Zhihang Xu

1.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
37 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Zhihang Xu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhihang Xu has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhihang Xu's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (11 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (7 papers). Zhihang Xu is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (11 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (7 papers). Zhihang Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United Kingdom. Zhihang Xu's co-authors include Ye Zhu, Molly Meng‐Jung Li, Pei Xiong, Xuyun Guo, Tai‐Sing Wu, Naiqin Zhao, Chunnian He, Zezhou Lin, Haitao Huang and Gao Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zhihang Xu

33 papers receiving 985 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Oxygen Vacancies Trigger Rapid Charge Transport Channels at the Engineered Interface of S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photocatalytic Performance

2024 161 citations Di Zu, Yiran Ying et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Pure-water-fed, electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to ethylene beyond 1,000 h stability at 10 A

2024 158 citations Pei Xiong, Molly Meng‐Jung Li et al. profile →
Facet-Dependent Surface Restructuring on Nickel (Oxy)hydroxides: A Self-Activation Process for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2024 125 citations Yunduo Yao, Guangming Zhao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Titanium nitride sensor for selective NO2 detection

2025 28 citations Zhihang Xu, Zhaorui Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhihang Xu China	15	597	430	380	206	198	37	1.0k
Zepeng Lv China	18	631 1.1×	520 1.2×	485 1.3×	65 0.3×	247 1.2×	60	1.1k
F.M. Sapountzi Greece	17	840 1.4×	667 1.6×	656 1.7×	391 1.9×	98 0.5×	32	1.4k
Yushuai Xu China	16	707 1.2×	840 2.0×	685 1.8×	133 0.6×	111 0.6×	36	1.4k
Kailun Yang China	15	1.2k 2.0×	375 0.9×	589 1.6×	608 3.0×	147 0.7×	25	1.5k
Xing Du China	20	439 0.7×	470 1.1×	350 0.9×	36 0.2×	126 0.6×	51	945
Tae‐Ung Wi South Korea	22	434 0.7×	301 0.7×	1.0k 2.7×	241 1.2×	132 0.7×	38	1.5k
Jianxin Ma China	19	465 0.8×	363 0.8×	602 1.6×	69 0.3×	125 0.6×	40	1.0k
Dong Mei Zhu Australia	14	259 0.4×	364 0.8×	347 0.9×	51 0.2×	119 0.6×	32	837
Ki Rak Lee South Korea	15	703 1.2×	392 0.9×	628 1.7×	75 0.4×	59 0.3×	33	917

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Rong, Xudong, et al.. (2026). Recent advances in hierarchical heterostructures and mechanical properties of additively manufactured aluminum alloys. Microstructures. 6(1).

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Lin, Zezhou, Zhihang Xu, Yiran Ying, et al.. (2025). Nano‐Particulate Surface Pinning of CeO ₂ Enables Durable High‐Voltage Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials. 38(3). e17074–e17074.

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Liu, Jiahao, Zhaorui Zhang, Chenggui Han, et al.. (2025). Ligand-modified nickel nitride for natural seawater H2O2 synthesis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 373. 125362–125362. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiahao, Zhaorui Zhang, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2025). Tailoring oxygen adsorption on nickel nitride for selective 2e− ORR to hydrogen peroxide. Chemical Engineering Journal. 519. 165448–165448. 2 indexed citations

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Xiong, Pei, Zhihang Xu, Robert D. Bennett, et al.. (2025). Efficient Low‐temperature Ammonia Cracking Enabled by Strained Heterostructure Interfaces on Ru‐free Catalyst. Advanced Materials. 37(48). e2502034–e2502034. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Jiawen, Tongde Wang, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2024). Solid-liquid-solid growth of doped silicon nanowires for high-performance lithium-ion battery anode. Nano Energy. 133. 110455–110455. 6 indexed citations

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Lin, Zezhou, Yiran Ying, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2024). A multifunctional zeolite film enables stable high-voltage operation of a LiCoO₂ cathode. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(1). 334–346. 10 indexed citations

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Tamtaji, Mohsen, Min Gyu Kim, Jun Wang, et al.. (2024). A High‐Entropy Single‐Atom Catalyst Toward Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Acidic and Alkaline Conditions. Advanced Science. 11(26). e2309883–e2309883. 56 indexed citations

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Zhang, Longhai, Xu Zhang, Changsheng Chen, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning‐Aided Discovery of Low‐Pt High Entropy Intermetallic Compounds for Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 136(51). 11 indexed citations

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Xiong, Pei, Zhihang Xu, Tai‐Sing Wu, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of core@shell catalysts guided by Tammann temperature. Nature Communications. 15(1). 420–420. 19 indexed citations

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Yao, Yunduo, Guangming Zhao, Xuyun Guo, et al.. (2024). Facet-Dependent Surface Restructuring on Nickel (Oxy)hydroxides: A Self-Activation Process for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(22). 15219–15229. 125 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Zhihang, Haoying Sun, Xudong Pei, et al.. (2024). A Two-Dimensional Superconducting Electron Gas at LaFeO₃/SrTiO₃ Interfaces. Nano Letters. 25(1). 586–592.

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Zu, Di, Yiran Ying, Qi Wei, et al.. (2024). Oxygen Vacancies Trigger Rapid Charge Transport Channels at the Engineered Interface of S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photocatalytic Performance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(31). e202405756–e202405756. 161 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zu, Di, Yiran Ying, Qi Wei, et al.. (2024). Oxygen Vacancies Trigger Rapid Charge Transport Channels at the Engineered Interface of S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Boosting Photocatalytic Performance. Angewandte Chemie. 136(31). 9 indexed citations

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Tamtaji, Mohsen, Qiuming Peng, Tongchao Liu, et al.. (2023). Non-bonding interaction of dual atom catalysts for enhanced oxygen reduction reaction. Nano Energy. 108. 108218–108218. 48 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiamin, Longhai Zhang, Jiaye Liu, et al.. (2023). Surface engineered PdNFe3 intermetallic electrocatalyst for boosting oxygen reduction in alkaline media. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 334. 122807–122807. 8 indexed citations

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Hu, Yezhou, Zhihang Xu, Xuyun Guo, et al.. (2023). Hollow-Carbon Confinement Annealing: A New Synthetic Approach to Make High-Entropy Solid-Solution and Intermetallic Nanoparticles. Nano Letters. 23(23). 10765–10771. 13 indexed citations

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Zu, Di, Yiran Ying, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2023). Molten salt-lithium process induced controllable surface defects in titanium oxide for efficient photocatalysis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 328. 122494–122494. 15 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiangfeng, Wei Guo, Zhihang Xu, et al.. (2023). Tuning transport properties via rare-earth doping and epitaxial strain in Sr2IrO4 thin films. Physical review. B.. 107(23). 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhihang, Xiang Zhang, Naiqin Zhao, & Chunnian He. (2020). Synergistic strengthening effect of in-situ synthesized WC1-x nanoparticles and graphene nanosheets in copper matrix composites. Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing. 133. 105891–105891. 46 indexed citations

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