Mingkai Zhang

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Mingkai Zhang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingkai Zhang has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mingkai Zhang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (8 papers). Mingkai Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (18 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers) and Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (8 papers). Mingkai Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Mingkai Zhang's co-authors include Yongquan Qu, Yuanyuan Ma, Wangyan Gou, Sai Zhang, Jun Hu, Jiayuan Li, Zhaoming Xia, Zhong Chen, Jiayuan Li and Hanxuan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Mingkai Zhang

67 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

A fundamental viewpoint on the hydrogen spillover phenome... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2021 2019 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. A fundamental viewpoint on the hydrogen spillover phenomenon of electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
    2021 461 citations Jun Hu, Mingkai Zhang et al. profile →
  2. Ethylene-glycol ligand environment facilitates highly efficient hydrogen evolution of Pt/CoP through proton concentration and hydrogen spillover
    2019 372 citations Wangyan Gou, Mingkai Zhang et al. profile →

Peers

Mingkai Zhang
Xiaoyang Huang China
Hongda Li China
Hongwei Li China
Nan Jiang China
Zhiyong Tang China
Liang Huang China
Zhenni Wang China
Huaqiang Yin China
Xiaoyang Huang China
Mingkai Zhang
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mingkai Zhang

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Junyi, Zhixuan Zhang, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2025). High-performance multicolored electrochromic energy storage devices based on amorphous V2O5 and ZnSO4-KCl hybrid aqueous electrolytes. Chemical Engineering Journal. 528. 172080–172080.
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Zhang, Mingkai, et al.. (2025). Understanding the Li/Na intercalation mechanism in MoS2/Ti2BT2 (T = Se, Te) heterostructures: An atomic-scale investigation. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 709. 136155–136155. 16 indexed citations
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Gou, Wangyan, Mingkai Zhang, Xiaohe Tan, et al.. (2025). Spillover of active oxygen intermediates of binary RuO 2 /Nb 2 O 5 nanowires for highly active and robust acidic oxygen evolution. Nanoscale Horizons. 10(3). 586–595. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Ke, et al.. (2025). Boron-Doped Pd Nanoparticles with a Regulated d-Band Center for Hydrogenation of Benzoic Acid. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 64(11). 6203–6208.
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Yang, Jiancheng, Yiqing Zhang, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2025). Adsorption of chemical warfare agents and their simulants by metal-organic frameworks: GCMC and DFT studies. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 13(3). 116628–116628. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Mingkai, et al.. (2025). Role of kmax mapping image annotation method combined with R-tree index in civil engineering supervision. Systems and Soft Computing. 7. 200319–200319.
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Liu, Zongbin, Xiaojiao Yu, Yuchen Wei, et al.. (2025). Investigation of the photoelectric properties of nanostructured CeO2/Cu2O heterojunction: Photocatalytic degradation of sulfadiazine in water. Environmental Research. 268. 120788–120788. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Ziyao, Tian Hu, Jianbin Deng, et al.. (2024). Efficient removal of lead from polluted paddy soil by one-pot synthesized Nano-Fe3O4 incorporated stable lignin hydrogel. Chemical Engineering Journal. 496. 154196–154196. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Yuefei, Yuan Tan, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2024). Improved Nitrate‐to‐Ammonia Electrocatalysis through Hydrogen Poisoning Effects. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(44). e202411068–e202411068. 11 indexed citations
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Hu, Tian, Mingkai Zhang, Jianbin Deng, et al.. (2024). Efficient Pb(II) removal from contaminated soils by recyclable, robust lignosulfonate/polyacrylamide double-network hydrogels embedded with Fe2O3 via one-pot synthesis. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 479. 135712–135712. 4 indexed citations
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Gou, Wangyan, Yichen Wang, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2024). A review on fundamentals for designing stable ruthenium-based catalysts for the hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 60. 68–106. 37 indexed citations
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Yang, Jiancheng, Mingkai Zhang, Yiqing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Advances in the adsorption and degradation of chemical warfare agents and simulants by Metal-organic frameworks. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 493. 215289–215289. 38 indexed citations
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Su, Jiachun, Jiancheng Yang, Mingkai Zhang, et al.. (2023). Improvement mechanism of Ru species on Hg0 oxidation reactivity over V2O5/TiO2 Catalyst: A density functional theory study. Chemical Engineering Science. 274. 118689–118689. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Long, Jiancheng Yang, Menghan Li, et al.. (2023). The effect of Na/K on the NO adsorption behavior and heterogeneous reduction of internal nitrogen-containing char: A DFT study. Fuel. 344. 128073–128073. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhongxian, Mingkai Zhang, Lei Huang, & Hai Zhang. (2023). Broadband seismic isolation effect of three-dimensional seismic metamaterials in a semi-infinite foundation: modelled by fast multipole indirect boundary element method. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 154. 7–20. 14 indexed citations
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Zhang, Guowei, et al.. (2023). HUTNet: An Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Handwritten Uchen Tibetan Character Recognition. Big Data. 11(5). 387–398. 2 indexed citations
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Liang, Jin, et al.. (2021). Full-field motion and deformation measurement of high speed rotation based on temporal phase-locking and 3D-DIC. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 146. 106697–106697. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Huan, et al.. (2021). An intelligent and automated 3D surface defect detection system for quantitative 3D estimation and feature classification of material surface defects. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 144. 106633–106633. 33 indexed citations
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Zhang, Mingkai, et al.. (2018). Quantifying rainfall-derived inflow and infiltration in sanitary sewer systems based on conductivity monitoring. Journal of Hydrology. 558. 174–183. 48 indexed citations
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Zhang, Mingkai, Yanchen Liu, Qian Dong, et al.. (2017). Estimating rainfall-induced inflow and infiltration in a sanitary sewer system based on water quality modelling: which parameter to use?. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 4(3). 385–393. 22 indexed citations

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