Tao Cheng

26.0k total citations · 20 hit papers
336 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

Tao Cheng is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tao Cheng has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 110 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 102 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Tao Cheng's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (71 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (53 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (52 papers). Tao Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (71 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (53 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (52 papers). Tao Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Macao. Tao Cheng's co-authors include William A. Goddard, Hai Xiao, Wen‐Yong Lai, Wei Huang, Yizhou Zhang, Hao Yang, Yang Wang, Boris V. Merinov, Huan Pang and Xiaoqing Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Tao Cheng

318 papers receiving 21.2k 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.

Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

2016 1.4k citations Tao Cheng, William A. Goddard et al. profile →
Flexible supercapacitors based on paper substrates: a new paradigm for low-cost energy storage

2015 571 citations Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Full atomistic reaction mechanism with kinetics for CO reduction on Cu(100) from ab initio molecular dynamics free-energy calculations at 298 K

2017 534 citations Tao Cheng, Hai Xiao et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Cu metal embedded in oxidized matrix catalyst to promote CO ₂ activation and CO dimerization for electrochemical reduction of CO ₂

2017 523 citations Hai Xiao, William A. Goddard et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Highly active and stable stepped Cu surface for enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2H4

2020 475 citations Chungseok Choi, Soonho Kwon et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
Stretchable Thin‐Film Electrodes for Flexible Electronics with High Deformability and Stretchability

2015 470 citations Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Boosting electrocatalytic CO2–to–ethanol production via asymmetric C–C coupling

2022 421 citations Hao Yang, Tao Cheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Printed supercapacitors: materials, printing and applications

2019 411 citations Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Conductive Hydrogel‐Based Electrodes and Electrolytes for Stretchable and Self‐Healable Supercapacitors

2021 261 citations Tao Cheng et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Single-site Pt-doped RuO ₂ hollow nanospheres with interstitial C for high-performance acidic overall water splitting

2022 259 citations Hao Yang, Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Promoting nickel oxidation state transitions in single-layer NiFeB hydroxide nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution

2022 256 citations Yu Wu, Yifan Ye et al. Nature Communications profile →
Molecular‐Crowding Effect Mimicking Cold‐Resistant Plants to Stabilize the Zinc Anode with Wider Service Temperature Range

2022 231 citations Pengfei Yan, Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Porous organic polymers for high-performance supercapacitors

2022 215 citations Tao Cheng et al. profile →
Regulating the Inner Helmholtz Plane with a High Donor Additive for Efficient Anode Reversibility in Aqueous Zn‐Ion Batteries

2023 192 citations Liang Xu, Tao Cheng et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Temperature-dependent interphase formation and Li+ transport in lithium metal batteries

2023 183 citations Suting Weng, Bingyun Ma et al. Nature Communications profile →
Stable and oxidative charged Ru enhance the acidic oxygen evolution reaction activity in two-dimensional ruthenium-iridium oxide

2023 177 citations Hao Yang, Jun Zhong et al. Nature Communications profile →
Assembling covalent organic framework membranes with superior ion exchange capacity

2022 174 citations Hao Yang, Zhe Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Origin of dendrite-free lithium deposition in concentrated electrolytes

2023 166 citations Yawei Chen, Menghao Li et al. Nature Communications profile →
Stable zinc anode solid electrolyte interphase via inner Helmholtz plane engineering

2024 112 citations Liang Xu, Tao Cheng et al. Nature Communications profile →
Off-Equilibrium Hydrothermal Synthesis of High-Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles

2025 22 citations Zhixue Zhang, Peiping Yu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	High-velocity DNA nanoharvester-enabled ultrasensitive analysis: Decoding extracellular vesicles miRNA Assisted by machine learning for grading of alzheimer's disease 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Tao Cheng, Jiabao Yu, Jian Sun, Heng Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), Jin Jiao	0
2	Dynamic evolution of cathode-electrolyte interphase in lithium metal batteries with ether electrolytes 2025 ·Joule ·Yawei Chen, Menghao Li, Yulin Jie, Yue Liu, Zhengfeng Zhang, Peiping Yu, Wanxia Li, Yang Liu, Xinpeng Li, Zhanwu Lei, Pengfei Yan, Tao Cheng, Meng Gu, Shuhong Jiao, Ruiguo Cao	6
3	Oxygen functionalization of carbon quantum dots enables efficient acidic hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Baoxin Ni, Huazhang Guo, Hao Yang, (unknown), (unknown), Junhao Chu, Jiajie Wang, Yifan Ye, Hao Wei, Wen–Bin Cai, Tao Cheng, Liang Wang, Kun Jiang	1
4	Weakly‐Solvated and Co‐Intercalation‐Free Ether‐Based Electrolytes Enhance the Low‐ Temperature and Fast‐Charging Performance of LiFePO ₄ \|\|Graphite Batteries 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Ziwei Wang, (unknown), Jiacheng Zhu, (unknown), Shiwei Xu, Suting Weng, Bowen Liu, Zhaoxiang Wang, Yejing Li, Tao Cheng, Xuefeng Wang	0
5	A Thermally Robust Biopolymeric Separator Conveys K⁺ Transport and Interfacial Chemistry for Longevous Potassium Metal Batteries 2025 ·ACS Nano ·Yuyuan Wang, Liang Xu, Xiaopeng Chen, Ziang Chen, Xinhua Li, Wenyi Guo, Tao Cheng, Yuyang Yi, Jingyu Sun	8
6	Atomic Real-Space Imaging of the Phase Distribution in Halide Perovskites 2025 ·Nano Letters ·Mengmeng Ma, (unknown), Xuliang Zhang, Xiao Chen, Bin Song, Tao Cheng, Jianyu Yuan, (unknown), Boyuan Shen	0
7	Engineering catalyst–support interactions in cobalt phthalocyanine for enhanced electrocatalytic CO ₂ reduction: the role of graphene-skinned Al ₂ O ₃ 2025 ·Chemical Science ·Qianqian Bai, Bingyun Ma, Le Wei, (unknown), (unknown), Wei Hua, (unknown), Min Wang, Huihong Yuan, Zhihe Wei, Tao Cheng, Xiaoxing Ke, Jun Zhong, Fenglei Lyu, Zhao Deng, Yang Peng	0
8	Internal-driven DNA nanowindmill: Multi-fulcrum mediated amplified rolling nanomachine for fast and ultrasensitive electrochemical detection of tau 2024 ·Sensors and Actuators B Chemical ·Tao Cheng, (unknown), Mingyang Sun, Jiabao Yu, Jianwei Jiao, Jin Jiao	3
9	Far-from-equilibrium electrosynthesis ramifies high-entropy alloy for alkaline hydrogen evolution 2023 ·Journal of Material Science and Technology ·Yunan Wang, Hao Yang, Zhe Zhang, Xiangying Meng, Tao Cheng, Gaowu Qin, Song Li	25
10	Nanoconfined Molecular Catalysts in Integrated Gas Diffusion Electrodes for High‐Current‐Density CO₂ Electroreduction 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xiangzhou Lv, Qian Liu, Hao Yang, Jianghao Wang, Xiuju Wu, Xiaotong Li, Zhifu Qi, Jianhua Yan, Angjian Wu, Tao Cheng, Hao Bin Wu	28
11	Coherent hexagonal platinum skin on nickel nanocrystals for enhanced hydrogen evolution activity 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Kai Liu, Hao Yang, Yilan Jiang, Zhaojun Liu, Shumeng Zhang, Zhixue Zhang, (unknown), Yiming Lu, Tao Cheng, Osamu Terasaki, Qing Zhang, Chuanbo Gao	78
12	Determining the hydronium pKα at platinum surfaces and the effect on pH-dependent hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Tao Cheng, Aamir Hassan Shah, Chengzhang Wan, Zhihong Huang, Sibo Wang, (unknown), Yu Huang, William A. Goddard, Xiangfeng Duan	36
13	Predicted Operando Polymerization at Lithium Anode via Boron Insertion 2021 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Yue Liu, Peiping Yu, Qintao Sun, Yu Wu, Miao Xie, Hao Yang, Tao Cheng, William A. Goddard	35
14	Autobifunctional Mechanism of Jagged Pt Nanowires for Hydrogen Evolution Kinetics via End-to-End Simulation 2021 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Geun Ho Gu, Juhyung Lim, Chengzhang Wan, Tao Cheng, Heting Pu, Sungwon Kim, Juhwan Noh, Changhyeok Choi, Juhwan Kim, William A. Goddard, Xiangfeng Duan, Yousung Jung	40
15	Ultrathin Pt–Cu–Ni Ternary Alloy Nanowires with Multimetallic Interplay for Boosted Methanol Oxidation Activity 2021 ·ACS Applied Energy Materials ·Zhixue Zhang, Miao Xie, Zhaojun Liu, Yiming Lu, Shumeng Zhang, Moxuan Liu, Kai Liu, Tao Cheng, Chuanbo Gao	17
16	Highly active and stable stepped Cu surface for enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction to C2H4 breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Catalysis ·Chungseok Choi, Soonho Kwon, Tao Cheng, Mingjie Xu, Peter Tieu, Changsoo Lee, Jin Cai, Hyuck Mo Lee, Xiaoqing Pan, Xiangfeng Duan, William A. Goddard, Yu Huang	475
17	Highly Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ into Methane on Cu–Bi Nanoalloys 2020 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Zhijiang Wang, Qi Yuan, Jingjing Shan, Zhaohua Jiang, Ping Xu, Yongfeng Hu, Jigang Zhou, Lina Wu, Zhuang‐Zhuang Niu, Jianmin Sun, Tao Cheng, William A. Goddard	62
18	Design of a One-Dimensional Stacked Spin Peierls System with Room-Temperature Switching from Quantum Mechanical Predictions 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Hao Yang, Tao Cheng, William A. Goddard, Xiao‐Ming Ren	1
19	Predicted Structures of the Active Sites Responsible for the Improved Reduction of Carbon Dioxide by Gold Nanoparticles 2017 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Tao Cheng, Yufeng Huang, Hai Xiao, William A. Goddard	45
20	Nature of the Active Sites for CO Reduction on Copper Nanoparticles; Suggestions for Optimizing Performance 2017 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Tao Cheng, Hai Xiao, William A. Goddard	161

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