Xiangzhong Ren

9.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
192 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Xiangzhong Ren is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiangzhong Ren has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 86 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 40 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiangzhong Ren's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (98 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (75 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (54 papers). Xiangzhong Ren is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (98 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (75 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (54 papers). Xiangzhong Ren collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United Kingdom. Xiangzhong Ren's co-authors include Yongliang Li, Peixin Zhang, Qianling Zhang, Chuanxin He, Hongwei Mi, Jianhong Liu, Libo Deng, Lingna Sun, Shenghua Ye and Qi Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiangzhong Ren

189 papers receiving 8.0k 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.

Scalable 2D Hierarchical Porous Carbon Nanosheets for Flexible Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Energy Density

2018 454 citations Peixin Zhang, Yongliang Li et al. profile →
Carbon dioxide electroreduction on single-atom nickel decorated carbon membranes with industry compatible current densities

2020 434 citations Hengpan Yang, Cheng Zhong et al. profile →
Elucidating the activity, mechanism and application of selective electrosynthesis of ammonia from nitrate on cobalt phosphide

2021 317 citations Shenghua Ye, Wenda Chen et al. profile →
Emerging Applications, Developments, Prospects, and Challenges of Electrochemical Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Conversion

2023 253 citations Wenda Chen, Zhi‐Jun Ou et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiangzhong Ren China	48	4.9k	4.2k	2.4k	1.6k	1.3k	192	8.1k
Zengxi Wei China	49	6.8k 1.4×	5.8k 1.4×	3.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	102	10.6k
Fanlu Meng China	31	4.9k 1.0×	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	63	7.6k
Ruohan Yu China	44	4.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	744 0.6×	161	6.2k
Zaichun Liu China	42	5.2k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	3.6k 2.2×	1.2k 0.9×	91	7.8k
Hairong Xue China	43	2.7k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	757 0.6×	112	5.7k
Zhongti Sun China	43	4.7k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	756 0.6×	130	7.3k
Yongpeng Lei China	58	7.0k 1.4×	7.9k 1.9×	4.2k 1.7×	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	151	11.5k
Zechao Zhuang China	52	3.9k 0.8×	5.3k 1.3×	3.9k 1.6×	582 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	154	8.6k
Lionel Roué Canada	48	3.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	170	6.8k
Shibin Yin China	56	5.2k 1.1×	6.2k 1.5×	2.0k 0.8×	904 0.6×	924 0.7×	166	7.7k

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Li, Xingyan, Xi Chen, Meng Li, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies of Gas Generation in Sodium-Ion Batteries. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 177–177. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Huanhui, Xingzhong Cao, Liang Yu, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical composite solid electrolyte for stabilizing lithium anode and constructing cathode ion conductive network. Journal of Energy Storage. 100. 113602–113602. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Pengtao, Jixiao Li, Zhaoyan Luo, et al.. (2024). Polar groups promoting in-situ polymerization phase separation for solid electrolytes enabling solid-state lithium batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt A). 53–62. 9 indexed citations

Li, Liewu, Zhencheng Huang, Tao Huang, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen bond interaction derived homogeneous graphene coating on submicron silicon anode. Battery energy. 3(3). 8 indexed citations

Li, Yongliang, et al.. (2024). Photothermal-enhanced ion transport for efficient electrochemical lithium extraction at low temperatures. Nano Energy. 131. 110249–110249. 13 indexed citations

Ye, Shenghua, Wenda Chen, Zhi‐Jun Ou, et al.. (2024). Harnessing the Synergistic Interplay between Atomic‐Scale Vacancies and Ligand Effect to Optimize the Oxygen Reduction Activity and Tolerance Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414989–e202414989. 17 indexed citations

Chen, Huanhui, Xingzhong Cao, Xiangzhong Ren, et al.. (2023). In-situ interfacial passivation and self-adaptability synergistically stabilizing all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 88. 282–292. 18 indexed citations

Hu, Jiangtao, Hongbin Wang, Biwei Xiao, et al.. (2023). Challenges and approaches of single-crystal Ni-rich layered cathodes in lithium batteries. National Science Review. 10(12). nwad252–nwad252. 57 indexed citations

Ren, Zhiheng, Jixiao Li, Jianneng Liang, et al.. (2022). Anin situformed copolymer electrolyte with high ionic conductivity and high lithium-ion transference number for dendrite-free solid-state lithium metal batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(4). 1966–1977. 78 indexed citations

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Yuan, Liang, Yingmeng Zhang, Jinhong Chen, et al.. (2022). MoS₂ nanosheets vertically grown on CoSe₂ hollow nanotube arrays as an efficient catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Nanoscale. 14(6). 2490–2501. 26 indexed citations

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Guan, Yi, Nan Li, Jiao He, et al.. (2021). Tuning and understanding the electronic effect of Co–Mo–O sites in bifunctional electrocatalysts for ultralong-lasting rechargeable zinc–air batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(38). 21716–21722. 21 indexed citations

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Han, Zhen, Qi Hu, Cheng Zhong, et al.. (2020). High‐Performance Overall CO₂ Splitting on Hierarchical Structured Cobalt Disulfide with Partially Removed Sulfur Edges. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(25). 27 indexed citations

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Guan, Yi, Nan Li, Yongliang Li, et al.. (2020). Two dimensional ZIF-derived ultra-thin Cu–N/C nanosheets as high performance oxygen reduction electrocatalysts for high-performance Zn–air batteries. Nanoscale. 12(26). 14259–14266. 37 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxin, Xiang Sun, Li‐Yong Gan, et al.. (2020). A CoO_x/FeO_x heterojunction on carbon nanotubes prepared by plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition for the highly efficient electrocatalysis of oxygen evolution reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(30). 15140–15147. 33 indexed citations

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Ye, Shenghua, Yu Zhang, Wei Xiong, et al.. (2020). Construction of tetrahedral CoO₄ vacancies for activating the high oxygen evolution activity of Co_3−xO_4−δ porous nanosheet arrays. Nanoscale. 12(20). 11079–11087. 43 indexed citations

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Yang, Xinxin, Xiang Sun, Muhammad Rauf, et al.. (2019). N-Doped porous tremella-like Fe₃C/C electrocatalysts derived from metal–organic frameworks for oxygen reduction reaction. Dalton Transactions. 49(3). 797–807. 29 indexed citations

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Gao, Dan, Hongwei Mi, Lingna Sun, et al.. (2019). Enhanced structural stability and overall conductivity of Li-rich layered oxide materials achieved by a dual electron/lithium-conducting coating strategy for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(41). 23964–23972. 30 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yingmeng, Shaojun Li, Suhang Wang, et al.. (2019). A lithium carboxylate grafted dendrite-free polymer electrolyte for an all-solid-state lithium-ion battery. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(45). 25818–25823. 24 indexed citations

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Chandrasekaran, Sundaram, Chris Bowen, Peixin Zhang, et al.. (2018). Spinel photocatalysts for environmental remediation, hydrogen generation, CO₂ reduction and photoelectrochemical water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(24). 11078–11104. 208 indexed citations

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Ma, Dingtao, Peixin Zhang, Yongliang Li, & Xiangzhong Ren. (2015). Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2-Encapsulated Carbon Nanofiber Network Cathodes with Improved Stability and Rate Capability for Li-ion Batteries. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 11257–11257. 31 indexed citations

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