Xu Zhang

15.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
204 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Xu Zhang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xu Zhang has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 116 papers in Materials Chemistry and 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xu Zhang's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (71 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (25 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers). Xu Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (71 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (25 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers). Xu Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Xu Zhang's co-authors include Gang Lü, Dong Su, Xiaoqing Huang, Shaojun Guo, Shaojun Guo, Jianlin Yao, Lingzheng Bu, Jingyuan Ma, Yucheng Liu and Xing Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xu Zhang

194 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

Biaxially strained PtPb/Pt core/shell nanoplate boosts ox... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2019 2015 2018 2016 400 800 1.2k
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. Biaxially strained PtPb/Pt core/shell nanoplate boosts oxygen reduction catalysis
    2016 1.4k citations Xu Zhang, Gang Lü et al. profile →
  2. PdMo bimetallene for oxygen reduction catalysis
    2019 1.3k citations Xu Zhang, Gang Lü et al. profile →
  3. Two‐Inch‐Sized Perovskite CH3NH3PbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) Crystals: Growth and Characterization
    2015 995 citations Yucheng Liu, Xiaodong Ren et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. Stable High‐Performance Perovskite Solar Cells via Grain Boundary Passivation
    2018 726 citations Tianqi Niu, Jing Lü et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Surface engineering of hierarchical platinum-cobalt nanowires for efficient electrocatalysis
    2016 679 citations Xu Zhang, Gang Lü et al. profile →
  6. Stable high efficiency two-dimensional perovskite solar cells via cesium doping
    2017 615 citations Xu Zhang, Xiaodong Ren et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  7. Two-Dimensional Lead(II) Halide-Based Hybrid Perovskites Templated by Acene Alkylamines: Crystal Structures, Optical Properties, and Piezoelectricity
    2017 487 citations Xu Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xu Zhang China 37 9.4k 6.7k 6.0k 1.8k 1.1k 204 12.6k
Fei Meng United States 27 7.0k 0.7× 6.3k 0.9× 5.0k 0.8× 733 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 46 10.9k
Noejung Park South Korea 53 6.2k 0.7× 7.4k 1.1× 4.6k 0.8× 421 0.2× 1.7k 1.5× 168 12.2k
Tomas Edvinsson Sweden 46 4.7k 0.5× 5.3k 0.8× 4.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 584 0.5× 144 8.7k
Jao van de Lagemaat United States 50 5.5k 0.6× 7.6k 1.1× 6.7k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 857 0.8× 114 12.8k
Kaifeng Wu China 60 9.0k 1.0× 11.4k 1.7× 4.4k 0.7× 749 0.4× 1.3k 1.2× 218 14.2k
Yalin Lu China 53 6.0k 0.6× 6.4k 1.0× 3.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 3.7k 3.3× 428 11.8k
Dongchen Qi Australia 50 5.4k 0.6× 5.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.3× 885 0.5× 1.6k 1.4× 214 8.7k
Markus Döblinger Germany 53 5.2k 0.6× 7.6k 1.1× 3.5k 0.6× 547 0.3× 1.3k 1.1× 195 11.9k
Jin Zhao China 54 4.5k 0.5× 7.1k 1.1× 3.4k 0.6× 381 0.2× 1.3k 1.1× 227 10.0k
Yoshitaka Tateyama Japan 51 9.6k 1.0× 4.5k 0.7× 862 0.1× 715 0.4× 1.4k 1.2× 176 12.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xu Zhang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xu Zhang

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

All Works

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Yin, Yao, Chunli Wang, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2024). Space-Confined Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis of All-Inorganic CsSnI3 Perovskite Nanosheets. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(20). 8324–8330. 2 indexed citations
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Wei, Xiangru, Grayson Johnson, Yifan Ye, et al.. (2023). Surfactants Used in Colloidal Synthesis Modulate Ni Nanoparticle Surface Evolution for Selective CO2 Hydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(26). 14298–14306. 25 indexed citations
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Li, Linfei, Jeremy F. Schultz, Sayantan Mahapatra, et al.. (2023). Atomic‐Scale Insights into the Interlayer Characteristics and Oxygen Reactivity of Bilayer Borophene. Angewandte Chemie. 135(32). 6 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiaomin, Dawei Zhou, Sihan Zhao, et al.. (2023). Excessive Iodine Enabled Ultrathin Inorganic Perovskite Growth at the Liquid‐Air Interface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(19). e202218546–e202218546. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Zuhong, Ke Pei, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2023). Interfacial engineering between SnO2/MAPbI3by maleate pheniramine halides toward carbon counter electrode-based perovskite solar cells with 16.21% efficiency. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(5). 964–974. 12 indexed citations
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Mahapatra, Sayantan, Jeremy F. Schultz, Linfei Li, Xu Zhang, & Nan Jiang. (2022). Controlling Localized Plasmons via an Atomistic Approach: Attainment of Site-Selective Activation inside a Single Molecule. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(5). 2051–2055. 25 indexed citations
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Li, Zuhong, Ya Xu, Yin Huang, et al.. (2022). Interfacial engineering by p-methylphenylmethylammonium iodide for efficient carbon counter electrode (CE)-based 2D/3D hybrid perovskite solar cells. Organic Electronics. 113. 106699–106699. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Yanqiang, Xu Zhang, Zhou Yang, et al.. (2022). An Optically Anisotropic Crystal with Large Birefringence Arising from Cooperative π Orbitals. Angewandte Chemie. 134(38). 13 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhebin, et al.. (2022). Numerical performance assessment of double-shell targets for Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum. Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 7(3). 8 indexed citations
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Li, Minjuan, Xu Zhang, Zheyao Xiong, et al.. (2022). A Hybrid Antiperovskite with Strong Linear and Second‐Order Nonlinear Optical Responses. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(42). e202211151–e202211151. 72 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xu, et al.. (2019). P‐9.13: A Vertical Type Photodetector Based on All‐inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dots. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 50(S1). 887–891.
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Schultz, Jeremy F., et al.. (2019). Defining Multiple Configurations of Rubrene on a Ag(100) Surface with 5 Å Spatial Resolution via Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(4). 2420–2426. 29 indexed citations
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Gao, Yurui, et al.. (2019). Decreasing Exciton Binding Energy in Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites by Lead Vacancies. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(14). 3820–3827. 36 indexed citations
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Niu, Tianqi, Jing Lü, Xuguang Jia, et al.. (2019). Interfacial Engineering at the 2D/3D Heterojunction for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells. Nano Letters. 19(10). 7181–7190. 188 indexed citations
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Niu, Tianqi, Jing Lü, Rahim Munir, et al.. (2018). Stable High‐Performance Perovskite Solar Cells via Grain Boundary Passivation. Advanced Materials. 30(16). e1706576–e1706576. 726 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nan, Guangjun, Xu Zhang, Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi, et al.. (2018). How Methylammonium Cations and Chlorine Dopants Heal Defects in Lead Iodide Perovskites. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(13). 104 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xu, Xiaodong Ren, Bin Liu, et al.. (2017). Stable high efficiency two-dimensional perovskite solar cells via cesium doping. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(10). 2095–2102. 615 indexed citations breakdown →

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