Yang‐Kook Sun

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Yang‐Kook Sun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yang‐Kook Sun has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 13 papers in Automotive Engineering and 9 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yang‐Kook Sun's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (13 papers). Yang‐Kook Sun is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (13 papers). Yang‐Kook Sun collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, United States and Germany. Yang‐Kook Sun's co-authors include Chong Seung Yoon, Geon‐Tae Park, Hoon-Hee Ryu, Jang‐Yeon Hwang, Hoon‐Hee Ryu, Un‐Hyuck Kim, Nam-Yung Park, H. Hohyun Sun, Tae‐Yeon Yu and Seong-Jin Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Energy & Environmental Science and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yang‐Kook Sun

32 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Reducing cobalt from lithium-ion batteries for the electric vehicle era

2021 253 citations Hoon-Hee Ryu, H. Hohyun Sun et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yang‐Kook Sun South Korea	25	2.5k	968	695	474	232	33	2.5k
H. Hohyun Sun United States	19	2.2k 0.9×	952 1.0×	607 0.9×	414 0.9×	192 0.8×	27	2.3k
Hoon‐Hee Ryu South Korea	21	2.4k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	689 1.0×	553 1.2×	198 0.9×	29	2.5k
Liang‐Yin Kuo Germany	18	2.2k 0.9×	842 0.9×	553 0.8×	359 0.8×	289 1.2×	29	2.2k
Hyungyeon Cha South Korea	24	3.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	870 1.3×	475 1.0×	278 1.2×	38	3.2k
Guorong Hu China	22	2.3k 1.0×	915 0.9×	716 1.0×	621 1.3×	176 0.8×	41	2.4k
Woongrae Cho South Korea	9	3.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	999 1.4×	523 1.1×	206 0.9×	12	3.1k
Aichun Dou China	31	2.7k 1.1×	819 0.8×	989 1.4×	579 1.2×	320 1.4×	89	2.8k
Lianshan Ni China	27	1.9k 0.8×	558 0.6×	493 0.7×	449 0.9×	250 1.1×	41	2.0k
Hyung‐Joo Noh South Korea	8	3.6k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	1.1k 1.5×	653 1.4×	245 1.1×	8	3.7k
Sijiang Hu China	23	1.8k 0.7×	504 0.5×	710 1.0×	379 0.8×	278 1.2×	62	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yang‐Kook Sun

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Park, Geon‐Tae, Nam-Yung Park, Hoon‐Hee Ryu, et al.. (2024). Nano-rods in Ni-rich layered cathodes for practical batteries. Chemical Society Reviews. 53(23). 11462–11518. 38 indexed citations

Kim, Jun Tae, Hyeon‐Ji Shin, Hun Kim, et al.. (2023). An argyrodite sulfide coated NCM cathode for improved interfacial contact in normal-pressure operational all-solid-state batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(38). 20549–20558. 12 indexed citations

Yu, Tae‐Yeon, et al.. (2023). Limitation of Ni-rich layered cathodes in all-solid-state lithium batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(45). 24629–24636. 17 indexed citations

Liang, Xinghui, Tae‐Yeon Yu, Hoon‐Hee Ryu, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2022). Hierarchical O3/P2 heterostructured cathode materials for advanced sodium-ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 47. 515–525. 149 indexed citations

Kim, Hun, et al.. (2022). Geometrical engineering of a SPAN–graphene composite cathode for practical Li–S batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(20). 10844–10853. 28 indexed citations

Ryu, Hoon‐Hee, et al.. (2022). Intrinsic weaknesses of Co-free Ni–Mn layered cathodes for electric vehicles. Materials Today. 56. 8–15. 41 indexed citations

Liang, Xinghui, Hun Kim, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2021). A New Electrode Material for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries: Lithium-Substituted Tunnel/Spinel Heterostructured Cathode. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2021-01(6). 360–360.

Li, Peng, Hun Kim, Kwang Ho Kim, et al.. (2021). State-of-the-art anodes of potassium-ion batteries: synthesis, chemistry, and applications. Chemical Science. 12(22). 7623–7655. 36 indexed citations

Park, Geon‐Tae, et al.. (2021). Microstructure-optimized concentration-gradient NCM cathode for long-life Li-ion batteries. Materials Today. 52. 9–18. 91 indexed citations

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Kim, Un‐Hyuck, Geon‐Tae Park, Patrick Conlin, et al.. (2021). Cation ordered Ni-rich layered cathode for ultra-long battery life. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(3). 1573–1583. 141 indexed citations

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Park, Geon‐Tae, Dae Ro Yoon, Un‐Hyuck Kim, et al.. (2021). Ultrafine-grained Ni-rich layered cathode for advanced Li-ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(12). 6616–6626. 154 indexed citations

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Ryu, Hoon-Hee, H. Hohyun Sun, Seung‐Taek Myung, Chong Seung Yoon, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2021). Reducing cobalt from lithium-ion batteries for the electric vehicle era. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(2). 844–852. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Park, Sohyun, Jimin Park, Seokhun Kim, et al.. (2020). Investigation of superior sodium storage and reversible Na₂S conversion reactions in a porous NiS₂@C composite using in operando X-ray diffraction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(46). 24401–24407. 20 indexed citations

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Soundharrajan, Vaiyapuri, Muhammad Hilmy Alfaruqi, Seulgi Lee, et al.. (2020). Multidimensional Na₄VMn_0.9Cu_0.1(PO₄)₃/C cotton-candy cathode materials for high energy Na-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(24). 12055–12068. 75 indexed citations

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Hwang, Jang‐Yeon, Rudra Kumar, Hee Min Kim, et al.. (2020). Investigation of K-ion storage performances in a bismuth sulfide-carbon nanotube composite anode. RSC Advances. 10(11). 6536–6539. 7 indexed citations

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Seo, Jeong Hyun, Un‐Hyuck Kim, Yang‐Kook Sun, & Chong Seung Yoon. (2020). Multi-Doped (Ga,B) Li[Ni _0.885 Co _0.100 Al _0.015 ]O ₂ Cathode. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 167(10). 100557–100557. 15 indexed citations

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Soundharrajan, Vaiyapuri, Balaji Sambandam, Muhammad Hilmy Alfaruqi, et al.. (2019). Na_2.3Cu_1.1Mn₂O_7−δ nanoflakes as enhanced cathode materials for high-energy sodium-ion batteries achieved by a rapid pyrosynthesis approach. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(2). 770–778. 24 indexed citations

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Hwang, Jang‐Yeon, Jongsoon Kim, Tae-Yeon Yu, et al.. (2019). A new P2-type layered oxide cathode with superior full-cell performances for K-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(37). 21362–21370. 74 indexed citations

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Ryu, Hoon-Hee, Geon‐Tae Park, Chong Seung Yoon, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2019). Suppressing detrimental phase transitions via tungsten doping of LiNiO₂ cathode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(31). 18580–18588. 223 indexed citations

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Park, Seong-Jin, Jang‐Yeon Hwang, & Yang‐Kook Sun. (2019). Trimethylsilyl azide (C₃H₉N₃Si): a highly efficient additive for tailoring fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) based electrolytes for Li-metal batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(22). 13441–13448. 41 indexed citations

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