Lei Yao

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
110 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Lei Yao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Lei Yao has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 38 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Lei Yao's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (21 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (17 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (16 papers). Lei Yao is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (21 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (17 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (16 papers). Lei Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Lei Yao's co-authors include Libo Deng, Peixin Zhang, Sanming Chen, Sundaram Chandrasekaran, Feng Peng, Zhiqun Lin, Chris Bowen, Yan Zhang, Yongliang Li and Zijian Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lei Yao

99 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabric... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2019 2021 2018 250 500 750
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.

  1. Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond
    2019 997 citations Sundaram Chandrasekaran, Lei Yao et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  2. High-entropy ceramics: Present status, challenges, and a look forward
    2021 836 citations Yan Xing, Lei Yao et al. profile →
  3. Scalable 2D Hierarchical Porous Carbon Nanosheets for Flexible Supercapacitors with Ultrahigh Energy Density
    2018 454 citations Lei Yao, Peixin Zhang et al. profile →

Peers

Lei Yao
Yuan‐Yao Li Taiwan
Weiwei Zhang China
Francisco C. Robles Hernández United States
Hongmin Zhu China
Nan Wu China
Rob Hui Canada
Wei Qu Canada
Xiaojie Song China
Tingkai Zhao China
Lian-Kui Wu China
Yuan‐Yao Li Taiwan
Lei Yao
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Countries citing papers authored by Lei Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lei Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lei Yao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lei Yao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lei Yao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lei Yao. Lei Yao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Yao, Lei, et al.. (2025). Enhanced strawberry preservation using H. pluvialis residue-based films. Food and Bioproducts Processing. 153. 418–429. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Can, et al.. (2025). Properties of cement-based materials made with sediment and calcined sediment: A critical review. Journal of Building Engineering. 106. 112609–112609. 2 indexed citations
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Bobylev, Nikolai, et al.. (2025). Urban underground car parking: present past and future. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 168. 107141–107141.
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Yao, Lei, et al.. (2024). Highway Microgrid Project Evaluation under Energy Transportation Integration. Applied Sciences. 14(7). 2707–2707. 3 indexed citations
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Liang, Huijun, et al.. (2024). A binary bat algorithm with improved crossover operators and Cauchy mutation for unit commitment problem. The Journal of Supercomputing. 80(8). 11261–11292. 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Wei, De Ning, Jianhua Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ultralight lithiophilic three-dimensional lithium host for stable high-energy-density anode-free lithium metal batteries. Energy storage materials. 63. 102974–102974. 33 indexed citations
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Zhang, Mengfei, Lei Yao, Yan Xing, et al.. (2023). Aligned nanofibers incorporated composite solid electrolyte for high-sensitivity oxygen sensing at medium temperatures. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 181. 189–197. 6 indexed citations
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Yao, Lei, Zuoxiang Xie, Urooj Kamran, et al.. (2023). Controllable construction of CNT-Interconnected liquid metal networks for thermal management. Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing. 175. 107743–107743. 34 indexed citations
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Yao, Lei, et al.. (2023). Laser-induced Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis of Skutterudite. Journal of Inorganic Materials. 38(7). 815–815. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Yong Hong, Qiuhua Zhang, Junwu Liu, et al.. (2023). Enhanced strength and synergistic flame retardancy of PE-base nanocomposites with coating-modified palygorskite clay. Applied Clay Science. 246. 107194–107194. 7 indexed citations
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Qiu, Junhao, Tingting Luo, Yonggao Yan, et al.. (2021). Enhancing the Thermoelectric and Mechanical Properties of Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 Modulated by the Texture and Dense Dislocation Networks. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(49). 58974–58981. 19 indexed citations
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Liu, Jieyu, Qing Huang, Zhe Chen, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy study on polysulfone/g-C3N4 composite membrane during the separation process. Desalination and Water Treatment. 178. 94–100.
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Chandrasekaran, Sundaram, Lei Yao, Libo Deng, et al.. (2019). Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond. Chemical Society Reviews. 48(15). 4178–4280. 997 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lin, Junsheng, Lei Yao, Zheling Li, et al.. (2019). Hybrid hollow spheres of carbon@CoxNi1−xMoO4 as advanced electrodes for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitors. Nanoscale. 11(7). 3281–3291. 90 indexed citations
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Wang, Haiyun, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive evaluation of voltage stability based on EW-AHP and Fuzzy-TOPSIS. Heliyon. 5(10). e02410–e02410. 13 indexed citations
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Zhong, Wenhua, Jiaxiang Chen, Peixin Zhang, et al.. (2017). Air plasma etching towards rich active sites in Fe/N-porous carbon for the oxygen reduction reaction with superior catalytic performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(32). 16605–16610. 46 indexed citations
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Yao, Lei, Chuncheng Zhu, Jiuxing Jiang, & Baibin Zhou. (2015). Mechanical properties of Ti 3 AlC 2 ceramics before and after heat treatment. Rare Metals. 41(8). 2777–2782. 1 indexed citations

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