Yuankai Li

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 959 citations indexed

About

Yuankai Li is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuankai Li has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 959 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yuankai Li's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (8 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Yuankai Li is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (14 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (8 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers). Yuankai Li collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United Kingdom. Yuankai Li's co-authors include Chenyang Xue, Danfeng Cui, Chaoquan Hu, Xinghang Liu, Hongmei Chen, Weitao Zheng, Jung Kyu Kim, Feixiang Chen, Hanjin Jiang and Yu Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yuankai Li

39 papers receiving 943 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.

3D Hydrogel Evaporator with Vertical Radiant Vessels Breaking the Trade‐Off between Thermal Localization and Salt Resistance for Solar Desalination of High‐Salinity

2022 240 citations Yuankai Li, Chaoquan Hu et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuankai Li China	16	599	373	264	244	190	41	959
Linfan Cui China	17	350 0.6×	555 1.5×	544 2.1×	178 0.7×	126 0.7×	23	1.1k
Qingnan Meng China	17	258 0.4×	159 0.4×	323 1.2×	173 0.7×	83 0.4×	43	675
Xiangtong Meng China	21	1.2k 2.0×	800 2.1×	892 3.4×	185 0.8×	193 1.0×	39	1.9k
Fanhong Chen China	9	627 1.0×	576 1.5×	244 0.9×	103 0.4×	46 0.2×	15	943
Zhitao Wang China	19	241 0.4×	911 2.4×	399 1.5×	327 1.3×	56 0.3×	37	1.2k
Zhengzheng Xie China	14	403 0.7×	694 1.9×	461 1.7×	324 1.3×	296 1.6×	27	1.2k
Patrick Feicht Germany	12	284 0.5×	333 0.9×	464 1.8×	116 0.5×	59 0.3×	15	892
Fandi Ning China	23	772 1.3×	863 2.3×	413 1.6×	161 0.7×	46 0.2×	56	1.3k
Zhipeng Liu China	19	877 1.5×	598 1.6×	623 2.4×	168 0.7×	49 0.3×	65	1.3k

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Li, Li, Jie Zhao, Xupeng Li, et al.. (2025). Collaborative improvement of interfacial properties of carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites through modulus/toughness matching and gradient interface. Composites Part B Engineering. 298. 112398–112398. 6 indexed citations

Roh, Seung Hun, Yuankai Li, Jun Young Kim, et al.. (2025). Plasmon induced field amplification for enhancing photoelectrochemical oxidative valorization. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 378. 125600–125600.

Li, Yuankai, Jaekyum Kim, Jaekyum Kim, et al.. (2025). Highly Selective Photoelectrochemical Glycerol Valorization toward Lactic Acid with Low-Valence Bimetallic Overlayer on CuWO₄. ACS Energy Letters. 10(5). 2305–2314. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yuankai, et al.. (2025). Dicationic 1-Germa and 1-Stannavinylidenes: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity. JACS Au. 5(3). 1289–1298. 1 indexed citations

Han, Xiaodong, et al.. (2025). Organic fertilizer application rates affect rhizosphere microbial communities and yield optimization in potato (Solanum tuberosum L. V7). Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1651178–1651178.

Hou, Ying, Chengkai Xia, Siyan Wang, et al.. (2024). Beyond Water Splitting: Developing Economic Friendly Photoelectrochemical Value-added Reactions for Green Solar-to-Chemical Energy Conversions. Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering. 43(1). 19–42. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Yao, Ran Liu, Lei Yue, et al.. (2024). Optical properties of Sn-substituted GeTe phase-change materials under high pressure. Ceramics International. 50(10). 17727–17735. 2 indexed citations

Hu, Chaoquan, Xiaoyu Zhang, Yuankai Li, et al.. (2023). Far-infrared transparent conductors. Light Science & Applications. 12(1). 98–98. 10 indexed citations

Li, Yuankai, Min Cheol Kim, Chengkai Xia, et al.. (2023). A natural molecule-driven organometallic conformal overlayer for high efficiency photoelectrochemical water splitting. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 343. 123516–123516. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Yuankai, Punit Prakash, Balasubramaniam Natarajan, et al.. (2022). Experimental Validation of Diffraction Lithography for Fabrication of Solid Microneedles. Materials. 15(24). 8934–8934. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Yuankai, Minyeong Je, Jaekyum Kim, et al.. (2022). Rational nanopositioning of homogeneous amorphous phase on crystalline tungsten oxide for boosting solar water oxidation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 438. 135532–135532. 34 indexed citations

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Pei, Chengang, Min Cheol Kim, Yuankai Li, et al.. (2022). Electron Transfer‐Induced Metal Spin‐Crossover at NiCo₂S₄/ReS₂ 2D–2D Interfaces for Promoting pH‐universal Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(4). 68 indexed citations

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Hu, Chaoquan, Yuankai Li, Zhiqing Gu, et al.. (2020). In situ growth of ultra-smooth or super-rough thin films by suppression of vertical or horizontal growth of surface mounds. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(9). 3248–3257. 8 indexed citations

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Fan, Yanyun, Hongmei Chen, Yuankai Li, et al.. (2020). PANI-Co3O4 with excellent specific capacitance as an electrode for supercapacitors. Ceramics International. 47(6). 8433–8440. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanjun, Chang Liu, Hongmei Chen, et al.. (2020). Combining in-situ sedimentation and carbon-assisted synthesis of Co3O4/g-C3N4 nanocomposites for improved supercapacitor performance. Diamond and Related Materials. 111. 108165–108165. 39 indexed citations

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Chen, Hongmei, Chenyang Xue, Danfeng Cui, et al.. (2020). Co₃O₄–Ag photocatalysts for the efficient degradation of methyl orange. RSC Advances. 10(26). 15245–15251. 44 indexed citations

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Xia, Chengkai, et al.. (2020). A highly activated iron phosphate over-layer for enhancing photoelectrochemical ammonia decomposition. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 408. 124900–124900. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianbo, Qian Li, Yuankai Li, et al.. (2019). Improving the reflectance and color contrasts of phase-change materials by vacancy reduction for optical-storage and display applications. Optics Letters. 45(1). 244–244. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Qian, Xiaoyi Wang, Haihua Huang, et al.. (2019). The role of structural order and stiffness in the simultaneous enhancement of optical contrast and thermal stability in phase change materials. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 7(14). 4132–4142. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Chao, Chaoquan Hu, Jianbo Wang, et al.. (2018). Understanding phase-change materials with unexpectedly low resistance drift for phase-change memories. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(13). 3387–3394. 22 indexed citations

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