Dengfeng Cao

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Dengfeng Cao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Dengfeng Cao has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Dengfeng Cao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers). Dengfeng Cao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers). Dengfeng Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Dengfeng Cao's co-authors include Li Song, Shuangming Chen, Daobin Liu, Changda Wang, Hongliang Jiang, Pin Song, Qun He, Shiqiang Wei, Yue Lin and Dong Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Dengfeng Cao

33 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Achieving Efficient Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction over a Ni₅P₄ Catalyst Incorporating Single‐Atomic Ru Sites

2020 364 citations Qun He, Dengfeng Cao et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dengfeng Cao China	18	1.0k	886	529	153	146	35	1.4k
Jiangwen Liao China	14	892 0.9×	669 0.8×	440 0.8×	147 1.0×	98 0.7×	30	1.2k
Shipeng Gong China	13	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	380 0.7×	151 1.0×	209 1.4×	14	1.5k
Xianlang Chen China	12	978 1.0×	931 1.1×	444 0.8×	192 1.3×	126 0.9×	16	1.4k
Weizhao Hong China	12	1.2k 1.2×	964 1.1×	579 1.1×	166 1.1×	156 1.1×	13	1.5k
Zuhao Shi China	17	932 0.9×	845 1.0×	645 1.2×	122 0.8×	109 0.7×	32	1.4k
Shuaihao Tang China	17	1.0k 1.0×	839 0.9×	596 1.1×	118 0.8×	66 0.5×	22	1.4k
Xiongyi Liang Hong Kong	22	764 0.8×	681 0.8×	721 1.4×	164 1.1×	64 0.4×	44	1.4k
Hongguan Li China	14	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	611 1.2×	93 0.6×	85 0.6×	17	1.6k
Johannes Fichtner Germany	14	956 0.9×	748 0.8×	337 0.6×	81 0.5×	274 1.9×	20	1.2k

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Sheng, Beibei, Dengfeng Cao, Zheng‐Hang Qi, et al.. (2025). Targeted-tuning competitive acidic CO2RR via metalloid antagonism sites. Materials Today. 83. 54–63. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Yixiu, Heng Zhou, Shiqiang Wei, et al.. (2025). Boosting Ion Transport in Manganese Dioxide Cathodes through Electronically Tuned Molecular Intercalants. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(45). 41297–41307.

Yang, Yuqi, Dengfeng Cao, Beibei Sheng, et al.. (2025). Regulating the Rate‐Determining Step of Bismuth Electrocatalysts by Directional Facet Reconstruction for Efficient CO ₂ Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(41). 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Sirui, Heng Zhou, Dengfeng Cao, et al.. (2025). Heteroatom Doping Modulates the Electronic Environment of Bi for Efficient Electroreduction of CO2 to Formic Acid. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities. 41(2). 273–280. 1 indexed citations

Qian, Fangren, Jialin Shi, Dengfeng Cao, et al.. (2025). Boosting Zn metal reversibility via an efficient ternary aqueous electrolyte. Chemical Engineering Journal. 506. 159911–159911. 2 indexed citations

Qian, Fangren, Dengfeng Cao, Shuangming Chen, et al.. (2025). High-entropy RuO2 catalyst with dual-site oxide path for durable acidic oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6894–6894. 12 indexed citations

Zhou, Quan, Shiqiang Wei, Yuzhu Zhou, et al.. (2024). N‐methyl Formamide Electrolyte Additive Enabling Highly Reversible Zn Anodes. Small. 20(36). e2400673–e2400673. 10 indexed citations

Liu, Chongjing, Beibei Sheng, Quan Zhou, et al.. (2024). Manipulating d-Band Center of Nickel by Single-Iodine-Atom Strategy for Boosted Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(39). 26844–26854. 38 indexed citations

Xu, Wenjie, Hao Huang, Hongwei Shou, et al.. (2024). Spectroscopic visualization of reversible hydrogen spillover between palladium and metal–organic frameworks toward catalytic semihydrogenation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2562–2562. 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Chongjing, Yujian Xia, Pengjun Zhang, et al.. (2023). Understanding solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces through near ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 41(2). 100013–100013.

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Cao, Dengfeng, Wenjie Xu, Shuangming Chen, et al.. (2023). Visualizing Catalytic Dynamics Processes via Synchrotron Radiation Multitechniques. Advanced Materials. 35(30). e2205346–e2205346. 24 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhanfeng, Bo Zhang, Mukhtar Lawan Adam, et al.. (2022). Coexistence of the hourglass and nodal-line dispersions in Nb3SiTe6 revealed by ARPES. iScience. 25(3). 103952–103952. 2 indexed citations

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Sheng, Beibei, Dengfeng Cao, Hongwei Shou, et al.. (2022). Anomalous Ru dissolution enabling efficient integrated CO2 electroreduction in strong acid. Chemical Engineering Journal. 454. 140245–140245. 14 indexed citations

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Sheng, Beibei, Dengfeng Cao, Chongjing Liu, Shuangming Chen, & Li Song. (2021). Support Effects in Electrocatalysis and Their Synchrotron Radiation-Based Characterizations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(47). 11543–11554. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Wenjie, Dengfeng Cao, Oyawale Adetunji Moses, et al.. (2021). Probing self-optimization of carbon support in oxygen evolution reaction. Nano Research. 14(12). 4534–4540. 26 indexed citations

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Wei, Shiqiang, Shuangming Chen, Xiaozhi Su, et al.. (2021). Manganese buffer induced high-performance disordered MnVO cathodes in zinc batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(7). 3954–3964. 98 indexed citations

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Cao, Dengfeng, Hongwei Shou, Shuangming Chen, & Li Song. (2021). Manipulating and probing the structural self-optimization in oxygen evolution reaction catalysts. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 30. 100788–100788. 14 indexed citations

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Cao, Dengfeng, Oyawale Adetunji Moses, Beibei Sheng, et al.. (2020). Anomalous self-optimization of sulfate ions for boosted oxygen evolution reaction. Science Bulletin. 66(6). 553–561. 42 indexed citations

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Wang, Changda, Shiqiang Wei, Shuangming Chen, Dengfeng Cao, & Li Song. (2019). Delaminating Vanadium Carbides for Zinc‐Ion Storage: Hydrate Precipitation and H⁺/Zn²⁺ Co‐Action Mechanism. Small Methods. 3(12). 120 indexed citations

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Moses, Oyawale Adetunji, Malik Ihsanullah Khan, Qi Fang, et al.. (2018). PVP intercalated metallic WSe ₂ as NIR photothermal agents for efficient tumor ablation. Nanotechnology. 30(6). 65102–65102. 12 indexed citations

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