Weigao Xu

5.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
77 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Weigao Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Weigao Xu has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Materials Chemistry, 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Weigao Xu's work include 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers) and Graphene research and applications (12 papers). Weigao Xu is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (21 papers) and Graphene research and applications (12 papers). Weigao Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Weigao Xu's co-authors include Jin Zhang, Qihua Xiong, Nannan Mao, Xi Ling, Jiaqi Xiao, Zhongfan Liu, Jing Kong, M. S. Dresselhaus, Susu Fang and Hongxing Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Weigao Xu

74 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on a flat graphene surface

2012 500 citations Weigao Xu, Xi Ling et al. profile →
Cation-doped ZnS catalysts for polysulfide conversion in lithium–sulfur batteries

2022 498 citations Susu Fang, Weigao Xu et al. profile →
Graphene: A Platform for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

2013 454 citations Weigao Xu, Jin Zhang et al. profile →
Room-Temperature Polariton Lasing in All-Inorganic Perovskite Nanoplatelets

2017 361 citations Weigao Xu, Qihua Xiong et al. Nano Letters profile →
Accelerating electrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products via asymmetric intermediate binding at confined nanointerfaces

2023 248 citations Jin Zhang, Chenxi Guo et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weigao Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weigao Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weigao Xu 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 Weigao Xu. Weigao Xu 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	Wide-Field Digital Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: Quantitative Single-Molecule Detection with High Sensitivity and Throughput 2025 ·Chemical & Biomedical Imaging ·(unknown), Wen Zhang, Ling Tang, (unknown), (unknown), Li Li, Weigao Xu, Zhonghua Xi, Yuxi Tian	0
2	Interlayer engineering of lattice dynamics and elastic constants of 2D layered nanomaterials under pressure 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Lili Zhao, (unknown), Jing‐Kai Huang, Susu Fang, Wuxiao Han, Jiayin Li, (unknown), (unknown), Tiansong Zhang, Jun Zhang, Jun Kang, Xiaoyan Li, Weigao Xu, Yabin Chen	3
3	Boosting dimethyl carbonate synthesis from CO2 and methanol through oxygen vacancy engineering on CeO2 under thermodynamically favorable conditions 2024 ·Journal of Environmental Sciences ·(unknown), Bo Lei, Haoyang Jiang, Yi Xie, Junjie Du, Weigao Xu, Dekun Ma, Miao Zhong	3
4	Delocalizing Excitation for Highly‐Active Organic Photovoltaic Catalysts 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Zhenzhen Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Yufan Zhu, Wenlong Yan, Guilong Cai, Yawen Li, (unknown), Xinhui Lu, Weigao Xu, Ye Yang, Yuze Lin	19
5	Persistent Exciton Dressed by Weak Polaronic Effect in Rigid and Harmonic Lattice Dion–Jacobson 2D Perovskites 2024 ·ACS Nano ·(unknown), Yu Xu, Yao Zhang, (unknown), Hongzhi Zhou, Wei Tang, Jiaoyang Wang, Linjun Li, Guangjun Nan, Weigao Xu, Haiming Zhu	6
6	“Surface-Like Growth” Strategy for the Direct Synthesis of Horizontally Aligned Boron Nitride Nanotubes 2024 ·Nano Letters ·Nanyang Wang, Kai Zhang, Kaiping Zhu, Xin Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Weigao Xu, Yagang Yao	3
7	Unveiling the spin evolution in van der Waals antiferromagnets via magneto-exciton effects 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Xingzhi Wang, Qishuo Tan, Tie Li, Zhengguang Lu, Jun Cao, (unknown), (unknown), J. Tang, Hikari Kitadai, (unknown), Yunmei Li, Weigao Xu, Ran Cheng, Dmitry Smirnov, Xi Ling	6
8	Direct measurement of built-in electric field inside a 2D cavity 2024 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nanyang Wang, (unknown), Zhonghua Xi, Weigao Xu	2
9	Superior optical gain in zinc selenide colloidal nanocrystals induced by Coulomb-correlated electron–hole plasma 2024 ·Applied Physics Reviews ·(unknown), (unknown), Yiming Wu, Yuting Wu, Weigao Xu, Xie Zhang, Yue Wang	3
10	Observation of Chirality Transfer in Twisted Few-Layer Graphene 2024 ·ACS Nano ·Ge Song, (unknown), (unknown), Susu Fang, Weigao Xu, Lianming Tong, Jin Zhang	3
11	Design of Metal Aerogels‐Based 3D SERS Substrates by Gentle Compression 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), Yu Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), René Hübner, Yueqi Li, (unknown), (unknown), Weigao Xu, Yue Hu, Ran Du	6
12	Direct characterization of shear phonons in layered materials by mechano-Raman spectroscopy 2023 ·Nature Photonics ·Susu Fang, Sai Duan, Xingzhi Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Hua Li, (unknown), (unknown), Nanyang Wang, Lei Zhang, Xinglin Wen, Yagang Yao, Jun Zhang, Daiqian Xie, Yi Luo, Weigao Xu	11
13	Novel amino acid ionic liquids prepared via one‐step lactam hydrolysis for the highly efficient capture of CO₂ 2023 ·AIChE Journal ·(unknown), Tao Wang, Xiaomin Zhang, Weigao Xu, Xingbang Hu, Youting Wu	40
14	The Discovery of a High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Bismuth Oxyselenide Semiconductor and Its Application in Nonvolatile Neuromorphic Devices 2023 ·ACS Nano ·Yuyu He, Qi Xu, Xinyue Dong, Junhao Liu, Li Li, Bing Wang, (unknown), Lei Zhang, Zhansheng Gao, Wei Ai, (unknown), Zhengyang Zhou, Weigao Xu, Huixia Fu, Feng Luo, Jinxiong Wu	20
15	Accelerating electrochemical CO2 reduction to multi-carbon products via asymmetric intermediate binding at confined nanointerfaces breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Jin Zhang, Chenxi Guo, Susu Fang, Xiaotong Zhao, Le Li, Haoyang Jiang, Zhaoyang Liu, (unknown), Weigao Xu, Jianping Xiao, Miao Zhong	248
16	Novel amino acid ionic liquids as messenger of multi-tertiary-amines solutions for highly efficient capture of CO2 2023 ·Chemical Engineering Science ·(unknown), (unknown), Xiaomin Zhang, (unknown), Weigao Xu, Youting Wu	28
17	Ultrasensitive detection of local acoustic vibrations at room temperature by plasmon-enhanced single-molecule fluorescence 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Hanyu Liu, Sushu Wan, Xuxing Lu, Daocheng Hong, (unknown), (unknown), Zhihong Wei, Susu Fang, (unknown), (unknown), Boyang Wang, Siyu Lu, Xue‐Jun Wu, Weigao Xu, Michel Orrit, Yuxi Tian	11
18	Spatiotemporally Controlled Access to Photoluminescence Dark State of 2D Monolayer Semiconductor by FRAP Microscopy 2021 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Hua Su, Yufeng Nie, (unknown), Linliang Yin, Jian Li, Xing‐Hua Xia, Weigao Xu, Wei Wang	3
19	Spontaneous Polarity Flipping in a 2D Heterobilayer Induced by Fluctuating Interfacial Carrier Flows 2021 ·Nano Letters ·Hua Li, Honglei Li, Xingzhi Wang, Yufeng Nie, Cheng Liu, Yu Dai, (unknown), Mengning Ding, Xi Ling, Daiqian Xie, Ning Lü, Changjin Wan, Qihua Xiong, Weigao Xu	11
20	Paraffin-Enabled Compressive Folding of Two-Dimensional Materials with Controllable Broadening of the Electronic Band Gap 2021 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Weifeng Zhang, Zihan Zhao, Yating Yang, Yan Zhang, Hao He, Li Li, Weigao Xu, Banghua Peng, Run Long, Nan Liu	12

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