Lili Cai

9.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
60 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Lili Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Civil and Structural Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Lili Cai has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Lili Cai's work include Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (17 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (15 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers). Lili Cai is often cited by papers focused on Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (17 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (15 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (13 papers). Lili Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Lili Cai's co-authors include Xiaolin Zheng, Hong Li, Jiheng Zhao, Hyun Soo Han, Yi Cui, Ai Leen Koh, Shanhui Fan, In Sun Cho, Pratap M. Rao and Hari C. Manoharan and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lili Cai

53 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Activating and optimizing MoS2 basal planes for hydrogen evolution through the formation of strained sulphur vacancies

2015 2.2k citations Hong Li, Ai Leen Koh et al. profile →
Simultaneously Efficient Light Absorption and Charge Separation in WO₃/BiVO₄ Core/Shell Nanowire Photoanode for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation

2014 650 citations Pratap M. Rao, Lili Cai et al. Nano Letters profile →
A dual-mode textile for human body radiative heating and cooling

2017 548 citations Po‐Chun Hsu, Yu Song et al. profile →
Spectrally Selective Nanocomposite Textile for Outdoor Personal Cooling

2018 533 citations Lili Cai, Yu Song et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Nanoporous polyethylene microfibres for large-scale radiative cooling fabric

2018 515 citations Yucan Peng, Jun Chen et al. profile →
Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile

2017 357 citations Lili Cai, Yu Song et al. profile →
Temperature Regulation in Colored Infrared-Transparent Polyethylene Textiles

2019 313 citations Lili Cai, Yucan Peng et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lili Cai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lili Cai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lili Cai 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 Lili Cai. Lili Cai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing Radiative Cooling Textiles for Extreme Thermal Conditions 2025 ·IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics ·(unknown), (unknown), Kai Zhou, Lili Cai	0
2	Atmospheric Flame Vapor Deposition of 1D and 2D Nanostructured Vanadium Pentoxide on Diverse Substrates 2025 ·Nanomaterials ·Kai Zhou, Lili Cai	0
3	Multimode Adaptive Thermoregulation Enabled by Shape Morphing and Radiative Cooling Porous Polyurethane 2025 ·Advanced Engineering Materials ·Yoon Young Choi, Shan Tang, Ho Kun Woo, Kai Zhou, (unknown), Lili Cai	0
4	Sustainable production of nitrogen-doped hierarchical porous carbons from fruit peel wastes for high-performance CO2 capture 2025 ·Separation and Purification Technology ·(unknown), Ho Kun Woo, (unknown), (unknown), Wei Zheng, Lili Cai, Jiajun He	0
5	Electrostatic repellent dispersion method for green and cost-effective aqueous radiative cooling paint 2024 ·Building and Environment ·Jipeng Fei, Di Han, Kai Zhou, See Wee Koh, Junyu Ge, (unknown), Bing Feng Ng, Zhong Chen, Lili Cai, Hong Li	5
6	Lignin–Polyethylene Oxide Interlocked Phase Change Materials with Enhanced Thermal Stability and Form Retention for Efficient Heat Management 2024 ·Polymers ·Ji Eun Park, (unknown), Shan Tang, Ngoc A. Nguyen, Lili Cai	3
7	Electrochemical Nanoimprinting of Colored Infrared Reflective Patterns for Radiative Heating 2024 ·Advanced Materials Technologies ·Ho Kun Woo, (unknown), (unknown), Kai Zhou, Placid M. Ferreira, Lili Cai	1
8	Elevating Low-Grade Heat Harvesting with Daytime Radiative Cooling and Solar Heating in Thermally Regenerative Electrochemical Cycles 2024 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Ho Kun Woo, Kai Zhou, Yoon Young Choi, Lili Cai	2
9	Radiative Cooling Smart Textiles with Integrated Sensing for Adaptive Thermoregulation 2024 ·ACS Materials Letters ·Yoon Young Choi, Kai Zhou, Ho Kun Woo, (unknown), Md Salauddin, Lili Cai	9
10	Hierarchically Patterned Self-Cleaning Polymer Composites for Daytime Radiative Cooling 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Kai Zhou, Xiao Yan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Donald M. Cropek, Nenad Miljkovic, Lili Cai	39
11	Defect Engineering of WO₃ by Rapid Flame Reduction for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Conversion of Methane into Liquid Oxygenates 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Ho Kun Woo, (unknown), (unknown), Arthur P. Baddorf, Kai Zhou, Yoon Young Choi, Jiajun He, Alexander V. Mironenko, Joaquín Rodríguez‐López, Lili Cai	13
12	Ultrahigh Passive Cooling Power in Hydrogel with Rationally Designed Optofluidic Properties 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Jipeng Fei, Di Han, Xuan Zhang, Ke Li, (unknown), Kai Zhou, Xingli Wang, (unknown), Jianwei Zhong, Man Pun Wan, Elyes Nefzaoui, Tarik Bourouina, Shuzhou Li, Bing Feng Ng, Lili Cai, Hong Li	18
13	Visibly Transparent and Infrared Reflective Coatings for Personal Thermal Management and Thermal Camouflage 2022 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Ho Kun Woo, Kai Zhou, (unknown), (unknown), Muhammad Jahidul Hoque, Tae‐Yeon Seong, Lili Cai	103
14	Atmospheric-Pressure Flame Vapor Deposition of Nanocrystalline Diamonds: Implications for Scalable and Cost-Effective Coatings 2022 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·(unknown), Kai Zhou, Changqiang Chen, Yan‐Kai Tzeng, Lili Cai	5
15	Three-Dimensional Printable Nanoporous Polymer Matrix Composites for Daytime Radiative Cooling 2021 ·Nano Letters ·Kai Zhou, Wei Li, Bijal B. Patel, Ran Tao, Yilong Chang, Shanhui Fan, Ying Diao, Lili Cai	168
16	Spectrally Selective Nanocomposite Textile for Outdoor Personal Cooling breakdown → 2018 ·Advanced Materials ·Lili Cai, Yu Song, Wei Li, Po‐Chun Hsu, Dingchang Lin, Peter B. Catrysse, Yayuan Liu, Yucan Peng, Jun Chen, Hongxia Wang, Jinwei Xu, Ankun Yang, Shanhui Fan, Yi Cui	533
17	Stabilizing Silicon Photocathodes by Solution-Deposited Ni–Fe Layered Double Hydroxide for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Media 2017 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Jiheng Zhao, Lili Cai, Hong Li, Xinjian Shi, Xiaolin Zheng	66
18	Rapid Flame Synthesis of Atomically Thin MoO₃ down to Monolayer Thickness for Effective Hole Doping of WSe₂ 2017 ·Nano Letters ·Lili Cai, Connor J. McClellan, Ai Leen Koh, Hong Li, Eilam Yalon, Eric Pop, Xiaolin Zheng	134
19	Rapid Synthesis of Thin and Long Mo17O47 Nanowire-Arrays in an Oxygen Deficient Flame 2016 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Lili Cai, Lite Zhou, (unknown), Pratap M. Rao	10
20	Morphology-Controlled Flame Synthesis of Single, Branched, and Flower-like α-MoO₃Nanobelt Arrays 2011 ·Nano Letters ·Lili Cai, Pratap M. Rao, Xiaolin Zheng	153

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