2026 Gengfeng Zheng: 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	99	1092	1044	343	340	244	40527

Gengfeng Zheng publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gengfeng Zheng sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 244 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Gengfeng Zheng D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gengfeng Zheng sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gengfeng Zheng is affiliated with Fudan University in China with a research focus spanning multiple fields, primarily Energy, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science. Their work addresses key subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

Their main research topics include:

CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Zheng are:

Ximeng Lv
Anxiang Guan
Chao Yang
Peng Chen
Qing Han

Zheng's publications are often found in journals including:

Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Advanced Materials
Small

Recent papers authored under or involving Zheng include:

Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
Boosting CO₂ Electroreduction to CH₄ via Tuning Neighboring Single-Copper Sites (2020, ACS Energy Letters)
Polarization Engineering of Covalent Triazine Frameworks for Highly Efficient Photosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide from Molecular Oxygen and Water (2022, Advanced Materials)
A Crystalline Partially Fluorinated Triazine Covalent Organic Framework for Efficient Photosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
Efficient Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to C2+ Alcohols at Defect-Site-Rich Cu Surface (2021, Joule)

Best Publications

Multiplexed electrical detection of cancer markers with nanowire sensor arrays.

Gengfeng Zheng;Fernando Patolsky;Yi Cui;Wayne U Wang

3138
Citations
Electrical detection of single viruses

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Oliver Hayden;Melike Lakadamyali

1706
Citations
Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption

Yuhang Wang;Aoni Xu;Ziyun Wang;Linsong Huang

1250
Citations
Reduced Mesoporous Co3O4 Nanowires as Efficient Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts and Supercapacitor Electrodes

Yongcheng Wang;Tong Zhou;Kun Jiang;Peimei Da

1099
Citations
Detection, Stimulation, and Inhibition of Neuronal Signals with High-Density Nanowire Transistor Arrays

Fernando Patolsky;Brian P. Timko;Guihua Yu;Ying Fang

1046
Citations
Nanowire-Based Biosensors

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M. Lieber

1017
Citations
Boron-Doped Graphene for Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction

Xiaomin Yu;Peng Han;Zengxi Wei;Linsong Huang

962
Citations
Fabrication of silicon nanowire devices for ultrasensitive, label-free, real-time detection of biological and chemical species

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M Lieber

946
Citations
Polymer pen lithography

Chad A. Mirkin;Fengwei Huo;Zijian Zheng;Gengfeng Zheng

785
Citations
Subthreshold Regime has the Optimal Sensitivity for Nanowire FET Biosensors

Xuan P. A. Gao;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M. Lieber

691
Citations
Nanowire sensors for medicine and the life sciences

Fernando Patolsky;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M Lieber

685
Citations
Cu, Co-Embedded N-Enriched Mesoporous Carbon for Efficient Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions

Min Kuang;Qihao Wang;Peng Han;Gengfeng Zheng

684
Citations
Two-dimensional mesoporous carbon nanosheets and their derived graphene nanosheets: synthesis and efficient lithium ion storage.

Yin Fang;Yingying Lv;Renchao C Che;Haoyu Wu

672
Citations
Single-Atomic Cu with Multiple Oxygen Vacancies on Ceria for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to CH4

Yifei Wang;Zheng Chen;Peng Han;Yonghua Du

652
Citations
Defect and Interface Engineering for Aqueous Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction

Yifei Wang;Peng Han;Ximeng Lv;Lijuan Zhang

640
Citations
Synthesis and Fabrication of High‐Performance n‐Type Silicon Nanowire Transistors

Gengfeng Zheng;Wei Lu;Song Jin;Charles M. Lieber

613
Citations
Carbon Nanodots Featuring Efficient FRET for Real-Time Monitoring of Drug Delivery and Two-Photon Imaging

Jing Tang;Biao Kong;Hao Wu;Ming Xu

594
Citations
From Water Oxidation to Reduction: Homologous Ni–Co Based Nanowires as Complementary Water Splitting Electrocatalysts

Zheng Peng;Dingsi Jia;Abdullah M. Al-Enizi;Ahmed A. Elzatahry

522
Citations
Laser-scanning coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy and applications to cell biology.

Ji-Xin Cheng;Y. Kevin Jia;Gengfeng Zheng;X. Sunney Xie

518
Citations
Boosting CO2 Electroreduction to CH4 via Tuning Neighboring Single-Copper Sites

Anxiang Guan;Zheng Chen;Yueli Quan;Chen Peng

489
Citations
Nanowire-Based Nanoelectronic Devices in the Life Sciences

Fernando Patolsky;Brian P. Timko;Gengfeng Zheng;Charles M. Lieber

454
Citations