Xin Mao

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Xin Mao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Mao has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 39 papers in Materials Chemistry and 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xin Mao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (34 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (23 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (22 papers). Xin Mao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (34 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (23 papers) and Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (22 papers). Xin Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and Singapore. Xin Mao's co-authors include Aijun Du, Cheng Yan, Yi Jia, Zhonghua Zhu, Xiangdong Yao, Chongyi Ling, Xuecheng Yan, Gurpreet Kour, Xiaowan Bai and Qiang Li 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

Xin Mao

102 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Unveiling the dynamic active site of defective carbon-bas... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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.

  1. Unveiling the dynamic active site of defective carbon-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide production
    2023 141 citations Qilong Wu, Haiyuan Zou et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xin Mao China 33 2.8k 1.9k 1.5k 1.1k 341 111 4.3k
Zhiwen Chen China 38 2.8k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 285 0.8× 121 4.5k
Zhiqi Huang China 30 2.4k 0.8× 2.7k 1.4× 1.2k 0.8× 879 0.8× 556 1.6× 67 4.5k
Yi Huang China 41 3.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.3× 2.5k 1.6× 643 0.6× 323 0.9× 114 5.3k
Gao‐Feng Han China 32 3.5k 1.2× 2.3k 1.2× 2.7k 1.8× 576 0.5× 235 0.7× 86 5.2k
Changming Zhao China 20 5.3k 1.9× 2.8k 1.4× 2.4k 1.6× 1.5k 1.4× 229 0.7× 63 6.6k
Yangang Wang China 39 2.8k 1.0× 3.1k 1.6× 1.6k 1.0× 566 0.5× 486 1.4× 125 4.9k
Wenming Sun China 28 3.5k 1.2× 2.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 740 0.7× 303 0.9× 67 4.8k
Stafford W. Sheehan United States 26 3.4k 1.2× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 568 0.5× 197 0.6× 43 4.2k
Priyank V. Kumar Australia 41 3.2k 1.1× 3.1k 1.6× 2.2k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 3.3× 137 6.1k
Yanping Zheng China 36 2.0k 0.7× 2.3k 1.2× 2.3k 1.5× 900 0.8× 324 1.0× 116 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Xin Mao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Mao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xin Mao. 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 Xin Mao. The network helps show where Xin Mao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Mao

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mao, Xin, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms and membrane fouling properties of dual surfactants coupling nanofiltration for multiple heavy metal rejection. Journal of Cleaner Production. 501. 145303–145303. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, S., Guanzheng Wu, Wuyong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Lattice Engineering of Bismuthene for Selective Glycine Synthesis. Advanced Materials. 37(21). e2500843–e2500843. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Binghong, Xinru Wu, Dong–Hau Kuo, et al.. (2025). W/Br co-doped Zn(O,S) with Zn/O bi-vacancy defects and heterovalent states for enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Materials Today Energy. 49. 101828–101828. 15 indexed citations
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Nasir, M. T., Yun Han, Xin Mao, et al.. (2025). Efficient urea electrosynthesis via dual-atom catalysts enabled by strong p-d orbital coupling. Applied Surface Science. 720. 165197–165197. 1 indexed citations
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Mao, Xin, Qingnan Wang, Haiqing Chang, et al.. (2024). Moderate oxidation of algae-laden water: Principals and challenges. Water Research. 257. 121674–121674. 21 indexed citations
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Lin, Chaonan, Lin Dong, Xin Mao, et al.. (2024). Silicon Vacancies Diamond/Silk/PVA Hierarchical Physical Unclonable Functions for Multi‐Level Encryption. Advanced Science. 11(23). e2308337–e2308337. 18 indexed citations
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Shen, Yu, Xin Mao, Fang Liu, et al.. (2023). A comparison study of heat-assisted Fe2+/persulfate and powdered activated carbon/persulfate wastewater pre-treatment for membrane fouling alleviation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 406. 137127–137127. 15 indexed citations
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Han, Yu, Xin Mao, Xuecheng Yan, et al.. (2023). Carbon nanotubes encapsulated transition metals for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction: coupling effect of 3d orbital and π-bond. Materials Today Chemistry. 30. 101573–101573. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Qilong, Haiyuan Zou, Xin Mao, et al.. (2023). Unveiling the dynamic active site of defective carbon-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide production. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6275–6275. 141 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xin, Xin Mao, Fei‐Yue Gao, et al.. (2023). Dual Integrating Oxygen and Sulphur on Surface of CoTe Nanorods Triggers Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Science. 10(9). e2206204–e2206204. 44 indexed citations
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Ju, Lin, Xin Tan, Xin Mao, et al.. (2021). Controllable CO2 electrocatalytic reduction via ferroelectric switching on single atom anchored In2Se3 monolayer. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5128–5128. 189 indexed citations
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Mao, Xin, Cheng Tang, Tianwei He, et al.. (2020). Computational screening of MN4 (M = Ti–Cu) based metal organic frameworks for CO2 reduction using the d-band centre as a descriptor. Nanoscale. 12(10). 6188–6194. 59 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lei, Xin Mao, Sri Kasi Matta, Yuantong Gu, & Aijun Du. (2019). Two-Dimensional CuTe2X (X = Cl, Br, and I): Potential Photocatalysts for Water Splitting under the Visible/Infrared Light. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(42). 25543–25548. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhiliang, Xin Mao, Peng Chen, et al.. (2018). Understanding the Roles of Oxygen Vacancies in Hematite‐Based Photoelectrochemical Processes. Angewandte Chemie. 131(4). 1042–1046. 113 indexed citations
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Mao, Xin, et al.. (2018). Nanoquencher‐Based Selective Imaging of Protein Glutathionylation in Live Mammalian Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(32). 10257–10262. 35 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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Yuan, Peng, Linghui Qian, Xin Mao, et al.. (2017). Intracellular Delivery of Functional Native Antibodies under Hypoxic Conditions by Using a Biodegradable Silica Nanoquencher. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(41). 12481–12485. 109 indexed citations

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