Xin Tan

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
223 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Xin Tan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Tan has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 87 papers in Materials Chemistry and 80 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xin Tan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (59 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (41 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (27 papers). Xin Tan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (59 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (41 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (27 papers). Xin Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, Australia and United States. Xin Tan's co-authors include Sean C. Smith, Hassan A. Tahini, Chuan Zhao, Wenhao Ren, Chen Jia, Liangzhi Kou, Wanfeng Yang, Rose Amal, Kai‐Xue Wang and Shumao Xu 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 Tan

208 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

Isolated Diatomic Ni‐Fe Metal–Nitrogen Sites for Synergistic Electroreduction of CO₂

2019 927 citations Wenhao Ren, Xin Tan et al. profile →
A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation

2022 279 citations Xin Tan, Hassan A. Tahini et al. profile →
Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis

2022 247 citations Yufei Zhao, Priyank V. Kumar et al. Nature Communications profile →
Unraveling the structure–performance relationship in hard carbon for sodium-ion battery by coupling key structural parameters

2025 43 citations Sean C. Smith, Xin Tan et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xin Tan China	51	5.2k	4.3k	3.7k	1.4k	692	223	9.1k
Jeffrey A. Herron United States	29	5.4k 1.1×	4.0k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	652 0.9×	78	8.3k
Xiaopeng Li China	52	6.2k 1.2×	3.1k 0.7×	5.3k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	989 1.4×	154	9.2k
Xing Cao China	35	7.0k 1.4×	4.3k 1.0×	4.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	612 0.9×	63	9.5k
Lei Li China	45	3.5k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	741 1.1×	251	7.7k
Qiang Wang China	38	4.1k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	4.0k 1.1×	444 0.3×	917 1.3×	167	7.3k
Hui Su China	38	3.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	330 0.5×	107	5.5k
Wenjun Zheng China	52	3.0k 0.6×	4.3k 1.0×	4.8k 1.3×	978 0.7×	2.6k 3.8×	196	8.6k
Shize Yang United States	58	6.7k 1.3×	7.1k 1.6×	4.9k 1.3×	2.3k 1.6×	978 1.4×	190	12.3k
Jian Pan China	47	5.2k 1.0×	4.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.0×	491 0.3×	1.4k 2.0×	125	9.6k
Thomas W. Hansen Denmark	53	4.7k 0.9×	6.7k 1.6×	3.2k 0.9×	2.2k 1.6×	683 1.0×	144	11.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Tan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Xin, et al.. (2025). Critical risks in an industry chain-based global lithium supply networks: Static structure and dynamic propagation. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 198. 107137–107137. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Junxian, Sean C. Smith, Xin Tan, Yuantong Gu, & Liangzhi Kou. (2025). Dual-reaction-centre enabled concurrent N–C–N coupling for effective urea electrosynthesis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(28). 22685–22694.

Xie, Bin, Chaohe Zheng, Shude Liu, et al.. (2024). Guiding the crystal orientation to coordinate zinc deposition for high-durable zinc-ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 74. 103967–103967. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Bin, Chaohe Zheng, Yijia Luo, et al.. (2024). Trace alcohol ether electrolytes with dual-site hydrogen bonds and modulated solvation structures for ultralong-life zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt A). 886–895. 3 indexed citations

Li, Chuanming, et al.. (2024). Prediction of evaporation temperature in air-water heat source heat pump based on artificial neural network. Journal of Building Engineering. 98. 111036–111036. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Fengqi, et al.. (2024). Continuous Piecewise-Affine Based Motion Model for Image Animation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(6). 5427–5435. 3 indexed citations

Tan, Xin, Zhanghu Wang, Peng Jiao, & Zhigang Wen. (2024). Quantifying the Pore Characteristics and Heterogeneity of the Lower Cambrian Black Shale in the Deep-Water Region, South China. ACS Omega. 10(1). 709–726. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Bin, Chaohe Zheng, Min Li, et al.. (2024). Ultrastable electrolyte (>3500 hours at high current density) achieved by high-entropy solvation toward practical aqueous zinc metal batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(19). 7281–7293. 41 indexed citations

Chen, Yuxiang, Peng Wang, Ji Chen, et al.. (2023). A high-energy-density NASICON-type Na3V1.25Ga0.75(PO4)3 cathode with reversible V4+/V5+ redox couple for sodium ion batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 653(Pt A). 1–10. 33 indexed citations

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Long, Jibo, et al.. (2023). Light-thermal environment of vertical translucent enclosure structures under solar radiation and method of internal shading adjustment. Energy. 289. 130036–130036. 5 indexed citations

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Ju, Lin, Yandong Ma, Xin Tan, & Liangzhi Kou. (2023). Controllable Electrocatalytic to Photocatalytic Conversion in Ferroelectric Heterostructures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(48). 26393–26402. 57 indexed citations

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Liu, Junxian, Xin Tan, Ting Liao, et al.. (2022). Rational design of 2D ferroelectric heterogeneous catalysts for controllable hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(41). 22228–22235. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yufei, Priyank V. Kumar, Xin Tan, et al.. (2022). Modulating Pt-O-Pt atomic clusters with isolated cobalt atoms for enhanced hydrogen evolution catalysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2430–2430. 247 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Kuang‐Hsu, Yuefeng Liu, Xin Tan, et al.. (2022). Regulating electron transfer over asymmetric low-spin Co(II) for highly selective electrocatalysis. Chem Catalysis. 2(2). 372–385. 68 indexed citations

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Ye, Yuanxin, et al.. (2021). Change detection of remote sensing images by combining neighborhood information and structural features. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 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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Ren, Wenhao, Xin Tan, Jiangtao Qu, et al.. (2021). Isolated copper–tin atomic interfaces tuning electrocatalytic CO2 conversion. Nature Communications. 12(1). 193 indexed citations

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Yu, Baozhi, Ye Fan, Srikanth Mateti, et al.. (2020). An Ultra-Long-Life Flexible Lithium–Sulfur Battery with Lithium Cloth Anode and Polysulfone-Functionalized Separator. ACS Nano. 15(1). 1358–1369. 69 indexed citations

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Jin, Cui, Xiao Tang, Xin Tan, et al.. (2018). A Janus MoSSe monolayer: a superior and strain-sensitive gas sensing material. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(3). 1099–1106. 242 indexed citations

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McVey, Benjamin F. P., Dirk König, Xiaoyu Cheng, et al.. (2018). Synthesis, optical properties and theoretical modelling of discrete emitting states in doped silicon nanocrystals for bioimaging. Nanoscale. 10(33). 15600–15607. 13 indexed citations

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