multi-walled carbon nanotubes as metal-free catalysts for selective olefin hydrogenation. 22(2). 312–320. 23 indexed citations

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Xia, Wei, et al.. (2006). Preparation of a Porous Iron Oxyhydroxide from Layered Double Hydroxides Precursors. Clay science. 12(2). 285–288. 1 indexed citations

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