Mujin Cai

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mujin Cai is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Process Chemistry and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mujin Cai has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Process Chemistry and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mujin Cai's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (7 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers). Mujin Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (7 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers). Mujin Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and Poland. Mujin Cai's co-authors include Le He, Chaoran Li, Xiaohong Zhang, Zhiyi Wu, Kai Feng, Shenghua Wang, Geoffrey A. Ozin, Meiwen Peng, Lu Wang and Dake Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, ACS Nano and Nature Energy.

In The Last Decade

Mujin Cai

15 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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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. Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis
    2021 368 citations Mujin Cai, Zhiyi Wu et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers

Mujin Cai
Binhao Qin China
Minh Tuan Nguyen Dinh Vietnam
Chenglong Qiu China
Zichen Du United States
Athanasios A. Tountas Canada
Zhaoyu Chen China
Sushant Kumar India
Feifei You China
Binhao Qin China
Mujin Cai
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Fields of papers citing papers by Mujin Cai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mujin Cai

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Yu, Kewei, Kai Feng, Mujin Cai, et al.. (2025). Nature-Inspired Nanoarray Catalyst toward Balanced Heat and Mass Transport in Photothermal Catalysis. ACS Nano. 19(19). 18674–18685. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Shuang Liu, Jiari He, et al.. (2023). Modulation of the Structure‐function Relationship of the “nano‐greenhouse effect” towards Optimized Supra‐photothermal Catalysis. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 19(5). e202301077–e202301077. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Zhiyi Wu, Zhijie Zhu, et al.. (2023). Identification of photochemical effects in Ni-based photothermal catalysts. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry. 42(6). 100071–100071. 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Chaoran Li, Xingda An, et al.. (2023). Supra‐Photothermal CO2 Methanation over Greenhouse‐Like Plasmonic Superstructures of Ultrasmall Cobalt Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials. 36(9). e2308859–e2308859. 50 indexed citations
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Shen, Jiahui, Rui Tang, Zhiyi Wu, et al.. (2022). Integrated Photothermal Nanoreactors for Efficient Hydrogenation of CO2. Transactions of Tianjin University. 28(4). 236–244. 34 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhiyi, Jiahui Shen, Chaoran Li, et al.. (2022). Mo2TiC2 MXene-Supported Ru Clusters for Efficient Photothermal Reverse Water–Gas Shift. ACS Nano. 17(2). 1550–1559. 112 indexed citations
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He, Yang, Yinghui Sun, Meiwen Peng, et al.. (2022). Tailoring the Salt Transport Flux of Solar Evaporators for a Highly Effective Salt-Resistant Desalination with High Productivity. ACS Nano. 16(2). 2511–2520. 131 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Zhiyi Wu, Li Zhao, et al.. (2021). Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis. Nature Energy. 6(8). 807–814. 368 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Zhiyi, Chaoran Li, Zhao Li, et al.. (2021). Niobium and Titanium Carbides (MXenes) as Superior Photothermal Supports for CO2 Photocatalysis. ACS Nano. 15(3). 5696–5705. 235 indexed citations
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Xu, Ao‐Bo, Mujin Cai, Dake Zhang, et al.. (2021). Cobalt‐Sputtered Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membrane for Efficient Photothermal CO2 Hydrogenation. ChemNanoMat. 7(9). 1008–1012. 16 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Chaoran Li, & Le He. (2020). Enhancing photothermal CO 2 catalysis by thermal insulating substrates. Rare Metals. 39(8). 881–886. 69 indexed citations
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Feng, Kai, Shenghua Wang, Dake Zhang, et al.. (2020). Cobalt Plasmonic Superstructures Enable Almost 100% Broadband Photon Efficient CO2 Photocatalysis. Advanced Materials. 32(24). e2000014–e2000014. 141 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, Mujin Cai, Wei Sun, Le He, & Xiaohong Zhang. (2018). Promoting Charge Separation in Semiconductor Nanocrystal Superstructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 5(13). 38 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongcheng, et al.. (2017). One-pot sequential synthesis of magnetically separable Fe3O4/AgCl photocatalysts with enhanced activity and stability. Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 91(3). 500–510. 4 indexed citations
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Peng, Meiwen, Peng Xiao, Youju Huang, et al.. (2015). A direct microcontact printing induced supramolecular interaction for creating shape-tunable patterned polymeric surfaces. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3(33). 8659–8664. 2 indexed citations

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