Xiaobo Chen

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Xiaobo Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaobo Chen has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xiaobo Chen's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers). Xiaobo Chen is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (13 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (11 papers). Xiaobo Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Xiaobo Chen's co-authors include Guangwen Zhou, Ting Xia, Hui Zhou, M. Stanley Whittingham, Fengxia Xin, Congrui Jin, Ning Zhang, Jing Luo, Xianhu Sun and Dongxiang Wu 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

Xiaobo Chen

50 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

Multiple Metal–Nitrogen Bonds Synergistically Boosting the Activity and Durability of High-Entropy Alloy Electrocatalysts

2024 82 citations Hao Cheng, Xiaobo Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaobo Chen United States	18	597	427	398	255	192	52	1.4k
Grazia Accardo South Korea	24	773 1.3×	539 1.3×	156 0.4×	131 0.5×	52 0.3×	53	1.3k
Chengjie Xiang China	17	259 0.4×	455 1.1×	597 1.5×	436 1.7×	135 0.7×	29	1.4k
Domenico Frattini South Korea	23	672 1.1×	576 1.3×	211 0.5×	152 0.6×	28 0.1×	43	1.4k
Yunfei Sun China	19	679 1.1×	333 0.8×	221 0.6×	225 0.9×	105 0.5×	70	1.1k
Yibo Wang China	19	730 1.2×	1.3k 3.0×	162 0.4×	143 0.6×	563 2.9×	56	2.0k
Shuai Qi China	20	417 0.7×	331 0.8×	217 0.5×	313 1.2×	36 0.2×	39	1.2k
Günter Fafilek Austria	18	411 0.7×	466 1.1×	197 0.5×	110 0.4×	43 0.2×	67	929
Qicheng Liu China	22	455 0.8×	546 1.3×	665 1.7×	133 0.5×	64 0.3×	66	1.4k
Dawei Ding China	21	665 1.1×	563 1.3×	812 2.0×	60 0.2×	58 0.3×	36	1.5k
Jie Tan China	16	900 1.5×	225 0.5×	145 0.4×	89 0.3×	30 0.2×	44	1.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Subedi, Indra, Xiaobo Chen, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2025). Formation and optical properties of indium nanoparticle arrays for deep-UV plasmonics. Applied Physics Letters. 127(3).

Zhao, Xueru, Hao Cheng, Lijun Wu, et al.. (2025). Sub-angstrom strain in high-entropy intermetallic boosts the oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cell cathodes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7547–7547. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Yupeng, Wenhui Zhu, Xiaobo Chen, et al.. (2025). In-Situ Atomic-Scale Revelation of Amorphous Metallic Iron Formation during Hydrogen-Driven Reduction of Iron Oxides. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(29). 42380–42393. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaobo, Yupeng Wu, Yuxi Wang, et al.. (2025). Atomic dynamics of gas-dependent oxide reducibility. Nature. 644(8078). 927–932. 5 indexed citations

Kang, Bo, et al.. (2024). Synergistic solidification of heavy metal tailings by polyethylene glycol (PEG) and microorganisms. Environmental Technology & Innovation. 36. 103788–103788. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Jianyu, Xiaobo Chen, Chaoran Li, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Stability of Surface Au under Oxidizing Conditions through Reduced Bulk Au Content. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(42). 10583–10591. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Shaojie, Xiaobo Chen, Xin Huang, et al.. (2024). Randomly Layered Superstructure of In₂O₃ Truncated Nano-Octahedra and Its High-Pressure Behavior. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(12). 8598–8606. 4 indexed citations

Li, Can, Xiaobo Chen, Lihua Zhang, et al.. (2024). Morphology‐controlled synthesis of multi‐metal‐based spinel oxide nanocatalysts and their performance for oxygen reduction. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 3 indexed citations

Li, Can, et al.. (2024). Surface‐Engineered Pt‐Ni(111) Nanocatalysts for Boosting Their ORR Performance via Thermal Treatment. ChemElectroChem. 11(22). 1 indexed citations

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Pei, Ben, Hui Zhou, Xiaobo Chen, et al.. (2024). Fatigue Phase Suppression in Aged High Nickel Layered Cathodes by Aluminum Substitution during Co-precipitation. ACS Energy Letters. 9(8). 3913–3921. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiacheng, Prateek Prateek, Xiaobo Chen, et al.. (2024). Mesoporous Single Atom-Cluster Fe–N/C Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts Synthesized with Bottlebrush Block Copolymer-Templated Rapid Thermal Annealing. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(11). 13729–13744. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaobo, Xianhu Sun, Yupeng Wu, et al.. (2024). Oxidation-Induced Oxide Shell Rupture and Phase Separation in Eutectic Gallium–Indium Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 18(36). 25107–25117. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaobo, Weitao Shan, Dongxiang Wu, et al.. (2023). Atomistic mechanisms of water vapor–induced surface passivation. Science Advances. 9(44). eadh5565–eadh5565. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaobo, Fatemeh Hejripour, In‐Tae Bae, et al.. (2022). Selective laser melting of metal structures onto graphite substrates via a low melting point interlayer alloy. Applied Materials Today. 26. 101334–101334. 6 indexed citations

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Xie, Zhenhua, Haoyue Guo, Erwei Huang, et al.. (2022). Catalytic Tandem CO₂–Ethane Reactions and Hydroformylation for C3 Oxygenate Production. ACS Catalysis. 12(14). 8279–8290. 17 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaobo, Can Li, Zhijuan Liu, et al.. (2022). Composition-dependent ordering transformations in Pt–Fe nanoalloys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(14). e2117899119–e2117899119. 36 indexed citations

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Sun, Xianhu, Wenhui Zhu, Dongxiang Wu, et al.. (2020). Surface-reaction induced structural oscillations in the subsurface. Nature Communications. 11(1). 305–305. 42 indexed citations

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Zou, Lianfeng, Penghui Cao, Yinkai Lei, et al.. (2020). Atomic-scale phase separation induced clustering of solute atoms. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3934–3934. 14 indexed citations

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Xin, Fengxia, Hui Zhou, Xiaobo Chen, et al.. (2019). Li–Nb–O Coating/Substitution Enhances the Electrochemical Performance of the LiNi_0.8Mn_0.1Co_0.1O₂ (NMC 811) Cathode. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(38). 34889–34894. 158 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaobo, Dongxiang Wu, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2018). In situatomic-scale observation of inhomogeneous oxide reduction. Chemical Communications. 54(53). 7342–7345. 10 indexed citations

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