Xilan Ma

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Xilan Ma is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xilan Ma has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 28 papers in Materials Chemistry and 26 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xilan Ma's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (35 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (24 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers). Xilan Ma is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (35 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (24 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers). Xilan Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and United States. Xilan Ma's co-authors include Chuanbao Cao, Jianhua Hou, Faryal Idrees, Youqi Zhu, Changliang Du, Zhitao Wang, Quanqing Zhao, Xiuyun Yao, Zhanli Han and Lifen Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xilan Ma

62 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Hierarchical Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Silk for Ultrahigh-Capacity Battery Anodes and Supercapacitors

2015 1.4k citations Jianhua Hou, Chuanbao Cao et al. ACS Nano profile →
One‐Pot Etching Pyrolysis to Defect‐Rich Carbon Nanosheets to Construct Multiheteroatom‐Coordinated Iron Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction

2024 86 citations Xilan Ma, Jiachen Tian et al. Small profile →
First-principles calculations of electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of MTe (M=Ge, Sn): Spin-induced modulations in electronic and optical properties

2025 31 citations Muhammad Imran Saleem, Youqi Zhu et al. Computational Materials Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xilan Ma China	30	2.9k	2.0k	1.1k	818	327	63	3.7k
Wenbin Fu China	29	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	714 0.7×	546 0.7×	420 1.3×	78	2.8k
Xijun Wei China	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	630 0.6×	817 1.0×	306 0.9×	77	2.9k
Yong Gao China	31	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	678 0.6×	651 0.8×	414 1.3×	91	3.5k
Guorui Yang China	31	2.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 2.1×	273 0.8×	99	3.7k
Soo Min Hwang South Korea	30	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	847 1.0×	349 1.1×	95	4.0k
Saad G. Mohamed Egypt	35	2.8k 1.0×	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	945 1.2×	545 1.7×	96	3.8k
Jinyoung Chun South Korea	26	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	847 0.8×	294 0.4×	240 0.7×	81	3.3k
Xin Feng China	31	3.5k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	809 0.7×	913 1.1×	313 1.0×	70	4.2k
Eunho Lim South Korea	23	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	706 0.6×	380 0.5×	223 0.7×	45	2.8k

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Ma, Xilan, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive review of cobalt-based electrocatalysts synthesized via new microwave-assisted methodology. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 9(9). 1459–1474. 5 indexed citations

Zhu, Youqi, Changliang Du, Lifen Yang, et al.. (2025). A novel three-dimensional graphitic carbon nitride/palladium phosphide heterojunction photocatalyst for enhanced hydrogen production and treatment of industrial dye-polluted water under visible light irradiation. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116413–116413. 1 indexed citations

Saleem, Muhammad Imran, et al.. (2025). Density functional theory studies of electronic and optical properties: Bulk, monolayer, and bilayer GeSe. Computational Materials Science. 259. 114138–114138. 1 indexed citations

Saleem, Muhammad Imran, et al.. (2025). First-principles calculations of electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of MTe (M=Ge, Sn): Spin-induced modulations in electronic and optical properties. Computational Materials Science. 254. 113907–113907. 31 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Lifen, Changliang Du, Jiachen Tian, et al.. (2024). Fully exposed copper single-atom sites on mesoporous N/S-codoped graphene for efficient zinc-air battery. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 355. 124190–124190. 32 indexed citations

Ma, Xilan, Jiachen Tian, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). One‐Pot Etching Pyrolysis to Defect‐Rich Carbon Nanosheets to Construct Multiheteroatom‐Coordinated Iron Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Small. 20(33). e2310637–e2310637. 86 indexed citations breakdown →

Du, Changliang, Lifen Yang, Rong Jiang, et al.. (2024). Fe-doping accelerated magnesium storage kinetics in rutile TiO2 cathode materials. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 155812–155812. 6 indexed citations

Ismail, Muhammad, Abdul Khaliq Naveed, Haider Ali, et al.. (2024). Cobalt oxide nano dandelions on nickel foam as binder free bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting and supercapacitance. Electrochimica Acta. 513. 145597–145597. 3 indexed citations

Jiang, Rong, Bolin Liu, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). Microwave-induced defect-rich vanadium sulfide cathodes for highly reversible electrochemical magnesium storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 488. 150487–150487. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Lifen, Xiuyun Yao, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). Constructing delocalized electronic structures to motivate the oxygen reduction activity of zinc selenide for high-performance zinc-air battery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148598–148598. 32 indexed citations

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Han, Zhanli, Youqi Zhu, Xiuyun Yao, et al.. (2024). Pre-coordination anchoring strategy for modulating the coordination structure of iron single atoms and ORR performance. Chemical Engineering Journal. 502. 157943–157943. 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Xin, Youqi Zhu, Changliang Du, et al.. (2023). Cationic Co-doping in copper sulfide nanosheet cathodes for efficient magnesium storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 463. 142433–142433. 30 indexed citations

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Yang, Lifen, Youqi Zhu, Xiuyun Yao, et al.. (2023). Surface-optimized carbon nanocages with tailorable atomic Fe-N4 sites to boost oxygen reduction in long stable zinc-air battery. Energy storage materials. 63. 102972–102972. 37 indexed citations

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Du, Changliang, Youqi Zhu, Xinyu Yang, et al.. (2023). Lattice expanding by Te-substitution to boost electrochemical Mg storage of Cu7.2S4 nanotube cathode. Chemical Engineering Journal. 458. 141345–141345. 23 indexed citations

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Tian, Jiachen, Youqi Zhu, Xiuyun Yao, et al.. (2023). Chemical vapor deposition towards atomically dispersed iron catalysts for efficient oxygen reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(10). 5288–5295. 38 indexed citations

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Du, Changliang, Zhanli Han, Hui Peng, et al.. (2022). Kinetically optimized copper sulfide cathodes for rechargeable magnesium batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 546. 231673–231673. 29 indexed citations

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Cao, Yuehua, Youqi Zhu, Changliang Du, et al.. (2022). Anionic Te-Substitution Boosting the Reversible Redox in CuS Nanosheet Cathodes for Magnesium Storage. ACS Nano. 16(1). 1578–1588. 87 indexed citations

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Du, Changliang, Youqi Zhu, Zhitao Wang, et al.. (2020). Cuprous Self-Doping Regulated Mesoporous CuS Nanotube Cathode Materials for Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(31). 35035–35042. 87 indexed citations

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Zhao, Quanqing, Zefeng Guo, Liqin Wang, et al.. (2019). Mo-Modified P2-type Manganese Oxide Nanoplates with an Oriented Stacking Structure and Exposed {010} Active Facets as a Long-Life Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(34). 30819–30827. 40 indexed citations

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Ma, Xilan, et al.. (2005). Morphology and structure of olfactory organ in {\sl Bostrichthys sinensis}. Journal of Fishery Sciences of China. 12(5). 525–532. 2 indexed citations

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