Zhao Cai

9.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
127 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Zhao Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhao Cai has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 54 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 30 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Zhao Cai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (49 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (46 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers). Zhao Cai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (49 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (46 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (28 papers). Zhao Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Zhao Cai's co-authors include Xiaoming Sun, Yongming Sun, Jindi Wang, Yun Kuang, Wen Liu, Yaping Li, Yongmin Bi, Daojin Zhou, Yangtao Ou and Lin Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhao Cai

122 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

Nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray as an efficient... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2020 2023 2022 200 400 600
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.

  1. Nitrogen-doped tungsten carbide nanoarray as an efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst for water splitting in acid
    2018 683 citations Zhao Cai et al. Nature Communications profile →
  2. Single‐Crystalline Ultrathin Co3O4 Nanosheets with Massive Vacancy Defects for Enhanced Electrocatalysis
    2017 520 citations Zhao Cai, Enyuan Hu et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  3. Chemically resistant Cu–Zn/Zn composite anode for long cycling aqueous batteries
    2020 452 citations Zhao Cai, Yangtao Ou et al. Energy storage materials profile →
  4. Anode corrosion in aqueous Zn metal batteries
    2023 352 citations Zhao Cai, Jindi Wang et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  5. Ultrafast Metal Electrodeposition Revealed by In Situ Optical Imaging and Theoretical Modeling towards Fast‐Charging Zn Battery Chemistry
    2022 213 citations Zhao Cai, Jindi Wang et al. profile →
  6. Introducing Electron Buffers into Intermetallic Pt Alloys against Surface Polarization for High-Performing Fuel Cells
    2024 86 citations Xuan Liu, Yuhan Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhao Cai China 49 5.8k 4.5k 1.8k 1.4k 776 127 8.3k
Hao Yang China 44 3.9k 0.7× 3.3k 0.7× 2.4k 1.3× 1.6k 1.2× 329 0.4× 194 7.2k
Hui Yang China 45 3.5k 0.6× 4.3k 1.0× 3.1k 1.7× 615 0.4× 155 0.2× 199 7.5k
Jun Deng China 37 2.8k 0.5× 3.4k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 575 0.4× 213 0.3× 169 6.5k
Xiaodong Guo China 51 7.0k 1.2× 2.0k 0.4× 1.7k 0.9× 2.3k 1.7× 1.7k 2.1× 222 9.0k
Fan Yang China 34 3.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.3× 930 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 354 0.5× 131 4.6k
Chien‐Te Hsieh Taiwan 55 4.9k 0.9× 2.1k 0.5× 4.4k 2.4× 2.3k 1.7× 847 1.1× 262 10.0k
Weiyong Yuan China 40 2.2k 0.4× 2.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 530 0.4× 252 0.3× 118 4.4k
Yongfu Tang China 48 5.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.3× 1.6k 0.9× 2.8k 2.1× 989 1.3× 177 6.8k
Lihui Zhou China 33 2.2k 0.4× 715 0.2× 1.2k 0.7× 650 0.5× 501 0.6× 161 4.4k
Masayuki Morita Japan 45 5.1k 0.9× 591 0.1× 996 0.5× 1.7k 1.3× 1.6k 2.0× 279 7.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhao Cai

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All Works

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Li, Chunhao, Jing Wang, Xiancheng Wang, et al.. (2025). Regulating the mechano-electrochemistry of graphite-silicon hybrid anode through layered electrode structure design. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 104. 176–184. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Jing, M. Jamesh, Qiang Gao, et al.. (2024). Semimetallic hydroxide materials for electrochemical water oxidation. Science China Materials. 67(5). 1551–1558. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuxiang, Bo Han, Shuangshuang Tan, et al.. (2024). Interfacial Engineering of Metal Chalcogenides‐based Heterostructures for Advanced Sodium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(15). 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Xuan, Yuhan Wang, Jiashun Liang, et al.. (2024). Introducing Electron Buffers into Intermetallic Pt Alloys against Surface Polarization for High-Performing Fuel Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(3). 2033–2042. 86 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Xiaochao, Ziheng Lu, Qiang Gao, et al.. (2023). Low-temperature replacement construction of three-dimensional corrosion-resistant interface for deeply rechargeable Zn metal batteries. Nano Materials Science. 6(3). 329–336. 23 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yu, Cheng Li, Li Wang, et al.. (2023). Controllable Thermochemical Generation of Active Defects in the Horizontal/Vertical MoS2 for Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(46). 39 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuxiang, Jing Wang, Bo Han, et al.. (2023). Electron Modulated and Phosphate Radical Stabilized 1T‐Rich MoS2 for Ultra‐Fast‐Charged Sodium Ion Storage. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(9). 49 indexed citations
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Liu, Xi, Jing Wang, Hang Cheng, et al.. (2023). Cell division factor ZapE regulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation by impacting the pqs quorum sensing system. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 28–42. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Shuxia, Tanyuan Wang, Xuan Liu, et al.. (2023). In Situ Dissociated Chalcogenide Anions Regulate the Bi-Catalyst/Electrolyte Interface with Accelerated Surface Reconstruction toward Efficient CO2 Reduction. ACS Catalysis. 14(1). 489–497. 25 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanjian, Eryang Mao, Zhao Cai, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Polymer-Alloy-Fluoride Interphase Enabling Fast Ion Transport Kinetics for Low-Temperature Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Nano. 17(19). 19459–19469. 49 indexed citations
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Shi, Hao, Tanyuan Wang, Jianyun Liu, et al.. (2023). A sodium-ion-conducted asymmetric electrolyzer to lower the operation voltage for direct seawater electrolysis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3934–3934. 143 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiancheng, Yufang He, Shuibin Tu, et al.. (2022). Li plating on alloy with superior electro-mechanical stability for high energy density anode-free batteries. Energy storage materials. 49. 135–143. 63 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhao, Yangtao Ou, Bao Zhang, et al.. (2021). A Replacement Reaction Enabled Interdigitated Metal/Solid Electrolyte Architecture for Battery Cycling at 20 mA cm–2 and 20 mAh cm–2. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(8). 3143–3152. 177 indexed citations
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Li, Yuanjian, Wenyu Wang, Bao Zhang, et al.. (2021). Manipulating Redox Kinetics of Sulfur Species Using Mott–Schottky Electrocatalysts for Advanced Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Nano Letters. 21(15). 6656–6663. 203 indexed citations
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Zhang, Peiyan, Zhao Cai, Weibo Wu, et al.. (2020). The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pneumonia with negative detection of viral ribonucleic acid from nasopharyngeal swabs: a case report. BMC Infectious Diseases. 20(1). 12 indexed citations
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Ng, Chun Kiat, Jiabao Xu, Zhao Cai, et al.. (2020). Elevated intracellular cyclic‐di‐GMP level in Shewanella oneidensis increases expression of c ‐type cytochromes. Microbial Biotechnology. 13(6). 1904–1916. 30 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiaoxiao, Tongchao Liu, Rui Wang, et al.. (2020). Prelithiated Li-Enriched Gradient Interphase toward Practical High-Energy NMC–Silicon Full Cell. ACS Energy Letters. 6(2). 320–328. 68 indexed citations

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