Kuichang Zuo

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Kuichang Zuo is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuichang Zuo has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 47 papers in Water Science and Technology and 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kuichang Zuo's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (40 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (40 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (18 papers). Kuichang Zuo is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (40 papers), Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (40 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (18 papers). Kuichang Zuo collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Romania. Kuichang Zuo's co-authors include Qilin Li, Peng Liang, Xia Huang, Xiaochuan Huang, Jun Lou, Menachem Elimelech, Changyong Zhang, Amit Jain, Rafael Verduzco and Weipeng Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Kuichang Zuo

68 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials

2023 185 citations Kuichang Zuo, Sergi Garcia‐Segura et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kuichang Zuo China	33	1.8k	1.6k	840	616	565	73	2.9k
Michele Mascia Italy	31	1.5k 0.8×	603 0.4×	782 0.9×	1.2k 2.0×	209 0.4×	102	3.2k
Wulin Yang China	34	861 0.5×	766 0.5×	1.9k 2.2×	569 0.9×	1.8k 3.2×	78	3.2k
Yuhoon Hwang South Korea	29	968 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	311 0.4×	450 0.7×	240 0.4×	115	2.9k
S.J. Metz Netherlands	25	2.2k 1.2×	3.3k 2.1×	2.3k 2.8×	482 0.8×	634 1.1×	33	4.6k
Changzhu Yang China	35	1.4k 0.8×	644 0.4×	869 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	327 0.6×	90	3.6k
Long‐Fei Ren China	32	978 0.5×	648 0.4×	898 1.1×	466 0.8×	114 0.2×	102	2.4k
Jiaheng Teng China	28	1.6k 0.9×	1000 0.6×	500 0.6×	361 0.6×	177 0.3×	82	2.4k
Gengbo Ren China	27	2.0k 1.1×	603 0.4×	907 1.1×	1.9k 3.1×	160 0.3×	61	3.3k
Sihao Lv China	31	1.0k 0.6×	706 0.4×	471 0.6×	784 1.3×	100 0.2×	82	2.3k
Simonetta Palmas Italy	32	1.5k 0.8×	588 0.4×	906 1.1×	1.4k 2.3×	98 0.2×	101	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuichang Zuo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Jiao, Jiahui Hu, Kuichang Zuo, Xiaoyan Li, & Liyuan Zhang. (2025). Unexpected electrosorption capacity and selectivity of fungal hyphae derived carbon film for nitrate removal. Separation and Purification Technology. 362. 131676–131676. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Ruotong, Ruixue Zhao, Yuanfeng Liu, et al.. (2025). A novel composite membrane for zero liquid discharge of coking wastewater in membrane distillation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 512. 162521–162521. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Jie, Jing Ren, Huifang Sun, et al.. (2025). Hexagonal boron nitride and graphene covalent heterostructure to resist mineral scale formation and organic fouling in membrane distillation. Desalination. 613. 118999–118999.

Huang, Xiaochuan, Ze He, Matthew D. Meyer, et al.. (2025). Scalable Thin-Film Composite Cation Exchange Membrane for Separation of Monovalent and Divalent Cations in Electrodialysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 60(7). 5830–5841. 2 indexed citations

Jiao, Chen, Kuichang Zuo, Jiajin Liang, et al.. (2025). High-efficiency capacitive deionization: Freestanding carbon electrodes derived from fungal hyphae with in-situ oriented MOF growth. Green Energy & Environment. 10(11). 2156–2166. 1 indexed citations

Li, Shangze, Jiangzhou Qin, Jun Li, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Electrochemical Deuterated Ammonia (ND ₃ ) Production via Microenvironment‐Regulated Nitrate Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(34). 2 indexed citations

Huang, Xiaochuan, Mélanie Auffan, Matthew J. Eckelman, et al.. (2024). Trends, risks and opportunities in environmental nanotechnology. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 5(8). 572–587. 35 indexed citations

Xiao, Qian, Jinxing Ma, Longqian Xu, et al.. (2024). Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) for selective ion separation and recovery: Fundamentals, challenges, and opportunities. Journal of Membrane Science. 699. 122650–122650. 30 indexed citations

Li, Ao, Yueting Wu, Qinghao Wu, et al.. (2024). A novel polyelectrolyte-modified membrane for selective lithium extraction from water in an electrified process. Separation and Purification Technology. 359. 130539–130539. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Effective attenuation of extracellular antibiotic resistance gene risks in wastewater by capacitive deionization. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(1). 111837–111837. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhenbei, Zilong Song, Kuichang Zuo, et al.. (2023). Superior performance of catalytic ozonation on molecular-level transformation of effluent organic matter and self-cleaning property in catalytic ozonation membrane reactor. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 338. 123076–123076. 16 indexed citations

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Zuo, Kuichang, Sergi Garcia‐Segura, Gabriel Antonio Cerrón-Calle, et al.. (2023). Electrified water treatment: fundamentals and roles of electrode materials. Nature Reviews Materials. 8(7). 472–490. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yin, Yiming, Tianshu Li, Kuichang Zuo, et al.. (2022). Which Surface Is More Scaling Resistant? A Closer Look at Nucleation Theories for Heterogeneous Gypsum Nucleation in Aqueous Solutions. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(22). 16315–16324. 43 indexed citations

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Zuo, Kuichang, Kunpeng Wang, Ryan M. DuChanois, et al.. (2021). Selective membranes in water and wastewater treatment: Role of advanced materials. Materials Today. 50. 516–532. 186 indexed citations

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Said, Ibrahim A., et al.. (2020). Low-cost desalination of seawater and hypersaline brine using nanophotonics enhanced solar energy membrane distillation. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 6(8). 2180–2196. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Baogang, Yufeng Jiang, Kuichang Zuo, et al.. (2019). Microbial vanadate and nitrate reductions coupled with anaerobic methane oxidation in groundwater. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 382. 121228–121228. 75 indexed citations

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Liu, Fubin, Lisheng Wang, Kuichang Zuo, et al.. (2018). A novel operational strategy to enhance wastewater treatment with dual-anode assembled microbial desalination cell. Bioelectrochemistry. 126. 99–104. 18 indexed citations

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Chen, Xi, Kuichang Zuo, Yue Zhou, et al.. (2017). Self-sustaining advanced wastewater purification and simultaneous in situ nutrient recovery in a novel bioelectrochemical system. Chemical Engineering Journal. 330. 692–697. 48 indexed citations

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Zuo, Kuichang. (2013). Exposure dose of reclaimed water for car wash. Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae. 5 indexed citations

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Zuo, Kuichang, Lulu Yuan, Jincheng Wei, Peng Liang, & Xia Huang. (2013). Competitive migration behaviors of multiple ions and their impacts on ion-exchange resin packed microbial desalination cell. Bioresource Technology. 146. 637–642. 57 indexed citations

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