Xuning Li

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
76 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Xuning Li is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xuning Li has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xuning Li's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (37 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Xuning Li is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (37 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (21 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Xuning Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Taiwan. Xuning Li's co-authors include Bin Liu, Yanqiang Huang, Junhu Wang, Jiajian Gao, Alexandre I. Rykov, Song Liu, Tao Zhang, Weizheng Cai, Hongbin Yang and Jie Ding 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

Xuning Li

73 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Single Cobalt Atoms Anchored on Porous N-Doped Graphene with Dual Reaction Sites for Efficient Fenton-like Catalysis

2018 1.3k citations Xuning Li, Xiang Huang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Fe Co3−O4 nanocages derived from nanoscale metal–organic frameworks for removal of bisphenol A by activation of peroxymonosulfate

2015 432 citations Xuning Li, Junhu Wang et al. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental profile →
Microenvironment modulation of single-atom catalysts and their roles in electrochemical energy conversion

2020 343 citations Xuning Li, Linghui Liu et al. Science Advances profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Xuning Li	5.4k	3.1k	2.0k	1.7k	1.1k	76	7.3k
Dehua Xia	4.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	354 0.3×	113	6.9k
J.M. Doña-Rodrı́guez	3.6k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	300 0.3×	162	6.6k
Yuming Dong	5.1k 0.9×	6.1k 2.0×	757 0.4×	3.1k 1.7×	413 0.4×	255	9.4k
Weiyu Song	6.0k 1.1×	7.5k 2.4×	541 0.3×	3.5k 2.0×	3.2k 2.8×	259	11.1k
Zhifeng Jiang	5.9k 1.1×	5.0k 1.6×	385 0.2×	2.4k 1.4×	336 0.3×	135	7.6k
Dieqing Zhang	7.5k 1.4×	6.8k 2.2×	337 0.2×	3.4k 2.0×	693 0.6×	126	10.1k
Xiaoqian Wei	3.2k 0.6×	3.3k 1.1×	290 0.1×	2.3k 1.3×	454 0.4×	98	5.8k
Lin Chen	4.3k 0.8×	3.0k 1.0×	199 0.1×	2.2k 1.3×	712 0.6×	202	6.6k
Xiaojing Wang	5.0k 0.9×	4.2k 1.4×	482 0.2×	2.6k 1.5×	322 0.3×	123	6.6k
Liheng Wu	3.0k 0.5×	2.9k 0.9×	215 0.1×	2.2k 1.2×	977 0.9×	46	6.2k

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All Works

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Liu, Yaoda, Lei Li, Xuning Li, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric tacticity navigates the localized metal spin state for sustainable alkaline/sea water oxidation. Science Advances. 11(22). eads0861–eads0861. 18 indexed citations

Hu, Xiaomin, Cailing Chen, Yonggang Yang, et al.. (2025). Mo-tailored CoFe alloy catalysts: Overcoming over-carburization via suppressing CO dissociation and tuning CHx coupling for selective higher alcohol synthesis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 377. 125515–125515. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ruifeng, Xin Shang, Binglian Liang, et al.. (2024). Reversing the Selectivity of Alkanes and Alkenes in Iron-Based Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis: The Precise Control and Fundamental Role of Sodium Promotor. ACS Catalysis. 14(14). 11121–11130. 11 indexed citations

Chen, Ruru, Jian Zhao, Yifan Li, et al.. (2023). Operando Mössbauer Spectroscopic Tracking the Metastable State of Atomically Dispersed Tin in Copper Oxide for Selective CO₂ Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(37). 20683–20691. 57 indexed citations

Zhao, Yilin, Hsiao‐Chien Chen, Xuelu Ma, et al.. (2023). Vacancy Defects Inductive Effect of Asymmetrically Coordinated Single‐Atom Fe─N₃S₁ Active Sites for Robust Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction with High Turnover Frequency and Mass Activity. Advanced Materials. 36(11). e2308243–e2308243. 131 indexed citations

Zeng, Yaqiong, Jian Zhao, Shifu Wang, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the Electronic Structure and Dynamics of the Atomically Dispersed Iron Sites in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(28). 15600–15610. 98 indexed citations

Zhao, Jian, Shifu Wang, Ruru Chen, et al.. (2023). Operando Spectroscopic Analysis of Axial Oxygen-Coordinated Single-Sn-Atom Sites for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(13). 7242–7251. 137 indexed citations

Huang, Bingkun, Xinyi Ren, Jian Zhao, et al.. (2023). Modulating Electronic Structure Engineering of Atomically Dispersed Cobalt Catalyst in Fenton-like Reaction for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(37). 14071–14081. 116 indexed citations

Wang, Ruifeng, Binglian Liang, Xiaoli Yang, et al.. (2022). Critical role of sodium migration in iron-based FT- zeolite tandem catalyst system for syngas hydrogenation to gasoline. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 322. 122132–122132. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Chong, Haiyong Wang, Yuhe Liao, et al.. (2022). Rational Positioning of Metal Ions to Stabilize Open Tin Sites in Beta Zeolite for Catalytic Conversion of Sugars. Angewandte Chemie. 135(6). 3 indexed citations

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Rehman, Faisal, Mohsen Tamtaji, Xuning Li, et al.. (2021). Mechanistic understanding and design of non-noble metal-based single-atom catalysts supported on two-dimensional materials for CO₂ electroreduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(11). 5813–5834. 51 indexed citations

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Li, Xuning, Yaqiong Zeng, Ying‐Rui Lu, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the In Situ Generation of a Monovalent Fe(I) Site in the Single-Fe-Atom Catalyst for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 11(12). 7292–7301. 80 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaoli, Ruifeng Wang, Jia Yang, et al.. (2020). Exploring the Reaction Paths in the Consecutive Fe-Based FT Catalyst–Zeolite Process for Syngas Conversion. ACS Catalysis. 10(6). 3797–3806. 43 indexed citations

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Li, Xuning, Linghui Liu, Xinyi Ren, et al.. (2020). Microenvironment modulation of single-atom catalysts and their roles in electrochemical energy conversion. Science Advances. 6(39). 343 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Song, Hong Bin Yang, Sung‐Fu Hung, et al.. (2019). Innentitelbild: Elucidating the Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Reaction over a Model Single‐Atom Nickel Catalyst (Angew. Chem. 2/2020). Angewandte Chemie. 132(2). 518–518. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Xuning, Xiaofeng Yang, Junming Zhang, Yanqiang Huang, & Bin Liu. (2019). In Situ/Operando Techniques for Characterization of Single-Atom Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 9(3). 2521–2531. 385 indexed citations

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Liu, Song, Hong Bin Yang, Sung‐Fu Hung, et al.. (2019). Elucidating the Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Reaction over a Model Single‐Atom Nickel Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(2). 798–803. 425 indexed citations

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Li, Xuning, Xiang Huang, Shibo Xi, et al.. (2018). Single Cobalt Atoms Anchored on Porous N-Doped Graphene with Dual Reaction Sites for Efficient Fenton-like Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(39). 12469–12475. 1291 indexed citations breakdown →

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Richter, Peter, Y. Liu, Rongrong Hua, et al.. (2014). Amino acids as possible alternative nitrogen source for growth of Euglena gracilis Z in life support systems. Life Sciences in Space Research. 4. 1–5. 12 indexed citations

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