Yimin Mao

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
75 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yimin Mao is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yimin Mao has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Biomaterials, 30 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yimin Mao's work include Polymer crystallization and properties (21 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (18 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (14 papers). Yimin Mao is often cited by papers focused on Polymer crystallization and properties (21 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (18 papers) and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties (14 papers). Yimin Mao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Yimin Mao's co-authors include Benjamin S. Hsiao, Zhong‐Ming Li, Liangbing Hu, Jia‐Zhuang Xu, Baoqing Zeng, Tao Chen, Chuan‐Lu Yang, Tangyuan Li, Christian Bürger and Benjamin Chu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yimin Mao

73 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys

2021 200 citations Yonggang Yao, Zhennan Huang et al. Matter profile →
Nanocellulose‐Carboxymethylcellulose Electrolyte for Stable, High‐Rate Zinc‐Ion Batteries

2023 157 citations Taotao Meng, Tangyuan Li et al. profile →
A Biomimetic “Salting Out—Alignment—Locking” Tactic to Design Strong and Tough Hydrogel

2024 105 citations Xia Sun, Yimin Mao et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yimin Mao United States	30	1.2k	962	767	684	652	75	3.1k
Min Wook Lee South Korea	31	1.0k 0.9×	869 0.9×	959 1.3×	643 0.9×	711 1.1×	106	3.0k
Yi Zhong China	36	1.1k 1.0×	680 0.7×	968 1.3×	885 1.3×	425 0.7×	156	3.6k
Bo Wang China	32	624 0.5×	998 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	795 1.2×	399 0.6×	180	3.4k
Shun Yu Sweden	25	468 0.4×	941 1.0×	724 0.9×	823 1.2×	600 0.9×	66	2.6k
Ling Lin China	26	654 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	1.1k 1.6×	615 0.9×	53	4.0k
Yan Wu China	31	896 0.8×	984 1.0×	865 1.1×	478 0.7×	297 0.5×	127	2.9k
Mattia Bartoli Italy	32	600 0.5×	420 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.7×	439 0.7×	143	3.4k
Peng Qi China	32	1.1k 0.9×	462 0.5×	836 1.1×	1.5k 2.2×	1.2k 1.9×	141	3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yimin Mao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Teng, Zi, Yimin Mao, Li Yang, et al.. (2025). Optimizing microgreen cultivation through post-crosslinked alginate-gellan gum hydrogel substrates with enhanced porosity and structural integrity. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 309(Pt 3). 142905–142905.

Jia, Xiaoxue, et al.. (2024). Innovative production of phosphoric acid-hydrolyzed chitin nanocrystals for Pickering emulsion stabilization. Food Bioscience. 60. 104308–104308. 3 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxue, Xin Zhang, Yue Li, et al.. (2024). Ion-chelated porous chitosan nanocrystal for highly efficient postharvest preservation. Matter. 7(7). 2567–2580. 12 indexed citations

Jia, Xiaoxue, Xin Zhang, Yiyang He, et al.. (2024). Highly-efficient method for chitin nanocrystal production using solid-state phosphoric acid hydrolysis. Cellulose. 31(15). 9129–9138. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Yimin, Peihua Ma, Tangyuan Li, et al.. (2024). Flash heating process for efficient meat preservation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3893–3893. 8 indexed citations

Shi, Jialiang, Yimin Mao, & Yong‐Cheng Shi. (2024). Effects of crystallization temperature on structure and digestibility of spherulites formed from debranched high-amylose maize starch. Carbohydrate Polymers. 342. 122332–122332. 5 indexed citations

Sun, Xia, Yimin Mao, Zhengyang Yu, Pu Yang, & Feng Jiang. (2024). A Biomimetic “Salting Out—Alignment—Locking” Tactic to Design Strong and Tough Hydrogel. Advanced Materials. 36(25). e2400084–e2400084. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Xiaoliang, Lilin He, Shuo Qian, et al.. (2023). Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework. Nature Communications. 14(1). 973–973. 41 indexed citations

Neil, Chelsea W., Rex P. Hjelm, Marilyn E. Hawley, et al.. (2023). Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Investigation of Oil Recovery in Mineralogically Distinct Wolfcamp Shale Strata. Energy & Fuels. 37(7). 4937–4947. 6 indexed citations

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Jia, Xiaoxue, et al.. (2023). Development of Stable Pickering Emulsions with TEMPO-Oxidized Chitin Nanocrystals for Encapsulation of Quercetin. Foods. 12(2). 367–367. 15 indexed citations

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Neil, Chelsea W., Hakim Boukhalfa, Hongwu Xu, et al.. (2022). Gas diffusion through variably-water-saturated zeolitic tuff: Implications for transport following a subsurface nuclear event. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 250. 106905–106905. 10 indexed citations

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Azarafza, Mohammad, Yaser A. Nanehkaran, Haluk Akgün, & Yimin Mao. (2021). Application of an image processing-based algorithm for river-side granular sediment gradation distribution analysis. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 10(3). 229–244. 18 indexed citations

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Yao, Yonggang, Zhennan Huang, Lauren A. Hughes, et al.. (2021). Extreme mixing in nanoscale transition metal alloys. Matter. 4(7). 2340–2353. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yao, Yonggang, Zhenyu Liu, Pengfei Xie, et al.. (2020). Computationally aided, entropy-driven synthesis of highly efficient and durable multi-elemental alloy catalysts. Science Advances. 6(11). eaaz0510–eaaz0510. 270 indexed citations

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Neil, Chelsea W., Rex P. Hjelm, Marilyn E. Hawley, et al.. (2020). Small-angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) Characterization of Clay- and Carbonate-rich Shale at Elevated Pressures. Energy & Fuels. 34(7). 8178–8185. 26 indexed citations

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Neil, Chelsea W., Mohamed Mehana, Rex P. Hjelm, et al.. (2020). Reduced methane recovery at high pressure due to methane trapping in shale nanopores. Communications Earth & Environment. 1(1). 39 indexed citations

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Mao, Yimin, Shubo Han, Evgeny O. Danilov, et al.. (2020). Aggregation Controlled Charge Generation in Fullerene Based Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells: Effect of Additive. Polymers. 13(1). 115–115. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xin, Yimin Mao, Madhusudan Tyagi, et al.. (2019). Molecular partitioning in ternary solutions of cellulose. Carbohydrate Polymers. 220. 157–162. 4 indexed citations

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Mao, Yimin & Peter Y. Zavalij. (2018). Two furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid solvates crystallized from dimethylformamide and dimethyl sulfoxide. Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry. 74(8). 986–990. 5 indexed citations

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Xiao-hong, Deng, et al.. (2013). Authentication and Recovery of Medical Diagnostic Image Using Dual Reversible Digital Watermarking. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 13(3). 2099–2107. 31 indexed citations

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