Yangying Zhu

6.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Yangying Zhu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yangying Zhu has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 20 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 14 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Yangying Zhu's work include Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (12 papers), Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (10 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (10 papers). Yangying Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (12 papers), Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity (10 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (10 papers). Yangying Zhu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Yangying Zhu's co-authors include Yi Cui, Yayuan Liu, Evelyn N. Wang, H. Jeremy Cho, Daniel J. Preston, Allen Pei, Dion S. Antao, Jinwei Xu, Hye Ryoung Lee and Hansen Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yangying Zhu

53 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials

2019 1.5k citations Yayuan Liu, Yangying Zhu et al. Nature Energy profile →
Nanoengineered materials for liquid–vapour phase-change heat transfer

2016 534 citations H. Jeremy Cho, Daniel J. Preston et al. Nature Reviews Materials profile →
Nanoporous polyethylene microfibres for large-scale radiative cooling fabric

2018 515 citations Yucan Peng, Bofei Liu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yangying Zhu United States	24	3.1k	1.5k	798	758	653	55	5.2k
Annick Hubin Belgium	42	2.6k 0.9×	521 0.4×	527 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	2.2k 3.3×	267	5.9k
Yu Qiao United States	35	1.6k 0.5×	809 0.6×	898 1.1×	252 0.3×	1.9k 2.9×	237	4.9k
Xiaodong He China	32	1.3k 0.4×	285 0.2×	1.2k 1.5×	331 0.4×	1.6k 2.4×	280	4.3k
Aimy Bazylak Canada	52	6.3k 2.1×	1.0k 0.7×	548 0.7×	3.9k 5.2×	2.3k 3.5×	221	7.6k
Yunfeng Shi United States	33	1.6k 0.5×	414 0.3×	1.7k 2.1×	325 0.4×	2.9k 4.5×	151	5.4k
Werner Lehnert Germany	48	6.1k 2.0×	1.0k 0.7×	514 0.6×	3.7k 4.9×	2.9k 4.4×	242	7.8k
Jones Alami Morocco	37	3.3k 1.1×	461 0.3×	675 0.8×	343 0.5×	3.0k 4.6×	145	5.7k
Henning Markötter Germany	37	2.9k 0.9×	966 0.7×	394 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	1.0k 1.5×	131	3.7k
Ankun Yang United States	35	3.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	240 0.3×	301 0.4×	1.5k 2.2×	55	5.9k
Zhongsheng Liu China	40	5.1k 1.7×	451 0.3×	613 0.8×	3.9k 5.1×	1.9k 3.0×	129	6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Yangying Zhu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yangying Zhu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhu, Yangying, et al.. (2025). Improving the Efficiency of Soft Phase-Change Actuators Using Thermodynamic Analysis. Soft Robotics. 12(6). 687–697.

Kumar, Vijay, et al.. (2024). Fast internal preheating of 4680 lithium-ion batteries in cold environments. Nano Research. 17(10). 8794–8802. 9 indexed citations

Yang, Runqing, et al.. (2023). In situ monitoring of lithium electrodeposition using transient grating spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 123(15). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Fang, Rong Xu, Yecun Wu, et al.. (2021). Dynamic spatial progression of isolated lithium during battery operations. Nature. 600(7890). 659–663. 202 indexed citations

Xu, Jinwei, Xin Xiao, Zewen Zhang, et al.. (2020). Designing a Nanoscale Three-phase Electrochemical Pathway to Promote Pt-catalyzed Formaldehyde Oxidation. Nano Letters. 20(12). 8719–8724. 19 indexed citations

Wang, Hansen, Hansen Wang, Yangying Zhu, et al.. (2020). Underpotential lithium plating on graphite anodes caused by temperature heterogeneity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(47). 29453–29461. 124 indexed citations

Zhou, Guangmin, Ankun Yang, Yifei Wang, et al.. (2020). Electrotunable liquid sulfur microdroplets. Nature Communications. 11(1). 606–606. 32 indexed citations

Liu, Yayuan, Yangying Zhu, & Yi Cui. (2019). Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials. Nature Energy. 4(7). 540–550. 1467 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhu, Yangying, Jin Xie, Allen Pei, et al.. (2019). Fast lithium growth and short circuit induced by localized-temperature hotspots in lithium batteries. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2067–2067. 279 indexed citations

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Wang, Hansen, Dingchang Lin, Jin Xie, et al.. (2019). An Interconnected Channel‐Like Framework as Host for Lithium Metal Composite Anodes. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(7). 112 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lenan, Yangying Zhu, Zhengmao Lu, et al.. (2018). Characterization of thin film evaporation in micropillar wicks using micro-Raman spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 113(16). 19 indexed citations

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Li, Jun, Yangying Zhu, Wei Chen, et al.. (2018). Breathing-Mimicking Electrocatalysis for Oxygen Evolution and Reduction. Joule. 3(2). 557–569. 180 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lenan, Yangying Zhu, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2018). IN SITU TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT OF EVAPORATION IN MICROPILLAR WICK STRUCTURES USING MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY. International Heat Transfer Conference 16. 763–771. 2 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhengmao, Daniel J. Preston, Dion S. Antao, Yangying Zhu, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2017). Coexistence of Pinning and Moving on a Contact Line. Langmuir. 33(36). 8970–8975. 23 indexed citations

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Preston, Daniel J., et al.. (2017). Electrowetting-on-dielectric actuation of a spatial and angular manipulation MEMS stage. 5. 769–772. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yangying, et al.. (2017). Suppressing high-frequency temperature oscillations in microchannels with surface structures. Applied Physics Letters. 110(3). 36 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yangying, et al.. (2016). Kinetics of thin polymer film rupture: Model experiments for a better understanding of layer breakups in the multilayer coextrusion process. Polymer. 90. 156–164. 17 indexed citations

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Cho, H. Jeremy, Daniel J. Preston, Yangying Zhu, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2016). Nanoengineered materials for liquid–vapour phase-change heat transfer. Nature Reviews Materials. 2(2). 534 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Yangying, Dion S. Antao, Kuang‐Han Chu, Terry J. Hendricks, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2014). Enhanced Flow Boiling Heat Transfer in Microchannels with Structured Surfaces. Proceedings of the 15th International Heat Transfer Conference. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yangying, et al.. (2013). Enhanced boiling heat transfer with copper oxide hierarchical surfaces. 4 indexed citations

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