Zhi Cao (曹植)

Zhi Cao (曹植)

Universiteit Antwerpen

H-index: 19

Europe-Belgium

About Zhi Cao (曹植)

Zhi Cao (曹植), With an exceptional h-index of 19 and a recent h-index of 19 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universiteit Antwerpen, specializes in the field of industrial ecology, sustainable built environment, material flow analysis, life cycle assessment.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Impacts of climate change on environmental and economic sustainability of flexible pavements across China

Feasibility of using building-related construction and demolition waste-derived geopolymer for subgrade soil stabilization

Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth

Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: an economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–2015

Impacts of high-albedo urban surfaces on outdoor thermal environment across morphological contexts: A case of Tianjin, China

Sustainability assessment and pathways for US domestic paper recycling

Biomass valorization toward sustainable asphalt pavements: Progress and prospects

Geospatial assessment of water footprints for hyperscale data centers in the United States

Zhi Cao (曹植) Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor ; Northwestern University; SDU; CAS

Citations(all)

1117

Citations(since 2020)

1053

Cited By

323

hIndex(all)

19

hIndex(since 2020)

19

i10Index(all)

24

i10Index(since 2020)

24

Email

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Zhi Cao (曹植) Skills & Research Interests

industrial ecology

sustainable built environment

material flow analysis

life cycle assessment

Top articles of Zhi Cao (曹植)

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Impacts of climate change on environmental and economic sustainability of flexible pavements across China

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Qindong Yang

Zhi Cao

Fan Shen

L.

Gu

...

2024/4

Feasibility of using building-related construction and demolition waste-derived geopolymer for subgrade soil stabilization

Journal of Cleaner Production

Jianwei Xie

Junhui Zhang

Zhi Cao

Johan Blom

Cedric Vuye

...

2024/4/15

Multinational dynamic steel cycle analysis reveals sequential decoupling between material use and economic growth

Ecological Economics

Xue Yang

Chao Zhang

Xinyi Li

Zhi Cao

Peng Wang

...

2024/3/1

Society’s material stocks as carbon pool: an economy-wide quantification of global carbon stocks from 1900–2015

Environmental Research Letters

Lisa Kaufmann

Dominik Wiedenhofer

Zhi Cao

Michaela Clarissa Theurl

Christian Lauk

...

2024/2/8

Impacts of high-albedo urban surfaces on outdoor thermal environment across morphological contexts: A case of Tianjin, China

Sustainable Cities and Society

Ying Liu

Chunli Chu

Ruijun Zhang

Shaoqing Chen

Chao Xu

...

2024/1/1

Sustainability assessment and pathways for US domestic paper recycling

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Enze Jin

Stijn van Ewijk

Koichi S Kanaoka

Yohannes A Alamerew

Hui Lin

...

2023/12/1

Biomass valorization toward sustainable asphalt pavements: Progress and prospects

Liang He

Mengzhe Tao

Zhuang Liu

Zhi Cao

Jiqing Zhu

...

2023/6/15

Geospatial assessment of water footprints for hyperscale data centers in the United States

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Nuoa Lei

Jun Lu

Zhu Cheng

Zhi Cao

Arman Shehabi

...

2023/11/1

Perspectives on the material dynamic efficiency transition in decelerating the material stock accumulation

Journal of Environmental Management

Mihály Dombi

Piroska Harazin

Andrea Karcagi-Kováts

Faisal Aldebei

Zhi Cao

2023/6/1

More intensive use and lifetime extension can enable net-zero emissions in China’s cement cycle

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Tongyuan Wu

S Thomas Ng

Ji Chen

Zhi Cao

2023/11/1

Growing role of concrete in sand and climate crises

Iscience

Takuma Watari

Zhi Cao

André Cabrera Serrenho

Jonathan Cullen

2023/5/19

China’s bulk material loops can be closed but deep decarbonization requires demand reduction

Nature Climate Change

Lulu Song

Stijn van Ewijk

Eric Masanet

Takuma Watari

Fanran Meng

...

2023/10

Four economic principles of just sustainability transition

Mihály Dombi

Aldebei Faisal Mohammad Fahid

Piroska Harazin

Andrea Karcagi-Kováts

Zhi Cao

2023/3/17

High-resolution mapping of material stocks in Belgian road infrastructure: material efficiency patterns, material recycling potentials, and greenhouse gas emissions reduction …

Environmental Science & Technology

Zhaoxing Wang

Dominik Wiedenhofer

André Stephan

Daniela Perrotti

Wim Van den Bergh

...

2023/8/14

From prospecting to mining: A review of enabling technologies, LCAs, and LCCAs for improved construction and demolition waste management

Jingbo Jiang

Chunli Chu

Lulu Song

Xiaofeng Gao

Beijia Huang

...

2023/3/15

10 insights from industrial ecology for the circular economy

Stijn Van Ewijk

Weslynne S Ashton

Peter Berrill

Zhi Cao

Marian Chertow

...

2023/6/26

Modernizing cement manufacturing in China leads to substantial environmental gains

Communications Earth & Environment

Xiaozhen Xu

Beijia Huang

Litao Liu

Zhi Cao

Xiaofeng Gao

...

2022/11/17

Introducing new article type: Critical data

Zhi Cao

Ming Xu

2022/11/1

Efficient use of cement and concrete to reduce reliance on supply-side technologies for net-zero emissions

Nature communications

Takuma Watari

Zhi Cao

Sho Hata

Keisuke Nansai

2022/7/18

Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis

Zhi Cao

Eric Masanet

2022/5

See List of Professors in Zhi Cao (曹植) University(Universiteit Antwerpen)

Co-Authors

H-index: 56
Eric Masanet

Eric Masanet

University of California, Santa Barbara

H-index: 51
Gang Liu (刘刚)

Gang Liu (刘刚)

Syddansk Universitet

H-index: 43
Daniel B. Müller

Daniel B. Müller

Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet

H-index: 34
Jonathan M. Cullen

Jonathan M. Cullen

University of Cambridge

H-index: 32
Rupert J. Myers

Rupert J. Myers

Imperial College London

H-index: 27
Luca Ciacci

Luca Ciacci

Università degli Studi di Bologna

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