Qingkai Yu

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
86 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Qingkai Yu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingkai Yu has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Materials Chemistry, 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 24 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Qingkai Yu's work include Graphene research and applications (48 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (9 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (9 papers). Qingkai Yu is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (48 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (9 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (9 papers). Qingkai Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Qingkai Yu's co-authors include Zhihong Liu, Jiming Bao, Wei Wu, Yong P. Chen, Helin Cao, Luis A. Jauregui, Zhihua Su, Dongguang Wei, Jifa Tian and Peng Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Qingkai Yu

83 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition

2011 1.3k citations Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui et al. Nature Materials profile →
Efficient solar water-splitting using a nanocrystalline CoO photocatalyst

2013 759 citations Zhihua Su, Dongguang Wei et al. profile →
Fast growth of inch-sized single-crystalline graphene from a controlled single nucleus on Cu–Ni alloys

2015 527 citations Tianru Wu, Xuefu Zhang et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Qingkai Yu United States	36	4.6k	2.7k	1.7k	832	748	86	5.9k
Iskandar Kholmanov United States	33	3.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	665 0.8×	411 0.5×	48	4.9k
Kehan Yu China	38	3.4k 0.8×	3.4k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	663 0.8×	308 0.4×	129	5.8k
Mark Hettick United States	36	3.5k 0.8×	4.0k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.6×	54	6.4k
Xiangyang Kong China	32	4.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	507 0.6×	344 0.5×	81	5.9k
Lianfeng Sun China	41	3.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	734 0.9×	454 0.6×	164	5.3k
Cristina Gómez‐Navarro Spain	30	6.5k 1.4×	3.2k 1.2×	2.9k 1.7×	565 0.7×	857 1.1×	56	8.3k
S. Tripathy Singapore	41	3.3k 0.7×	3.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	395 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	291	6.2k
Alexey Lipatov United States	29	4.7k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	537 0.6×	300 0.4×	84	5.5k
Soo Min Kim South Korea	33	5.2k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	414 0.5×	468 0.6×	80	6.1k
Moon‐Ho Ham South Korea	36	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	447 0.5×	265 0.4×	122	4.8k

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Chen, Yuanzheng, Yangdong He, Weiyou Yang, et al.. (2025). Data-Driven Strategies for Designing Multicomponent Molten Catalysts to Accelerate the Industrialization of Methane Pyrolysis. ACS Catalysis. 15(13). 11003–11012. 1 indexed citations

Yuan, Wentao, Yiling Huang, Xuefu Zhang, et al.. (2025). Interfacial interaction and stress engineering for enhancing electrical conductivity of graphene/copper composites. Materials Today Physics. 59. 101895–101895.

Hu, Yan, Xiaona Li, Qingkai Yu, et al.. (2025). Self-forming highly ordered subgrain boundary-strengthened multicomponent heat-resistant copper alloys. Acta Materialia. 303. 121692–121692.

Niu, Mengchao, Qingkai Yu, W. Li, et al.. (2024). Achieving excellent elevated-temperature mechanical properties in dual-phase high-entropy alloys via nanoscale co-precipitation and heterostructure engineering. Acta Materialia. 284. 120634–120634. 22 indexed citations

Zhang, Ao, Zhicheng Jiang, Yichen Yang, et al.. (2024). Wafer-scale 30° twisted bilayer graphene epitaxially grown on Cu_0.75Ni_0.25 (111). Chinese Physics B. 33(6). 66101–66101. 1 indexed citations

Chao, Nan, et al.. (2023). The migration behavior of cesium during plasma gasification melting process of spent radioactive resins by thermodynamic calculation. Nuclear Engineering and Design. 417. 112878–112878. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Zhiyuan, Xiujun Wang, Qingtian Li, et al.. (2020). Vapor–liquid–solid growth of large-area multilayer hexagonal boron nitride on dielectric substrates. Nature Communications. 11(1). 849–849. 99 indexed citations

Smith, Andrew T., Hao Ding, Monica Zhang, et al.. (2020). Multi-color Reversible Photochromisms via Tunable Light-Dependent Responses. Matter. 2(3). 680–696. 65 indexed citations

Ma, Jinyi, Zhijie Li, Weilie Zhou, et al.. (2014). Surface acoustic wave ammonia sensor based on ZnO/SiO2 composite film. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 285. 368–374. 99 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yun, Qingkai Yu, Guqiao Ding, et al.. (2014). Raman enhancement by graphene-Ga2O3 2D bilayer film. Nanoscale Research Letters. 9(1). 48–48. 13 indexed citations

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Yu, Qingkai, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, et al.. (2011). Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition. Nature Materials. 10(6). 443–449. 1259 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Wei, Luis A. Jauregui, Zhihua Su, et al.. (2011). Growth of Single Crystal Graphene Arrays by Locally Controlling Nucleation on Polycrystalline Cu Using Chemical Vapor Deposition. Advanced Materials. 23(42). 4898–4903. 161 indexed citations

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Tian, Jifa, Helin Cao, Wei Wu, Qingkai Yu, & Yong P. Chen. (2011). Direct Imaging of Graphene Edges: Atomic Structure and Electronic Scattering. Nano Letters. 11(9). 3663–3668. 80 indexed citations

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Cao, Helin, Qingkai Yu, Robert Colby, et al.. (2010). Large-scale graphitic thin films synthesized on Ni and transferred to insulators:\n Structural and electronic properties. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 82 indexed citations

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Yu, Qingkai, Luis A. Jauregui, Jifa Tian, et al.. (2010). Electronic transport in chemical vapor deposited graphene synthesized on Cu: Quantum Hall effect and weak localization (vol 96, 122106, 2010). Applied Physics Letters. 19 indexed citations

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Yu, Qingkai, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, et al.. (2010). Single-crystal Grains and Grain Boundaries in Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Helin, Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, et al.. (2009). Wafer-scale Graphene Synthesized by Chemical Vapor Deposition at Ambient Pressure. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Qingkai, Wei Wu, Jiaming Zhang, Biao Liu, & S. S. Pei. (2009). Aligned tungsten oxide nanowires on tungsten (100) substrates. Materials Letters. 63(26). 2267–2269. 6 indexed citations

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Yu, Qingkai, et al.. (2008). Graphene Synthesis by Surface Segregation on Ni and Cu. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Мишина, Е. Д., Qingkai Yu, Toru Tamura, et al.. (2003). Kinetic profile of adsorption and self-assembling of thiophene oligomers studied by optical second harmonic generation. Surface Science. 544(2-3). 269–276. 3 indexed citations

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