Chuanbao Cao

20.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
447 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

Chuanbao Cao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Chuanbao Cao has authored 447 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 265 papers in Materials Chemistry, 239 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 144 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Chuanbao Cao's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (102 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (93 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (72 papers). Chuanbao Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (102 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (93 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (72 papers). Chuanbao Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and Malaysia. Chuanbao Cao's co-authors include Youqi Zhu, Faryal Idrees, Xilan Ma, Jianhua Hou, Hesun Zhu, Faheem K. Butt, Muhammad Tahir, Xingyan Xu, Zhuo Chen and Imran Aslam and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Chuanbao Cao

439 papers receiving 18.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Hierarchical Porous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Silk for Ultrahigh-Capacity Battery Anodes and Supercapacitors

2015 1.4k citations Jianhua Hou, Chuanbao Cao et al. profile →
One‐Pot Etching Pyrolysis to Defect‐Rich Carbon Nanosheets to Construct Multiheteroatom‐Coordinated Iron Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction

2024 86 citations Xilan Ma, Jiachen Tian et al. Small profile →
First-principles calculations of electronic, optical and thermodynamic properties of MTe (M=Ge, Sn): Spin-induced modulations in electronic and optical properties

2025 31 citations Youqi Zhu, Xilan Ma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chuanbao Cao China	73	11.2k	8.6k	7.1k	5.5k	1.6k	447	18.5k
Renzhi Ma Japan	81	11.5k 1.0×	15.5k 1.8×	6.2k 0.9×	8.4k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	366	24.9k
Junmin Xue Singapore	67	8.1k 0.7×	5.3k 0.6×	4.1k 0.6×	4.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	247	13.4k
Rongming Wang China	67	7.3k 0.7×	8.4k 1.0×	4.8k 0.7×	4.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	350	15.0k
Yunfeng Lu United States	65	7.0k 0.6×	7.3k 0.8×	3.5k 0.5×	4.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	204	15.5k
Yong Lei China	78	14.2k 1.3×	9.3k 1.1×	8.1k 1.1×	6.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	414	22.9k
Ziqi Sun Australia	69	7.3k 0.7×	7.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.5×	4.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	244	15.1k
Yaping Du China	74	7.8k 0.7×	9.4k 1.1×	3.0k 0.4×	7.0k 1.3×	823 0.5×	296	17.5k
Fuqiang Huang China	78	12.1k 1.1×	13.2k 1.5×	5.9k 0.8×	9.1k 1.7×	1.7k 1.1×	597	24.3k
Paulo J. Ferreira United States	44	8.3k 0.7×	5.4k 0.6×	5.5k 0.8×	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	147	13.5k
Sreekumar Kurungot India	62	7.4k 0.7×	6.2k 0.7×	3.4k 0.5×	4.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.1×	421	14.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Shiheng, Hao Ming Chen, Ziming Cai, et al.. (2025). Enhancement of Energy Storage Performance in Polymer Dielectrics via Monodisperse ZrO₂ Nanoparticles as Nanofiller. Small. 21(23). e2500743–e2500743. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Xilan, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive review of cobalt-based electrocatalysts synthesized via new microwave-assisted methodology. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 9(9). 1459–1474. 5 indexed citations

Cao, Heng, Youqi Zhu, Tao Jiang, et al.. (2025). Fundamental Understanding and Material Challenges in Rechargeable Magnesium–Sulfur Battery: Current Advances and Perspective. Small. 21(39). e07241–e07241. 1 indexed citations

Mou, Xiaozhen, et al.. (2025). A Protocol for Conformity and Risk Assessment of Pharmaceutical Product by High Performance Liquid Chromatography Based on Measurement Uncertainty. Journal of Separation Science. 48(5). e70158–e70158.

Du, Changliang, Lifen Yang, Xin Liu, et al.. (2024). Initiating cationic-anionic chemistry with stepwise surface-to-inner conversion in copper selenide superstructures for high-energy rechargeable magnesium batteries. Energy storage materials. 70. 103539–103539. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Lifen, Changliang Du, Jiachen Tian, et al.. (2024). Fully exposed copper single-atom sites on mesoporous N/S-codoped graphene for efficient zinc-air battery. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 355. 124190–124190. 32 indexed citations

Ma, Xilan, Jiachen Tian, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). One‐Pot Etching Pyrolysis to Defect‐Rich Carbon Nanosheets to Construct Multiheteroatom‐Coordinated Iron Sites for Efficient Oxygen Reduction. Small. 20(33). e2310637–e2310637. 86 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhu, Youqi, et al.. (2024). The comprehensive understanding of intrinsic contribution of nickel foam as a conductive substrate in water splitting. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 973. 118648–118648. 8 indexed citations

Du, Changliang, Lifen Yang, Rong Jiang, et al.. (2024). Fe-doping accelerated magnesium storage kinetics in rutile TiO2 cathode materials. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 155812–155812. 6 indexed citations

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Ismail, Muhammad, Abdul Khaliq Naveed, Haider Ali, et al.. (2024). Cobalt oxide nano dandelions on nickel foam as binder free bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting and supercapacitance. Electrochimica Acta. 513. 145597–145597. 3 indexed citations

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Jiang, Rong, Bolin Liu, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). Microwave-induced defect-rich vanadium sulfide cathodes for highly reversible electrochemical magnesium storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 488. 150487–150487. 13 indexed citations

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Yang, Lifen, Xiuyun Yao, Changliang Du, et al.. (2024). Constructing delocalized electronic structures to motivate the oxygen reduction activity of zinc selenide for high-performance zinc-air battery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148598–148598. 32 indexed citations

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Liu, Xin, Youqi Zhu, Changliang Du, et al.. (2023). Cationic Co-doping in copper sulfide nanosheet cathodes for efficient magnesium storage. Chemical Engineering Journal. 463. 142433–142433. 30 indexed citations

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Yang, Lifen, Youqi Zhu, Xiuyun Yao, et al.. (2023). Surface-optimized carbon nanocages with tailorable atomic Fe-N4 sites to boost oxygen reduction in long stable zinc-air battery. Energy storage materials. 63. 102972–102972. 37 indexed citations

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Du, Changliang, et al.. (2023). Strategy for enhancement of magnesium ion diffusion in a vanadium tetra sulfide-layered structure for rechargeable magnesium batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(45). 24878–24889. 11 indexed citations

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Du, Changliang, Youqi Zhu, Xinyu Yang, et al.. (2023). Lattice expanding by Te-substitution to boost electrochemical Mg storage of Cu7.2S4 nanotube cathode. Chemical Engineering Journal. 458. 141345–141345. 23 indexed citations

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Tian, Jiachen, Youqi Zhu, Xiuyun Yao, et al.. (2023). Chemical vapor deposition towards atomically dispersed iron catalysts for efficient oxygen reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(10). 5288–5295. 38 indexed citations

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Cao, Chuanbao, et al.. (2022). The Lower Limb Stiffness, Moments, and Work Mode During Stair Descent Among the Older Adults. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 102(3). 222–228. 3 indexed citations

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Mahmood, Tariq, Chuanbao Cao, Rashid Ahmed, et al.. (2013). Pressure induced structural and electronic bandgap properties of anatase and rutile tio2. Sains Malaysiana. 42(2). 231–237. 9 indexed citations

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Cao, Chuanbao, et al.. (2010). Hollow core–shell η-Fe2O3 microspheres with excellent lithium-storage and gas-sensing properties. Chemical Communications. 46(22). 3869–3869. 93 indexed citations

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