Katsuyo Thornton

9.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
159 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Katsuyo Thornton is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Katsuyo Thornton has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Materials Chemistry, 46 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 29 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Katsuyo Thornton's work include Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (39 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (37 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (30 papers). Katsuyo Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Solidification and crystal growth phenomena (39 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (37 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (30 papers). Katsuyo Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Katsuyo Thornton's co-authors include Martin Z. Bazant, Armand Ajdari, Peter W. Voorhees, Neil P. Dasgupta, Scott A. Barnett, Eric Kazyak, Hsun‐Yi Chen, J. R. Wilson, Alexander F. Chadwick and Kevin N. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Katsuyo Thornton

156 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Diffuse-charge dynamics in electrochemical systems

2004 852 citations Katsuyo Thornton et al. Physical Review E profile →
Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy

2016 763 citations Katsuyo Thornton, Neil P. Dasgupta et al. profile →
Three-dimensional reconstruction of a solid-oxide fuel-cell anode

2006 660 citations Katsuyo Thornton, Peter W. Voorhees et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katsuyo Thornton United States	40	3.8k	2.9k	1.9k	1.2k	891	159	7.4k
Li Zhong China	39	5.9k 1.5×	2.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	666 0.7×	205	8.6k
Anming Hu China	48	3.3k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	400 0.2×	1.2k 1.1×	2.7k 3.1×	242	8.0k
Andrew R. Lupini United States	52	3.0k 0.8×	5.1k 1.8×	252 0.1×	925 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	209	9.2k
Huiqiu Deng China	45	2.0k 0.5×	4.5k 1.6×	268 0.1×	2.1k 1.8×	536 0.6×	380	7.9k
Hsin Wang United States	50	3.3k 0.9×	5.0k 1.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	389 0.4×	218	8.5k
Raymundo Arróyave United States	51	1.3k 0.3×	5.0k 1.7×	933 0.5×	5.1k 4.3×	509 0.6×	311	8.8k
Anton Van der Ven United States	64	11.1k 2.9×	6.0k 2.1×	3.2k 1.7×	2.8k 2.4×	398 0.4×	220	15.3k
Stephen Dacek United States	15	4.7k 1.2×	7.6k 2.6×	578 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	695 0.8×	18	11.1k
Yunfeng Shi United States	33	1.6k 0.4×	2.9k 1.0×	414 0.2×	1.7k 1.4×	991 1.1×	151	5.4k
Alberto Piqué United States	49	5.0k 1.3×	3.6k 1.3×	735 0.4×	413 0.4×	3.1k 3.5×	212	9.1k

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Liao, Daniel W., et al.. (2026). Operando Detection of Void Formation during Lithium Stripping in Solid-State Batteries Using Single-Frequency Impedance Analysis. ACS electrochemistry.. 2(2). 384–393. 1 indexed citations

Qi, Liang, et al.. (2024). Phase-field modeling of stored-energy-driven grain growth with intra-granular variation in dislocation density. Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 32(4). 45011–45011. 2 indexed citations

Goel, Vishwas, Kuan‐Hung Chen, Neil P. Dasgupta, & Katsuyo Thornton. (2023). Optimization of laser-patterned electrode architectures for fast charging of Li-ion batteries using simulations parameterized by machine learning. Energy storage materials. 57. 44–58. 30 indexed citations

Wolfman, Mark, Brian M. May, Vishwas Goel, et al.. (2023). Origin of Rapid Delithiation In Secondary Particles Of LiNi_0.8Co_0.15Al_0.05O₂ and LiNi_yMn_zCo_1−y−zO₂ Cathodes. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(37). 4 indexed citations

Yu, Hui-Chia, Stuart B. Adler, Scott A. Barnett, & Katsuyo Thornton. (2020). Simulation of the diffusional impedance and application to the characterization of electrodes with complex microstructures. Electrochimica Acta. 354. 136534–136534. 24 indexed citations

Chen, Kuan‐Hung, Vishwas Goel, Min Ji Namkoong, et al.. (2020). Enabling > 4C Fast Charging of Li-Ion Batteries with Graphite/Hard Carbon Hybrid Anodes to Overcome Energy/Power Density Tradeoffs. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2020-02(3). 539–539. 2 indexed citations

Voorhees, Peter W., et al.. (2020). Effect of transport mechanism on the coarsening of bicontinuous structures: A comparison between bulk and surface diffusion. Physical Review Materials. 4(10). 13 indexed citations

Wang, Yusu, David Montiel, Hui Zhong, et al.. (2020). In situ temperature profile measurements with high-energy X-rays as a probe of optical floating zone crystal growth environment. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 53(4). 982–990. 3 indexed citations

DeWitt, Stephen, et al.. (2020). PRISMS-PF: A general framework for phase-field modeling with a matrix-free finite element method. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 52 indexed citations

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Liu, Hao, Saeed Kazemiabnavi, Antonin Grenier, et al.. (2019). Quantifying Reaction and Rate Heterogeneity in Battery Electrodes in 3D through Operando X-ray Diffraction Computed Tomography. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(20). 18386–18394. 58 indexed citations

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Thompson, Travis, et al.. (2019). Deformation and stresses in solid-state composite battery cathodes. Journal of Power Sources. 440. 227116–227116. 30 indexed citations

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Chen, Kuan‐Hung, Min Ji Namkoong, S. M. Mortuza, et al.. (2019). Enabling Fast Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries through the Rational Design of 3-D Anode Architectures. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2019-02(5). 243–243. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wei, Lijun Wu, Hao Liu, et al.. (2018). Localized concentration reversal of lithium during intercalation into nanoparticles. Science Advances. 4(1). eaao2608–eaao2608. 53 indexed citations

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Kazemiabnavi, Saeed, Rahul Malik, Bernardo Orvañanos, et al.. (2018). The effect of surface-bulk potential difference on the kinetics of intercalation in core-shell active cathode particles. Journal of Power Sources. 382. 30–37. 7 indexed citations

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Thornton, Katsuyo, et al.. (2018). Simulation of Grain Boundary Kinetics in HCP Nanocrystals Using the Structural Phase-field Crystal (XPFC) model. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018.

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Jooß, Christian, et al.. (2017). Charge attachment induced transport – bulk and grain boundary diffusion of potassium in PrMnO₃. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(15). 9762–9769. 14 indexed citations

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Strobridge, Fiona C., Bernardo Orvañanos, Mark Croft, et al.. (2015). Mapping the Inhomogeneous Electrochemical Reaction Through Porous LiFePO₄-Electrodes in a Standard Coin Cell Battery. Chemistry of Materials. 27(7). 2374–2386. 99 indexed citations

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Ghosh, Susanta, et al.. (2014). Obtaining elastic constants using phase field crystal modeling. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 110. 925–926. 1 indexed citations

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Thornton, Katsuyo, et al.. (2011). Investigation of Mixed Cell Treatment via the Support Operator Method. APS. 53. 1 indexed citations

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Solis, Francisco J., et al.. (2007). Coupled composition-deformation phase-field method for multicomponent lipid membranes. Physical Review E. 76(1). 11912–11912. 34 indexed citations

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