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Hua-Jin Zhai

Hua-Jin Zhai

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Chemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
20000
World Ranking
4670
National Ranking
876

Overview

Hua-Jin Zhai is affiliated with Shanxi University in China, specializing in materials science and chemistry. Their research primarily focuses on materials chemistry, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's work covers several specific research topics including boron and carbon nanomaterials research, boron compounds in chemistry, organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, inorganic chemistry and materials, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and MXene and MAX phase materials.

Hua-Jin Zhai has contributed to numerous publications across a variety of journals. Notable frequent publication venues include:

  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemical Communications

The scientist has published several papers over recent years. Key papers include:

  • Planar or tetrahedral? A ternary 17-electron CBe5H4+ cluster with planar pentacoordinate carbon, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Enhanced supercapacitive behaviors of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/ graphene oxide hybrids prepared under optimized electropolymerization conditions, 2021, Electrochimica Acta
  • Bare and ligand protected planar hexacoordinate silicon in SiSb3M3+ (M = Ca, Sr, Ba) clusters, 2022, Chemical Science
  • Axially Modified Square-Pyramidal CoN4-F1 Sites Enabling High-Performance Zn-Air Batteries, 2024, ACS Nano
  • Planar pentacoordinate carbon in a sulphur-surrounded boron wheel: the global minimum of CB5S5+, 2022, Chemical Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborate extensively with Hua-Jin Zhai, including:

  • Lin-Yan Feng
  • Jin-Chang Guo
  • Shu-Juan Gao
  • Haihan Zhou
  • Ying-Jin Wang

Best Publications

  • Au20: A Tetrahedral Cluster

    Jun Li;Xi Li;Xi Li;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Observation of an all-boron fullerene.

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Ya-Fan Zhao;Wei-Li Li;Qiang Chen

  • Hydrocarbon analogues of boron clusters--planarity, aromaticity and antiaromaticity.

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Jun Li;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • On the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Small AuN- (N = 4−14) Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-Functional Study

    Hannu Häkkinen;Bokwon Yoon;Uzi Landman;Xi Li

  • All-Boron Aromatic Clusters as Potential New Inorganic Ligands and Building Blocks in Chemistry

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Planar-to-tubular structural transition in boron clusters: B20 as the embryo of single-walled boron nanotubes.

    Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Satya S. Bulusu;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Soohaeng Yoo

  • Hepta‐ and Octacoordinate Boron in Molecular Wheels of Eight‐ and Nine‐Atom Boron Clusters: Observation and Confirmation

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Anastassia N. Alexandrova;K. Alexander Birch;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • A concentric planar doubly π-aromatic B19− cluster

    Wei Huang;Alina P. Sergeeva;Hua-Jin Zhai;Boris B. Averkiev

  • Experimental observation and confirmation of icosahedral W@Au12 and Mo@Au12 molecules.

    Xi Li;Boggavarapu Kiran;Jun Li;Hua-Jin Zhai

  • The B35 Cluster with a Double-Hexagonal Vacancy: A New and More Flexible Structural Motif for Borophene

    Wei-Li Li;Qiang Chen;Wen-Juan Tian;Hui Bai

  • All-boron analogues of aromatic hydrocarbons: B17- and B18-.

    Alina P. Sergeeva;Boris B. Averkiev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • A Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study of B16− and B162−: An All-Boron Naphthalene

    Alina P. Sergeeva;Dmitry Yu. Zubarev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • All-Metal Antiaromatic Molecule: Rectangular Al44- in the Li3Al4- Anion

    Aleksey E. Kuznetsov;Aleksey E. Kuznetsov;Aleksey E. Kuznetsov;K. Alexander Birch;K. Alexander Birch;K. Alexander Birch;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Xi Li;Xi Li;Xi Li

  • Facile preparation of polypyrrole/graphene oxide nanocomposites with large areal capacitance using electrochemical codeposition for supercapacitors

    Haihan Zhou;Gaoyi Han;Yaoming Xiao;Yunzhen Chang

  • Electronic structure and chemical bonding of B5− and B5 by photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio calculations

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • Experimental and Theoretical Evidence of an Axially Chiral Borospherene

    Qiang Chen;Wei-Li Li;Ya-Fan Zhao;Su-Yan Zhang

  • Structure and Bonding in B6 - and B6: Planarity and Antiaromaticity

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Photoelectron Spectroscopy and ab Initio Study of B3- and B4- Anions and Their Neutrals

    Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang;Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • Electronic Structure, Isomerism, and Chemical Bonding in B7 - and B7

    Anastassia N. Alexandrova;Alexander I. Boldyrev;Hua-Jin Zhai;Lai-Sheng Wang

  • Observation of d-orbital aromaticity.

    Xin Huang;Xin Huang;Hua-Jin Zhai;Hua-Jin Zhai;Boggavarapu Kiran;Boggavarapu Kiran;Lai-Sheng Wang;Lai-Sheng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Lai-Sheng Wang
Lai-Sheng Wang Brown University
Alexander I. Boldyrev
Alexander I. Boldyrev Utah State University
Xi Li
Xi Li Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Anastassia N. Alexandrova
Anastassia N. Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles
Jun Li
Jun Li Tsinghua University
Xue-Bin Wang
Xue-Bin Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Zhong-Ming Sun
Zhong-Ming Sun Nankai University
Gaoyi Han
Gaoyi Han Shanxi University
David A. Dixon
David A. Dixon University of Alabama
Xiao Cheng Zeng
Xiao Cheng Zeng City University of Hong Kong

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