Qingnuan Zhang

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Qingnuan Zhang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingnuan Zhang has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 4 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Qingnuan Zhang's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (11 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (8 papers). Qingnuan Zhang is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (11 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (8 papers). Qingnuan Zhang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Qingnuan Zhang's co-authors include Xingbin Yan, Qingyun Dou, Lingyang Liu, Shulai Lei, Siqi Shi, Dewei Xiao, Yinglun Sun, Bao Liu, Hui Ying Yang and Hongwei Guo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Energy & Environmental Science and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Qingnuan Zhang

22 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Safe and high-rate supercapacitors based on an “acetonitrile/water in salt” hybrid electrolyte

2018 380 citations Qingyun Dou, Shulai Lei et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Covalent organic framework–based porous ionomers for high-performance fuel cells

2022 355 citations Qingnuan Zhang, Pengpeng Shao et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qingnuan Zhang China	15	1.2k	752	350	348	188	22	1.6k
Jie Bao China	21	1.0k 0.9×	526 0.7×	215 0.6×	576 1.7×	108 0.6×	64	1.7k
He Sun China	21	1.4k 1.2×	455 0.6×	304 0.9×	576 1.7×	180 1.0×	44	1.9k
Xinxing Liang China	17	1.4k 1.2×	413 0.5×	237 0.7×	482 1.4×	360 1.9×	26	1.7k
Changchun Zhao China	15	909 0.8×	647 0.9×	322 0.9×	534 1.5×	73 0.4×	45	1.4k
Jie Yin China	11	622 0.5×	664 0.9×	305 0.9×	390 1.1×	148 0.8×	33	1.1k
Wein‐Duo Yang Taiwan	21	553 0.5×	291 0.4×	436 1.2×	647 1.9×	160 0.9×	62	1.3k
Weike Zhang China	21	487 0.4×	320 0.4×	398 1.1×	475 1.4×	139 0.7×	60	1.0k
Junbing Yang United States	15	1.1k 1.0×	482 0.6×	241 0.7×	486 1.4×	91 0.5×	28	1.6k
Qiliang Wei China	28	2.3k 2.0×	899 1.2×	1.3k 3.6×	639 1.8×	136 0.7×	70	2.9k
Winfried Nickel Germany	18	477 0.4×	555 0.7×	90 0.3×	281 0.8×	216 1.1×	24	1.0k

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Hou, Wenjing, Hui Qiao, Qun Liu, et al.. (2025). Conquering self-discharge in supercapacitors: synergy of mechanisms and cross-scale mitigation strategies. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1 indexed citations

Yu, Zhenlu, et al.. (2025). Designing Advanced Separators Toward Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(43). 3 indexed citations

Ren, Rui, Yafu Wang, Lirong Zhang, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Copper‐Based Catalysts for Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction to C ₂₊ Products. Carbon Neutralization. 4(5). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Lirong, Qi Fang, Rui Ren, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Green Hydrogen Production by Electrolyzing Water with Anion-Exchange Membrane. Research. 8. 677–677. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingnuan & Bo Wang. (2023). Development and Challenges of Electrode Ionomers Used in the Catalyst Layer of Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells: A Review. Transactions of Tianjin University. 29(5). 360–386. 12 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingnuan, Pengpeng Shao, Yuhao Zhu, et al.. (2022). Covalent organic framework–based porous ionomers for high-performance fuel cells. Science. 378(6616). 181–186. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Qingnuan, Shan Xu, Yue Wang, et al.. (2022). Temperature-dependent structure and performance evolution of “water-in-salt” electrolyte for supercapacitor. Energy storage materials. 55. 205–213. 33 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingnuan, Shan Xu, Yue Wang, et al.. (2022). Temperature-Dependent Structure and Performance Evolution of “Water-in-Salt” Electrolyte Used for Supercapacitor. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Qingnuan, et al.. (2020). Hygroscopic property of inorganic salts in atmospheric aerosols measured with physisorption analyzer. Atmospheric Environment. 247. 118171–118171. 15 indexed citations

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Sun, Yinglun, Yue Wang, Lingyang Liu, et al.. (2020). Towards the understanding of acetonitrile suppressing salt precipitation mechanism in a water-in-salt electrolyte for low-temperature supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(35). 17998–18006. 102 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jiaojiao, Yongtai Xu, Yujun Fu, et al.. (2020). Hybrid Aqueous/Nonaqueous Water‐in‐Bisalt Electrolyte Enables Safe Dual Ion Batteries. Small. 16(17). e1905838–e1905838. 86 indexed citations

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Su, Lijun, Qingnuan Zhang, Yue Wang, et al.. (2020). Achieving a 2.7 V aqueous hybrid supercapacitor by the pH-regulation of electrolyte. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(17). 8648–8660. 39 indexed citations

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Ma, Pengjun, Yinglun Sun, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2019). Spinel-type solar-thermal conversion coatings on supercapacitors: An effective strategy for capacitance recovery at low temperatures. Energy storage materials. 23. 159–167. 35 indexed citations

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Liu, Lingyang, Lijun Su, Yulan Lü, et al.. (2019). The Origin of Electrochemical Actuation of MnO₂/Ni Bilayer Film Derived by Redox Pseudocapacitive Process. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(8). 79 indexed citations

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Liu, Lingyang, Qingyun Dou, Yinglun Sun, et al.. (2019). A moisture absorbing gel electrolyte enables aqueous and flexible supercapacitors operating at high temperatures. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(35). 20398–20404. 73 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qingnuan, Mikhael D. Levi, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2019). Supercapacitors: Vacuum Filtration‐and‐Transfer Technique Helps Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance to Reveal Accurate Charge Storage in Supercapacitors (Small Methods 11/2019). Small Methods. 3(11). 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qingnuan, Mikhael D. Levi, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2019). Vacuum Filtration‐and‐Transfer Technique Helps Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance to Reveal Accurate Charge Storage in Supercapacitors. Small Methods. 3(11). 24 indexed citations

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Dou, Qingyun, Shulai Lei, Dawei Wang, et al.. (2018). Safe and high-rate supercapacitors based on an “acetonitrile/water in salt” hybrid electrolyte. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(11). 3212–3219. 380 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Qingnuan, Mikhael D. Levi, Qingyun Dou, et al.. (2018). The Charge Storage Mechanisms of 2D Cation‐Intercalated Manganese Oxide in Different Electrolytes. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(3). 118 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qingnuan, Yun Zhang, Chen Cai, et al.. (2014). In Situ Observation on the Dynamic Process of Evaporation and Crystallization of Sodium Nitrate Droplets on a ZnSe Substrate by FTIR-ATR. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(15). 2728–2737. 50 indexed citations

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