Ying Dai

39.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
652 papers, 34.3k citations indexed

About

Ying Dai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ying Dai has authored 652 papers receiving a total of 34.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 480 papers in Materials Chemistry, 277 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 210 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ying Dai's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (231 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (160 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (88 papers). Ying Dai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (231 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (160 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (88 papers). Ying Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Ying Dai's co-authors include Baibiao Huang, Baibiao Huang, Yandong Ma, Zeyan Wang, Xiaoyang Zhang, Peng Wang, Xiaoyan Qin, Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, Hefeng Cheng and Zhaoke Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ying Dai

628 papers receiving 33.7k 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.

Oxygen Vacancy Induced Band-Gap Narrowing and Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity of ZnO

2012 1.4k citations Zeyan Wang, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
Ag@AgCl: A Highly Efficient and Stable Photocatalyst Active under Visible Light

2008 1.3k citations Peng Wang, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
Evidence of the Existence of Magnetism in Pristine VX₂ Monolayers (X = S, Se) and Their Strain-Induced Tunable Magnetic Properties

2012 749 citations Yandong Ma, Ying Dai et al. profile →
Plasmonic photocatalysts: harvesting visible light with noble metal nanoparticles

2012 713 citations Peng Wang, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
Highly Efficient Visible‐Light Plasmonic Photocatalyst Ag@AgBr

2009 564 citations Peng Wang, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
One-Step Synthesis of the Nanostructured AgI/BiOI Composites with Highly Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performances

2010 547 citations Hefeng Cheng, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
Facile in situ synthesis of visible-light plasmonic photocatalysts M@TiO2 (M = Au, Pt, Ag) and evaluation of their photocatalytic oxidation of benzene to phenol

2011 524 citations Zhaoke Zheng, Baibiao Huang et al. profile →
High performance ZIF-8/6FDA-DAM mixed matrix membrane for propylene/propane separations

2011 413 citations Ying Dai et al. profile →
High-Throughput Screening of Synergistic Transition Metal Dual-Atom Catalysts for Efficient Nitrogen Fixation

2021 307 citations Xingshuai Lv, Wei Wei et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ying Dai China	92	25.4k	19.8k	11.7k	4.8k	2.3k	652	34.3k
Baibiao Huang China	96	25.7k 1.0×	22.4k 1.1×	13.1k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	705	34.8k
Wu Zhou China	93	26.8k 1.1×	14.3k 0.7×	16.9k 1.4×	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	295	38.9k
Aijun Du Australia	90	21.9k 0.9×	17.7k 0.9×	14.2k 1.2×	3.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	486	33.6k
Yafei Li China	83	16.4k 0.6×	15.9k 0.8×	12.4k 1.1×	2.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	291	28.7k
Jin‐Song Hu China	95	18.3k 0.7×	18.6k 0.9×	25.6k 2.2×	7.3k 1.5×	900 0.4×	430	40.0k
Zhaoxiong Xie China	86	17.7k 0.7×	13.3k 0.7×	11.8k 1.0×	6.3k 1.3×	734 0.3×	367	29.9k
Zhen Zhou China	117	23.0k 0.9×	10.5k 0.5×	29.8k 2.5×	10.6k 2.2×	986 0.4×	622	46.0k
Raymond E. Schaak United States	73	12.6k 0.5×	11.0k 0.6×	10.6k 0.9×	3.3k 0.7×	809 0.3×	237	22.0k
Junfa Zhu China	104	24.0k 0.9×	27.3k 1.4×	16.2k 1.4×	2.9k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	493	43.1k
Shiqiang Wei China	79	18.3k 0.7×	20.6k 1.0×	12.2k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	521 0.2×	373	32.1k

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Liu, Guili, et al.. (2025). Reshaping photovoltaic efficiency: Characteristic regulation and future application exploration of GaS/MoTe2 van der Waals heterostructure. Materials Today Communications. 45. 112162–112162. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Ke, et al.. (2025). Machine learning based finite element analysis for personalized prediction of pressure injury risk in patients with spinal cord injury. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 261. 108648–108648. 2 indexed citations

Dai, Ying, Chunhong Li, Jinqi Liu, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the stability of mung bean-based milk: Insights from protein characteristics and raw material selection. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 265(Pt 2). 131030–131030. 10 indexed citations

Dai, Ying, Jianbiao Chen, Zhenyu Gao, et al.. (2024). Impacts of combined pretreatments of torrefaction and its liquid products washing on the chemical looping gasification characteristics of agricultural straw driven by iron-rich sludge ash as waste-based oxygen carrier. Energy. 314. 134312–134312. 2 indexed citations

Dai, Ying, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and chromatic properties of novel eco-friendly green pigments Pr Ca2-Al2SiO7 (0 < x ≤ 0.1). Ceramics International. 51(8). 9817–9823.

Dai, Ying, et al.. (2024). Bending deformation modulation of the optoelectronic properties of molybdenum ditelluride doped with nonmetallic atoms X (X = B, C, N, O): a first-principles study. Journal of Molecular Modeling. 30(4). 94–94. 2 indexed citations

Dou, Kaiying, et al.. (2024). Engineering Topological Spin Hall Effect in 2D Multiferroic Material. Advanced Science. 11(44). e2407982–e2407982. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Jing, et al.. (2024). Exploring rural resident’s Digital Capital against external shocks in digital transformation. Discover Computing. 27(1).

Zhang, Baokun, Ying Dai, Baibiao Huang, et al.. (2024). Improving nitric oxide reduction reaction through surface doping on superstructures. Nano Energy. 123. 109396–109396. 11 indexed citations

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Yi, Fan, et al.. (2024). An insight into the effects of combined pretreatments of torrefied liquid products washing and torrefaction on chemical looping gasification process of Platanus Orientalis L. leaves. Energy. 312. 133493–133493. 1 indexed citations

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Dai, Ying, Meng Sun, Hua Fang, et al.. (2023). Co-combustion of binary and ternary blends of industrial sludge, lignite and pine sawdust via thermogravimetric analysis: Thermal behaviors, interaction effects, kinetics evaluation, and artificial neural network modeling. Renewable Energy. 220. 119610–119610. 17 indexed citations

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Fu, Hui, Xiaolei Liu, Yaqiang Wu, et al.. (2023). Construction of a bismuth-based perovskite direct Z-scheme heterojunction Au-Cs3Bi2Br9/V2O5 for efficient photocatalytic CO2 reduction. Applied Surface Science. 622. 156964–156964. 44 indexed citations

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Xing, Danning, Huixuan Wang, Zheng Cui, et al.. (2023). A Conductive Two-dimensional Trimetallic FeCoNi-Benzenehexathiol π–d Conjugated Metal–organic Framework for Highly Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 656. 309–319. 11 indexed citations

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Fang, Hua, Fan Yi, Meng Sun, et al.. (2023). Optimizing performance of iron-rich sludge ash as cost-effective oxygen carrier by calcium-based additive for syngas production from biomass chemical-looping gasification. Bioresource Technology. 385. 129400–129400. 7 indexed citations

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Peng, Rui, Ting Zhang, Zhonglin He, et al.. (2023). Intrinsic layer-polarized anomalous Hall effect in bilayer MnBi2Te4. Physical review. B.. 107(8). 53 indexed citations

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Fu, Hui, Xiaolei Liu, Yaqiang Wu, et al.. (2023). 2D/Quasi-2D Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite: A High-Performance Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Catalysis. 13(22). 14716–14724. 37 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shu‐Hui, Xinxin Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, et al.. (2022). Electronic Properties of Defective Janus MoSSe Monolayer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(21). 4807–4814. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Hongchao, Pei Zhao, Yandong Ma, et al.. (2019). Janus single-layer group-III monochalcogenides: a promising visible-light photocatalyst. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(45). 455303–455303. 31 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yingtao, et al.. (2011). First principles study of Ag‐doped, Nb‐doped and Ag/Nb doped SrTiO ₃. Rare Metals. 30(S1). 177–182. 4 indexed citations

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Lai, Kangrong, Wei Wei, Ying Dai, Ruiqin Zhang, & Baibiao Huang. (2011). DFT calculations on structural and electronic properties of Bi ₂ MO ₆ (M = Cr, Mo, W). Rare Metals. 30(S1). 166–172. 60 indexed citations

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