Chengjun Lei

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 819 citations indexed

About

Chengjun Lei is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chengjun Lei has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 819 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 6 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chengjun Lei's work include Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Chengjun Lei is often cited by papers focused on Advanced battery technologies research (23 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Chengjun Lei collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and United States. Chengjun Lei's co-authors include Xiao Liang, Xin He, Tingting Liu, Pengjie Jiang, Huijian Wang, Jinye Li, Chen Xu, Wenjiao Ma, Huijian Wang and Hanqing Wang 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

Chengjun Lei

26 papers receiving 814 citations

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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.

Aqueous Electrolyte With Weak Hydrogen Bonds for Four‐Electron Zinc–Iodine Battery Operates in a Wide Temperature Range

2024 95 citations Tingting Liu, Chengjun Lei et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chengjun Lei China	14	785	152	136	127	98	30	819
Anbin Zhou China	16	755 1.0×	120 0.8×	122 0.9×	208 1.6×	180 1.8×	28	826
Benjamin Porcheron France	7	504 0.6×	96 0.6×	107 0.8×	117 0.9×	90 0.9×	7	571
Dejian Dong Hong Kong	9	913 1.2×	112 0.7×	142 1.0×	174 1.4×	202 2.1×	10	973
Jiarun Geng China	13	626 0.8×	188 1.2×	219 1.6×	119 0.9×	104 1.1×	22	762
Shubham Kaushik Japan	11	626 0.8×	148 1.0×	309 2.3×	79 0.6×	180 1.8×	17	761
Zijuan Du China	14	437 0.6×	253 1.7×	257 1.9×	71 0.6×	135 1.4×	22	698
Jianfeng Shen China	6	647 0.8×	80 0.5×	99 0.7×	135 1.1×	116 1.2×	11	697
Zhuoran Lv China	17	524 0.7×	190 1.3×	137 1.0×	63 0.5×	155 1.6×	39	673
Xincheng Yao China	10	555 0.7×	172 1.1×	406 3.0×	66 0.5×	176 1.8×	14	700
Jonas D. Hofmann Germany	7	358 0.5×	88 0.6×	68 0.5×	99 0.8×	73 0.7×	9	425

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Li, Jinye, Jianhui Jin, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2025). A sulfonated cellulose separator for high-areal-capacity and long-lifespan Zn–Br ₂ batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 14(6). 3308–3317.

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Wang, Huijian, et al.. (2025). Fast single metal cation conduction in ion-water aggregated aqueous battery electrolytes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4574–4574. 5 indexed citations

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Jin, Jianhui, Chun Liu, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2025). Efficient Aqueous Static Zinc‐Bromine Batteries Enabled by Hydrophobic Organic Bromide Design. Small Methods. 9(9). e01045–e01045. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Chengjun Lei, Wei Yang, et al.. (2025). Solvent Chemistry Manipulated Iodine Redox Thermodynamics For Durable Iodine Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(18).

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Ma, Wenjiao, Chun Liu, Youjun Wu, et al.. (2025). Wide‐Temperature Operation of High‐Capacity Aqueous Chlorine Batteries Enabled by Complexation Chemistry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(46). e202515933–e202515933. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Youjun, Chen Xu, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Bromine Complexation and Kinetics: a Bisimidazole Strategy for High‐Performance Zn‐Br Static Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(35). 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Chengjun Lei, Wei Yang, et al.. (2025). Solvent Chemistry Manipulated Iodine Redox Thermodynamics For Durable Iodine Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(18). e202422163–e202422163. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Youjun, Xu Chen, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2025). Optimizing Bromine Complexation and Kinetics: a Bisimidazole Strategy for High‐Performance Zn‐Br Static Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(35). e202509293–e202509293.

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Wang, Huijian, Chengjun Lei, Tingting Liu, Ruijin Meng, & Xiao Liang. (2024). Shielding Fluoride Ion Basicity through Diurea Coordination for Nonaqueous Fluoride Shuttle Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(6). e202418371–e202418371. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Wenjiao, Jinye Li, Huijian Wang, Chengjun Lei, & Xiao Liang. (2024). High Efficiency Alkaline Iodine Batteries with Multi‐Electron Transfer Enabled by Bi/Bi₂O₃ Redox Mediator. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(52). e202410994–e202410994. 14 indexed citations

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Ma, Wenjiao, Jinye Li, Huijian Wang, Chengjun Lei, & Xiao Liang. (2024). High Efficiency Alkaline Iodine Batteries with Multi‐Electron Transfer Enabled by Bi/Bi₂O₃ Redox Mediator. Angewandte Chemie. 136(52). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Huijian, Chengjun Lei, Tingting Liu, et al.. (2024). Rocking‐Chair Aqueous Fluoride‐Ion Batteries Enabled by Hydrogen Bonding Competition. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(19). e202401483–e202401483. 11 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Chengjun Lei, Huijian Wang, et al.. (2024). Aqueous Electrolyte With Weak Hydrogen Bonds for Four‐Electron Zinc–Iodine Battery Operates in a Wide Temperature Range. Advanced Materials. 36(32). e2405473–e2405473. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Huijian, Chengjun Lei, Tingting Liu, et al.. (2024). Rocking‐Chair Aqueous Fluoride‐Ion Batteries Enabled by Hydrogen Bonding Competition. Angewandte Chemie. 136(19). 5 indexed citations

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Lei, Chengjun, Pengjie Jiang, Wei Yang, et al.. (2024). Practical high-energy aqueous zinc-bromine static batteries enabled by synergistic exclusion-complexation chemistry. Joule. 8(2). 461–481. 54 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Chengjun Lei, Huijian Wang, et al.. (2024). Triflate anion chemistry for enhanced four-electron zinc–iodine aqueous batteries. Chemical Communications. 60(58). 7447–7450. 13 indexed citations

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Xu, Chen, Chengjun Lei, Jinye Li, et al.. (2023). Unravelling rechargeable zinc-copper batteries by a chloride shuttle in a biphasic electrolyte. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2349–2349. 41 indexed citations

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Ma, Wenjiao, Tingting Liu, Chen Xu, et al.. (2023). A twelve-electron conversion iodine cathode enabled by interhalogen chemistry in aqueous solution. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5508–5508. 92 indexed citations

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Zhong, Ning, Chengjun Lei, Ruijin Meng, et al.. (2022). Electrolyte Solvation Chemistry for the Solution of High‐Donor‐Number Solvent for Stable Li–S Batteries. Small. 18(16). e2200046–e2200046. 60 indexed citations

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Liu, Tingting, Huijian Wang, Chengjun Lei, et al.. (2022). Recognition of the catalytic activities of graphitic N for zinc-iodine batteries. Energy storage materials. 53. 544–551. 165 indexed citations

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