Kai Xi

12.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
186 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Xi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Xi has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 35 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kai Xi's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (108 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (100 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (36 papers). Kai Xi is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (108 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (100 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (36 papers). Kai Xi collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Kai Xi's co-authors include Shujiang Ding, R. Vasant Kumar, Wei Wang, Amr M. Abdelkader, R. Vasant Kumar, Yuankun Wang, Shiyao Lu, Chao Lai, Huanglong Li and Guoxin Gao 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 Xi

173 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Challenges and Perspectives for NASICON‐Type Electrode Materials for Advanced Sodium‐Ion Batteries

2017 612 citations Kai Xi et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Potassium-ion batteries: outlook on present and future technologies

2021 604 citations Xin Min, Jun Xiao et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Enhancing Catalytic Activity of Titanium Oxide in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Band Engineering

2019 418 citations Yuankun Wang, Ruifang Zhang et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Review of MXene electrochemical microsupercapacitors

2020 316 citations Qiu Jiang, Yongjiu Lei et al. Energy storage materials profile →
Suppressing the Shuttle Effect and Dendrite Growth in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

2020 286 citations Jianan Wang, Kai Xi et al. profile →
Degradation Mechanisms of Electrodes Promotes Direct Regeneration of Spent Li‐Ion Batteries: A Review

2024 101 citations Kai Jia, Yujia He et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Highly Electrically Conductive Polyiodide Ionic Liquid Cathode for High-Capacity Dual-Plating Zinc–Iodine Batteries

2024 85 citations Hongyang Zhao, Yanyang Qin 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 Xi China	60	8.9k	3.0k	3.0k	1.8k	894	186	10.8k
Zhiqiang Zhu China	50	8.6k 1.0×	3.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	675 0.8×	129	10.2k
Lin Li China	58	11.8k 1.3×	3.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	374	14.6k
Jae‐Hun Kim South Korea	45	7.8k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	719 0.8×	239	10.1k
Jitao Chen China	50	6.9k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 1.2×	858 1.0×	153	8.4k
Yongfu Tang China	48	5.3k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	989 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	177	6.8k
Sungjin Kim South Korea	41	5.5k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	925 0.5×	509 0.6×	137	6.9k
Gang Yang China	53	6.0k 0.7×	2.9k 1.0×	3.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	202	9.2k
Honghe Zheng China	58	9.9k 1.1×	3.8k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	4.0k 2.2×	492 0.6×	221	11.1k
Huijun Yang China	46	7.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	2.4k 1.4×	764 0.9×	111	8.9k
Yingwen Cheng United States	42	7.1k 0.8×	3.7k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	89	9.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Xi

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Jin, Zhaohui, Jia Wang, Juntao Gao, et al.. (2025). Relay catalyst for accelerating lithium polysulfide conversion kinetics and long-life lithium sulfur batteries. Nano Energy. 138. 110896–110896. 6 indexed citations

He, Yujia, Kai Jia, Xinyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). The Weakened Super‐Exchange Interaction Realizes the Direct Regeneration of Spent Lithium‐lon Battery Cathodes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(51). e202520448–e202520448.

He, Yujia, Kai Jia, Xinyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). The Weakened Super‐Exchange Interaction Realizes the Direct Regeneration of Spent Lithium‐lon Battery Cathodes. Angewandte Chemie. 137(51).

Liu, Limin, De‐Hui Guan, Zhicheng Lü, et al.. (2025). d ‐ p Orbital Hybridization Tailoring for Boosted Redox Kinetics in Li‐CO ₂ Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(4). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Yandong, Yang Xu, Jian Jiang, et al.. (2024). Construction and properties of release coating based on hydrogen-terminated hyperbranched polysiloxane. Progress in Organic Coatings. 200. 108968–108968. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Yuanjun, Yanyang Qin, Xin Jia, et al.. (2024). Electric field induced molecular orientation to construct the composite polymer electrolytes with vertically aligned ion diffusion pathways for stable solid-state lithium metal batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 495. 153645–153645. 8 indexed citations

Qin, Yanyang, Zhichao Li, Hongyang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Retarding anion migration for alleviating concentration polarization towards stable polymer lithium-metal batteries. Science Bulletin. 69(11). 1706–1715. 27 indexed citations

Zhao, Yang, Kai Xi, Bo He, et al.. (2024). Impact of multi-factor coupling on the corrosion behavior of 254SMo stainless steel in an aggressive oilfield environment containing CO2 and H2S. Corrosion Science. 235. 112215–112215. 11 indexed citations

Xu, Ming, Hongyang Zhao, Juan Wang, et al.. (2024). Oxygen deficient Eu2O3− synchronizes the shielding and catalytic conversion of polysulfides toward high-performance lithium sulfur batteries. Chinese Chemical Letters. 36(10). 110372–110372. 3 indexed citations

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Xu, Ming, Danyang Li, Yutong Wu, et al.. (2024). Microporous Materials in Polymer Electrolytes: The Merit of Order. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2405079–e2405079. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Juan, Hongyang Zhao, Zhaohui Jin, et al.. (2024). Dynamically Regulating Polysulfide Degradation via Organic Sulfur Electrolyte Additives in Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(47). 18 indexed citations

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Min, Xin, Cheng‐Yen Lao, Yifei Liu, et al.. (2023). A negative-thermal-quenching LaMgAl11O19: Er3+, Sm3+ phosphor achieved by energy transfer from Er3+ to Sm3+. Journal of Luminescence. 267. 120380–120380. 5 indexed citations

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Zeng, Ye, Mengting Zhao, Hongliang Zeng, et al.. (2023). Recent progress in advanced catalysts for electrocatalytic hydrogenation of organics in aqueous conditions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). 100156–100156. 62 indexed citations

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Min, Xin, Hui Fan, Jun Xiao, et al.. (2022). In situcharacterization of lithium-metal anodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(35). 17917–17947. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Haojie, Kai Xi, Wei Wang, et al.. (2021). Quantitatively regulating defects of 2D tungsten selenide to enhance catalytic ability for polysulfide conversion in a lithium sulfur battery. Energy storage materials. 45. 1229–1237. 124 indexed citations

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Min, Xin, Jun Xiao, Minghao Fang, et al.. (2021). Potassium-ion batteries: outlook on present and future technologies. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(4). 2186–2243. 604 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jiang, Qiu, Yongjiu Lei, Hanfeng Liang, et al.. (2020). Review of MXene electrochemical microsupercapacitors. Energy storage materials. 27. 78–95. 316 indexed citations breakdown →

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Toma, Francesca M., Alexander J. Cowan, Masakazu Sugiyama, Lianzhou Wang, & Kai Xi. (2020). Solar to fuel: Recent developments in conversion of sunlight into high value chemicals. APL Materials. 8(12). 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Qi, Minghao Fang, Xiaowen Wu, et al.. (2019). Synthesis and Luminescence Properties of a Novel Green-Yellow-Emitting Phosphor BiOCl:Pr3+ for Blue-Light-Based w-LEDs. Molecules. 24(7). 1296–1296. 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuankun, Ruifang Zhang, Yuanchao Pang, et al.. (2018). Carbon@titanium nitride dual shell nanospheres as multi-functional hosts for lithium sulfur batteries. Energy storage materials. 16. 228–235. 300 indexed citations

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