Tong Cai

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

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Tong Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Tong Cai has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Tong Cai's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (31 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (27 papers) and Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (12 papers). Tong Cai is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (31 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (27 papers) and Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (12 papers). Tong Cai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Tong Cai's co-authors include Ou Chen, Zhibing Hu, Hanjun Yang, Katie Hills‐Kimball, Junyu Wang, Manuel Márquez, Yasutaka Nagaoka, Yucheng Yuan, Wenwu Shi and Hua Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Tong Cai

65 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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Bimolecularly passivated interface enables efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells

2023 457 citations Cheng Liu, Yi Yang et al. Science profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Creating chromaticity palettes and identifying white light emitters through nanocrystal megalibraries 2025 ·Science Advances ·Tong Cai, Donghoon Shin, Jun Li, (unknown), (unknown), Ye Zhang, Chad A. Mirkin	6
2	HEK-CL: Hierarchical Enhanced Knowledge-Aware Contrastive Learning for Recommendation 2025 ·ACM Transactions on Information Systems ·(unknown), Zhao Zhang, Wei Chen, (unknown), Tong Cai, (unknown), Rui Liu, (unknown)	0
3	Dynamic Transformation of High-Architectural Nanocrystal Superlattices upon Solvent Molecule Exposure 2024 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Yasutaka Nagaoka, (unknown), Na Jin, Tong Cai, Yuzi Liu, Zhongwu Wang, Ruipeng Li, Kyung–Suk Kim, Ou Chen	4
4	Non‐Centrosymmetric Single Crystalline Biomolecular Nano‐Arrays for Responsive Electronics 2024 ·Advanced Materials ·Jun Li, Zhiwei Li, Yi Xie, Tong Cai, Donghoon Shin, Chaojian Chen, Chad A. Mirkin	4
5	Two‐Dimensional Cs₂AgIn_xBi_1‐_xCl₆ Alloyed Double Perovskite Nanoplatelets for Solution‐Processed Light‐Emitting Diodes 2023 ·Advanced Materials ·Zhenyang Liu, Yingying Sun, Tong Cai, Hanjun Yang, (unknown), Tao Yin, (unknown), Mingjun Chen, Wenwu Shi, Xiaoxiao Li, Li Guan, Xu Li, Xinzhong Wang, Aiwei Tang, Ou Chen	59
6	Bimolecularly passivated interface enables efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells breakdown → 2023 ·Science ·Cheng Liu, Yi Yang, Hao Chen, Jian Xu, Ao Liu, Abdulaziz S. R. Bati, Huihui Zhu, Luke Grater, Shreyash Hadke, Chuying Huang, Vinod K. Sangwan, Tong Cai, Donghoon Shin, Lin X. Chen, Mark C. Hersam, Chad A. Mirkin, Bin Chen, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Edward H. Sargent	457
7	Cesium Copper Halide Perovskite Nanocrystal-Based Photon-Managing Devices for Enhanced Ultraviolet Photon Harvesting 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Junyu Wang, Tong Cai, Ou Chen	20
8	Progress in all-inorganic heterometallic halide layered double perovskites 2022 ·Trends in Chemistry ·Tong Cai, Lacie Dube, (unknown), Hanjun Yang, Ou Chen	22
9	Quantum Dot-based Luminescent Solar Concentrators Fabricated through the Ultrasonic Spray-Coating Method 2022 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Junyu Wang, Yucheng Yuan, (unknown), Weijun Zhou, Hua Zhu, Tong Cai, Ou Chen	12
10	Synthesis of double perovskite and quadruple perovskite nanocrystals through post-synthetic transformation reactions 2022 ·Chemical Science ·Hanjun Yang, Tong Cai, Lacie Dube, Ou Chen	21
11	Recent Advances in Ligand Design and Engineering in Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals 2021 ·Advanced Science ·Katie Hills‐Kimball, Hanjun Yang, Tong Cai, Junyu Wang, Ou Chen	162
12	Synthesis of Ultrathin Perovskite Nanowires via a Postsynthetic Transformation Reaction of Zero-Dimensional Perovskite Nanocrystals 2021 ·Crystal Growth & Design ·Hanjun Yang, Tong Cai, Lacie Dube, Katie Hills‐Kimball, Ou Chen	14
13	Synthesis of Lead-Free Cs₂AgBiX₆ (X = Cl, Br, I) Double Perovskite Nanoplatelets and Their Application in CO₂ Photocatalytic Reduction 2021 ·Nano Letters ·Zhenyang Liu, Hanjun Yang, Junyu Wang, Yucheng Yuan, Katie Hills‐Kimball, Tong Cai, Ping Wang, Aiwei Tang, Ou Chen	191
14	Ultrafast cation doping of perovskite quantum dots in flow 2021 ·Matter ·Fazel Bateni, Robert W. Epps, Kameel Abdel‐Latif, (unknown), Suyong Han, Amanda A. Volk, Mahdi Ramezani, Tong Cai, Ou Chen, Milad Abolhasani	27
15	Ligand Engineering for Mn²⁺ Doping Control in CsPbCl₃ Perovskite Nanocrystals via a Quasi-Solid–Solid Cation Exchange Reaction 2020 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Katie Hills‐Kimball, (unknown), Yasutaka Nagaoka, Tong Cai, Hanjun Yang, Andrew Hunter Davis, Weiwei Zheng, Ou Chen	61
16	Structural distortion and electron redistribution in dual-emitting gold nanoclusters 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Qi Li, Dongming Zhou, Jinsong Chai, Woong Young So, Tong Cai, Ming‐Xing Li, Linda A. Peteanu, Ou Chen, Mircea Cotlet, X. Wendy Gu, Haiming Zhu, Rongchao Jin	77
17	Stereoselective C−C Oxidative Coupling Reactions Photocatalyzed by Zwitterionic Ligand Capped CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Quantum Dots 2020 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Yucheng Yuan, Hua Zhu, Katie Hills‐Kimball, Tong Cai, Wenwu Shi, Zichao Wei, Hanjun Yang, (unknown), Ping Wang, Jie He, Ou Chen	92
18	The effects of monovalent metal cations on the crystal and electronic structures of Cs2MBiCl6 (M = Ag, Cu, Na, K, Rb, and Cs) perovskites 2020 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·Wenwu Shi, Tong Cai, Zhiguo Wang, Ou Chen	74
19	Synthesis of lead-free Cs₄(Cd_1−xMn_x)Bi₂Cl₁₂ (0 ≤ x ≤ 1) layered double perovskite nanocrystals with controlled Mn–Mn coupling interaction 2020 ·Nanoscale ·Hanjun Yang, Wenwu Shi, Tong Cai, Katie Hills‐Kimball, Zhenyang Liu, Lacie Dube, Ou Chen	38
20	The correlation between phase transition and photoluminescence properties of CsPbX₃ (X = Cl, Br, I) perovskite nanocrystals 2020 ·Nanoscale Advances ·Jun Yi, Xueying Ge, Exian Liu, Tong Cai, Chujun Zhao, Shuangchun Wen, Hugo Sanabria, Ou Chen, Apparao M. Rao, Jianbo Gao	34

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