Yaobin Xu

11.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
128 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Yaobin Xu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yaobin Xu has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 50 papers in Materials Chemistry and 42 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yaobin Xu's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (69 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (64 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (42 papers). Yaobin Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (69 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (64 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (42 papers). Yaobin Xu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Yaobin Xu's co-authors include Chongmin Wang, Ji‐Guang Zhang, Mark Engelhard, Wu Xu, Marc A. Meyers, Vinayak P. Dravid, Jinsong Wu, Bethany E. Matthews, Xiaolin Li and Jie Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yaobin Xu

123 papers receiving 9.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries

2020 954 citations Yaobin Xu, Chongmin Wang et al. Nature Energy profile →
Reversible planar gliding and microcracking in a single-crystalline Ni-rich cathode

2020 700 citations Yujing Bi, Yaobin Xu et al. Science profile →
Two-dimensional copper nanosheets for electrochemical reduction of carbon monoxide to acetate

2019 501 citations Yaobin Xu, Jinsong Wu et al. profile →
Observation of a periodic array of flux-closure quadrants in strained ferroelectric PbTiO ₃ films

2015 486 citations Yaobin Xu et al. Science profile →
Low-solvation electrolytes for high-voltage sodium-ion batteries

2022 410 citations Mỹ Loan Phụng Lê, Peiyuan Gao et al. Nature Energy profile →
Progressive growth of the solid–electrolyte interphase towards the Si anode interior causes capacity fading

2021 282 citations Yang He, Yaobin Xu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yaobin Xu United States	49	6.1k	3.1k	2.6k	1.8k	1.4k	128	9.1k
Kiyoharu Tadanaga Japan	54	7.2k 1.2×	4.0k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	377 0.3×	299	10.1k
Chuying Ouyang China	57	9.7k 1.6×	5.0k 1.6×	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	291	12.2k
Dong‐Liang Peng China	66	10.7k 1.8×	5.3k 1.7×	2.2k 0.8×	4.9k 2.7×	1.6k 1.1×	341	14.8k
Mingyuan Ge United States	47	7.5k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	149	9.7k
Wei Kong Pang Australia	65	13.4k 2.2×	4.0k 1.3×	3.0k 1.2×	4.2k 2.3×	1.4k 1.0×	273	15.4k
Nancy J. Dudney United States	67	17.0k 2.8×	4.4k 1.4×	7.6k 2.9×	2.4k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	215	19.0k
Xia Lu China	50	8.2k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	172	9.4k
Jagjit Nanda United States	66	11.4k 1.9×	6.7k 2.2×	3.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.5×	1.3k 0.9×	204	15.0k
Houlong Zhuang United States	48	5.4k 0.9×	7.9k 2.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	985 0.7×	110	11.6k
Cary L. Pint United States	49	5.1k 0.8×	3.5k 1.2×	883 0.3×	2.3k 1.3×	799 0.6×	137	8.3k

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Wu, Bingbin, Ran Yi, Yaobin Xu, et al.. (2025). Unusual Li2O sublimation promotes single-crystal growth and sintering. Nature Energy. 10(5). 605–615. 18 indexed citations

Jia, Hao, Yaobin Xu, Zhijie Yang, et al.. (2025). Rational Electrolyte Design for Elevated-Temperature and Thermally Stable Lithium-Ion Batteries with Nickel-Rich Cathodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(4). 6260–6270. 5 indexed citations

Yu, Xiaofei, Yaobin Xu, Peiyuan Gao, et al.. (2025). Direct and in situ examination of Li ⁺ transport kinetics in an isotope-labeled solid–electrolyte interphase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(45). e2514652122–e2514652122. 1 indexed citations

Liao, Meng, Yaobin Xu, Sha Tan, et al.. (2024). Hybrid polymer network cathode-enabled soluble-polysulfide-free lithium–sulfur batteries. Nature Sustainability. 7(12). 1709–1718. 26 indexed citations

Tran, Thanh‐Nhan, Xia Cao, Yaobin Xu, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Cycling Stability of Lithium Metal Batteries by a Bifunctional Fluorinated Ether. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(42). 24 indexed citations

Xu, Yaobin, Li Yu, Tiantian Deng, et al.. (2023). Controllable synthesis of blue-emitting CsPbBr3 nanoplates via a SnBr2-mediated solvothermal reaction method. Journal of Luminescence. 263. 120005–120005. 8 indexed citations

Kautz, David J., Xia Cao, Peiyuan Gao, et al.. (2023). Designing Electrolytes With Controlled Solvation Structure for Fast‐Charging Lithium‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(35). 53 indexed citations

Bi, Yujing, Yaobin Xu, Ran Yi, et al.. (2023). Simultaneous Single Crystal Growth and Segregation of Ni-Rich Cathode Enabled by Nanoscale Phase Separation for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries. Energy storage materials. 62. 102947–102947. 17 indexed citations

Liu, Guangdong, Yang He, Zhixiao Liu, et al.. (2023). In Situ Visualization of the Pinning Effect of Planar Defects on Li Ion Insertion. Nano Letters. 23(15). 6839–6844. 2 indexed citations

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Jia, Hao, Zhijie Yang, Yaobin Xu, et al.. (2022). Is Nonflammability of Electrolyte Overrated in the Overall Safety Performance of Lithium Ion Batteries? A Sobering Revelation from a Completely Nonflammable Electrolyte. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(4). 47 indexed citations

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Kim, Ju‐Myung, Yaobin Xu, Mark Engelhard, et al.. (2022). Facile Dual-Protection Layer and Advanced Electrolyte Enhancing Performances of Cobalt-free/Nickel-rich Cathodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(15). 17405–17414. 13 indexed citations

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Dawson, Karl, Marco Zanella, Troy D. Manning, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Long‐Term Cathode Stability by Tuning Interfacial Nanocomposite for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 9(14). 6 indexed citations

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Huang, Liliang, Haixin Lin, Yaobin Xu, et al.. (2019). Shape regulation of high-index facet nanoparticles by dealloying. Science. 365(6458). 1159–1163. 140 indexed citations

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Yasaei, Poya, Akshay A. Murthy, Yaobin Xu, et al.. (2019). Spatial Mapping of Hot‐Spots at Lateral Heterogeneities in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides. Advanced Materials. 31(24). e1808244–e1808244. 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Yaobin, Ji‐Hyeon Park, Zhenpeng Yao, et al.. (2019). Strain-Induced Metastable Phase Stabilization in Ga₂O₃ Thin Films. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(5). 5536–5543. 58 indexed citations

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Cao, Xia, Yaobin Xu, Linchao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Nonflammable Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries Enabled by Ultraconformal Passivation Interphases. ACS Energy Letters. 4(10). 2529–2534. 142 indexed citations

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Xu, Yaobin, Haiping Wu, Yang He, et al.. (2019). Atomic to Nanoscale Origin of Vinylene Carbonate Enhanced Cycling Stability of Lithium Metal Anode Revealed by Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy. Nano Letters. 20(1). 418–425. 120 indexed citations

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Li, Qianqian, Yaobin Xu, Zhenpeng Yao, et al.. (2018). Revealing the Effects of Electrode Crystallographic Orientation on Battery Electrochemistry via the Anisotropic Lithiation and Sodiation of ReS₂. ACS Nano. 12(8). 7875–7882. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, Shiqiang Hao, Jennifer G. DiStefano, et al.. (2018). Site-Specific Positioning and Patterning of MoS₂ Monolayers: The Role of Au Seeding. ACS Nano. 12(9). 8970–8976. 58 indexed citations

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Li, Yuan, Marek B. Majewski, Saiful M. Islam, et al.. (2018). Morphological Engineering of Winged Au@MoS₂ Heterostructures for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Nano Letters. 18(11). 7104–7110. 106 indexed citations

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