Yi Lin

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Yi Lin is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yi Lin has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Materials Chemistry, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yi Lin's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Graphene research and applications (27 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (22 papers). Yi Lin is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (31 papers), Graphene research and applications (27 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (22 papers). Yi Lin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Puerto Rico and China. Yi Lin's co-authors include John W. Connell, Tiffany V. Williams, John W. Connell, Liming Dai, Liangbing Hu, Wei Cao, Hani E. Elsayed-Ali, Jiantie Xu, Tian-Bing Xu and Chuangang Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yi Lin

75 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Advances in 2D boron nitride nanostructures: nanosheets, nanoribbons, nanomeshes, and hybrids with graphene

2012 770 citations Yi Lin, John W. Connell Nanoscale profile →
Soluble, Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets

2009 671 citations Yi Lin, John W. Connell et al. profile →
Aqueous Dispersions of Few-Layered and Monolayered Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanosheets from Sonication-Assisted Hydrolysis: Critical Role of Water

2011 551 citations Yi Lin, Wei Cao et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yi Lin	3.8k	2.8k	1.4k	1.1k	847	77	6.5k
Qunhong Weng	4.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	73	7.0k
Xierong Zeng	3.1k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	240	6.3k
Peigen Zhang	3.4k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	946 0.8×	750 0.9×	213	5.9k
Xiaohong Sun	2.3k 0.6×	3.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	991 0.9×	637 0.8×	157	6.1k
Jane Yao	3.7k 1.0×	3.9k 1.4×	2.3k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	611 0.7×	23	6.2k
Anass Benayad	3.3k 0.9×	3.8k 1.4×	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	576 0.7×	104	6.1k
Xiangfen Jiang	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	856 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	82	5.5k
Ronghua Wang	2.0k 0.5×	3.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.9×	743 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	97	6.0k
Young Soo Yoon	3.4k 0.9×	5.5k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	1.7k 2.0×	255	7.4k
Feng Hou	2.4k 0.6×	3.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	619 0.5×	1.8k 2.1×	198	7.0k

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Li, You, et al.. (2025). Microwave-hydrothermal graphene synergy boosts α-MnO2 cathode for high-performance Zn-Ion batteries. Materials Research Bulletin. 196. 113891–113891.

Lin, Yi, et al.. (2025). Toward 500 Wh Kg⁻¹ in Specific Energy with Ultrahigh Areal Capacity All‐Solid‐State Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. Small. 21(29). e2409536–e2409536. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Yi, et al.. (2024). A review of high-capacity lithium-rich manganese-based cathode materials for a new generation of lithium batteries. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 572. 122239–122239. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Yuxuan, Xiao Yang, Wei Xun, et al.. (2024). A buried interface modification strategy for enhancing the photovoltaic performance of NiOx-based inverted perovskite solar cells. Vacuum. 222. 113057–113057. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Qinglian, Yi Lin, Yin Wang, et al.. (2024). Investigation on catalytic distillation dehydrogenation of perhydro-benzyltoluene: Reaction kinetics, modeling and process analysis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 482. 148591–148591.

Lu, Linguo, et al.. (2024). Holey penta-hexagonal graphene: a promising anode material for Li-ion batteries. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(9). 7335–7342. 5 indexed citations

Tripathi, Balram, Rajesh K. Katiyar, Rajesh K. Katiyar, et al.. (2023). Holey Graphene/Ferroelectric/Sulfur Composite Cathodes for High-Capacity Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Omega. 8(14). 13097–13108. 11 indexed citations

Kuo, Ming‐Tse, Yi Lin, Po‐Chiung Fang, et al.. (2022). Deep Learning Approach in Image Diagnosis of Pseudomonas Keratitis. Diagnostics. 12(12). 2948–2948. 8 indexed citations

Lin, Yi, et al.. (2022). Scalable Dry-Pressed Electrodes Based on Holey Graphene. Accounts of Chemical Research. 55(20). 3020–3031. 25 indexed citations

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Hu, Chuangang, Lele Gong, Ying Xiao, et al.. (2020). High‐Performance, Long‐Life, Rechargeable Li–CO₂ Batteries based on a 3D Holey Graphene Cathode Implanted with Single Iron Atoms. Advanced Materials. 32(16). e1907436–e1907436. 170 indexed citations

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Sun, Sam‐Shajing, et al.. (2020). Dry-pressed lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NCM) cathodes enabled by holey graphene host. Electrochimica Acta. 362. 137129–137129. 17 indexed citations

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Lin, Yi, et al.. (2020). Shuttling Induced Starvation of Redox Mediators in High Areal Capacity Rechargeable Lithium-Oxygen Batteries. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 167(8). 80522–80522. 10 indexed citations

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Xu, Shaomao, Chaoji Chen, Yudi Kuang, et al.. (2018). Flexible lithium–CO₂ battery with ultrahigh capacity and stable cycling. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(11). 3231–3237. 136 indexed citations

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Jin, Yachao, Chuangang Hu, Quanbin Dai, et al.. (2018). High‐Performance Li‐CO₂ Batteries Based on Metal‐Free Carbon Quantum Dot/Holey Graphene Composite Catalysts. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(47). 145 indexed citations

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Chen, Yanan, Yilin Wang, Shuze Zhu, et al.. (2018). Nanomanufacturing of graphene nanosheets through nano-hole opening and closing. Materials Today. 24. 26–32. 67 indexed citations

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Liao, Yunlong, Wei Cao, John W. Connell, Zhongfang Chen, & Yi Lin. (2016). Evolution of Moiré Profiles from van der Waals Superstructures of Boron Nitride Nanosheets. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26084–26084. 24 indexed citations

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Liao, Yunlong, Kaixiong Tu, Xiaogang Han, et al.. (2015). Oxidative Etching of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Toward Nanosheets with Defined Edges and Holes. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 14510–14510. 63 indexed citations

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Lin, Yi, Kent A. Watson, Jae Woo Kim, et al.. (2013). Bulk preparation of holey graphene via controlled catalytic oxidation. Nanoscale. 5(17). 7814–7814. 102 indexed citations

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Lin, Yi & John W. Connell. (2012). Advances in 2D boron nitride nanostructures: nanosheets, nanoribbons, nanomeshes, and hybrids with graphene. Nanoscale. 4(22). 6908–6908. 770 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Jae Woo, Emilie J. Siochi, Kristopher E. Wise, et al.. (2011). In situmechanical property measurements of amorphous carbon–boron nitride nanotube nanostructures. Nanotechnology. 23(3). 35701–35701. 4 indexed citations

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