Cong Lai

531 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 447 citations indexed

About

Cong Lai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Cong Lai has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 447 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 5 papers in Water Science and Technology and 5 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Cong Lai's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (5 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (5 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (4 papers). Cong Lai is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (5 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (5 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (4 papers). Cong Lai collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Bulgaria. Cong Lai's co-authors include Qiang Lai, Chunbiao Li, Houcheng Zhang, Hui Zhang, Ziyang Hu, Paul Didier Kamdem Kuate, Shaobo He, Jiapei Zhao, Qin Zhao and Jiarui Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and Energy Conversion and Management.

In The Last Decade

Cong Lai

18 papers receiving 434 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.

Hidden coexisting hyperchaos of new memristive neuron model and its application in image encryption

2022 150 citations Qiang Lai, Cong Lai et al. Chaos Solitons & Fractals profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cong Lai China	11	202	175	95	84	83	18	447
Xingxing Wu China	9	43 0.2×	186 1.1×	38 0.4×	96 1.1×	11 0.1×	30	374
Xiaoqian Wei China	11	21 0.1×	78 0.4×	16 0.2×	49 0.6×	11 0.1×	23	354
Han Long China	13	19 0.1×	249 1.4×	69 0.7×	59 0.7×	3 0.0×	60	490
Jianhao Liu China	10	13 0.1×	92 0.5×	18 0.2×	11 0.1×	20 0.2×	26	359
J. Jayakumar India	12	14 0.1×	105 0.6×	63 0.7×	22 0.3×	11 0.1×	52	360
Haodong Li China	11	32 0.2×	239 1.4×	16 0.2×	6 0.1×	18 0.2×	37	415
Robert L. Boylestad	4	16 0.1×	231 1.3×	7 0.1×	19 0.2×	11 0.1×	11	339
Louis Nashelsky	3	16 0.1×	221 1.3×	9 0.1×	19 0.2×	11 0.1×	7	328
José J. Quintana Spain	9	12 0.1×	83 0.5×	35 0.4×	8 0.1×	9 0.1×	22	305

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18 of 18 papers shown

Lai, Cong & Houcheng Zhang. (2025). Syncretizing photovoltaic module and air gap membrane distillation for simultaneous electricity and freshwater production: A comprehensive 5E study. Desalination. 605. 118744–118744. 1 indexed citations

Lai, Cong, et al.. (2025). Dual-functional carbon fiber-hygroscopic hydrogel composites for mechanically robust and efficient photovoltaic cooling. Energy. 332. 136966–136966. 1 indexed citations

Lai, Cong & Lin Lu. (2024). Hydrogel-based thermal regulation strategies for passive cooling: A review. Energy and Built Environment. 7(2). 330–350. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Qin, Cong Lai, Houcheng Zhang, & Ziyang Hu. (2023). A broad-spectrum solar energy power system by hybridizing stirling-like thermocapacitive cycles to dye-sensitized solar cells. Renewable Energy. 205. 94–104. 17 indexed citations

Lai, Cong & Houcheng Zhang. (2023). An efficient and economic evacuated U-tube solar collector powered air gap membrane distillation hybrid system for seawater desalination. Journal of Cleaner Production. 394. 136382–136382. 25 indexed citations

Li, Jiarui, Cong Lai, Houcheng Zhang, et al.. (2022). A combined phosphoric acid fuel cell and direct contact membrane distillation hybrid system for electricity generation and seawater desalination. Energy Conversion and Management. 267. 115916–115916. 17 indexed citations

Wang, Xiran, Jiaxi Chen, Yuhan Guo, & Cong Lai. (2022). Prediction of Regional Carbon Emission Path Based on CEE Adaptive Linkage Model. 2022 IEEE 10th Joint International Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence Conference (ITAIC). 20. 1116–1120. 1 indexed citations

Lai, Qiang & Cong Lai. (2022). Design and Implementation of a New Hyperchaotic Memristive Map. IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems II Express Briefs. 69(4). 2331–2335. 35 indexed citations

Li, Jiarui, et al.. (2022). Recycling alkaline fuel cell waste heat for cooling production via temperature-matching elastocaloric cooler. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 47(63). 27124–27138. 12 indexed citations

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Lai, Qiang, Cong Lai, Paul Didier Kamdem Kuate, Chunbiao Li, & Shaobo He. (2022). Chaos in a Simplest Cyclic Memristive Neural Network. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 32(3). 70 indexed citations

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Lai, Qiang, Cong Lai, Hui Zhang, & Chunbiao Li. (2022). Hidden coexisting hyperchaos of new memristive neuron model and its application in image encryption. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 158. 112017–112017. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lai, Qiang & Cong Lai. (2022). Design and implementation of a new memristive chaotic system with coexisting attractors and offset boosting behaviors. Indian Journal of Physics. 96(14). 4391–4401. 2 indexed citations

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Lai, Cong, et al.. (2022). Performance analyses on a novel evacuated U-tube solar collector powered direct contact membrane distillation hybrid system for seawater desalination. Applied Thermal Engineering. 219. 119490–119490. 15 indexed citations

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Lai, Cong, Houcheng Zhang, & Ziyang Hu. (2022). Performance analyses on a concentrated photovoltaics driven direct contact membrane distillation coupled system. Desalination. 531. 115695–115695. 28 indexed citations

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Lai, Cong, Jiarui Li, Zhufeng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Elastocaloric cooler for waste heat recovery from proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Energy. 238. 121789–121789. 31 indexed citations

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Lai, Cong, Qin Zhao, Zhufeng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Potential evaluation of flexible annular thermoelectric generator in photovoltaic system performance improvement: Energy and exergy perspectives. Energy Conversion and Management. 247. 114711–114711. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiran, et al.. (2019). Application of Energy Performance Contracting in Distribution Transformer Based on Neural Network Prediction. 2019 IEEE 3rd Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (ITNEC). 3. 42–46. 1 indexed citations

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Lai, Cong, et al.. (2018). Credit Risk Management and Evaluation of Large User Transaction in Electricity Market. 2. 49–53. 1 indexed citations

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