Zhengfei Dai

9.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
123 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Zhengfei Dai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengfei Dai has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 58 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 48 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Zhengfei Dai's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (49 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (27 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (26 papers). Zhengfei Dai is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (49 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (27 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (26 papers). Zhengfei Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and South Korea. Zhengfei Dai's co-authors include Qingyu Yan, Yaoda Liu, Yun Zheng, Weiping Cai, Thangavel Sakthivel, Fei Ma, Bing Li, Yun Zong, Tingting Liang and Jong‐Heun Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhengfei Dai

115 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Recent progress on the long‐term stability of hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts

2022 239 citations Wenfang Zhai, Yuanyuan Ma et al. profile →
Synergizing Hydrogen Spillover and Deprotonation by the Internal Polarization Field in a MoS₂/NiPS₃ Vertical Heterostructure for Boosted Water Electrolysis

2022 222 citations Yaoda Liu, Yahui Tian et al. profile →
Enhancing the d/p‐Band Center Proximity with Amorphous‐Crystalline Interface Coupling for Boosted pH‐Robust Water Electrolysis

2023 214 citations Yaoda Liu, Thangavel Sakthivel et al. profile →
Metastabilizing the Ruthenium Clusters by Interfacial Oxygen Vacancies for Boosted Water Splitting Electrocatalysis

2024 146 citations Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu et al. profile →
Intensifying the Supported Ruthenium Metallic Bond to Boost the Interfacial Hydrogen Spillover Toward pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis

2024 94 citations Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhengfei Dai China	52	5.7k	3.8k	2.5k	1.3k	1.2k	123	7.9k
Shumao Cui United States	44	7.2k 1.3×	3.7k 1.0×	4.5k 1.8×	2.7k 2.0×	1.5k 1.3×	63	10.0k
Keying Shi China	48	4.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.4×	3.5k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	150	6.6k
Jinchun Tu China	44	3.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	2.4k 0.9×	732 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	175	5.8k
Zhiyu Ren China	44	3.0k 0.5×	4.4k 1.2×	3.1k 1.2×	856 0.6×	626 0.5×	131	6.6k
Shuifen Xie China	43	2.7k 0.5×	3.8k 1.0×	3.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	615 0.5×	83	6.3k
Xintang Huang China	54	8.8k 1.5×	2.5k 0.6×	4.9k 1.9×	5.3k 4.0×	1.2k 1.0×	166	11.9k
Chunhua Tang Singapore	27	4.5k 0.8×	2.7k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	3.1k 2.3×	682 0.6×	58	6.3k
Juntao Lu China	48	7.3k 1.3×	6.7k 1.7×	2.4k 1.0×	605 0.5×	2.0k 1.7×	162	10.0k
Branimir Grgur Serbia	35	3.4k 0.6×	3.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	345 0.3×	552 0.5×	141	5.9k
Jing Xu China	45	6.2k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.0×	3.2k 2.4×	1.2k 1.1×	150	8.3k

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Liu, Yaoda, Lei Li, Xuning Li, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric tacticity navigates the localized metal spin state for sustainable alkaline/sea water oxidation. Science Advances. 11(22). eads0861–eads0861. 18 indexed citations

Dai, Zhengfei, et al.. (2025). Constructing the confined RuCo nanoalloys with modulated d-band centers for efficient pH-robust hydrogen evolution. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 116. 58–68.

Zhou, Panpan, T. F. Qi, Zhengfei Dai, et al.. (2025). Self-assemble of bi-support g-C3N4-RGO structure decorated SnO2 nanoparticles as high-performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1042. 184070–184070.

Dai, Zhengfei, Yuyu Su, Tamar L. Greaves, et al.. (2025). Metal-organic frameworks based solid-state electrolytes for high-performance lithium metal batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 524. 169365–169365.

Gao, Jianping, Qiaomei Luo, Yongjing Li, et al.. (2024). Corrosion resistance of Nb and NbTi alloy predicted by hydrogen evolution reaction models modified with Langmuir isotherm adsorption theory. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 319. 129386–129386. 5 indexed citations

Samantaray, Sai Smruti, et al.. (2024). Hydrated LiOH modified Ni0.1Fe0.9PS3 anodes towards safer high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta. 483. 144010–144010.

Liu, Hang, et al.. (2024). A defective NiCo-pentlandite/black phosphorus heterostructure for efficient water splitting electrocatalysis. Materials Advances. 5(5). 1892–1896.

Zhai, Wenfang, Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu, et al.. (2024). Covalently Bonded Ni Sites in Black Phosphorene with Electron Redistribution for Efficient Metal-Lightweighted Water Electrolysis. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 115–115. 44 indexed citations

Chen, Ya, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric Bond Delta‐Polarization at the Interfacial Se─Ru─O Bridge for Efficient pH‐Robust Water Electrolysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(46). 62 indexed citations

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Chen, Ya, Yaoda Liu, Lei Li, et al.. (2024). Intensifying the Supported Ruthenium Metallic Bond to Boost the Interfacial Hydrogen Spillover Toward pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(28). 94 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liang, Tingting, et al.. (2023). Dual in-plane/out-of-plane Ni2P-BP/MoS2 Mott-Schottky heterostructure for highly efficient hydrogen production. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 965. 171416–171416. 8 indexed citations

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Samantaray, Sai Smruti, et al.. (2023). Two-Dimensional Iron Phosphorus Trisulfide as a High-Capacity Cathode for Lithium Primary Battery. Molecules. 28(2). 537–537. 13 indexed citations

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Fu, Wangqin, Zhengfei Dai, Huanwen Wang, et al.. (2023). Recent Advancements of Graphene‐Based Materials for Zinc‐Based Batteries: Beyond Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Small. 20(2). e2305217–e2305217. 70 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Tuan Van, Quyet Van Le, Shengjie Peng, et al.. (2023). Exploring Conducting Polymers as a Promising Alternative for Electrochromic Devices. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(18). 45 indexed citations

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Liang, Tingting, Yaoda Liu, Ya Chen, et al.. (2021). Interface and M³⁺/M²⁺ Valence Dual‐Engineering on Nickel Cobalt Sulfoselenide/Black Phosphorus Heterostructure for Efficient Water Splitting Electrocatalysis. Energy & environment materials. 6(2). 40 indexed citations

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Zhai, Wenfang, Thangavel Sakthivel, Fuyi Chen, et al.. (2021). Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis: an overview. Nanoscale. 13(47). 19783–19811. 33 indexed citations

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Liu, Y., et al.. (2020). Silicene oxide: a potential Battery500 cathode for sealed non-aqueous lithium–oxygen batteries. Materials Today Energy. 18. 100503–100503. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Guanjun, Zhengfei Dai, Lan Sun, et al.. (2019). Synergistic effects of platinum–cerium carbonate hydroxides–reduced graphene oxide on enhanced durability for methanol electro-oxidation. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(11). 6562–6571. 56 indexed citations

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Guo, Yuanyuan, Xiaoqiao Zeng, Yu Zhang, et al.. (2017). Sn Nanoparticles Encapsulated in 3D Nanoporous Carbon Derived from a Metal–Organic Framework for Anode Material in Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(20). 17172–17177. 101 indexed citations

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Fan, Haosen, Hong Yu, Yufei Zhang, et al.. (2017). From zinc-cyanide hybrid coordination polymers to hierarchical yolk-shell structures for high-performance and ultra-stable lithium-ion batteries. Nano Energy. 33. 168–176. 53 indexed citations

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