Cao Guan

20.9k citations

161 papers · 18.9k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 73

Impact in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.05%
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.1%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Papers in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 102
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication 101
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 47
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 43

Co-authors: John Wang Ximeng LiuXin LiHong Jin Fan Chuanwei Cheng Hua Zhang Stephen J. Pennycook Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy
Journals: Advanced Materials (13 papers)Advanced Functional Materials (12 papers)Small (12 papers)Journal of Materials Chemistry A (12 papers)ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (7 papers)
Partner nations: China Singapore Malaysia

In The Last Decade

Cao Guan

159 papers receiving 18.7k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Bio‐Inspired Trace Hydroxyl‐Rich Electrolyte Additives for High‐Rate and Stable Zn‐Ion Batteries at Low Temperatures 2024 · 99 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2023 Nature Communications
2023 Advanced Materials
2021 Advanced Functional Materials
2018 Nano Energy
2018 Advanced Functional Materials
2017 Advanced Energy Materials
2017 Advanced Functional Materials
2017 Small
2016 Advanced Materials
2015 ACS Nano

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Cao Guan, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Prokaryote‐Inspired and Derived Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Ultra‐Long‐Life Zn–Air Batteries Advanced Energy Materials ·Weixiong Long, Jipeng Chen, Ximeng Liu, Yong Gao, Jie Pu, Qinghe Cao, Ting Meng, Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy, Salah A. Makhlouf, Cao Guan	2025	8
2	Fabric to energy storage via oxygen‐tuned graphene engineered by laser crafting SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Zhuo Ran Huang, Kwok Feng Chong, Eng-Hock Lim, Chun Hui Tan, Cao Guan, Pei Song Chee	2025	0
3	Electrostatic Potential‐Dominated Weak Solvation Chemistry for Synergistic Optimization of V ₂ O ₅ Cathode and Zn Anode Angewandte Chemie ·Jingzhu Chen, Fan Bu, Qinghe Cao, Weixiong Long, Yong Gao, Jipeng Chen, Haifei Zhu, Cao Guan	2025	1
4	Electrostatic Potential‐Dominated Weak Solvation Chemistry for Synergistic Optimization of V ₂ O ₅ Cathode and Zn Anode Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Jingzhu Chen, Fan Bu, Qinghe Cao, Weixiong Long, Yong Gao, Jipeng Chen, Haifei Zhu, Cao Guan	2025	2
5	Stable Molten Salts Mediated Growth of Single‐Crystalline LiNi_0.8Co_0.1Mn_0.1O₂ with High Voltage Tolerance Advanced Functional Materials ·Tao Zhang, Zuoyu Qin, (unknown), Xiang Long, Yuanhang Gao, (unknown), (unknown), 邢蕾蕾, Cao Guan, Gen Chen	2025	5
6	A review on laser-induced graphene in flexible energy storage: From materials selection to biomedical applications Chemical Engineering Journal ·Zhuo Ran Huang, Pei Song Chee, Chun Hui Tan, Kwok Feng Chong, Eng-Hock Lim, Cao Guan	2024	10
7	Charging lithium polysulfides by cationic lithium nitrate species for low-temperature lithium−sulfur batteries Energy storage materials ·Jinhao Zhang, Jean M. Peck, Xiaohe Zhou, Namuunaa Juramt, Na Du, Cao Guan, Songbai Han, Bo‐Quan Li, Long Kong	2024	11
8	Gradient design of imprinted anode for stable Zn-ion batteries Nature Communications ·Qinghe Cao, Yong Gao, Jie Pu, Xin Zhao, Yuxuan Wang, Jipeng Chen, Cao Guan Hit paper breakdown →	2023	285
9	3D Printed Graphene‐Based Metamaterials: Guesting Multi‐Functionality in One Gain Small ·Junjie Du, Gangwen Fu, Xi Xu, Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy, Cao Guan	2023	31
10	Direct ink writing of metal‐based electrocatalysts for Li–S batteries with efficient polysulfide conversion SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Ting Meng, Eglė Svitojūtė, Fei Ma, Xia Zheng, Jacob McNeill, Cao Guan	2023	24
11	Wood‐Derived Continuously Oriented Three‐Phase Interfacial Channels for High‐Performance Quasi‐Solid‐State Alkaline Zinc Batteries Advanced Materials ·W. Wiedenmann, Qinghe Cao, Yitian Wu, Yu Zheng, Hanna Hagenslätt, Muhammad Amer, Mengdi Liang, A Loconte, Baiyu Jiang, Sai Wu, Fan Wang, Yajun Pang, Fatimah Nabeebaccus, Cao Guan, Hao Chen	2023	42
12	Ultraviolet‐Assisted Printing of Flexible Solid‐State Zn‐Ion Battery with a Heterostructure Electrolyte Small ·Fan Bu, Yong Gao, YU Ai-shui, Yuxuan Wang, Chun Li, Li Cheng DONG, Xiangye Liu, Cao Guan	2023	15
13	Amorphous FeOOH Decorated CoSe₂ Nanorod Heterostructured Arrays for Efficient Water Oxidation Advanced Materials Interfaces ·Hong Yu, Yonghui Wang, Chenyu Zhu, Jing Yao, İlker Kasım, Cao Guan, Cheng‐Feng Du	2020	31
14	Single-Atom Tungsten-Doped CoP Nanoarrays as a High-Efficiency pH-Universal Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Jun Wu, Nannan Han, Shoucong Ning, Chen Tian, Chenyu Zhu, Chunxu Pan, Haijun Wu, Stephen J. Pennycook, Cao Guan	2020	86
15	Bifunctional oxygen evolution and supercapacitor electrode with integrated architecture of NiFe-layered double hydroxides and hierarchical carbon framework Nanotechnology ·Fenggui Chen, Liyang Zhang, Huiqing Wu, Cao Guan, Yong Yang, Jing Qiu, Pengbo Lyu, Meng Li	2019	17
16	Open hollow Co–Pt clusters embedded in carbon nanoflake arrays for highly efficient alkaline water splitting Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Hong Zhang, Yanyu Liu, Haijun Wu, Wei Zhou, Zongkui Kou, Stephen J. Pennycook, Jianping Xie, Cao Guan, John Wang	2018	43
17	Single Co Atoms Anchored in Porous N-Doped Carbon for Efficient Zinc−Air Battery Cathodes ACS Catalysis ·Wenjie Zang, Afriyanti Sumboja, Yuanyuan Ma, Hong Zhang, Yue Wu, Sisi Wu, Haijun Wu, Zhaolin Liu, Cao Guan, John Wang, Stephen J. Pennycook	2018	408
18	The Atomic Circus: Small Electron Beams Spotlight Advanced Materials Down to the Atomic Scale Advanced Materials ·Haijun Wu, Xiaoxu Zhao, Cao Guan, Li‐Dong Zhao, Jiagang Wu, Dongsheng Song, Changjian Li, John Wang, Kian Ping Loh, T. Venkatesan, Stephen J. Pennycook	2018	34
19	Space-confinement and chemisorption co-involved in encapsulation of sulfur for lithium–sulfur batteries with exceptional cycling stability Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Jin Wang, Hao Yang, Cao Guan, Jilei Liu, Zhen Chen, Pei Liang, Zexiang Shen	2017	28
20	3D TiO2@Ni(OH)2 Core-shell Arrays with Tunable Nanostructure for Hybrid Supercapacitor Application Scientific Reports ·Qingqing Ke, Minrui Zheng, Huajun Liu, Cao Guan, Lu Mao, John Wang	2015	75

About Cao Guan

Cao Guan is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Automotive Engineering, having authored 161 papers that have together received 18.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (101 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (83 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (60 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (43 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (37 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (17 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (13 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (11.1k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (6.1k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (15.0k citations), Polymers and Plastics (2.4k citations) and Electrochemistry (678 citations). Cao Guan has collaborated with scholars based in China, Singapore and Malaysia. Frequent co-authors include John Wang, Ximeng Liu, Xin Li, Hong Jin Fan, Chuanwei Cheng, Hua Zhang, Stephen J. Pennycook, Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy, Weina Ren and Haijun Wu. Their work appears in journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Small, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

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