2026 Cheng Sun: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	66	5237	5066	1369	1282	286	24693

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Materials Science

5237

5066

1369

1282

286

24693

Overview

Cheng Sun is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains, primarily focusing on engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work distribution across fields shows a significant emphasis on Engineering (91 publications) and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (50 publications). Within these broad fields, their subfields of study include:

Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics
Molecular Biology
Ophthalmology
Surgery

Cheng Sun's research topics are diverse and include:

Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
3D Printing in Biomedical Research

Their publication record features research in several frequent venues, indicating ongoing contributions to specific fields of study. The main publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Advanced Materials
Nano Letters
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Applied Optics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Cheng Sun include:

Flexible Ultrathin Single-Crystalline Perovskite Photodetector, 2020, Nano Letters
Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles with Intrinsic Aqueous Dispersibility for Conductive Hydrogels, 2023, Advanced Materials
3D printed magnetically-actuating micro-gripper operates in air and water, 2021, Additive Manufacturing
Conformal Geometry and Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing through Freeform Transformation of Building Layers, 2021, Advanced Materials
A review of spatial profiling technologies for characterizing the tumor microenvironment in immuno-oncology, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology

Cheng Sun has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Hao F. Zhang
Guillermo A. Ameer
Caralyn P. Collins
Yang Zhang
Henry Oliver T. Ware

Best Publications

Sub-Diffraction-Limited Optical Imaging with a Silver Superlens

Nicholas Fang;Hyesog Lee;Cheng Sun;Xiang Zhang

4978
Citations
Far-field optical hyperlens magnifying sub-diffraction-limited objects.

Zhaowei Liu;Hyesog Lee;Yi Xiong;Cheng Sun

2657
Citations
Ultrasonic metamaterials with negative modulus

Nicholas Fang;Dongjuan Xi;Jianyi Xu;Muralidhar Ambati

2268
Citations
Optical Negative Refraction in Bulk Metamaterials of Nanowires

Jie Yao;Zhaowei Liu;Yongmin Liu;Yuan Wang

1148
Citations
Projection micro-stereolithography using digital micro-mirror dynamic mask

C. Sun;N. Fang;D.M. Wu;X. Zhang

1097
Citations
Focusing surface plasmons with a plasmonic lens.

Zhaowei Liu;Jennifer M. Steele;Werayut Srituravanich;Yuri Pikus

712
Citations
Micro-stereolithography of polymeric and ceramic microstructures

X Zhang;X.N Jiang;C Sun

611
Citations
Method for retrieving effective properties of locally resonant acoustic metamaterials

Vladimir Fokin;Muralidhar Ambati;Cheng Sun;Xiang Zhang

576
Citations
Far-field optical superlens.

Zhaowei Liu;Stéphane Durant;Hyesog Lee;Yuri Pikus

528
Citations
Flying plasmonic lens in the near field for high-speed nanolithography

Werayut Srituravanich;Liang Pan;Yuan Wang;Cheng Sun

410
Citations
Cloaking of matter waves.

Shuang Zhang;Dentcho A. Genov;Cheng Sun;Xiang Zhang

400
Citations
Controlling the Polarization State of Light with a Dispersion-Free Metastructure

Shang Chi Jiang;Xiang Xiong;Yuan Sheng Hu;Yu Hui Hu

321
Citations
Surface resonant states and superlensing in acoustic metamaterials

Muralidhar Ambati;Nicholas Fang;Cheng Sun;Xiang Zhang

304
Citations
Terahertz plasmonic high pass filter

Dongmin Wu;Nicholas Fang;Cheng Sun;Xiang Zhang

299
Citations
Covalently circularized nanodiscs for studying membrane proteins and viral entry

Unknown

279
Citations
Magnetic plasmon hybridization and optical activity at optical frequencies in metallic nanostructures

H. Liu;D. A. Genov;D. M. Wu;Y. M. Liu

273
Citations
Plasmonic Nanolithography

Unknown

266
Citations
Development of optical hyperlens for imaging below the diffraction limit.

Hyesog Lee;Zhaowei Liu;Yi Xiong;Cheng Sun

264
Citations
Tunable assembly of graphene oxide surfactant sheets: wrinkles, overlaps and impacts on thin film properties

Laura J. Cote;Jaemyung Kim;Zhen Zhang;Cheng Sun

260
Citations
Structural basis for ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling by the INO80 complex

Unknown

257
Citations
A transparent broadband ultrasonic detector based on an optical micro-ring resonator for photoacoustic microscopy

Hao Li;Biqin Dong;Zhen Zhang;Hao F. Zhang

239
Citations
Maskless plasmonic lithography at 22 nm resolution.

Liang Pan;Yongshik Park;Yi Xiong;Erick Ulin-Avila

231
Citations