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Xiaonian Li is affiliated with Zhejiang University of Technology in China. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with a substantial number of publications in the subfields of Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their prominent research topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Nanomaterials for Catalytic Reactions
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

They have coauthored extensively with several researchers, with the most frequent collaborators being Ziqiang Wang, Liang Wang, You Xu, Hongjing Wang, and Chunshan Lu.

Xiaonian Li has published in a variety of venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database, Chemical Engineering Journal, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

Selected recent papers from their work include:

  • A review of China's municipal solid waste (MSW) and comparison with international regions: Management and technologies in treatment and resource utilization, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • Defect-Rich Porous Palladium Metallene for Enhanced Alkaline Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Concave-convex surface oxide layers over copper nanowires boost electrochemical nitrate-to-ammonia conversion, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Ultralow-content Pd in-situ incorporation mediated hierarchical defects in corner-etched Cu2O octahedra for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia, 2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Interfacial polarization in metal-organic framework reconstructed Cu/Pd/CuOx multi-phase heterostructures for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia, 2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

Best Publications

  • Hierarchical Porous NC@CuCo Nitride Nanosheet Networks: Highly Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting and Selective Electrooxidation of Benzyl Alcohol

    Jian Zheng;Xianlang Chen;Xing Zhong;Suiqin Li

  • The application of heterogeneous visible light photocatalysts in organic synthesis

    Jun Chen;Jie Cen;Xiaoliang Xu;Xiaonian Li

  • Defect‐Rich Porous Palladium Metallene for Enhanced Alkaline Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysis

    Hongjie Yu;Tongqing Zhou;Ziqiang Wang;You Xu

  • Oxygen vacancies on TiO2 promoted the activity and stability of supported Pd nanoparticles for the oxygen reduction reaction

    Jing Li;Jing Li;Hu Zhou;Han Zhuo;Zhongzhe Wei

  • Mo Doping Induced More Active Sites in Urchin-Like W18O49 Nanostructure with Remarkably Enhanced Performance for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Xing Zhong;Youyi Sun;Xianlang Chen;Guilin Zhuang

  • Surface Engineering of Defective and Porous Ir Metallene with Polyallylamine for Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalysis

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  • Biomass Valorization via Paired Electrosynthesis Over Vanadium Nitride‐Based Electrocatalysts

    Suiqin Li;Xiang Sun;Zihao Yao;Xing Zhong

  • Tuning electron density of metal nickel by support defects in Ni/ZrO2 for selective hydrogenation of fatty acids to alkanes and alcohols

    Jun Ni;Wenhua Leng;Jun Mao;Jianguo Wang

  • Doped Mn Enhanced NiS Electrooxidation Performance of HMF into FDCA at Industrial‐Level Current Density

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  • Concave-convex surface oxide layers over copper nanowires boost electrochemical nitrate-to-ammonia conversion

    Tianlun Ren;Kaili Ren;Mingzhen Wang;Mengying Liu

  • Ambient Electrochemical Synthesis of Ammonia from Nitrogen and Water Catalyzed by Flower-Like Gold Microstructures.

    Ziqiang Wang;Yinghao Li;Hongjie Yu;You Xu

  • Imaging Beam-Sensitive Materials by Electron Microscopy.

    Qiaoli Chen;Christian Dwyer;Guan Sheng;Chongzhi Zhu

  • Low-ruthenium-content NiRu nanoalloys encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon as highly efficient and pH-universal electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction

    You Xu;Shuli Yin;Chunjie Li;Kai Deng

  • Methanol electroreforming coupled to green hydrogen production over bifunctional NiIr-based metal-organic framework nanosheet arrays

    You Xu;Mengying Liu;Mingzhen Wang;Tianlun Ren

  • Atomic defects in pothole-rich two-dimensional copper nanoplates triggering enhanced electrocatalytic selective nitrate-to-ammonia transformation

    You Xu;Mingzhen Wang;Kaili Ren;Tianlun Ren

  • Electrochemical Fabrication of Porous Au Film on Ni Foam for Nitrogen Reduction to Ammonia

    Hongjing Wang;Hongjie Yu;Ziqiang Wang;Yinghao Li

  • Low-temperature catalytic combustion of methane over Pd/CeO2 prepared by deposition–precipitation method

    Li-hua Xiao;Kun-peng Sun;Xian-lun Xu;Xiao-nian Li

  • An unexpected diethyl azodicarboxylate-promoted dehydrogenation of tertiaryamine and tandem reaction with sulfonyl azide.

    Xiaoliang Xu;Xiaonian Li;Lei Ma;Ning Ye

  • Catalytic Upgrading of Ethanol to n-Butanol: Progress in Catalyst Development

    Xianyuan Wu;Geqian Fang;Yuqin Tong;Dahao Jiang

  • Integrating electrocatalytic hydrogen generation with selective oxidation of glycerol to formate over bifunctional nitrogen-doped carbon coated nickel-molybdenum-nitrogen nanowire arrays

    You Xu;Mengying Liu;Shengqi Wang;Kaili Ren

  • Enhancement of Au/AC acetylene hydrochlorination catalyst activity and stability via nitrogen-modified activated carbon support

    Jia Zhao;Jiangtao Xu;Jinhui Xu;Tongtong Zhang

  • Integrating cobalt phosphide and cobalt nitride-embedded nitrogen-rich nanocarbons: high-performance bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution

    Xing Zhong;Yu Jiang;Xianlang Chen;Lei Wang

  • One-pot synthesis of bi-metallic PdRu tripods as an efficient catalyst for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia

    Hongjing Wang;Yinghao Li;Chunjie Li;Kai Deng

  • Effect of nitric acid pretreatment on the properties of activated carbon and supported palladium catalysts

    Jiayun Li;Lei Ma;Xiaonian Li;Chunshan Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Hongjing Wang
Hongjing Wang Zhejiang University of Technology
Liang Wang
Liang Wang Zhejiang University of Technology
Hairong Xue
Hairong Xue Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Nan Yao
Nan Yao Princeton University
Donghai Mei
Donghai Mei Tianjin Polytechnic University
Yusuke Yamauchi
Yusuke Yamauchi University of Queensland
Dang Sheng Su
Dang Sheng Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Mingdong Dong
Mingdong Dong Aarhus University
Jiale Huang
Jiale Huang Xiamen University
Jun Chen
Jun Chen Nankai University

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