Xiaojian Tan

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
173 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Xiaojian Tan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaojian Tan has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Materials Chemistry, 71 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 52 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaojian Tan's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (140 papers), Thermal properties of materials (63 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (55 papers). Xiaojian Tan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (140 papers), Thermal properties of materials (63 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (55 papers). Xiaojian Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Xiaojian Tan's co-authors include Guoqiang Liu, Jun Jiang, Hezhu Shao, Huijun Liu, Xinfeng Tang, Jingtao Xu, Jing Shi, Wei Liu, Haoyang Hu and Qingjie Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xiaojian Tan

170 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Convergence of Conduction Bands as a Means of Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance ofn-TypeMg2Si1−xSnxSolid Solutions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaojian Tan China	43	5.3k	3.3k	1.1k	1.1k	481	173	6.6k
Hyunju Chang South Korea	33	3.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	111 0.1×	444 0.4×	257 0.5×	111	4.5k
J. Horák Czechia	31	2.0k 0.4×	851 0.3×	278 0.3×	299 0.3×	836 1.7×	166	3.2k
Jiong Yang Australia	43	3.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	96 0.1×	623 0.6×	506 1.1×	128	6.1k
Hyunjung Lee South Korea	27	1.3k 0.2×	905 0.3×	108 0.1×	253 0.2×	356 0.7×	127	2.9k
Christophe Blanc France	30	1.2k 0.2×	301 0.1×	115 0.1×	1.1k 1.1×	591 1.2×	111	2.5k
Xiaoguang Zhang United States	32	1.4k 0.3×	696 0.2×	63 0.1×	746 0.7×	1.0k 2.1×	114	3.0k
Geng Li China	34	2.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	43 0.0×	835 0.8×	1.2k 2.6×	157	4.3k
Yimin Chao United Kingdom	32	1.6k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	84 0.1×	506 0.5×	720 1.5×	114	3.3k
Katherine A. Willets United States	33	2.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	91 0.1×	5.1k 4.9×	910 1.9×	93	8.3k

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Ding, Yijuan, Lidong Chen, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Composite perovskite-type ZnSnO3 improves the figure of merit and module efficiency of Bi0.4Sb1.6Te3 thermoelectrics. Materials Today Physics. 52. 101697–101697. 2 indexed citations

Xiang, Lu, Qiang Zhang, Xiaojian Tan, et al.. (2024). Innovative rotary swaging method drives high performance of n-type Bi2(Te, Se)3 thermoelectrics. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 223. 114–122. 3 indexed citations

Cai, Jianfeng, Zongwei Zhang, Feng Gao, et al.. (2024). High thermoelectric performance of GeTe-MnTe alloy driven by spin degree of freedom. Materials Today Physics. 43. 101393–101393. 7 indexed citations

Yang, Hao, Yanan Li, Chuanbin Yu, et al.. (2024). Effect of heat dissipation on the performance of thermoelectric generator. Applied Thermal Engineering. 245. 122815–122815. 8 indexed citations

Sun, Qianqian, Gang Wu, Xiaojian Tan, et al.. (2024). High density lath twins lead to high thermoelectric conversion efficiency in Bi₂Te₃ modules. Materials Horizons. 12(1). 150–158. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Wenjie, Chuandong Zhou, Zongwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). High-performance flexible thermoelectric devices with a copper foam heatsink for personal thermal management. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(22). 7966–7973. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yanan, Hao Yang, Chuanbin Yu, et al.. (2024). Measurement Error in Thermoelectric Generator Induced by Temperature Fluctuation. Energies. 17(5). 1036–1036. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Hao, Yanan Li, Zhe Guo, et al.. (2023). Optimizing GeTe-based thermoelectric generator for low-grade heat recovery. Applied Energy. 349. 121584–121584. 10 indexed citations

Liang, Bo, et al.. (2023). Phonon engineering significantly reducing thermal conductivity of thermoelectric materials: a review. Rare Metals. 42(9). 2825–2839. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiang, Ruoyu Wang, Xiaojian Tan, et al.. (2023). High‐Performance Industrial‐Grade p‐Type (Bi,Sb)₂Te₃ Thermoelectric Enabled by a Stepwise Optimization Strategy. Advanced Materials. 35(21). e2300338–e2300338. 72 indexed citations

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Wu, Gang, Xiaojian Tan, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2023). High thermoelectric and mechanical performance in strong-textured n-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 by temperature gradient method. Chemical Engineering Journal. 470. 144085–144085. 14 indexed citations

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Yin, Yinong, Fanfan Shi, Guoqiang Liu, et al.. (2023). Magnetic field enhanced thermal conductivity and origin of large thermopower in layered cobaltates. Journal of Materiomics. 9(6). 1048–1055. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin, Jianfeng Cai, Xiaojian Tan, et al.. (2023). Improved thermoelectric properties in n-type polycrystalline SnSe_0.95 by PbCl₂ doping. Materials Advances. 4(5). 1372–1377. 5 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhe, Kun Song, Ruoyu Wang, et al.. (2022). A high-efficiency GeTe-based thermoelectric module for low-grade heat recovery. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(14). 7677–7683. 15 indexed citations

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Yin, Yinong, Fanfan Shi, Guoqiang Liu, et al.. (2022). Spin-glass behavior and magnetocaloric properties of high-entropy perovskite oxides. Applied Physics Letters. 120(8). 23 indexed citations

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Shi, Fanfan, Hongxiang Wang, Jianfeng Cai, et al.. (2021). Achieving High Thermoelectric Performance of n-Type Bi₂Te_2.79Se_0.21 Sintered Materials by Hot-Stacked Deformation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(13). 15429–15436. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Xuemei, Gang Wu, Jianfeng Cai, et al.. (2021). Unusually high Seebeck coefficient arising from temperature-dependent carrier concentration in PbSe–AgSbSe₂ alloys. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(48). 17365–17370. 5 indexed citations

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Wu, Gang, Xuemei Wang, Xiaojian Tan, et al.. (2021). Optimized Thermoelectric Properties of Bi_0.48Sb_1.52Te₃ through AgCuTe Doping for Low-Grade Heat Harvesting. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(48). 57514–57520. 31 indexed citations

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Guo, Zhe, Qiang Zhang, Hongxiang Wang, et al.. (2020). Bi–Zn codoping in GeTe synergistically enhances band convergence and phonon scattering for high thermoelectric performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(41). 21642–21648. 59 indexed citations

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Tan, Xiaojian, Guoqiang Liu, Jingtao Xu, et al.. (2017). Optimizing the thermoelectric performance of In–Cd codoped SnTe by introducing Sn vacancies. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(30). 7504–7509. 51 indexed citations

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