Yan Ai

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 975 citations indexed

About

Yan Ai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan Ai has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 975 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yan Ai's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (8 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (7 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers). Yan Ai is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (8 papers), Spectroscopy and Laser Applications (7 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (7 papers). Yan Ai collaborates with scholars based in China, New Zealand and Australia. Yan Ai's co-authors include Dongyuan Zhao, Wei Li, Chaotan Sima, Shaohua Liu, Jianwei Fu, Jiangong Cheng, Facai Wei, Tailin Li, Chaochao Yang and Jing Cui 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

Yan Ai

34 papers receiving 952 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.

Two-electron redox chemistry via single-atom catalyst for reversible zinc–air batteries

2024 130 citations Wei Zhang, Jiangwei Zhang et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Biomimetic Superstructured Interphase for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries

2024 97 citations Yan Ai, Chaochao Yang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan Ai China	16	516	263	257	184	155	35	975
Dengpan Dong United States	18	580 1.1×	199 0.8×	68 0.3×	73 0.4×	304 2.0×	30	1.2k
Zhi-Min Hao China	12	302 0.6×	349 1.3×	120 0.5×	47 0.3×	80 0.5×	19	769
Xiangjing Zhang China	20	355 0.7×	500 1.9×	264 1.0×	63 0.3×	244 1.6×	54	1.1k
Jong Keun Park South Korea	15	410 0.8×	148 0.6×	78 0.3×	92 0.5×	39 0.3×	41	817
Yudong Wu China	17	383 0.7×	200 0.8×	239 0.9×	30 0.2×	192 1.2×	39	778
Peter A. A. Klusener Netherlands	19	328 0.6×	128 0.5×	103 0.4×	81 0.4×	74 0.5×	43	1.1k
Huijin Liu China	17	331 0.6×	174 0.7×	122 0.5×	39 0.2×	86 0.6×	60	889
Peiyao Wang China	13	388 0.8×	466 1.8×	246 1.0×	53 0.3×	140 0.9×	46	956
Shunwei Chen China	19	522 1.0×	587 2.2×	321 1.2×	27 0.1×	134 0.9×	65	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yan Ai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yan Ai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yan Ai 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 Yan Ai. Yan Ai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Yi, Zirui Lv, Wanhai Zhou, et al.. (2025). Interfacial Mesochannels as Cation Pump for Enhanced Osmotic Energy Harvesting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(23). e202503110–e202503110. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Chaochao, Tong Wang, Yan Ai, et al.. (2025). Hierarchically Mesoporous Graphene Networks Modulate Homogeneous Two‐Electron Redox Chemistry for Highly Reversible and Stable Zinc‐Air Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(43).

Zhang, Wei, Jiangwei Zhang, Nan Wang, et al.. (2024). Two-electron redox chemistry via single-atom catalyst for reversible zinc–air batteries. Nature Sustainability. 7(4). 463–473. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

Ai, Yan, Chaochao Yang, Tong Wang, et al.. (2024). Biomimetic Superstructured Interphase for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(22). 15496–15505. 97 indexed citations breakdown →

Feng, Jiayou, Chin‐Te Hung, Zhenghao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Micelles Cascade Assembly to Tandem Porous Catalyst for Waste Plastics Upcycling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(26). e202405252–e202405252. 22 indexed citations

Feng, Jiayou, Chin‐Te Hung, Zhenghao Zhang, et al.. (2024). Micelles Cascade Assembly to Tandem Porous Catalyst for Waste Plastics Upcycling. Angewandte Chemie. 136(26). 1 indexed citations

Ai, Yan, Chaotan Sima, Yu Sun, et al.. (2024). High-Precision Low-Cost Mid-Infrared Photoacoustic Gas Sensor Using Aspherical Beam Shaping for Rapidly Measuring Greenhouse Gases. Photonics. 11(7). 590–590. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Wei, et al.. (2023). Monomicelle‐induced assembly route toward low‐dimensional mesoporous nanomaterials for catalysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 85–107. 10 indexed citations

Zeng, Qiang, et al.. (2023). High-performance solid capacitor using vapor phase polymerized PEDOT film. Journal of Materials Science. 58(4). 1979–1990. 3 indexed citations

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Qiu, Pengpeng, Xingmiao Zhang, Yan Ai, et al.. (2023). Modular assembly of metal nanoparticles/mesoporous carbon two-dimensional nanosheets. NPG Asia Materials. 15(1). 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Tong, et al.. (2023). Laser Linewidth Analysis and Filtering/Fitting Algorithms for Improved TDLAS-Based Optical Gas Sensor. Sensors. 23(11). 5130–5130. 18 indexed citations

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Chu, Huikuan, et al.. (2023). Contribution of gut microbiota to drug-induced liver injury. Hepatobiliary & pancreatic diseases international. 22(5). 458–465. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Tailin, Chaotan Sima, Yan Ai, et al.. (2023). Photoacoustic spectroscopy-based ppb-level multi-gas sensor using symmetric multi-resonant cavity photoacoustic cell. Photoacoustics. 32. 100526–100526. 39 indexed citations

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Sima, Chaotan, Ping Lü, Yan Ai, et al.. (2022). Ultra-sensitive ppb-level methane detection based on NIR all-optical photoacoustic spectroscopy by using differential fiber-optic microphones with gold-chromium composite nanomembrane. Photoacoustics. 26. 100353–100353. 55 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuzhu, Hongjin Zhang, Runfeng Lin, et al.. (2022). Remodeling nanodroplets into hierarchical mesoporous silica nanoreactors with multiple chambers. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6136–6136. 57 indexed citations

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Luo, Hao, Yusuf Valentino Kaneti, Yan Ai, et al.. (2021). Nanoarchitectured Porous Conducting Polymers: From Controlled Synthesis to Advanced Applications. Advanced Materials. 33(29). e2007318–e2007318. 111 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiaoqian, Ping Lei, Yan Ai, et al.. (2021). Quantitative CT assessment by histogram and volume ratio in pyrrolizidines alkaloids-induced hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome. European Journal of Radiology. 138. 109632–109632. 2 indexed citations

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Ai, Yan, Facai Wei, Jing Cui, et al.. (2021). Diblock copolymers directing construction of hierarchically porous metal-organic frameworks for enhanced-performance supercapacitors. Nanotechnology. 32(16). 165601–165601. 9 indexed citations

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Ai, Yan, Facai Wei, Xiaolin Jiang, et al.. (2020). Hollow Bio-derived Polymer Nanospheres with Ordered Mesopores for Sodium-Ion Battery. Nano-Micro Letters. 12(1). 31–31. 29 indexed citations

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Wei, Facai, Tingting Wang, Xiaolin Jiang, et al.. (2020). Controllably Engineering Mesoporous Surface and Dimensionality of SnO₂ toward High‐Performance CO₂ Electroreduction. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(39). 97 indexed citations

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