Dandan Cai

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Dandan Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dandan Cai has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dandan Cai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (25 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (19 papers). Dandan Cai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (30 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (25 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (19 papers). Dandan Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Dandan Cai's co-authors include Haihui Wang, Suqing Wang, Changshui Wang, Peichao Lian, Liang‐Xin Ding, Dongdong Li, Weibin Chen, Shanqing Zhang, Xuefeng Zhu and Weishen Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Dandan Cai

81 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Construction of Co₄ Atomic Clusters to Enable Fe−N₄ Motifs with Highly Active and Durable Oxygen Reduction Performance

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dandan Cai China	30	1.7k	971	769	730	278	89	3.0k
Mengjie Lu China	28	1.5k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	663 0.9×	466 0.6×	298 1.1×	74	3.0k
Mingyu Cheng China	29	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	696 0.9×	747 1.0×	887 3.2×	70	3.9k
Yaqiang Li China	32	873 0.5×	587 0.6×	536 0.7×	205 0.3×	524 1.9×	138	3.4k
Haibo Shao China	34	2.0k 1.2×	596 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	458 1.6×	118	3.4k
Taiqiang Chen China	37	3.2k 1.9×	969 1.0×	1.5k 2.0×	1.7k 2.3×	1.3k 4.8×	64	5.0k
Litao Yan United States	36	2.5k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	1.7k 2.2×	1.2k 1.6×	255 0.9×	80	4.3k
Lin Lv China	33	3.3k 2.0×	2.8k 2.9×	1.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	288 1.0×	80	4.6k
Zhengqing Liu China	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	402 0.6×	550 2.0×	95	3.5k
Xiaomin Huang China	24	733 0.4×	256 0.3×	495 0.6×	340 0.5×	296 1.1×	101	1.8k
Yafei Feng China	32	1.7k 1.0×	2.2k 2.3×	1.1k 1.5×	245 0.3×	871 3.1×	83	4.1k

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Wang, Yixin, Xixing Zhou, Dandan Cai, et al.. (2025). High PA retention proton exchange membranes based on polybenzimidazole/SiO2 composites for high-temperature fuel cells. Journal of Membrane Science. 735. 124545–124545. 4 indexed citations

Hui, Wei, Yan Zhou, Dandan Cai, et al.. (2025). Pelletized adsorbent of pillar[5]quinone for efficient and fast adsorption of NH3. Separation and Purification Technology. 362. 131648–131648. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Lixia, Shifan Zhang, Zhiyang Huang, et al.. (2025). Ferrocene-MOFs: Optimizing OER Kinetics for Water Splitting. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(9). 4680–4688. 10 indexed citations

Yin, Haoran, Lixia Wang, Tayirjan Taylor Isimjan, et al.. (2025). Lattice-mismatched MOF-on-MOF nanosheets with rich oxygen vacancies show fast oxygen evolution kinetics for large-current water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 367. 125105–125105. 27 indexed citations

Cai, Dandan, Yilin Zhou, Bei Wang, et al.. (2025). Mica ionogels-enhanced electrospun Nafion composite membranes: Synergistic proton conduction and mechanical reinforcement for PEMFCs. Journal of Membrane Science. 732. 124260–124260. 4 indexed citations

Chen, Jiahui, Jiang-Hao Yu, Wei Hui, et al.. (2025). Acetic acid-assisted synthesis of Zr-based metal organic framework for rapid and efficient low-concentration ammonia adsorption. Chemical Engineering Journal. 525. 170580–170580.

Cai, Dandan, Feng Zheng, Ziwei Qin, et al.. (2024). A carbon quantum dot-decorated g-C₃N₄ composite as a sulfur hosting material for lithium–sulfur batteries. Dalton Transactions. 53(16). 7035–7043. 6 indexed citations

Yin, Haoran, et al.. (2024). Real Active Site Identification of Co/Co₃O₄ Anchoring Ni-MOF Nanosheets with Fast OER Kinetics for Overall Water Splitting. Inorganic Chemistry. 63(15). 7045–7052. 16 indexed citations

Chen, Liming, Shipeng Geng, Dandan Cai, et al.. (2024). Rational Design of Ultrafine Pt Nanoparticles with Strong Metal‐Support Interaction for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(39). 21 indexed citations

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Yin, Haoran, Di Yao, Lixia Wang, et al.. (2024). Ultrathin 2D–2D NiFe LDH/MOF heterojunction nanosheets: an efficient oxygen evolution reaction catalyst for water oxidation. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(8). 2489–2497. 20 indexed citations

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Geng, Shipeng, Limin Chen, Ruchun Li, et al.. (2023). Synergistic d-p hybridized Co/W5N4 heterostructure catalyst for industrial alkaline water/seawater hydrogen evolution. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123486–123486. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shifan, Zhiyang Huang, Tayirjan Taylor Isimjan, Dandan Cai, & Xiulin Yang. (2023). Accurately substituting Fe for Ni2 atom in Ni-MOF with defect-rich for efficient oxygen evolution reaction: Electronic reconfiguration and mechanistic study. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123448–123448. 96 indexed citations

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Yin, Haoran, et al.. (2023). Revealing the effect of crystallinity and oxygen vacancies of Fe-Co phosphate on oxygen evolution for high-current water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 653(Pt B). 1379–1387. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shifan, et al.. (2023). Facile construction of CoNi-MOF nanosheet arrays and exploration of the active sites for oxygen evolution reaction with ultralow overpotential. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 943. 169091–169091. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hailong, Dandan Cai, Xun Sun, et al.. (2022). Solid solution strengthening of high-entropy alloys from first-principles study. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 121. 105–116. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Guodong, et al.. (2020). The Influence of Groove Structure Parameters on the Maximum Flow Resistance of a Rectangular Narrow Channel. Energies. 13(14). 3716–3716. 2 indexed citations

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Tang, Jie, Dandan Cai, Yi Zhang, et al.. (2020). Establishment of Rat Model of Insulin Resistance Exposed to Chronic Renal Allograft Dysfunction. Transplantation Proceedings. 53(1). 486–490. 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Jian-Qiang, Dandan Cai, Jun Dai, et al.. (2019). Heptanuclear brucite disk with cyanide bridges in a cocrystal and tracking its pyrolysis to an efficient oxygen evolution electrode. Science Bulletin. 64(22). 1667–1674. 22 indexed citations

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Zhou, Haiping, et al.. (2019). Theoretical-limit exceeded capacity of the N2+H2 plasma modified graphite anode material. Carbon. 146. 194–199. 36 indexed citations

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Liu, Huanhuan, Long Yang, Rui Zhang, et al.. (2017). Biomimetic tendon extracellular matrix composite gradient scaffold enhances ligament-to-bone junction reconstruction. Acta Biomaterialia. 56. 129–140. 66 indexed citations

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