Kai Xi

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
108 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kai Xi is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Xi has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Materials Chemistry, 25 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kai Xi's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (35 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (24 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (23 papers). Kai Xi is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (35 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (24 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (23 papers). Kai Xi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Taiwan. Kai Xi's co-authors include Xudong Jia, Qiaobo Liao, Yanfeng Liu, Guiyang Zhang, Qiuhong Zhang, Zhen Meng, Jiangjiang Gu, Xinle Li, Wenyu Huang and Can Ke 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 Xi

105 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Water-dispersible PEG-curcumin/amine-functionalized covalent organic framework nanocomposites as smart carriers for in vivo drug delivery

2018 446 citations Qiaobo Liao, Yanfeng Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
Regulating Relative Nitrogen Locations of Diazine Functionalized Covalent Organic Frameworks for Overall H₂O₂ Photosynthesis

2023 209 citations Qiaobo Liao, Haocheng Xu et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kai Xi	2.8k	922	733	669	642	108	4.0k
Weijin Li	1.6k 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	803 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	340 0.5×	111	3.8k
Pei Yuan	2.6k 0.9×	824 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	660 1.0×	167	4.5k
Yantao Chen	2.4k 0.9×	924 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	1.6k 2.4×	893 1.4×	47	4.1k
Guiling Ning	2.2k 0.8×	795 0.9×	418 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	523 0.8×	123	3.6k
Ghouti Medjahdi	2.6k 0.9×	698 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	1.2k 1.8×	583 0.9×	108	4.0k
Yong Qian	1.9k 0.7×	540 0.6×	747 1.0×	1.4k 2.1×	1.0k 1.6×	121	4.1k
Ying Song	2.3k 0.8×	390 0.4×	697 1.0×	812 1.2×	437 0.7×	152	3.6k
Lavinia Balan	3.3k 1.2×	571 0.6×	1.4k 2.0×	1.5k 2.2×	768 1.2×	124	4.8k
Peipei Li	2.4k 0.8×	682 0.7×	458 0.6×	1.3k 1.9×	805 1.3×	170	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Xi

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Li, Di, et al.. (2026). Oxophilic NbO _x Nanoisland-Confined Os Atomic Clusters for Practical Alkaline Water Electrolysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148(7). 7578–7587.

Li, Qiao, et al.. (2026). N‐Doped Carbon Encapsulated FeV ₂ S ₄ /Fe Nanorods as Fast‐Charging Anodes for All‐Climate Sodium‐Ion Storage. Energy & environment materials.

Xu, Haocheng, Rengan Luo, Haifeng Lv, et al.. (2025). Deciphering a volcano-shaped relationship between radical stability and reticular electrochemiluminescence. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1924–1924. 13 indexed citations

Xu, Yang, Ruiyang Tan, Xiaolin Jiang, et al.. (2025). Hierarchical Composite Polyimide Aerogels with Hyperbranched Siloxane for High Electromagnetic Wave Absorption. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(24). 10 indexed citations

Li, Xiaofeng, Huaming Yu, Dalal A. Alshammari, et al.. (2025). Regulation of Proton Vehicle Migration for Synergetic Interfacial Stability Enables Long‐Lasting Ah‐Level Zinc‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials. 38(6). e16427–e16427. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Ming, Xuyang Wang, Zhaohui Jin, et al.. (2024). Decoupling the roles of grain boundary strength and grain size hidden in grain-level electro-chemo-mechanical failure of solid-state electrolyte. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 101. 685–691. 2 indexed citations

Gao, Lei, Shuangbao Wang, Yandong Wang, et al.. (2024). Preparation of sp² carbon-bonded π-conjugated COF aerogels by ultrasound-assisted mild solvothermal reaction for multi-functional applications. Nanoscale. 16(32). 15298–15307. 2 indexed citations

Luo, Rengan, Xiao Luo, Haocheng Xu, et al.. (2024). Reticular Ratchets for Directing Electrochemiluminescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(24). 16681–16688. 28 indexed citations

Liu, Qiang, et al.. (2024). Construction of heterogeneous frustrated lewis pairs based on covalent organic frameworks stabilized boron cations and investigation of cycloaddition reaction performance. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 12(6). 114137–114137. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Peng, et al.. (2024). A Versatile Method for Preparation of BrCOFs Aerogels and Efficient Functionalization via Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction. Small Methods. 9(4). e2401373–e2401373. 2 indexed citations

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Guo, Linru, Xiaolei Xing, Qiaobo Liao, et al.. (2024). Sequence-Dependent Single-Molecule DNA Sensing Using Covalent Organic Framework Nanopores. ACS Nano. 6 indexed citations

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Gu, Jiangjiang, Guangjing Li, Jiahao Liu, et al.. (2023). Beyond carbon dots: Intrinsic reducibility in Ti3C2 MXene quantum dots induces ultrasensitive fluorescence detection and scavenging of Mn(VII). Chemical Engineering Journal. 467. 143445–143445. 23 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Saud Asif, Wang Li, Xiaolei Xing, et al.. (2023). Ammonia-Induced Anomalous Ion Transport in Covalent Organic Framework Nanochannels. ACS Sensors. 8(6). 2179–2185. 3 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Saud Asif, Xiaolei Xing, Qiaobo Liao, et al.. (2022). Study on Ammonia Content and Distribution in the Microenvironment Based on Covalent Organic Framework Nanochannels. Analytical Chemistry. 94(32). 11224–11229. 17 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanfeng, Roman Ziniuk, Songtao Cai, et al.. (2022). Halogen-doped phosphorescent carbon dots for grayscale patterning. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 163–163. 52 indexed citations

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Luo, Rengan, Haifeng Lv, Qiaobo Liao, et al.. (2021). Intrareticular charge transfer regulated electrochemiluminescence of donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6808–6808. 155 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Saud Asif, Qiaobo Liao, Qi Shen, et al.. (2020). pH‐Dependent Slipping and Exfoliation of Layered Covalent Organic Framework. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(57). 12996–13001. 45 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Saud Asif, Qi Shen, Juan Zhou, et al.. (2020). Mass Transfer Modulation and Gas Mapping Based on Covalent Organic Frameworks-Covered Theta Micropipette. Analytical Chemistry. 92(10). 7343–7348. 17 indexed citations

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Liao, Qiaobo, Can Ke, Xin Huang, et al.. (2020). A Versatile Method for Functionalization of Covalent Organic Frameworks via Suzuki–Miyaura Cross‐Coupling. Angewandte Chemie. 133(3). 1431–1436. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Yueling, Yunzhong Liu, Yunzhong Liu, et al.. (2019). Thiol-functionalized reduced graphene oxide as self-assembled ion-to-electron transducer for durable solid-contact ion-selective electrodes. Talanta. 208. 120374–120374. 44 indexed citations

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