Chao Cai

6.6k citations

80 papers · 5.2k · 3 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.5%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
Catalysis top 1%
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction

Papers in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 49
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 38
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts 12
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 9
Electrical and Electronic Engineering 44
- Advanced battery technologies research 17
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 8
- Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research 8

Co-authors: Shaobo Han (25 shared papers)Shi‐Jian Su (6 shared papers)Junji Kido (6 shared papers)Meng Gu (18 shared papers)Junwei Fu (21 shared papers)Hongmei Li (19 shared papers)Min Liu (17 shared papers)Kang Liu (17 shared papers)
Journals: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (5 papers)Electrochimica Acta (4 papers)ACS Nano (3 papers)Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (3 papers)Journal of Materials Chemistry A (3 papers)
Partner nations: China United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Chao Cai

79 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Chao Cai's Hit Papers

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Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water Reorientation for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 2023 · 147 citations

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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.

2023 Angewandte Chemie International Edition
2022 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2021 ACS Catalysis

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1	Identification of the Highly Active Co–N₄ Coordination Motif for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Hydrogen Peroxide Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Shanyong Chen, Tao Luo, Xiaoqing Li, Kejun Chen, Junwei Fu, Kang Liu, Chao Cai, Qiyou Wang, Hongmei Li, Yu Chen, Chao Ma, Li Zhu, Ying‐Rui Lu, Ting‐Shan Chan, Mingshan Zhu, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2022	443
2	Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitrate to Ammonia on Low-Cost Ultrathin CoO_x Nanosheets ACS Catalysis ·Jing Wang, Chao Cai, Yian Wang, Xuming Yang, Duojie Wu, Yuanmin Zhu, Menghao Li, Meng Gu, Minhua Shao Hit paper breakdown →	2021	280
3	Chemical Identification of Catalytically Active Sites on Oxygen‐doped Carbon Nanosheet to Decipher the High Activity for Electro‐synthesis Hydrogen Peroxide Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Shanyong Chen, Tao Luo, Kejun Chen, Yiyang Lin, Junwei Fu, Kang Liu, Chao Cai, Qiyou Wang, Huangjingwei Li, Xiaoqing Li, Junhua Hu, Hongmei Li, Mingshan Zhu, Min Liu	2021	277
4	Single Iridium Atom Doped Ni₂P Catalyst for Optimal Oxygen Evolution Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Qi Wang, Zhe Zhang, Chao Cai, Maoyu Wang, Zhi Liang Zhao, Menghao Li, Xiang Huang, Shaobo Han, Hua Zhou, Zhenxing Feng, Lei Li, Jun Li, Hu Xu, Joseph S. Francisco, Meng Gu	2021	256
5	RGB Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Diodes by Using Host Materials with Heterocyclic Cores: Effect of Nitrogen Atom Orientations Chemistry of Materials ·Shi‐Jian Su, Chao Cai, Junji Kido	2010	250
6	Design of active nickel single-atom decorated MoS2 as a pH-universal catalyst for hydrogen evolution reaction Nano Energy ·Qi Wang, Zhi Liang Zhao, Sha Dong, Dongsheng He, Matthew J. Lawrence, Shaobo Han, Chao Cai, Shuhuai Xiang, Paramaconi Rodríguez, Bin Xiang, Zhiguo Wang, Yongye Liang, Meng Gu	2018	250
7	Single Ni Atoms Anchored on Porous Few‐Layer g‐C₃N₄ for Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction: The Role of Edge Confinement Small ·Lei Cheng, Hui Yin, Chao Cai, Jiajie Fan, Quanjun Xiang	2020	241
8	Ultrahigh Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity Achieved Using Ir Single Atoms on Amorphous CoO_x Nanosheets ACS Catalysis ·Chao Cai, Maoyu Wang, Shaobo Han, Qi Wang, Qing Zhang, Yuanmin Zhu, Xuming Yang, Duojie Wu, Xiaotao Zu, George E. Sterbinsky, Zhenxing Feng, Meng Gu	2020	193
9	Atomically Dispersed s‐Block Magnesium Sites for Electroreduction of CO₂ to CO Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Qiyou Wang, Kang Liu, Junwei Fu, Chao Cai, Huangjingwei Li, Long Yan, Shanyong Chen, Bao Liu, Hongmei Li, Wenzhang Li, Xiaoqing Qiu, Ning Zhang, Junhua Hu, Hao Pan, Min Liu	2021	183
10	Optimizing Hydrogen Binding on Ru Sites with RuCo Alloy Nanosheets for Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Chao Cai, Kang Liu, Yuanmin Zhu, Pengcheng Li, Qiyou Wang, Bao Liu, Shanyong Chen, Huangjingwei Li, Li Zhu, Hongmei Li, Junwei Fu, Yu Chen, Evangelina Pensa, Junhua Hu, Ying‐Rui Lu, Ting‐Shan Chan, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu	2021	179
11	Attenuating metal-substrate conjugation in atomically dispersed nickel catalysts for electroreduction of CO2 to CO Nature Communications ·Qiyou Wang, Kang Liu, Kangman Hu, Chao Cai, Huangjingwei Li, Hongmei Li, Matías Herran, Ying‐Rui Lu, Ting‐Shan Chan, Chao Ma, Junwei Fu, Shiguo Zhang, Ying Liang, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu	2022	177
12	Atomically Local Electric Field Induced Interface Water Reorientation for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Chao Cai, Kang Liu, Long Zhang, Fangbiao Li, Yao Tan, Pengcheng Li, Yanqiu Wang, Maoyu Wang, Zhenxing Feng, Debora Meira, Wenqiang Qu, Andrei Ştefancu, Wenzhang Li, Hongmei Li, Junwei Fu, Hui Wang, Dengsong Zhang, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2023	147
13	Ultrafast Response/Recovery and High Selectivity of the H₂S Gas Sensor Based on α-Fe₂O₃ Nano-Ellipsoids from One-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Zhonglin Wu, Zhijie Li, Hao Li, Mengxuan Sun, Shaobo Han, Chao Cai, Wenzhong Shen, Yongqing Fu	2019	130
14	Enhanced electrochemical performance of CuCo2S4/carbon nanotubes composite as electrode material for supercapacitors Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Hao Li, Zhijie Li, Zhonglin Wu, Mengxuan Sun, Shaobo Han, Chao Cai, Wenzhong Shen, Xiaoteng Liu, Yongqing Fu	2019	123
15	Cu-Doped Iron Oxide for the Efficient Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction Reaction Nano Letters ·Jing Wang, Yian Wang, Chao Cai, Yushen Liu, Duojie Wu, Maoyu Wang, Menghao Li, Xianbin Wei, Minhua Shao, Meng Gu	2023	116
16	Direct Observation of Yolk–Shell Transforming to Gold Single Atoms and Clusters with Superior Oxygen Evolution Reaction Efficiency ACS Nano ·Chao Cai, Shaobo Han, Qi Wang, Meng Gu	2019	87
17	Heteroatoms Induce Localization of the Electric Field and Promote a Wide Potential‐Window Selectivity Towards CO in the CO₂ Electroreduction Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Chao Cai, Bao Liu, Kang Liu, Pengcheng Li, Junwei Fu, Yanqiu Wang, Wenzhang Li, Chen Tian, Yicui Kang, Andrei Ştefancu, Hongmei Li, Cheng‐Wei Kao, Ting‐Shan Chan, Zhang Lin, Liyuan Chai, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu	2022	87
18	Three-carbazole-armed host materials with various cores for RGB phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes Journal of Materials Chemistry ·Shi‐Jian Su, Chao Cai, Junji Kido	2012	87
19	High-efficiency red, green and blue phosphorescent homojunction organic light-emitting diodes based on bipolar host materials Organic Electronics ·Chao Cai, Shi‐Jian Su, Takayuki Chiba, Hisahiro Sasabe, Yong‐Jin Pu, Ken‐ichi Nakayama, Junji Kido	2011	84
20	Recent Advances in Strategies for Improving the Performance of CO₂ Reduction Reaction on Single Atom Catalysts Small Science ·Qiyou Wang, Chao Cai, Minyang Dai, Junwei Fu, Xiaodong Zhang, Huangjingwei Li, Hang Zhang, Kejun Chen, Yiyang Lin, Hongmei Li, Junhua Hu, Masahiro Miyauchi, Min Liu	2020	76

About Chao Cai

Chao Cai is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, having authored 80 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (38 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (17 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (12 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (9 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (3.4k citations), Catalysis (934 citations), Electrochemistry (373 citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2.7k citations) and Materials Chemistry (2.0k citations). Chao Cai has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Shaobo Han, Shi‐Jian Su, Junji Kido, Meng Gu, Junwei Fu, Hongmei Li, Min Liu, Kang Liu, Qiyou Wang and Qi Wang. Their work appears in journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Electrochimica Acta, ACS Nano, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

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