Ankun Yang

7.6k citations

56 papers · 6.3k · 3 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Automotive Engineering top 0.5%
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 2%
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Papers in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 16
- Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications 13
Biomedical Engineering 27
- Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research 17

Co-authors: Yi Ping Cui (24 shared papers)Teri W. Odom (12 shared papers)Dingchang Lin (7 shared papers)Jinwei Xu (9 shared papers)Hansen Wang (8 shared papers)Hao Chen (9 shared papers)Allen Pei (10 shared papers)George Chappell Schatz (5 shared papers)
Journals: Nano Letters (10 papers)Nature Communications (6 papers)Journal of the American Ceramic Society (3 papers)Science Advances (3 papers)Nature Nanotechnology (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Philippines

In The Last Decade

Ankun Yang

54 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Ankun Yang's Hit Papers

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Uniform High Ionic Conducting Lithium Sulfide Protection Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode 2019 · 444 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2019 Advanced Energy Materials
2018 Advanced Materials
2017 Nature Communications

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1	Spectrally Selective Nanocomposite Textile for Outdoor Personal Cooling Advanced Materials ·Lili Cai, Yu Song, W. Li, Po‐Chun Hsu, Dingchang Lin, Peter B. Catrysse, Yayuan Liu, Yucan Peng, J H Chen, Hongxia Wang, Jinwei Xu, Ankun Yang, Fan Shanhui, Yi Ping Cui Hit paper breakdown →	2018	565
2	Uniform High Ionic Conducting Lithium Sulfide Protection Layer for Stable Lithium Metal Anode Advanced Energy Materials ·Hao Chen, Allen Pei, Dingchang Lin, Jin Xie, Ankun Yang, Jinwei Xu, Kaixiang Lin, Jiangyan Wang, Hansen Wang, Feifei Shi, David Thomas Boyle, Yi Ping Cui Hit paper breakdown →	2019	444
3	Real-time tunable lasing from plasmonic nanocavity arrays Nature Communications ·Ankun Yang, Thang B. Hoang, Montacer Dridi, Claire Deeb, Maiken H. Mikkelsen, George Chappell Schatz, Teri W. Odom	2015	372
4	Warming up human body by nanoporous metallized polyethylene textile Nature Communications ·Lili Cai, Yu Song, Pei‐Lin Wu, Po-Chun Hsu, Yucan Peng, J H Chen, Chong Liu, Peter B. Catrysse, Yayuan Liu, Ankun Yang, Chenxing Zhou, Chenyu Zhou, Fan Shanhui, Yi Ping Cui Hit paper breakdown →	2017	369
5	Spatially controlled doping of two-dimensional SnS2 through intercalation for electronics Nature Nanotechnology ·Yongji Gong, Hongtao Yuan, Chun-Lan Wu, Peizhe Tang, Shize Yang, Ankun Yang, Guodong Li, Bofei Liu, Jorik van de Groep, Mark L. Brongersma, Matthew F. Chisholm, (unknown), Wu Zhou, Yi Ping Cui	2018	336
6	Ultralight and fire-extinguishing current collectors for high-energy and high-safety lithium-ion batteries Nature Energy ·Yusheng Ye, Lien‐Yang Chou, Yayuan Liu, Hansen Wang, Hiang Kwee Lee, Wenxiao Huang, Jiayu Wan, K Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Yufei Yang, Ankun Yang, Xin Xiao, Xin Gao, David Thomas Boyle, Hao Chen, Wenbo Zhang, Sang Cheol Kim, Yi Ping Cui	2020	310
7	A binder-free high silicon content flexible anode for Li-ion batteries Energy & Environmental Science ·Hanwei Wang, Jinzhou Fu, Chao Wang, Jiangyan Wang, Ankun Yang, Caicai Li, Qingfeng Sun, Yi Ping Cui, Huiqiao Li	2019	307
8	Fast lithium growth and short circuit induced by localized-temperature hotspots in lithium batteries Nature Communications ·Yangying Zhu, Jin Xie, Allen Pei, Bofei Liu, Yecun Wu, Dingchang Lin, Jun Li, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, Jinwei Xu, Ankun Yang, Chun-Lan Wu, Hongxia Wang, Wei Chen, Yi Ping Cui	2019	294
9	Thermal Management in Nanofiber-Based Face Mask Nano Letters ·Ankun Yang, Lili Cai, Rufan Zhang, Jiangyan Wang, Po‐Chun Hsu, Hongxia Wang, Guangmin Zhou, Jinwei Xu, Yi Ping Cui	2017	261
10	Tortuosity Effects in Lithium-Metal Host Anodes Joule ·Hao Chen, Allen Pei, Jiayu Wan, Dingchang Lin, Rafael A. Vilá, Hongxia Wang, David G. Mackanic, Hans-Georg Steinrueck, William Huang, Yuzhang Li, Ankun Yang, Jin Xie, Yecun Wu, Hansen Wang, Yi Ping Cui	2020	224
11	Dynamic spatial progression of isolated lithium during battery operations Nature ·Fang Liu, Rong Xu, Yecun Wu, David Thomas Boyle, Ankun Yang, Jinwei Xu, Yangying Zhu, Yusheng Ye, Zhiao Yu, Zewen Zhang, Xin Xiao, Wenxiao Huang, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, Yi Ping Cui	2021	223
12	Wrinkled Graphene Cages as Hosts for High-Capacity Li Metal Anodes Shown by Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Nano Letters ·Hansen Wang, Yuzhang Li, Yanbin Li, Yayuan Liu, Dingchang Lin, Cheng Yi Zhu, Guangxu Chen, Ankun Yang, Kai Tuan Yan, Hao Chen, Yangying Zhu, Jun Li, Jin Xie, Jinwei Xu, Zewen Zhang, Rafael A. Vilá, Allen Pei, Kecheng Wang, Yi Ping Cui	2019	212
13	Fundamental study on the wetting property of liquid lithium Energy storage materials ·Jiangyan Wang, Hansen Wang, Jin Xie, Ankun Yang, Allen Pei, Chun-Lan Wu, Feifei Shi, Yayuan Liu, Dingchang Lin, Yongji Gong, Yi Ping Cui	2018	195
14	Band-edge engineering for controlled multi-modal nanolasing in plasmonic superlattices Nature Nanotechnology ·Danqing Wang, Ankun Yang, Weijia Wang, Yi Hua, Richard D. Schaller, George Chappell Schatz, Teri W. Odom	2017	190
15	Deterministic Coupling of Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials to Plasmonic Nanocavity Arrays Nano Letters ·Toan Trong Tran, Danqing Wang, Zai‐Quan Xu, Ankun Yang, Milos Toth, Teri W. Odom, Igor Aharonovich	2017	183
16	Reversible and selective ion intercalation through the top surface of few-layer MoS2 Nature Communications ·Jinsong Zhang, Ankun Yang, Xi Wu, Jorik van de Groep, Peizhe Tang, Shaorui Li, Bofei Liu, Feifei Shi, Jiayu Wan, Qitong Li, Yongming Sun, Zhiyi Lu, X. R. Zheng, Guangmin Zhou, Chun-Lan Wu, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Mark L. Brongersma, Jia Zhao Li, Yi Ping Cui	2018	154
17	Programmable and reversible plasmon mode engineering Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ankun Yang, Alexander J. Hryn, Marc R. Bourgeois, Won‐Kyu Lee, Jingtian Hu, George Chappell Schatz, Teri W. Odom	2016	144
18	Supercooled liquid sulfur maintained in three-dimensional current collector for high-performance Li-S batteries Science Advances ·Guangmin Zhou, Ankun Yang, Guoping Gao, Xiaoyun Yu, Jinwei Xu, Chenwei Liu, Yusheng Ye, Allen Pei, Yecun Wu, Yucan Peng, Yanxi Li, Zheng Yong Liang, K Liu, Lin‐Wang Wang, Yi Ping Cui	2020	124
19	Unidirectional Lasing from Template-Stripped Two-Dimensional Plasmonic Crystals ACS Nano ·Ankun Yang, Zhongyang Li, Michael P. Knudson, Alexander J. Hryn, Weijia Wang, Koray Aydın, Teri W. Odom	2015	101
20	Electrochemical generation of liquid and solid sulfur on two-dimensional layered materials with distinct areal capacities Nature Nanotechnology ·Ankun Yang, Guangmin Zhou, Xian Kong, Rafael A. Vilá, Allen Pei, Yecun Wu, Xiaoyun Yu, X. R. Zheng, Chun-Lan Wu, Bofei Liu, Hao Chen, Yan Xu, Di Chen, Yanxi Li, Sirine C. Fakra, Harold Y. Hwang, Jian Zhao Qin, Steven Chu, (unknown)	2020	93

About Ankun Yang

Ankun Yang is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 56 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (17 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (13 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (12 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (11 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (7 papers), Advanced Battery Technologies Research (5 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (5 papers) and Graphene research and applications (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Automotive Engineering (1.3k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (1.4k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (3.4k citations), Civil and Structural Engineering (934 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (1.7k citations). Ankun Yang has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Philippines. Frequent co-authors include Yi Ping Cui, Teri W. Odom, Dingchang Lin, Jinwei Xu, Hansen Wang, Hao Chen, Allen Pei, George Chappell Schatz, Jiangyan Wang and Yayuan Liu. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Science Advances and Nature Nanotechnology.

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