Guannan Qian

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Guannan Qian is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Guannan Qian has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Automotive Engineering and 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Guannan Qian's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (18 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (16 papers). Guannan Qian is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (18 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (16 papers). Guannan Qian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and France. Guannan Qian's co-authors include Linsen Li, Zi‐Feng Ma, Yijin Liu, Yu‐Shi He, P. Pianetta, Liwei Chen, Yanbin Shen, Qunli Rao, Aiguo Hu and Sijie Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Guannan Qian

32 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Single-crystal nickel-rich layered-oxide battery cathode materials: synthesis, electrochemistry, and intra-granular fracture

2020 460 citations Guannan Qian, Youtian Zhang et al. Energy storage materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guannan Qian China	21	1.4k	628	357	313	269	34	1.7k
Keisuke Yamanaka Japan	21	2.0k 1.4×	487 0.8×	212 0.6×	406 1.3×	512 1.9×	33	2.2k
Shiyuan Zhou China	27	1.6k 1.1×	532 0.8×	161 0.5×	396 1.3×	354 1.3×	78	1.9k
Frieder Scheiba Germany	24	1.5k 1.1×	517 0.8×	131 0.4×	401 1.3×	441 1.6×	53	1.8k
Muhammad Mominur Rahman United States	20	1.4k 1.0×	612 1.0×	231 0.6×	205 0.7×	289 1.1×	39	1.6k
Frédérick Chesneau Germany	22	3.6k 2.6×	1.7k 2.7×	330 0.9×	512 1.6×	601 2.2×	29	3.8k
Leiting Zhang Sweden	23	2.1k 1.5×	587 0.9×	253 0.7×	375 1.2×	596 2.2×	50	2.3k
Ronghui Kou China	13	1.6k 1.1×	502 0.8×	278 0.8×	294 0.9×	558 2.1×	35	1.8k
Meiten Koh Japan	18	1.2k 0.9×	693 1.1×	181 0.5×	188 0.6×	201 0.7×	40	1.4k
Sarah Frisco United States	14	631 0.5×	240 0.4×	295 0.8×	196 0.6×	152 0.6×	20	916
Xiaohua Xie China	20	1.4k 1.0×	554 0.9×	160 0.4×	170 0.5×	531 2.0×	61	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guannan Qian

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Sun, Tianxiao, Bin Wu, Shijie Deng, et al.. (2025). Pinpointing Chemomechanical Origins of Na Cathode Degradation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(25). 21375–21384. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Tianxiao, Guannan Qian, Guibin Zan, et al.. (2025). Electrode strain dynamics in layered intercalation battery cathodes. Science. 390(6779). 1272–1277.

Qian, Guannan, et al.. (2024). From in-situ experimentation to in-line metrology: Advanced imaging characterization for battery research and manufacturing. Energy storage materials. 73. 103819–103819. 7 indexed citations

Su, Bo, Guannan Qian, Fen Tao, et al.. (2024). Image registration for in situ X-ray nano-imaging of a composite battery cathode with deformation. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 31(2). 328–335. 3 indexed citations

Yuan, Siqi, Lei Yu, Guannan Qian, et al.. (2023). P2-Type Moisture-Stable and High-Voltage-Tolerable Cathodes for High-Energy and Long-Life Sodium-Ion Batteries. Nano Letters. 23(5). 1743–1751. 49 indexed citations

Chen, Guanwen, Guannan Qian, Guibin Zan, et al.. (2023). Stabilizing Ni-rich layered cathode for high-voltage operation through hierarchically heterogeneous doping with concentration gradient. Materials Today Chemistry. 35. 101845–101845. 4 indexed citations

Li, Shaofeng, Guannan Qian, Xiaomei He, et al.. (2022). Thermal-healing of lattice defects for high-energy single-crystalline battery cathodes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 704–704. 67 indexed citations

Qian, Guannan, Zhiyuan Li, Yong Wang, et al.. (2022). Value-creating upcycling of retired electric vehicle battery cathodes. Cell Reports Physical Science. 3(2). 100741–100741. 75 indexed citations

Qian, Guannan, Xiao‐Zhen Liao, Zhouhong Ren, et al.. (2022). Revisiting the capacity-fading mechanism of P2-type sodium layered oxide cathode materials during high-voltage cycling. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 69. 16–25. 51 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Guibin Zan, Jizhou Li, et al.. (2022). Structural, Dynamic, and Chemical Complexities in Zinc Anode of an Operating Aqueous Zn‐Ion Battery (Adv. Energy Mater. 21/2022). Advanced Energy Materials. 12(21). 4 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Federico Monaco, Dechao Meng, et al.. (2021). The role of structural defects in commercial lithium-ion batteries. Cell Reports Physical Science. 2(9). 100554–100554. 52 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Yu‐Shi He, Haiying Che, et al.. (2021). Value-Creating Direct Recycling of Electric-Vehicle Batteries in Molten Salts. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Zan, Guibin, Guannan Qian, Sheraz Gul, et al.. (2021). In Situ Visualization of Li-Whisker with Grating-Interferometry-Based Tricontrast X-ray Microtomography. ACS Materials Letters. 3(12). 1786–1792. 9 indexed citations

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Zan, Guibin, Jin Zhang, Federico Monaco, et al.. (2021). Understanding multi-scale battery degradation with a macro-to-nano zoom through its hierarchy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 19886–19893. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Linming, Han Wang, Dechao Meng, et al.. (2021). Dopants modulate crystal growth in molten salts enabled by surface energy tuning. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(35). 19675–19680. 39 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Zhiyuan Li, Dechao Meng, et al.. (2021). Temperature-Swing Synthesis of Large-Size Single-Crystal LiNi _0.6 Mn _0.2 Co _0.2 O ₂ Cathode Materials. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 168(1). 10534–10534. 54 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Junyang Wang, Hong Li, et al.. (2021). Structural and chemical evolution in layered oxide cathodes of lithium-ion batteries revealed by synchrotron techniques. National Science Review. 9(2). nwab146–nwab146. 55 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, Youtian Zhang, Linsen Li, et al.. (2020). Single-crystal nickel-rich layered-oxide battery cathode materials: synthesis, electrochemistry, and intra-granular fracture. Energy storage materials. 27. 140–149. 460 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Weina, Dechao Meng, Guannan Qian, et al.. (2020). Controlling Particle Size and Phase Purity of “Single-Crystal” LiNi_0.5Mn_1.5O₄ in Molten-Salt-Assisted Synthesis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(51). 27937–27945. 21 indexed citations

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Qian, Guannan, et al.. (2012). Size‐Tunable Polymeric Nanoreactors for One‐Pot Synthesis and Encapsulation of Quantum Dots. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 33(16). 1393–1398. 22 indexed citations

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