Dunfeng Gao

11.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
91 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Dunfeng Gao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dunfeng Gao has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 64 papers in Catalysis and 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dunfeng Gao's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (75 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (52 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (45 papers). Dunfeng Gao is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (75 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (52 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (45 papers). Dunfeng Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United States. Dunfeng Gao's co-authors include Guoxiong Wang, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Xinhe Bao, Rosa M. Arán‐Ais, Hyo Sang Jeon, Fabian Scholten, Shu Miao, Fan Yang, Jianguo Wang and Hu Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Dunfeng Gao

84 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Rational catalyst and electrolyte design for CO2 electroreduction towards multicarbon products

2019 1.2k citations Dunfeng Gao, Rosa M. Arán‐Ais et al. profile →
Size-Dependent Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ over Pd Nanoparticles

2015 989 citations Dunfeng Gao, Fan Yang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction with the Metal–Oxide Interface

2017 539 citations Dunfeng Gao, Yi Zhang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Coverage-driven selectivity switch from ethylene to acetate in high-rate CO2/CO electrolysis

2023 197 citations Pengfei Wei, Dunfeng Gao et al. profile →
Ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate using a stable amorphous/crystalline dual-phase Cu catalyst

2025 51 citations Jiaqi Sang, Pengfei Wei et al. Nature Communications profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Confinement Catalysis of Reaction Intermediates in Ag@Cu₂O Cascade Nanoreactors toward Boosted Electrochemical C–C Coupling 2024 ·ACS Catalysis ·(unknown), Honglin Li, Hongman Sun, (unknown), Yu Zhang, Youhe Wang, (unknown), Dunfeng Gao, Yongxiao Tuo, Jingbin Zeng, De Chen, Zifeng Yan	25
2	Boosting Electrocatalytic Ethylene Epoxidation by Single Atom Modulation 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Hanyu Wang, Shuo Wang, Yanpeng Song, Yang Zhao, Zhenyu Li, (unknown), Zhangquan Peng, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao	21
3	CO electrolysis to multicarbon products over grain boundary-rich Cu nanoparticles in membrane electrode assembly electrolyzers 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Hefei Li, (unknown), Tianfu Liu, Mingrun Li, Chao Wang, Rongtan Li, Jinyu Ye, Zhi‐You Zhou, Shi‐Gang Sun, Qiang Fu, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao	40
4	Boosting Electrocatalytic Ethylene Epoxidation by Single Atom Modulation 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Hanyu Wang, (unknown), Yanpeng Song, Yang Zhao, Zhenyu Li, (unknown), Zhangquan Peng, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao	0
5	PbHPO4 derived Pb catalysts modified by polyethylene glycol toward efficient CO2 electroreduction to formate 2023 ·Journal of Catalysis ·Chunfeng Cheng, Guohui Song, Pengfei Wei, Tianfu Liu, Xiaoju Liu, Zhou Chen, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang	6
6	Directing the Selectivity of CO Electrolysis to Acetate by Constructing Metal‐Organic Interfaces 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), Tianfu Liu, Jiaqi Sang, Rongtan Li, Pengfei Wei, Hefei Li, Aiyi Dong, Li Che, Qiang Fu, Dunfeng Gao, Guoxiong Wang	4
7	Reaction-induced iodine adsorption on Cu surfaces facilitates electrocatalytic CO2 reduction 2023 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·(unknown), Chenyan Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Dunfeng Gao, Zhi Liu, Fan Yang	5
8	Asymmetric Oxo‐Bridged ZnPb Bimetallic Electrocatalysis Boosting CO₂‐to‐HCOOH Reduction 2021 ·Advanced Science ·Aya Gomaa Abdelkader Mohamed, Enbo Zhou, (unknown), Jiafang Xie, Dunfeng Gao, Yaobing Wang	42
9	On the Activity/Selectivity and Phase Stability of Thermally Grown Copper Oxides during the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ 2020 ·ACS Catalysis ·Juan‐Jesús Velasco‐Vélez, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Dunfeng Gao, Qingjun Zhu, (unknown), Hyo Sang Jeon, Rosa Arrigo, Rik V. Mom, Eugen Stotz, Heng‐Liang Wu, Travis E. Jones, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Robert Schlögl	62
10	Revealing the Active Phase of Copper during the Electroreduction of CO₂ in Aqueous Electrolyte by Correlating In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy and In Situ Electron Microscopy 2020 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Juan‐Jesús Velasco‐Vélez, Rik V. Mom, Luís-Ernesto Sandoval-Díaz, Lorenz J. Falling, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Dunfeng Gao, Travis E. Jones, Qingjun Zhu, Rosa Arrigo, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Thomas Lunkenbein, Robert Schlögl	109
11	In situ exsolved FeNi₃ nanoparticles on nickel doped Sr₂Fe_1.5Mo_0.5O_6−δ perovskite for efficient electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction 2019 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Houfu Lv, Le Lin, Xiaomin Zhang, Dunfeng Gao, Yuefeng Song, Yingjie Zhou, Qingxue Liu, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao	222
12	Selective CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethylene and Multicarbon Alcohols via Electrolyte‐Driven Nanostructuring 2019 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Dunfeng Gao, Ilya Sinev, Fabian Scholten, Rosa M. Arán‐Ais, Núria J. Divins, Kristina O. Kvashnina, Janis Timoshenko, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	60
13	The Role of the Copper Oxidation State in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ into Valuable Hydrocarbons 2018 ·ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·Juan‐Jesús Velasco‐Vélez, Travis E. Jones, Dunfeng Gao, Emilia A. Carbonio, Rosa Arrigo, (unknown), Yucheng Huang, Chung‐Li Dong, Jin‐Ming Chen, Jyh‐Fu Lee, Peter Strasser, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Robert Schlögl, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Cheng‐Hao Chuang	155
14	Dynamic Changes in the Structure, Chemical State and Catalytic Selectivity of Cu Nanocubes during CO₂ Electroreduction: Size and Support Effects 2018 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Philipp Grosse, Dunfeng Gao, Fabian Scholten, Ilya Sinev, Hemma Mistry, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	374
15	Pd/C催化剂用于CO2电化学还原生成CO:Pd载量的影响 2018 ·Journal of Electrochemistry ·Dunfeng Gao, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
16	Structure- and Electrolyte-Sensitivity in CO₂ Electroreduction 2018 ·Accounts of Chemical Research ·Rosa M. Arán‐Ais, Dunfeng Gao, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	288
17	Activity and Selectivity Control in CO₂ Electroreduction to Multicarbon Products over CuO_x Catalysts via Electrolyte Design 2018 ·ACS Catalysis ·Dunfeng Gao, Ian T. McCrum, Shyam Deo, Y. J. Choi, Fabian Scholten, Weiming Wan, Jingguang G. Chen, Michael J. Janik, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	226
18	Dynamic Changes in the Structure, Chemical State and Catalytic Selectivity of Cu Nanocubes during CO₂ Electroreduction: Size and Support Effects 2018 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Philipp Grosse, Dunfeng Gao, Fabian Scholten, Ilya Sinev, Hemma Mistry, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	95
19	Improved CO₂ Electroreduction Performance on Plasma-Activated Cu Catalysts via Electrolyte Design: Halide Effect 2017 ·ACS Catalysis ·Dunfeng Gao, Fabian Scholten, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya	310
20	Enhancing CO₂ Electroreduction with the Metal–Oxide Interface breakdown → 2017 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Dunfeng Gao, Yi Zhang, Zhiwen Zhou, Fan Cai, Xinfei Zhao, Wugen Huang, Yangsheng Li, Junfa Zhu, Ping Liu, Fan Yang, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao	539

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