Minna Cao

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Minna Cao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Minna Cao has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 31 papers in Materials Chemistry and 28 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Minna Cao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (35 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Minna Cao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (35 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (13 papers). Minna Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Taiwan. Minna Cao's co-authors include Rong Cao, Dongshuang Wu, Hanhui You, Tian‐Fu Liu, Jingxiang Lin, Shuiying Gao, Jian Lü, Hongfang Li, Fanfei Sun and Hao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Minna Cao

68 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Monolayer NiIr-Layered Double Hydroxide as a Long-Lived Efficient Oxygen Evolution Catalyst for Seawater Splitting

2022 312 citations Hanhui You, Dongshuang Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Minna Cao China	24	1.5k	1.0k	991	569	531	70	2.5k
Aaron K. Vannucci United States	31	2.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	638 1.1×	760 1.4×	61	3.6k
Robert McGuire United States	19	786 0.5×	968 1.0×	728 0.7×	563 1.0×	327 0.6×	27	2.0k
V. Sara Thoi United States	26	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	1.0k 1.8×	351 0.7×	55	3.9k
Jérôme Fortage France	29	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	746 0.8×	246 0.4×	323 0.6×	55	2.7k
Hongying Zhuo China	24	1.0k 0.7×	941 0.9×	482 0.5×	369 0.6×	384 0.7×	52	1.8k
Monte L. Helm United States	30	3.0k 2.0×	647 0.6×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.9×	709 1.3×	73	4.1k
Jianbing Jiang United States	30	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	324 0.6×	226 0.4×	100	3.6k
Dmitry E. Polyansky United States	29	2.2k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	532 0.5×	552 1.0×	438 0.8×	67	2.9k
Zhe‐Ning Chen China	23	1.1k 0.7×	768 0.8×	911 0.9×	539 0.9×	456 0.9×	85	2.4k
Bao‐Xia Dong China	28	927 0.6×	2.0k 2.0×	528 0.5×	1.6k 2.8×	318 0.6×	110	3.0k

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Yue, Shuai, et al.. (2025). Trimetallic La/Ce-CoFe Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts with a Tailored Electronic Structure for Seawater Oxidation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8(21). 11114–11123. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Siying, et al.. (2025). Nanoscale Cu–Ag Heterostructures for CO₂ Reduction to C₂₊ Products. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 8(4). 1893–1902. 5 indexed citations

You, Hanhui, Tao Shao, Dongshuang Wu, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Bifunctional Catalysis of Iridium Nanoparticles on Nitrogen‐Doped Holey Carbon via Strong Metal–Support Interaction for Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(44).

Shao, Tao, et al.. (2024). Enhancing CO₂ electroreduction with decamethylcucurbit[5]uril-alkaline earth metal modified Pd nanoparticles. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(24). 8671–8678. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaohong, et al.. (2024). Engineering highly selective CO₂ electroreduction in Cu-based perovskites through A-site cation manipulation. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(25). 17769–17776. 2 indexed citations

Sun, Fanfei, et al.. (2024). Surface modification of copper oxide nanosheets with CeO ₂ for enhanced CO ₂ reduction to C ₂ H ₄. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(2). 1135–1141. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Wenwen, Tao Shao, Chang Liu, et al.. (2024). Constructing Ag/Cu ₂ O Interface for Efficient Neutral CO ₂ Electroreduction to C ₂ H ₄. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(4). e202417066–e202417066. 38 indexed citations

Wang, Wenwen, Tao Shao, Chang Liu, et al.. (2024). Constructing Ag/Cu ₂ O Interface for Efficient Neutral CO ₂ Electroreduction to C ₂ H ₄. Angewandte Chemie. 137(4).

Wang, Huimin, Zhe‐Ning Chen, Yuanyuan Wang, et al.. (2024). Sub-10-nm-sized Au@AuxIr1−x metal-core/alloy-shell nanoparticles as highly durable catalysts for acidic water splitting. National Science Review. 11(4). nwae056–nwae056. 5 indexed citations

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You, Hanhui, Dongshuang Wu, Duan‐Hui Si, et al.. (2022). Monolayer NiIr-Layered Double Hydroxide as a Long-Lived Efficient Oxygen Evolution Catalyst for Seawater Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(21). 9254–9263. 312 indexed citations breakdown →

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Song, Xianmeng, et al.. (2022). Ultralow Pt Catalyst Loading Prepared by the Electroreduction of a Supramolecular Assembly for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(12). 15597–15604. 24 indexed citations

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Wang, Huimin, Zhe‐Ning Chen, Dongshuang Wu, et al.. (2021). Significantly Enhanced Overall Water Splitting Performance by Partial Oxidation of Ir through Au Modification in Core–Shell Alloy Structure. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(12). 4639–4645. 236 indexed citations

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Zhang, Suyuan, Minna Cao, & Rong Cao. (2020). Multipod Pd-Cucurbit[6]uril as an Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Ethanol Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reactions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(24). 9217–9225. 27 indexed citations

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Wu, Dongshuang, et al.. (2020). Ultrafine Ru nanoclusters anchored on cucurbit[6]uril/rGO for efficient hydrogen evolution in a broad pH range. Chemical Communications. 56(65). 9392–9395. 11 indexed citations

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Xiong, Wanfeng, Hongfang Li, Huimin Wang, et al.. (2020). Hollow Mesoporous Carbon Sphere Loaded Ni–N₄ Single‐Atom: Support Structure Study for CO₂ Electrocatalytic Reduction Catalyst. Small. 16(41). e2003943–e2003943. 108 indexed citations

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Wu, Dongshuang, Minna Cao, Hanhui You, Chuan Zhao, & Rong Cao. (2019). N-Doped holey carbon materials derived from a metal-free macrocycle cucurbit[6]uril assembly as an efficient electrocatalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Communications. 55(92). 13832–13835. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Ruru, Minna Cao, Weiguang Yang, et al.. (2019). Ultra-small Pd nanoparticles derived from a supramolecular assembly for enhanced electrochemical reduction of CO₂ to CO. Chemical Communications. 55(66). 9805–9808. 20 indexed citations

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Xiong, Wanfeng, Hongfang Li, Hanhui You, Minna Cao, & Rong Cao. (2019). Encapsulating metal organic framework into hollow mesoporous carbon sphere as efficient oxygen bifunctional electrocatalyst. National Science Review. 7(3). 609–619. 109 indexed citations

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Chen, Ruru, Minna Cao, Jin-Yun Wang, Hongfang Li, & Rong Cao. (2019). Decamethylcucurbit[5]uril based supramolecular assemblies as efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Chemical Communications. 55(78). 11687–11690. 5 indexed citations

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You, Hanhui, Dongshuang Wu, Zhe‐Ning Chen, et al.. (2019). Highly Active and Stable Water Splitting in Acidic Media Using a Bifunctional Iridium/Cucurbit[6]uril Catalyst. ACS Energy Letters. 4(6). 1301–1307. 70 indexed citations

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