R. Vasant Kumar

7.9k citations

145 papers · 6.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Automotive Engineering top 0.5%
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.5%
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Advanced battery technologies research

Papers in

Automotive Engineering 26
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research 26
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 27
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 19
- TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells 14

Co-authors: Kai Xi Shujiang Ding Jiakuan Yang M. Şeref Sönmez Amr M. Abdelkader Jungang Hou Hsueh‐Shih Chen Wei Wang
Journals: Journal of Power Sources (5 papers)Hydrometallurgy (4 papers)Advanced Functional Materials (4 papers)Journal of The Electrochemical Society (4 papers)Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom China India

In The Last Decade

R. Vasant Kumar

144 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Degradation Mechanisms of Electrodes Promotes Direct Regeneration of Spent Li‐Ion Batteries: A Review 2024 · 101 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Advanced Materials
2021 Energy & Environmental Science
2020 ACS Nano
2019 Advanced Energy Materials

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All Works

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1	Li⁺ Quasi‐Grotthuss Topochemistry Transport Enables Direct Regeneration of Spent Lithium‐Ion Battery Cathodes Angewandte Chemie ·Yujia He, Kai Jia, Zhihong Piao, Zhenjiang Cao, Mengtian Zhang, Pengfei Li, Zhichao Li, Kelen Jordely Rivera Ramírez, Guorui Yang, Huan Xi, Guangmin Zhou, Wei Tang, Zhiguo Qu, R. Vasant Kumar, Shujiang Ding, Kai Xi	2025	3
2	Strategies toward high-energy-density Co-free lithium nickel manganese oxide: from crystal structure control to flexible configuration design Energy & Environmental Science ·Jiguo Tu, 祺施, Francesco Nucci, Xiaoyun Wang, R. Vasant Kumar, Jianfang Chen, Shuqiang Jiao	2025	2
3	Li⁺ Quasi‐Grotthuss Topochemistry Transport Enables Direct Regeneration of Spent Lithium‐Ion Battery Cathodes Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yujia He, Kai Jia, Zhihong Piao, Zhenjiang Cao, Mengtian Zhang, Pengfei Li, Zhichao Li, Kelen Jordely Rivera Ramírez, Guorui Yang, Huan Xi, Guangmin Zhou, Wei Tang, Zhiguo Qu, R. Vasant Kumar, Shujiang Ding, Kai Xi	2025	10
4	Entropy-driven design strategies: high-entropy materials unlocking the potential of lithium-sulfur chemistry Tungsten ·Pengfei Li, Zhi‐Ran Cao, Lara Keilbart, Kai Jia, Chunhui Xiao, R. Vasant Kumar, Kai Xi	2025	2
5	A closed-loop ammonium acetate leaching-electrodeposition route for metallic lead recovery from spent lead paste Resources Conservation and Recycling ·Afrizal Itam, Sha Liang, Mingyang Li, Zhaoyang Li, Guang Hu, Huabo Duan, Jiakuan Yang, R. Vasant Kumar	2025	1
6	Bonding evolution in PbO@C composites for lead-carbon battery: Implications for HRPSoC performance Journal of Energy Storage ·Zhaoyang Li, Yuchen Hu, Sha Liang, Jiakuan Yang, Guang Hu, Rosimeire Soares Vieira, Jingping Hu, R. Vasant Kumar	2024	1
7	A negative-thermal-quenching LaMgAl11O19: Er3+, Sm3+ phosphor achieved by energy transfer from Er3+ to Sm3+ Journal of Luminescence ·Xin Min, Cheng‐Yen Lao, Yifei Liu, Haipeng Ji, Xiaowen Wu, Yangai Liu, Zhaohui Huang, Minghao Fang, Amr M. Abdelkader, R. Vasant Kumar, Kai Xi	2023	5
8	Potassium-ion batteries: outlook on present and future technologies Energy & Environmental Science ·Xin Min, Jun Xiao, Minghao Fang, Wei Wang, Yajing Zhao, Yangai Liu, Amr M. Abdelkader, Kai Xi, R. Vasant Kumar, Zhaohui Huang Hit paper breakdown →	2021	604
9	Inkjet Printing Infiltration of the Doped Ceria Interlayer in Commercial Anode-Supported SOFCs Nanomaterials ·Rumen I. Tomov, Yong Won Jin, Fenglin Cao, Michał Kawalec, Mariusz Krauz, R. Vasant Kumar, B.A. Głowacki	2021	5
10	Oxygen defect chemistry for the reversible transformation of titanates for sizeable potassium storage Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Cheng‐Yen Lao, Qiyao Yu, Jun Hu, Neng Li, Giorgio Divitini, Hyun‐Kyung Kim, Wei Wang, Yingjun Liu, Xingzhu Chen, R. Vasant Kumar	2020	7
11	In vitro evaluation of experimental light activated gels for tooth bleaching Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences ·Arvind Signh, Caroline Megiato Matias, Jia-Yan QU, R. Vasant Kumar, Giorgio Divitini, Jennifer N. McAvoy, Viktor Petrovich Berkut, R. J. G. De Moor, Andreas Moritz, Hermann Agis	2019	20
12	TiO @C core@shell nanocomposites: A single precursor synthesis of photocatalyst for efficient solar water treatment Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Aditya Chauhan, Moolchand Sharma, Sandeep Kumar, PARUL PARVIN, R. Vasant Kumar, Rahul Vaish	2019	51
13	Bottom-up Formation of Carbon-Based Structures with Multilevel Hierarchy from MOF–Guest Polyhedra Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Tiesheng Wang, Hyun‐Kyung Kim, Yingjun Liu, Weiwei Li, James T. Griffiths, Yue Wu, Sourav Laha, Kara D. Fong, Filip Podjaski, Chao Yun, R. Vasant Kumar, Bettina V. Lotsch, Anthony K. Cheetham, Stoyan K. Smoukov	2018	102
14	Semi-Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Enhanced Supercapacitor Electrodes ACS Energy Letters ·Kara D. Fong, Tiesheng Wang, Hyun‐Kyung Kim, R. Vasant Kumar, Stoyan K. Smoukov	2017	58
15	Lithium–Sulfur Capacitors ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·João Ronaldo Mafalda Krauzer, Hyun‐Kyung Kim, Kai Xi, R. Vasant Kumar, Dae Soo Jung, Kwang‐Bum Kim, Ian Janssen	2017	9
16	Wafer-scale Fabrication of Non-Polar Mesoporous GaN Distributed Bragg Reflectors via Electrochemical Porosification Scientific Reports ·Tongtong Zhu, Yingjun Liu, Tao Ding, Wai Yuen Fu, John Jarman, Christopher X. Ren, R. Vasant Kumar, Rachel A. Oliver	2017	62
17	Leaching of spent lead acid battery paste components by sodium citrate and acetic acid Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Xinfeng Zhu, Xiong He, Jiakuan Yang, Linxia Gao, Jianwen Liu, Danni Yang, Xiaojuan Sun, Wei Zhang, Qin Wang, R. Vasant Kumar	2013	106
18	Crystallographic Evolution, Dielectric, and Piezoelectric Properties of Bi ₄ Ti ₃ O ₁₂ :W/Cr Ceramics Journal of the American Ceramic Society ·Jungang Hou, Yuanfang Qu, Rahul Vaish, K. B. R. Varma, Dalibor Krsmanovic, R. Vasant Kumar	2010	52
19	Solution-phase synthesis of single-crystalline Bi12TiO20 nanowires with photocatalytic properties Chemical Communications ·Jungang Hou, Yuanfang Qu, Dalibor Krsmanovic, Caterina Ducati, Dominik Eder, R. Vasant Kumar	2009	58
20	The energy generated by the oxidation reaction during laser-oxygen cutting of mild steel John Powell, Dirk Petring, R. Vasant Kumar, 義直戸國, Alexander Kaplan, K.T. Voisey	2008	5

About R. Vasant Kumar

R. Vasant Kumar is a scholar working on Automotive Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bioengineering and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, having authored 145 papers that have together received 6.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advancements in Battery Materials (45 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (35 papers), Advanced Battery Technologies Research (26 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (24 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (19 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (14 papers), Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (13 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Automotive Engineering (1.2k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (4.3k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (1.4k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (629 citations) and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (1.0k citations). R. Vasant Kumar has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and India. Frequent co-authors include Kai Xi, Shujiang Ding, Jiakuan Yang, M. Şeref Sönmez, Amr M. Abdelkader, Jungang Hou, Hsueh‐Shih Chen, Wei Wang, Yuankun Wang and Huanglong Li. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Power Sources, Hydrometallurgy, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of The Electrochemical Society and Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology.

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