M. Yao

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

M. Yao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Yao has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 67 papers in Materials Chemistry and 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in M. Yao's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (29 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (17 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (14 papers). M. Yao is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (29 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (17 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (14 papers). M. Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Japan and Germany. M. Yao's co-authors include Claudia Felser, H. Kohno, Kohki Okada, Dong Qian, Yan Sun, Y. Kajihara, Fengfeng Zhu, Hidenori Endo, Bin He and Canhua Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. Yao

142 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Giant anomalous Nernst signal in the antiferromagnet YbMnBi₂.

2022 141 citations Yu Pan, Bin He et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
M. Yao	1.9k	1.5k	911	489	421	147	3.7k
W. Steffen	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	540 1.1×	352 0.8×	111	5.0k
J. van Lierop	1.3k 0.7×	883 0.6×	716 0.8×	538 1.1×	875 2.1×	174	2.7k
Ulf Wiedwald	1.8k 0.9×	883 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	280 0.6×	773 1.8×	130	3.3k
John F. Ankner	906 0.5×	858 0.6×	963 1.1×	403 0.8×	408 1.0×	128	3.6k
Cindi L. Dennis	1.1k 0.6×	719 0.5×	952 1.0×	275 0.6×	922 2.2×	81	2.7k
Marco Schowalter	1.8k 1.0×	900 0.6×	711 0.8×	502 1.0×	695 1.7×	163	4.0k
M. Spasova	2.2k 1.1×	963 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	318 0.7×	957 2.3×	100	4.0k
Roberto D. Zysler	2.6k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 2.2×	1.5k 3.5×	159	4.7k
Klaus Leifer	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	269 0.6×	442 1.0×	210	4.5k
P. Ziemann	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	804 0.9×	815 1.7×	891 2.1×	176	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Yao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yao, M., et al.. (2025). Failure Mechanisms and Practical Optimizations for Ah‐Scale Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Pouch Cells. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e12364–e12364. 1 indexed citations

Yao, M., Martin Gutierrez‐Amigo, Subhajit Roychowdhury, et al.. (2025). Observation of chiral surface state in superconducting NbGe2. Physical Review Materials. 9(3).

Roychowdhury, Subhajit, Premakumar Yanda, Kartik Samanta, et al.. (2024). Giant Room‐Temperature Topological Hall Effect in a Square‐Net Ferromagnet LaMn₂Ge₂. Advanced Materials. 36(35). e2305916–e2305916. 7 indexed citations

Yao, M., et al.. (2024). Cascade encapsulation of antimicrobial peptides, exosomes and antibiotics in fibrin-gel for first-aid hemostasis and infected wound healing. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 269(Pt 2). 132140–132140. 11 indexed citations

Yao, M., et al.. (2024). Enhancing riboflavin production by modulating the expression of the rib operon in Bacillus subtilis. Process Biochemistry. 148. 139–149.

Yao, M., et al.. (2024). Divergent Aromatization of α-Halobenzyl γ-Butenolides Initiated by Selective Enol Protonation to Benzo[c]fluorenones and Naphthalenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 89(15). 11067–11071. 3 indexed citations

Krieger, Jonas A., M. Yao, Iñigo Robredo, et al.. (2024). Controllable orbital angular momentum monopoles in chiral topological semimetals. Nature Physics. 20(12). 1912–1918. 8 indexed citations

He, Bin, M. Yao, Yu Pan, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Weyl semimetal signature in Co3Sn2S2 Kagome ferromagnet by chlorine doping. Communications Materials. 5(1). 1 indexed citations

Yao, M., Jonathan Noky, Qing-Ge Mu, et al.. (2024). High pressure induced superconductivity and chirality-neutral Fermi surface in SrSi2. Physical review. B.. 110(22). 1 indexed citations

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Roychowdhury, Subhajit, M. Yao, Kartik Samanta, et al.. (2023). Anomalous Hall Conductivity and Nernst Effect of the Ideal Weyl Semimetallic Ferromagnet EuCd₂As₂. Advanced Science. 10(13). e2207121–e2207121. 31 indexed citations

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Roychowdhury, Subhajit, Kartik Samanta, Premakumar Yanda, et al.. (2023). Interplay between Magnetism and Topology: Large Topological Hall Effect in an Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator, EuCuAs. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(23). 12920–12927. 16 indexed citations

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Ma, Limin, Hongwei Shao, Xia Ling, et al.. (2022). Riboflavin-Promoted In Situ Photoactivation of Dihydroalkaloid Prodrugs for Cancer Therapy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(23). 15738–15748. 9 indexed citations

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Serrano‐Sánchez, Federico, M. Yao, Bin He, et al.. (2022). Electronic structure and low-temperature thermoelectric transport of TiCoSb single crystals. Nanoscale. 14(28). 10067–10074. 15 indexed citations

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He, Yangkun, Jacob Gayles, M. Yao, et al.. (2021). Large linear non-saturating magnetoresistance and high mobility in ferromagnetic MnBi. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4576–4576. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Airan, Chaoliang Hu, Bin He, et al.. (2021). Demonstration of valley anisotropy utilized to enhance the thermoelectric power factor. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5408–5408. 125 indexed citations

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Hemmida, M., D. Ehlers, H.‐A. Krug von Nidda, et al.. (2021). Topological magnetic order and superconductivity in EuRbFe4As4. Physical review. B.. 103(19). 11 indexed citations

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Lee, Kyungmin, M. Shi, Junzhang Ma, et al.. (2021). Metal-to-insulator transition in Pt-doped TiSe<sub>2</sub> driven by emergent network of narrow transport channels. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations

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Yao, M., Fengfeng Zhu, Dandan Guan, et al.. (2015). Topologically Nontrivial Bismuth(111) Thin Films Grown on Bi2Te3. arXiv (Cornell University). 36 indexed citations

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Matsuda, Kazuhiro, T Nagao, Y. Kajihara, et al.. (2013). Electron momentum density in liquid silicon. Physical Review B. 88(11). 7 indexed citations

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Yao, M., Kiyonobu Nagaya, Hiroshi Iwayama, et al.. (2011). Metallic-like droplets produced by irradiating rare-gas clusters with free electron laser pulses. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 196(1). 175–180.

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