Haining Zhang

7.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
208 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Haining Zhang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Haining Zhang has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 80 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 41 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Haining Zhang's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (75 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (74 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (60 papers). Haining Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (75 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (74 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (60 papers). Haining Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Haining Zhang's co-authors include Haolin Tang, Ibrahim Saana Amiinu, Shichun Mu, Xiaobo Liu, Mu Pan, Zonghua Pu, Guo‐Xin Jin, Kwadwo Asare Owusu, Felix Ofori Boakye and Zhengkai Tu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Haining Zhang

197 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

From 3D ZIF Nanocrystals to Co–N_x/C Nanorod Array Electrocatalysts for ORR, OER, and Zn–Air Batteries

2017 776 citations Ibrahim Saana Amiinu, Haolin Tang et al. profile →
Multifunctional Mo–N/C@MoS₂ Electrocatalysts for HER, OER, ORR, and Zn–Air Batteries

2017 743 citations Ibrahim Saana Amiinu, Kwadwo Asare Owusu et al. profile →
Balancing Electronic Spin State via Atomically-Dispersed Heteronuclear Fe–Co Pairs for High-Performance Sodium–Sulfur Batteries

2025 26 citations Canhuang Li, Jing Yu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haining Zhang China	40	4.2k	2.9k	1.4k	988	813	208	6.5k
Xi’an Chen China	41	4.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.8×	1.6k 1.7×	556 0.7×	164	7.0k
Jiaxin Li China	42	2.5k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	913 1.1×	297	6.3k
Hongliang Jiang China	49	5.3k 1.2×	6.5k 2.2×	2.6k 1.8×	1.0k 1.0×	735 0.9×	137	9.4k
Dapeng Liu China	54	5.5k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	3.5k 2.5×	1.5k 1.5×	886 1.1×	190	9.4k
Yong Zhao China	51	6.0k 1.4×	4.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.9×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	214	9.7k
Mingtao Li China	44	3.7k 0.9×	4.1k 1.4×	2.9k 2.0×	954 1.0×	995 1.2×	177	7.4k
Zhiwei Fang United States	42	4.9k 1.2×	5.5k 1.9×	2.9k 2.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.3k 1.6×	73	9.8k
Huijuan Wang China	40	2.5k 0.6×	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 2.0×	649 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	100	6.5k
Zhe Wang China	48	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	781 0.8×	2.1k 2.6×	188	6.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Cairong, et al.. (2025). Dioxole-contained perfluorosulfonated ionomers with different equivalent weights as catalyst binder and proton conductor for proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Fuel. 399. 135658–135658. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Zhao, Yue Yuan, Rongze Wang, et al.. (2025). Clinical, Electroencephalogram and Imaging Characteristics of Patients With Anti‐LGI1 Antibody Encephalitis: A Multicenter Cohort Study. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics. 31(5). e70414–e70414.

Pan, Hongfei, et al.. (2025). Self-Supported Flexible Electrodes on Carbon Backbone with Interconnected Tubular Structure for Supercapacitors Operating under Wide Temperature Range. Energy & Fuels. 39(26). 12756–12767.

Li, Canhuang, Jing Yu, Dawei Yang, et al.. (2025). Balancing Electronic Spin State via Atomically-Dispersed Heteronuclear Fe–Co Pairs for High-Performance Sodium–Sulfur Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(10). 8250–8259. 26 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Haining, Chenyan Zhao, Xueli Sun, et al.. (2025). Supramolecular surface modification of ceria nanoparticles for enhanced chemical mechanical planarization performance in shallow trench isolation. Dalton Transactions. 54(37). 13958–13966.

Wang, Shihao, Meiling Fan, Hongfei Pan, et al.. (2024). Achieving asymmetric redox chemistry for oxygen evolution reaction through strong metal-support interactions. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 96. 526–535. 11 indexed citations

Yuan, Zhen, Meiling Fan, Yadong Wang, Yapeng Cheng, & Haining Zhang. (2024). N, S-Codoped Porous Carbon with Densely Edge Structure for Oxygen Reduction Reaction and Zinc-Air Battery. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(4). 1598–1605. 10 indexed citations

Jin, Li, Guoliang Liu, Fangfang Zhang, et al.. (2024). Improving the ohmic polarization of high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells using crosslinked polybenzimidazole membranes containing acidophilic quaternary ammonium groups synthesized by one-step strategy. Materials Today Energy. 40. 101499–101499. 15 indexed citations

Tu, Wenmao, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Lithium-Ion Diffusion Kinetics and Inhibition Volume Expansion via Sn-Bridged N-Doped Carbon and SiO_x for Highly Reversible Lithium-Ion Storage. Energy & Fuels. 38(23). 23114–23125. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Haifeng, et al.. (2023). Synergistic effect of interface and defect engineering of MoC/MoO2 nano dot encapsulated N-doped carbon nanoflowers for highly durable dye-sensitized solar cells. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 653(Pt B). 1620–1629. 18 indexed citations

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Boakye, Felix Ofori, Karim Harrath, Mohammad Tabish, et al.. (2023). Phosphorus coordinated Co/Se2 heterointerface nanowires: in-situ catalyst reconstruction toward efficient overall water splitting in alkaline and seawater media. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 969. 172240–172240. 14 indexed citations

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Fan, Meiling, et al.. (2023). Correction to “Analysis of the Lithium Storage Mechanism in the SiO_x/C Composite Based on the Performance Variation Applied to a Lithium-Ion Battery”. Energy & Fuels. 37(18). 14410–14410. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, Qing-Fang Bi, Wei Gong, et al.. (2023). Histogram analysis of diffusion kurtosis imaging of deep brain nuclei in Parkinson's disease with different motor subtypes. Clinical Radiology. 78(12). e966–e974. 2 indexed citations

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Xue, Songlin, Piao Zhang, Bin Liu, et al.. (2022). Fabrication of iodine/nitrogen co‐doped three‐dimensional porous reduced graphene oxide for high energy density supercapacitors. International Journal of Energy Research. 46(8). 11400–11410. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Ailian, et al.. (2021). Protic ionic liquid-grafted polybenzimidazole as proton conducting catalyst binder for high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Polymer Testing. 96. 107066–107066. 14 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zhiping, et al.. (2021). Angiotensin II upregulates RANKL/NFATC1 expression in synovial cells from patients with rheumatoid arthritis through the ERK1/2 and JNK pathways. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 16(1). 297–297. 10 indexed citations

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Tu, Wenmao, Hongfei Pan, Pengxia Ji, et al.. (2019). Zeolitic-imidazolate-framework-derived Co@Co3O4 embedded into iron, nitrogen, sulfur Co-doped reduced graphene oxide as efficient electrocatalysts for overall water splitting and zinc-air batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 323. 134821–134821. 40 indexed citations

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Zhang, Fangfang, et al.. (2018). Surface attachment of protonated polyimidazolium monolayer on titanate nanotubes as a novel proton conductor. Journal of Materials Science. 53(23). 15784–15794. 4 indexed citations

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Amiinu, Ibrahim Saana, et al.. (2014). Functionalized Polysulfones as an Alternative Material to Improve Proton Conductivity at Low Relative Humidity Fuel Cell Applications. Journals & Books Hosting (International Knowledge Sharing Platform). 6(2). 19–29. 2 indexed citations

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Niu, et al.. (1997). Synthesis of Schiff Base Type Macrocycles Containing Naphthalene Ring. 中国化学快报：英文版. 569–572.

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