Amin Cao

17.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
260 papers, 15.7k citations indexed

About

Amin Cao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Amin Cao has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 15.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 89 papers in Materials Chemistry and 58 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Amin Cao's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (90 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (63 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (47 papers). Amin Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (90 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (63 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (47 papers). Amin Cao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Amin Cao's co-authors include Li‐Jun Wan, Jin‐Song Hu, Yonggang Sun, Weiguo Song, Han‐Pu Liang, H. Liang, Lu-Bin Zhong, L. Wan, Yan‐Song Xu and Götz Veser 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

Amin Cao

254 papers receiving 15.4k 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.

Self‐Assembled 3D Flowerlike Iron Oxide Nanostructures and Their Application in Water Treatment

2006 1.5k citations Jin‐Song Hu, Amin Cao et al. profile →
Self‐Assembled Vanadium Pentoxide (V₂O₅) Hollow Microspheres from Nanorods and Their Application in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

2005 813 citations Amin Cao, Jin‐Song Hu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Mass Production and High Photocatalytic Activity of ZnS Nanoporous Nanoparticles

2005 589 citations Jin‐Song Hu, Lingling Ren et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Pitch‐Derived Soft Carbon as Stable Anode Material for Potassium Ion Batteries

2020 342 citations Yuan Liu, Yan‐Song Xu et al. profile →
Solid–Solution-Based Metal Alloy Phase for Highly Reversible Lithium Metal Anode

2020 332 citations Yan‐Song Xu, Amin Cao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Copper-substituted Na_0.67Ni_0.3−xCu_xMn_0.7O₂ cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries with suppressed P2–O2 phase transition

2017 312 citations Yonggang Sun, Jun-Yu Piao et al. profile →
Molecular engineering of renewable cellulose biopolymers for solid-state battery electrolytes

2024 73 citations Jinyang Li, Sidong Zhang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amin Cao China	63	7.6k	5.6k	3.4k	3.1k	2.5k	260	15.7k
Yuanzhe Piao South Korea	59	6.8k 0.9×	4.9k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	250	12.5k
Mingxin Ye China	71	9.3k 1.2×	6.3k 1.1×	4.2k 1.2×	4.8k 1.6×	614 0.2×	241	16.8k
Ming Chen China	56	6.2k 0.8×	3.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	3.1k 1.0×	878 0.3×	351	10.8k
Ahmed A. Elzatahry Qatar	71	5.5k 0.7×	7.4k 1.3×	2.6k 0.8×	4.2k 1.4×	1.7k 0.7×	214	14.7k
Chuanbao Cao China	73	11.2k 1.5×	8.6k 1.5×	7.1k 2.1×	5.5k 1.8×	1.2k 0.5×	447	18.5k
Ying Wan China	58	4.9k 0.6×	9.0k 1.6×	3.0k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	834 0.3×	157	15.1k
Xingguo Li China	66	5.8k 0.8×	8.0k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	4.2k 1.4×	1.4k 0.5×	330	14.9k
Junmin Xue Singapore	67	8.1k 1.1×	5.3k 0.9×	4.1k 1.2×	4.3k 1.4×	729 0.3×	247	13.4k
Zhenyu Wu China	62	9.4k 1.2×	6.4k 1.1×	4.8k 1.4×	10.3k 3.4×	1.2k 0.5×	190	20.1k
Yusuf Valentino Kaneti Australia	63	8.3k 1.1×	5.9k 1.0×	4.2k 1.2×	4.4k 1.4×	480 0.2×	151	14.9k

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Wu, Tingting, Sijie Guo, Yue Jiang, et al.. (2025). Amorphous Nitride‐chloride Solid‐State Electrolytes for High Performance All‐Solid‐State Lithium Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(36). 1 indexed citations

Xu, Z., Ning Cai, Kun Zhao, et al.. (2025). Phosphorus‐Enhanced Anodes: A Scalable Solution to Transition‐Metal Ion Crosstalk in High‐Energy Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(2). e18717–e18717.

Zhao, Yuwei, Wei Zeng, Sidong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Boosting the electrochemical performance of LiCoO2 by triple-phase interface via “island-bridge” shaped surface coating. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150534–150534. 8 indexed citations

Li, Jinyang, Sidong Zhang, Hongshen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Molecular engineering of renewable cellulose biopolymers for solid-state battery electrolytes. Nature Sustainability. 7(11). 1481–1491. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

Lei, Xincheng, Dong Su, Sijie Guo, et al.. (2024). Surface Lattice Modulation Enables Stable Cycling of High‐Loading All‐solid‐state Batteries at High Voltages. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(16). e202400562–e202400562. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Min, Amin Cao, Chaogang Ban, et al.. (2023). Strongly Coupled Ag/Sn–SnO2 Nanosheets Toward CO2 Electroreduction to Pure HCOOH Solutions at Ampere-Level Current. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 50–50. 24 indexed citations

Guo, Sijie, Mu‐Yao Qi, Sidong Zhang, et al.. (2023). The genesis and control of microcracks in nickel-rich cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 7(19). 4805–4824. 10 indexed citations

Li, Bing, et al.. (2023). Fast Li+-conducting Zr4+-based oxychloride electrolyte with good thermal and solvent stability. Science China Materials. 66(8). 3123–3128. 23 indexed citations

Guo, Sijie, Yutao Li, Bing Li, et al.. (2022). Coordination-Assisted Precise Construction of Metal Oxide Nanofilms for High-Performance Solid-State Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(5). 2179–2188. 64 indexed citations

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He, Ying, Renfu Li, Amin Cao, et al.. (2022). Morphology-dependent Photoelectric Properties and Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction of Zinc Porphyrin Nanocrystals. Crystal Growth & Design. 22(4). 2620–2627. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Yan‐Song, Mu‐Yao Qi, Qinghua Zhang, et al.. (2022). Anion Doping for Layered Oxides with a Solid-Solution Reaction for Potassium-Ion Battery Cathodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(11). 13379–13387. 23 indexed citations

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Xu, Yan‐Song, Yong‐Ning Zhou, Qinghua Zhang, et al.. (2021). Layered oxides with solid-solution reaction for high voltage potassium-ion batteries cathode. Chemical Engineering Journal. 412. 128735–128735. 45 indexed citations

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Tao, Zhijie, Renfu Li, Xiao Xu, et al.. (2021). Controllable Synthesis and Effects of Porphyrin Copper Nanostructures on Photoelectric Properties. Crystal Growth & Design. 21(6). 3582–3591. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Yan‐Song, Qinghua Zhang, Da Wang, et al.. (2020). Enabling reversible phase transition on K5/9Mn7/9Ti2/9O2 for high-performance potassium-ion batteries cathodes. Energy storage materials. 31. 20–26. 50 indexed citations

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Zhang, Sidong, Yuan Liu, Mu‐Yao Qi, & Amin Cao. (2020). Localized Surface Doping for Improved Stability of High Energy Cathode Materials. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica. 0(0). 2011007–0. 9 indexed citations

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Piao, Jun-Yu, Lin Gu, Zengxi Wei, et al.. (2019). Phase Control on Surface for the Stabilization of High Energy Cathode Materials of Lithium Ion Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(12). 4900–4907. 104 indexed citations

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Sun, Bing, et al.. (2018). Heterogeneous nucleation and growth of highly crystalline imine-linked covalent organic frameworks. Chemical Communications. 54(47). 5976–5979. 64 indexed citations

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Sun, Bing, Jian Liu, Amin Cao, Weiguo Song, & Dong Wang. (2017). Interfacial synthesis of ordered and stable covalent organic frameworks on amino-functionalized carbon nanotubes with enhanced electrochemical performance. Chemical Communications. 53(47). 6303–6306. 161 indexed citations

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Cao, Amin & Arumugam Manthiram. (2012). Shape-controlled synthesis of high tap density cathode oxides for lithium ion batteries. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(19). 6724–6724. 44 indexed citations

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Hu, Jin‐Song, Lingling Ren, Yu‐Guo Guo, et al.. (2005). Mass Production and High Photocatalytic Activity of ZnS Nanoporous Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(8). 1269–1273. 589 indexed citations breakdown →

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