Xian Kong

8.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
76 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Xian Kong is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Xian Kong has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Xian Kong's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (25 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers). Xian Kong is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (25 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (18 papers). Xian Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Xian Kong's co-authors include Jian Qin, Yi Cui, Zhenan Bao, Zhiao Yu, Hansen Wang, Sang Cheol Kim, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Paul E. Rudnicki, William Huang and Yuelang Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Xian Kong

73 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrathin, flexible, solid polymer composite electrolyte ... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2020 2022 2021 2022 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Ultrathin, flexible, solid polymer composite electrolyte enabled with aligned nanoporous host for lithium batteries
    2019 1.0k citations Xian Kong, Kai Liu et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
  2. Molecular design for electrolyte solvents enabling energy-dense and long-cycling lithium metal batteries
    2020 1.0k citations Zhiao Yu, Hansen Wang et al. Nature Energy profile →
  3. Rational solvent molecule tuning for high-performance lithium metal battery electrolytes
    2022 722 citations Zhiao Yu, Paul E. Rudnicki et al. Nature Energy profile →
  4. Steric Effect Tuned Ion Solvation Enabling Stable Cycling of High-Voltage Lithium Metal Battery
    2021 435 citations Yuelang Chen, Zhiao Yu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Liquid electrolyte: The nexus of practical lithium metal batteries
    2022 411 citations Hansen Wang, Zhiao Yu et al. profile →
  6. A New Class of Ionically Conducting Fluorinated Ether Electrolytes with High Electrochemical Stability
    2020 348 citations Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Zhiao Yu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Designing an asymmetric ether-like lithium salt to enable fast-cycling high-energy lithium metal batteries
    2023 240 citations Yingchun Xia, Pan Zhou et al. Nature Energy profile →
  8. Electrolyte engineering for highly inorganic solid electrolyte interphase in high-performance lithium metal batteries
    2023 140 citations Yan Zhao, Tianhong Zhou et al. Chem profile →

Peers

Xian Kong
Bogdan Zdyrko United States
Xiaofan Du China
Xiaowei Li China
Jing Zheng China
Yair Cohen Israel
Ziying Wang China
Vijay A. Sethuraman United States
Susanne Dörfler Germany
Yuan Tian China
Minah Lee South Korea
Bogdan Zdyrko United States
Xian Kong
Citations per year, relative to Xian Kong Xian Kong (= 1×) peers Bogdan Zdyrko

Countries citing papers authored by Xian Kong

Since Specialization
Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xian Kong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xian Kong. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Xian Kong. The network helps show where Xian Kong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xian Kong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xian Kong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xian Kong based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Xian Kong. Xian Kong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Shanshan, et al.. (2025). Replicating PET Hydrolytic Activity by Positioning Active Sites with Smaller Synthetic Protein Scaffolds. Advanced Science. 12(18). e2500859–e2500859. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Jipeng, et al.. (2024). Understanding the K+/Na+-Selectivity-Enabled Osmotic Power Generation: High Selectivity May Not Be Indispensable. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(30). 7755–7762.
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Zhou, Pan, Haiyu Zhou, Yingchun Xia, et al.. (2024). Rational Lithium Salt Molecule Tuning for Fast Charging/Discharging Lithium Metal Battery. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(19). e202316717–e202316717. 28 indexed citations
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Li, Aitao, et al.. (2024). Boosting Catalytic Performance of Cytochrome c through Tailored Carboxymethylation in Covalent Organic Frameworks. ACS Catalysis. 14(10). 7639–7648. 14 indexed citations
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Zhou, Pan, Haiyu Zhou, Yingchun Xia, et al.. (2024). Rational Lithium Salt Molecule Tuning for Fast Charging/Discharging Lithium Metal Battery. Angewandte Chemie. 136(19). 17 indexed citations
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Li, Jipeng, et al.. (2024). Exploring steric and electronic effects in tailoring lithium-ion solvation using engineered ether solvents through molecular dynamics simulations. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 36(23). 235101–235101. 4 indexed citations
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Zhao, Yan, Tianhong Zhou, Lars P. H. Jeurgens, et al.. (2023). Electrolyte engineering for highly inorganic solid electrolyte interphase in high-performance lithium metal batteries. Chem. 9(3). 682–697. 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Aya, Satoshi, et al.. (2022). Nontrivial ultraslow dynamics under electric-field in nematics of bent-shaped molecules. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(1). 297–303. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhiao, Paul E. Rudnicki, Zewen Zhang, et al.. (2022). Rational solvent molecule tuning for high-performance lithium metal battery electrolytes. Nature Energy. 7(1). 94–106. 722 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Anthony C., Huada Lian, Xian Kong, et al.. (2021). Physical networks from entropy-driven non-covalent interactions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 746–746. 99 indexed citations
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Chen, Yuelang, Zhiao Yu, Paul E. Rudnicki, et al.. (2021). Steric Effect Tuned Ion Solvation Enabling Stable Cycling of High-Voltage Lithium Metal Battery. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(44). 18703–18713. 435 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kong, Xian, et al.. (2021). Weakening of Solvation-Induced Ordering by Composition Fluctuation in Salt-Doped Block Polymers. ACS Macro Letters. 10(5). 545–550. 11 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhiao, Hansen Wang, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). Molecular design for electrolyte solvents enabling energy-dense and long-cycling lithium metal batteries. Nature Energy. 5(7). 526–533. 1003 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Ankun, Guangmin Zhou, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities. Nature Nanotechnology. 15(3). 231–237. 87 indexed citations
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Khariton, Margarita, Xian Kong, Jian Qin, & Bo Wang. (2020). Chromatic neuronal jamming in a primitive brain. Nature Physics. 16(5). 553–557. 5 indexed citations
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Amanchukwu, Chibueze V., Zhiao Yu, Xian Kong, et al.. (2020). A New Class of Ionically Conducting Fluorinated Ether Electrolytes with High Electrochemical Stability. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(16). 7393–7403. 348 indexed citations breakdown →
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Feng, Yaping, Haoyu Dai, Jianjun Chen, et al.. (2019). Geometric structure-guided photo-driven ion current through asymmetric graphene oxide membranes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(35). 20182–20186. 15 indexed citations
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Lian, Cheng, Xian Kong, Honglai Liu, & Jianzhong Wu. (2019). Flow effects on silicate dissolution and ion transport at an aqueous interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(13). 6970–6975. 10 indexed citations
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Kong, Xian, Patrizia Barzaghi, & Markus A. Rüegg. (2004). Inhibition of synapse assembly in mammalian muscle in vivo by RNA interference. EMBO Reports. 5(2). 183–188. 107 indexed citations

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