Xiaowan Bai

5.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
58 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Xiaowan Bai is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowan Bai has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 27 papers in Materials Chemistry and 22 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Xiaowan Bai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (15 papers). Xiaowan Bai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (28 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (15 papers). Xiaowan Bai collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Xiaowan Bai's co-authors include Jinlan Wang, Chongyi Ling, Qiang Li, Yixin Ouyang, Li Shi, Aijun Du, Yuanyue Liu, Yehui Zhang, Xunhua Zhao and Yan Jiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowan Bai

56 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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What are hit papers?

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.

Highly active and selective oxygen reduction to H2O2 on boron-doped carbon for high production rates

2021 401 citations Xunhua Zhao, Xiaowan Bai et al. profile →
Dynamic Stability of Copper Single-Atom Catalysts under Working Conditions

2022 210 citations Xiaowan Bai, Xunhua Zhao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Boosting urea electrooxidation on oxyanion-engineered nickel sites via inhibited water oxidation

2023 201 citations Xiaowan Bai, Yan Jiao et al. profile →
Low‐cost and Non‐flammable Eutectic Electrolytes for Advanced Zn‐I₂ Batteries

2023 142 citations Junnan Hao, Libei Yuan et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaowan Bai China	34	4.0k	2.2k	1.8k	1.7k	344	58	4.8k
Xianyun Peng China	33	3.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	316 0.9×	71	3.9k
Chenliang Ye China	34	3.5k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	461 1.3×	72	4.8k
Geng Wu China	27	3.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.2×	949 0.6×	346 1.0×	53	4.6k
Jinxing Gu China	21	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	283 0.8×	39	4.2k
Tatsuya Shinagawa Saudi Arabia	28	4.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	3.0k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	204 0.6×	46	5.5k
Lan Hui China	30	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	331 1.0×	41	3.7k
Xiaozhi Su China	30	3.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	2.3k 1.3×	731 0.4×	179 0.5×	62	4.1k
Huidi Yu China	25	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	319 0.9×	35	3.4k
Xingshuai Lv China	32	2.5k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	940 0.6×	267 0.8×	57	3.9k
Xianbiao Fu China	25	2.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	869 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	275 0.8×	48	3.7k

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Wang, Yantao, Xiaowan Bai, Junfeng Huang, et al.. (2025). Metal–Oxygen Bonding-Induced Structural Transition Regulation in Co-THQ for High-Performance OER. ACS Catalysis. 15(20). 17040–17053.

Bai, Xiaowan, Chaojie Chen, Xunhua Zhao, et al.. (2024). Accelerating the Reaction Kinetics of CO₂ Reduction to Multi‐Carbon Products by Synergistic Effect between Cation and Aprotic Solvent on Copper Electrodes. Angewandte Chemie. 136(9). 1 indexed citations

Bai, Xiaowan, Ming He, Yifei Xu, et al.. (2024). New Mechanistic Insights into CO₂/CO Electroreduction to Acetate by Combining Computations and Experiments. ACS Catalysis. 14(5). 3171–3180. 16 indexed citations

Hao, Junnan, Libei Yuan, Yilong Zhu, et al.. (2023). Low‐cost and Non‐flammable Eutectic Electrolytes for Advanced Zn‐I₂ Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(39). e202310284–e202310284. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

Ouyang, Yixin, Li Shi, Xiaowan Bai, et al.. (2023). Selectivity of Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction toward Ethanol and Ethylene: The Key Role of Surface-Active Hydrogen. ACS Catalysis. 13(23). 15448–15456. 38 indexed citations

Hao, Junnan, Libei Yuan, Yilong Zhu, et al.. (2023). Low‐cost and Non‐flammable Eutectic Electrolytes for Advanced Zn‐I₂ Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 135(39).

Ling, Chongyi, et al.. (2022). How computations accelerate electrocatalyst discovery. Chem. 8(6). 1575–1610. 47 indexed citations

Bai, Xiaowan, Xunhua Zhao, Yehui Zhang, et al.. (2022). Dynamic Stability of Copper Single-Atom Catalysts under Working Conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(37). 17140–17148. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

Bai, Xiaowan, Li Shi, Qiang Li, et al.. (2021). Synergistic Effect of Metal Doping and Tethered Ligand Promoted High‐Selectivity Conversion of CO₂ to C₂ Oxygenates at Ultra‐Low Potential. Energy & environment materials. 5(3). 892–898. 20 indexed citations

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Fu, Zhanzhao, Qiang Li, Xiaowan Bai, et al.. (2021). Promoting the conversion of CO₂ to CH₄via synergistic dual active sites. Nanoscale. 13(28). 12233–12241. 23 indexed citations

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Niu, Xianghong, Li Shi, Xiaowan Bai, et al.. (2021). A new nitrogen fixation strategy: the direct formation of *N₂⁻ excited state on metal-free photocatalyst. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(10). 6214–6222. 9 indexed citations

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Dai, Weiji, Xiaowan Bai, Yin’an Zhu, et al.. (2021). Surface reconstruction inducedin situphosphorus doping in nickel oxides for an enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(10). 6432–6441. 54 indexed citations

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Wang, Shiyan, Li Shi, Xiaowan Bai, et al.. (2020). Highly Efficient Photo-/Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrogen into Ammonia by Dual-Metal Sites. ACS Central Science. 6(10). 1762–1771. 190 indexed citations

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Li, Qiang, Li Shi, Ruchun Wu, et al.. (2019). Unveiling chemical reactivity and oxidation of 1T-phased group VI disulfides. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(31). 17010–17017. 9 indexed citations

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Han, Qiutong, Xiaowan Bai, Zaiqin Man, et al.. (2019). Convincing Synthesis of Atomically Thin, Single-Crystalline InVO₄ Sheets toward Promoting Highly Selective and Efficient Solar Conversion of CO₂ into CO. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(10). 4209–4213. 231 indexed citations

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Shi, Li, Qiang Li, Chongyi Ling, et al.. (2019). Metal-free electrocatalyst for reducing nitrogen to ammonia using a Lewis acid pair. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(9). 4865–4871. 133 indexed citations

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Ling, Chongyi, Yehui Zhang, Qiang Li, et al.. (2019). New Mechanism for N₂ Reduction: The Essential Role of Surface Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(45). 18264–18270. 215 indexed citations

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Bai, Xiaowan, Qiang Li, Li Shi, et al.. (2019). Hybrid Cu⁰ and Cu^x⁺ as Atomic Interfaces Promote High‐Selectivity Conversion of CO₂ to C₂H₅OH at Low Potential. Small. 16(12). e1901981–e1901981. 116 indexed citations

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Ling, Chongyi, Xiaowan Bai, Yixin Ouyang, Aijun Du, & Jinlan Wang. (2018). Single Molybdenum Atom Anchored on N-Doped Carbon as a Promising Electrocatalyst for Nitrogen Reduction into Ammonia at Ambient Conditions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(29). 16842–16847. 246 indexed citations

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Ling, Chongyi, Yixin Ouyang, Qiang Li, et al.. (2018). A General Two‐Step Strategy–Based High‐Throughput Screening of Single Atom Catalysts for Nitrogen Fixation. Small Methods. 3(9). 378 indexed citations

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