Sai Chen

6.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
73 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Sai Chen is a scholar working on Catalysis, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Sai Chen has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Catalysis, 60 papers in Materials Chemistry and 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Sai Chen's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (50 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (11 papers). Sai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (56 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (50 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (11 papers). Sai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and France. Sai Chen's co-authors include Jinlong Gong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Chunlei Pei, Guodong Sun, Xin Chang, Rentao Mu, Lulu Li, Liang Zeng, Yiyi Xu and Tuo Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sai Chen

69 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Breaking the scaling relationship via thermally stable Pt/Cu single atom alloys for catalytic dehydrogenation

2018 640 citations Guodong Sun, Zhi‐Jian Zhao et al. Nature Communications profile →
Propane dehydrogenation: catalyst development, new chemistry, and emerging technologies

2021 624 citations Sai Chen, Xin Chang et al. profile →
Controllable Cu⁰‐Cu⁺ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

2021 315 citations Xintong Yuan, Sai Chen et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
FeO₆ Octahedral Distortion Activates Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Methane Partial Oxidation Coupled with CO₂ Splitting

2020 300 citations Xianhua Zhang, Chunlei Pei et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Defective TiO _x overlayers catalyze propane dehydrogenation promoted by base metals

2024 88 citations Sai Chen, Yiyi Xu et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sai Chen	4.1k	3.8k	1.9k	1.2k	667	73	5.5k
Samy Ould‐Chikh	3.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	902 0.8×	518 0.8×	81	4.8k
Mi Peng	4.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.6×	2.6k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	969 1.5×	81	6.2k
Jian Lin	4.9k 1.2×	2.9k 0.8×	3.1k 1.6×	527 0.4×	708 1.1×	116	6.3k
Dmitry E. Doronkin	3.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	574 0.5×	536 0.8×	115	4.1k
Yun Zhao	3.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 1.4×	716 0.6×	551 0.8×	74	5.2k
Zhenhua Xie	3.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	2.6k 1.3×	564 0.5×	539 0.8×	82	5.2k
Jin‐Xun Liu	3.6k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	285 0.2×	648 1.0×	68	5.0k
Peter P. Wells	3.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	541 0.5×	809 1.2×	91	5.2k
Gonzalo Prieto	3.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	569 0.5×	802 1.2×	69	4.6k
Ruixuan Qin	4.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	3.3k 1.7×	916 0.8×	589 0.9×	71	6.2k

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Li, Ziyi, Zelin Wu, Donglong Fu, et al.. (2025). Inhibitory Effect of Water on Propane Dehydrogenation over Metal Oxides via Dissociative Adsorption. Transactions of Tianjin University. 31(6). 579–589.

Li, Ziyi, Sai Chen, Wei Wang, et al.. (2025). Proximity-Dependent Oxide–Support Interactions in Cobalt/Ceria-Based Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 15(8). 6078–6087. 3 indexed citations

Gu, Huayu, Fanyu Wang, Sai Chen, et al.. (2025). Suppressing Jahn-Teller distortion of MnO2 via B-Ni dual single-atoms integration for methane catalytic combustion. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1008–1008. 14 indexed citations

Luo, Ran, Xin Chang, Tingting Yang, et al.. (2025). Role and regulation of surface oxygen vacancies in vanadium-based oxides for chemical looping oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Chemical Science. 16(11). 4710–4717. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Sai, Ran Luo, Guodong Sun, et al.. (2024). Stable and homogeneous intermetallic alloys by atomic gas-migration for propane dehydrogenation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8157–8157. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Ming, et al.. (2023). An efficient one‐pot synthesis of Spiro[indoline‐3,11′‐pyrazolo[3,4‐f]pyrimido[4,5‐b]quinoline] derivatives. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 60(9). 1572–1581. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Wei, Sai Chen, Chunlei Pei, et al.. (2023). Tandem propane dehydrogenation and surface oxidation catalysts for selective propylene synthesis. Science. 381(6660). 886–890. 95 indexed citations

Chang, Xin, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Zhenpu Lu, et al.. (2023). Designing single-site alloy catalysts using a degree-of-isolation descriptor. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(6). 611–616. 115 indexed citations

Zhang, Tingting, Chunlei Pei, Guodong Sun, et al.. (2022). Synergistic Mechanism of Platinum‐GaO_x Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation. Angewandte Chemie. 134(35). 14 indexed citations

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Cheng, Dongfang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Gong Zhang, et al.. (2021). The nature of active sites for carbon dioxide electroreduction over oxide-derived copper catalysts. Nature Communications. 12(1). 395–395. 259 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xintong, Sai Chen, Dongfang Cheng, et al.. (2021). Controllable Cu⁰‐Cu⁺ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Angewandte Chemie. 133(28). 15472–15475. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Jieli, Xin Chang, Sai Chen, et al.. (2021). On the Role of Sn Segregation of Pt-Sn Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 11(8). 4401–4410. 79 indexed citations

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Yuan, Xintong, Sai Chen, Dongfang Cheng, et al.. (2021). Controllable Cu⁰‐Cu⁺ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(28). 15344–15347. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Luo, Ran, Guodong Sun, Sai Chen, et al.. (2020). Facilitating the reduction of V–O bonds on VO_x/ZrO₂ catalysts for non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation. Chemical Science. 11(15). 3845–3851. 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xianhua, Chunlei Pei, Xin Chang, et al.. (2020). FeO₆ Octahedral Distortion Activates Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Methane Partial Oxidation Coupled with CO₂ Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(26). 11540–11549. 300 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Sai, Chunlei Pei, & Jinlong Gong. (2019). Insights into interface engineering in steam reforming reactions for hydrogen production. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(12). 3473–3495. 140 indexed citations

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Chen, Sai, Liang Zeng, Rentao Mu, et al.. (2019). Modulating Lattice Oxygen in Dual-Functional Mo–V–O Mixed Oxides for Chemical Looping Oxidative Dehydrogenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18653–18657. 172 indexed citations

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Deng, Wanyu, Lei Zhang, Lulu Li, et al.. (2019). Crucial Role of Surface Hydroxyls on the Activity and Stability in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(7). 2911–2915. 292 indexed citations

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Li, Xinyu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Liang Zeng, et al.. (2018). On the role of Ce in CO₂ adsorption and activation over lanthanum species. Chemical Science. 9(14). 3426–3437. 68 indexed citations

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Li, Hao, Shenjun Zha, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, et al.. (2018). The Nature of Loading-Dependent Reaction Barriers over Mixed RuO₂/TiO₂ Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 8(6). 5526–5532. 38 indexed citations

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