Zhen‐Feng Cai

1.1k total citations
41 papers, 867 citations indexed

About

Zhen‐Feng Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhen‐Feng Cai has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 867 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhen‐Feng Cai's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (14 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (10 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (6 papers). Zhen‐Feng Cai is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (14 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (10 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (6 papers). Zhen‐Feng Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and Belgium. Zhen‐Feng Cai's co-authors include Li‐Jun Wan, Dong Wang, Steven De Feyter, Gaolei Zhan, Xiang Wang, Renato Zenobi, Aurelio Mateo‐Alonso, Marta Martínez‐Abadía, Naresh Kumar and Hui‐Juan Yan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhen‐Feng Cai

39 papers receiving 858 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhen‐Feng Cai China 14 427 292 281 190 156 41 867
Elena Echeverría United States 17 672 1.6× 414 1.4× 230 0.8× 149 0.8× 246 1.6× 69 1.1k
Liane M. Moreau United States 16 584 1.4× 215 0.7× 314 1.1× 143 0.8× 184 1.2× 34 1.0k
Utkarsh Anand Singapore 13 387 0.9× 219 0.8× 160 0.6× 146 0.8× 64 0.4× 24 755
Yuanyuan Guo China 22 453 1.1× 528 1.8× 432 1.5× 196 1.0× 152 1.0× 49 1.1k
Tetsuro Soejima Japan 15 711 1.7× 202 0.7× 345 1.2× 118 0.6× 58 0.4× 40 1.0k
K. Amandeep United States 11 800 1.9× 355 1.2× 356 1.3× 172 0.9× 101 0.6× 15 1.2k
Antonio Prestianni Italy 18 877 2.1× 136 0.5× 252 0.9× 167 0.9× 119 0.8× 37 1.1k
Xing Fan China 19 848 2.0× 531 1.8× 508 1.8× 187 1.0× 87 0.6× 54 1.3k
Jun‐Gill Kang South Korea 19 1.0k 2.4× 481 1.6× 241 0.9× 80 0.4× 156 1.0× 57 1.3k
A. Capobianchi Italy 16 415 1.0× 212 0.7× 89 0.3× 141 0.7× 67 0.4× 35 646

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhen‐Feng Cai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhen‐Feng Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhen‐Feng Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhen‐Feng Cai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhen‐Feng Cai. Zhen‐Feng Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic Insights into Nitroarene Hydrogenation Dynamics on Pt(111) via In Situ Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(43). 39838–39845.
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Zhan, Gaolei, Yikuan Liu, Vipin Kumar Mishra, et al.. (2025). Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices. Nature Chemistry. 17(4). 518–524. 13 indexed citations
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Jia, Minqiang, et al.. (2025). Catalyst-free Ullmann coupling in aqueous microdroplets. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7453–7453. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yue, et al.. (2025). Electric-field-induced covalent condensation of boronic acids in water microdroplets. Chemical Science. 16(19). 8470–8477. 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic Understanding of Oxygen Activation on Bulk Au(111) Surface Using Tip‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(19). e202318682–e202318682. 5 indexed citations
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Lu, Jinzhi, Guodong Qi, Jun Xu, et al.. (2024). Exclusive catalytic hydrogenation of nitrobenzene toward p -aminophenol over atomically precise Au 36 (SR) 24 clusters. Chemical Science. 15(38). 15617–15624. 5 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, Ting Chen, & Dong Wang. (2023). Insights into the Polymerization Reactions on Solid Surfaces Provided by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(10). 2463–2472. 7 indexed citations
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Yu, Lihua, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Yuanzhi Xia, et al.. (2022). Defect-engineered surfaces to investigate the formation of self-assembled molecular networks. Chemical Science. 13(44). 13212–13219. 2 indexed citations
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Mrđenović, Dušan, et al.. (2022). Nanoscale chemical analysis of 2D molecular materials using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Nanoscale. 15(3). 963–974. 19 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Yu‐Qi Wang, et al.. (2020). In Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Cobalt‐Phthalocyanine‐Catalyzed CO2 Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(37). 16098–16103. 70 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Yu‐Qi Wang, et al.. (2020). In Situ Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Cobalt‐Phthalocyanine‐Catalyzed CO2 Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 132(37). 16232–16237. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xiang, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Dong Wang, & Li‐Jun Wan. (2019). Molecular Evidence for the Catalytic Process of Cobalt Porphyrin Catalyzed Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(19). 7665–7669. 81 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chong, Haibing Meng, Mingzhe Nie, et al.. (2019). Supramolecular Complexes of C80-Based Metallofullerenes with [12]Cycloparaphenylene Nanoring and Altered Property in a Confined Space. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(19). 12514–12520. 36 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, Hui‐Juan Yan, Dong Wang, & Li‐Jun Wan. (2018). Potential- and concentration-dependent self-assembly structures at solid/liquid interfaces. Nanoscale. 10(7). 3438–3443. 12 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, Weilong Dong, Ting Chen, et al.. (2018). Directed assembly of fullerene on modified Au(111) electrodes. Chemical Communications. 54(58). 8052–8055. 5 indexed citations
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Tang, Jian‐Hong, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Dong Yan, et al.. (2018). Molecular Quadripod as a Noncovalent Interfacial Coupling Reagent for Forming Immobilized Coordination Assemblies. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(39). 12337–12340. 13 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, et al.. (2017). Ionic interaction-induced assemblies of bimolecular “chessboard” structures. Chemical Communications. 53(65). 9129–9132. 8 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, Yanqin Zhang, Suxia Wang, Qing Fang, & Yaqi Chen. (2011). Diffuse thin glomerular basement membrane in association with Fabry disease in a Chinese female patient. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 26(11). 3813–3816. 3 indexed citations
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Cai, Zhen‐Feng, et al.. (2010). Determination of the pore size distribution of the activated carbon by adsorption data of supercritical hydrogen. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 26(6). 551–558. 1 indexed citations

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