Sang‐Il Choi

11.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
160 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Sang‐Il Choi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sang‐Il Choi has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 78 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 55 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sang‐Il Choi's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (40 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (33 papers). Sang‐Il Choi is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (82 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (40 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (33 papers). Sang‐Il Choi collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and China. Sang‐Il Choi's co-authors include Younan Xia, Kwangyeol Lee, Jinho Park, Lei Zhang, Manos Mavrikakis, Jeffrey A. Herron, Shuifen Xie, Miaofang Chi, Luke T. Roling and Zhaoxiong Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sang‐Il Choi

156 papers receiving 9.4k 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.

Platinum-based nanocages with subnanometer-thick walls and well-defined, controllable facets

2015 883 citations Lei Zhang, Jingyue Liu et al. profile →
Morphology‐Controlled Metal Sulfides and Phosphides for Electrochemical Water Splitting

2019 610 citations Jinwhan Joo, Sang‐Il Choi et al. profile →
Synthesis and Characterization of 9 nm Pt–Ni Octahedra with a Record High Activity of 3.3 A/mg_Pt for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2013 531 citations Sang‐Il Choi, Minhua Shao et al. profile →
Palladium–platinum core-shell icosahedra with substantially enhanced activity and durability towards oxygen reduction

2015 483 citations Sang‐Il Choi, Lei Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sang‐Il Choi South Korea	52	6.9k	5.2k	4.0k	1.1k	1.1k	160	9.5k
Zhenmeng Peng United States	51	7.7k 1.1×	5.8k 1.1×	4.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	126	10.9k
Feng Li China	45	5.8k 0.9×	4.4k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	864 0.8×	760 0.7×	178	9.1k
Chunhua Cui China	51	6.7k 1.0×	4.8k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	800 0.7×	850 0.8×	121	9.1k
Xun Hong China	48	8.7k 1.3×	5.2k 1.0×	5.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	118	12.1k
Pengfei An China	43	7.6k 1.1×	4.7k 0.9×	4.6k 1.2×	522 0.5×	829 0.7×	131	10.4k
Daojian Cheng China	50	5.5k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	664 0.6×	678 0.6×	248	8.5k
Yang Peng China	56	4.5k 0.7×	4.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	227	10.3k
Yongsheng Yu China	51	4.0k 0.6×	2.7k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	752 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	151	7.2k
Si Zhou China	54	5.6k 0.8×	5.8k 1.1×	7.0k 1.8×	601 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	195	12.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sang‐Il Choi

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Chun, Hoje, Dong‐Won Kim, Mrinal Kanti Kabiraz, et al.. (2025). Zeolitic imidazolate framework-derived bifunctional CoO-Mn3O4 heterostructure cathode enhancing oxygen reduction/evolution via dynamic O-vacancy formation and healing for high-performance Zn-air batteries. Energy storage materials. 75. 104040–104040. 5 indexed citations

Ma, Feng, Sang‐Il Choi, Dooyong Lee, et al.. (2024). Directed crystallization of a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) film by an iron(III) dodecyl sulfate lamellar superstructure. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7871–7871. 8 indexed citations

Choi, Sang‐Il, et al.. (2023). Metallene-based catalysts towards hydrogen evolution reaction. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 39. 101303–101303. 9 indexed citations

Kundu, Joyjit, et al.. (2023). A Review on MXene as Promising Support Materials for Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(51). 82 indexed citations

Kabiraz, Mrinal Kanti & Sang‐Il Choi. (2023). Revisit to Grain Boundary Effect in Pt Nanocrystals toward the Oxygen Electroreduction Reaction. ChemCatChem. 15(12). 10 indexed citations

Kim, Byeongyoon, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalytic upcycling of plastic waste. Green Chemistry. 25(21). 8444–8458. 42 indexed citations

Venkateshalu, Sandhya, Byeongyoon Kim, Sang‐Il Choi, et al.. (2023). Recent advances in MXenes: beyond Ti-only systems. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(25). 13107–13132. 40 indexed citations

Kim, Byeongyoon, Mrinal Kanti Kabiraz, Jaewan Lee, et al.. (2021). Vertical-crystalline Fe-doped β-Ni oxyhydroxides for highly active and stable oxygen evolution reaction. Matter. 4(11). 3585–3604. 62 indexed citations

Chaudhari, Nitin K., Yongju Hong, Byeongyoon Kim, Sang‐Il Choi, & Kwangyeol Lee. (2019). Pt–Cu based nanocrystals as promising catalysts for various electrocatalytic reactions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(29). 17183–17203. 55 indexed citations

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Xiao, Fei, Xueping Qin, Mingjie Xu, et al.. (2019). Impact of Heat Treatment on the Electrochemical Properties of Carbon-Supported Octahedral Pt–Ni Nanoparticles. ACS Catalysis. 9(12). 11189–11198. 40 indexed citations

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Park, Jong‐Sik, Hee Jin Kim, Aram Oh, et al.. (2018). RuO_x-decorated multimetallic hetero-nanocages as highly efficient electrocatalysts toward the methanol oxidation reaction. Nanoscale. 10(45). 21178–21185. 21 indexed citations

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Kim, Byeongyoon, Aram Oh, Mrinal Kanti Kabiraz, et al.. (2018). NiOOH Exfoliation-Free Nickel Octahedra as Highly Active and Durable Electrocatalysts Toward the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in an Alkaline Electrolyte. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(12). 10115–10122. 84 indexed citations

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Chaudhari, Nitin K., Jinwhan Joo, Byeongyoon Kim, et al.. (2018). Recent advances in electrocatalysts toward the oxygen reduction reaction: the case of PtNi octahedra. Nanoscale. 10(43). 20073–20088. 65 indexed citations

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Huang, Hongwen, Aleksey Ruditskiy, Sang‐Il Choi, et al.. (2017). One-Pot Synthesis of Penta-twinned Palladium Nanowires and Their Enhanced Electrocatalytic Properties. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(36). 31203–31212. 72 indexed citations

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Choi, Sang‐Il, et al.. (2010). Heavy Metal Uptake by Native Plants in Mine Hazard Area. 15(3). 27–33. 2 indexed citations

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Cho, Yunchul, et al.. (2010). The Laboratory Column Examination of Stabilization for Agricultural Land Contaminated by Heavy Metals using Sequential Stabilization. 15(4). 39–45. 5 indexed citations

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Choi, Sang‐Il, et al.. (2009). Development of the Compressed Packer Grouting Device for Preventing the Inflow of Polluted Groundwater. The Journal of Engineering Geology. 19(4). 433–439.

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Choi, Sang‐Il, et al.. (2008). A Study on the Full-scale Soil Washing Process Improved by Multi-stage Continuous Desorption and Agitational Desorption Techniques to Remediate Petroleum-contaminated Soils. Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment. 13(5). 81–87. 1 indexed citations

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Choi, Sang‐Il, et al.. (2006). Applicability of Washing Techniques Coupled with High-Pressure Air Jet for Petroleum-contaminated Soils. 11(6). 61–68.

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Kim, Jeong‐Geun, et al.. (2006). HI concentration by EED for the HI decomposition in IS process. Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy. 17(2). 212–217. 1 indexed citations

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