Ning Cao

764 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 529 citations indexed

About

Ning Cao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ning Cao has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 529 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Ning Cao's work include Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (6 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (5 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (5 papers). Ning Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (6 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (5 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (5 papers). Ning Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Ning Cao's co-authors include Guanying Chen, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Meiling Tan, Xin Wang, Hui Li, Daniel Jaque, Chenyang Zhang, Feng Li, Takashi Taniguchi and Zhaowei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ning Cao

26 papers receiving 523 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.

Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet

2023 160 citations Naizhou Wang, Daniel Kaplan et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ning Cao China	11	262	219	129	129	104	27	529
Giovanni Borghi Italy	12	607 2.3×	560 2.6×	147 1.1×	157 1.2×	136 1.3×	17	839
Lior Neeman Israel	8	320 1.2×	282 1.3×	156 1.2×	73 0.6×	104 1.0×	10	581
Hao Jia China	11	147 0.6×	166 0.8×	133 1.0×	52 0.4×	69 0.7×	30	347
Shingo Fuchi Japan	13	324 1.2×	104 0.5×	212 1.6×	96 0.7×	45 0.4×	50	445
Zhangyin Zhai China	16	415 1.6×	151 0.7×	351 2.7×	95 0.7×	110 1.1×	62	632
Guiguang Xiong China	12	322 1.2×	380 1.7×	234 1.8×	225 1.7×	103 1.0×	42	625
Chun-Yi Cheng Taiwan	12	254 1.0×	116 0.5×	210 1.6×	43 0.3×	107 1.0×	47	531
Zhijian Yang China	16	336 1.3×	152 0.7×	357 2.8×	80 0.6×	170 1.6×	56	671
J. Beerens Canada	14	151 0.6×	457 2.1×	442 3.4×	98 0.8×	66 0.6×	57	681

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ning Cao

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Lu, Xiu Fang, Naizhou Wang, Tianye Huang, et al.. (2025). Zero-field chiral edge transport in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5587–5587. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Ning, Yunfei Hou, Bin Zhu, & Jia Zhu. (2025). High-performance full-color radiative cooling films: Unlocking potential for broad adoption and commercialization. Matter. 8(3). 101995–101995. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Yani, Ning Cao, Ke Wang, et al.. (2025). Atomically Dispersed Rh–O–V Pairs Promote Methane Dry Reforming with Sustained Catalytic Activity. ACS Catalysis. 15(11). 8833–8845. 4 indexed citations

Xu, Yueyuan, Ning Cao, Yao Shi, Yan Mi, & Pengfei Xie. (2025). Jahn–Teller Distortion in the Amino-Functionalized Metal–organic Framework Promotes CH₄ Partial Oxidation with Enhanced in situ H₂O₂ Utilization Efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(35). 31952–31964. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Ning, Hao Cheng, Lixia Qiu, et al.. (2024). Interface reconfiguration of MnCO3/Mn3O4 heterostructure enhances the ozone decomposition in the entire humidity range. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 355. 124171–124171. 16 indexed citations

Cao, Ning, Yuxuan He, Zihao Pan, et al.. (2024). In situ monitoring of loading and elution processes of cryoprotectants at the single-cell level with Raman spectroscopy. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1307. 342640–342640. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Naizhou, Daniel Kaplan, Zhaowei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Quantum-metric-induced nonlinear transport in a topological antiferromagnet. Nature. 621(7979). 487–492. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Lichun, Shunli He, Ning Cao, et al.. (2023). A self-powered p-CuBr/n-Si heterojunction photodetector based on vacuum thermally evaporated high-quality CuBr films. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(3). 1012–1019. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Yugang, Zefang Li, Jing Zhang, et al.. (2023). Observation of enhanced ferromagnetic spin-spin correlations at a triple point in quasi-two-dimensional magnets. Physical review. B.. 107(13). 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhaowei, Naizhou Wang, Ning Cao, et al.. (2022). Controlled large non-reciprocal charge transport in an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6191–6191. 25 indexed citations

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Ji, Tianxing, Xindong Wang, Ning Cao, et al.. (2020). Background-Free Chromatographic Detection of Sepsis Biomarker in Clinical Human Serum through Near-Infrared to Near-Infrared Upconversion Immunolabeling. ACS Nano. 14(12). 16864–16874. 70 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xiangchao, Ning Cao, B.J. Thibeault, Benjamin A. Pinsky, & Ahmet Ali Yanik. (2020). Mechanisms of Fano-resonant biosensing: Mechanical loading of plasmonic oscillators. Optics Communications. 469. 125780–125780. 12 indexed citations

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Tan, Meiling, Feng Li, Ning Cao, et al.. (2020). Accurate In Vivo Nanothermometry through NIR‐II Lanthanide Luminescence Lifetime. Small. 16(48). e2004118–e2004118. 109 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaochen, Menglei Gao, Jingxin Li, et al.. (2014). Near infrared to visible upconversion emission in Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped NaGd(WO4)2 nanoparticles obtained by hydrothermal method. Journal of Luminescence. 154. 111–115. 26 indexed citations

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Cao, Ning, Jie Yuan, Lei Gao, et al.. (2008). Quasiparticle relaxation dynamics in n-type superconductor. Physica C Superconductivity. 468(11-12). 894–897. 4 indexed citations

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Cao, Ning, et al.. (1997). Band-gap blue shift by impurity-free vacancy diffusion in 1.5-μm-strained InGaAsP/InP multiple quantum-well laser structure. Applied Physics Letters. 70(25). 3419–3421. 13 indexed citations

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Cao, Ning, J. D. Garrett, T. Timusk, Hsiang‐Lin Liu, & D. B. Tanner. (1996). Optical investigations of the heavy-fermion superconductorUNi2Al3. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 53(5). 2601–2605. 9 indexed citations

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Cao, Ning, J.D. Garrett, & T. Timusk. (1993). Optical anisotropy of UNi2Si2. Physica B Condensed Matter. 191(3-4). 263–273. 5 indexed citations

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McCall, R. P., et al.. (1990). Infrared properties of the highT_csuperconductor Tl₂Ba₂CaCu₂O₈. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 5(8). 1616–1619.

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Cao, Ning, et al.. (1989). COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND CRYSTAL STRUCTURE IN La(Ba_1−xCa_x)₂Cu₃O_7−y SYSTEM. Modern Physics Letters B. 3(4). 307–311. 4 indexed citations

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