Wence Xu

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Wence Xu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wence Xu has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 44 papers in Materials Chemistry and 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wence Xu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers), Nanoporous metals and alloys (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers). Wence Xu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers), Nanoporous metals and alloys (20 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers). Wence Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Wence Xu's co-authors include Fangyi Cheng, Jun Chen, Zhenhua Yan, Hongming Sun, Fangming Liu, Shengli Zhu, Zhenduo Cui, Yanqin Liang, Akihisa Inoue and Hongxia Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wence Xu

74 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Self‐Supported Transition‐Metal‐Based Electrocatalysts fo... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Self‐Supported Transition‐Metal‐Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution
    2019 1.6k citations Wence Xu, Fangyi Cheng et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers

Wence Xu
Khang Ngoc Dinh Singapore
Shumaila Ibraheem China
Yi Feng China
Jieqiong Shan Australia
Subramani Surendran South Korea
Hongming Sun China
Shuwen Niu China
Dewei Rao China
Zhiqun Tian China
Zhuangzhi Wu China
Khang Ngoc Dinh Singapore
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Countries citing papers authored by Wence Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wence Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wence Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wence Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wence 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 Wence Xu. Wence Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhu, Shengli, Zhenduo Cui, Zhaoyang Li, et al.. (2025). Stable Universal-pH Electrocatalytic Strategy for Efficient Organic Mineralization via Sustained Hydroxyl Radical Generation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(45). 62162–62172. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xue, Wence Xu, Jiewen Xiao, et al.. (2025). Tuning Active Hydrogen via Spillover Enables the Wide‐Potential Electrochemical Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia. Advanced Materials. 38(9). e18272–e18272.
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Zhu, Shengli, Zhenduo Cui, Zhaoyang Li, et al.. (2025). The Integral Contribution of Metalloidal Boron in Electrocatalytic Removal of Nitrates and Organics. Small. 22(1). e11611–e11611. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Wence, Zhonghui Gao, Yanqin Liang, et al.. (2025). Ball milling-induced strain engineering in nanoporous catalysts for tailoring hydrogen evolution reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 509. 161491–161491. 7 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yue, Zhonghui Gao, Xuze Guan, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric‐Charge‐Distributed Co─Mn Diatomic Catalyst Enables Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(37). 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiao, Shengli Zhu, Zhenduo Cui, et al.. (2025). A facile strategy of “laser scanning method” to fabricating boron-doped diamond-like carbon anode for organics degradation. Materials Letters. 392. 138533–138533.
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Liang, Yanqin, Hui Jiang, Shuilin Wu, et al.. (2025). Enrichment of active hydrogen on nanoporous Ru/Co2P for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrate to ammonia. Chemical Engineering Journal. 516. 164046–164046. 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Yanqin, Zhaoyang Li, Zhonghui Gao, et al.. (2025). Nanoporous Cobalt‐Doped Fe3P for Boosted Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction. ChemCatChem. 17(19).
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Zhu, Jiamin, Shengli Zhu, Zhenduo Cui, et al.. (2024). Solvent-free one-step green synthesis of MXenes by “gas-phase selective etching”. Energy storage materials. 70. 103503–103503. 30 indexed citations
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Zhu, Shengli, Zhenduo Cui, Zhaoyang Li, et al.. (2024). Dual Redox Reaction Sites for Pseudocapacitance Based on Ti and −P Functional Groups of Ti3C2PBrx MXene. Angewandte Chemie. 136(27).
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Kudo, Akira, Wence Xu, Zhonghui Gao, et al.. (2024). Tuning Electrocatalytic Activities of Dealloyed Nanoporous Catalysts by Macroscopic Strain Engineering. Nano Letters. 24(18). 5543–5549. 10 indexed citations
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Ma, Zhihui, Wence Xu, Zhonghui Gao, et al.. (2024). Self-Supporting np-AlFeNiO Bifunctional Electrode Material for Electrochemical Water Splitting Prepared by Electrooxidation. Energies. 17(7). 1591–1591. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Wence, Yanqin Liang, Zhaoyang Li, et al.. (2023). Improved hydrogen evolution performance of Ni-based nanoporous catalyst with Mo and B co-addition. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 656. 262–269. 16 indexed citations
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Xu, Wence, et al.. (2023). Migration Mechanism and Magnetic Properties of Fe Ions in Glass–Ceramics of an Iron-Rich CMAS System. Glass Physics and Chemistry. 49(5). 463–477. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Jinhan, Fangming Liu, Youzeng Li, et al.. (2023). Hollow Hierarchical Cu2O‐Derived Electrocatalysts Steering CO2 Reduction to Multi‐Carbon Chemicals at Low Overpotentials. Advanced Materials. 35(26). e2301127–e2301127. 25 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoyu, Haolin Lu, Shengli Zhu, et al.. (2023). Alloying‐Triggered Phase Engineering of NiFe System via Laser‐Assisted Al Incorporation for Full Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(13). e202300800–e202300800. 62 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhao, Wence Xu, Yanqin Liang, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and water splitting performance of FeCoNbS bifunctional electrocatalyst. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 638. 893–900. 17 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoyu, Haolin Lu, Shengli Zhu, et al.. (2023). Alloying‐Triggered Phase Engineering of NiFe System via Laser‐Assisted Al Incorporation for Full Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie. 135(13). 2 indexed citations
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Han, Gang, et al.. (2022). Study of microwave non-thermal effects on hydrogen bonding in water by Raman spectroscopy. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 285. 121877–121877. 20 indexed citations
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Xu, Wence, Teng Wang, Hongxia Wang, et al.. (2018). Free-standing amorphous nanoporous nickel cobalt phosphide prepared by electrochemically delloying process as a high performance energy storage electrode material. Energy storage materials. 17. 300–308. 71 indexed citations

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