Guorui Cai

5.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
35 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Guorui Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Guorui Cai has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Automotive Engineering and 11 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Guorui Cai's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (12 papers). Guorui Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (20 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (12 papers). Guorui Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Guorui Cai's co-authors include Hai‐Long Jiang, Liangliang Zhang, Yan Peng, Hong‐Cai Zhou, Zheng Chen, Shu‐Hong Yu, Ping Liu, John Holoubek, Yijie Yin and Wang Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Guorui Cai

33 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Metal–Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications

2021 1.2k citations Guorui Cai, Yan Peng et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Tailoring electrolyte solvation for Li metal batteries cycled at ultra-low temperature

2021 693 citations John Holoubek, Haodong Liu et al. Nature Energy profile →
A Modulator‐Induced Defect‐Formation Strategy to Hierarchically Porous Metal–Organic Frameworks with High Stability

2016 600 citations Guorui Cai, Hai‐Long Jiang Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Template-Directed Growth of Well-Aligned MOF Arrays and Derived Self-Supporting Electrodes for Water Splitting

2017 467 citations Guorui Cai, Wang Zhang et al. Chem profile →
Electrolyte design implications of ion-pairing in low-temperature Li metal batteries

2022 181 citations John Holoubek, Kangwoon Kim et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guorui Cai United States	21	2.4k	1.7k	1.7k	833	732	35	4.7k
Qiong Wu China	36	2.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	678 0.8×	405 0.6×	207	4.6k
Qi Yang China	35	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	655 0.4×	668 0.8×	636 0.9×	93	3.5k
Xing Gao China	32	2.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	316 0.4×	136	5.7k
Lei Hu China	40	3.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.0×	506 0.3×	1.2k 1.4×	508 0.7×	162	5.3k
Hai Yang China	42	3.9k 1.6×	1.5k 0.9×	384 0.2×	1.4k 1.7×	522 0.7×	109	6.0k
Xuedan Song China	42	2.9k 1.2×	2.6k 1.5×	969 0.6×	2.1k 2.5×	148 0.2×	157	5.9k
Zhaoqiang Zhang China	38	963 0.4×	3.0k 1.7×	3.1k 1.8×	395 0.5×	217 0.3×	93	4.5k
Hassina Tabassum China	36	3.7k 1.5×	2.1k 1.2×	994 0.6×	2.9k 3.4×	222 0.3×	50	6.2k
Yuanfu Deng China	46	4.8k 2.0×	1.6k 0.9×	471 0.3×	754 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	143	7.1k
Bo Hu China	28	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	279 0.2×	1.6k 1.9×	543 0.7×	97	3.9k

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Li, M., John Holoubek, Guorui Cai, et al.. (2025). Full Depth‐of‐Discharge Cycling in Zn||MnO ₂ Batteries Enabled by Alkaline Salt‐Concentrated Hydrogel Electrolyte. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(48). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xin, Jingwei Chen, Yunkai Xu, et al.. (2025). A Sustainable and Scalable Approach for In Situ Induction of Gradient Nucleation Sites in Biomass‐Derived Interface Layers for Ultra‐Stable Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 137(26).

Chen, Jingwei, Yunkai Xu, Weiyi Wang, et al.. (2025). A Sustainable and Scalable Approach for In Situ Induction of Gradient Nucleation Sites in Biomass‐Derived Interface Layers for Ultra‐Stable Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(26). e202504613–e202504613. 18 indexed citations

Zhao, Yulong, Anthony U. Mu, Zhengwei Guo, Guorui Cai, & Zheng Chen. (2025). Lithium battery electrolyte under nanoconfinement. Cell Reports Physical Science. 6(3). 102496–102496. 2 indexed citations

Yin, Yijie, John Holoubek, Kangwoon Kim, et al.. (2024). Coulombic Condensation of Liquefied Gas Electrolytes for Li Metal Batteries at Ambient Pressure. Angewandte Chemie. 137(8).

Zhang, Nan, Ai‐Min Li, Zeyi Wang, et al.. (2024). 4.6 V Moisture‐Tolerant Electrolytes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials. 36(50). e2408039–e2408039. 17 indexed citations

Mu, Anthony U., Guorui Cai, & Zheng Chen. (2023). Metal–Organic Frameworks for the Enhancement of Lithium‐Based Batteries: A Mini Review on Emerging Functional Designs. Advanced Science. 11(2). e2305280–e2305280. 25 indexed citations

Cai, Guorui, Amanda A. Chen, Sharon Lin, et al.. (2023). Unravelling Ultrafast Li Ion Transport in Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework-Based Battery Electrolytes. Nano Letters. 23(15). 7062–7069. 16 indexed citations

Holoubek, John, Kangwoon Kim, Yijie Yin, et al.. (2022). Electrolyte design implications of ion-pairing in low-temperature Li metal batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(4). 1647–1658. 181 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Dong Ju, Xiaolu Yu, R. Eric Sikma, et al.. (2022). Holistic Design Consideration of Metal–Organic Framework-Based Composite Membranes for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(30). 34742–34749. 10 indexed citations

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Yu, Xiaolu, Sicen Yu, Zhenzhen Yang, et al.. (2022). Achieving low-temperature hydrothermal relithiation by redox mediation for direct recycling of spent lithium-ion battery cathodes. Energy storage materials. 51. 54–62. 146 indexed citations

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Cai, Guorui, John Holoubek, Mingqian Li, et al.. (2022). Solvent selection criteria for temperature-resilient lithium–sulfur batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(28). e2200392119–e2200392119. 56 indexed citations

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Cai, Guorui, Yan Peng, Liangliang Zhang, Hong‐Cai Zhou, & Hai‐Long Jiang. (2021). Metal–Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications. Chemical Reviews. 121(20). 12278–12326. 1166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Guorui, Yijie Yin, Dawei Xia, et al.. (2021). Sub-nanometer confinement enables facile condensation of gas electrolyte for low-temperature batteries. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3395–3395. 57 indexed citations

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Xu, Panpan, Zhenzhen Yang, Xiaolu Yu, et al.. (2021). Design and Optimization of the Direct Recycling of Spent Li-Ion Battery Cathode Materials. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(12). 4543–4553. 161 indexed citations

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Holoubek, John, Haodong Liu, Zhaohui Wu, et al.. (2021). Tailoring electrolyte solvation for Li metal batteries cycled at ultra-low temperature. Nature Energy. 6(3). 303–313. 693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Guorui, Wang Zhang, Long Jiao, Shu‐Hong Yu, & Hai‐Long Jiang. (2017). Template-Directed Growth of Well-Aligned MOF Arrays and Derived Self-Supporting Electrodes for Water Splitting. Chem. 2(6). 791–802. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Yuzhen, Guorui Cai, Yanmei Wang, et al.. (2015). Palladium nanoparticles stabilized with N-doped porous carbons derived from metal–organic frameworks for selective catalysis in biofuel upgrade: the role of catalyst wettability. Green Chemistry. 18(5). 1212–1217. 151 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiangli, Jia He, Guorui Cai, et al.. (2010). Room temperature ionic liquid‐mediated molecularly imprinted polymer monolith for the selective recognition of quinolones in pork samples. Journal of Separation Science. 33(23-24). 3786–3793. 54 indexed citations

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Tian, Yuan, Dong Du, Guorui Cai, Li Wang, & Hua Zhang. (2006). Automatic defect detection in X-ray images using image data fusion. Tsinghua Science & Technology. 11(6). 720–724. 16 indexed citations

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