Xuan Liu

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Xuan Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xuan Liu has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xuan Liu's work include Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (10 papers). Xuan Liu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (10 papers). Xuan Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Xuan Liu's co-authors include Yujie Sun, Bo You, Nan Jiang, Xin Liu, Tianbiao Liu, You‐Xuan Zheng, Jing‐Lin Zuo, Jian Luo, Bo Hu and Camden DeBruler and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xuan Liu

59 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

A General Strategy for De... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 250 500 750
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. A General Strategy for Decoupled Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting by Integrating Oxidative Biomass Valorization
    2016 869 citations Bo You, Xuan Liu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Simultaneous H2 Generation and Biomass Upgrading in Water by an Efficient Noble‐Metal‐Free Bifunctional Electrocatalyst
    2016 553 citations Bo You, Nan Jiang 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
Xuan Liu China 29 2.9k 2.6k 1.2k 885 630 60 4.5k
Yuxuan Lu China 32 3.3k 1.1× 1.6k 0.6× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 669 1.1× 67 4.2k
Xu Yang China 41 1.9k 0.7× 2.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 501 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 153 4.6k
Előd Gyenge Canada 38 2.7k 0.9× 2.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.2× 518 0.6× 508 0.8× 121 4.0k
Menggang Li China 42 3.5k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 1.7k 1.5× 334 0.4× 750 1.2× 85 4.9k
Hyung Ju Kim South Korea 33 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 443 0.7× 77 3.7k
Aijuan Han China 33 3.5k 1.2× 2.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.7× 295 0.3× 515 0.8× 60 4.8k
Jizhen Ma China 30 2.2k 0.8× 2.6k 1.0× 1.9k 1.7× 568 0.6× 846 1.3× 62 4.6k
Jiabin Wu China 34 2.4k 0.8× 2.7k 1.0× 2.7k 2.4× 571 0.6× 1.0k 1.6× 66 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Xuan Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xuan Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xuan Liu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kong, Haocun, Xuan Liu, Zhaofeng Li, et al.. (2025). A novel strategy utilizing waste glucose mother liquor to prepare gentiooligosaccharide‐based functional syrup by β‐glucosidase catalysis. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 105(13). 7321–7328.
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Deng, Shijie, Feng Shi, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2025). Effect of cumin intercropping density on cotton growth and system economic benefits under subsurface drip irrigation. Journal of Cotton Research. 8(1). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, X. B., et al.. (2025). Enhanced Conductivity of Multilayer Copper–Carbon Nanofilms via Plasma Immersion Deposition. Nano-Micro Letters. 17(1). 130–130. 2 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, et al.. (2025). Mussel and plant cell wall-inspired soy protein adhesives: High strength, flame retardancy, and mildew resistance. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 320(Pt 4). 145875–145875. 1 indexed citations
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Huang, Yu, Xuan Liu, Jiaqi Feng, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of bio-waste derived hydroxyapatite nanoparticles for the remediation of uranium-containing wastewater. Journal of Water Process Engineering. 70. 106956–106956. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Jinhu, Xinhao Ye, Kiran Raj Goud Burra, et al.. (2024). Effects of Na-salt solutions on the biomass pyrolysis and CO2-assisted gasification behavior. Journal of the Energy Institute. 116. 101734–101734. 10 indexed citations
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Luo, Huang, et al.. (2024). Construction of molecular semiconductor traps to improve the energy storage performance of novel cyanopolynorbornene. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154405–154405. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yong, et al.. (2024). Simple synthesis of graphene oxide-supported and phosphorylated chitosan gel bead to uptake uranium from wastewater. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 293. 139299–139299. 3 indexed citations
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Lv, Fei, Xuan Liu, Lixia Pan, et al.. (2024). Decoupled electrolysis for hydrogen production and hydrazine oxidation via high-capacity and stable pre-protonated vanadium hexacyanoferrate. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1339–1339. 20 indexed citations
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Luo, Huang, Huang Luo, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2023). Constructing Novel High-Performance Dipolar Glass Polymer Dielectrics by Polar Rigid/Flexible Side Chains. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(20). 24470–24482. 33 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaowen, et al.. (2022). Simple lignin-based, light-driven shape memory polymers with excellent mechanical properties and wide range of glass transition temperatures. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 228. 528–536. 18 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, Bo Li, Guan‐Qun Han, et al.. (2021). Electrocatalytic synthesis of heterocycles from biomass-derived furfuryl alcohols. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1868–1868. 47 indexed citations
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Li, Yanqiang, Zehao Yin, Ming Cui, et al.. (2020). Interface engineering of transitional metal sulfide–MoS2 heterostructure composites as effective electrocatalysts for water-splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(4). 2070–2092. 184 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, et al.. (2020). The production of valuable biopolymer precursors from fructose. Green Chemistry. 22(19). 6531–6539. 24 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Nan Jiang, Bo Hu, et al.. (2018). Electrolyzer Design for Flexible Decoupled Water Splitting and Organic Upgrading with Electron Reservoirs. Chem. 4(3). 637–649. 152 indexed citations
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Lamb, Robert W., Xuan Liu, Roberta R. Rodrigues, et al.. (2018). Nickel(ii) pincer complexes demonstrate that the remote substituent controls catalytic carbon dioxide reduction. Chemical Communications. 54(31). 3819–3822. 41 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, Bo You, & Yujie Sun. (2017). Facile Surface Modification of Ubiquitous Stainless Steel Led to Competent Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 5(6). 4778–4784. 84 indexed citations
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DeBruler, Camden, Bo Hu, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2017). Designer Two-Electron Storage Viologen Anolyte Materials for Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries. Chem. 3(6). 961–978. 328 indexed citations
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You, Bo, Xuan Liu, Guoxiang Hu, et al.. (2017). Universal Surface Engineering of Transition Metals for Superior Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Neutral Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(35). 12283–12290. 246 indexed citations
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Li, Hongyan, Tian‐Yi Li, Ming‐Yu Teng, et al.. (2013). Syntheses, photoluminescence and electroluminescence of four heteroleptic iridium complexes with 2-(5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)-phenol derivatives as ancillary ligands. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2(6). 1116–1124. 34 indexed citations

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