Xuan Liu

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
133 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Xuan Liu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xuan Liu has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 35 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xuan Liu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (86 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (53 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (46 papers). Xuan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (86 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (53 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (46 papers). Xuan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xuan Liu's co-authors include Li Li, Shulan Wang, Qing Li, Yang Song, Jiashun Liang, Yunqiang Zhang, Huan Liu, Shenzhou Li, Hang Guo and Yunhui Huang 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

Xuan Liu

125 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Transition metal based battery-type electrodes in hybrid supercapacitors: A review

2020 597 citations Xuan Liu et al. profile →
Biomass derived interconnected hierarchical micro-meso-macro- porous carbon with ultrahigh capacitance for supercapacitors

2019 467 citations Xuan Liu et al. profile →
Metal bond strength regulation enables large-scale synthesis of intermetallic nanocrystals for practical fuel cells

2024 97 citations Jiashun Liang, Yangyang Wan et al. Nature Materials profile →
Introducing Electron Buffers into Intermetallic Pt Alloys against Surface Polarization for High-Performing Fuel Cells

2024 86 citations Xuan Liu, Yuhan Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xuan Liu China	41	3.8k	3.3k	1.8k	1.5k	487	133	5.6k
Buyuan Guan China	24	3.5k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	408 0.8×	52	5.6k
Jing Fu China	38	6.6k 1.7×	4.3k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	932 0.6×	456 0.9×	94	7.9k
Xilin She China	36	2.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	563 1.2×	94	4.4k
Yanzhi Sun China	45	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	686 1.4×	223	5.8k
Mengwei Yuan China	41	3.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	799 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	281 0.6×	127	5.7k
Kee Shyuan Loh Malaysia	38	3.4k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	757 0.4×	1.5k 1.0×	905 1.9×	144	4.8k
Raja Arumugam Senthil India	46	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	2.6k 1.7×	647 1.3×	109	6.4k
Xuan Zhang China	39	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	882 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	252 0.5×	125	4.4k
Duan Bin China	43	4.9k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	271 0.6×	106	5.9k
Hansheng Li China	42	1.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	600 1.2×	174	5.2k

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Tang, Shangfeng, Na Guo, Cheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Alkyne Semi‐Hydrogenation via Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer on Cu(111) Surface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(37). e202510192–e202510192. 4 indexed citations

Tang, Shangfeng, Na Guo, Cheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Alkyne Semi‐Hydrogenation via Proton‐Coupled Electron Transfer on Cu(111) Surface. Angewandte Chemie. 137(37).

Liu, Xuan, Yuhan Wang, Hu He, et al.. (2025). Regulating orbital interaction to construct quasi-covalent bond networks in Pt intermetallic alloys for high-performance fuel cells. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4895–4895. 12 indexed citations

Zhou, Bo, Dianzhan Wang, Mingjiang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Effects of food waste hydrolysate as an external carbon source on defoaming in wastewater treatment with activated sludge process. Bioresource Technology. 404. 130900–130900. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Zijie, Nadaraj Sathishkumar, Yu Xia, et al.. (2024). Tailoring Zirconia Supported Intermetallic Platinum Alloy via Reactive Metal‐Support Interactions for High‐Performing Fuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 136(26). 1 indexed citations

Li, Shenzhou, Gang Wang, Gang Wang, et al.. (2024). Constructing Gradient Orbital Coupling to Induce Reactive Metal–Support Interaction in Pt-Carbide Electrocatalysts for Efficient Methanol Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(26). 17659–17668. 31 indexed citations

Liu, Xuan & Marc T. M. Koper. (2024). Tuning the Interfacial Reaction Environment for CO₂ Electroreduction to CO in Mildly Acidic Media. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(8). 5242–5251. 81 indexed citations

Liu, Xuan, Gang Wu, & Qing Li. (2024). Orbital modulation in platinum-group-metal (PGM) electrocatalysts: An effective approach to boost catalytic performance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100270–100270. 21 indexed citations

Lin, Zijie, Nadaraj Sathishkumar, Shenzhou Li, et al.. (2024). Tailoring Zirconia Supported Intermetallic Platinum Alloy via Reactive Metal‐Support Interactions for High‐Performing Fuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(26). e202400751–e202400751. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Jinhui, Nadaraj Sathishkumar, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2024). Topologically Close‐Packed Frank‐Kasper C15 Phase Intermetallic Ir Alloy Electrocatalysts Enables High‐Performance Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer. Advanced Materials. 36(47). 24 indexed citations

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Liang, Jiashun, Yangyang Wan, Houfu Lv, et al.. (2024). Metal bond strength regulation enables large-scale synthesis of intermetallic nanocrystals for practical fuel cells. Nature Materials. 23(9). 1259–1267. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fu, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Mimicking the Fungal Decay Strategy for Promoting the Bacterial Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoate from Kraft Lignin. Fermentation. 9(7). 649–649. 5 indexed citations

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Lin, Zijie, Junyi Liu, Shenzhou Li, et al.. (2023). Anti‐Corrosive SnS₂/SnO₂ Heterostructured Support for Pt Nanoparticles Enables Remarkable Oxygen Reduction Catalysis via Interfacial Enhancement. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(11). 48 indexed citations

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Liu, Xuan, Zhonglong Zhao, Jiashun Liang, et al.. (2023). Inducing Covalent Atomic Interaction in Intermetallic Pt Alloy Nanocatalysts for High‐Performance Fuel Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 135(23). 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Shaoqing, Xuan Liu, Xiaoyu Yan, et al.. (2023). Synergy between Intermetallic Pt Alloy and Porous Co–N₄ Carbon Nanofibers Enables Durable Fuel Cells with Low Mass Transport Resistance. ACS Catalysis. 13(18). 11996–12006. 37 indexed citations

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Li, Yanqiang, et al.. (2023). Boosting the Electrocatalytic Performance of CoPt Alloy with Enhanced Electron Transfer via Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Sites. Small. 19(33). e2302170–e2302170. 25 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuxia, Tanyuan Wang, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2023). In Situ Dissociated Chalcogenide Anions Regulate the Bi-Catalyst/Electrolyte Interface with Accelerated Surface Reconstruction toward Efficient CO₂ Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 14(1). 489–497. 25 indexed citations

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Liang, Jiashun, Yu Xia, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2022). Molybdenum‐doped ordered L1₀‐PdZn nanosheets for enhanced oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). 347–356. 24 indexed citations

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Ma, Feng, Xuan Liu, Xiaoming Wang, et al.. (2022). Atomically dispersed Zn-Co-N-C catalyst boosting efficient and robust oxygen reduction catalysis in acid via stabilizing Co-N bonds. Fundamental Research. 3(6). 909–917. 15 indexed citations

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Liang, Jiashun, Lixing Zhu, Shaoqing Chen, et al.. (2020). Defect‐Rich Copper‐doped Ruthenium Hollow Nanoparticles for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Electrolyte. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 15(18). 2868–2872. 7 indexed citations

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