Zhifu Liang

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Zhifu Liang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhifu Liang has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhifu Liang's work include Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (14 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (9 papers). Zhifu Liang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (15 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (14 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (9 papers). Zhifu Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Spain and United States. Zhifu Liang's co-authors include Andreu Cabot, Jordi Arbiol, Junshan Li, Jordi Llorca, Xiang Wang, J.R. Morante, Jordi Jacas Biendicho, Dawei Yang, Chaoqi Zhang and Xu Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Zhifu Liang

34 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

  1. A 3d‐4d‐5d High Entropy Alloy as a Bifunctional Oxygen Catalyst for Robust Aqueous Zinc–Air Batteries
    2023 150 citations Ren He, Linlin Yang et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhifu Liang China 21 1.2k 756 593 277 119 36 1.7k
Lixin Xie United States 14 1.1k 0.9× 800 1.1× 558 0.9× 279 1.0× 95 0.8× 17 1.5k
Yuanhao Tang China 19 837 0.7× 782 1.0× 623 1.1× 131 0.5× 73 0.6× 32 1.4k
Ruifeng Du China 22 1.5k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 989 1.7× 211 0.8× 76 0.6× 55 2.2k
Haiyang Yuan China 23 1.1k 0.9× 515 0.7× 1.1k 1.8× 308 1.1× 127 1.1× 60 1.8k
Yibo Guo China 15 984 0.8× 980 1.3× 484 0.8× 368 1.3× 55 0.5× 31 1.6k
Zizhun Wang China 25 873 0.7× 548 0.7× 465 0.8× 377 1.4× 43 0.4× 52 1.4k
Ahin Roy India 18 682 0.6× 418 0.6× 629 1.1× 173 0.6× 82 0.7× 60 1.2k
Xin-Wen Zhou China 23 787 0.7× 902 1.2× 898 1.5× 278 1.0× 112 0.9× 67 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Zhifu Liang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhifu Liang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhifu Liang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Zhifu Liang. The network helps show where Zhifu Liang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhifu Liang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhifu Liang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhifu Liang 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 Zhifu Liang. Zhifu Liang 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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Cui, Yanpeng, Zhenhui Chen, Yiqun Lu, et al.. (2025). Solar-Driven Efficient Atmospheric Water Harvesting of Biomass-Based Porous Composite Hydrogel. ACS Sustainable Resource Management. 2(12). 2451–2458.
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Yu, Jing, Oleg Usoltsev, Chen Huang, et al.. (2025). Promoting Electrochemical Reactions with Dual‐Atom Catalysts for High‐Rate Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 38(2). e11345–e11345. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Zhifu, Xuhong Zhou, Chaoqi Zhang, et al.. (2025). Engineering p–d Coupling at Fe–Bi and Zn–Bi Sites for Efficient Li–S Conversion. Nano Letters. 25(46). 16427–16434.
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Chen, Zhenhui, Yanpeng Cui, Daochuan Jiang, et al.. (2025). A two-dimensional anionic covalent organic frameworks for ultra-efficient atmospheric water harvesting. Chemical Engineering Journal. 526. 171055–171055. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Liang, Zhifu Liang, Zhongfei Li, et al.. (2024). Regulating the binding strength of oxygen intermediates with a conductive π–d conjugated metal-organic polymer CoTAA on BiVO4 photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 483. 149400–149400. 9 indexed citations
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Yang, Jun, Zhifu Liang, Jun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Concentrated weak hydrated electrolytes towards ultra-stable high-voltage zinc ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 67. 103279–103279. 9 indexed citations
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He, Ren, Linlin Yang, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2023). A 3d‐4d‐5d High Entropy Alloy as a Bifunctional Oxygen Catalyst for Robust Aqueous Zinc–Air Batteries. Advanced Materials. 35(46). e2303719–e2303719. 150 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hu, Yue, et al.. (2023). Enabling efficient decoupled alkaline water electrolysis using a low-cost sodium manganate solid-state redox mediator. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(91). 35552–35560. 26 indexed citations
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Yang, Linlin, Ren He, Xiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Self-supported NiO/CuO electrodes to boost urea oxidation in direct urea fuel cells. Nano Energy. 115. 108714–108714. 76 indexed citations
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He, Ren, Linlin Yang, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2023). A CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy boosting oxygen evolution/reduction reactions and zinc-air battery performance. Energy storage materials. 58. 287–298. 123 indexed citations
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Dong, Gang, Jiarun Cheng, Meng Li, et al.. (2023). Boosting the CO2 electroreduction performance of La2-Ag CuO4- perovskites via A-site substitution mechanism. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 342. 123444–123444. 16 indexed citations
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Zhao, Ying, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhifu Liang, et al.. (2023). Ga2O3 Quantum Dots with N-Doped Amorphous Carbon Fixed for Efficient Storage and Transfer of Lithium Ions by Introduction of Dopamine Hydrochloride. Langmuir. 39(10). 3628–3636. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Xu Han, Jing Yu, et al.. (2023). Palladium Hydride on C2N to Boost Formate Oxidation. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(31). 11399–11405. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Congcong Xing, Zhifu Liang, et al.. (2022). Activating the lattice oxygen oxidation mechanism in amorphous molybdenum cobalt oxide nanosheets for water oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(7). 3659–3666. 51 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Xu Han, Ruifeng Du, et al.. (2022). Unveiling the role of counter-anions in amorphous transition metal-based oxygen evolution electrocatalysts. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 320. 121988–121988. 39 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Junshan Li, Qian Xue, et al.. (2022). Sulfate-Decorated Amorphous–Crystalline Cobalt-Iron Oxide Nanosheets to Enhance O–O Coupling in the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Nano. 17(1). 825–836. 83 indexed citations
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Yang, Dawei, Zhifu Liang, Chaoqi Zhang, et al.. (2021). NbSe2 Meets C2N: A 2D‐2D Heterostructure Catalysts as Multifunctional Polysulfide Mediator in Ultra‐Long‐Life Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(36). 125 indexed citations
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Liang, Zhifu, Dawei Yang, Pengyi Tang, et al.. (2020). Atomically dispersed Fe in a C2N Based Catalyst as a Sulfur Host for Efficient Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(5). 128 indexed citations
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Yang, Dawei, Chaoqi Zhang, Jordi Jacas Biendicho, et al.. (2020). ZnSe/N-Doped Carbon Nanoreactor with Multiple Adsorption Sites for Stable Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Nano. 14(11). 15492–15504. 150 indexed citations
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Ayodele, Olumide Bolarinwa, Rongsheng Cai, Jianguang Wang, et al.. (2019). Synergistic Computational–Experimental Discovery of Highly Selective PtCu Nanocluster Catalysts for Acetylene Semihydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 10(1). 451–457. 43 indexed citations

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