Yongqing Cai

14.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
217 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Yongqing Cai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Yongqing Cai has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Materials Chemistry, 92 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Yongqing Cai's work include 2D Materials and Applications (87 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (51 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (44 papers). Yongqing Cai is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (87 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (51 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (44 papers). Yongqing Cai collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and Macao. Yongqing Cai's co-authors include Yong‐Wei Zhang, Gang Zhang, Yuan Ping Feng, Qingqing Ke, Jinghua Lan, Chun Zhang, Kun Zhou, Hejin Yan, Si Li and Benjamin C. K. Tee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Yongqing Cai

210 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Polarity-Reversed Robust Carrier Mobility in Monolayer MoS₂ Nanoribbons

2014 837 citations Yongqing Cai, Yong‐Wei Zhang et al. profile →
Layer-dependent Band Alignment and Work Function of Few-Layer Phosphorene

2014 721 citations Yongqing Cai, Yong‐Wei Zhang et al. profile →
Self-healing electronic skins for aquatic environments

2019 542 citations Yongqing Cai et al. profile →
A transparent, self-healing and high-κ dielectric for low-field-emission stretchable optoelectronics

2019 260 citations Yongqing Cai et al. profile →
Prussian blue analogs cathodes for aqueous zinc ion batteries

2022 188 citations Yongqing Cai et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yongqing Cai Singapore	54	9.1k	5.2k	1.9k	1.8k	1.5k	217	12.2k
Yufeng Hao China	48	9.4k 1.0×	5.4k 1.0×	4.1k 2.2×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	118	12.6k
Ki Kang Kim South Korea	51	12.7k 1.4×	6.2k 1.2×	4.4k 2.3×	1.3k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	168	15.4k
Xidong Duan China	56	12.7k 1.4×	8.3k 1.6×	2.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	171	16.2k
Sumeet Walia Australia	49	4.9k 0.5×	4.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	830 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	182	8.1k
Jun Xu China	63	8.0k 0.9×	6.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	2.9k 1.6×	2.5k 1.6×	270	12.2k
Xinqi Chen China	41	4.8k 0.5×	4.0k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	131	8.5k
Wonbong Choi United States	53	7.6k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.3×	957 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	187	10.5k
Ana Laura Elías United States	47	9.7k 1.1×	5.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	104	11.7k
Alicja Bachmatiuk Germany	51	7.5k 0.8×	4.4k 0.8×	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	196	10.3k
Qi Zhang China	45	6.1k 0.7×	4.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	303	8.4k

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Li, Wei, Aijun Zhang, Yongqing Cai, et al.. (2025). Jinbei Decoction Attenuates LPS‐Induced Acute Lung Injury via Suppression of TRAF6‐Dependent Inflammatory Response in Macrophage. Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. 29(21). e70944–e70944.

Yan, Xuefei, et al.. (2024). Orbital hybridization and defective states of vacancy defects in AlN. Materials Today Communications. 39. 109063–109063. 2 indexed citations

Shu, Zheng, Zhangsheng Shi, Man‐Fai Ng, Teck Leong Tan, & Yongqing Cai. (2024). Unveiling the effect of solvent for hydrogen evolution in Pt-doped MXenes and corresponding high-entropy phase. Materials Today Sustainability. 26. 100808–100808. 4 indexed citations

Gu, Hao, Junmin Xia, Li Wang, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale phase management of the 2D/3D heterostructure toward efficient perovskite solar cells. Science Bulletin. 69(18). 2853–2861. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Lishu, Jie Yang, Jun Zhou, et al.. (2024). Van der Waals spin-orbit torque antiferromagnetic memory. Physical review. B.. 110(22). 2 indexed citations

Tang, Silin, et al.. (2023). Achieving improved electrocaloric effect and broad operation temperature by tailoring phase fraction in BaTiO3-based ceramics. Ceramics International. 50(7). 10825–10834. 5 indexed citations

Cai, Yongqing, et al.. (2023). Computational Study of Strong Phonon Softening and Electron–Phonon Interaction in Doped Monolayer Tellurene: Implications for Neuromorphic Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(19). 17457–17463. 2 indexed citations

Niu, Yutao, et al.. (2023). Self‐Intercalated Magnetic Heterostructures in 2D Chromium Telluride (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2/2023). Advanced Functional Materials. 33(2). 2 indexed citations

Yin, Tingting, Hejin Yan, Ibrahim Abdelwahab, et al.. (2023). Pressure driven rotational isomerism in 2D hybrid perovskites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 411–411. 33 indexed citations

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Cai, Yongqing, et al.. (2023). Nanopore rigidity as an atomic descriptor of ion-transfer kinetics in sieving membranes: Insights from two-dimensional g-C3N4. Materials Today Nano. 25. 100437–100437. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Hongfei, et al.. (2023). Additive Molecules Adsorbed on Monolayer PbI₂: Atomic Mechanism of Solvent Engineering for Perovskite Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(27). 32475–32486. 18 indexed citations

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Xia, Junmin, Hao Gu, Chao Liang, Yongqing Cai, & Guichuan Xing. (2022). Manipulation of Band Alignment in Two-Dimensional Vertical WSe₂/BA₂PbI₄ Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskite Heterojunctions via Defect Engineering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(20). 4579–4588. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Pu, et al.. (2022). Oxygen deficient α-MoO₃ with enhanced adsorption and state-quenching of H₂O for gas sensing: a DFT study. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(5). 1839–1849. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Pu, et al.. (2022). Versatile van der Waals heterostructures of γ-GeSe with h-BN/graphene/MoS₂. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(30). 10995–11004. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, Bowen, Xuefei Yan, Hejin Yan, & Yongqing Cai. (2022). Strong reduction of thermal conductivity of WSe ₂ with introduction of atomic defects. Nanotechnology. 33(27). 275706–275706. 7 indexed citations

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Kripalani, Devesh R., Yongqing Cai, Jun Lou, & Kun Zhou. (2022). Strong Edge Stress in Molecularly Thin Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Ruddlesden–Popper Perovskites and Modulations of Their Edge Electronic Properties. ACS Nano. 16(1). 261–270. 11 indexed citations

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Ma, Fuyin, Yongqing Cai, & Jiu Hui Wu. (2020). Ultralight plat-type vibration damper with designable working bandwidth and strong multi-peak suppression performance. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(5). 55303–55303. 25 indexed citations

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Shu, Zheng & Yongqing Cai. (2020). Substitutional doped GeSe: tunable oxidative states with strain engineering. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(39). 13655–13667. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Jiu Hui, et al.. (2019). Investigation on dynamic effective parameters of perforated thin-plate acoustic metamaterials. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(40). 405301–405301. 15 indexed citations

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Yu, Yifei, Yiling Yu, Chao Xu, et al.. (2016). Engineering Substrate Interactions for High Luminescence Efficiency of Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(26). 4733–4739. 169 indexed citations

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