Rafael A. Vilá

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Rafael A. Vilá is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael A. Vilá has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Automotive Engineering and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rafael A. Vilá's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Rafael A. Vilá is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (17 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (17 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Rafael A. Vilá collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Rafael A. Vilá's co-authors include Yi Cui, Joshua A. Robinson, William Huang, Hansen Wang, David Boyle, Yuzhang Li, Sang Cheol Kim, Zewen Zhang, Joshua D. Caldwell and Ke Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rafael A. Vilá

27 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation

2016 641 citations Zakaria Y. Al Balushi, Ke Wang et al. Nature Materials profile →
Recovery of isolated lithium through discharged state calendar ageing

2024 100 citations Wenbo Zhang, Philaphon Sayavong et al. Nature profile →

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Rafael A. Vilá

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Shawn Sallis United States

Peter Fischer Germany

Xu Huang China

Soo Yeon Lim South Korea

W. Peter Kalisvaart Canada

Sheng Xu China

Pushpendra Kumar India

Janina Molenda Poland

Mario El Kazzi Switzerland

F. Krok Poland

Shawn Sallis United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhang, Wenbo, Philaphon Sayavong, Xin Xiao, et al.. (2024). Recovery of isolated lithium through discharged state calendar ageing. Nature. 626(7998). 306–312. 100 indexed citations breakdown →

Vilá, Rafael A., David Boyle, Alan Dai, et al.. (2023). LiH formation and its impact on Li batteries revealed by cryogenic electron microscopy. Science Advances. 9(12). eadf3609–eadf3609. 54 indexed citations

Yang, Yufei, Jiangyan Wang, Sang Cheol Kim, et al.. (2023). In Situ Prelithiation by Direct Integration of Lithium Mesh into Battery Cells. Nano Letters. 23(11). 5042–5047. 53 indexed citations

Sayavong, Philaphon, Wenbo Zhang, Solomon T. Oyakhire, et al.. (2023). Dissolution of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase and Its Effects on Lithium Metal Anode Cyclability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(22). 12342–12350. 105 indexed citations

Boyle, David, Sang Cheol Kim, Solomon T. Oyakhire, et al.. (2022). Correlating Kinetics to Cyclability Reveals Thermodynamic Origin of Lithium Anode Morphology in Liquid Electrolytes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(45). 20717–20725. 84 indexed citations

Huang, Wenxiao, Yusheng Ye, Hao Chen, et al.. (2022). Onboard early detection and mitigation of lithium plating in fast-charging batteries. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7091–7091. 131 indexed citations

Boyle, David, Yuzhang Li, Allen Pei, et al.. (2022). Resolving Current-Dependent Regimes of Electroplating Mechanisms for Fast Charging Lithium Metal Anodes. Nano Letters. 22(20). 8224–8232. 95 indexed citations

Zheng, X. R., Xin Gao, Rafael A. Vilá, et al.. (2022). Hydrogen-substituted graphdiyne-assisted ultrafast sparking synthesis of metastable nanomaterials. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(2). 153–159. 74 indexed citations

Tsai, Hsinhan, Shreetu Shrestha, Rafael A. Vilá, et al.. (2021). Bright and stable light-emitting diodes made with perovskite nanocrystals stabilized in metal–organic frameworks. Nature Photonics. 15(11). 843–849. 173 indexed citations

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Kim, Sang Cheol, Xian Kong, Rafael A. Vilá, et al.. (2021). Potentiometric Measurement to Probe Solvation Energy and Its Correlation to Lithium Battery Cyclability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(27). 10301–10308. 162 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zewen, Yi Cui, Rafael A. Vilá, et al.. (2021). Cryogenic Electron Microscopy for Energy Materials. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(18). 3505–3517. 41 indexed citations

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Yang, Ankun, Guangmin Zhou, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(3). 231–237. 87 indexed citations

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Li, Yuzhang, Kecheng Wang, Weijiang Zhou, et al.. (2020). Cryo-EM Structures of Atomic Surfaces and Host-Guest Chemistry in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Matter. 2(4). 1064–1064. 8 indexed citations

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Chen, Hao, Allen Pei, Jiayu Wan, et al.. (2020). Tortuosity Effects in Lithium-Metal Host Anodes. Joule. 4(4). 938–952. 207 indexed citations

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Vilá, Rafael A., William Huang, & Yi Cui. (2020). Nickel Impurities in the Solid-Electrolyte Interphase of Lithium-Metal Anodes Revealed by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy. Cell Reports Physical Science. 1(9). 100188–100188. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Yuzhang, Kecheng Wang, Weijiang Zhou, et al.. (2019). Cryo-EM Structures of Atomic Surfaces and Host-Guest Chemistry in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Matter. 1(2). 428–438. 128 indexed citations

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Li, Yanbin, Weijiang Zhou, Yuzhang Li, et al.. (2019). Unravelling Degradation Mechanisms and Atomic Structure of Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskites by Cryo-EM. Joule. 3(11). 2854–2866. 117 indexed citations

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Balushi, Zakaria Y. Al, Ke Wang, R. Ghosh, et al.. (2016). Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation. Nature Materials. 15(11). 1166–1171. 641 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vilá, Rafael A., Kasra Momeni, Brian Bersch, et al.. (2016). Bottom-up synthesis of vertically oriented two-dimensional materials. 2D Materials. 3(4). 41003–41003. 52 indexed citations

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Bhimanapati, Ganesh R., et al.. (2016). Growth and Tunable Surface Wettability of Vertical MoS₂ Layers for Improved Hydrogen Evolution Reactions. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(34). 22190–22195. 100 indexed citations

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