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

5 papers align trajectories

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.

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. Chemical Society Reviews 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. profile →

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sai Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sai Chen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sai Chen. Sai Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Inhibitory Effect of Water on Propane Dehydrogenation over Metal Oxides via Dissociative Adsorption 2025 ·Transactions of Tianjin University ·Ziyi Li, (unknown), Zelin Wu, Donglong Fu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Sai Chen, Chunlei Pei	0
2	Proximity-Dependent Oxide–Support Interactions in Cobalt/Ceria-Based Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation 2025 ·ACS Catalysis ·Ziyi Li, Sai Chen, Wei Wang, Jiachen Sun, (unknown), Donglong Fu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	3
3	Unraveling the hydrogen spillover in tandem propane dehydrogenation and reverse water gas shift reaction 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Sai Chen, Guodong Sun, Jiachen Sun, (unknown), Jun Cai, (unknown), Donglong Fu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	0
4	The role of internal diffusion for propane dehydrogenation over Pt-based catalysts 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Science ·(unknown), Zhenpu Lu, Tianyi Zhao, Donglong Fu, Peng Zhang, Sai Chen, Xinbin Ma, Chunlei Pei, (unknown)	0
5	Ethane dehydrogenation over CaCO3-mediated tandem catalysts 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Sai Chen, (unknown), Weixing Zhang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Xiao Liu, Jinlong Gong	0
6	Atomically dispersed MoNi alloy catalyst for partial oxidation of methane 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Zheyuan Ding, Sai Chen, Tingting Yang, (unknown), Xianhua Zhang, Chunlei Pei, Donglong Fu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jinlong Gong	22
7	An efficient one‐pot synthesis of Spiro[indoline‐3,11′‐pyrazolo[3,4‐f]pyrimido[4,5‐b]quinoline] derivatives 2023 ·Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ming Wei, Sai Chen, (unknown)	1
8	Ultrathin TiO_x Nanosheets Rich in Tetracoordinated Ti Sites for Propane Dehydrogenation 2023 ·ACS Catalysis ·Yiyi Xu, Sai Chen, Xin Chang, Xianhui Wang, Guodong Sun, Zhenpu Lu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	19
9	Designing single-site alloy catalysts using a degree-of-isolation descriptor 2023 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Xin Chang, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Zhenpu Lu, Sai Chen, Ran Luo, Shenjun Zha, Lulu Li, Guodong Sun, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	115
10	Propane dehydrogenation: catalyst development, new chemistry, and emerging technologies breakdown → 2021 ·Chemical Society Reviews ·Sai Chen, Xin Chang, Guodong Sun, Tingting Zhang, Yiyi Xu, Yang Wang, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	624
11	Controllable Cu⁰‐Cu⁺ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide 2021 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Xintong Yuan, Sai Chen, Dongfang Cheng, Lulu Li, Wenjin Zhu, Dazhong Zhong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jingkun Li, Tuo Wang, Jinlong Gong	51
12	On the Role of Sn Segregation of Pt-Sn Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation 2021 ·ACS Catalysis ·Jieli Wang, Xin Chang, Sai Chen, Guodong Sun, Xin‐Hui Zhou, Evgeny I. Vovk, (unknown), Wanyu Deng, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Rentao Mu, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	79
13	Controllable Cu⁰‐Cu⁺ Sites for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide breakdown → 2021 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Xintong Yuan, Sai Chen, Dongfang Cheng, Lulu Li, Wenjin Zhu, Dazhong Zhong, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jingkun Li, Tuo Wang, Jinlong Gong	315
14	Tunable metal-oxide interaction with balanced Ni0/Ni2+ sites of Ni Mg1−O for ethanol steam reforming 2021 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Hao Tian, Chunlei Pei, Yang Wu, Sai Chen, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jinlong Gong	62
15	FeO₆ Octahedral Distortion Activates Lattice Oxygen in Perovskite Ferrite for Methane Partial Oxidation Coupled with CO₂ Splitting breakdown → 2020 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xianhua Zhang, Chunlei Pei, Xin Chang, Sai Chen, Rui Liu, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Rentao Mu, Jinlong Gong	300
16	Facilitating the reduction of V–O bonds on VO_x/ZrO₂ catalysts for non-oxidative propane dehydrogenation 2020 ·Chemical Science ·(unknown), Ran Luo, Guodong Sun, Sai Chen, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Rentao Mu, Jinlong Gong	82
17	Insights into interface engineering in steam reforming reactions for hydrogen production 2019 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Sai Chen, Chunlei Pei, Jinlong Gong	140
18	Structure–Performance Relationships for Propane Dehydrogenation over Aluminum Supported Vanadium Oxide 2019 ·ACS Catalysis ·Chuanye Xiong, Sai Chen, Piaoping Yang, Shenjun Zha, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jinlong Gong	88
19	The Nature of Loading-Dependent Reaction Barriers over Mixed RuO₂/TiO₂ Catalysts 2018 ·ACS Catalysis ·Hao Li, Shenjun Zha, Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Hao Tian, Sai Chen, Zhongmiao Gong, (unknown), Yanan Wang, Yi Cui, Liang Zeng, Rentao Mu, Jinlong Gong	38
20	Structure and catalytic consequence of Mg‐modified VO_x/Al₂O₃ catalysts for propane dehydrogenation 2017 ·AIChE Journal ·(unknown), Gang Liu, Liang Zeng, Guodong Sun, Sai Chen, Rentao Mu, (unknown), Zhi‐Jian Zhao, Jinlong Gong	57

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