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Hongxing Xu

Hongxing Xu

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
90
Citations
35370
World Ranking
1667
National Ranking
532

Hongxing Xu 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 Hongxing Xu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 335 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hongxing Xu 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 Hongxing Xu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hongxing Xu is affiliated with Wuhan University in China and has a significant body of work in engineering and materials science. Their research spans across various subfields including biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's main areas of study cover key topics such as plasmonic and surface plasmon research, gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, perovskite materials and their applications, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, photonic and optical devices, strong light-matter interactions, and thermal radiation and cooling technologies.

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Photothermal Nanomaterials: A Powerful Light-to-Heat Converter (2023, Chemical Reviews)
  • Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing (2020, Light Science & Applications)
  • Merging Bound States in the Continuum at Off-High Symmetry Points (2021, Physical Review Letters)
  • High-Q Plasmonic Resonances: Fundamentals and Applications (2021, Advanced Optical Materials)
  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective (2024, Chemical Society Reviews)

Hongxing Xu has frequently published in several academic venues, with the highest number of papers appearing in:

  • Nano Letters (18 publications)
  • ACS Nano (13 publications)
  • Nanophotonics (11 publications)
  • Nanoscale (9 publications)
  • Light Science & Applications (8 publications)

Collaboration plays a significant role in this scientist's career, with frequent coauthors including Shunping Zhang, Huatian Hu, Jibo Tang, Ti Wang, and Alexander O. Govorov. Among these collaborators, Shunping Zhang has the highest number of joint works counting 40 publications.

In addition to journal articles, Hongxing Xu has contributed to book publications. One identified book published by Springer Nature is titled "Plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions" (2022), which has received citations in the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Judith Langer;Dorleta Jimenez de Aberasturi;Javier Aizpurua;Ramon A. Alvarez-Puebla

  • Spectroscopy of Single Hemoglobin Molecules by Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering

    Hongxing Xu;Erik J. Bjerneld;Mikael Käll;Lars Börjesson

  • Electromagnetic contributions to single-molecule sensitivity in surface-enhanced Raman scattering

    Hongxing Xu;Javier Aizpurua;Mikael Käll;Peter Apell

  • Substrate-induced Fano resonances of a plasmonic nanocube: a route to increased-sensitivity localized surface plasmon resonance sensors revealed.

    Shunping Zhang;Kui Bao;Naomi J. Halas;Naomi J. Halas;Hongxing Xu

  • Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Optical Forces in Silver Nanoaggregates

    Hongxing Xu;Mikael Käll

  • Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on a flat graphene surface

    Weigao Xu;Xi Ling;Jiaqi Xiao;Mildred S. Dresselhaus

  • A Novel Application of Plasmonics: Plasmon-Driven Surface-Catalyzed Reactions

    Mengtao Sun;Hongxing Xu;Hongxing Xu

  • Interparticle coupling effects in nanofabricated substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering

    L. Gunnarsson;E. J. Bjerneld;H. Xu;S. Petronis

  • Highly Surface‐roughened “Flower‐like” Silver Nanoparticles for Extremely Sensitive Substrates of Surface‐enhanced Raman Scattering

    Hongyan Liang;Hongyan Liang;Zhipeng Li;Wenzhong Wang;Wenzhong Wang;Youshi Wu

  • Cascaded logic gates in nanophotonic plasmon networks

    Hong Wei;Zhuoxian Wang;Xiaorui Tian;Mikael Käll

  • Hot spots in different metal nanostructures for plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

    Hong Wei;Hongxing Xu

  • Higher moments of net proton multiplicity distributions at RHIC.

    M. M. Aggarwal;Z. Ahammed;A. V. Alakhverdyants;I. Alekseev

  • Manipulating Coherent Plasmon–Exciton Interaction in a Single Silver Nanorod on Monolayer WSe2

    Di Zheng;Shunping Zhang;Qian Deng;Meng Kang

  • Ascertaining p,p′-Dimercaptoazobenzene Produced from p-Aminothiophenol by Selective Catalytic Coupling Reaction on Silver Nanoparticles

    Yurui Fang;Yuanzuo Li;Hongxing Xu;Hongxing Xu;Mengtao Sun

  • In-situ plasmon-driven chemical reactions revealed by high vacuum tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

    Mengtao Sun;Zhenglong Zhang;Zhenglong Zhang;Hairong Zheng;Hongxing Xu

  • Resonance shifts and spill-out effects in self-consistent hydrodynamic nanoplasmonics

    Giuseppe Toscano;Jakob Straubel;Alexander Kwiatkowski;Carsten Rockstuhl

  • Surface-enhanced Raman scattering and fluorescence near metal nanoparticles

    Peter Johansson;Hongxing Xu;Mikael Käll

  • Aqueous-Processable Noncovalent Chemically Converted Graphene–Quantum Dot Composites for Flexible and Transparent Optoelectronic Films

    Xiumei Geng;Liang Niu;Zhenyuan Xing;Rensheng Song

  • Plasmon-Driven Catalysis on Molecules and Nanomaterials.

    Zhenglong Zhang;Chengyun Zhang;Hairong Zheng;Hongxing Xu

  • Polarization Dependence of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Gold Nanoparticle-Nanowire Systems

    Hong Wei;Feng Hao;Yingzhou Huang;Wenzhong Wang

  • Branched Silver Nanowires as Controllable Plasmon Routers

    Yurui Fang;Zhipeng Li;Yingzhou Huang;Shunping Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mengtao Sun
Mengtao Sun University of Science and Technology Beijing
Peter Nordlander
Peter Nordlander Rice University
Mikael Käll
Mikael Käll Chalmers University of Technology
Naomi J. Halas
Naomi J. Halas Rice University
Qiang Li
Qiang Li Brookhaven National Laboratory
Hongqi Xu
Hongqi Xu Peking University
Lianming Tong
Lianming Tong Peking University
F. Javier García de Abajo
F. Javier García de Abajo Institute of Photonic Sciences
Javier Aizpurua
Javier Aizpurua University of the Basque Country
Anders Mikkelsen
Anders Mikkelsen Lund University

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