Zehong Xu

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Zehong Xu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zehong Xu has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 12 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zehong Xu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (4 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (4 papers). Zehong Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (4 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (4 papers). Zehong Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Sweden. Zehong Xu's co-authors include Jinlong Zhang, Wenhui Yue, Mingyang Xing, Qiaohong Zhu, Bocheng Qiu, Muhammad Tayyab, Liang Zhou, Juying Lei, Yujie Liu and Ziwei Ye and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Chemical Engineering Journal and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

In The Last Decade

Zehong Xu

22 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Emerging Cocatalysts on g‐C₃N₄ for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

2021 325 citations Zehong Xu, Jinlong Zhang et al. profile →
One-pot in-situ hydrothermal synthesis of ternary In2S3/Nb2O5/Nb2C Schottky/S-scheme integrated heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production

2022 212 citations Muhammad Tayyab, Yujie Liu et al. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zehong Xu China	12	768	703	365	87	82	26	1.1k
Jijie Kong China	14	833 1.1×	679 1.0×	386 1.1×	61 0.7×	64 0.8×	26	1.3k
Zhong Liang China	18	642 0.8×	442 0.6×	342 0.9×	84 1.0×	130 1.6×	47	1.3k
Jinkyu Park South Korea	17	698 0.9×	411 0.6×	552 1.5×	56 0.6×	57 0.7×	50	1.2k
Hassan Anwer South Korea	15	793 1.0×	744 1.1×	348 1.0×	86 1.0×	78 1.0×	27	1.1k
Hongli Sun China	19	1.3k 1.6×	975 1.4×	437 1.2×	131 1.5×	65 0.8×	37	1.5k
Stuart Linley Canada	13	534 0.7×	401 0.6×	156 0.4×	115 1.3×	36 0.4×	20	844
Wenhui Yue China	10	543 0.7×	508 0.7×	205 0.6×	65 0.7×	67 0.8×	12	750
Khuanjit Hemavibool Thailand	14	718 0.9×	611 0.9×	302 0.8×	112 1.3×	57 0.7×	18	943
Jinyu Chu China	14	742 1.0×	607 0.9×	423 1.2×	35 0.4×	62 0.8×	33	983
Shiding Zhang China	14	245 0.3×	368 0.5×	612 1.7×	121 1.4×	83 1.0×	41	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zehong Xu

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

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Li, Chunchun, Ziwei Ye, Nathan Skillen, et al.. (2025). Disentangling the Effect of Key Parameters in Hydrogen Evolution for Rational Design of Metal–Semiconductor Photocatalysts via Self-Assembly. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(34). 49069–49078.

Xu, Zehong, et al.. (2025). Dual-parameter measurement of refractive index and temperature using an L-shaped POF-SPR sensor. Measurement Science and Technology. 36(10). 105118–105118.

Zhao, Feng, et al.. (2025). Dual-channel measurement of refractive index and temperature using a fan-shaped plastic optical fiber SPR sensor. Optics & Laser Technology. 191. 113405–113405. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Dongmei, et al.. (2025). The role of circadian rhythm-related genes in type 2 diabetes from a multi-omics perspective. Journal of Global Health. 15. 4227–4227.

Yue, Wenhui, Ziwei Ye, Cong Liu, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Activity Driven by the Synergy Between Surface Vacancies and Cocatalysts: Surface Reaction Matters. Advanced Science. 11(43). e2407092–e2407092. 9 indexed citations

Hou, Qian, et al.. (2024). Graft‐crosslinked graphene oxide nanofiltration membrane with pH‐responsive nanochannels. Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 35(1). 9 indexed citations

Xu, Zehong, Wenhui Yue, Chunchun Li, et al.. (2023). Rational Synthesis of Au–CdS Composite Photocatalysts for Broad-Spectrum Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Nano. 17(12). 11655–11664. 103 indexed citations

Yue, Wenhui, Zehong Xu, Muhammad Tayyab, et al.. (2023). Schottky junction enhanced H2 evolution for graphitic carbon nitride-NiS composite photocatalysts. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 657. 133–141. 60 indexed citations

Liu, Xinyu, Ziwei Ye, Qian Xiang, et al.. (2023). Boosting electromagnetic enhancement for detection of non-adsorbing analytes on semiconductor SERS substrates. Chem. 9(6). 1464–1476. 41 indexed citations

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Ye, Ziwei, Zehong Xu, Wenhui Yue, et al.. (2022). Exploiting the LSPR effect for an enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(4). 2706–2716. 23 indexed citations

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Tayyab, Muhammad, Yujie Liu, Zhiguo Liu, et al.. (2022). One-pot in-situ hydrothermal synthesis of ternary In2S3/Nb2O5/Nb2C Schottky/S-scheme integrated heterojunction for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 628(Pt B). 500–512. 212 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Yunfei, Wenhui Yue, Zehong Xu, Ziwei Ye, & Jinlong Zhang. (2022). Highly active β-NaYF4:Yb/Er-N-TiO2 nanoparticles for NIR light driven Rhodamine B degradation. Catalysis Today. 410. 13–18. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Xiao, Meng Zhou, Zehong Xu, Yusheng Chen, & Fan Lin. (2021). Bioinformatics study on genes related to a high-risk postoperative recurrence of lung adenocarcinoma. Science Progress. 104(3). 311988549–311988549. 7 indexed citations

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MacAulay, Calum, et al.. (2018). P3.09-11 Genomic Organization at Large Scales (GOALS) within Nuclei and Cell Sociology for Predicting Lung Cancer Outcomes. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 13(10). S952–S952. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Zehong, C. Xu, W. Wang, et al.. (2017). P2.01-017 Study on the Effect of Apatinib Salvage Treatment of Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 12(11). S2075–S2075. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Zehong, Xiaodan Cheng, Jianhong Tan, & Xianxue Gan. (2015). Fabrication of multiwalled carbon nanotube–polyaniline/platinum nanocomposite films toward improved performance for a cholesterol amperometric biosensor. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 63(6). 757–764. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Yingchun, Guirui Yu, Qiufeng Wang, Yangjian Zhang, & Zehong Xu. (2014). Carbon carry capacity and carbon sequestration potential in China based on an integrated analysis of mature forest biomass. Science China Life Sciences. 57(12). 1218–1229. 33 indexed citations

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Tan, Chao, et al.. (2012). Determination of Total Sugar in Tobacco by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Wavelet Transformation-Based Calibration. Analytical Letters. 46(1). 171–183. 10 indexed citations

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Tan, Chao, et al.. (2012). Improvement of spectral calibration for food analysis through multi-model fusion. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 96. 526–531. 14 indexed citations

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Tan, Chao, et al.. (2011). A simple ensemble strategy of uninformative variable elimination and partial least-squares for near-infrared spectroscopic calibration of pharmaceutical products. Vibrational Spectroscopy. 58. 44–49. 22 indexed citations

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