Zhenxing Feng

24.1k total citations · 17 hit papers
182 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

Zhenxing Feng is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhenxing Feng has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 84 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 67 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhenxing Feng's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (68 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (48 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (38 papers). Zhenxing Feng is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (68 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (48 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (38 papers). Zhenxing Feng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Zhenxing Feng's co-authors include Maoyu Wang, Gang Wu, Zhichuan J. Xu, Sooyeon Hwang, S. Karakalos, David A. Cullen, Hanguang Zhang, Guofeng Wang, Dong Su and Karren L. More and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Zhenxing Feng

174 papers receiving 20.0k citations

Hit Papers

Single Atomic Iron Cataly... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2017 2018 2018 2017 2019 400 800 1.2k
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. Single Atomic Iron Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: Particle Size Control and Thermal Activation
    2017 1.4k citations Sooyeon Hwang, Maoyu Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Atomically dispersed manganese catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells
    2018 1.3k citations David A. Cullen, Sooyeon Hwang et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  3. Nitrogen‐Coordinated Single Cobalt Atom Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
    2018 1.0k citations David A. Cullen, Sooyeon Hwang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  4. Cations in Octahedral Sites: A Descriptor for Oxygen Electrocatalysis on Transition‐Metal Spinels
    2017 677 citations Chao Wei, Zhenxing Feng et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  5. Boosting oxygen evolution of single-atomic ruthenium through electronic coupling with cobalt-iron layered double hydroxides
    2019 631 citations Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng et al. profile →
  6. Active sites of copper-complex catalytic materials for electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction
    2018 629 citations Yueshen Wu, Maoyu Wang et al. profile →
  7. Structural defects on converted bismuth oxide nanotubes enable highly active electrocatalysis of carbon dioxide reduction
    2019 596 citations Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng et al. profile →
  8. Ultrahigh-Loading of Ir Single Atoms on NiO Matrix to Dramatically Enhance Oxygen Evolution Reaction
    2020 569 citations Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. Molecular engineering of dispersed nickel phthalocyanines on carbon nanotubes for selective CO2 reduction
    2020 533 citations Maoyu Wang, Marcos Lucero et al. profile →
  10. A Review on Design Strategies for Carbon Based Metal Oxides and Sulfides Nanocomposites for High Performance Li and Na Ion Battery Anodes
    2016 529 citations Zhenxing Feng, Adrian C. Fisher et al. profile →
  11. Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN4 Sites for Oxygen Reduction
    2019 479 citations Widitha S. Samarakoon, Weitao Shan et al. profile →
  12. Unveiling Active Sites of CO2 Reduction on Nitrogen-Coordinated and Atomically Dispersed Iron and Cobalt Catalysts
    2018 462 citations David A. Cullen, Maoyu Wang et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  13. Stable, high-performance, dendrite-free, seawater-based aqueous batteries
    2021 275 citations Maoyu Wang, Hua Zhou et al. profile →
  14. Tuning the thermal activation atmosphere breaks the activity–stability trade-off of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts
    2023 265 citations Yachao Zeng, Chenzhao Li et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  15. Regulating Catalytic Properties and Thermal Stability of Pt and PtCo Intermetallic Fuel-Cell Catalysts via Strong Coupling Effects between Single-Metal Site-Rich Carbon and Pt
    2023 161 citations Yachao Zeng, Jiashun Liang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Effect of Phosphorus Modulation in Iron Single‐Atom Catalysts for Peroxidase Mimicking
    2023 143 citations Shichao Ding, Jordan A. Barr et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  17. Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water Reorientation for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2023 129 citations Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng 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
Zhenxing Feng United States 70 14.2k 12.4k 6.9k 2.6k 2.5k 182 20.2k
Shuangming Chen China 76 15.8k 1.1× 11.0k 0.9× 11.3k 1.6× 3.0k 1.1× 2.4k 0.9× 223 22.5k
Sooyeon Hwang United States 65 11.9k 0.8× 14.0k 1.1× 6.2k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 2.4k 0.9× 206 20.3k
Chung‐Li Dong Taiwan 76 19.4k 1.4× 12.3k 1.0× 12.1k 1.8× 2.9k 1.1× 2.6k 1.0× 431 25.6k
Yafei Li China 83 15.9k 1.1× 12.4k 1.0× 16.4k 2.4× 3.6k 1.3× 2.5k 1.0× 291 28.7k
Guangxu Chen China 47 7.4k 0.5× 6.5k 0.5× 6.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 122 13.9k
Lin Zhuang China 66 10.2k 0.7× 11.9k 1.0× 4.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.6× 982 0.4× 237 16.6k
Jigang Zhou Canada 61 15.5k 1.1× 17.0k 1.4× 8.7k 1.3× 1.1k 0.4× 5.0k 2.0× 158 25.2k
Livia Giordano Italy 60 7.1k 0.5× 10.4k 0.8× 9.2k 1.3× 2.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.5× 196 18.4k
Frédéric Jaouen France 77 24.1k 1.7× 20.7k 1.7× 7.0k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 161 27.4k
Sanjeev Mukerjee United States 83 18.7k 1.3× 19.9k 1.6× 6.5k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 253 25.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhenxing Feng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hossain, Mohammad Delower, Krishna Prasad Koirala, Le Wang, et al.. (2025). Quantification of Oxygen Vacancies in SrFe0.5Cr0.5O3−δ Thin Films: Correlating Lattice Expansion with Oxidation State Variability. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 7(5). 1883–1890.
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Li, Jing, Quansong Zhu, Alvin Chang, et al.. (2025). Molecular-scale CO spillover on a dual-site electrocatalyst enhances methanol production from CO2 reduction. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(4). 515–522. 21 indexed citations
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Song, Yun Mi, Charles B. Musgrave, Jianjun Su, et al.. (2025). Efficient CO2-to-methanol electrocatalysis in acidic media via microenvironment-tuned cobalt phthalocyanine. Nature Nanotechnology. 21(1). 78–86. 2 indexed citations
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Stylianou, Kyriakos C., et al.. (2025). Enhancing the acidic oxygen evolution reaction efficiency of sol–gel synthesized SrCo0.5Ir0.5O3 catalysts through optimized ball milling and acid leaching. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations
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Tabassum, Hassina, Wenxue Chen, Bingbing Ma, et al.. (2024). Synthetic tuning produces multi-junctions of copper for efficient electroreduction of carbon dioxide. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 365. 124922–124922. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Maoyu, Zizhou He, Zhenzhen Yang, et al.. (2024). Metal Doping Regulates Electrocatalysts Restructuring During Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemSusChem. 17(18). e202400332–e202400332. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Huan, Youzeng Li, Maoyu Wang, et al.. (2023). Precursor-mediated in situ growth of hierarchical N-doped graphene nanofibers confining nickel single atoms for CO 2 electroreduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(14). e2219043120–e2219043120. 25 indexed citations
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Ding, Shichao, Jordan A. Barr, Zhaoyuan Lyu, et al.. (2023). Effect of Phosphorus Modulation in Iron Single‐Atom Catalysts for Peroxidase Mimicking. Advanced Materials. 36(10). e2209633–e2209633. 143 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zeng, Yachao, Chenzhao Li, Boyang Li, et al.. (2023). Tuning the thermal activation atmosphere breaks the activity–stability trade-off of Fe–N–C oxygen reduction fuel cell catalysts. Nature Catalysis. 6(12). 1215–1227. 265 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lyu, Zhaoyuan, Sheng Yu, Maoyu Wang, et al.. (2023). NiFe Nanoparticle Nest Supported on Graphene as Electrocatalyst for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Small. 20(15). e2308278–e2308278. 42 indexed citations
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Rooney, Conor L., Mason Lyons, Yueshen Wu, et al.. (2023). Active Sites of Cobalt Phthalocyanine in Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to Methanol. Angewandte Chemie. 136(2). 13 indexed citations
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Zeng, Yachao, Jiashun Liang, Chenzhao Li, et al.. (2023). Regulating Catalytic Properties and Thermal Stability of Pt and PtCo Intermetallic Fuel-Cell Catalysts via Strong Coupling Effects between Single-Metal Site-Rich Carbon and Pt. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(32). 17643–17655. 161 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yi, Nadia Mohd Adli, Weitao Shan, et al.. (2022). Atomically dispersed single Ni site catalysts for high-efficiency CO2 electroreduction at industrial-level current densities. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(5). 2108–2119. 197 indexed citations
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Feng, Zhenxing, Yan Yin, Bin Liu, et al.. (2022). ZNF143 Expression is Associated with COPD and Tumor Microenvironment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. International Journal of COPD. Volume 17. 685–700. 5 indexed citations
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Lyu, Zhaoyuan, Shichao Ding, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Single-Atom Nanozymes Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Sensitive Detection of A β 1-40: A Biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease. Research. 2020. 4724505–4724505. 73 indexed citations
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Deng, Junjing, Curt Preissner, Jeffrey A. Klug, et al.. (2019). The Velociprobe: An ultrafast hard X-ray nanoprobe for high-resolution ptychographic imaging. Review of Scientific Instruments. 90(8). 83701–83701. 64 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaomin, et al.. (2017). Co stabilized metallic 1Td MoS2 monolayers: Bottom-up synthesis and enhanced capacitance with ultra-long cycling stability. Materials Today Energy. 7. 10–17. 29 indexed citations
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Zhou, Ye, Shibo Xi, Jingxian Wang, et al.. (2017). Revealing the Dominant Chemistry for Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Small Oxide Nanoparticles. ACS Catalysis. 8(1). 673–677. 64 indexed citations
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Hu, Nantao, Liling Zhang, Chao Yang, et al.. (2016). Three-dimensional skeleton networks of graphene wrapped polyaniline nanofibers: an excellent structure for high-performance flexible solid-state supercapacitors. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19777–19777. 131 indexed citations
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Feng, Zhenxing, et al.. (2012). Analysis of the prognostic factors in resection of 181 patients with adenosquamous lung carcinoma. Clinical Oncology and Cancer Research. 39(21). 1656–1659. 1 indexed citations

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