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Changkun Zhang publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changkun Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 76 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Changkun Zhang D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Changkun Zhang sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Changkun Zhang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and focuses on research mainly in the field of Engineering, with a particular emphasis on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their research also involves Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Automotive Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Electrochemistry.

The primary research topics explored by Changkun Zhang include:

  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Changkun Zhang has contributed to several recent publications that reflect key areas of battery technology and electrochemical energy storage. Notable papers include:

  • "Anode for Zinc-Based Batteries: Challenges, Strategies, and Prospects" (2021, ACS Energy Letters)
  • "Eutectic Electrolytes as a Promising Platform for Next-Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage" (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "Development of flow battery technologies using the principles of sustainable chemistry" (2023, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • "Reversible redox chemistry in azobenzene-based organic molecules for high-capacity and long-life nonaqueous redox flow batteries" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Molecular Engineering of Azobenzene-Based Anolytes Towards High-Capacity Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)

The frequently published venues for Zhang's work include:

  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Advanced Materials

Among Zhang's frequent co-authors are:

  • Xianfeng Li
  • Guihua Yu
  • Leyuan Zhang
  • Tianyu Li
  • Mengqi Zhang

This profile outlines Zhang's engagement with a multidisciplinary approach toward advanced electrochemical systems, focusing on innovations in battery technologies and energy materials within engineering and sustainability domains.

Best Publications

  • Molecular engineering of organic electroactive materials for redox flow batteries

    Yu Ding;Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yangen Zhou

  • Progress and prospects of next-generation redox flow batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yu Ding;Sangshan Peng;Sangshan Peng

  • Anode for Zinc-Based Batteries: Challenges, Strategies, and Prospects

    Wenjing Lu;Changkun Zhang;Huamin Zhang;Xianfeng Li

  • Eutectic Electrolytes as a Promising Platform for Next-Generation Electrochemical Energy Storage.

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Guihua Yu

  • Phenothiazine‐Based Organic Catholyte for High‐Capacity and Long‐Life Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Zhihui Niu;Sangshan Peng;Yu Ding

  • Mesocrystal MnO cubes as anode for Li-ion capacitors

    Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Huanqiao Song;Cuiping Zhang

  • Fast and Reversible Li Ion Insertion in Carbon‐Encapsulated Li3VO4 as Anode for Lithium‐Ion Battery

    Changkun Zhang;Huanqiao Song;Chaofeng Liu;Yaguang Liu

  • Exploiting High-Performance Anode through Tuning the Character of Chemical Bonds for Li-Ion Batteries and Capacitors

    Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Haoyu Fu;Xihui Nan

  • A Self-Healing Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal Anode for Alkali-Ion Batteries

    Xuelin Guo;Yu Ding;Leigang Xue;Leyuan Zhang

  • A Dual-Ion Organic Symmetric Battery Constructed from Phenazine-Based Artificial Bipolar Molecules

    Gaole Dai;Yan He;Zhihui Niu;Ping He

  • A Sustainable Redox‐Flow Battery with an Aluminum‐Based, Deep‐Eutectic‐Solvent Anolyte

    Changkun Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang;Xuelan Wang

  • Self-doped V 4+ –V 2 O 5 nanoflake for 2 Li-ion intercalation with enhanced rate and cycling performance

    Huanqiao Song;Huanqiao Song;Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Guozhong Cao;Guozhong Cao

  • A Low-Cost and High-Energy Hybrid Iron-Aluminum Liquid Battery Achieved by Deep Eutectic Solvents

    Leyuan Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Yu Ding;Katrina Ramirez-Meyers

  • Enhanced storage of sodium ions in Prussian blue cathode material through nickel doping

    Haoyu Fu;Chaofeng Liu;Chaofeng Liu;Changkun Zhang;Wenda Ma

  • Highly Concentrated Phthalimide-Based Anolytes for Organic Redox Flow Batteries with Enhanced Reversibility

    Changkun Zhang;Changkun Zhang;Zhihui Niu;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang

  • Pathways to Widespread Applications: Development of Redox Flow Batteries Based on New Chemistries

    Yu Ding;Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yangen Zhou

  • Eutectic Electrolytes for High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries

    Changkun Zhang;Leyuan Zhang;Yu Ding;Xuelin Guo

  • Supported noble metals on hydrogen-treated TiO2 nanotube arrays as highly ordered electrodes for fuel cells.

    Changkun Zhang;Hongmei Yu;Yongkun Li;Yongkun Li;Yuan Gao;Yuan Gao

  • Reversible redox chemistry in azobenzene-based organic molecules for high-capacity and long-life nonaqueous redox flow batteries.

    Leyuan Zhang;Yumin Qian;Ruozhu Feng;Yu Ding

  • Molecular Engineering of Azobenzene-Based Anolytes Towards High-Capacity Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries

    Xihong Zu;Xihong Zu;Leyuan Zhang;Yumin Qian;Changkun Zhang

  • Biredox Eutectic Electrolytes Derived from Organic Redox-Active Molecules: High-Energy Storage Systems

    Changkun Zhang;Yumin Qian;Yumin Qian;Yu Ding;Leyuan Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Guozhong Cao
Guozhong Cao University of Washington
Guihua Yu
Guihua Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Yu Ding
Yu Ding Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhigang Shao
Zhigang Shao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yuan Gao
Yuan Gao Northeastern University
Hongmei Yu
Hongmei Yu Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Baolian Yi
Baolian Yi Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Li Fu
Li Fu Hangzhou Dianzi University
Wei Song
Wei Song University of Alabama
Xiaohong Zhang
Xiaohong Zhang Soochow University

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