Kai Zeng

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
97 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Kai Zeng is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Zeng has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 34 papers in Materials Chemistry and 32 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kai Zeng's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (15 papers). Kai Zeng is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (15 papers). Kai Zeng collaborates with scholars based in China, Czechia and Poland. Kai Zeng's co-authors include Dongke Zhang, Ruizhi Yang, Jin Yan, Xiangjun Zheng, Peter Strasser, Zhihui Sun, Xuecheng Cao, Mark H. Rümmeli, Chuanhui Zhang and Zhong Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nano Letters and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kai Zeng

89 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Recent progress in alkaline water electrolysis for hydrog... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Recent progress in alkaline water electrolysis for hydrogen production and applications
    2009 2.8k citations Kai Zeng et al. profile →

Peers

Kai Zeng
Diogo M.F. Santos Portugal
Mohd Shahbudin Masdar Malaysia
Sarbjit Giddey Australia
Pierre Millet France
Karel Bouzek Czechia
Jianwei Ren South Africa
Rahman Daiyan Australia
Joey D. Ocon Philippines
Cristina Flox Spain
Lei Shi China
Diogo M.F. Santos Portugal
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Zeng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Zeng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Zeng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Zeng 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 Kai Zeng. Kai Zeng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zeng, Kai, et al.. (2025). Iron at the helm: Steering arsenic speciation through redox processes in soils. Environmental Research. 274. 121327–121327. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Shan, Hao Tan, Kai Zeng, et al.. (2025). Tailoring the Effects of Spin State and Intermediate Hydrogen Adsorption on NiPt/Ni Bridge Sites toward Robust Acidic Water Electrolysis. Nano Letters. 25(37). 13956–13964. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Jin, Zhangsen Chen, Qian Zhang, et al.. (2025). Large-Scale Production of High-Loading Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Applications. Electrochemical Energy Reviews. 8(1).
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Deng, Xiaolong, et al.. (2025). Fluorine anion mediated rapid reactive phase reconstruction of NiFe layered double hydroxide for 1.0 A cm−2 anion-exchange membrane water electrolysis. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 156. 150381–150381. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhihui, Yingjie Hu, Jixiong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Interfacial oxygen bridge bonding with Mo-O-Ti units in MoOx@Ti3C2 MXene harness efficient Li-O2 Battery at high rate. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 351. 123984–123984. 25 indexed citations
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Jin, Tongxia, Kai Zeng, Xin Zhang, et al.. (2024). Efficient Self‐Sorting Behaviours of Metallacages with Subtle Structural Differences. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(44). e202409878–e202409878. 7 indexed citations
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Zeng, Kai, Hongwei Tao, Yanfang Wu, et al.. (2024). Plasma‐Engraved Lattice‐Matched NiO/NiFe2O4 Heterostructure with Ample Oxygen Vacancies for Efficient Water Electrolysis and Zn‐Air Batteries. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(37). e202401272–e202401272. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Jianjian, Kai Zeng, Tongxia Jin, et al.. (2023). Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Macrocycles and Cages: Design, Preparation, and Application. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 502. 215598–215598. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhihui, Yingjie Hu, Kai Zeng, et al.. (2023). Turn “Waste” Into Wealth: MoO 2 @coal Gangue Electrocatalyst with Amorphous/Crystalline Heterostructure for Efficient Li–O 2 Batteries. Small. 19(27). e2208145–e2208145. 23 indexed citations
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Cao, Xuecheng, Zhihui Sun, Xiangjun Zheng, et al.. (2023). Three-Dimensional WCoFe Ternary Metal Oxide Nanowire Network as a Carbon-Free Cathode Catalyst for High-Performance Li–O2 Batteries. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(29). 10640–10648. 6 indexed citations
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Cao, Wenxi, Kai Zeng, Wendi Zheng, et al.. (2023). Estimation of primary production from the light absorption of phytoplankton and photosynthetically active radiation in the South China Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Kai, et al.. (2023). Synergized N and P co-doped Ti3C2Tx mxene enabling high-performance Li-air batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 657. 46–53. 15 indexed citations
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Cao, Xuecheng, Chaohui Wei, Xiangjun Zheng, et al.. (2022). Ru clusters anchored on Magnéli phase Ti4O7 nanofibers enables flexible and highly efficient Li–O2 batteries. Energy storage materials. 50. 355–364. 50 indexed citations
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Zheng, Xiangjun, Xuecheng Cao, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Tunable dual cationic redox couples boost bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis for long-term rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 628(Pt B). 922–930. 11 indexed citations
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Gong, Hongyu, Xiu Liang, Xiangjun Zheng, et al.. (2022). Insight into role of Ni/Fe existing forms in reversible oxygen catalysis based on Ni‐Fe single‐atom/nanoparticles and N‐doped carbon. Rare Metals. 41(12). 4034–4040. 44 indexed citations
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Huang, Guan, et al.. (2015). Porous chitosan-supported metal tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin as a practical model for the hydrophobic pocket/cavity of cytochrome P-450 enzyme. Materials Science and Engineering C. 49. 844–850. 11 indexed citations

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