Xinning Song

2.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
44 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xinning Song is a scholar working on Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Process Chemistry and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinning Song has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Catalysis, 29 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 11 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology. Recurrent topics in Xinning Song's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (21 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (17 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (13 papers). Xinning Song is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (21 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (17 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (13 papers). Xinning Song collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United Kingdom. Xinning Song's co-authors include Xiaofu Sun, Buxing Han, Limin Wu, Jiaqi Feng, Qinggong Zhu, Xinchen Kang, Shunhan Jia, Liang Xu, Xingxing Tan and Xiaodong Ma 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

Xinning Song

39 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Improving CO2-to-C2+ Product Electroreduction Efficiency via Atomic Lanthanide Dopant-Induced Tensile-Strained CuOx Catalysts
    2023 277 citations Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Atomically Dispersed Ni–Cu Catalysts for pH‐Universal CO2 Electroreduction
    2023 191 citations Li‐Bing Zhang, Jiaqi Feng et al. profile →
  3. Oxophilicity-Controlled CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Alcohols over Lewis Acid Metal-Doped Cuδ+ Catalysts
    2023 184 citations Libing Zhang, Jiaqi Feng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia via Tuning of N‐Intermediate Adsorption on a Zn−Cu Catalyst
    2023 164 citations Limin Wu, Jiaqi Feng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. CO2 electrolysis to multi-carbon products in strong acid at ampere-current levels on La-Cu spheres with channels
    2024 103 citations Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu 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
Xinning Song China 19 1.3k 1.0k 535 230 156 44 1.7k
Lu‐Hua Zhang China 18 1.0k 0.8× 498 0.5× 521 1.0× 402 1.7× 42 0.3× 64 1.4k
Nadia Mohd Adli United States 12 1.5k 1.2× 861 0.8× 598 1.1× 423 1.8× 121 0.8× 12 1.7k
Fanpeng Chen China 14 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 624 1.2× 201 0.9× 80 0.5× 27 1.7k
Yongmeng Wu China 22 1.2k 0.9× 722 0.7× 424 0.8× 293 1.3× 63 0.4× 36 1.7k
Bo‐Hang Zhao China 20 1.3k 1.0× 561 0.5× 813 1.5× 442 1.9× 140 0.9× 43 1.8k
Huachao Zhao China 12 572 0.4× 411 0.4× 297 0.6× 236 1.0× 40 0.3× 21 1.0k
Quan Zhang China 26 1.3k 1.0× 403 0.4× 1.0k 1.9× 488 2.1× 59 0.4× 48 1.6k
Keisuke Natsui Japan 19 625 0.5× 403 0.4× 361 0.7× 319 1.4× 101 0.6× 30 1.0k
Ling Shuai China 14 2.0k 1.5× 671 0.6× 841 1.6× 1.0k 4.5× 140 0.9× 16 2.3k
Chencheng Dai Singapore 18 907 0.7× 353 0.3× 438 0.8× 405 1.8× 23 0.1× 36 1.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zheng, Chaofeng, Libing Zhang, Xinning Song, et al.. (2025). Rational Construction of Cu Active Sites for CO2 Electrolysis to C2+ Product. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 20(9). e202500091–e202500091.
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Wang, Ruhan, Shunhan Jia, Limin Wu, et al.. (2025). Tuning the Acid Hardness Nature of Cu Catalyst for Selective Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(15).
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Jia, Shunhan, Limin Wu, Ruhan Wang, et al.. (2025). Circumventing Scaling Relations via Gradient Orbital Coupling Promotes Ammonia Electrosynthesis on Cobalt Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 137(32).
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Jia, Shunhan, Weixiang Li, Chaofeng Zheng, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Water Frustration for Nitrate Semireduction to Hydroxylamine at Industrial-Relevant Currents. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47848–47858.
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Jia, Shunhan, Limin Wu, Ruhan Wang, et al.. (2025). Circumventing Scaling Relations via Gradient Orbital Coupling Promotes Ammonia Electrosynthesis on Cobalt Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(32). e202510478–e202510478. 5 indexed citations
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Wang, Yujie, Xue Li, Xiaoming Liu, et al.. (2024). Construction of the mosaic aluminophosphate zeotypes based on nonclassical crystallization and in situ selective etching strategies. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 367. 112999–112999. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Libing, Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, et al.. (2024). Switching CO-to-Acetate Electroreduction on Cu Atomic Ensembles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(1). 713–724. 21 indexed citations
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Song, Xinning, Xiaodong Ma, Tianhui Chen, et al.. (2024). Urea Synthesis via Coelectrolysis of CO2 and Nitrate over Heterostructured Cu–Bi Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(37). 25813–25823. 66 indexed citations
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Feng, Jiaqi, Limin Wu, Xinning Song, et al.. (2024). CO2 electrolysis to multi-carbon products in strong acid at ampere-current levels on La-Cu spheres with channels. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4821–4821. 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Libing, Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, et al.. (2023). Oxophilicity-Controlled CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Alcohols over Lewis Acid Metal-Doped Cuδ+ Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(40). 21945–21954. 184 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tan, Xingxing, Shunhan Jia, Xinning Song, et al.. (2023). Zn-induced electron-rich Sn catalysts enable highly efficient CO 2 electroreduction to formate. Chemical Science. 14(30). 8214–8221. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Limin, Jiaqi Feng, Li‐Bing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia via Tuning of N‐Intermediate Adsorption on a Zn−Cu Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 135(43). 14 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiaodong, Xinning Song, Libing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Stabilizing Cu0–Cu+ sites by Pb-doping for highly efficient CO2 electroreduction to C2 products. Green Chemistry. 25(19). 7635–7641. 17 indexed citations
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Feng, Jiaqi, Limin Wu, Shoujie Liu, et al.. (2023). Improving CO2-to-C2+ Product Electroreduction Efficiency via Atomic Lanthanide Dopant-Induced Tensile-Strained CuOx Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(17). 9857–9866. 277 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jia, Shunhan, Xingxing Tan, Limin Wu, et al.. (2023). Integration of plasma and electrocatalysis to synthesize cyclohexanone oxime under ambient conditions using air as a nitrogen source. Chemical Science. 14(45). 13198–13204. 36 indexed citations
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Wu, Limin, Jiaqi Feng, Li‐Bing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Boosting Electrocatalytic Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia via Tuning of N‐Intermediate Adsorption on a Zn−Cu Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(43). e202307952–e202307952. 164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Liang, Jiaqi Feng, Limin Wu, et al.. (2023). Identifying the optimal oxidation state of Cu for electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to C2+ products. Green Chemistry. 25(4). 1326–1331. 44 indexed citations
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Song, Xinning, Zhiyang Jiang, Jianing Li, et al.. (2022). Synthesis, antifungal activity, and molecular dynamics study of novel geranyl aromatic sulfonamide compounds as potential complex III inhibitors. Medicinal Chemistry Research. 31(4). 628–642. 3 indexed citations
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Xu, Liang, Xiaodong Ma, Limin Wu, et al.. (2022). In Situ Periodic Regeneration of Catalyst during CO2 Electroreduction to C2+ Products. Angewandte Chemie. 134(37). 9 indexed citations
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Song, Xinning, Weiwei Guo, Xiaodong Ma, et al.. (2022). Boosting CO2 electroreduction over Co nanoparticles supported on N,B-co-doped graphitic carbon. Green Chemistry. 24(4). 1488–1493. 24 indexed citations

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