Xiaoyuan Zhou

6.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
136 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Xiaoyuan Zhou is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoyuan Zhou has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Materials Chemistry, 74 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiaoyuan Zhou's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (89 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (50 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (34 papers). Xiaoyuan Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (89 papers), Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (50 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (34 papers). Xiaoyuan Zhou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xiaoyuan Zhou's co-authors include Ctirad Uher, Guoyu Wang, Xu Lu, Li‐Dong Zhao, Jiaqing He, Vinayak P. Dravid, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Timothy P. Hogan, Hang Chi and Kanishka Biswas and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoyuan Zhou

131 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

All-scale hierarchical thermoelectrics: MgTe in PbTe facilitates valence band convergence and suppresses bipolar thermal transport for high performance

2013 678 citations Xiaoyuan Zhou, Ctirad Uher et al. profile →
High Performance Thermoelectricity in Earth‐Abundant Compounds Based on Natural Mineral Tetrahedrites

2012 457 citations Xu Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiaoyuan Zhou China	37	4.9k	3.0k	1.1k	751	319	136	5.8k
Fusheng Liu China	40	4.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	743 0.7×	713 0.9×	279 0.9×	221	4.7k
Emmanuel Guilmeau France	42	5.0k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	542 0.7×	258 0.8×	195	5.6k
Binbin Jiang China	23	3.3k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	428 0.4×	596 0.8×	187 0.6×	53	3.8k
Brian M. Foley United States	25	3.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	563 0.5×	470 0.6×	254 0.8×	58	3.9k
Ranjan Datta India	36	5.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	205 0.3×	616 1.9×	104	6.9k
Wenhui Su China	49	6.4k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	3.1k 2.8×	210 0.3×	161 0.5×	298	7.4k
Lei Jin China	34	2.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	806 0.7×	140 0.2×	408 1.3×	166	4.3k
Young Soo Lim South Korea	23	1.8k 0.4×	720 0.2×	344 0.3×	305 0.4×	232 0.7×	119	2.2k
N. M. Nemes Spain	27	2.3k 0.5×	785 0.3×	997 0.9×	159 0.2×	427 1.3×	112	3.0k
Jianli Mi China	38	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	633 0.6×	117 0.2×	1.3k 3.9×	123	4.1k

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Peng, Kunling, Sikang Zheng, Meng Tian, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Thermoelectric Performance of Cd₃P₂ by Alloying with Dirac Material Cd₃As₂. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(12). 1 indexed citations

Ding, Junjie, Yang Wang, Youyu Duan, et al.. (2025). Non‐Metallic Element Modification: A Promising Strategy Toward Efficient Electrocatalytic CO ₂ Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(47).

Liu, Xiaofang, Yao Chen, Hengyang Wang, et al.. (2024). Simultaneously Enhanced Thermoelectric and Mechanical Performance in SnSe-Based Nanocomposites Produced via Sintering SnSe and KCu₇S₄ Nanomaterials. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(2). 2240–2250. 4 indexed citations

Acharyya, Paribesh, Koushik Pal, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2024). Structure Low Dimensionality and Lone-Pair Stereochemical Activity: the Key to Low Thermal Conductivity in the Pb–Sn–S System. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(19). 13477–13487. 27 indexed citations

Zhou, Zizhen, et al.. (2023). Anomalous lattice thermal conductivity driven by all-scale electron-phonon scattering in bulk semiconductors. Physical review. B.. 107(19). 7 indexed citations

Dai, Lu, Yuling Huang, Sikang Zheng, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in SmMg₂Bi₂ via Ca-Alloying and Ge-Doping. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(4). 5182–5190. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Zizhen, Sikang Zheng, Xuan Hu, et al.. (2022). Entropy Engineering in Tellurium-Free Thermoelectric Cu₈GeSe₆ with a Stable Cubic Structure. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(1). 580–587. 6 indexed citations

Han, Yadong, Junhong Yu, Hang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Photoinduced Ultrafast Symmetry Switch in SnSe. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 14 indexed citations

Yang, Dingfeng, et al.. (2021). Thermoelectric CoGeTe with an Orthorhombic Crystal Symmetry and Balance of the Electrical and Thermal Properties. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(16). 12331–12338. 3 indexed citations

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Yan, Yanci, Nanhai Li, Guiwen Wang, et al.. (2021). Achieving high average power factor in tetrahedrite Cu12Sb4S13 via regulating electron-phonon coupling strength. Materials Today Physics. 22. 100590–100590. 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Dingfeng, Xuejun Quan, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Lattice Thermal Transport in the Homogeneous Cage‐Like Compounds Cu₃VSe₄ and Cu₃NbSe₄: Interplay between Phonon‐Phase Space, Anharmonicity, and Atomic Mass. ChemPhysChem. 22(24). 2579–2584. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hong, Xiaofang Liu, Jiacheng Wang, et al.. (2021). Solution-Synthesized SnSe_1–xS_x: Dual-Functional Materials with Enhanced Electrochemical Storage and Thermoelectric Performance. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(31). 37201–37211. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Meiling, Xiaofang Liu, Bin Zhang, et al.. (2021). Phase Tuning for Enhancing the Thermoelectric Performance of Solution-Synthesized Cu_2–xS. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(33). 39541–39549. 15 indexed citations

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Wei, Yiqing, Zizhen Zhou, Pengfei Jiang, et al.. (2021). Phase Composition Manipulation and Twin Boundary Engineering Lead to Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Cu₂SnS₃. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(9). 9240–9247. 21 indexed citations

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Wu, Hong, Kunling Peng, Xiangnan Gong, et al.. (2020). Realizing high thermoelectricity in polycrystalline tin sulfide via manipulating fermi surface anisotropy and phonon dispersion. Materials Today Physics. 14. 100221–100221. 32 indexed citations

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Ma, Chunmiao, Bin Zhang, Hengyang Wang, et al.. (2019). Facile in situ solution synthesis of SnSe/rGO nanocomposites with enhanced thermoelectric performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(3). 1394–1402. 128 indexed citations

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Tan, Huan, Lijie Guo, Guiwen Wang, et al.. (2019). Synergistic Effect of Bismuth and Indium Codoping for High Thermoelectric Performance of Melt Spinning SnTe Alloys. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(26). 23337–23345. 31 indexed citations

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Shi, Dongliang, Yu Su, Zhi Zhang, et al.. (2017). Enhanced thermoelectric properties of SnSe thin films grown by pulsed laser glancing-angle deposition. Journal of Materiomics. 3(4). 293–298. 49 indexed citations

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Yang, Dingfeng, Wei Yao, Yanci Yan, et al.. (2017). Intrinsically low thermal conductivity from a quasi-one-dimensional crystal structure and enhanced electrical conductivity network via Pb doping in SbCrSe3. NPG Asia Materials. 9(6). e387–e387. 52 indexed citations

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Guo, Lijie, Guiwen Wang, Guiwen Wang, et al.. (2016). Melt spinning synthesis of p-type skutterudites: Drastically speed up the process of high performance thermoelectrics. Scripta Materialia. 116. 26–30. 29 indexed citations

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