Zhengyan Lun

6.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
42 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Zhengyan Lun is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhengyan Lun has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zhengyan Lun's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (34 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Zhengyan Lun is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (34 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Zhengyan Lun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Zhengyan Lun's co-authors include Gerbrand Ceder, Raphaële J. Clément, Bin Ouyang, Qianwang Chen, Yaosen Tian, Tan Shi, Yang Yang, Guoliang Xia, Mahalingam Balasubramanian and Haegyeom Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Zhengyan Lun

40 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation “Beyond Li-ion” Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization

2020 1.2k citations Yaosen Tian, Guobo Zeng et al. profile →
Reversible Mn2+/Mn4+ double redox in lithium-excess cathode materials

2018 618 citations Daniil A. Kitchaev, Deok‐Hwang Kwon et al. profile →
Cation-disordered rocksalt-type high-entropy cathodes for Li-ion batteries

2020 514 citations Zhengyan Lun, Bin Ouyang et al. Nature Materials profile →
Non-precious alloy encapsulated in nitrogen-doped graphene layers derived from MOFs as an active and durable hydrogen evolution reaction catalyst

2015 512 citations Yang Yang, Zhengyan Lun et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Cation-disordered rocksalt transition metal oxides and oxyfluorides for high energy lithium-ion cathodes

2020 412 citations Raphaële J. Clément, Zhengyan Lun et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhengyan Lun United States	24	4.3k	1.1k	1.0k	1.0k	997	42	5.1k
Gabin Yoon South Korea	43	6.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	1.8k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	64	7.2k
Dongdong Xiao China	45	5.4k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.7×	129	6.4k
Biwei Xiao China	45	6.5k 1.5×	1.7k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	1.9k 1.9×	91	7.6k
Chaozhu Shu China	43	4.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	928 0.9×	845 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	128	5.3k
Xuanxuan Bi United States	39	5.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.5×	1.6k 1.6×	903 0.9×	63	6.2k
Yongping Zheng China	39	3.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.4×	760 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	103	4.9k
Inchul Park South Korea	28	3.6k 0.8×	882 0.8×	760 0.7×	902 0.9×	720 0.7×	49	4.1k
Jie Shu China	45	6.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	1.9k 1.8×	585 0.6×	233	6.7k
Jiawei Wang China	35	4.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	931 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	755 0.8×	73	4.9k
Hua Huo China	40	4.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.2×	449 0.5×	136	5.3k

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Xu, Shenyang, Hao Chen, Liang Chang, et al.. (2025). Minimizing Inter‐Lattice Strain to Stabilize Li‐Rich Cathode by Order–Disorder Control. Advanced Materials. 37(32). e2418580–e2418580. 6 indexed citations

Lun, Zhengyan, Alice J. Merryweather, Amoghavarsha Mahadevegowda, et al.. (2025). Operando single-particle imaging reveals that asymmetric ion flux contributes to capacity degradation in aged Ni-rich layered cathodes. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(9). 4097–4107. 6 indexed citations

Bai, An, Fan Zhang, Bao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Structural chemistry of oxides: Oxygen vacancy dynamics. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 114. 32–51.

Qiu, Yubing, Nian Zhang, Yong Yang, et al.. (2025). Enabling the synthesis of O3-type sodium anion-redox cathodes via atmosphere modulation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2343–2343. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yuchen, Hao Chen, Runze Yu, et al.. (2024). Unlocking fast Li-ion transport in micrometer-sized Mn-based cation-disordered rocksalt cathodes. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 99. 645–653. 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yu, Zhengyan Lun, Krishna Prasad Koirala, et al.. (2024). Unlocking Li superionic conductivity in face-centred cubic oxides via face-sharing configurations. Nature Materials. 23(4). 535–542. 26 indexed citations

Zhong, Peichen, Bowen Deng, Tanjin He, Zhengyan Lun, & Gerbrand Ceder. (2024). Deep learning of experimental electrochemistry for battery cathodes across diverse compositions. Joule. 8(6). 1837–1854. 18 indexed citations

Chen, Yu, Ke Chen, Krishna Prasad Koirala, et al.. (2024). Coherent‐Precipitation‐Stabilized Phase Formation in Over‐Stoichiometric Rocksalt‐Type Li Superionic Conductors. Advanced Materials. 37(7). e2416342–e2416342. 3 indexed citations

Peña, J.I., et al.. (2024). Optimization of growth theory of the directionally solidified alumina based eutectic ceramics. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 982. 173783–173783.

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Chen, Hao, Yuchen Zhang, He Jia, et al.. (2024). Chelator optimization enabled defect engineering for cation disordered rocksalt cathodes via solution-based synthesis method. Energy storage materials. 75. 103990–103990. 2 indexed citations

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Jia, He, et al.. (2024). Design Principles for High‐Capacity, Long‐Life Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(16). 3 indexed citations

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Szymanski, Nathan J., Zhengyan Lun, Jue Liu, et al.. (2023). Modeling Short-Range Order in Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes by Pair Distribution Function Analysis. Chemistry of Materials. 35(13). 4922–4934. 22 indexed citations

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Cai, Zijian, Bin Ouyang, Tina Chen, et al.. (2023). In situ formed partially disordered phases as earth-abundant Mn-rich cathode materials. Nature Energy. 9(1). 27–36. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, Chunyang, Yining Li, Xiangsi Liu, et al.. (2023). A Critical Evaluation of Interfacial Stability in Li-excess Cation-disordered Rock-salt Oxide Cathode. Chemical Engineering Journal. 464. 142709–142709. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Jianping, Bin Ouyang, Yaqian Zhang, et al.. (2023). Inhibiting collective cation migration in Li-rich cathode materials as a strategy to mitigate voltage hysteresis. Nature Materials. 22(3). 353–361. 104 indexed citations

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Xu, Chao, Alice J. Merryweather, Zhengyan Lun, et al.. (2022). Operando visualization of kinetically induced lithium heterogeneities in single-particle layered Ni-rich cathodes. Joule. 6(11). 2535–2546. 80 indexed citations

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Cai, Zijian, Huiwen Ji, Yang Ha, et al.. (2021). Realizing continuous cation order-to-disorder tuning in a class of high-energy spinel-type Li-ion cathodes. Matter. 4(12). 3897–3916. 54 indexed citations

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Clément, Raphaële J., Zhengyan Lun, & Gerbrand Ceder. (2020). Cation-disordered rocksalt transition metal oxides and oxyfluorides for high energy lithium-ion cathodes. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(2). 345–373. 412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ji, Huiwen, Daniil A. Kitchaev, Zhengyan Lun, et al.. (2019). Computational Investigation and Experimental Realization of Disordered High-Capacity Li-Ion Cathodes Based on Ni Redox. Chemistry of Materials. 31(7). 2431–2442. 58 indexed citations

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Yang, Yang, Fangcai Zheng, Guoliang Xia, Zhengyan Lun, & Qianwang Chen. (2015). Experimental and theoretical investigations of nitro-group doped porous carbon as a high performance lithium-ion battery anode. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(36). 18657–18666. 55 indexed citations

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