Xun Cao

5.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
121 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Xun Cao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Xun Cao has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 54 papers in Materials Chemistry and 41 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Xun Cao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (14 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Xun Cao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (29 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (14 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers). Xun Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and United States. Xun Cao's co-authors include Yizhong Huang, Ping Jin, Zewei Shao, Hongjie Luo, Junsheng Wu, Zheng Liu, Bowei Zhang, Dongdong Peng, Kang Huang and Tianyuan Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xun Cao

119 papers receiving 4.0k 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.

Recent progress in the phase-transition mechanism and modulation of vanadium dioxide materials

2018 385 citations Xun Cao, Ping Jin et al. profile →
Interpenetrating interfaces for efficient perovskite solar cells with high operational stability and mechanical robustness

2021 244 citations Xun Cao, Yizhong Huang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xun Cao China	34	2.2k	1.7k	1.4k	903	691	121	4.1k
Jia Zhu China	35	2.4k 1.1×	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	739 1.1×	86	5.2k
Guohua Gao China	38	3.5k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	2.3k 1.7×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	118	5.7k
Jinlong Gao China	34	2.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	296 0.4×	86	4.5k
Young‐Woo Lee South Korea	35	2.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	973 1.1×	289 0.4×	197	4.0k
Jianmin Li China	33	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	927 1.3×	81	4.7k
Shuang Cheng China	42	4.4k 1.9×	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	3.1k 3.5×	772 1.1×	151	6.2k
Teng Wang China	26	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	675 0.5×	2.2k 2.5×	435 0.6×	67	3.3k
Xiaofeng Wang China	35	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	853 0.6×	686 0.8×	480 0.7×	199	4.0k
Kun Wang China	37	2.9k 1.3×	2.8k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	847 0.9×	531 0.8×	136	4.8k
Lixing Kang China	34	1.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.4×	827 0.6×	967 1.1×	309 0.4×	143	4.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Li, Xuli, et al.. (2025). Recent advances in photocatalytic removal of antibiotic-based CECs: Materials, mechanism and applications. Separation and Purification Technology. 376. 133995–133995. 1 indexed citations

Ma, Mingbo, Honghui Yang, Quan Li, et al.. (2025). Graphite encapsulated high active nickel-molybdenum/nickel oxide porous nanosheet composites as enhanced oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalysts. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1017. 179073–179073. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yanzhi, Zhi‐Hao Wang, Chang Liu, et al.. (2024). Damage mechanism and protective performance of vanadium dioxide under continuous-Wave laser irradiation. Applied Surface Science. 673. 160847–160847. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Xun, Yang Yang, Tian Wang, et al.. (2024). Confined PMo6W6 for energy storage. Nano Today. 59. 102476–102476. 2 indexed citations

Yi, Kongyang, Yamin Huang, Yao Wu, et al.. (2024). Integration of high-κ native oxides of gallium for two-dimensional transistors. Nature Electronics. 7(12). 1126–1136. 27 indexed citations

He, Zhengquan, Rong Cai, Hu Huang, et al.. (2024). A Genome-Wide Characterization of Receptor-like Cytoplasmic Kinase IV Subfamily Members in Populus deltoides Identifies the Potential Role of PdeCRCK6 in Plant Osmotic Stress Responses. Plants. 13(23). 3371–3371. 1 indexed citations

Cao, Xun. (2024). Fabrication and characterisation of CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction. Applied Materials Today. 37. 102128–102128. 7 indexed citations

Huang, Kang, Jiuyang Xia, Yu Lu, et al.. (2023). Self‐Reconstructed Spinel Surface Structure Enabling the Long‐Term Stable Hydrogen Evolution Reaction/Oxygen Evolution Reaction Efficiency of FeCoNiRu High‐Entropy Alloyed Electrocatalyst. Advanced Science. 10(14). e2300094–e2300094. 105 indexed citations

Tang, Bijun, Mengjiao Han, Xiaodong Xu, et al.. (2022). Phase engineering of Cr5Te8 with colossal anomalous Hall effect. Nature Electronics. 5(4). 224–232. 104 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yong, Huiteng Tan, Xun Cao, et al.. (2021). Atomic-scale oxidation of a Sm2Co17-type magnet. Acta Materialia. 220. 117343–117343. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Hai, Tingting Zhao, Lingwei Kong, et al.. (2021). Twinning enhanced electrical conductivity and surface activity of nanostructured CuCrO2 gas sensor. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 338. 129845–129845. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Kang, Bowei Zhang, Junsheng Wu, et al.. (2020). Exploring the impact of atomic lattice deformation on oxygen evolution reactions based on a sub-5 nm pure face-centred cubic high-entropy alloy electrocatalyst. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(24). 11938–11947. 227 indexed citations

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Xiao, Kaijun, Zeyu Liu, Zhong Chen, et al.. (2020). Unraveling the effects of anions in NixAy@CC (A=O, S, P) on Li-sulfur batteries. Materials Today Nano. 13. 100106–100106. 12 indexed citations

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Liu, Hai, Xun Cao, Hao Wu, et al.. (2020). Innovative development on a p-type delafossite CuCrO2 nanoparticles based triethylamine sensor. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 324. 128743–128743. 41 indexed citations

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Lu, Guoping, et al.. (2020). The synergistic catalysis on Co nanoparticles and CoNx sites of aniline-modified ZIF derived Co@NCs for oxidative esterification of HMF. Chinese Chemical Letters. 32(2). 685–690. 55 indexed citations

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Yang, Guang, Huanhuan Wang, Bowei Zhang, et al.. (2019). Superior Li-ion storage of VS₄ nanowires anchored on reduced graphene. Nanoscale. 11(19). 9556–9562. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Chaojie, et al.. (2018). Co-synthesis of CuO-ZnO nanoflowers by low voltage liquid plasma discharge with brass electrode. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 773. 762–769. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Chaojiang, Bowei Zhang, Yong Li, et al.. (2018). Self-assembled Cu-Ni bimetal oxide 3D in-plane epitaxial structures for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 244. 56–62. 68 indexed citations

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Ma, Mingbo, Guang Yang, Hongjie Wang, et al.. (2018). Ordered distributed nickel sulfide nanoparticles across graphite nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution reaction electrocatalyst. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 44(3). 1544–1554. 22 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yijie, Ning Li, Yunchuan Xin, et al.. (2017). Cs_xWO₃ nanoparticle-based organic polymer transparent foils: low haze, high near infrared-shielding ability and excellent photochromic stability. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(25). 6251–6258. 72 indexed citations

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