Wengao Zhao

8.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
69 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Wengao Zhao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Wengao Zhao has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 29 papers in Automotive Engineering and 15 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Wengao Zhao's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (60 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (50 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (29 papers). Wengao Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (60 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (50 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (29 papers). Wengao Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Wengao Zhao's co-authors include Jianming Zheng, Ji‐Guang Zhang, Mark Engelhard, Wu Xu, Shuru Chen, Donghai Mei, Jun Liu, Yong Yang, Lianfeng Zou and Haiping Jia and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wengao Zhao

68 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

High‐Voltage Lithium‐Metal Batteries Enabled by Localized... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2018 2018 2020 2018 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. High‐Voltage Lithium‐Metal Batteries Enabled by Localized High‐Concentration Electrolytes
    2018 1.1k citations Jianming Zheng, Kee Sung Han et al. profile →
  2. Stable cycling of high-voltage lithium metal batteries in ether electrolytes
    2018 1.0k citations Mark Engelhard, Jianming Zheng et al. profile →
  3. Localized High-Concentration Sulfone Electrolytes for High-Efficiency Lithium-Metal Batteries
    2018 854 citations Mark Engelhard, Wengao Zhao et al. profile →
  4. Crack-free single-crystalline Ni-rich layered NCM cathode enable superior cycling performance of lithium-ion batteries
    2020 528 citations Xinming Fan, Wengao Zhao et al. Nano Energy profile →
  5. Extremely Stable Sodium Metal Batteries Enabled by Localized High-Concentration Electrolytes
    2018 485 citations Jianming Zheng, Wengao Zhao et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
  6. In situ inorganic conductive network formation in high-voltage single-crystal Ni-rich cathodes
    2021 365 citations Xinming Fan, Wengao Zhao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wengao Zhao China 33 7.4k 3.7k 1.4k 832 660 69 7.7k
Tan Shi United States 27 5.3k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 589 0.9× 41 5.7k
Hee‐Dae Lim South Korea 46 7.3k 1.0× 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.3× 533 0.8× 113 7.7k
Ji Heon Ryu South Korea 35 5.4k 0.7× 1.9k 0.5× 1.9k 1.4× 834 1.0× 590 0.9× 128 5.8k
Dominique Foix France 29 6.4k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 1.9k 1.4× 1.0k 1.2× 842 1.3× 58 6.8k
Alexandre Ponrouch Spain 37 7.0k 0.9× 1.8k 0.5× 1.6k 1.2× 1.3k 1.6× 614 0.9× 72 7.4k
Leigang Xue United States 40 6.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 475 0.7× 56 6.8k
Judith Alvarado United States 25 5.6k 0.8× 2.9k 0.8× 862 0.6× 635 0.8× 393 0.6× 32 5.8k
Marshall A. Schroeder United States 31 9.5k 1.3× 4.0k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 948 1.1× 260 0.4× 56 9.8k
Eungje Lee United States 31 7.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 1.5× 1.5k 1.8× 981 1.5× 79 7.3k
Zhengliang Gong China 44 5.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.6× 1.4k 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 1.0k 1.6× 115 6.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhao, Wenkai, Wenkai Zhao, Bowen Li, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen‐Induced Hydrogen Bonding Supramolecular Network for Ultra‐Stable Ammonium Ion Storage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(44). e202511826–e202511826. 1 indexed citations
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Ren, Fucheng, Yuqi Wu, Wenhua Zuo, et al.. (2024). Visualizing the SEI formation between lithium metal and solid-state electrolyte. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(8). 2743–2752. 35 indexed citations
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Tan, Zhouliang, Xiaoxuan Chen, Jing Lin, et al.. (2024). Restraining Planar Gliding in Single‐Crystalline LiNi0.9Co0.05Mn0.05O2 Cathodes by Combining Bulk and Surface Modification Strategies. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(7). e202419903–e202419903. 11 indexed citations
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Nunes, Barbara Nascimento, Masooma Ibrahim, Ruizhuo Zhang, et al.. (2024). Polyoxovanadates as Effective Coating Materials for Layered Ni‐Rich Oxide Cathodes in Liquid‐ and Solid‐State Batteries. Batteries & Supercaps. 8(5). 1 indexed citations
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Nunes, Barbara Nascimento, Yuriy Yusim, Andrey Mazilkin, et al.. (2024). Protective Nanosheet Coatings for Thiophosphate‐Based All‐Solid‐State Batteries. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11(14). 4 indexed citations
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Wu, Yuqi, Cheng Li, Xuefan Zheng, et al.. (2024). High Energy Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries Enabled by Single-Crystal Li-Rich Cathodes. ACS Energy Letters. 9(10). 5156–5165. 22 indexed citations
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Ding, Juan, et al.. (2024). Advancements in Addressing Microcrack Formation in Ni–Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium–Ion Batteries. ChemElectroChem. 11(12). 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhengfeng, Changdong Qin, Xiaopeng Cheng, et al.. (2023). Electron energy levels determining cathode electrolyte interphase formation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wengao, Kuan Wang, Xinming Fan, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Degradation Parameters of Single‐Crystalline Ni‐Rich Cathodes in Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(32). e202305281–e202305281. 28 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wengao, Kuan Wang, Romain Dubey, et al.. (2023). Extending the high-voltage operation of Graphite/NCM811 cells by constructing a robust electrode/electrolyte interphase layer. Materials Today Energy. 34. 101301–101301. 15 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wengao, Kuan Wang, Xinming Fan, et al.. (2023). Quantifying Degradation Parameters of Single‐Crystalline Ni‐Rich Cathodes in Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 135(32). 3 indexed citations
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Ye, Minghui, Wengao Zhao, Jinhao Li, et al.. (2020). Integration of Localized Electric-Field Redistribution and Interfacial Tin Nanocoating of Lithium Microparticles toward Long-Life Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(1). 650–659. 27 indexed citations
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Jia, Haiping, Peiyuan Gao, Lianfeng Zou, et al.. (2020). Controlling Ion Coordination Structure and Diffusion Kinetics for Optimized Electrode-Electrolyte Interphases and High-Performance Si Anodes. Chemistry of Materials. 32(20). 8956–8964. 47 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunfang, Wengao Zhao, Shiyao Zheng, et al.. (2020). Research Progresses in Ni-Co-Mn/Al Ternary Concentration Gradient Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries. Journal of Electrochemistry. 26(1). 73. 1 indexed citations
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Zou, Lianfeng, Wengao Zhao, Haiping Jia, et al.. (2020). The Role of Secondary Particle Structures in Surface Phase Transitions of Ni-Rich Cathodes. Chemistry of Materials. 32(7). 2884–2892. 80 indexed citations
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Yin, Liang, Zhuo Li, Jianming Zheng, et al.. (2019). Thermodynamics of Antisite Defects in Layered NMC Cathodes: Systematic Insights from High-Precision Powder Diffraction Analyses. Chemistry of Materials. 32(3). 1002–1010. 53 indexed citations
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Yin, Liang, Zhou Li, Jianming Zheng, et al.. (2018). Extending the limits of powder diffraction analysis: Diffraction parameter space, occupancy defects, and atomic form factors. Review of Scientific Instruments. 89(9). 93002–93002. 21 indexed citations
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Jia, Haiping, Jianming Zheng, Junhua Song, et al.. (2018). A novel approach to synthesize micrometer-sized porous silicon as a high performance anode for lithium-ion batteries. Nano Energy. 50. 589–597. 238 indexed citations
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Zhao, Wengao, Guiming Zhong, Jian Zheng, et al.. (2017). Insights into the Electrochemical Reaction Mechanism of a Novel Cathode Material CuNi2(PO4)2/C for Li-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(4). 3522–3529. 8 indexed citations

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