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2025

21. Lei Wang, Wensheng Tian, Ahmed M. Hegazy, Chenlin Ding, Yulong Zhao, Dongyu Bian, Hui Pan*, Guorui Cai,* Shenmin Zhu*, 2025, Submitted.

20. Xin Liu, Jia-Wei Qian, Jing-Wei Chen, Yun-Kai Xu, Wei-Yi Wang, Wei-Xu Dong, Wei Hu, Guo-Rui Cai, Jun Lu*, Shu-Hong Yu*, Li-Feng Chen*, A Sustainable and Scalable Approach for In Situ Induction of Gradient Nucleation Sites in Biomass-Derived Interface Layers for Ultra-Stable Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64, 26, e202504613.   

19. Yijie Yin, John Holoubek, Kangwoon Kim, Alex Liu, Bhargav Bhamwala, Shen Wang, Bingyu Lu, Kunpeng Yu, Hongpeng Gao, Mingqian Li, Ganesh Raghavendran, Guorui Cai, Weikang Li, Ping Liu, Ying Shirley Meng*, Zheng Chen*, Coulombic Condensation of Liquefied Gas Electrolytes for Li Metal Batteries at Ambient Pressure, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025, 64, 8, e202420411.  

18. Nan Zhang, Ai-Min Li, Weiran Zhang, Zeyi Wang, Yijie Liu, Xiyue Zhang, Guorui Cai, Hongli Wan, Jijian Xu, Chunsheng Wang, 4.6 V Moisture-Tolerant Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries, Advanced Materials, 2025, 36, 50, 2408039.

17. Mingqian Li, Simon Danitz, John Holoubek, Guorui Cai,* Jordan Shawn Lee, Haozhe Zhang, Wenqing Lu, Junlin Wu, Xueying Quinn, Jon Truskier, Sasha Gorer, Ying Shirley Meng, and Zheng Chen,* Full depth-of-discharge cycling in Zn||MnO₂ batteries enabled by alkaline salt-concentrated hydrogel electrolyte, Advanced Functional Materials, 2025, 2508361. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202508361 

16.  Yulong Zhao, Anthony U. Mu, Zhengwei Guo, Guorui Cai*, Zheng Chen*, Lithium battery electrolyte under nanoconfinement, Cell Reports Physical Science, 2025, 6, 102496.

Before 2024

15.  Guorui Cai#, Hongpeng Gao#, Mingqian Li#, Varun Gupta, John Holoubek*, Tod A. Pascal，Ping Liu, and Zheng Chen*, Partially Ion-Paired Solvation Structure Design for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries under Extreme Operating Conditions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202316786.

14.  Guorui Cai#,  Amanda A. Chen#, Sharon Lin, Dong Ju Lee, Kunpeng Yu, John Holoubek, Yijie Yin, Anthony U. Mu, Ying Shirley Meng, Ping Liu, Seth M. Cohen*, Tod A. Pascal*, Zheng Chen*, Unravelling Ultrafast Li Ion Transport in Functionalized Metal–Organic Framework-Based Battery Electrolytes, Nano Lett. 2023, 23 (15), 7062-7069.

13.  Guorui Cai, John Holoubek, Mingqian Li, Hongpeng Gao, Yijie Yin, Sicen Yu, Haodong Liu,1 Tod A. Pascal, Ping Liu, Zheng Chen*,Solvent Selection Criteria for Temperature-Resilient Lithium-Sulfur Batteries, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2022, 119 (28), e2200392119.

12.  Guorui Cai#, Peng Yan#, Liangliang Zhang, Hong-Cai Zhou, Hai-Long Jiang*, Metal-Organic Framework-Based Hierarchically Porous Materials: Synthesis and Applications, Chem. Rev. 2021, 121 (20), 12278-12326.

11.  Guorui Cai#, Yijie Yin#, Dawei Xia#, Amanda A. Chen, John Holoubek, Jonathan Scharf, Yangyuchen Yang, Ki Hwan Koh, Mingqian Li, Daniel M. Davies, Matthew Mayer, Tae Hee Han, Ying Shirley Meng, Tod A. Pascal, Zheng Chen*, Sub-nanometer Confinement Enables Facile Condensation of Gas Electrolyte for Low-temperature Batteries, Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 3395.

10.  Guorui Cai#, Xing Ma#, Meruyert Kassymova, Kang Sun, Meili Ding, Hai-Long Jiang*，Large-Scale Production of Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks by a Reflux-Assisted Post-Synthetic Ligand Substitution Strategy, ACS Cent. Sci. 2021, 7 (8), 1434-1440.

9.  Guorui Cai, Meili Ding, Qianye Wu, Hai-Long Jiang*, Encapsulating Soluble Active Species into Hollow Crystalline Porous Capsules beyond Integration of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, Natl. Sci. Rev. 2020, 7 (1), 37-45.

8.  Guorui Cai, Hai-Long Jiang*. A Modulator-Induced Defect-Formation Strategy to Hierarchically Porous Metal-Organic Frameworks with High Stability. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56(2), 563-567.

7.  Guorui Cai#, Wang Zhang# Long Jiao, Shu-Hong Yu*, Hai-Long Jiang*. Template-Directed Growth of Well-Aligned MOF Arrays and Derived Self-Supporting Electrodes for Water Splitting. Chem 2017, 2(6), 791-802.

6.  Guorui Cai, Shatila Sarwar, Dong Ju Lee, Seth Cohen, Zheng Chen*, Metal-Organic Frameworks for Advanced Battery Chemistries, Editor: A.S.M.A. Haseeb, Encyclopedia of Materials: Electronics, Academic Press, 2023, 3, 226-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819728-8.00033-4

5.  Guorui Cai, John Holoubek, Dawei Xia, Mingqian Li, Yijie Yin, Xing Xing, Ping Liu and Zheng Chen*, An Ester Electrolyte for Lithium–sulfur Batteries Capable of Ultra-low Temperature Cycling, Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 9114-9117.

4.  Anthony Mu, Guorui Cai*, Zheng Chen*, Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Enhancement of Lithium-Based Batteries: A Mini Review on Emerging Functional Designs, Adv. Sci., 2024, 11, 2305280.

3.   Dong Ju Lee, Xiaolu Yu, R. Eric Sikma, Mingqian Li, Seth M. Cohen, Guorui Cai*, Zheng Chen*, Design Consideration of Metal–Organic Framework-Based Composite Membranes for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 34742–34749.

2.  Kunpeng Yu#, Guorui Cai#, Mingqian Li, Junlin Wu, Varun Gupta, Dong Ju Lee, John Holoubek*, Chen, Zheng*, Effect of Electrolyte Chemistry and Sulfur Content in Li||Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) Batteries, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2023, 15, 43724-43731.

1.  Wang Zhang#, Guorui Cai#, Rui Wu, Zhen He, Hong-Bin Yao, Hai-Long Jiang*, Shu-Hong Yu*. Templating Synthesis of Metal-Organic Framework Nanofiber Aerogels and Their Derived Hollow Porous Carbon Nanofibers for Energy Storage and Conversion, Small 2021, 17, 2004140.

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Patents：

1. 江海龙，蔡国瑞，“一种用于包覆均相催化剂的中空金属有机框架胶囊材料及其制备方法以及应用”，中国专利, 申请号: CN201910026341.9, 申请日期: 2019-01-11; 公开号: CN111434383A（公开日期：2020-07-21）；专利号：ZL201910026341.9，授权日期：2023-03-10.

2. 江海龙，蔡国瑞，马杏，“一种多级孔金属有机框架材料及其制备方法和应用”，中国专利, 申请号：CN202110135577.3，申请日期：2021-2-1；公开号：CN114832863A（公开日期：2022-08-02）；专利号：ZL202110135577.3，授权日期：2023-08-29.