Kai He

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
158 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Kai He is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai He has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 62 papers in Materials Chemistry and 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kai He's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (21 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (14 papers). Kai He is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (21 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (14 papers). Kai He collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Kai He's co-authors include John Cumings, Chunsheng Wang, Yujie Zhu, Yunhua Xu, Fudong Han, Wen Yang, Isamu Matsuda, Yoshitaka Ishii, Dong Su and Xuefeng Qian 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

Kai He

149 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Expanded graphite as superior anode for sodium-ion batteries

2014 1.7k citations Wen Yang, Kai He et al. Nature Communications profile →
Ag–Sn Bimetallic Catalyst with a Core–Shell Structure for CO₂ Reduction

2017 510 citations Kai He et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Interaction of Black Phosphorus with Oxygen and Water

2016 469 citations Kai He, Dong Su et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Utilizing the Space‐Charge Region of the FeNi‐LDH/CoP p‐n Junction to Promote Performance in Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis

2019 449 citations Kai He et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai He United States	42	4.9k	3.0k	2.1k	1.7k	753	158	7.7k
Xun Xu China	58	5.9k 1.2×	4.4k 1.5×	3.4k 1.6×	2.4k 1.4×	613 0.8×	246	10.7k
Kim Kisslinger United States	37	3.2k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1000 0.6×	517 0.7×	220	6.0k
Gyeong S. Hwang United States	43	6.0k 1.2×	4.0k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	790 1.0×	238	8.9k
Yingge Du United States	45	3.5k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	3.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	427 0.6×	163	6.6k
Kee‐Sun Sohn South Korea	48	3.6k 0.7×	4.7k 1.6×	811 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	408 0.5×	221	6.8k
Cherno Jaye United States	40	5.2k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	963 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	747 1.0×	144	7.4k
Zegao Wang China	53	5.4k 1.1×	4.3k 1.4×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	378 0.5×	212	8.9k
Suntharampillai Thevuthasan United States	34	3.4k 0.7×	3.0k 1.0×	515 0.2×	1.5k 0.9×	808 1.1×	125	6.3k
Xiang Zhang United States	39	3.2k 0.7×	3.6k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	870 0.5×	338 0.4×	115	6.2k
Xiaoxing Ke China	45	4.3k 0.9×	4.7k 1.6×	2.3k 1.1×	928 0.6×	167 0.2×	154	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai He

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Hongyang, et al.. (2025). Two-Phase flow model-driven optimization of charge percolation in flow-electrode capacitive deionization. Water Research. 276. 123283–123283. 4 indexed citations

He, Kai, Chi Chen, Shuo Weng, et al.. (2025). Yttrium-modified ultra-high Ni quaternary cathodes with enhanced high-potential and high-temperature performances. Materials Today Energy. 53. 102053–102053.

Zhao, Dan, et al.. (2025). Seawater desalination by multistage flow-electrode capacitive deionization with graded electric field and electrode salinity. Desalination. 615. 119274–119274.

Jeon, Yuju, Dong Ju Lee, Hongkui Zheng, et al.. (2025). Lithium diffusion-controlled Li-Al alloy negative electrode for all-solid-state battery. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9629–9629.

Han, Liang, Minda Zou, Yuchen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Engineering of a Coupled Nanocomposite as a High-Performance Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell Cathode. Chemistry of Materials. 36(22). 11288–11295. 2 indexed citations

Cao, Longsheng, Fernando A. Soto, Dan Li, et al.. (2024). Pd-Ru pair on Pt surface for promoting hydrogen oxidation and evolution in alkaline media. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7245–7245. 12 indexed citations

Shu, Hongchun, et al.. (2023). Pilot protection method of half-wavelength AC transmission lines based on random matrix theory. Electric Power Systems Research. 224. 109737–109737.

He, Kai, et al.. (2023). An Empirical Study on Task Complexity and Task Difficulty in L2 English Writing Production. 5(1). 87–105. 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Hongkui, Mingjie Xu, & Kai He. (2023). Elucidating Phase Transformation and Surface Amorphization of Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ by In Situ Heating TEM. Small. 20(6). e2304799–e2304799. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Yihang, Qingzhou Liu, Jian Cheng, et al.. (2020). Red-phosphorus-impregnated carbon nanofibers for sodium-ion batteries and liquefaction of red phosphorus. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2520–2520. 112 indexed citations

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Lim, Jin‐Myoung, Sungkyu Kim, Norman S. Luu, et al.. (2020). High Volumetric Energy and Power Density Li2TiSiO5 Battery Anodes via Graphene Functionalization. Matter. 3(2). 522–533. 29 indexed citations

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Zhao, Zeyu, Jiang Cui, Minda Zou, et al.. (2019). Novel twin-perovskite nanocomposite of Ba–Ce–Fe–Co–O as a promising triple conducting cathode material for protonic ceramic fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources. 450. 227609–227609. 62 indexed citations

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Liu, Chao, Scott L. Nauert, Marco A. Alsina, et al.. (2019). Role of surface reconstruction on Cu/TiO2 nanotubes for CO2 conversion. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 255. 117754–117754. 44 indexed citations

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Zhao, Longze, Hong‐Hui Wu, Chenghao Yang, et al.. (2018). Mechanistic Origin of the High Performance of Yolk@Shell Bi₂S₃@N-Doped Carbon Nanowire Electrodes. ACS Nano. 12(12). 12597–12611. 220 indexed citations

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He, Kai, et al.. (2018). Novel self-adaptive boat-shaped complexes with a tetraphosphine ligand. Dalton Transactions. 47(38). 13689–13695. 1 indexed citations

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Hwang, Sooyeon, Zhenpeng Yao, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2018). Multistep Lithiation of Tin Sulfide: An Investigation Using in Situ Electron Microscopy. ACS Nano. 12(4). 3638–3645. 53 indexed citations

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He, Kai, Zhenpeng Yao, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2017). Kinetically-Driven Phase Transformation during Lithiation in Copper Sulfide Nanoflakes. Nano Letters. 17(9). 5726–5733. 68 indexed citations

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Liu, Jian, Kai He, Weiqiang Wu, Tze‐Bin Song, & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. (2017). In Situ Synthesis of Highly Dispersed and Ultrafine Metal Nanoparticles from Chalcogels. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(8). 2900–2903. 70 indexed citations

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He, Kai, Sen Zhang, Jing Li, et al.. (2016). Visualizing non-equilibrium lithiation of spinel oxide via in situ transmission electron microscopy. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11441–11441. 169 indexed citations

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Yang, Wen, Kai He, Yujie Zhu, et al.. (2014). Expanded graphite as superior anode for sodium-ion batteries. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4033–4033. 1666 indexed citations breakdown →

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