Shengli Zhai

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Shengli Zhai 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, Shengli Zhai has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 28 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 14 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Shengli Zhai's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (28 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (19 papers). Shengli Zhai is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (28 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (19 papers). Shengli Zhai collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Australia. Shengli Zhai's co-authors include Yuan Chen, Wei Li, H. Enis Karahan, Kunli Goh, Wenchao Jiang, Xuncai Chen, Zhi Li, Zheng Zhou, Chaojun Wang and Keren Jiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Shengli Zhai

54 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Self-repairing interphase reconstructed in each cycle for highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries

2022 189 citations Wenyao Zhang, Keren Jiang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shengli Zhai China	31	2.0k	1.5k	1.1k	928	925	56	3.4k
Lirong Kong China	35	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	607 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	85	3.5k
Hongbo Zhang China	28	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	959 0.9×	496 0.5×	869 0.9×	71	2.9k
Guillermo A. Ferrero Spain	27	2.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	338 0.4×	629 0.7×	38	3.0k
Peng Zhao China	31	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	814 0.8×	397 0.4×	897 1.0×	126	3.1k
Jin Woo Yi South Korea	23	1.6k 0.8×	872 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	477 0.5×	895 1.0×	62	3.0k
Guangdi Nie China	36	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	685 0.7×	635 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	76	3.1k
Rui Zhou China	33	2.1k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	472 0.4×	442 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	89	3.0k
Kunming Liu China	28	1.3k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	448 0.4×	721 0.8×	837 0.9×	70	3.3k
Noel Díez Spain	30	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	443 0.4×	542 0.6×	982 1.1×	56	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shengli Zhai

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Yang, Yang, Manabu Fujii, Yao Hu, et al.. (2025). Regulating second-shell coordination in molybdenum single-atom catalysts for efficient photocatalytic nitrogen fixation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 515. 163762–163762. 9 indexed citations

Zhao, Xuanyi, et al.. (2025). Ion-sieving nanolayers for highly reversible zinc-ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 522. 167433–167433.

Wang, Yingying, Hedong Chen, Shengli Zhai, et al.. (2024). Flexible fiber-shape Zn-MnO2 battery for wearable electronic devices. Journal of Energy Storage. 98. 113010–113010. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Yingying, et al.. (2024). Guanidinium chloride as multifunctional electrolyte additives for highly reversible aqueous zinc batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 504. 158924–158924. 1 indexed citations

Zhai, Shengli, Keren Jiang, Xuehai Tan, et al.. (2024). Correction: Mimicking ion and water management in poultry breeding for highly reversible zinc ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(6). 2356–2356. 3 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Xuehai Tan, Keren Jiang, et al.. (2024). Boosting Electrochemical Nitrogen Reduction via Axial Coordination Engineering on Single‐Iron‐Atom Catalysts. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(39). 40 indexed citations

Yang, Yang, Wenyao Zhang, Xuehai Tan, et al.. (2023). Atomic-level reactive sites for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia under ambient conditions. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 489. 215196–215196. 58 indexed citations

Tan, Xuehai, Wei Zhang, Keren Jiang, et al.. (2022). Square-pyramidal Fe-N4 with defect-modulated O-coordination: Two-tier electronic structure fine-tuning for enhanced oxygen reduction. Chem Catalysis. 2(4). 816–835. 45 indexed citations

Zhu, Chunliu, Huanlei Wang, Wenjie Fan, et al.. (2022). Large‐scale doping‐engineering enables boron/nitrogen dual‐doped porous carbon for high‐performance zinc ion capacitors. Rare Metals. 41(7). 2505–2516. 84 indexed citations

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Wang, Na, Shengli Zhai, Yuanyuan Ma, et al.. (2021). Tridentate citrate chelation towards stable fiber zinc-polypyrrole battery with hybrid mechanism. Energy storage materials. 43. 585–594. 86 indexed citations

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Karahan, H. Enis, J.L. Pinilla, Xiaoxing Han, et al.. (2020). Biomass-derived nanocarbon materials for biological applications: challenges and prospects. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 8(42). 9668–9678. 27 indexed citations

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Dai, Jinhong, Fuming Chen, Mengjun Liang, et al.. (2020). Zinc–Air Battery-Based Desalination Device. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(23). 25728–25735. 38 indexed citations

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Zhai, Shengli, Wei Li, H. Enis Karahan, et al.. (2018). Ultrafast hydrothermal assembly of nanocarbon microfibers in near-critical water for 3D microsupercapacitors. Carbon. 132. 698–708. 27 indexed citations

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Zhai, Shengli, Chaojun Wang, H. Enis Karahan, et al.. (2018). Nano‐RuO₂‐Decorated Holey Graphene Composite Fibers for Micro‐Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Energy Density. Small. 14(29). e1800582–e1800582. 119 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Kunli Goh, Özgür Birer, et al.. (2017). A hierarchically porous nickel–copper phosphide nano-foam for efficient electrochemical splitting of water. Nanoscale. 9(13). 4401–4408. 114 indexed citations

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Chen, Xuncai, Wei Li, Yanqing Wang, et al.. (2017). Milk powder-derived bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn-air battery. Energy storage materials. 11. 134–143. 51 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuan, H. Enis Karahan, Cansu Yıldırım, et al.. (2016). “Smart poisoning” of Co/SiO₂catalysts by sulfidation for chirality-selective synthesis of (9,8) single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale. 8(40). 17705–17713. 30 indexed citations

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Jiang, Wenchao, Shengli Zhai, Qihui Qian, et al.. (2015). Space-confined assembly of all-carbon hybrid fibers for capacitive energy storage: realizing a built-to-order concept for micro-supercapacitors. Energy & Environmental Science. 9(2). 611–622. 101 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, H. Enis Karahan, Shengli Zhai, et al.. (2015). Microbe-derived carbon materials for electrical energy storage and conversion. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 25(2). 191–198. 44 indexed citations

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Zhai, Shengli, Wenchao Jiang, Wei Li, et al.. (2015). All-carbon solid-state yarn supercapacitors from activated carbon and carbon fibers for smart textiles. Materials Horizons. 2(6). 598–605. 116 indexed citations

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