David Aili

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

David Aili is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Aili has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 40 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Aili's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (83 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (39 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (37 papers). David Aili is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (83 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (39 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (37 papers). David Aili collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, China and Germany. David Aili's co-authors include Qingfeng Li, Jens Oluf Jensen, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, Niels J. Bjerrum, Erik R. Christensen, Dirk Henkensmeier, Jingshuai Yang, Lars Nilausen Cleemann, Katja Jankova and Ramato Ashu Tufa and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Aili

90 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Separators and Membranes for Advanced Alkaline Water Electrolysis

2024 130 citations Dirk Henkensmeier, Patric Jannasch et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Aili Denmark	45	4.0k	2.0k	1.3k	893	623	92	4.8k
Cy Fujimoto United States	32	4.4k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	719 0.8×	613 1.0×	65	5.1k
Dirk Henkensmeier South Korea	42	5.1k 1.3×	2.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	847 0.9×	730 1.2×	152	5.7k
Hyoung‐Juhn Kim South Korea	36	3.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	787 0.6×	856 1.0×	376 0.6×	120	4.2k
Chulsung Bae United States	42	5.7k 1.4×	3.1k 1.5×	2.9k 2.2×	810 0.9×	494 0.8×	129	7.3k
Jochen Kerres Germany	41	5.5k 1.4×	2.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	167 0.3×	134	5.9k
K. S. Dhathathreyan India	33	2.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	484 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	217 0.3×	106	3.2k
Zhengjin Yang China	47	6.0k 1.5×	1.9k 0.9×	3.6k 2.7×	907 1.0×	108 0.2×	132	7.2k
Vincenzo Baglio Italy	54	8.0k 2.0×	6.5k 3.2×	1.0k 0.8×	2.3k 2.5×	1.2k 1.9×	238	9.5k
Xuan Liu China	29	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	885 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	115 0.2×	60	4.5k
Ronghuan He China	43	5.7k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	77 0.1×	116	6.6k

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Chen, Si, Yifan Xia, David Aili, & Patric Jannasch. (2025). Influence of highly flexible di(biphenyl)ethane units on the properties of poly(arylene piperidinium) anion exchange membranes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(38). 32831–32841.

Michalak, Artur, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, David Aili, et al.. (2025). Sulfonated polybenzimidazole for low-alkalinity ion solvating membrane water electrolysis. Nature Energy. 10(11). 1347–1359. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yongfang, David Aili, Wenjing Zhang, et al.. (2025). Reinforced Polybenzimidazole Membranes by Crosslinked Fiber Mats for High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells. Electrochimica Acta. 529. 146260–146260. 2 indexed citations

Kao, Y.-H., et al.. (2024). Physicochemical properties of short-side-chain perfluorosulfonic acid membranes at elevated temperatures. Solid State Ionics. 419. 116747–116747. 1 indexed citations

Xia, Yifan, Dmytro Serhiichuk, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, et al.. (2024). Macromolecular reinforcement of alkaline ion-solvating polymer electrolytes. Polymer. 302. 127068–127068. 4 indexed citations

Shin, Mingyu, Saleem Abbas, Xuan Huy, et al.. (2024). Sulfonated para‐Polybenzimidazole Membranes for Use in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(25). 15 indexed citations

Serhiichuk, Dmytro, Yifan Xia, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, et al.. (2024). Tetrazole functionalization: a new strategy toward stable alkaline ion-solvating polymer electrolytes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(47). 32697–32702. 1 indexed citations

Serhiichuk, Dmytro, Ding Tian, Mads Radmer Almind, et al.. (2024). Carboxylated Polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene-ran-butylene)-b-polystyrene Membranes for Alkaline Water Electrolysis. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(3). 1080–1091. 10 indexed citations

Xia, Yifan, Si Chen, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, et al.. (2024). Poly(Arylene Alkylene)s with Tetrazole Pendants for Alkaline Ion‐Solvating Polymer Electrolytes. ChemSusChem. 17(23). e202400844–e202400844. 3 indexed citations

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Tang, Hongying, Kang Geng, David Aili, et al.. (2022). Low Pt loading for high-performance fuel cell electrodes enabled by hydrogen-bonding microporous polymer binders. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7577–7577. 70 indexed citations

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Serhiichuk, Dmytro, Yifan Xia, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, et al.. (2022). Insight into the Alkaline Stability of Arylene-Linked Bis-Benzimidazoles and Polybenzimidazoles. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 5(1). 803–814. 19 indexed citations

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Blommaert, Marijn A., David Aili, Ramato Ashu Tufa, et al.. (2021). Insights and Challenges for Applying Bipolar Membranes in Advanced Electrochemical Energy Systems. ACS Energy Letters. 6(7). 2539–2548. 170 indexed citations

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Liu, Ruihong, Jin Wang, Xuefu Che, et al.. (2021). Facile synthesis and properties of poly(ether ketone cardo)s bearing heterocycle groups for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Journal of Membrane Science. 636. 119584–119584. 19 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, David Aili, Shanfu Lu, Qingfeng Li, & San Ping Jiang. (2020). Advancement toward Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells at Elevated Temperatures. Research. 2020. 9089405–9089405. 49 indexed citations

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Aili, David, Jingshuai Yang, Katja Jankova, Dirk Henkensmeier, & Qingfeng Li. (2020). From polybenzimidazoles to polybenzimidazoliums and polybenzimidazolides. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(26). 12854–12886. 182 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jens Oluf, et al.. (2019). Durability and degradation of vapor-fed direct dimethyl ether high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 432. 30–37. 6 indexed citations

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Becker, Hans, Uwe Reimer, David Aili, et al.. (2018). Determination of Anion Transference Number and Phosphoric Acid Diffusion Coefficient in High Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membranes. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 165(10). F863–F869. 32 indexed citations

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Aili, David, et al.. (2018). Rechargeable organic–air redox flow batteries. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(10). 2252–2259. 28 indexed citations

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Aili, David, Andrew G. Wright, Mikkel Rykær Kraglund, et al.. (2017). Towards a stable ion-solvating polymer electrolyte for advanced alkaline water electrolysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(10). 5055–5066. 91 indexed citations

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Aili, David, Ying Gao, Junyoung Han, & Qingfeng Li. (2017). Acid-base chemistry and proton conductivity of CsHSO4, CsH2PO4 and their mixtures with N-heterocycles. Solid State Ionics. 306. 13–19. 27 indexed citations

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