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Materials Science

D-Index
70
Citations
17348
World Ranking
4431
National Ranking
1380

Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17262
World Ranking
5305
National Ranking
983

Hongfang Liu 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 Hongfang Liu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 311 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hongfang Liu 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 Hongfang Liu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hongfang Liu is affiliated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The scientist's work focuses on topics including Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition, Concrete Corrosion and Durability, Hydrogen Embrittlement and Corrosion Behaviors in Metals, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced Battery Technologies Research, Fuel Cells and Related Materials, and Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors.

Hongfang Liu has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, among whom the most common include Guangfang Li, Tiansui Zhang, Zhengyun Wang, Hongwei Liu, and Shencheng Fu.

Their publication record shows a strong presence in several journals and venues, notably:

  • Corrosion Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Optics Letters

Notable recent papers include:

  • Digital twins for health: a scoping review, 2024, npj Digital Medicine
  • Preparation of nickel-iron hydroxides by microorganism corrosion for efficient oxygen evolution, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A Zeolitic-Imidazole Frameworks-Derived Interconnected Macroporous Carbon Matrix for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Two amino acid derivatives as high efficient green inhibitors for the corrosion of carbon steel in CO2-saturated formation water, 2021, Corrosion Science
  • Dextran derivatives as highly efficient green corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel in CO2-saturated oilfield produced water: Experimental and theoretical approaches, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Engineering bunched Pt-Ni alloy nanocages for efficient oxygen reduction in practical fuel cells

    Xinlong Tian;Xinlong Tian;Xiao Zhao;Ya-Qiong Su;Lijuan Wang

  • Advanced Architectures and Relatives of Air Electrodes in Zn-Air Batteries.

    Jing Pan;Yang Yang Xu;Huan Yang;Zehua Dong

  • Anodic Hydrazine Oxidation Assists Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Evolution over a Bifunctional Cobalt Perselenide Nanosheet Electrode

    Jun-Ye Zhang;Hongming Wang;Yifan Tian;Ya Yan

  • The characteristics and photocatalytic activities of silver doped ZnO nanocrystallites

    Ronghua Wang;Ronghua Wang;John Haozhong Xin;Yang Yang;Hongfang Liu

  • Bismuth Oxides with Enhanced Bismuth–Oxygen Structure for Efficient Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate

    Peilin Deng;Hongming Wang;Ruijuan Qi;Jiexin Zhu

  • Corrosion behavior of carbon steel in the presence of sulfate reducing bacteria and iron oxidizing bacteria cultured in oilfield produced water

    Hongwei Liu;Chaoyang Fu;Tingyue Gu;Guoan Zhang

  • Preparation of nickel-iron hydroxides by microorganism corrosion for efficient oxygen evolution

    Huan Yang;Lanqian Gong;Hongming Wang;Chungli Dong

  • Energy-saving hydrogen production coupling urea oxidation over a bifunctional nickel-molybdenum nanotube array

    Jun-Ye Zhang;Ting He;Mingda Wang;Ruijuan Qi

  • Metal/covalent–organic frameworks-based electrocatalysts for water splitting

    Ya Yan;Ting He;Bin Zhao;Kai Qi

  • A Zeolitic‐Imidazole Frameworks‐Derived Interconnected Macroporous Carbon Matrix for Efficient Oxygen Electrocatalysis in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

    Abdoulkader Ibro Douka;Yangyang Xu;Huan Yang;Shahid Zaman

  • 2D Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Nanotubes/Graphene Hybrid as Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalyst for Long-Life Rechargeable Zn–Air Batteries

    Yangyang Xu;Peilin Deng;Guangda Chen;Jinxi Chen

  • The corrosion behavior and mechanism of carbon steel induced by extracellular polymeric substances of iron-oxidizing bacteria

    Hongwei Liu;Tingyue Gu;Muhammad Asif;Guoan Zhang

  • Integrated Conductive Hybrid Architecture of Metal–Organic Framework Nanowire Array on Polypyrrole Membrane for All-Solid-State Flexible Supercapacitors

    Ruizuo Hou;Mao Miao;Qingyong Wang;Ting Yue

  • Redox Tuning in Crystalline and Electronic Structure of Bimetal-Organic Frameworks Derived Cobalt/Nickel Boride/Sulfide for Boosted Faradaic Capacitance.

    Qingyong Wang;Yumei Luo;Ruizuo Hou;Shahid Zaman

  • Hybridization design of materials and devices for flexible electrochemical energy storage

    Ruizuo Hou;Girish Sambhaji Gund;Kai Qi;Puritut Nakhanivej

  • Recent Progress on Transition Metal Oxides as Bifunctional Catalysts for Lithium‐Air and Zinc‐Air Batteries

    Jing Pan;Jing Pan;Xin Long Tian;Shahid Zaman;Zehua Dong

  • Scalable synthesis of freestanding sandwich-structured graphene/polyaniline/graphene nanocomposite paper for flexible all-solid-state supercapacitor.

    Fei Xiao;Shengxiong Yang;Zheye Zhang;Hongfang Liu

  • Corrosion inhibition of carbon steel in CO2-containing oilfield produced water in the presence of iron-oxidizing bacteria and inhibitors

    Hongwei Liu;Tingyue Gu;Guoan Zhang;Wei Wang

  • Superlattice stacking by hybridizing layered double hydroxide nanosheets with layers of reduced graphene oxide for electrochemical simultaneous determination of dopamine, uric acid and ascorbic acid

    Muhammad Asif;Ayesha Aziz;Haitao Wang;Zhengyun Wang

  • Immobilization of uranium(VI) by niobate/titanate nanoflakes heterojunction through combined adsorption and solar-light-driven photocatalytic reduction

    Xiaona Liu;Xiaona Liu;Penghui Du;Weiyi Pan;Chenyuan Dang

  • Formation of a Tubular Assembly by Ultrathin Ti0.8Co0.2N Nanosheets as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen–/Metal–Air Fuel Cells

    Xin Long Tian;Lijuan Wang;Bin Chi;Yangyang Xu

  • High loading MnO2 nanowires on graphene paper: Facile electrochemical synthesis and use as flexible electrode for tracking hydrogen peroxide secretion in live cells

    Shuang Dong;Jiangbo Xi;Yanan Wu;Hongwei Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Bao Yu Xia
Bao Yu Xia Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Fei Xiao
Fei Xiao Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Tingyue Gu
Tingyue Gu Ohio University
Zehua Dong
Zehua Dong Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Feng Wang
Feng Wang University of California, Berkeley
Huolin L. Xin
Huolin L. Xin University of California, Irvine
Xinxin Zhang
Xinxin Zhang University of Science and Technology Beijing
Ho Seok Park
Ho Seok Park Sungkyunkwan University
Xinlong Tian
Xinlong Tian Hainan University
Deli Wang
Deli Wang Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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