Yi Cai

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Yi Cai is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Cai has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yi Cai's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers). Yi Cai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (24 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (16 papers). Yi Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Belgium. Yi Cai's co-authors include Madhavi Srinivasan, Rodney Chua, Hong‐En Wang, Shaozhuan Huang, Bao‐Lian Su, Hao Ren, Yu Li, Jun Jin, Du Yuan and William Manalastas and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yi Cai

39 papers receiving 2.4k citations

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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.

Anion Texturing Towards Dendrite‐Free Zn Anode for Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries

2020 326 citations Du Yuan, Jin Zhao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yi Cai China	27	2.1k	906	377	336	312	41	2.4k
Shengkui Zhong China	29	2.3k 1.1×	872 1.0×	555 1.5×	555 1.7×	453 1.5×	95	2.7k
Yaxin Chen China	26	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	397 1.1×	270 0.8×	207 0.7×	75	2.2k
Sookyung Jeong South Korea	12	1.9k 0.9×	989 1.1×	495 1.3×	448 1.3×	214 0.7×	15	2.1k
Zhaojin Li China	26	1.8k 0.9×	829 0.9×	347 0.9×	404 1.2×	179 0.6×	98	2.1k
Yixian Wang United States	24	2.0k 1.0×	779 0.9×	386 1.0×	411 1.2×	141 0.5×	58	2.2k
Ran Ran China	22	1.9k 0.9×	555 0.6×	579 1.5×	455 1.4×	249 0.8×	46	2.1k
Xiaotong Wang China	25	2.0k 0.9×	526 0.6×	377 1.0×	419 1.2×	546 1.8×	67	2.3k
Yangjie Liu China	25	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	485 1.3×	206 0.6×	297 1.0×	40	2.3k
Jan Haetge Germany	17	1.0k 0.5×	584 0.6×	446 1.2×	379 1.1×	258 0.8×	19	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yi Cai

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Chen, Yingqian, Gwendolyn J. H. Lim, Yulia Lekina, et al.. (2025). Reversible Alkaline Sulfur Cathode Based on Six-Electron Electrochemistry for Advanced Aqueous Sulfur Batteries. ACS Nano. 19(16). 15522–15536.

Lim, Gwendolyn J.H., et al.. (2024). Recent progress in zinc sulfur batteries: Mechanism, challenges, and perspectives. Chemical Engineering Journal. 498. 155329–155329. 17 indexed citations

Wang, Kexuan, et al.. (2024). Microstructure and corrosion behavior of Ti-Mo-Zr alloy fabricated by selective laser melting in simulated oral environment. International Journal of Electrochemical Science. 19(11). 100829–100829. 1 indexed citations

Chua, Rodney, Yingqian Chen, Yi Cai, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Electrolyte Design for High‐Performance Zinc–Sulfur Battery. Small. 19(29). e2207133–e2207133. 52 indexed citations

Chen, Xu, et al.. (2023). Effect of Plastic Deformation and Acidic Solution on the Corrosion Behavior of Ti-6Al-4V ELI Titanium Alloy. Metals. 13(10). 1740–1740. 5 indexed citations

Lim, Gwendolyn J. H., et al.. (2023). Electrolyte designs for safer lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(42). 22688–22717. 23 indexed citations

Lim, Gwendolyn J. H., et al.. (2023). Solid State Zinc and Aluminum ion batteries: Challenges and Opportunities. ChemSusChem. 16(17). e202202297–e202202297. 15 indexed citations

Yuan, Du, Xin Li, Hong Yao, et al.. (2023). A Liquid Crystal Ionomer‐Type Electrolyte toward Ordering‐Induced Regulation for Highly Reversible Zinc Ion Battery. Advanced Science. 10(8). e2206469–e2206469. 36 indexed citations

Chen, Xu, et al.. (2023). Effect of V Content on the Corrosion Resistance of Wire Arc Additive Manufactured Ti–6Al–xV Alloys. MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS. 64(11). 2606–2614. 4 indexed citations

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Cai, Yi, Rodney Chua, Shaozhuan Huang, Hao Ren, & Madhavi Srinivasan. (2020). Amorphous manganese dioxide with the enhanced pseudocapacitive performance for aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion battery. Chemical Engineering Journal. 396. 125221–125221. 143 indexed citations

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Yuan, Du, Jin Zhao, Hao Ren, et al.. (2020). Anion Texturing Towards Dendrite‐Free Zn Anode for Aqueous Rechargeable Batteries. Angewandte Chemie. 133(13). 7289–7295. 85 indexed citations

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Yin, Kaili, Yi Cai, Xianfeng Zheng, et al.. (2017). Hierarchical porous flower-like TiO2-B constructed by thin nanosheets for efficient lithium storage. Materials Letters. 201. 93–96. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Yi, Jun Jin, Jing Liu, et al.. (2016). Unique walnut-shaped porous MnO₂/C nanospheres with enhanced reaction kinetics for lithium storage with high capacity and superior rate capability. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 4(11). 4264–4272. 52 indexed citations

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Jin, Jun, Yi Cai, Yu Li, et al.. (2015). Three-Dimensional (3D) Bicontinuous Hierarchically Porous Mn2O3 Single Crystals for High Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14686–14686. 56 indexed citations

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Cai, Yi, Hong‐En Wang, Jun Jin, et al.. (2015). Hierarchical Nanotube-Constructed Porous TiO2-B Spheres for High Performance Lithium Ion Batteries. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 55 indexed citations

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Huang, Shaozhuan, Jun Jin, Yi Cai, et al.. (2014). Engineering single crystalline Mn3O4 nano-octahedra with exposed highly active {011} facets for high performance lithium ion batteries. Nanoscale. 6(12). 6819–6819. 100 indexed citations

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Cai, Yi, et al.. (2014). Annealed vanadium oxide nanowires and nanotubes as high performance cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2(34). 14099–14099. 53 indexed citations

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Wang, Hong‐En, Yi Cai, Zhao Deng, et al.. (2013). Facile synthesis of hierarchical and porous V2O5 microspheres as cathode materials for lithium ion batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 418. 74–80. 49 indexed citations

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Wang, Hong‐En, Jun Jin, Yi Cai, et al.. (2013). Facile and fast synthesis of porous TiO2 spheres for use in lithium ion batteries. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 417. 144–151. 49 indexed citations

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Dong, Bensi, et al.. (2012). A bibliometric analysis of solar power research from 1991 to 2010. Scientometrics. 93(3). 1101–1117. 62 indexed citations

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