Dan Wei

2.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Dan Wei is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Wei has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dan Wei's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (12 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers). Dan Wei is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (12 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (7 papers). Dan Wei collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Dan Wei's co-authors include Chengbing Wang, Jianfeng Zhu, Wenling Wu, Chengwei Wang, Jing Zhang, Chunhui Zhao, Lei Wang, Keyuan Xu, Dongjuan Niu and Liuqing Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Dan Wei

48 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Water Activation in Solar‐Powered Vapor Generation

2023 193 citations Dan Wei, Chengbing Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination

2023 162 citations Chengbing Wang, Keyuan Xu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Enabling Self‐Adaptive Water‐Energy‐Balance of Photothermal Water Diode Evaporator: Dynamically Maximizing Energy Utilization Under the Ever‐Changing Sunlight

2024 126 citations Dan Wei, Chengbing Wang et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dan Wei China	20	736	597	465	426	354	52	1.7k
Long Zheng China	19	799 1.1×	500 0.8×	849 1.8×	210 0.5×	268 0.8×	50	1.6k
Luke Yan China	23	555 0.8×	553 0.9×	356 0.8×	161 0.4×	453 1.3×	72	1.7k
Chenyang Cai China	23	528 0.7×	441 0.7×	491 1.1×	511 1.2×	635 1.8×	64	2.3k
Pei Yang China	27	268 0.4×	1.0k 1.7×	449 1.0×	481 1.1×	557 1.6×	56	2.0k
Zulfiqar Ahmad Rehan Pakistan	25	319 0.4×	632 1.1×	311 0.7×	351 0.8×	593 1.7×	66	1.7k
Taotao Meng United States	14	300 0.4×	280 0.5×	291 0.6×	182 0.4×	270 0.8×	27	1.1k
Ilwoo Seok United States	20	188 0.3×	403 0.7×	450 1.0×	454 1.1×	342 1.0×	35	1.5k
Lei Ding China	28	601 0.8×	568 1.0×	716 1.5×	313 0.7×	303 0.9×	103	2.1k
Long Chen China	25	173 0.2×	679 1.1×	443 1.0×	401 0.9×	426 1.2×	76	1.8k
Evyatar Shaulsky United States	17	286 0.4×	541 0.9×	537 1.2×	454 1.1×	1.0k 2.9×	21	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Wei

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Wei

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Wei

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dan Wei. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dan Wei based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dan Wei. Dan Wei is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wei, Dan, et al.. (2026). Multi-source responsive and leakage-proof phase change composites based on cellulose nanofiber/sodium alginate crosslinked aerogel for thermal energy storage and management. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 349. 150980–150980.

Chen, Zhihong, Yusheng Zhang, Jie Ding, et al.. (2025). Hydrogel-Based Multifunctional Deep Brain Probe for Neural Sensing, Manipulation, and Therapy. ACS Nano. 19(23). 21600–21613.

Gao, Jieming, Xiaoyang Wu, Yue Hu, et al.. (2025). Enzyme-Mimetic Hydroxyapatite for Diabetic Wound Dressing with Immunomodulation and Collagen Remodeling Functions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(24). 35116–35127.

Wang, Fan, et al.. (2025). Engineering thin water film and cluster evaporation towards extraordinarily high 2D solar vapor generation. Materials Today. 90. 258–269. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Kai, Xiaoyang Wu, Xiao‐Yin Liu, et al.. (2025). Biomimetic self-gelling and adhesive powder for seamless sealing and neural regeneration after brain injury. Acta Biomaterialia. 203. 214–228.

Jin, Jingjing, Chengbing Wang, Dan Wei, et al.. (2025). An Extremely Salt‐Resistant Hydrogel‐Based Solar Evaporator for Stable Saturated Brine Desalination. Small. 21(15). e2411624–e2411624. 17 indexed citations

Wei, Dan, et al.. (2025). Low-temperature preparation of core–shell SiC@C nanospheres toward electromagnetic wave absorption. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(22). 11310–11318. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Chengbing, Dan Wei, Qinxue Hu, et al.. (2024). Tortuosity Engineering of Water Channels to Customized Water Supply for Enhancing Hydrogel Solar Evaporation. Small. 20(42). e2402482–e2402482. 40 indexed citations

Wang, Chengbing, et al.. (2024). Laser processing materials for photo-to-thermal applications. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. 337. 103382–103382. 3 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wenhe, Jing Zhang, Chengbing Wang, et al.. (2024). Color/Transparent Bi‐Customizable Solar Antifogging Nanofilms. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(4). 2 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ting, Zi Qiao, Mei Yang, et al.. (2023). Hydrogen-bonding topological remodeling modulated ultra-fine bacterial cellulose nanofibril-reinforced hydrogels for sustainable bioelectronics. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 231. 115288–115288. 25 indexed citations

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Wei, Dan, Lixin Chen, Lidong Tian, Seeram Ramakrishna, & Dongxiao Ji. (2023). Hierarchically Structured CoNiP/CoNi Nanoparticle/Graphene/Carbon Foams as Effective Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for HER and OER. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 62(12). 4987–4994. 11 indexed citations

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Wei, Dan, Lixin Chen, Hui Zhao, et al.. (2023). Transition Metal (Fe, Zn, Co, and Ni) Single-Atom Catalysts Anchored on N,S-Codoped Hybrid Nanocarbons for Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(13). 11061–11069. 6 indexed citations

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Wei, Dan, Chengbing Wang, Jing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Water Activation in Solar‐Powered Vapor Generation. Advanced Materials. 35(47). e2212100–e2212100. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Dan, et al.. (2023). Superhydrophilic Interconnected Biomass‐Based Absorbers Toward High‐Speed Evaporation for Solar Steam Generation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(9). 2300046–2300046. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Chengbing, et al.. (2023). Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination (Adv. Energy Mater. 21/2023). Advanced Energy Materials. 13(21). 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Chengbing, et al.. (2023). Water Skin Effect and Arched Double‐Sided Evaporation for Boosting All‐Weather High Salinity Desalination. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(21). 162 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wei, Dan, Mengman Weng, M.H.H. Mahmoud, et al.. (2022). Development of novel biomass hybrid aerogel supported composite phase change materials with improved light-thermal conversion and thermal energy storage capacity. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials. 5(3). 1910–1921. 83 indexed citations

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Wu, Wenling, Chengwei Wang, Chunhui Zhao, et al.. (2020). Facile strategy of hollow polyaniline nanotubes supported on Ti3C2-MXene nanosheets for High-performance symmetric supercapacitors. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 580. 601–613. 105 indexed citations

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Liu, Haiyan, Xiaomei Bai, Dan Wei, & Gengliang Yang. (2013). High-performance liquid chromatography separation of small molecules on a porous poly (trimethylol propane triacrylate-co-N-isopropylacrylamide-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) monolithic column. Journal of Chromatography A. 1324. 128–134. 19 indexed citations

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