Yi Cui

43.9k citations

146 papers · 38.1k indexed · 32 hit papers · h-index 73

Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.02%
- Advancements in Battery Materials 38
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies 32
- Advanced battery technologies research 19
- Thin-Film Transistor Technologies 12
Automotive Engineering top 0.05%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.1%
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication 12
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.1%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion 15
Polymers and Plastics top 0.2%
Biomedical Engineering
- Nanowire Synthesis and Applications 25
Materials Chemistry
- Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties 10

Co-authors: Matthew T. McDowell Desheng Kong Yuan Yang Liangbing Hu Guangyuan Zheng Haotian Wang Jung‐Yong Lee Peter Peumans
Cited by: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Automotive Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Journals: Nano Letters (23 papers)Nature Communications (10 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Canada

In The Last Decade

Yi Cui

138 papers receiving 37.5k 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.

2024 Nature Chemistry
2016 Advanced Materials
2015 Nature Communications
2015 Nano Letters
2015 Nano Research
2015 Nano Letters
2014 Nature Communications
2014 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2013 Advanced Materials
2013 Nano Letters
2013 Energy & Environmental Science
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013 Nano Letters
2013 Energy & Environmental Science
2013 Nature Communications
2013 Nature Chemistry
2013 Nature Communications
2013 Nature Nanotechnology
2012 Energy & Environmental Science
2012 ACS Nano
2012 Nature Nanotechnology
2012 Nature Materials
2012 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2012 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2011 Annual Review of Materials Research
2011 Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
2011 Nano Letters
2010 ACS Nano
2008 Nano Letters
2008 Nano Letters
2008 Nano Letters
2007 Nano Letters

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Yi Cui, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Cryogenic electron microscopy and tomography for beam-sensitive materials Nature Reviews Physics ·Yi Cui,Zewen Zhang,Server Bozdoğan,Wah Chiu,Yi Cui	2025	0
2	Hydrotrope-enabled high concentration aqueous electrolytes for reversible and sustainable iron metal anodes Nature Communications ·Guangxia Feng,Zaichun Liu,John Holoubek,Louisa C. Greenburg,Ge Zhang,Yuqi Li,Xun Guan,Yi Cui,Pu Zhang,智白水,X. R. Zheng,Yi Cui	2025	1
3	Galvanic corrosion underlies coulombic efficiency differences in high-performing lithium metal battery electrolytes Energy & Environmental Science ·Solomon T. Oyakhire,Sang Cheol Kim,Wenbo Zhang,Sanzeeda Baig Shuchi,Yi Cui,Stacey F. Bent	2025	5
4	Atmospheric-pressure ammonia synthesis on AuRu catalysts enabled by plasmon-controlled hydrogenation and nitrogen-species desorption Nature Energy ·L. Yuan,P.B. Sri,Stefan Kutter,Yirui Zhang,Alan Dai,Zhihua Cheng,Ishini Aryaratne,Zhichen Xue,Yi Cui,Kun Xu,Yu Wang,Matthew R. Jones,Yi Cui,Arun Majumdar,Junwei Lucas Bao,Jennifer A. Dionne	2025	0
5	Enhancing Electrocatalytic Activity Through Targeted Local Electrolyte Micro‐Environment Advanced Functional Materials ·Yaping Yan,Min Wu,Le Zhou,Wangwei Chen,Lu Han,Guoliang Gao,Yi Cui,Zixu Sun,Andreu Cabot	2025	13
6	Design strategies for ion-sieving charge mosaic membranes toward sustainable lithium extraction Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ge Zhang,Guoliang Hu,Jinlei Li,Guangxia Feng,(unknown),Yi Cui,Zhouyi Chen,Zaichun Liu,(unknown)	2025	0
7	Biomechanically optimized 3D-Printed titanium prostheses with stiffener arrangement for critical femoral diaphyseal defects: early weight-bearing capacity and combat readiness validated through integrated biomechanical-FEA approach Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology ·Hans Ruedi Schmid,Hao Li,Da Liu,Yi Rui,Yi Cui,山本研,Mayuri Khopade,R. Princess,Cheng-Fei Du,Yongqing Xu,Lorenza A. Simmons	2025	0
8	A case study of aircraft observations of ice cloud microphysical properties over the North China Plain: Vertical distribution, vertical airflow and aerosol–cloud effects Atmospheric Research ·E Shahverdi,Honglei Wang,Yang Yang,Yi Cui,Lijuan Shen,Zihao Wu,Sihan Liu,Tianliang Zhao	2024	2
9	Electrochemical formation of bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide-derived solid-electrolyte interphase at Li-metal potentialbreakdown → Nature Chemistry ·Weilai Yu,Kuan‐Yu Lin,David Boyle,Michael T. Tang,Yi Cui,Yuelang Chen,Zhiao Yu,Rong Xu,Yangju Lin,Guangxia Feng,Zhuojun Huang,Lukas Michalek,Rose Thesing,Stephen J. Harris,Jyh‐Chiang Jiang,Frank Abild‐Pedersen,Jian Qin,Yi Cui,Zhenan Bao	2024	85
10	Scanning transmission election microscopy observations of twisted epitaxial gold nanodiscs in twisted molybdenum disulfide bilayers Micron ·Yi Cui,(unknown),Paweł Czaja,Robert Sinclair	2024	0
11	Regulating ethane and ethylene synthesis by proton corridor microenvironment for CO2 electrolysis Journal of Energy Chemistry ·Xiaowen Zhang,Bohua Ren,Hao Li,Shuxuan Liu,Sunny Singh,宏新井,Yifan Li,Dan Luo,Yi Cui,Guobin Wen,Xin Wang	2023	18
12	Data-driven electrolyte design for lithium metal anodes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sang Cheol Kim,Solomon T. Oyakhire,Л Х Миначева,Jingyang Wang,Zewen Zhang,Wenbo Zhang,David Boyle,Mun Sek Kim,Zhiao Yu,Xin Gao,政信白川,Lolis Wieman,Jian Qin,Zhenan Bao,Stacey F. Bent,Yi Cui	2023	111
13	Pollution and transport of atmospheric PAHs in Xinjiang: Observation at a high-altitude background site combined with numerical simulation Atmospheric Pollution Research ·Saifu Saifu,Yan Yin,Kui Chen,Honglei Wang,Kyi Tha Kyi,Yi Cui,Ankang Liu,Chuan He	2022	3
14	Origin of enhanced water oxidation activity in an iridium single atom anchored on NiFe oxyhydroxide catalyst Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·X. R. Zheng,Jing Tang,Alessandro Gallo,José Antonio Garrido Torres,Xiaoyun Yu,Л Х Миначева,夏爱,Peter Ercius,Haiyan Mao,Sirine C. Fakra,Chengyu Song,Ryan C. Davis,Jeffrey A. Reimer,John Vinson,Michal Bajdich,Yi Cui	2021	105
15	Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities Nature Nanotechnology ·Ankun Yang,Guangmin Zhou,Xian Kong,Rafael A. Vilá,Allen Pei,Yecun Wu,Xiaoyun Yu,X. R. Zheng,Chun-Lan Wu,Bofei Liu,Hao Chen,Yan Xu,Di Chen,Yanxi Li,Sirine C. Fakra,Harold Y. Hwang,Jian Qin,Steven Chu,Yi Cui	2020	87
16	Transient Voltammetry with Ultramicroelectrodes Reveals the Electron Transfer Kinetics of Lithium Metal Anodes ACS Energy Letters ·David Boyle,Xian Kong,Allen Pei,Paul E. Rudnicki,Feifei Shi,William Huang,Zhenan Bao,Jian Qin,Yi Cui	2020	150
17	Phthalate esters in atmospheric PM2.5 at Mount Tai, north China plain: Concentrations and sources in the background and urban area Atmospheric Environment ·Saifu Saifu,Yan Yin,Kui Chen,Xin Zhang,Kyi Tha Kyi,Hui Jiang,Honglei Wang,Yi Cui,Chuan He,Cláudia Márcia M. Figueiredo	2019	17
18	Transparent air filter for high-efficiency PM2.5 capturebreakdown → Nature Communications ·Chong Liu,Po‐Chun Hsu,Hyun‐Wook Lee,Meng Ye,Guangyuan Zheng,Nian Liu,Weiyang Li,Yi Cui	2015	847
19	Two-Dimensional Chalcogenide Nanoplates as Tunable Metamaterials via Chemical Intercalation Nano Letters ·J. Judy,Kristie J. Koski,Kevin Huang,Ken Xingze Wang,Weidong Luo,Desheng Kong,Zongfu Yu,Shanhui Fan,Mark L. Brongersma,Yi Cui	2013	61
20	Broadband light management using low-Q whispering gallery modes in spherical nanoshells Nature Communications ·Yan Yao,Jie Yao,V. Narasimhan,Zhichao Ruan,Chong Xie,Shanhui Fan,Yi Cui	2012	205

About Yi Cui

Yi Cui is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 146 papers that have together received 38.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advancements in Battery Materials (38 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (32 papers), Nanowire Synthesis and Applications (25 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (19 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers), Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (12 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (30.4k citations), Automotive Engineering (5.6k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (8.1k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (6.0k citations) and Polymers and Plastics (3.3k citations). Yi Cui has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Matthew T. McDowell, Desheng Kong, Yuan Yang, Liangbing Hu, Guangyuan Zheng, Haotian Wang, Jung‐Yong Lee, Peter Peumans, Seok Woo Lee and J. Judy. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Energy & Environmental Science.

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