Chao Zhu

11.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
210 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Chao Zhu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Chao Zhu has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Materials Chemistry, 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 56 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Chao Zhu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (35 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (24 papers). Chao Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (40 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (35 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (24 papers). Chao Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Chao Zhu's co-authors include Zheng Liu, Yantao Shi, Jun Di, Robert Pfeffer, Jun Xiong, Ning Wang, Jiexiang Xia, Rajesh N. Davé, Qun Yu and Shuzhou Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Chao Zhu

204 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia with Copper‐Supported Rhodium Cluster and Single‐Atom Catalysts

2022 482 citations Chao Zhu et al. profile →
Isolated single atom cobalt in Bi3O4Br atomic layers to trigger efficient CO2 photoreduction

2019 422 citations Jun Di, Chao Chen et al. Nature Communications profile →
Atomically Dispersed Co₂–N₆ and Fe–N₄ Costructures Boost Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Both Alkaline and Acidic Media

2021 338 citations Chao Zhu, Zheng Liu et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Interpenetrating interfaces for efficient perovskite solar cells with high operational stability and mechanical robustness

2021 244 citations Chao Zhu, Xun Cao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chao Zhu China	48	4.7k	4.3k	3.6k	848	814	210	8.8k
Xiaolong Liu China	50	5.1k 1.1×	1.8k 0.4×	3.8k 1.1×	565 0.7×	816 1.0×	262	9.2k
Xiaotian Li China	48	3.8k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	1.6k 2.0×	242	8.2k
Yanxia Chen China	42	2.3k 0.5×	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	505 0.6×	674 0.8×	297	6.9k
Ying Wang China	48	4.8k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	740 0.9×	826 1.0×	249	8.6k
Qi Zhang China	47	2.9k 0.6×	4.4k 1.0×	4.3k 1.2×	895 1.1×	1.7k 2.0×	176	8.3k
Xin Li China	51	3.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	4.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	200 0.2×	315	8.5k
Ruifeng Zhang China	56	6.2k 1.3×	1.5k 0.4×	3.4k 0.9×	813 1.0×	460 0.6×	273	10.6k
Chao Chen China	49	5.8k 1.2×	5.2k 1.2×	3.5k 1.0×	2.3k 2.7×	488 0.6×	307	10.8k
Hirohisa Tanaka Japan	45	4.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	3.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.9×	348	9.1k
Bin Zhu China	51	1.7k 0.4×	6.2k 1.4×	4.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	184 0.2×	140	13.8k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Yanan, Chao Zhu, Na Liu, et al.. (2025). Liquid phase delamination of non-van der Waal two-dimensional sheets of tin monoxide for flexible and long lifespan sodium-ion batteries. Fundamental Research. 2 indexed citations

Zhu, Chao, Chengtao Gong, Lili Ma, et al.. (2025). Cobalt‐Metalated 1D Perylene Diimide Carbon‐Organic Framework for Enhanced Photocatalytic α ‐C(sp ³ )─H Activation and CO ₂ Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(24). 1 indexed citations

Yi, Benshun, et al.. (2024). Bidirectional scale-aware upsampling network for arbitrary-scale video super-resolution. Image and Vision Computing. 148. 105116–105116. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shengyao, Ya Deng, Dianyi Hu, et al.. (2024). Field-Free Superconducting Diode Effect and Magnetochiral Anisotropy in FeTe_0.7Se_0.3 Junctions with the Inherent Asymmetric Barrier. ACS Nano. 18(45). 31076–31084. 4 indexed citations

Yi, Kongyang, Yao Wu, Ya Deng, et al.. (2024). Van der Waals Encapsulation by Ultrathin Oxide for Air‐Sensitive 2D Materials. Advanced Materials. 36(33). e2403494–e2403494. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Dongdong, et al.. (2024). A highly stable TiO2/covalent organic framework heterojunction photocatalyst boosting charge transfer for visible-light-driven CO2 reduction. Materials Letters. 364. 136395–136395. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Dongdong, et al.. (2024). Design of CdS/Covalent Organic Framework as an efficient heterojunction photocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic H2 evolution. Materials Letters. 365. 136417–136417. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuwei, Linghai Zhang, Xinyu Chen, et al.. (2023). Topological tailoring-induced Dirac cone in ultrathin niobium diboride nanosheets for electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction. Materials Today Physics. 32. 101029–101029. 12 indexed citations

Yang, Jiefu, Mei Zheng, Yao Wu, et al.. (2023). Unraveling the dominance of intrinsic catalytic activities over electrical properties in electrocatalytic performance of two-dimensional chromium chalcogenide nanosheets. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123478–123478. 10 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, et al.. (2023). Integrated system model of spray flash vacuum distillation with internal heat recovery. Desalination. 564. 116793–116793. 2 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, et al.. (2023). Visualizing interface states in In₂Se₃-WSe₂ monolayer lateral heterostructures. Chinese Physics B. 32(5). 56803–56803. 1 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Luyao Zhang, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2022). Polyoxometalate steric hindrance driven chirality-selective separation of subnanometer carbon nanotubes. Chemical Science. 13(20). 5920–5928. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chunyang, Suxia Liang, Wei Liu, et al.. (2021). Ti1–graphene single-atom material for improved energy level alignment in perovskite solar cells. Nature Energy. 6(12). 1154–1163. 135 indexed citations

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Zhao, Long, et al.. (2020). Aeolian vibration‐based structural health monitoring system for transmission line conductors. Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 27(6). 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Rong, Yuwei Zhao, Chenyang Zha, et al.. (2020). Borophene-like boron subunits-inserted molybdenum framework of MoB2 enables stable and quick-acting Li2S6-based lithium-sulfur batteries. Energy storage materials. 32. 216–224. 51 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wang, Yu Wang, Han Zheng, et al.. (2020). Embedding Ultrafine Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Monolayered Metal–Organic Framework Nanosheets Enables Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution. ACS Nano. 14(2). 1971–1981. 128 indexed citations

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Di, Jun, Chao Chen, Shize Yang, et al.. (2019). Isolated single atom cobalt in Bi3O4Br atomic layers to trigger efficient CO2 photoreduction. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2840–2840. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yu, Peng, Zhendong Lei, Chao Zhu, et al.. (2019). Van der Waals negative capacitance transistors. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3037–3037. 208 indexed citations

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Hu, Junxiong, Jianbao Xu, Chao Zhu, et al.. (2017). Significant enhancement of metal heat dissipation from mechanically exfoliated graphene nanosheets through thermal radiation effect. AIP Advances. 7(5). 13 indexed citations

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Zhu, Chao, Kaijin Huang, Fangli Yuan, & Changsheng Xie. (2014). 2-Methyl-2,4-pentanediol gas sensor properties of nano-SnO2 flat-type coplanar gas sensing arrays at low detection limit. Materials Science-Poland. 32(2). 181–187. 1 indexed citations

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