Won‐Jin Kwak

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Won‐Jin Kwak is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Won‐Jin Kwak has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 24 papers in Automotive Engineering and 10 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Won‐Jin Kwak's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (63 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (59 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (24 papers). Won‐Jin Kwak is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (63 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (59 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (24 papers). Won‐Jin Kwak collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Israel. Won‐Jin Kwak's co-authors include Yang‐Kook Sun, Hun‐Gi Jung, Aryeh A. Frimer, Daniel Sharon, Hun Kim, Doron Aurbach, Malachi Noked, Stefan A. Freunberger, Michal Afri and Peter G. Bruce and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Won‐Jin Kwak

75 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Lithium–Oxygen Batteries and Related Systems: Potential, ... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 250 500 750
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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. Lithium–Oxygen Batteries and Related Systems: Potential, Status, and Future
    2020 809 citations Won‐Jin Kwak, Daniel Sharon 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
Won‐Jin Kwak South Korea 32 3.4k 1.0k 481 463 302 76 3.7k
Alexander Kraytsberg Israel 15 2.8k 0.8× 956 0.9× 532 1.1× 466 1.0× 260 0.9× 28 3.0k
Guanghai Chen China 25 2.3k 0.7× 842 0.8× 709 1.5× 394 0.9× 211 0.7× 41 2.6k
Bifa Ji China 23 2.8k 0.8× 626 0.6× 936 1.9× 840 1.8× 287 1.0× 38 3.5k
Yongjie Cao China 30 2.8k 0.8× 764 0.7× 581 1.2× 650 1.4× 260 0.9× 95 3.0k
Wesley M. Dose Australia 28 2.1k 0.6× 820 0.8× 518 1.1× 342 0.7× 314 1.0× 62 2.3k
Yanhua Cui China 29 2.6k 0.8× 779 0.7× 823 1.7× 688 1.5× 447 1.5× 109 3.1k
Yuxiao Lin China 25 2.8k 0.8× 983 0.9× 733 1.5× 508 1.1× 174 0.6× 78 3.3k
Hiroki Nara Japan 34 2.7k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 800 1.7× 628 1.4× 265 0.9× 97 3.3k
Dong‐Joo Yoo South Korea 25 2.1k 0.6× 780 0.7× 307 0.6× 445 1.0× 187 0.6× 53 2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Won‐Jin Kwak

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jeong, Woo‐Jin, Minseok Kim, Moonsu Yoon, et al.. (2025). Tailored electrolyte additive design for suppressing irreversibility in dry-processed anodes and enhancing electrochemical stability in full-cells. 1(5). 1267–1278. 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Dong Joon, et al.. (2025). Versatile Halide‐Pair‐Driven Multicomponent Polymerization for Library Synthesis of Sequence‐Controlled Semiconducting Dendronized Polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(36). e202510068–e202510068.
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Min, Jouha, Kyuyoung Heo, Hyun‐seung Kim, et al.. (2025). Superior Performance of Lithium‐Ion Batteries with High‐Loading Graphite Anode via Dry Processible Node‐Shaped Connective Binder. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 9(5). 2 indexed citations
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Kim, Young-Oh, et al.. (2024). Control of Electrolyte Desolvation Energy Suppressing the Cointercalation Mechanism and Organic Electrode Dissolution. ACS Nano. 19(1). 1371–1382. 2 indexed citations
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Hwang, Chihyun, Myung‐Jun Kwak, Sang‐Jin Jeon, et al.. (2023). On-site formation of silver decorated carbon as an anodeless electrode for high-energy density all-solid-state batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(46). 25275–25282. 10 indexed citations
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Lim, Hyung‐Seok, Won‐Jin Kwak, Dan Thien Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Three-dimensionally semi-ordered macroporous air electrodes for metal–oxygen batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(11). 5746–5753. 11 indexed citations
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Park, Jimin, Jun Lee, Muhammad Hilmy Alfaruqi, et al.. (2020). Initial investigation and evaluation of potassium metal as an anode for rechargeable potassium batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(33). 16718–16737. 54 indexed citations
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Shin, Hyeon‐Ji, Jang‐Yeon Hwang, Hyun J. Kwon, et al.. (2020). Sustainable Encapsulation Strategy of Silicon Nanoparticles in Microcarbon Sphere for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Battery Anode. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 8(37). 14150–14158. 52 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Jiwon Park, Hun Kim, et al.. (2020). Oxidation Stability of Organic Redox Mediators as Mobile Catalysts in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 5(6). 2122–2129. 36 indexed citations
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Kim, Hun, Won‐Jin Kwak, Hun‐Gi Jung, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2020). Limited effects of a redox mediator in lithium–oxygen batteries: indecomposable by-products. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(11). 5622–5628. 17 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Stefan A. Freunberger, Hun Kim, et al.. (2019). Mutual Conservation of Redox Mediator and Singlet Oxygen Quencher in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries. ACS Catalysis. 9(11). 9914–9922. 41 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Jiwon Park, Trung Thien Nguyen, et al.. (2019). A dendrite- and oxygen-proof protective layer for lithium metal in lithium–oxygen batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(8). 3857–3862. 69 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Hun Kim, Yann K. Petit, et al.. (2019). Deactivation of redox mediators in lithium-oxygen batteries by singlet oxygen. Nature Communications. 10(1). 85 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Atif Mahammed, Hun Kim, et al.. (2019). Controllable and stable organometallic redox mediators for lithium oxygen batteries. Materials Horizons. 7(1). 214–222. 20 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Langli Luo, Hun‐Gi Jung, Chongmin Wang, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2018). Revealing the Reaction Mechanism of Na–O2 Batteries using Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy. ACS Energy Letters. 3(2). 393–399. 35 indexed citations
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Kwak, Won‐Jin, Hun Kim, Hun‐Gi Jung, Doron Aurbach, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2018). Review—A Comparative Evaluation of Redox Mediators for Li-O2Batteries: A Critical Review. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 165(10). A2274–A2293. 66 indexed citations
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Sharon, Daniel, Daniel Hirshberg, Michael Salama, et al.. (2017). 2,4-Dimethoxy-2,4-dimethylpentan-3-one: An Aprotic Solvent Designed for Stability in Li–O2 Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34). 11690–11693. 38 indexed citations
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Lee, Seon Hwa, Won‐Jin Kwak, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2017). A new perspective of the ruthenium ion: a bifunctional soluble catalyst for high efficiency Li–O2batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(30). 15512–15516. 21 indexed citations

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