Xin Tan

3.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
62 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Xin Tan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Tan has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 29 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xin Tan's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers). Xin Tan is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (19 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (10 papers). Xin Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, Macao and Australia. Xin Tan's co-authors include Chen Chen, Kaian Sun, Zewen Zhuang, Xu Luo, Shichun Mu, Pengxia Ji, Xuanpeng Wang, Liqiang Mai, Xiujuan Wei and Ke Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Xin Tan

56 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2022 2023 2024 2024 50 100 150 200
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. Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction
    2022 239 citations Kaian Sun, Xueyan Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Spherical Ni3S2/Fe‐NiPx Magic Cube with Ultrahigh Water/Seawater Oxidation Efficiency
    2022 212 citations Xin Tan et al. profile →
  3. Stabilizing Copper by a Reconstruction-Resistant Atomic Cu–O–Si Interface for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
    2023 165 citations Xin Tan, Kaian Sun et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Fe-S dually modulated adsorbate evolution and lattice oxygen compatible mechanism for water oxidation
    2024 152 citations Xin Tan et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Microenvironment reconstitution of highly active Ni single atoms on oxygen-incorporated Mo2C for water splitting
    2024 134 citations Mengyun Hou, Lirong Zheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Constructing Asymmetric Fe–Nb Diatomic Sites to Enhance ORR Activity and Durability
    2024 98 citations Rui Sui, Bo Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Xin Tan
Chuang Yang China
Wangting Lu China
Yicheng Zhao China
Xuefei Gao China
Gibaek Lee South Korea
Zhichao Huang China
Zhao Wang China
Xingxing Xu China
Jared Sisler United States
Yuan Ji China
Chuang Yang China
Xin Tan
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Countries citing papers authored by Xin Tan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xin Tan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xin Tan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xin Tan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xin Tan 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 Tan. Xin Tan 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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Zhang, Ben, Xin Tan, Zihe Zhang, et al.. (2025). Atomically Precise Copper Nanoclusters with Cu-N Interfaces Toward Efficient CO 2 -to-CH 4 Electrocatalysis. CCS Chemistry. 8(2). 1122–1129.
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Chow, Philip C. Y., et al.. (2025). Constructing Bulk Homojunction for Intrinsic Photo‐Charge Utilization in Organic Solar Cells. Small. 21(45). e07273–e07273.
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Zhang, Jiaqi, Xin Tan, Haojie Zhu, et al.. (2025). Manipulating the Coordination Environment of Cu Single Atoms via Regulating ZrO2 Support Crystal Phases for Enhanced CO2 Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(39). 35985–35994.
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Zhang, Jiaqi, Weng‐Chon Cheong, Xin Tan, et al.. (2025). Electrochromic Rutile with Dynamically Tailored Surfaces in Formaldehyde-Mediated Hydroxylamine Electrosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(24). 20559–20570. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yu, Chang Chen, Chang He, et al.. (2025). Atomically Dispersed Ta–O–Co Sites Capable of Mitigating Side Reaction Occurrence for Stable Lithium–Oxygen Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(5). 4578–4586. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Jingkun, et al.. (2025). Photothermal CuS as a Hole Transfer Layer on BiVO 4 Photoanode for Efficient Solar Water Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202507259–e202507259. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhiyuan, Xin Tan, Xingdong Wang, et al.. (2024). Recent advances in microenvironment regulation for electrocatalysis. National Science Review. 11(12). nwae315–nwae315. 14 indexed citations
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Hou, Mengyun, Lirong Zheng, Di Zhao, et al.. (2024). Microenvironment reconstitution of highly active Ni single atoms on oxygen-incorporated Mo2C for water splitting. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1342–1342. 134 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tan, Xin, Haojie Zhu, Zewen Zhuang, et al.. (2024). Customizing catalyst surface/interface structures for electrochemical CO2reduction. Chemical Science. 15(12). 4292–4312. 15 indexed citations
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He, Chang, Jiaqi Zhang, Xin Tan, et al.. (2024). Three-Dimensional Mesoporous Covalent Organic Framework for Photocatalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation to Quinoline. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(49). 33857–33864. 11 indexed citations
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Sui, Rui, Bo Liu, Chang Chen, et al.. (2024). Constructing Asymmetric Fe–Nb Diatomic Sites to Enhance ORR Activity and Durability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(38). 26442–26453. 98 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Ying, et al.. (2023). Potassium Pentaminodifluorobenzoate‐Modified SnO2 for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells. Solar RRL. 7(23). 3 indexed citations
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Zhuang, Zewen, Aijian Huang, Xin Tan, et al.. (2023). p-Block-metal bismuth-based electrocatalysts featuring tunable selectivity for high-performance oxygen reduction reaction. Joule. 7(5). 1003–1015. 73 indexed citations
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Tan, Xin, Kaian Sun, Zewen Zhuang, et al.. (2023). Stabilizing Copper by a Reconstruction-Resistant Atomic Cu–O–Si Interface for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(15). 8656–8664. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tan, Xin, Zewen Zhuang, Yu Zhang, Kaian Sun, & Chen Chen. (2023). Rational design of atomic site catalysts for electrochemical CO2reduction. Chemical Communications. 59(19). 2682–2696. 6 indexed citations
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Sun, Kaian, Xueyan Wu, Zewen Zhuang, et al.. (2022). Interfacial water engineering boosts neutral water reduction. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6260–6260. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chen, Zhiqiang, Aijian Huang, Ke Yu, et al.. (2021). Fe1N4–O1 site with axial Fe–O coordination for highly selective CO2 reduction over a wide potential range. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(6). 3430–3437. 164 indexed citations
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Han, Tong, Xing Cao, Kaian Sun, et al.. (2021). Anion-exchange-mediated internal electric field for boosting photogenerated carrier separation and utilization. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4952–4952. 102 indexed citations
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Wu, Shaowen, Yuanzhi Li, An Zhang, et al.. (2021). Quasi-Monolayer Rh Nanoclusters Stabilized on Spinel MgAl2O4 Nanosheets for Catalytic CO2 Reforming of Methane. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(9). 9866–9875. 19 indexed citations

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