Le Cai

5.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
81 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Le Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Le Cai has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Materials Chemistry, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Le Cai's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (20 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (15 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (12 papers). Le Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (20 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (15 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (12 papers). Le Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and South Korea. Le Cai's co-authors include Chuan Wang, Weiya Zhou, Sishen Xie, Jinshui Miao, Suoming Zhang, Duan Zhao, Philipp Gutruf, Pingshan Luan, Qingxia Fan and Wenbin Zhou 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

Le Cai

81 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Super-stretchable, Transparent Carbon Nanotube-Based Capacitive Strain Sensors for Human Motion Detection

2013 589 citations Le Cai, Pingshan Luan et al. profile →
Caffeine Improves the Performance and Thermal Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells

2019 544 citations Rui Wang, Jingjing Xue et al. profile →
High-performance and compact-designed flexible thermoelectric modules enabled by a reticulate carbon nanotube architecture

2017 335 citations Wenbin Zhou, Qingxia Fan et al. profile →
Wireless and battery-free technologies for neuroengineering

2021 246 citations Le Cai et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Le Cai China	35	2.5k	2.3k	1.9k	1.6k	751	81	5.0k
Alessandro Chiolerio Italy	34	2.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	804 1.1×	157	4.9k
Bong Hoon Kim South Korea	37	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.3×	967 0.6×	591 0.8×	81	5.4k
Kerui Li China	43	2.0k 0.8×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	969 1.3×	171	5.8k
Heung Cho Ko South Korea	33	3.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	290 0.4×	82	5.2k
Zhengchun Peng China	39	2.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	423 0.6×	150	5.2k
Lei Wei Singapore	56	5.5k 2.2×	3.4k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 2.5×	256	9.1k
Tae‐Ho Kim South Korea	14	2.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	456 0.6×	17	4.4k
Myunghwan Byun South Korea	34	1.9k 0.7×	3.6k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	697 0.9×	73	5.4k
Yuanjing Lin China	30	2.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	839 0.5×	467 0.6×	61	3.9k
Lu Li China	41	4.4k 1.8×	3.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.8×	473 0.6×	225	7.0k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Cai, Le, Xuming Chen, Anil K. Bhowmick, & Ramanan Krishnamoorti. (2024). Unveiling the Pressure-Induced Dynamics on the Glass Transition Temperature of Hydrogenated Nitrile Rubber. Macromolecules. 57(17). 8576–8587. 1 indexed citations

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Fong, Hanson, Richard V. Lee, Le Cai, et al.. (2023). Data-driven design of a multiplexed, peptide-sensitized transistor to detect breath VOC markers of COVID-19. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 229. 115237–115237. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiahong, Xudong Xue, Shan Liu, et al.. (2022). Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Homogeneous Stacked Polycrystalline WSe₂ with Branched Patterns for Modulating Light–Matter Interactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(37). 16016–16024. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiahong, Xudong Xue, Le Cai, et al.. (2022). Large-Area Orientation-Controlled Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Liquid Copper. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 4(12). 6261–6268. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weifeng, Jie Xu, Le Cai, et al.. (2021). 2D Organic Radical Conjugated Skeletons with Paramagnetic Behaviors. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(18). 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Le, Xudong Xue, Mengya Liu, et al.. (2021). One-step synthesis of seamless graphene-carbon nanotube heterojunctions by chemical vapor deposition. APL Materials. 9(4). 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Le & Gui Yu. (2021). Fabrication Strategies of Twisted Bilayer Graphenes and Their Unique Properties. Advanced Materials. 33(13). e2004974–e2004974. 50 indexed citations

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Wang, Huaping, Qianqing Jiang, Jie Yang, et al.. (2020). Polydopamine Film Self‐Assembled at Air/Water Interface for Organic Electronic Memory Devices. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 7(22). 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhengxu, Guangwei Xu, Zhiyu Zhao, et al.. (2019). Cluster Size Control toward High Performance Solution Processed InGaZnO Thin Film Transistors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 1(12). 2483–2488. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Huaping, Xudong Xue, Qianqing Jiang, et al.. (2019). Primary Nucleation-Dominated Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth for Uniform Graphene Monolayers on Dielectric Substrate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(28). 11004–11008. 66 indexed citations

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Cai, Le & Gui Yu. (2019). Recent Advances in Growth and Modification of Graphene‐Based Energy Materials: From Chemical Vapor Deposition to Reduction of Graphene Oxide. Small Methods. 3(7). 30 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xinyang, Min Yu, Le Cai, et al.. (2019). Radiation effects in printed flexible single-walled carbon nanotube thin-film transistors. AIP Advances. 9(10). 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Jie, Hao Li, Huaping Wang, et al.. (2018). Novel Hollow Graphene Flowers Synthesized by Cu‐Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 5(16). 5 indexed citations

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Miao, Jinshui, Le Cai, Suoming Zhang, et al.. (2017). Air-Stable Humidity Sensor Using Few-Layer Black Phosphorus. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(11). 10019–10026. 109 indexed citations

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Wang, Huaping, Xu‐Bing Li, Lei Gao, et al.. (2017). Three‐Dimensional Graphene Networks with Abundant Sharp Edge Sites for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(1). 192–197. 126 indexed citations

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Wang, Huaping, Xu‐Bing Li, Lei Gao, et al.. (2017). Three‐Dimensional Graphene Networks with Abundant Sharp Edge Sites for Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 130(1). 198–203. 41 indexed citations

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Luan, Pingshan, Nan Zhang, Weiya Zhou, et al.. (2016). Epidermal Supercapacitor with High Performance. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(45). 8178–8184. 57 indexed citations

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Gu, Xiaogang, Qingxia Fan, Feng Yang, et al.. (2016). Hydro-actuation of hybrid carbon nanotube yarn muscles. Nanoscale. 8(41). 17881–17886. 62 indexed citations

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Dong, Hongbiao, Xiaoxian Zhang, Duan Zhao, et al.. (2012). High performance bipolar resistive switching memory devices based on Zn2SnO4 nanowires. Nanoscale. 4(8). 2571–2571. 32 indexed citations

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Cai, Le & Yung-Hsiang Lu. (2004). Dynamic power management using data buffers. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 1. 10526. 23 indexed citations

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