2026 Hongwei Zhu: 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	109	725	690	224	221	538	46325

Hongwei Zhu 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 Hongwei Zhu sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 538 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hongwei Zhu 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 Hongwei Zhu sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 109 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hongwei Zhu is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The main topics covered in Hongwei Zhu's work include:

Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Graphene research and applications
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
2D Materials and Applications
Advanced oxidation water treatment
Lignin and Wood Chemistry

Hongwei Zhu has published in a variety of venues, with notable frequent publication outlets being:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Separation and Purification Technology
Nano Research
Advanced Functional Materials

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several peers including Kajia Wei, Weiqing Han, Jianlong Zhang, Linlin Jiang, and Xin Yu, reflecting ongoing cooperative research efforts.

Among Hongwei Zhu's recent published papers are:

Enhancing Capacitance Performance of Ti3C2Tx MXene as Electrode Materials of Supercapacitor: From Controlled Preparation to Composite Structure Construction (2020, Nano-Micro Letters)
I Can Find You! Boundary-Guided Separated Attention Network for Camouflaged Object Detection (2022, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Cation-π Interactions in Graphene-Containing Systems for Water Treatment and Beyond (2020, Advanced Materials)
Shape anisotropic Fe3O4 nanotubes for efficient microwave absorption (2020, Nano Research)
Nacre-Inspired, Liquid Metal-Based Ultrasensitive Electronic Skin by Spatially Regulated Cracking Strategy (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)

Best Publications

Carbon Nanotube Sponges

Xuchun Gui;Jinquan Wei;Kunlin Wang;Anyuan Cao

1655
Citations
Direct synthesis of long single-walled carbon nanotube strands

Pulickel M. Ajayan;Bingqing Wei;Hongwei Zhu;Cailu Xu

1301
Citations
Hydrothermal synthesis and pseudocapacitance properties of MnO2 nanostructures.

V. Subramanian;Hongwei Zhu;Robert Vajtai;P. M. Ajayan

1202
Citations
Wearable and Highly Sensitive Graphene Strain Sensors for Human Motion Monitoring

Yan Wang;Yan Wang;Li Wang;Tingting Yang;Xiao Li

1150
Citations
Two-dimensional MoS2: Properties, preparation, and applications

Xiao Li;Hongwei Zhu

1103
Citations
Graphene‐On‐Silicon Schottky Junction Solar Cells

Xinming Li;Hongwei Zhu;Kunlin Wang;Anyuan Cao

1090
Citations
Adsorption of methylene blue from aqueous solution by graphene.

Tonghao Liu;Yanhui Li;Qiuju Du;Jiankun Sun

895
Citations
Selective Ion Penetration of Graphene Oxide Membranes

Pengzhan Sun;Miao Zhu;Kunlin Wang;Minlin Zhong

807
Citations
Recent advances in wearable tactile sensors: Materials, sensing mechanisms, and device performance

Tingting Yang;Dan Xie;Zhihong Li;Zhihong Li;Hongwei Zhu

747
Citations
Stretchable and highly sensitive graphene-on-polymer strain sensors

Xiao Li;Rujing Zhang;Wenjian Yu;Kunlin Wang

686
Citations
Graphene and related two-dimensional materials: Structure-property relationships for electronics and optoelectronics

Xinming Li;Li Tao;Zefeng Chen;Hui Fang

676
Citations
Recent Developments in Graphene-Based Membranes: Structure, Mass-Transport Mechanism and Potential Applications.

Pengzhan Sun;Kunlin Wang;Hongwei Zhu

664
Citations
Recent advances in transition-metal-sulfide-based bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting

Min Wang;Li Zhang;Yijia He;Hongwei Zhu

578
Citations
Hydrogen uptake in boron nitride nanotubes at room temperature

Renzhi Ma;Yoshio Bando;Hongwei Zhu;Tadao Sato

570
Citations
High Detectivity Graphene-Silicon Heterojunction Photodetector

Xinming Li;Miao Zhu;Mingde Du;Zheng Lv

519
Citations
Role of interfacial oxide in high-efficiency graphene-silicon Schottky barrier solar cells.

Yi Song;Xinming Li;Charles Mackin;Xu Zhang

487
Citations
Engineering graphene and TMDs based van der Waals heterostructures for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion

Changli Li;Qi Cao;Faze Wang;Yequan Xiao

483
Citations
Applications of carbon materials in photovoltaic solar cells

Hongwei Zhu;Jinquan Wei;Kunlin Wang;Dehai Wu

456
Citations
Nanostructured MnO2: Hydrothermal synthesis and electrochemical properties as a supercapacitor electrode material

V. Subramanian;Hongwei Zhu;Bingqing Wei

432
Citations
Highly Sensitive, Wearable, Durable Strain Sensors and Stretchable Conductors Using Graphene/Silicon Rubber Composites

Ge Shi;Zhiheng Zhao;Jing‐Hong Pai;Ivan Lee

405
Citations