Xiaowa Nie

8.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
95 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Xiaowa Nie is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowa Nie has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Materials Chemistry, 58 papers in Catalysis and 40 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xiaowa Nie's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (29 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (27 papers). Xiaowa Nie is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (29 papers) and Catalysts for Methane Reforming (27 papers). Xiaowa Nie collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaowa Nie's co-authors include Michael J. Janik, Xinwen Guo, Aravind Asthagiri, Chunshan Song, Jingguang G. Chen, Xiao Jiang, Wenjia Luo, Monica R. Esopi, Haozhi Wang and Yonggang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowa Nie

92 papers receiving 7.5k 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.

Recent Advances in Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation to Methanol via Heterogeneous Catalysis

2020 1.2k citations Xiaowa Nie, Xinwen Guo et al. profile →
Selectivity of CO₂ Reduction on Copper Electrodes: The Role of the Kinetics of Elementary Steps

2013 842 citations Xiaowa Nie, Michael J. Janik et al. profile →
Facet Dependence of CO₂ Reduction Paths on Cu Electrodes

2015 514 citations Xiaowa Nie, Michael J. Janik et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
Selective electroreduction of CO2 to acetone by single copper atoms anchored on N-doped porous carbon

2020 403 citations Kun Zhao, Xiaowa Nie et al. Nature Communications profile →
Metal single-site catalyst design for electrocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide at industrial-relevant currents

2023 226 citations Peike Cao, Xie Quan et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaowa Nie China	41	4.6k	4.2k	4.0k	1.7k	1.1k	95	7.6k
Xiao Jiang China	42	2.4k 0.5×	4.0k 1.0×	4.5k 1.1×	2.1k 1.2×	840 0.8×	96	7.0k
Lili Lin China	38	3.3k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	4.7k 1.2×	775 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	87	7.0k
Zhenhua Xie United States	37	2.6k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	3.0k 0.7×	802 0.5×	895 0.8×	82	5.2k
Fanfei Sun China	45	7.4k 1.6×	2.5k 0.6×	3.6k 0.9×	471 0.3×	4.5k 4.1×	111	9.5k
Tim A. Wezendonk Netherlands	15	1.7k 0.4×	1.4k 0.3×	1.6k 0.4×	850 0.5×	824 0.8×	16	3.4k
Mi Peng China	39	2.6k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	4.4k 1.1×	325 0.2×	847 0.8×	81	6.2k
Mei Dong China	48	1.6k 0.3×	2.9k 0.7×	4.7k 1.2×	575 0.3×	986 0.9×	226	7.3k
Xiaoli Pan China	43	2.2k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	4.5k 1.1×	709 0.4×	491 0.5×	126	6.5k
Molly Meng‐Jung Li Hong Kong	31	2.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.3×	2.3k 0.6×	415 0.2×	953 0.9×	78	4.1k
Jincan Kang China	41	2.0k 0.4×	6.2k 1.5×	5.4k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	359 0.3×	61	8.2k

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Guo, Shang, Guanghui Zhang, Hui Gao, et al.. (2025). Engineering the Cu(0)–Co ₂ C Interface via Reaction-Induced Reconstruction for CO ₂ Hydrogenation to C ₂₊ Hydrocarbons. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(45). 42051–42060.

Jin, Yuming, Shuang Wang, Xiaowa Nie, Chunshan Song, & Xinwen Guo. (2025). Computational design and screening of highly efficient metal dual-atom-modified g-C₃N₄ catalysts for CO₂ photoreduction to C₂ chemicals. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(17). 8666–8673. 2 indexed citations

Nie, Xiaowa, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the mechanism of ethane oxidative dehydrogenation and the important role of CO2 over Pt-Zn/ZSM-5 catalysts. Applied Catalysis A General. 681. 119800–119800. 1 indexed citations

Bian, Kai, Sirui Liu, Guanghui Zhang, et al.. (2024). Propane dehydro-aromatization reaction over PtFe@S-1 coupling with Zn/ZSM-5 tandem catalysts: the role of Zn species. Frontiers of Chemical Science and Engineering. 18(8). 4 indexed citations

Nie, Xiaowa, et al.. (2024). Computational Insight into Methane–Methanol Coupling and Aromatization over Metal-Modified ZSM-5: From Mechanism to Catalyst Screening. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 231–244. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Haiyan, Shuang Wang, Shida Liu, et al.. (2024). Redox-induced controllable engineering of MnO2-MnxCo3-xO4 interface to boost catalytic oxidation of ethane. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4118–4118. 42 indexed citations

Liu, Sirui, Kai Bian, Hong Yang, et al.. (2023). Methane transformation into light olefins using methanol as co-reactant over Mo/HZSM-5. Chemical Engineering Science. 283. 119431–119431. 11 indexed citations

Cao, Peike, Xie Quan, Xiaowa Nie, et al.. (2023). Metal single-site catalyst design for electrocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide at industrial-relevant currents. Nature Communications. 14(1). 172–172. 226 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Haozhi, Xiaowa Nie, Yuan Liu, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic Insight into Hydrocarbon Synthesis via CO₂ Hydrogenation on χ-Fe₅C₂ Catalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(33). 37637–37651. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, Weiwei Yu, Shuo Cao, et al.. (2021). Photocatalytic Chemoselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Quinolines to Tetrahydroquinolines on Hierarchical NiO/In₂O₃–CdS Microspheres. ACS Catalysis. 11(21). 13408–13415. 28 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, Zeshi Zhang, Haozhi Wang, Xinwen Guo, & Chunshan Song. (2020). Effect of surface structure and Pd doping of Fe catalysts on the selective hydrodeoxygenation of phenol. Catalysis Today. 371. 189–203. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ting, Xiaowa Nie, Weiwei Yu, et al.. (2019). Single Atomic Cu-N2 Catalytic Sites for Highly Active and Selective Hydroxylation of Benzene to Phenol. iScience. 22. 97–108. 69 indexed citations

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Li, Zhuwei, Jungang Hou, Bo Zhang, et al.. (2019). Two-dimensional Janus heterostructures for superior Z-scheme photocatalytic water splitting. Nano Energy. 59. 537–544. 150 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, et al.. (2018). Adsorption, Dissociation, and Spillover of Hydrogen over Au/TiO₂ Catalysts: The Effects of Cluster Size and Metal–Support Interaction from DFT. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(31). 17895–17916. 56 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2018). STM and DFT studies of CO2 adsorption on O-Cu(100) surface. Surface Science. 679. 50–55. 17 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, Haozhi Wang, Michael J. Janik, Xinwen Guo, & Chunshan Song. (2016). Computational Investigation of Fe–Cu Bimetallic Catalysts for CO₂ Hydrogenation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(17). 9364–9373. 55 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yu‐Ting, Tao Liang, Xiaowa Nie, et al.. (2013). Cu cluster deposition on ZnO101¯0: Morphology and growth mode predicted from molecular dynamics simulations. Surface Science. 621. 109–116. 16 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, Michael J. Janik, Xinwen Guo, & Chunshan Song. (2012). A computational investigation of ring-shift isomerization of sym-octahydrophenanthrene to sym-octahydroanthracene catalyzed by acidic zeolites. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(48). 16644–16644. 15 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, Xin Liu, Lei Gao, et al.. (2010). SO₃H-Functionalized Ionic Liquid Catalyzed Alkylation of Catechol with tert-Butyl Alcohol. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 49(17). 8157–8163. 19 indexed citations

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Nie, Xiaowa, Xin Liu, Chunshan Song, & Xinwen Guo. (2009). Theoretical study on alkylation of benzene with ethanol and ethylene over H-ZSM-5. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 30(5). 453–458. 11 indexed citations

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