Xiaotian Liu

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 823 citations indexed

About

Xiaotian Liu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaotian Liu has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 823 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xiaotian Liu's work include Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (8 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (7 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (6 papers). Xiaotian Liu is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (8 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (7 papers) and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (6 papers). Xiaotian Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Germany. Xiaotian Liu's co-authors include James Kit Hon Tsoi, Shuyang Chen, JP Matinlinna, Yueping Xiong, Fei Sun, Zhongguang Yang, Songzi Kou, Jiren Luo, Mingjie Zhang and Kai Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Cell Biology and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Xiaotian Liu

37 papers receiving 810 citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Structural and mechanistic insights into fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase FKS1
    2023 102 citations Jia Liu, Huanhuan Sun et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiaotian Liu China 14 292 231 150 135 132 40 823
Vesna Stanić Italy 19 267 0.9× 201 0.9× 142 0.9× 170 1.3× 140 1.1× 38 960
Javier Sotres Sweden 24 209 0.7× 452 2.0× 534 3.6× 343 2.5× 93 0.7× 56 1.6k
Romain Mallet France 17 152 0.5× 238 1.0× 191 1.3× 94 0.7× 82 0.6× 27 733
Chenlu Song China 19 478 1.6× 198 0.9× 319 2.1× 46 0.3× 72 0.5× 58 895
Sudip K. Pattanayek India 19 242 0.8× 311 1.3× 91 0.6× 217 1.6× 83 0.6× 68 1.1k
Magdalena Wytrwał-Sarna Poland 17 144 0.5× 237 1.0× 57 0.4× 165 1.2× 193 1.5× 40 728
Frank Heyroth Germany 16 293 1.0× 273 1.2× 326 2.2× 36 0.3× 51 0.4× 27 874
Do Hyun Kang South Korea 15 109 0.4× 528 2.3× 211 1.4× 138 1.0× 240 1.8× 44 1.1k
Bartosz F. Grześkowiak Poland 19 423 1.4× 468 2.0× 84 0.6× 236 1.7× 379 2.9× 38 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaotian Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaotian Liu

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xiaotian Liu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xiaotian Liu. The network helps show where Xiaotian Liu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaotian Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaotian Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaotian Liu 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 Xiaotian Liu. Xiaotian Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wu, Yanan, Di Zhang, Yi Tan, et al.. (2025). Molecular Insights into Fungal Glycosylphosphatidylinositol Transamidase Complex. Advanced Science. 13(2). e11340–e11340.
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Jiang, Hualin, Jian Wen, Pinghua Chen, et al.. (2025). Efficient heterogeneous CoFe-PBA/NiFe-LDH electrocatalyst for overall water splitting. Chemical Engineering Journal. 526. 170903–170903.
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Pei, Tong‐Tong, Xingyu Wang, Yiqiu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Fha initiates the inside-out assembly of the type VI secretion system. Cell Reports. 44(7). 115990–115990. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Fuxing, et al.. (2024). LLPS of FXR proteins drives replication organelle clustering for β-coronaviral proliferation. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(6). 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaotian, Mingzheng Huang, Shuting Yang, et al.. (2024). Spatially Confined Radical Addition Reaction for Electrochemical Synthesis of Carboxylated Graphene and its Applications in Water Desalination and Splitting. Small. 20(38). e2401972–e2401972. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Limin, Feiyi Huang, Xinyi Liang, et al.. (2024). Photoelectric synergy induced synchronous functionalization of graphene and its applications in water splitting and desalination. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 44(2). 100501–100501. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaotian, et al.. (2024). Ultra-Structural Surface Characteristics of Dental Silane Monolayers. Coatings. 14(8). 1005–1005. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Yannian, et al.. (2023). Hysteresis effect on airfoil stall noise and flow field. Physics of Fluids. 35(9). 3 indexed citations
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Shi, Wei, Lulu Zhou, Jie Yang, et al.. (2023). Field-dependent deep learning enables high-throughput whole-cell 3D super-resolution imaging. Nature Methods. 20(3). 459–468. 59 indexed citations
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Liu, Jia, Huanhuan Sun, Yanan Wu, et al.. (2023). Structural and mechanistic insights into fungal β-1,3-glucan synthase FKS1. Nature. 616(7955). 190–198. 102 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Xiaotian, Congcong Huang, Muhammad Waqas, et al.. (2023). Controllable design of N-doped carbon nanotubes with assembled Pt nanoparticles for methanol oxidation reaction. Molecular Catalysis. 551. 113612–113612. 8 indexed citations
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Devasenathipathy, Rajkumar, Xinglan Peng, Xiaotian Liu, et al.. (2022). Composite-structure-defined nitrogen-doped carbon nanocage embedded Co/CoxP for enhanced oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. Electrochimica Acta. 437. 141514–141514. 41 indexed citations
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Yang, Fan, Bo Yang, Karuppasamy Kohila Rani, et al.. (2022). Revealing the role of Ni2+ ions in inducing the synthesis of porous carbon balls: A novel substrate to enhance the Pt catalytic activity towards methanol-oxidation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 47(56). 23583–23592. 7 indexed citations
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Ke, Gaili, Binyao Liu, Xiaotian Liu, et al.. (2022). Mo or W doping into the surface of BiVO4 film photoanodes through a photoelectrochemical treating approach for efficient solar water oxidation. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 934. 167883–167883. 21 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaotian, et al.. (2021). A high-performance silicon-containing arylacetylene resin with conjugated naphthalene rings. High Performance Polymers. 34(1). 24–32. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Keliang, Xiao Yu, Xiaotian Liu, et al.. (2020). Performance Improvement of Underwater Mg-Oxygen Battery with Parameter Optimization. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 167(14). 140548–140548. 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haiping, Xiaotian Liu, Mingying Yang, & Liangjun Zhu. (2015). Silk fibroin/sodium alginate composite nano-fibrous scaffold prepared through thermally induced phase-separation (TIPS) method for biomedical applications. Materials Science and Engineering C. 55. 8–13. 44 indexed citations
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