Kai Zong

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kai Zong is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Zong has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Kai Zong's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (18 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (11 papers). Kai Zong is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (18 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (11 papers). Kai Zong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Kai Zong's co-authors include Xingke Cai, Zhongwei Chen, Dongqing Liu, Xin Wang, Ali Saad, Ying Li, Zhaoqi Song, Panagiotis Tsiakaras, Hui Yan and Jingbing Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Kai Zong

54 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Steric‐hindrance Effect Tuned Ion Solvation Enabling High Performance Aqueous Zinc Ion Batteries

2024 138 citations Qianyi Ma, Dan Luo et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Zong China	21	870	504	322	119	112	62	1.3k
Esteban A. Franceschini Argentina	20	674 0.8×	247 0.5×	657 2.0×	59 0.5×	75 0.7×	48	972
An’amt Mohamed Noor Malaysia	13	265 0.3×	323 0.6×	151 0.5×	36 0.3×	84 0.8×	57	870
Virginie Lair France	19	347 0.4×	576 1.1×	245 0.8×	37 0.3×	53 0.5×	67	1.2k
Jiao Li China	19	396 0.5×	638 1.3×	204 0.6×	35 0.3×	280 2.5×	33	1.1k
Muhammad Imtiaz Pakistan	20	500 0.6×	327 0.6×	197 0.6×	31 0.3×	461 4.1×	49	941
Karthikeyan Rajan India	19	548 0.6×	560 1.1×	314 1.0×	19 0.2×	387 3.5×	43	1.1k
Yuxuan Xiao China	24	693 0.8×	561 1.1×	954 3.0×	22 0.2×	64 0.6×	86	1.5k
Milan Mikula Slovakia	18	353 0.4×	371 0.7×	180 0.6×	30 0.3×	46 0.4×	63	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Zong

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Tan, Lichao, Xiumei Song, Jiayi Wang, et al.. (2025). Low Temperature Fast‐Charging Li Ion Batteries Enabled by f‐Orbital Hybridization Induced TiNb ₂ O ₇ Electronic Structure. Advanced Science. 12(34). e04808–e04808.

Zhao, Shupeng, Hedong Chen, F. J. Lu, et al.. (2025). Intimate Heterostructured Electrocatalyst for Functional Tandem Catalysts of Lithium Polysulfides in Separator‐Modified Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries. Carbon Energy. 7(8). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Zhen, Bihua Hu, Xiaoyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Ru-Based Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution in Acidic Media: Mechanism and Strategies for Breaking the Activity and Stability Bottlenecks. Electrochemical Energy Reviews. 8(1).

Lu, F. J., Kai Zong, Xiaoyu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Efficient Zeolite Electrocatalysts for Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries: Synergistic Catalysis of Co Single Atom and CoO Nanoparticles Regulated by Pore Structure. Small. 21(50). e07900–e07900.

Raza, Waseem, Qianyi Ma, Andleeb Mehmood, et al.. (2025). Unveiling Mechanistic Material Manipulation in Functional Separators for Metal Sulfur Batteries: Progress and Prospects. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(37). 6 indexed citations

Wang, Jiayi, Xiaomin Zhang, Jiabing Liu, et al.. (2025). High‐Spin Cobalt Enables Strong Metal‐Sulfur Orbital Hybridization for Accelerated Polysulfide Conversion in Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 37(30). e2502075–e2502075. 6 indexed citations

Mehmood, Andleeb, Irfan Ijaz, Waseem Raza, et al.. (2025). Toward flexible energy storage: MXene frameworks from synthesis principles to device applications. Progress in Materials Science. 156. 101583–101583.

Wang, Jiayi, Shupeng Zhao, Hao Meng, et al.. (2025). Spin-state modulation of single-atom catalysts and coupled strong sieving effect enable efficient self-cleaning active sites in lithium-sulfur batteries. Nano Energy. 145. 111406–111406. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Xiaoling, Jiagui Shen, Zhe Chen, et al.. (2025). Boosting photocatalytic H2 production on K-doped porous g-C3N4 nanosheets: Mechanism exploration from both experimental and DFT studies. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 161. 150465–150465. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruizhen, et al.. (2024). Amine-free synthesis of high-silica ZSM-5 assisted with calcined silicalite-1 and ethanol with the investigation of mechanism. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 375. 113160–113160. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2023). Boosting the Electroactivity of Porous Ni₂P/Pd₆P Nanorods for Nitrate to Ammonia Through Hydrogen Spillover Effect. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(16). 17 indexed citations

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Hu, Kang‐Di, Gai‐Fang Yao, Siyue Wang, et al.. (2023). D-cysteine desulfhydrase DCD1 participates in tomato resistance against <i>Botrytis cinerea</i> by modulating ROS homeostasis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 0–0. 5 indexed citations

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Zou, Weiwei, Kai Zong, Zhikang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Novel economical, accurate, sensitive, single-cell analytical method for mitochondrial DNA quantification in mtDNA mutation carriers. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 40(9). 2197–2209. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiayi, Gaoran Li, Xiaomin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Undercoordination Chemistry of Sulfur Electrocatalyst in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Advanced Materials. 36(14). e2311019–e2311019. 54 indexed citations

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Deng, Yonggui, Arshad Hussain, Waseem Raza, et al.. (2023). Morphological modulation of the PBI membrane and performance optimization for Li-metal battery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 474. 145800–145800. 36 indexed citations

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Zong, Kai, Dongqing Liu, Andleeb Mehmood, et al.. (2022). Bridging 1D Inorganic and Organic Synthesis to Fabricate Ultrathin Bismuth‐Based Nanotubes with Controllable Size as Anode Materials for Secondary Li Batteries. Small. 18(39). e2204236–e2204236. 5 indexed citations

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Zeng, Dexin, Yunfei Li, Kai Zong, et al.. (2022). Prospects for the application of infectious virus detection technology based on propidium monoazide in African swine fever management. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1025758–1025758. 9 indexed citations

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Liang, Chunmei, Yu Cao, Danyang Li, et al.. (2022). Environmental thallium exposure and the risk of early embryonic arrest among women undergoing in vitro fertilization: thallium exposure and polymorphisms of mtDNA gene interaction and potential cause exploring. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 29(41). 62648–62661. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Yajing, Kai Zong, Mengyao Wang, et al.. (2021). Increased ApoE Expression in Follicular Fluid and the ApoE Genotype Are Associated With Endometriosis in Chinese Women. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 12. 779183–779183. 4 indexed citations

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Zong, Kai, Jack Ly, Sang‐Chul Lee, et al.. (2017). Orientation Control of Solution-Processed Organic Semiconductor Crystals To Improve Out-of-Plane Charge Mobility. Chemistry of Materials. 29(17). 7571–7578. 21 indexed citations

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