Y. Charles Cao

10.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Y. Charles Cao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Y. Charles Cao has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Y. Charles Cao's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (34 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (16 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (15 papers). Y. Charles Cao is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (34 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (16 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (15 papers). Y. Charles Cao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Y. Charles Cao's co-authors include Rongchao Jin, Chad A. Mirkin, Zheng Jin-gui, George C. Schatz, K. Lance Kelly, Yongan Yang, Huimeng Wu, Ou Chen, Uri Banin and Jiaqi Zhuang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Y. Charles Cao

71 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Photoinduced Conversion of Silver Nanospheres to Nanoprisms

2001 2.9k citations Rongchao Jin, Y. Charles Cao et al. Science profile →
Identification of atomic-like electronic states in indium arsenide nanocrystal quantum dots

1999 502 citations Uri Banin, Y. Charles Cao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Y. Charles Cao United States	40	6.8k	3.4k	3.0k	2.2k	1.1k	77	9.1k
Tetsu Yonezawa Japan	50	4.9k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	3.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	650 0.6×	334	10.3k
Susan M. Kauzlarich United States	58	9.3k 1.4×	4.4k 1.3×	2.4k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	537 0.5×	339	13.0k
M. P. Piléni France	44	5.3k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	639 0.6×	138	8.5k
Hongyou Fan United States	55	10.3k 1.5×	2.4k 0.7×	4.1k 1.4×	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	118	14.6k
Moreno Meneghetti Italy	52	5.1k 0.8×	2.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	4.3k 2.0×	709 0.7×	212	9.3k
M. P. Pileni France	54	6.7k 1.0×	4.0k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	151	10.9k
Alexander Mikhailovsky United States	44	7.4k 1.1×	1.4k 0.4×	5.7k 1.9×	2.2k 1.0×	807 0.8×	102	10.1k
Emilie Ringe United Kingdom	35	4.6k 0.7×	4.4k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	3.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	120	8.8k
Amitava Patra India	57	10.5k 1.6×	2.2k 0.7×	5.0k 1.7×	1.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	313	12.6k
Hua Jiang Finland	58	7.0k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	3.2k 1.1×	2.3k 1.1×	363 0.3×	241	10.3k

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Yang, Hao, et al.. (2026). Dietary β-hydroxy-β-methyl butyrate supplementation improves intestinal health and growth performance in Tibetan sheep lambs via modulating small intestinal microbiota. Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 17(1). 25–25.

Liu, Xianshan, et al.. (2025). Impact of shear displacement on non-Fickian solute transport within diverse 3D interconnected cross-fracture. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 169. 109489–109489.

Li, Fan, et al.. (2025). Mechanical properties of gradient metallic glass induced by spatially non-uniform dynamics. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 654. 123449–123449.

Cao, Y. Charles, et al.. (2024). Rejuvenation of La-based metallic glass by controlling different modes of relaxation. Scripta Materialia. 256. 116418–116418. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Bang, Xiaoshu Pan, I‐Ting Teng, et al.. (2024). Functional Selection of Tau Oligomerization‐Inhibiting Aptamers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(18). e202402007–e202402007. 12 indexed citations

Rocca, James R., Shuichi Hoshika, Zunyi Yang, et al.. (2024). A folding motif formed with an expanded genetic alphabet. Nature Chemistry. 16(10). 1715–1722. 4 indexed citations

Li, Fan, et al.. (2024). Shear band network induced relaxation, hardening and uniform plastic deformation in metallic glass. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1010. 177946–177946. 3 indexed citations

Xiao, Tianyuan, Yasutaka Nagaoka, Tian Jiang, et al.. (2022). Nanocrystals with metastable high-pressure phases under ambient conditions. Science. 377(6608). 870–874. 37 indexed citations

Nagaoka, Yasutaka, Tie Wang, Jared Lynch, Derek LaMontagne, & Y. Charles Cao. (2012). Binary Assembly of Colloidal Semiconductor Nanorods with Spherical Metal Nanoparticles. Small. 8(6). 843–846. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhongliang, et al.. (2012). Nanoparticle-based artificial RNA silencing machinery for antiviral therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(31). 12387–12392. 58 indexed citations

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Nagaoka, Yasutaka, Ou Chen, Zhongwu Wang, & Y. Charles Cao. (2012). Structural Control of Nanocrystal Superlattices Using Organic Guest Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(6). 2868–2871. 73 indexed citations

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Chen, Ou, Yongan Yang, Jiaqi Zhuang, et al.. (2010). Excitation‐Intensity‐Dependent Color‐Tunable Dual Emissions from Manganese‐Doped CdS/ZnS Core/Shell Nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(52). 10132–10135. 94 indexed citations

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Cao, Y. Charles, Duancheng Ma, & Dierk Raabe. (2008). The use of flat punch indentation to determine the viscoelastic properties in the time and frequency domains of a soft layer bonded to a rigid substrate. Acta Biomaterialia. 5(1). 240–248. 58 indexed citations

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Cao, Y. Charles, Rongchao Jin, C. Shad Thaxton, & Chad A. Mirkin. (2005). A two-color-change, nanoparticle-based method for DNA detection. Talanta. 67(3). 449–455. 102 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongan, Huimeng Wu, Kathryn R. Williams, & Y. Charles Cao. (2005). Synthesis of CdSe and CdTe Nanocrystals without Precursor Injection. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(41). 6712–6715. 362 indexed citations

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Chen, Zhaohui, et al.. (2004). Photochromism of Novel Molybdate/Alkylamine Composite Thin Films. ChemPhysChem. 5(7). 1020–1026. 30 indexed citations

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Cao, Y. Charles & Jian Lü. (2004). Size-dependent sharp indentation?I: a closed-form expression of the indentation loading curve. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 53(1). 33–48. 15 indexed citations

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Millo, Oded, David Katz, Y. Charles Cao, & Uri Banin. (2001). Imaging and Spectroscopy of Artificial-Atom States in Core/Shell Nanocrystal Quantum Dots. Physical Review Letters. 86(25). 5751–5754. 110 indexed citations

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Yang, Wensheng, Lifeng Chi, Xudong Liu, et al.. (1999). From Achiral Molecular Components to Chiral Supermolecules and Supercoil Self-Assembly. Chemistry - A European Journal. 5(4). 1144–1149.

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Yang, Wensheng, Lifeng Chi, Xudong Liu, et al.. (1999). From Achiral Molecular Components to Chiral Supermolecules and Supercoil Self-Assembly. Chemistry - A European Journal. 5(4). 1144–1149. 87 indexed citations

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