Yi Cui

Research interests

Publications

• Molecular design for electrolyte solvents enabling energy-dense and long-cycling lithium metal batteries

  Nature Energy · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0634-5

• Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials

  Nature Energy · 2019 · 10.1038/s41560-019-0405-3

• Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries

  Nature Energy · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0338-x

• Energy storage: The future enabled by nanomaterials

  Science · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan8285

• Ultrathin, flexible, solid polymer composite electrolyte enabled with aligned nanoporous host for lithium batteries

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0465-3

• Designing polymers for advanced battery chemistries

  Nature Reviews Materials · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-019-0103-6

• High-Performance Anode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries

  Electrochemical Energy Reviews · 2018 · 10.1007/s41918-018-0001-4

• High-efficiency oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide catalysed by oxidized carbon materials

  Nature Catalysis · 2018 · 10.1038/s41929-017-0017-x

• Robust and conductive two-dimensional metal−organic frameworks with exceptionally high volumetric and areal capacitance

  Nature Energy · 2017 · 10.1038/s41560-017-0044-5

• Reviving the lithium metal anode for high-energy batteries

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2017.16

• The path towards sustainable energy

  Nature Materials · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4834

• Designing high-energy lithium–sulfur batteries

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2016 · 10.1039/c5cs00410a

• Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth

  Nature Energy · 2016 · 10.1038/nenergy.2016.10

• Layered reduced graphene oxide with nanoscale interlayer gaps as a stable host for lithium metal anodes

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2016 · 10.1038/nnano.2016.32

• A pomegranate-inspired nanoscale design for large-volume-change lithium battery anodes

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2014 · 10.1038/nnano.2014.6

• Interconnected hollow carbon nanospheres for stable lithium metal anodes

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2014 · 10.1038/nnano.2014.152

• Nanostructured sulfur cathodes

  Chemical Society Reviews · 2013 · 10.1039/c2cs35256g

• Synthesis of MoS 2 and MoSe 2 Films with Vertically Aligned Layers

  Nano Letters · 2013 · 10.1021/nl400258t

• Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene

  ACS Nano · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1021/nn400280c

• Designing nanostructured Si anodes for high energy lithium ion batteries

  Nano Today · 2012 · 10.1016/j.nantod.2012.08.004

• A Yolk-Shell Design for Stabilized and Scalable Li-Ion Battery Alloy Anodes

  Nano Letters · 2012 · 10.1021/nl3014814

• Hierarchical nanostructured conducting polymer hydrogel with high electrochemical activity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 10.1073/pnas.1202636109

• Hybrid nanostructured materials for high-performance electrochemical capacitors

  Nano Energy · 2012 · 10.1016/j.nanoen.2012.10.006

• Enhancing the Supercapacitor Performance of Graphene/MnO 2 Nanostructured Electrodes by Conductive Wrapping

  Nano Letters · 2011 · 10.1021/nl2026635

• Graphene-Wrapped Sulfur Particles as a Rechargeable Lithium–Sulfur Battery Cathode Material with High Capacity and Cycling Stability

  Nano Letters · 2011 · 10.1021/nl200658a

• Solution-Processed Graphene/MnO2 Nanostructured Textiles for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitors

  Nano Letters · 2011 · 10.1021/nl2013828

• Thin, Flexible Secondary Li-Ion Paper Batteries

  ACS Nano · 2010 · 10.1021/nn1018158

• Stretchable, Porous, and Conductive Energy Textiles

  Nano Letters · 2010 · 10.1021/nl903949m

• Mn3O4−Graphene Hybrid as a High-Capacity Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries

  Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2010 · 10.1021/ja105296a

• Highly conductive paper for energy-storage devices

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0908858106

• High-performance lithium battery anodes using silicon nanowires

  Nature Nanotechnology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2007.411

• High Performance Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Transistors

  Nano Letters · 2003 · 10.1021/nl025875l

• Highly Polarized Photoluminescence and Photodetection from Single Indium Phosphide Nanowires

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1062340

• Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species

  Science · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1062711

• Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/35051047

• Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.1066192

• Functional Nanoscale Electronic Devices Assembled Using Silicon Nanowire Building Blocks

  Science · 2001 · 10.1126/science.291.5505.851

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