Kai Wang

9.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
132 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Kai Wang is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Wang has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 62 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 39 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kai Wang's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (50 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (35 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (35 papers). Kai Wang is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (50 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (35 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (35 papers). Kai Wang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Kai Wang's co-authors include Fan Lv, Shaojun Guo, Jinhui Zhou, Weiyu Zhang, Jianrui Feng, Chao Yang, Mingchuan Luo, Wenxiu Yang, Fangxu Lin and Yuguang Chao and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kai Wang

126 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Iridium‐Based Multimetallic Porous Hollow Nanocrystals for Efficient Overall‐Water‐Splitting Catalysis

2017 536 citations Fan Lv, Weiyu Zhang et al. profile →
Single-atom cobalt array bound to distorted 1T MoS2 with ensemble effect for hydrogen evolution catalysis

2019 482 citations Lin Gu, Mingchuan Luo et al. Nature Communications profile →
Emerging Dual‐Atomic‐Site Catalysts for Efficient Energy Catalysis

2021 436 citations Weiyu Zhang, Yuguang Chao et al. profile →
Metallic Graphene‐Like VSe₂ Ultrathin Nanosheets: Superior Potassium‐Ion Storage and Their Working Mechanism

2018 397 citations Fan Lv, Jinhui Zhou et al. profile →
Freestanding film made by necklace-like N-doped hollow carbon with hierarchical pores for high-performance potassium-ion storage

2019 376 citations Jinhui Zhou, Weiyu Zhang et al. profile →
Single-Atom Cr–N₄ Sites with High Oxophilicity Interfaced with Pt Atomic Clusters for Practical Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis

2023 215 citations Qizheng Huang, Chenhui Zhou 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 Wang China	47	5.2k	4.8k	2.8k	1.3k	634	132	8.1k
Yong‐Tae Kim South Korea	44	5.0k 1.0×	4.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	622 1.0×	264	7.9k
Mufan Li United States	27	5.2k 1.0×	5.3k 1.1×	3.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	638 1.0×	43	8.1k
Kyung‐Won Park South Korea	49	5.9k 1.1×	4.7k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	306 0.5×	245	8.3k
Suguru Noda Japan	44	5.0k 1.0×	4.2k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	451 0.7×	190	8.3k
Yao Yang United States	43	3.9k 0.7×	4.1k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	573 0.4×	841 1.3×	114	6.6k
Ming Qiu China	44	5.0k 1.0×	5.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	590 0.5×	1.3k 2.0×	169	8.5k
Sung Jong Yoo South Korea	55	8.2k 1.6×	8.1k 1.7×	3.1k 1.1×	789 0.6×	624 1.0×	324	11.2k
Jianbo Xu China	37	3.4k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	738 0.6×	222 0.4×	86	5.6k
Guohua Gao China	38	3.5k 0.7×	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	303 0.5×	118	5.7k
Shunning Li China	39	3.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.4×	2.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	832 1.3×	128	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Wang

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Wang, Zhongyang, Ge Sun, Nicholas H. C. Lewis, et al.. (2025). Water-mediated ion transport in an anion exchange membrane. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1099–1099. 13 indexed citations

Ye, Na, Kai Wang, Zhengyi Qian, et al.. (2025). Industrial-level CO2 to formate conversion on Turing-structured electrocatalysts. Nature Synthesis. 4(7). 799–807. 24 indexed citations

Ma, Hongyun, Kai Sun, Yu‐Dong Cai, et al.. (2025). High‐Rate Lithium‐Ion Capacitor Diode Towards Multifrequency Ion/Electron‐Coupling Logic Operations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202420404–e202420404. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Jinhui, Shuoqing Zhao, Fan Lv, et al.. (2024). Strongly Coupled NbSe₂ Ultrathin Nanosheets/Graphene Heterostructure Facilitates Potassium Ion Storage. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(49). 9 indexed citations

Li, Yifu, Huan Zhang, Kai Wang, et al.. (2024). Metal directional crystallization: A sustainable green separation method for the purification of bismuth from crude bismuth while enriching lead and silver. Chemical Engineering Journal. 487. 150408–150408. 1 indexed citations

Li, Haowen, Kai Wang, Yingjie Zhang, et al.. (2024). The role of one-dimensional materials in modulating the selective mass transport of covalent organic framework membranes for nanofiltration. Separation and Purification Technology. 355. 129669–129669. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Kai, et al.. (2024). Acid-assisted synthesis of core-shell Prussian blue cathode for sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 678(Pt C). 346–358. 14 indexed citations

Zhou, Chenhui, Lu Li, Zhaoqi Dong, et al.. (2024). Pinning effect of lattice Pb suppressing lattice oxygen reactivity of Pb-RuO2 enables stable industrial-level electrolysis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9774–9774. 77 indexed citations

Lin, Fangxu, Heng Luo, Lu Li, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of isolated Ru–O3 sites on hexagonal close-packed intermetallic penta-metallene for hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysis. Nature Synthesis. 4(3). 399–409. 26 indexed citations

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Sun, Wanjun, Jifei Liu, Feitian Ran, et al.. (2024). Step-scheme CsPbBr₃/BiOBr photocatalyst with oxygen vacancies for efficient CO₂ photoreduction. Dalton Transactions. 53(33). 14018–14027. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai, et al.. (2024). Preparation of PAMgA/GL/GO antifreeze conductive hydrogel for wearable strain sensor based on physically cross-linked network. Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology. 47(4). 709–724. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Yuan, Dongfeng Sun, Yanning Qu, et al.. (2023). Three-dimensional self-supporting micro-nanostructured MoS2/CoS2/CC heterojunction derived from ZIF-67 for high efficiency electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution in both acid and alkali electrolytes. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 976. 173354–173354. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Mingxuan, Kai Wang, Qiming Liu, et al.. (2023). Copper ferricyanide particles modify Prussian blue and its analogues on the surface as cathode for high-performance sodium-ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 973. 172899–172899. 14 indexed citations

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Lü, Tao, Kai Wang, Fan Lv, et al.. (2023). Precise synthetic control of exclusive ligand effect boosts oxygen reduction catalysis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6893–6893. 95 indexed citations

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Wang, Kai, Weibo Hua, Zhenyou Li, et al.. (2021). New Insight into Desodiation/Sodiation Mechanism of MoS₂: Sodium Insertion in Amorphous Mo–S Clusters. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(34). 40481–40488. 15 indexed citations

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Hua, Weibo, Suning Wang, Kai Wang, et al.. (2021). Li⁺/Na⁺ Ion Exchange in Layered Na_2/3(Ni_0.25Mn_0.75)O₂: A Simple and Fast Way to Synthesize O3/O2-Type Layered Oxides. Chemistry of Materials. 33(14). 5606–5617. 23 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng, Yuguang Chao, Fan Lv, et al.. (2020). Metal Single Atom Strategy Greatly Boosts Photocatalytic Methyl Activation and C–C Coupling for the Coproduction of High-Value-Added Multicarbon Compounds and Hydrogen. ACS Catalysis. 10(16). 9109–9114. 64 indexed citations

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Li, Kui, Yu Zhang, Yezhan Lin, Kai Wang, & Futian Liu. (2019). Versatile Functional Porous Cobalt–Nickel Phosphide–Carbon Cocatalyst Derived from a Metal–Organic Framework for Boosting the Photocatalytic Activity of Graphitic Carbon Nitride. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(32). 28918–28927. 81 indexed citations

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Li, Kui, Yezhan Lin, Kai Wang, et al.. (2019). Rational design of cocatalyst system for improving the photocatalytic hydrogen evolution activity of graphite carbon nitride. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 268. 118402–118402. 117 indexed citations

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Liu, Hu, Bolong Huang, Jinhui Zhou, et al.. (2018). Enhanced electron transfer and light absorption on imino polymer capped PdAg nanowire networks for efficient room-temperature dehydrogenation of formic acid. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(5). 1979–1984. 45 indexed citations

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