Xu Liu

11.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
287 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Xu Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Liu has authored 287 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 77 papers in Materials Chemistry and 67 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Xu Liu's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (97 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (95 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (49 papers). Xu Liu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (97 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (95 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (49 papers). Xu Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Italy. Xu Liu's co-authors include Stefano Passerini, Yude Wang, Xuechun Xiao, Xinxin Xing, Huang Zhang, Dongyang Deng, Liaoyun Zhang, Nan Chen, Huihua Li and Qinghui Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xu Liu

274 papers receiving 8.7k citations

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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.

Challenges and Strategies for High‐Energy Aqueous Electrolyte Rechargeable Batteries

2020 462 citations Huang Zhang, Xu Liu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Regulating the electrochemical activity of Fe-Mn-Cu-based layer oxides as cathode materials for high-performance Na-ion battery

2023 173 citations Xu Liu et al. profile →
All-solid-state Li–S batteries with fast solid–solid sulfur reaction

2025 88 citations Xu Liu et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Liu

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

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Efficient and Effective Synthesis of CaV₆O₁₆·2.7H₂O as High‐Performance Cathode Material for Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries (Adv. Energy Mater. 6/2025) 2025 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Mengyao Li, Xu Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Yude Wang, Stefano Passerini	2
2	Development of PFAS-Free Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for High-Energy Lithium and Aluminum Metal Batteries 2025 ·Accounts of Chemical Research ·Xu Liu, Cheng Xu, Henry Adenusi, Yuping Wu, Stefano Passerini	10
3	Meta-substituted thienoviologen with enhanced radical stability via π-π interaction modulation for neutral aqueous organic flow batteries 2024 ·Energy storage materials ·Xu Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Chenjing Liu, (unknown), Shuran Yang, (unknown), Gao‐Lei Hou, Ni Yan, Gang He	7
4	Non-stoichiometric problem of photocatalytic water splitting on γ-GaO: Cause and solution 2024 ·Journal of Catalysis ·Jinni Shen, (unknown), (unknown), Haifeng Li, Cheng‐Wei Qiu, Xu Liu, Xun Wang, Rong Hu, Jinlin Long, Xuxu Wang, Zizhong Zhang	2
5	PFAS-Free Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium Metal Batteries 2024 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Xu Liu, Alessandro Mariani, Thomas Diemant, Maria Enrica Di Pietro, Dong Xu, (unknown), Andrea Mele, Stefano Passerini	26
6	Research on the Reinforcement Effect and Bearing Characteristics of High-Pressure Jet-Grouting Piles on Covered Road Composite Ground in Landfill Sites 2024 ·Buildings ·Tao Wang, Xu Liu, Liyuan Liu, (unknown), (unknown)	1
7	Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Wide‐Temperature‐Range Aluminum‐Sulfur Batteries 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Cheng Xu, Thomas Diemant, Alessandro Mariani, Maria Enrica Di Pietro, Andrea Mele, Xu Liu, Stefano Passerini	13
8	Alveoli‐Inspired Carbon Cathodes with Interconnected Porous Structure and Asymmetric Coordinated Vanadium Sites for Superior Li−S Batteries 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Rui Yan, Zhenyang Zhao, (unknown), Min Wu, Xu Liu, Mohsen Adeli, Bo Yin, Chong Cheng, Shuang Li	39
9	Modified Solid Electrolyte Interphases with Alkali Chloride Additives for Aluminum–Sulfur Batteries with Enhanced Cyclability 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Cheng Xu, Thomas Diemant, Xu Liu, Stefano Passerini	26
10	Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Lithium‐Metal Batteries 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xu Liu, Alessandro Mariani, Henry Adenusi, Stefano Passerini	62
11	Locally Concentrated Ionic Liquid Electrolytes Enabling Low‐Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Xu Liu, Alessandro Mariani, Thomas Diemant, Dong Xu, (unknown), Stefano Passerini	13
12	Molecular dynamics simulations of the nickel removal from crude oil by neutral and charged spherical polymer brushes 2023 ·Fuel ·Kaili Shen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xu Liu, (unknown), Fahai Cao, Jun Xu	3
13	Supramolecular polymers with dual energy storage mechanism for high-performance supercapacitors 2023 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Jingyuan Zhao, Xu Liu, Chunfang Zhang, Pengfei Zhang, (unknown), Jiayu Lin, Zhenyan Liu, Kuilin Deng	7
14	Scalable silicon@sulfur-doped carbon composites via a low-cost facile method for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes 2023 ·Journal of Alloys and Compounds ·Xu Liu, Huitian Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yuhao Cao, (unknown), Zhongqiang Shan	5
15	Single-Ion Conducting Multi-block Copolymer Electrolyte for Lithium-Metal Batteries with High Mass Loading NCM₈₁₁ Cathodes 2023 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Dong Xu, (unknown), Xu Liu, Stefano Passerini, Dominic Bresser	35
16	Alkoxy-functionalized ionic liquid electrolytes: understanding ionic coordination of calcium ion speciation for the rational design of calcium electrolytes 2020 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Xinpei Gao, Xu Liu, Alessandro Mariani, Giuseppe Antonio Elia, (unknown), Carsten Streb, Stefano Passerini	52
17	Clay-Polymer Nanocomposites Prepared by Reactive Melt Extrusion for Sustained Drug Release 2020 ·Pharmaceutics ·Xu Liu, Xingyu Lu, Yongchao Su, Eucharist Kun, Feng Zhang	30
18	High-Voltage Operation of a V₂O₅ Cathode in a Concentrated Gel Polymer Electrolyte for High-Energy Aqueous Zinc Batteries 2020 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Huang Zhang, Xu Liu, Huihua Li, Bingsheng Qin, Stefano Passerini	60
19	Calcium vanadate sub-microfibers as highly reversible host cathode material for aqueous zinc-ion batteries 2019 ·Chemical Communications ·Xu Liu, Huang Zhang, Dorin Geiger, Jin Han, Alberto Varzi, Ute Kaiser, Arianna Moretti, Stefano Passerini	124
20	H2O2-based Green Corrosion Route to ZnO Microrods Photocatalysts on Zn Plate 2017 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Xu Liu, Yan Yang, Yunfei Han, Lihong V. Wang, Gang Chen, Xuechun Xiao, Yude Wang	5

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