Sheng Dai

15.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
284 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Sheng Dai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheng Dai has authored 284 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Materials Chemistry, 151 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 83 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sheng Dai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (105 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (100 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (42 papers). Sheng Dai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (105 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (100 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (42 papers). Sheng Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Sheng Dai's co-authors include Xiaoqing Pan, George W. Graham, Phillip Christopher, Xuan Tang, Minghui Zhu, Baohua Gu, Eugene J. LeBoeuf, Jie Chen, Hua Gui Yang and Peng Fei Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sheng Dai

265 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

Catalyst Architecture for Stable Single Atom Dispersion E... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2020 2019 2022 2021 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Catalyst Architecture for Stable Single Atom Dispersion Enables Site-Specific Spectroscopic and Reactivity Measurements of CO Adsorbed to Pt Atoms, Oxidized Pt Clusters, and Metallic Pt Clusters on TiO2
    2017 639 citations Sheng Dai, Xiaoqing Pan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Organic wastewater treatment by a single-atom catalyst and electrolytically produced H2O2
    2020 572 citations Sheng Dai et al. profile →
  3. Structural evolution of atomically dispersed Pt catalysts dictates reactivity
    2019 512 citations Sheng Dai, Xiaoqing Pan et al. profile →
  4. Induced activation of the commercial Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalyst for the steam reforming of methanol
    2022 348 citations Xuan Tang, Sheng Dai et al. profile →
  5. Surface enrichment and diffusion enabling gradient-doping and coating of Ni-rich cathode toward Li-ion batteries
    2021 316 citations Sheng Dai et al. Nature Communications profile →
  6. Frenkel-defected monolayer MoS2 catalysts for efficient hydrogen evolution
    2022 289 citations Jie Xu, Gonglei Shao et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Cascade Dual Sites Modulate Local CO Coverage and Hydrogen-Binding Strength to Boost CO2 Electroreduction to Ethylene
    2024 111 citations Junjun Li, Yu Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. Crystal Facet Engineering on SrTiO3 Enhances Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting
    2024 95 citations Yang Zhang, Xuefeng Wu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers

Sheng Dai
Maarten Nachtegaal Switzerland
Byoung Koun Min South Korea
A. Jeremy Kropf United States
Matteo Cargnello United States
Hongliang Li China
Eli Stavitski United States
Shoujie Liu China
Jyh‐Fu Lee Taiwan
Zhen Ma China
Hicham Idriss Saudi Arabia
Maarten Nachtegaal Switzerland
Sheng Dai
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sheng Dai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sheng Dai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sheng Dai 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 Sheng Dai. Sheng Dai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dai, Sheng, et al.. (2025). Plasma-reinforced dual-crosslinked Pueraria hydrogel coating for synergistic atherosclerosis intervention. Materials Today Bio. 35. 102313–102313.
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Zhang, Yang, Wenbo Li, Peng Ding, et al.. (2025). Al 3+ ‐Dependent Anisotropic Facet Tailoring on SrTiO 3 Single Crystal for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202508114–e202508114.
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Qian, Xiang, Xiao Yang, Yanglong Guo, et al.. (2025). Ensembled Ptδ+ species on Beta zeolites for efficient preferential oxidation of CO in H2. Chem Catalysis. 5(5). 101302–101302. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Mi, Chengyu Li, Huimin Meng, et al.. (2025). The Role of Convex Edge Site in Fully‐Exposed Pt Cluster Catalyst for Hydrogen Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(25). e202424816–e202424816. 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Hao, Miao Lin, Hao Xu, et al.. (2025). Leaching‐Induced Ti Trapping Stabilizes Amorphous IrO x for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(26). e202504212–e202504212. 7 indexed citations
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Tang, Xuan, Shasha Ge, Geng Sun, et al.. (2025). Blocking the Operando Formation of Single‐Atom Spectators by Interfacial Engineering. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(23). e202505507–e202505507. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Lihao, Xuan Yu, Lei Ding, et al.. (2025). Effective electrochemical ozone production coupled with hydrogen evolution reaction by synergistic effect of PtCo alloy and borides. Chemical Engineering Science. 309. 121444–121444. 1 indexed citations
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Yu, Jihang, Wei Chen, Min Ding, et al.. (2024). Insight into promotion effect of platinum on CH4 catalytic combustion performance of La0.9AlO supported Pd–Pt bimetal catalysts. Journal of Rare Earths. 43(8). 1652–1660. 1 indexed citations
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Fu, Zhinan, Weihua Wang, Xin Liu, et al.. (2024). Anchoring cobalt dual-atom pairs on open hollow-structured carbon via a facile in-situ synthetic strategy for enhanced advanced oxidation processes. Separation and Purification Technology. 355. 129698–129698. 1 indexed citations
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Jiang, Yongjun, Jiyuan Liu, Chunlei Yang, et al.. (2024). Intermediate-regulated dynamic restructuring at Ag-Cu biphasic interface enables selective CO2 electroreduction to C2+ fuels. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10331–10331. 34 indexed citations
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Shao, Gonglei, Changfei Jing, Zhinan Ma, et al.. (2024). Dynamic coordination engineering of 2D PhenPtCl2 nanosheets for superior hydrogen evolution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 385–385. 34 indexed citations
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Fu, Zhinan, Yueping Bao, Zheng Yang, et al.. (2024). Precise structure-tailoring of multicomponent nanocatalysts enabled by continuous flow-controlled flash nanoprecipitation technique. Separation and Purification Technology. 351. 128008–128008. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Junjun, Yu Chen, Bingqing Yao, et al.. (2024). Cascade Dual Sites Modulate Local CO Coverage and Hydrogen-Binding Strength to Boost CO2 Electroreduction to Ethylene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(8). 5693–5701. 111 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yi, Wenjing Li, Huai Qin Fu, et al.. (2023). Tuning the Microenvironment in Monolayer MgAl Layered Double Hydroxide for CO2‐to‐Ethylene Electrocatalysis in Neutral Media. Angewandte Chemie. 135(19). 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Xuefeng, Jia Zhao, Hai Yang Yuan, et al.. (2023). Isolation of Highly Reactive Cobalt Phthalocyanine via Electrochemical Activation for Enhanced CO2 Reduction Reaction. Small. 19(23). e2207037–e2207037. 11 indexed citations
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Dai, Sheng, et al.. (2021). Structure–Activity Relationships of Copper- and Potassium-Modified Iron Oxide Catalysts during Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 11(20). 12609–12619. 87 indexed citations
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Yu, Dan, Yanyan Jia, Yang Zhou, et al.. (2021). Solar Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methane to Methanol with Water over RuOx/ZnO/CeO2 Nanorods. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(1). 16–22. 42 indexed citations
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Dai, Sheng, et al.. (2018). Developed one-pot synthesis of dual-color CdSe quantum dots for white light-emitting diode application. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(12). 3089–3096. 20 indexed citations

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