Sean Vail

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Sean Vail is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Vail has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sean Vail's work include Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (4 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (4 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (3 papers). Sean Vail is often cited by papers focused on Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (4 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (4 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (3 papers). Sean Vail collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Finland. Sean Vail's co-authors include Yuhao Lu, Jie Song, Devens Gust, Choong‐Do Park, Wei Pan, Alexander Bauer, J. Barker, Xin Zhao, David Evans and Sergei Smirnov and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Sean Vail

14 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Rhombohedral Prussian White as Cathode for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries

2015 651 citations Long Wang, Jie Song et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Vail United States	13	1.5k	608	465	332	267	14	2.1k
Qinghua Fan China	20	1.3k 0.9×	475 0.8×	546 1.2×	239 0.7×	205 0.8×	113	1.9k
Chandramohan George United Kingdom	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	514 1.1×	246 0.7×	100 0.4×	50	2.2k
Claudiu B. Bucur United States	14	2.6k 1.8×	960 1.6×	489 1.1×	309 0.9×	129 0.5×	21	3.2k
Kunkun Guo China	23	1.3k 0.9×	461 0.8×	725 1.6×	173 0.5×	88 0.3×	77	1.9k
Sally A. Swanson United States	15	2.3k 1.6×	683 1.1×	693 1.5×	705 2.1×	220 0.8×	23	3.1k
Eunae Kang South Korea	16	1.1k 0.7×	547 0.9×	757 1.6×	86 0.3×	194 0.7×	21	1.7k
David S. Jacob Israel	11	1.0k 0.7×	567 0.9×	382 0.8×	366 1.1×	87 0.3×	18	1.6k
Shirui Guo United States	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	1.2k 2.6×	269 0.8×	132 0.5×	40	2.6k
Junwen Deng China	22	2.0k 1.4×	1.0k 1.7×	1.2k 2.6×	239 0.7×	109 0.4×	45	2.6k
Hong Yin China	28	2.0k 1.4×	797 1.3×	1.2k 2.6×	235 0.7×	134 0.5×	84	2.7k

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Bauer, Alexander, Jie Song, Sean Vail, et al.. (2018). The Scale‐up and Commercialization of Nonaqueous Na‐Ion Battery Technologies. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(17). 313 indexed citations

Zhao, Xin, Sean Vail, Yuhao Lu, et al.. (2016). Antimony/Graphitic Carbon Composite Anode for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(22). 13871–13878. 59 indexed citations

Wang, Long, Jie Song, Ruimin Qiao, et al.. (2015). Rhombohedral Prussian White as Cathode for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(7). 2548–2554. 651 indexed citations breakdown →

Luo, Wei, Clement Bommier, Zelang Jian, et al.. (2015). Low-Surface-Area Hard Carbon Anode for Na-Ion Batteries via Graphene Oxide as a Dehydration Agent. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 7(4). 2626–2631. 256 indexed citations

Brennan, Bradley J., Paul A. Liddell, Sean Vail, et al.. (2009). 1-(3′-amino)propylsilatrane derivatives as covalent surface linkers to nanoparticulate metal oxide films for use in photoelectrochemical cells. Nanotechnology. 20(50). 505203–505203. 49 indexed citations

Wang, Mao, et al.. (2009). Preparation of photochromic poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) fibers by electrospinning. Polymer. 50(16). 3974–3980. 38 indexed citations

Vlassiouk, Ivan, et al.. (2007). Electrical Conductance of Hydrophobic Membranes or What Happens below the Surface. Langmuir. 23(14). 7784–7792. 16 indexed citations

Yang, Dongqing, Nelson S. Bell, Devens Gust, et al.. (2007). Photon Control of Liquid Motion on Reversibly Photoresponsive Surfaces. Langmuir. 23(21). 10864–10872. 82 indexed citations

Vail, Sean, David I. Schuster, Dirk M. Guldi, et al.. (2006). Energy and Electron Transfer in β-Alkynyl-Linked Porphyrin−[60]Fullerene Dyads. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 110(29). 14155–14166. 90 indexed citations

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Garcı́a, Antonio A., Manuel Márquez, Tong Cai, et al.. (2006). Photo-, Thermally, and pH-Responsive Microgels. Langmuir. 23(1). 224–229. 184 indexed citations

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Vlassiouk, Ivan, Choong‐Do Park, Sean Vail, Devens Gust, & Sergei Smirnov. (2006). Control of Nanopore Wetting by a Photochromic Spiropyran: A Light-Controlled Valve and Electrical Switch. Nano Letters. 6(5). 1013–1017. 223 indexed citations

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Vail, Sean, Dirk M. Guldi, Amit Palkar, et al.. (2005). Energy and Electron Transfer in Polyacetylene‐Linked Zinc–Porphyrin–[60]Fullerene Molecular Wires. Chemistry - A European Journal. 11(11). 3375–3388. 101 indexed citations

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Vail, Sean, et al.. (2004). Synthesis and fluorescence properties of a porphyrin–fullerene molecular wire. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 17(9). 814–818. 17 indexed citations

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Schuster, David I., B. Nuber, Sean Vail, et al.. (2003). Synthesis, photochemistry and photophysics of stilbene-derivatized fullerenes. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 2(3). 315–321. 10 indexed citations

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