Xian Liang

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Xian Liang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xian Liang has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xian Liang's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (51 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (31 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (27 papers). Xian Liang is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (51 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (31 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (27 papers). Xian Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Pakistan. Xian Liang's co-authors include Liang Wu, Tongwen Xu, Xiaolin Ge, Zhengjin Yang, Yuan Zhu, Yubin He, Xinliang Li, Zijuan Ge, Muhammad Aamir Shehzad and Jianjun Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xian Liang

110 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Upscaled production of an ultramicroporous anion-exchange... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 50 100 150
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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. Upscaled production of an ultramicroporous anion-exchange membrane enables long-term operation in electrochemical energy devices
    2023 186 citations Wanjie Song, Xian Liang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xian Liang China 32 2.3k 1.6k 1.1k 396 329 112 3.4k
Ganhua Xie China 32 1.6k 0.7× 2.6k 1.6× 314 0.3× 875 2.2× 515 1.6× 76 4.0k
Wenmiao Chen China 33 1.4k 0.6× 624 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.5k 3.9× 116 0.4× 108 3.5k
Xiaolu Wang China 27 1.2k 0.5× 347 0.2× 1.8k 1.6× 1.7k 4.2× 146 0.4× 105 3.7k
Greg P. Smestad United States 30 1.7k 0.7× 555 0.4× 2.0k 1.9× 1.7k 4.4× 174 0.5× 69 4.0k
Roland Dittmeyer Germany 37 926 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 2.7k 6.9× 215 0.7× 219 4.8k
Yumin Huang China 30 672 0.3× 595 0.4× 259 0.2× 521 1.3× 167 0.5× 92 2.6k
Yafeng Li China 36 2.1k 0.9× 398 0.3× 1.2k 1.1× 2.1k 5.2× 163 0.5× 185 4.5k
Hongjun You China 32 1.1k 0.5× 827 0.5× 1.5k 1.4× 2.2k 5.6× 131 0.4× 124 4.1k
Yuanhai Su China 33 446 0.2× 2.6k 1.7× 386 0.4× 669 1.7× 104 0.3× 93 3.4k
Pu Liu China 28 808 0.4× 838 0.5× 675 0.6× 1.6k 3.9× 104 0.3× 116 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xian Liang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xian Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xian Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xian Liang 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 Xian Liang. Xian Liang 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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Liang, Xian, Caihong Xian, Biying Tan, et al.. (2025). Metal-based biomaterials for treating bone diseases. Chinese Chemical Letters. 37(4). 111140–111140. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Wenbo, Weiran Chen, Xian Liang, et al.. (2025). Construction of rigid and connected hydrophilic channels within poly(aryl piperidinium) membranes for enhanced conductivity and dimensional stability. Journal of Membrane Science. 730. 124192–124192. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Chen, Xian Liang, Hexin Zhang, Daofu Liu, & Yi‐Jun Wei. (2025). Bisamino-groups modified black peanut shell biochar: Adsorptive selectivity of copper and statistical physics analysis. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 726. 137890–137890.
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Qin, Yi, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Xian Liang, et al.. (2024). DNA-Anchored Single-Molecule Iron Phthalocyanine As an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Alkaline Fuel Cells. ACS Catalysis. 14(10). 7514–7525. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaoyan, Zirui Zhang, Shun Zhou, et al.. (2023). Topology engineering of UiO-66@TiO2-based photoelectrocatalyst for highly efficient degradation of binary pollutants. Separation and Purification Technology. 330. 125437–125437. 6 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian, Xiaolin Ge, Yubin He, et al.. (2021). 3D‐Zipped Interface: In Situ Covalent‐Locking for High Performance of Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. Advanced Science. 8(22). e2102637–e2102637. 31 indexed citations
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Shehzad, Muhammad A., Aqsa Yasmin, Xiaolin Ge, et al.. (2021). Shielded goethite catalyst that enables fast water dissociation in bipolar membranes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 9–9. 89 indexed citations
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Shehzad, Muhammad Aamir, Xian Liang, Aqsa Yasmin, et al.. (2019). Angioplasty mimetic stented ion transport channels construct durable high-performance membranes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(16). 10030–10040. 13 indexed citations
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Shehzad, Muhammad A., Yaoming Wang, Aqsa Yasmin, et al.. (2019). Biomimetic Nanocones that Enable High Ion Permselectivity. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(36). 12646–12654. 60 indexed citations
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Shehzad, Muhammad A., Yaoming Wang, Aqsa Yasmin, et al.. (2019). Biomimetic Nanocones that Enable High Ion Permselectivity. Angewandte Chemie. 131(36). 12776–12784. 23 indexed citations
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Ge, Xiaolin, Yubin He, Xian Liang, et al.. (2018). Thermally triggered polyrotaxane translational motion helps proton transfer. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2297–2297. 29 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian & Xinliang Li. (2013). DNS of a spatially evolving hypersonic turbulent boundary layer at Mach 8. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 56(7). 1408–1418. 33 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian, et al.. (2008). 1-(4-Nitrobenzoyl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl)thiourea acetone hemisolvate. Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online. 64(11). o2138–o2138. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian, Shuhua Liu, Yanqing Ma, & Gongxuan Lü. (2006). Influence of hydrogen bonds on charge distribution and conformation of l-arginine. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 67(2). 368–371. 13 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian, et al.. (2004). Chlorobis[N-ethoxycarbonyl-N′-(p-methoxyphenyl)thiourea-κS]copper(I). Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 60(12). m661–m662. 5 indexed citations
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Liang, Xian, et al.. (2003). Chlorobis[N′-ethoxycarbonyl-N-(4-methylphenyl)thiourea-κS]copper(I). Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 59(11). m473–m474. 8 indexed citations
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Yuan, Haiqing, Craig R. Fairchild, Xian Liang, & David G. I. Kingston. (2000). Synthesis and Biological Activity of C-6 and C-7 Modified Paclitaxels. Tetrahedron. 56(35). 6407–6414. 5 indexed citations

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