Zan Lian

2.0k total citations
33 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Zan Lian is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Zan Lian has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Catalysis and 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Zan Lian's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Zan Lian is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Zan Lian collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and Portugal. Zan Lian's co-authors include Bo Li, Chaowei Si, Sajjad Ali, Dang Sheng Su, Tianfu Liu, Faheem Jan, Min Yang, Tian‐Fu Liu, Lifeng Liu and Junyuan Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Energy Materials, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zan Lian

32 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zan Lian China 23 984 896 582 565 215 33 1.7k
Ying Gao China 21 483 0.5× 953 1.1× 505 0.9× 344 0.6× 138 0.6× 58 1.4k
Erik Sarnello United States 23 727 0.7× 960 1.1× 680 1.2× 407 0.7× 125 0.6× 38 1.6k
Anthony Shoji Hall United States 16 600 0.6× 1.5k 1.7× 579 1.0× 696 1.2× 147 0.7× 27 1.7k
Ruikuan Xie China 18 1.1k 1.1× 1.8k 2.0× 764 1.3× 546 1.0× 476 2.2× 38 2.3k
Hai Feng Wang China 20 1.5k 1.5× 2.2k 2.4× 802 1.4× 451 0.8× 100 0.5× 57 2.5k
Zhongmiao Gong China 22 1.1k 1.2× 802 0.9× 510 0.9× 680 1.2× 122 0.6× 46 1.8k
Canyu Hu China 17 955 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 284 0.5× 438 0.8× 86 0.4× 27 1.4k
Xuelu Ma China 18 922 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 354 0.6× 882 1.6× 228 1.1× 35 1.9k
Seung‐Jae Shin South Korea 16 504 0.5× 926 1.0× 649 1.1× 477 0.8× 108 0.5× 30 1.5k
Dario Faust Akl Switzerland 11 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.4× 417 0.7× 503 0.9× 176 0.8× 16 1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zan Lian

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lian, Zan, et al.. (2025). Dynamic Evolution and Transformation of Copper Oxides on Cu(111). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(29). 13497–13504.
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Zhang, Jie, Zan Lian, Antonio J. Martín, et al.. (2024). CO2 Electroreduction to Long‐Chain Hydrocarbons on Cobalt Catalysts. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(47). 9 indexed citations
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Lian, Zan, Federico Dattila, & Núria López. (2024). Stability and lifetime of diffusion-trapped oxygen in oxide-derived copper CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 7(4). 401–411. 61 indexed citations
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Pastor, Ernest, Zan Lian, Lu Xia, et al.. (2024). Complementary probes for the electrochemical interface. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 8(3). 159–178. 58 indexed citations
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Jan, Faheem, et al.. (2022). Revealing the role of HBr in propane dehydrogenation on CeO2(111) via DFT-based microkinetic simulation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(16). 9718–9726. 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Min, Zan Lian, Chaowei Si, Faheem Jan, & Bo Li. (2022). Revealing the intrinsic relation between heteroatom dopants and graphene quantum dots as a bi-functional ORR/OER catalyst. Molecular Catalysis. 518. 112109–112109. 15 indexed citations
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Lian, Zan, et al.. (2022). A critical evaluation of the catalytic role of CO2 in propane dehydrogenation catalyzed by chromium oxide from a DFT-based microkinetic simulation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(18). 11030–11038. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Ke, Ruopian Fang, Zan Lian, et al.. (2021). An in-situ solidification strategy to block polysulfides in Lithium-Sulfur batteries. Energy storage materials. 37. 224–232. 71 indexed citations
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Lian, Zan, et al.. (2021). Coke Deposition on Pt-Based Catalysts in Propane Direct Dehydrogenation: Kinetics, Suppression, and Elimination. ACS Catalysis. 11(15). 9279–9292. 130 indexed citations
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Ali, Sajjad, Zan Lian, & Bo Li. (2021). Density Functional Theory Study of a Graphdiyne-Supported Single Au Atom Catalyst for Highly Efficient Acetylene Hydrochlorination. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 4(6). 6152–6159. 30 indexed citations
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Lian, Zan, et al.. (2020). Tuning of interactions between cathode and lithium polysulfide in Li-S battery by rational halogenation. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 49. 147–152. 22 indexed citations
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Yang, Min, Zan Lian, Chaowei Si, & Bo Li. (2020). Revealing the role of nitrogen dopants in tuning the electronic and optical properties of graphene quantum dots via a TD-DFT study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(48). 28230–28237. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Tianfu, Sajjad Ali, Zan Lian, et al.. (2018). Phosphorus-doped onion-like carbon for CO2 electrochemical reduction: the decisive role of the bonding configuration of phosphorus. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(41). 19998–20004. 63 indexed citations
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Ali, Sajjad, Tian‐Fu Liu, Zan Lian, Dang Sheng Su, & Bo Li. (2018). The stability and reactivity of transition metal atoms supported mono and di vacancies defected carbon based materials revealed from first principles study. Applied Surface Science. 473. 777–784. 44 indexed citations
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Tan, Hao, Xianmo Gu, Peng Kong, et al.. (2018). Cyano group modified carbon nitride with enhanced photoactivity for selective oxidation of benzylamine. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 242. 67–75. 110 indexed citations
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Lian, Zan, Sajjad Ali, Tianfu Liu, et al.. (2018). Revealing the Janus Character of the Coke Precursor in the Propane Direct Dehydrogenation on Pt Catalysts from a kMC Simulation. ACS Catalysis. 8(5). 4694–4704. 114 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiaoying, Peng Han, Bo Li, et al.. (2017). Oxidative dehydrogenation reaction of short alkanes on nanostructured carbon catalysts: a computational account. Chemical Communications. 54(8). 864–875. 33 indexed citations
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Liu, Tianfu, Sajjad Ali, Zan Lian, Bo Li, & Dang Sheng Su. (2017). CO2electoreduction reaction on heteroatom-doped carbon cathode materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(41). 21596–21603. 72 indexed citations

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