Ankun Yang

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Ankun Yang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Ankun Yang has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 16 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Ankun Yang's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (13 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (12 papers). Ankun Yang is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (13 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (12 papers). Ankun Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Ankun Yang's co-authors include Yi Cui, Teri W. Odom, Dingchang Lin, Jinwei Xu, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, Allen Pei, George C. Schatz, Jiangyan Wang and Yayuan Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Ankun Yang

54 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spectrally Selective Nanocomposite Textile for Outdoor Personal Cooling

2018 533 citations Lili Cai, Yu Song et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Uniform High Ionic Conducting Lithium Sulfide Protection Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode

2019 410 citations Hao Chen, Allen Pei et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile

2017 357 citations Lili Cai, Yu Song et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ankun Yang United States	35	3.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.3k	1.3k	55	5.9k
Rufan Zhang China	48	6.7k 2.1×	1.6k 1.0×	3.6k 2.5×	3.1k 2.4×	937 0.7×	140	11.0k
Yangying Zhu United States	24	3.1k 0.9×	472 0.3×	653 0.4×	490 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	55	5.2k
Yujie Ke Singapore	29	1.8k 0.5×	999 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	935 0.7×	121 0.1×	65	4.8k
Shien‐Ping Feng Hong Kong	44	2.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.4×	2.5k 1.7×	739 0.6×	236 0.2×	156	6.7k
Yang Zhou China	33	1.4k 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	871 0.7×	67 0.1×	133	6.0k
Han Lin Australia	41	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	2.2k 1.7×	72 0.1×	177	6.1k
Weiwei Gao China	46	2.7k 0.8×	3.0k 1.8×	3.7k 2.5×	3.6k 2.7×	308 0.2×	162	9.1k
Brian L. Wardle United States	48	1.6k 0.5×	2.9k 1.7×	4.3k 3.0×	816 0.6×	475 0.4×	251	8.6k
Zongping Chen China	34	5.4k 1.6×	2.8k 1.7×	4.8k 3.3×	5.7k 4.3×	398 0.3×	181	13.0k
A. Safari United States	46	2.6k 0.8×	3.8k 2.3×	4.3k 3.0×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	278	7.7k

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Xie, X. C., et al.. (2025). Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics of Low-Loss Sodium Metasurfaces. ACS Nano. 19(30). 27310–27317.

Li, Shunran, et al.. (2024). Mid-infrared photodetection with 2D metal halide perovskites at ambient temperature. Science Advances. 10(50). eadk2778–eadk2778. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Danqing & Ankun Yang. (2024). Miniaturized optics from structured nanoscale cavities. Progress in Quantum Electronics. 94. 100507–100507. 5 indexed citations

Wu, Tong, Bofei Liu, Chong Liu, et al.. (2023). Solar-driven efficient heterogeneous subminute water disinfection nanosystem assembled with fingerprint MoS2. Nature Water. 1(5). 462–470. 52 indexed citations

Liu, Fang, Rong Xu, Yecun Wu, et al.. (2021). Dynamic spatial progression of isolated lithium during battery operations. Nature. 600(7890). 659–663. 202 indexed citations

Lee, Hiang Kwee, Wenxiao Huang, Yusheng Ye, et al.. (2021). Sensitive, portable heavy-metal-ion detection by the sulfidation method on a superhydrophobic concentrator (SPOT). One Earth. 4(5). 756–766. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Ankun, Guangmin Zhou, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(3). 231–237. 87 indexed citations

Mao, Haiyan, Jing Tang, Jun Chen, et al.. (2020). Designing hierarchical nanoporous membranes for highly efficient gas adsorption and storage. Science Advances. 6(41). 56 indexed citations

Wang, Weijia, Nicolas E. Watkins, Ankun Yang, et al.. (2019). Ultrafast Dynamics of Lattice Plasmon Lasers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(12). 3301–3306. 22 indexed citations

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Chen, Hao, Allen Pei, Dingchang Lin, et al.. (2019). Uniform High Ionic Conducting Lithium Sulfide Protection Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(22). 410 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xu, Yan, Yifan Ye, Shuyang Zhao, et al.. (2019). In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Investigation of the Capacity Degradation Mechanism in Mg/S Batteries. Nano Letters. 19(5). 2928–2934. 76 indexed citations

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Cai, Lili, Yu Song, Wei Li, et al.. (2018). Spectrally Selective Nanocomposite Textile for Outdoor Personal Cooling. Advanced Materials. 30(35). e1802152–e1802152. 533 indexed citations breakdown →

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Deeb, Claire, Zhi Guo, Ankun Yang, Libai Huang, & Teri W. Odom. (2018). Correlating Nanoscopic Energy Transfer and Far-Field Emission to Unravel Lasing Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays. Nano Letters. 18(2). 1454–1459. 27 indexed citations

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Gong, Yongji, Hongtao Yuan, Chun-Lan Wu, et al.. (2018). Spatially controlled doping of two-dimensional SnS2 through intercalation for electronics. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(4). 294–299. 313 indexed citations

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Hoang, Thang B., Gleb M. Akselrod, Ankun Yang, Teri W. Odom, & Maiken H. Mikkelsen. (2017). Millimeter-Scale Spatial Coherence from a Plasmon Laser. Nano Letters. 17(11). 6690–6695. 44 indexed citations

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Tran, Toan Trong, Danqing Wang, Zai‐Quan Xu, et al.. (2017). Deterministic Coupling of Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials to Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays. Nano Letters. 17(4). 2634–2639. 170 indexed citations

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Wang, Danqing, Ankun Yang, Weijia Wang, et al.. (2017). Band-edge engineering for controlled multi-modal nanolasing in plasmonic superlattices. Nature Nanotechnology. 12(9). 889–894. 172 indexed citations

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Yang, Ankun, Alexander J. Hryn, Marc R. Bourgeois, et al.. (2016). Programmable and reversible plasmon mode engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(50). 14201–14206. 141 indexed citations

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Yang, Ankun & Teri W. Odom. (2015). Breakthroughs in Photonics 2014: Advances in Plasmonic Nanolasers. IEEE photonics journal. 7(3). 1–6. 16 indexed citations

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Yang, Ankun, Thang B. Hoang, Montacer Dridi, et al.. (2015). Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6939–6939. 353 indexed citations

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