Pingwei Cai

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
88 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Pingwei Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Pingwei Cai has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 51 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 34 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Pingwei Cai's work include Advanced battery technologies research (50 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (40 papers) and Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications (20 papers). Pingwei Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (50 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (40 papers) and Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications (20 papers). Pingwei Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Pingwei Cai's co-authors include Zhenhai Wen, Junxiang Chen, Yan Li, Genxiang Wang, Yichun Ding, Junheng Huang, Suqin Ci, Luocai Yi, Yang Hou and Liming Dai and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pingwei Cai

83 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Electrocatalysis for CO₂conversion: from fundamentals to value-added products

2021 995 citations Genxiang Wang, Junxiang Chen et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Oxygen‐Containing Amorphous Cobalt Sulfide Porous Nanocubes as High‐Activity Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in an Alkaline/Neutral Medium

2017 494 citations Pingwei Cai, Junxiang Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pingwei Cai China	34	3.6k	3.0k	1.3k	734	725	88	4.9k
Genxiang Wang China	30	3.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	884 1.2×	653 0.9×	52	4.0k
Yuebin Lian China	32	3.0k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	509 0.7×	531 0.7×	78	4.0k
Peilin Deng China	35	3.7k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	991 1.4×	329 0.5×	90	4.3k
Aijuan Han China	33	3.5k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	465 0.6×	515 0.7×	60	4.8k
Wenjie Zang Singapore	40	4.8k 1.3×	3.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	916 1.3×	74	6.3k
Zishan Wu United States	28	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	331 0.5×	43	4.8k
Young Jin South Korea	37	5.1k 1.4×	4.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	558 0.8×	695 1.0×	70	6.3k
Huishan Shang China	32	3.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	860 1.2×	270 0.4×	75	4.2k
Yanghua He United States	25	6.2k 1.7×	4.9k 1.6×	2.2k 1.6×	576 0.8×	628 0.9×	44	7.1k
Min Kuang China	26	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	814 1.1×	450 0.6×	48	3.6k

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Sun, Wei, et al.. (2025). High-entropy alloy catalysts for advanced hydrogen-production zinc-based batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(6). 2918–2930. 14 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiang, Kai Chen, Jack Yang, et al.. (2025). Self‐Assembled Polyoxometalate Supramolecular Nanosheets for Efficient and Durable Water Oxidation. Angewandte Chemie. 137(40).

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Zeng, Qing‐Xin, et al.. (2025). Development of cage-like transition-metal incorporated polyoxoniobates for hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 345. 125224–125224.

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Li, Dahuan, Lei Jia, Yixin Liu, et al.. (2024). A Co-containing polyoxogermanotungstate for alkaline electrocatalytic water oxidation. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(20). 7049–7057. 4 indexed citations

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Sun, Wei, et al.. (2024). High‐Power‐Density Rechargeable Hybrid Alkali/Acid Zn–Air Battery Performance Through Value‐Added Conversion Charging. Advanced Science. 11(23). e2402343–e2402343. 17 indexed citations

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Huang, Xing, Cai Sun, Pingwei Cai, et al.. (2024). Development of Stable Water‐Soluble Supratomic Silver Clusters Utilizing A Polyoxoniobate‐Protected Strategy: Giant Core‐Shell‐Type Ag₈@Nb₁₆₂ Fluorescent Nanocluster. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(29). e202404314–e202404314. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Yi, et al.. (2024). Polyoxotungstate Featuring Zinc‐Ion‐Triggered Structural Transformation as An Efficient Electrolyte Additive for Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202420284–e202420284. 15 indexed citations

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Cai, Pingwei, et al.. (2024). Boosting multi-carbon products selectivity of carbon dioxide reduction via bifunctional cyclodextrin-modification on copper/copper(I) oxide electrocatalysts. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 680(Pt A). 453–458. 5 indexed citations

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Cai, Pingwei, et al.. (2024). The emerging hybrid electrochemical energy technologies. Science Bulletin. 69(22). 3571–3589. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Dahuan, Xiaoyue Zhang, Jiangquan Lv, et al.. (2023). Photo‐Activating Biomimetic Polyoxomolybdate for Boosting Oxygen Evolution in Neutral Electrolytes. Angewandte Chemie. 135(46). 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Yunpeng, Pingwei Cai, Kai Chen, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Acid/alkali All Covalent Organic Frameworks Battery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(18). e202215584–e202215584. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Dahuan, Xiaoyue Zhang, Jiangquan Lv, et al.. (2023). Photo‐Activating Biomimetic Polyoxomolybdate for Boosting Oxygen Evolution in Neutral Electrolytes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(46). e202312706–e202312706. 48 indexed citations

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Pan, Duo, et al.. (2023). Palladium Modified FeCoS ₂ Nanosheet Arrays on Ni Foam as Bifunctional Electrodes for Overall Alkaline Water Splitting. ChemistrySelect. 8(10). 3 indexed citations

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Zeng, Xi, Min Zeng, Pingwei Cai, et al.. (2022). Ultra-fast ¹³⁷Cs sequestration via a layered inorganic indium thioantimonate. Environmental Science Advances. 1(3). 331–341. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Genxiang, Junxiang Chen, Yichun Ding, et al.. (2021). Electrocatalysis for CO₂conversion: from fundamentals to value-added products. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(8). 4993–5061. 995 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Dandan, Junwei Li, Suqin Ci, et al.. (2020). Three-birds-with-one-stone electrolysis for energy-efficiency production of gluconate and hydrogen. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 277. 119178–119178. 86 indexed citations

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Ding, Yichun, Pingwei Cai, & Zhenhai Wen. (2020). Electrochemical neutralization energy: from concept to devices. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(3). 1495–1511. 181 indexed citations

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Yi, Luocai, Dianpeng Qi, Ping Shao, et al.. (2019). Hollow black TiAlO_x nanocomposites for solar thermal desalination. Nanoscale. 11(20). 9958–9968. 28 indexed citations

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Cai, Pingwei, Yan Li, Genxiang Wang, & Zhenhai Wen. (2018). Alkaline–Acid Zn–H₂O Fuel Cell for the Simultaneous Generation of Hydrogen and Electricity. Angewandte Chemie. 130(15). 3974–3979. 59 indexed citations

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Zhou, Baolong, Liangzhen Liu, Pingwei Cai, et al.. (2017). Ferrocene-based porous organic polymer derived high-performance electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(42). 22163–22169. 67 indexed citations

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