Xu Lu

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Xu Lu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Metals and Alloys. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Lu has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 48 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 33 papers in Metals and Alloys. Recurrent topics in Xu Lu's work include Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (33 papers), Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (19 papers) and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (15 papers). Xu Lu is often cited by papers focused on Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (33 papers), Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition (19 papers) and Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (15 papers). Xu Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, Norway and Germany. Xu Lu's co-authors include Dong Wang, Roy Johnsen, Di Wan, Afrooz Barnoush, Yan Ma, Binhan Sun, T. John Balk, Ralph Spolenak, Yun Deng and Zhiming Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Acta Materialia and Electrochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Xu Lu

77 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Hydrogen Embrittlement as a Conspicuous Material Challenge─Comprehensive Review and Future Directions

2024 120 citations Haiyang Yu, Xu Lu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xu Lu China	26	1.1k	953	842	327	248	81	1.7k
Jee-Hyun Kang South Korea	23	912 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	491 0.6×	467 1.4×	138 0.6×	70	1.5k
Lv Jinlong China	22	656 0.6×	570 0.6×	527 0.6×	175 0.5×	195 0.8×	40	1.1k
Zhibin Zheng China	23	742 0.7×	924 1.0×	312 0.4×	265 0.8×	564 2.3×	71	1.4k
Maryam Soleimani Iran	15	732 0.7×	762 0.8×	254 0.3×	234 0.7×	82 0.3×	34	1.1k
Changjiang Song China	22	741 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	128 0.2×	240 0.7×	389 1.6×	93	1.3k
N. E. Hakiki Algeria	13	1.3k 1.1×	399 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	181 0.6×	299 1.2×	23	1.6k
G. Fourlaris United Kingdom	19	696 0.6×	815 0.9×	337 0.4×	258 0.8×	73 0.3×	59	1.1k
Jingjun Xu China	22	943 0.8×	778 0.8×	107 0.1×	173 0.5×	191 0.8×	69	1.3k
Kyoo Young Kim South Korea	21	910 0.8×	718 0.8×	623 0.7×	177 0.5×	372 1.5×	45	1.3k
Y.H. Wang China	20	624 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	74 0.1×	192 0.6×	697 2.8×	40	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Lu

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Alvaro, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Probing the effect of solute hydrogen and hydrides on the prismatic slip of [ 2 1 ‾ 1 ‾ 0 ] -orientated alpha titanium using in-situ micropillar compression. Scripta Materialia. 268. 116859–116859.

Zhou, Jingjing, Huijie Cheng, Ning Yao, et al.. (2025). Temperature dependence of hydrogen embrittlement behavior in a medium-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia. 298. 121396–121396. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Haiyang, et al.. (2025). On the improved hydrogen embrittlement resistance in stress relieved laser powder bed fused 316L stainless steel over the hot isostatic pressed equivalent. Corrosion Science. 256. 113159–113159. 1 indexed citations

Narayan, R. Lakshmi, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen embrittlement of additively manufactured metallic materials. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 121. 245–272. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Lan, et al.. (2024). Construction of multiscale hierarchical porous titanium scaffolds and in vitro evaluation of osteogenic differentiation. Materials & Design. 249. 113534–113534. 4 indexed citations

Lu, Xu, et al.. (2024). Multiscale evaluation of hydrogen-assisted mechanical degradation in grade 2 titanium. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 983. 173959–173959. 4 indexed citations

Soundararajan, Chandrahaasan K., Xu Lu, Dong Wang, & Alexei Vinogradov. (2024). Distinct Evidence of Hydrogen-Enhanced Defect Formation on Pre-Strained Nickel Alloy 625 during In Situ Electrochemical Nanoindentation Test. Metals. 14(2). 161–161. 1 indexed citations

Lu, Xu, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen enhanced localised plasticity of single grain α titanium verified by in-situ hydrogen microcantilever bending. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 136. 902–913. 5 indexed citations

Lu, Xu & Roy Johnsen. (2024). Hydrogen diffusion and uptake in nickel Alloy 625 under cathodic protection conditions. Heliyon. 10(13). e33924–e33924. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Huijie, Xu Lu, Jingjing Zhou, et al.. (2023). The influence of L12 ordered precipitates on hydrogen embrittlement behavior in CoCrNi-based medium entropy alloys. Acta Materialia. 260. 119328–119328. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, et al.. (2023). Investigating electrochemical charging conditions equivalent to hydrogen gas exposure of X65 pipeline steel. Materials and Corrosion. 75(3). 315–321. 19 indexed citations

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Lu, Xu, et al.. (2023). How much hydrogen is in green steel?. npj Materials Degradation. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

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Soundararajan, Chandrahaasan K., et al.. (2023). Hydrogen-induced degradation behavior of nickel alloy studied using acoustic emission technique. Materials Science and Engineering A. 865. 144635–144635. 12 indexed citations

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Lu, Xu, Dong Wang, Di Wan, Xiaofei Guo, & Roy Johnsen. (2022). Reveal Hydrogen Behavior at Grain Boundaries in Fe–22Mn–0.6C TWIP Steel via In Situ Micropillar Compression Test. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters). 36(7). 1095–1104. 4 indexed citations

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Lu, Yunzhuo, Xu Lu, Juntao Huo, et al.. (2022). Elastic criterion for shear-banding instability in amorphous solids. Physical review. E. 105(4). 45003–45003. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Dong, et al.. (2022). Investigation of hydrogen embrittlement behavior in X65 pipeline steel under different hydrogen charging conditions. Materials Science and Engineering A. 860. 144262–144262. 50 indexed citations

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Sun, Binhan, Dong Wang, Xu Lu, et al.. (2021). Current Challenges and Opportunities Toward Understanding Hydrogen Embrittlement Mechanisms in Advanced High-Strength Steels: A Review. Acta Metallurgica Sinica (English Letters). 34(6). 741–754. 99 indexed citations

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Xie, Ruizhen, et al.. (2020). Microstructure, mechanical property and corrosion behavior of porous Ti–Ta–Nb–Zr. Bioactive Materials. 5(3). 564–568. 33 indexed citations

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Fang, Feng, Xu Lu, Yuanxiang Zhang, et al.. (2017). The impact of niobium on the microstructure, texture and magnetic properties of strip-cast grain oriented silicon steel. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 442. 1–7. 25 indexed citations

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Lu, Xu, et al.. (2011). Cyclic Oxidation Behaviour of a Ni-Based Alloy at 900°C. Applied Mechanics and Materials. 80-81. 51–54. 1 indexed citations

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