Zechuan Dai

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 959 citations indexed

About

Zechuan Dai is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zechuan Dai has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 959 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 19 papers in Catalysis and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zechuan Dai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers). Zechuan Dai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (16 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers). Zechuan Dai collaborates with scholars based in China and Singapore. Zechuan Dai's co-authors include Hongjing Wang, You Xu, Xiao‐Nian Li, Liang Wang, Ziqiang Wang, Genqiang Zhang, Mingyu Cheng, Yanxu Chen, Songliang Liu and Yangyang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zechuan Dai

31 papers receiving 936 citations

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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.

Defect-induced triple synergistic modulation in copper for superior electrochemical ammonia production across broad nitrate concentrations

2024 150 citations Bocheng Zhang, Zechuan Dai et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zechuan Dai China	17	684	406	298	254	137	33	959
Jiaqi Sang China	12	510 0.7×	374 0.9×	140 0.5×	116 0.5×	17 0.1×	17	663
Joshua van der Zalm Canada	12	234 0.3×	129 0.3×	254 0.9×	243 1.0×	25 0.2×	31	605
Xingyun Li China	16	550 0.8×	93 0.2×	408 1.4×	550 2.2×	66 0.5×	39	1.1k
Xinhua Lü China	16	578 0.8×	76 0.2×	232 0.8×	435 1.7×	46 0.3×	24	1.0k
Yuhan Peng China	9	228 0.3×	146 0.4×	311 1.0×	72 0.3×	112 0.8×	27	543
Lele Lu China	14	553 0.8×	50 0.1×	439 1.5×	230 0.9×	46 0.3×	22	738
Meilin Cui China	13	509 0.7×	103 0.3×	180 0.6×	400 1.6×	22 0.2×	23	686
Yanfang Ma China	14	189 0.3×	47 0.1×	140 0.5×	235 0.9×	32 0.2×	22	484
Jiao-Jiao Duan China	13	807 1.2×	31 0.1×	254 0.9×	650 2.6×	46 0.3×	19	1.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dai, Zechuan, et al.. (2026). Stable Cuδ+ sites derived from analogous rectifying interface in AgCu biphasic aerogels for efficient urea electrosynthesis at low potential. Nature Communications. 17(1). 59–59.

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Wang, Shao, Yanxu Chen, Mingyu Cheng, et al.. (2025). Atomic‐Scale Mott–Schottky Analogy in SnCu Nanoalloy Promote High‐Efficiency Urea Electrosynthesis at Ultralow Potential. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(36). e202509834–e202509834. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Bocheng, et al.. (2025). Intrinsic Ni ⁰ –Ni ^δ+ Pairs in Anti‐Perovskite NiNNi ₃ Act as Hydrogen Radical Emitters for Cu Enabling Promoted Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(5). e21064–e21064. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Shao, Yanxu Chen, Mingyu Cheng, et al.. (2025). Atomic‐Scale Mott–Schottky Analogy in SnCu Nanoalloy Promote High‐Efficiency Urea Electrosynthesis at Ultralow Potential. Angewandte Chemie. 137(36).

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Zhang, Bocheng, Zechuan Dai, Yanxu Chen, et al.. (2024). Defect-induced triple synergistic modulation in copper for superior electrochemical ammonia production across broad nitrate concentrations. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2816–2816. 150 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Yangyang, Yanxu Chen, Xiaowen Wang, et al.. (2024). Low-coordinated copper facilitates the *CH2CO affinity at enhanced rectifying interface of Cu/Cu2O for efficient CO2-to-multicarbon alcohols conversion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5172–5172. 79 indexed citations

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Cheng, Mingyu, Zechuan Dai, Yanxu Chen, et al.. (2024). Constructing a Bifunctional Heterointerface Realizes Superior Electroreduction of Nitrate-Enriched Wastewater with Wide Concentrations for Ammonia Production. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(24). 11309–11317. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaowen, Yangyang Zhang, Shao Wang, et al.. (2024). Steering Geometric Reconstruction of Bismuth with Accelerated Dynamics for CO₂ Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(34). e202407665–e202407665. 28 indexed citations

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Cheng, Mingyu, Shao Wang, Zechuan Dai, et al.. (2024). Rectifying Heterointerface Facilitated C−N Coupling Dynamics Enables Efficient Urea Electrosynthesis Under Ultralow Potentials. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(1). e202413534–e202413534. 28 indexed citations

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Cheng, Mingyu, Shao Wang, Zechuan Dai, et al.. (2024). Rectifying Heterointerface Facilitated C−N Coupling Dynamics Enables Efficient Urea Electrosynthesis Under Ultralow Potentials. Angewandte Chemie. 137(1). 3 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaohui, Zechuan Dai, Chunhui Liu, et al.. (2023). Microbial transglutaminase promotes cross-linking for enhancing gelation of myofibrillar protein in frozen Litopenaeus vannamei through deamination reaction. Food Hydrocolloids. 147. 109332–109332. 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Huaikun, Wentao Wang, Zechuan Dai, et al.. (2023). Boosting hydrazine oxidation and hydrogen evolution catalysis with anchored Ru clusters by electronically tunable Ru–S–C bonds. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(27). 14674–14681. 15 indexed citations

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Dai, Zechuan, Wenxin Wang, Ziqiang Wang, et al.. (2022). Phosphorus incorporation accelerates ammonia electrosynthesis over a mesoporous Au film. Chemical Communications. 58(41). 6088–6091. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Wenjing Tian, Zechuan Dai, et al.. (2021). Bimetallic mesoporous RhRu film for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(18). 4276–4281. 13 indexed citations

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Deng, Kai, Tianlun Ren, You Xu, et al.. (2020). Transition metal M (M = Co, Ni, and Fe) and boron co-modulation in Rh-based aerogels for highly efficient and pH-universal hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(11). 5595–5600. 34 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Hugang Zhang, Songliang Liu, et al.. (2020). Engineering bunched RhTe nanochains for efficient methanol oxidation electrocatalysis. Chemical Communications. 56(88). 13595–13598. 47 indexed citations

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Wang, Ziqiang, Hugang Zhang, Shuli Yin, et al.. (2020). A P-doped PtTe mesoporous nanotube electrocatalyst. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 4(6). 2950–2955. 9 indexed citations

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Yu, Hongjie, Ziqiang Wang, Zechuan Dai, et al.. (2020). An interconnected porous Au₃Pt film on Ni foam: an efficient electrocatalyst for alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 4(9). 4878–4883. 3 indexed citations

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Deng, Kai, You Xu, Dandan Yang, et al.. (2019). Pt–Ni–P nanocages with surface porosity as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and methanol oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(16). 9791–9797. 67 indexed citations

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Yin, Shuli, Hongjing Wang, Kai Deng, et al.. (2019). Ultralong Ternary PtRuTe Mesoporous Nanotubes Fabricated by Micelle Assembly with a Self‐Sacrificial Template. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(20). 5316–5321. 18 indexed citations

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