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Shaoan Cheng

Shaoan Cheng

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
26828
World Ranking
6396
National Ranking
1142

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
68
Citations
27027
World Ranking
1182
National Ranking
229

Shaoan Cheng publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shaoan Cheng sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 168 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Shaoan Cheng D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shaoan Cheng sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shaoan Cheng is affiliated with Zhejiang University in China. Their research principally spans the fields of Energy, Environmental Science, and Engineering, with noted contributions to subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Water Science and Technology; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Environmental Engineering; and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics including Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods, Membrane Separation Technologies, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication.

Shaoan Cheng has frequently published in journals such as Advanced Functional Materials, Chemical Engineering Journal, Separation and Purification Technology, Desalination, and Chemosphere. These venues each have five or four recorded publications related to their research.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Enhanced Interfacial Solar Evaporation through Formation of Micro-Meniscuses and Microdroplets to Reduce Evaporation Enthalpy" (2022, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • "High-flux flowing interfacial water evaporation under multiple heating sources enabled by a biohybrid hydrogel" (2022, Nano Energy)
  • "Micro-Nano Water Film Enabled High-Performance Interfacial Solar Evaporation" (2023, Nano-Micro Letters)
  • "A lotus leaf like vertical hierarchical solar vapor generator for stable and efficient evaporation of high-salinity brine" (2020, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • "Interfacial solar evaporator for clean water production and beyond: From design to application" (2021, Applied Energy)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Ruonan Gu, Beichen Jin, Zhen Yu, Longxin Li, and Yi Sun.

Best Publications

  • Graphite Fiber Brush Anodes for Increased Power Production in Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cells

    Bruce Logan;Shaoan Cheng;Valerie Watson;Garett Estadt

  • Microbial Electrolysis Cells for High Yield Hydrogen Gas Production from Organic Matter

    Bruce Ernest Logan;Douglas Call;Shaoan Cheng;Hubertus V M Hamelers

  • Increased performance of single-chamber microbial fuel cells using an improved cathode structure

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • Production of Electricity from Acetate or Butyrate Using a Single-Chamber Microbial Fuel Cell

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Direct Biological Conversion of Electrical Current into Methane by Electromethanogenesis

    Shaoan Cheng;Defeng Xing;Douglas F. Call;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power generation in fed-batch microbial fuel cells as a function of ionic strength, temperature, and reactor configuration

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power densities using different cathode catalysts (Pt and CoTMPP) and polymer binders (nafion and PTFE) in single chamber microbial fuel cells.

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • AMMONIA TREATMENT OF CARBON CLOTH ANODES TO ENHANCE POWER GENERATION OF MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Increased power generation in a continuous flow MFC with advective flow through the porous anode and reduced electrode spacing.

    Shaoan Cheng;Hong Liu;Bruce E. Logan

  • Electricity generation using membrane and salt bridge microbial fuel cells.

    Booki Min;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Sustainable and efficient biohydrogen production via electrohydrogenesis

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Power Generation Using Different Cation, Anion, and Ultrafiltration Membranes in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Jung Rae Kim;Shaoan Cheng;Sang-Eun Oh;Bruce E Logan

  • Use of Carbon Mesh Anodes and the Effect of Different Pretreatment Methods on Power Production in Microbial Fuel Cells

    Xin Wang;Shaoan Cheng;Yujie Feng;Matthew D. Merrill

  • Electricity generation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris DX-1.

    Defeng Xing;Yi Zuo;Shaoan Cheng;John M. Regan

  • Supported mixed metal nanoparticles as electrocatalysts in low temperature fuel cells

    Kwong-Yu Chan;Jie Ding;Jiawen Ren;Shaoan Cheng

  • Power generation using an activated carbon and metal mesh cathode in a microbial fuel cell

    Fang Zhang;Shaoan Cheng;Shaoan Cheng;Deepak Pant;Gilbert Van Bogaert

  • Increasing power generation for scaling up single-chamber air cathode microbial fuel cells.

    Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan

  • Enhanced Interfacial Solar Evaporation through Formation of Micro‐Meniscuses and Microdroplets to Reduce Evaporation Enthalpy

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  • Microbial fuel cell performance with non-Pt cathode catalysts

    Eileen HaoYu;Shaoan Cheng;Keith Scott;Bruce Logan

  • Separator characteristics for increasing performance of microbial fuel cells.

    Xiaoyuan Zhang;Shaoan Cheng;Xin Wang;Xia Huang

  • Scale-up of membrane-free single-chamber microbial fuel cells

    Hong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Liping Huang;Liping Huang;Bruce E. Logan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce E. Logan
Bruce E. Logan Pennsylvania State University
Kwong-Yu Chan
Kwong-Yu Chan University of Hong Kong
Defeng Xing
Defeng Xing Harbin Institute of Technology
Jianqing Zhang
Jianqing Zhang Zhejiang University
Liping Huang
Liping Huang Dalian University of Technology
Toribio F. Otero
Toribio F. Otero Polytechnic University of Cartagena
Chu-nan Cao
Chu-nan Cao Zhejiang University
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology
Xiaoyuan Zhang
Xiaoyuan Zhang Tsinghua University
Xia Huang
Xia Huang Tsinghua University

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