Penghui Cao

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Penghui Cao is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Penghui Cao has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 47 papers in Materials Chemistry and 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Penghui Cao's work include High Entropy Alloys Studies (20 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (14 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (14 papers). Penghui Cao is often cited by papers focused on High Entropy Alloys Studies (20 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (14 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (14 papers). Penghui Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Penghui Cao's co-authors include Michael P. Short, Xiangyang Zhou, Juan Yang, Qi Meng, Harold S. Park, Sidney Yip, Anran Wei, Han Ye, Miaomiao Jin and Jingjing Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Penghui Cao

108 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Fast‐Charging and Ultrahigh‐Capacity Zinc Metal Anode for High‐Performance Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

2021 298 citations Penghui Cao, Xiangyang Zhou et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Penghui Cao United States	30	1.2k	1.1k	1.1k	451	333	117	3.1k
Jiajia Han China	34	1.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	292 0.6×	508 1.5×	193	3.9k
Alla S. Sologubenko Switzerland	27	840 0.7×	658 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	320 0.7×	390 1.2×	69	2.4k
Junfeng Yang China	28	855 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	214 0.5×	333 1.0×	119	2.4k
Jiong Wang China	26	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	542 1.2×	174 0.5×	154	2.9k
Ye Liu China	26	702 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	287 0.6×	527 1.6×	191	2.9k
Thomas Bergfeldt Germany	25	568 0.5×	1.0k 0.9×	903 0.9×	168 0.4×	205 0.6×	69	2.0k
Mohamed Sennour France	27	917 0.8×	364 0.3×	2.2k 2.0×	399 0.9×	153 0.5×	70	3.0k
Shuangbao Wang China	33	740 0.6×	1.8k 1.6×	1.5k 1.4×	551 1.2×	763 2.3×	120	3.5k
R. Tewari India	36	2.0k 1.7×	728 0.6×	3.2k 3.0×	491 1.1×	327 1.0×	228	4.8k
Mingwei Chen China	32	664 0.6×	2.2k 1.9×	1.6k 1.5×	256 0.6×	739 2.2×	73	4.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Penghui Cao

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Bin, et al.. (2025). Performance Control and Synergistic Modification Mechanism of Phosphogypsum-Based Cementitious Materials. Buildings. 15(24). 4451–4451.

Lin, Qibing, Penghui Cao, Chunlei Zhou, et al.. (2025). SMALL AND ROUND GRAIN is involved in the brassinosteroid signaling pathway which regulates grain size in rice. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 67(5). 1290–1306. 3 indexed citations

Ouyang, Ruizhuo, W.Y. Xue, Penghui Cao, et al.. (2025). Superhydrophilic Bi-methylimidazole for preferred pH-responsive, targeted drug delivery to tumor. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 253. 114701–114701. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Baoshan, et al.. (2024). Novel ternary inorganic phase change gels for cold energy storage. Journal of Energy Storage. 100. 113482–113482. 7 indexed citations

Xie, Baoshan, Penghui Cao, Youfu Lv, et al.. (2024). Electrospinning-hot pressing technique for the fabrication of thermal and electrical storage membranes and its applications. International Journal of Minerals Metallurgy and Materials. 31(9). 1945–1964. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Huali, Yiying Wang, Ji Yan, et al.. (2024). A synergistic modification strategy for enhancing the cycling stability and rate capacity of single-crystal nickel-rich cathode materials. Journal of Energy Storage. 98. 113220–113220. 4 indexed citations

Xing, Bin, et al.. (2024). Vacancy diffusion barrier spectrum and diffusion correlation in multicomponent alloys. Acta Materialia. 266. 119653–119653. 16 indexed citations

Han, Ying, Yongwen Sun, Jian Liu, et al.. (2024). Ubiquitous short-range order in multi-principal element alloys. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6486–6486. 32 indexed citations

Apelian, Diran, et al.. (2024). Frustrated metastable-to-equilibrium grain boundary structural transition in NbMoTaW due to segregation and chemical complexity. Acta Materialia. 272. 119939–119939. 4 indexed citations

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Cao, Penghui, et al.. (2024). Highly tailorable thermomechanical properties of nanograined silicon: Importance of grain size and grain anisotropy. Applied Physics Letters. 124(8). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, S. Mahajan, Irene J. Beyerlein, et al.. (2023). Twin nucleation from disconnection-dense sites between stacking fault pairs in a random defect network. Materialia. 30. 101835–101835. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Yun-Jiang, et al.. (2023). Fracture universality in amorphous nanowires. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 173. 105210–105210. 13 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunyang, Lei Tao, Xinyi Wang, et al.. (2023). Direct Observation of Nucleation and Growth Behaviors of Lithium by In Situ Electron Microscopy. ACS Energy Letters. 8(4). 1929–1935. 29 indexed citations

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Cao, Penghui, Haochen Zhou, Xiangyang Zhou, et al.. (2022). Stabilizing Zinc Anodes by a Cotton Towel Separator for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(26). 8350–8359. 57 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiangyang, Jiong Wang, Juan Yang, et al.. (2022). Rational Match of a Bamboo-Derived Porous Foam Carbon Cathode and Carbon Framework-Supported Nano-ZnO Anode for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Capacitors. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(1). 832–841. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Cheng, Xinyi Wang, Yuanbo T. Tang, et al.. (2022). Strong and ductile refractory high-entropy alloys with super formability. Acta Materialia. 245. 118602–118602. 77 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiangyang, Penghui Cao, Anran Wei, et al.. (2021). Driving the Interfacial Ion-Transfer Kinetics by Mesoporous TiO₂ Spheres for High-Performance Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(7). 8181–8190. 79 indexed citations

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Cao, Penghui, Jingjing Tang, Anran Wei, et al.. (2021). Manipulating Uniform Nucleation to Achieve Dendrite-Free Zn Anodes for Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(41). 48855–48864. 60 indexed citations

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Wang, Chunyang, Lili Han, Rui Zhang, et al.. (2021). Resolving atomic-scale phase transformation and oxygen loss mechanism in ultrahigh-nickel layered cathodes for cobalt-free lithium-ion batteries. Matter. 4(6). 2013–2026. 128 indexed citations

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Zou, Lianfeng, Penghui Cao, Yinkai Lei, et al.. (2020). Atomic-scale phase separation induced clustering of solute atoms. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3934–3934. 14 indexed citations

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