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Xiaoxin Zou

Xiaoxin Zou

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
74
Citations
30833
World Ranking
3549
National Ranking
1139

Chemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
30563
World Ranking
4860
National Ranking
900

Xiaoxin Zou publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaoxin Zou sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 247 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Xiaoxin Zou D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaoxin Zou sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xiaoxin Zou is affiliated with Jilin University in China and has established a research profile primarily in the fields of Energy, Engineering, and Materials Science. Their work spans various subfields including Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis, and Bioengineering.

The research topics covered by Xiaoxin Zou focus heavily on electrocatalysts for energy conversion, fuel cells and related materials, advanced photocatalysis techniques, advanced battery technologies research, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and ammonia synthesis along with nitrogen reduction.

Their recent publications include several articles published in notable scientific venues:

  • "Active Site Engineering in Porous Electrocatalysts", 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Understanding the Synergistic Effects of Cobalt Single Atoms and Small Nanoparticles: Enhancing Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Activity and Stability for Zinc-Air Batteries", 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Nano-metal diborides-supported anode catalyst with strongly coupled TaOx/IrO2 catalytic layer for low-iridium-loading proton exchange membrane electrolyzer", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Transition-Metal-Boron Intermetallics with Strong Interatomic d-sp Orbital Hybridization for High-Performance Electrocatalysis", 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Design of a Multilayered Oxygen-Evolution Electrode with High Catalytic Activity and Corrosion Resistance for Saline Water Splitting", 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

Zou's frequent co-authors include Hui Chen, Xiao Liang, Xiao Zhao, Yongcun Zou, and Xuan Ai.

The primary publication venues for Zou are The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie (including its International Edition), the CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION), and Advanced Materials.

Best Publications

  • Noble metal-free hydrogen evolution catalysts for water splitting

    Xiaoxin Zou;Yu Zhang

  • Cu and Cu-Based Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Applications in Catalysis.

    Manoj B. Gawande;Anandarup Goswami;François Xavier Felpin;Tewodros Asefa

  • High-index faceted Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays as highly active and ultrastable electrocatalysts for water splitting.

    Liang Liang Feng;Guangtao Yu;Yuanyuan Wu;Guo Dong Li

  • Cobalt‐Embedded Nitrogen‐Rich Carbon Nanotubes Efficiently Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at All pH Values

    Xiaoxin Zou;Xiaoxi Huang;Anandarup Goswami;Rafael Silva

  • Coupling Mo2C with Nitrogen‐Rich Nanocarbon Leads to Efficient Hydrogen‐Evolution Electrocatalytic Sites

    Yipu Liu;Guangtao Yu;Guo Dong Li;Yuanhui Sun

  • Ultrafast Formation of Amorphous Bimetallic Hydroxide Films on 3D Conductive Sulfide Nanoarrays for Large-Current-Density Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis.

    Xu Zou;Yipu Liu;Guo Dong Li;Yuanyuan Wu

  • Corrosion engineering towards efficient oxygen evolution electrodes with stable catalytic activity for over 6000 hours

    Yipu Liu;Xiao Liang;Lin Gu;Yu Zhang

  • Active Site Engineering in Porous Electrocatalysts.

    Hui Chen;Xiao Liang;Yipu Liu;Xuan Ai

  • Overall Water Splitting Catalyzed Efficiently by an Ultrathin Nanosheet-Built, Hollow Ni3S2-Based Electrocatalyst

    Yuanyuan Wu;Guo Dong Li;Yipu Liu;Lan Yang

  • Efficient oxygen evolution electrocatalysis in acid by a perovskite with face-sharing IrO 6 octahedral dimers

    Lan Yang;Guangtao Yu;Xuan Ai;Wensheng Yan

  • Coupling Sub-Nanometric Copper Clusters with Quasi-Amorphous Cobalt Sulfide Yields Efficient and Robust Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting Reaction

    Yipu Liu;Qiuju Li;Rui Si;Guo-Dong Li

  • Efficient noble metal-free (electro)catalysis of water and alcohol oxidations by zinc-cobalt layered double hydroxide.

    Xiaoxin Zou;Anandarup Goswami;Tewodros Asefa

  • Highly Active, Nonprecious Electrocatalyst Comprising Borophene Subunits for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

    Yanli Chen;Guangtao Yu;Wei Chen;Yipu Liu

  • Efficient electrocatalysis of overall water splitting by ultrasmall NixCo3−xS4 coupled Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays

    Yuanyuan Wu;Yipu Liu;Guo Dong Li;Xu Zou

  • Carbon-armored Co9S8 nanoparticles as all-pH efficient and durable H2-evolving electrocatalysts.

    Liang-Liang Feng;Guo-Dong Li;Yipu Liu;Yuanyuan Wu

  • Metallic Co9S8 nanosheets grown on carbon cloth as efficient binder-free electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in neutral media

    Liang-Liang Feng;Meihong Fan;Yuanyuan Wu;Yipu Liu

  • N-, O-, and S-tridoped nanoporous carbons as selective catalysts for oxygen reduction and alcohol oxidation reactions.

    Yuying Meng;Damien Voiry;Anandarup Goswami;Xiaoxin Zou

  • In Situ Generation of Bifunctional, Efficient Fe-Based Catalysts from Mackinawite Iron Sulfide for Water Splitting

    Xiaoxin Zou;Yuanyuan Wu;Yipu Liu;Dapeng Liu

  • Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of NiCoP/g-C3N4 with Improved Separation Efficiency and Charge Transfer Efficiency

    Lingling Bi;Xupeng Gao;Lijing Zhang;Dejun Wang

  • Efficient oxygen evolution reaction catalyzed by low-density Ni-doped Co3O4 nanomaterials derived from metal-embedded graphitic C3N4.

    Xiaoxin Zou;Juan Su;Rafael Silva;Anandarup Goswami

Frequent Co-Authors

Dejun Wang
Dejun Wang Jilin University
Yipu Liu
Yipu Liu Harbin Institute of Technology
Tewodros Asefa
Tewodros Asefa Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jie-Sheng Chen
Jie-Sheng Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tengfeng Xie
Tengfeng Xie Jilin University
Kai-Xue Wang
Kai-Xue Wang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Manish Chhowalla
Manish Chhowalla University of Cambridge
Wensheng Yan
Wensheng Yan University of Science and Technology of China
Damien Voiry
Damien Voiry University of Montpellier
Radek Zboril
Radek Zboril Palacký University, Olomouc

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