Xiahan Sang

11.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
160 papers, 10.0k citations indexed

About

Xiahan Sang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiahan Sang has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 10.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Materials Chemistry, 63 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 36 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xiahan Sang's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (31 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (23 papers). Xiahan Sang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (31 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (25 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (23 papers). Xiahan Sang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Xiahan Sang's co-authors include Raymond R. Unocic, James M. LeBeau, Everett D. Grimley, Uwe Schroeder, Tony Schenk, Kai Xiao, Lecheng Lei, Zhongjian Li, Yang Hou and Yu Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiahan Sang

157 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Atomic Defects in Monolayer Titanium Carbide (Ti₃C₂T_x) MXene

2016 979 citations Xiahan Sang, Raymond R. Unocic et al. ACS Nano profile →
Physical Mechanisms behind the Field‐Cycling Behavior of HfO₂‐Based Ferroelectric Capacitors

2016 740 citations Xiahan Sang et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
On the structural origins of ferroelectricity in HfO2 thin films

2015 523 citations Xiahan Sang et al. profile →
Mechanochemical‐Assisted Synthesis of High‐Entropy Metal Nitride via a Soft Urea Strategy

2018 454 citations Xiahan Sang, Raymond R. Unocic et al. profile →
Mechanochemical Synthesis of High Entropy Oxide Materials under Ambient Conditions: Dispersion of Catalysts via Entropy Maximization

2019 210 citations Hao Chen, Wenwen Lin et al. ACS Materials Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiahan Sang United States	50	6.4k	4.6k	3.0k	1.2k	1.0k	160	10.0k
Raymond R. Unocic United States	64	8.5k 1.3×	6.1k 1.3×	2.6k 0.9×	2.9k 2.4×	611 0.6×	231	14.9k
Miyoung Kim South Korea	50	6.0k 0.9×	5.1k 1.1×	845 0.3×	867 0.7×	616 0.6×	392	10.9k
Zonghoon Lee South Korea	59	9.9k 1.5×	5.8k 1.3×	2.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.6×	305 0.3×	235	13.9k
Christophe Detavernier Belgium	59	7.7k 1.2×	8.9k 1.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	521	14.1k
Binghui Ge China	58	9.8k 1.5×	6.7k 1.5×	4.4k 1.5×	895 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	287	14.2k
Alex W. Robertson United Kingdom	52	6.1k 0.9×	4.1k 0.9×	3.5k 1.2×	594 0.5×	1.8k 1.7×	162	10.0k
Albina Y. Borisevich United States	53	6.6k 1.0×	2.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	682 0.6×	474 0.5×	188	9.3k
Chuanhong Jin China	67	17.2k 2.7×	9.5k 2.1×	4.0k 1.3×	728 0.6×	531 0.5×	243	22.0k
Ellen Ivers‐Tiffée Germany	63	8.3k 1.3×	8.6k 1.8×	1.7k 0.6×	522 0.4×	1.2k 1.2×	273	14.2k
Hyuck Mo Lee South Korea	52	4.5k 0.7×	4.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 2.1×	1.2k 1.2×	222	9.4k

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Xie, Hongyao, Zhi Yang, Weibin Xu, et al.. (2025). Rhombohedral GeSe Thermoelectric Breakthrough by Strategic Pb Alloying. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(9). 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Chang, Dashuai Wang, Libin Zeng, et al.. (2025). Engineering the Coordination Environment of Metal Centers for Selective and High-Current CO₂ Electromethanation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(30). 26185–26194. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Haixia, Dashuai Wang, Cheng‐Jie Yang, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Electron Engineering Unlocks Efficient Nitrate Electrosynthesis by Balancing Nitrogen Activation and Oxygen Evolution. ACS Catalysis. 15(11). 9610–9620. 1 indexed citations

Cui, Wenjun, et al.. (2024). Atomic-Resolution Interfacial Reaction Mechanism between Bi₂Te₃-Based Alloys and Ni Electrodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(23). 30598–30606. 5 indexed citations

Cui, Wenjun, Bin Yang, Zhongjian Li, et al.. (2024). Electronic structure optimization of metal–phthalocyanine via confining atomic Ru for all-pH hydrogen evolution. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(4). 1540–1548. 44 indexed citations

Cui, Wenjun, et al.. (2023). Enhanced thermoelectric properties for p-type BiSbTe by incorporating multiferroic BiFeO3 nanoparticles. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 949. 169850–169850. 6 indexed citations

Zheng, Wanzhen, Dashuai Wang, Wenjun Cui, et al.. (2023). Accelerating industrial-level CO₂electroreduction kinetics on isolated zinc centersviasulfur-boosted bicarbonate dissociation. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(3). 1007–1015. 56 indexed citations

Wei, Ping, Jianqiang Zhang, Wanting Zhu, et al.. (2022). Fabrication and Excellent Performances of Bismuth Telluride-Based Thermoelectric Devices. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(10). 12276–12283. 43 indexed citations

Sun, Jinchang, Ruoyu Wang, Wenjun Cui, et al.. (2022). Percolation Process-Mediated Rich Defects in Hole-Doped PbSe with Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance. Chemistry of Materials. 34(14). 6450–6459. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinyue, Xiahan Sang, Chung‐Li Dong, et al.. (2021). Proton Capture Strategy for Enhancing Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Atomically Dispersed Metal–Nitrogen Active Sites**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(21). 11959–11965. 233 indexed citations

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Dai, Qizhou, Lin Wang, Kexin Wang, et al.. (2021). Accelerated Water Dissociation Kinetics By Electron‐Enriched Cobalt Sites for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(12). 130 indexed citations

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Unocic, Raymond R., Yu‐Chuan Lin, Xiahan Sang, et al.. (2021). Intrinsic Defects in MoS₂ Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition: From Monolayers to Bilayers. ACS Nano. 15(2). 2858–2868. 61 indexed citations

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Misra, Sudhajit, Jeffery A. Aguiar, Xiahan Sang, et al.. (2020). Cadmium Selective Etching in CdTe Solar Cells Produces Detrimental Narrow-Gap Te in Grain Boundaries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(2). 1749–1758. 5 indexed citations

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Gamler, Jocelyn T. L., Alberto Leonardi, Xiahan Sang, et al.. (2020). Effect of lattice mismatch and shell thickness on strain in core@shell nanocrystals. Nanoscale Advances. 2(3). 1105–1114. 63 indexed citations

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Chen, Hao, Wenwen Lin, Zihao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Mechanochemical Synthesis of High Entropy Oxide Materials under Ambient Conditions: Dispersion of Catalysts via Entropy Maximization. ACS Materials Letters. 1(1). 83–88. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gamler, Jocelyn T. L., Hannah M. Ashberry, Xiahan Sang, Raymond R. Unocic, & Sara E. Skrabalak. (2019). Building Random Alloy Surfaces from Intermetallic Seeds: A General Route to Strain-Engineered Electrocatalysts with High Durability. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2(7). 4538–4546. 17 indexed citations

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Baggetto, Loïc, Xiahan Sang, Dongwon Shin, et al.. (2019). Interpreting Electrochemical and Chemical Sodiation Mechanisms and Kinetics in Tin Antimony Battery Anodes Using in Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Computational Methods. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(5). 3578–3586. 16 indexed citations

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Balachandran, Janakiraman, Xiahan Sang, Wei Guo, et al.. (2018). The Influence of Local Distortions on Proton Mobility in Acceptor Doped Perovskites. Chemistry of Materials. 30(15). 4919–4925. 45 indexed citations

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Balachandran, Janakiraman, Xiahan Sang, Wei Guo, et al.. (2018). Influence of Nonstoichiometry on Proton Conductivity in Thin-Film Yttrium-Doped Barium Zirconate. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(5). 4816–4823. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Chenyu, Xiahan Sang, Jocelyn T. L. Gamler, et al.. (2017). Facet-Dependent Deposition of Highly Strained Alloyed Shells on Intermetallic Nanoparticles for Enhanced Electrocatalysis. Nano Letters. 17(9). 5526–5532. 93 indexed citations

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