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Materials Science

D-Index
55
Citations
9662
World Ranking
8672
National Ranking
100

Chemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
9826
World Ranking
12237
National Ranking
90

Kuang-Lieh Lu 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 Kuang-Lieh Lu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 238 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kuang-Lieh Lu 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 Kuang-Lieh Lu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kuang-Lieh Lu is affiliated with Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Engineering, with a substantial number of publications in Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering among other subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Their recent papers demonstrate the focus on metal-organic frameworks and related materials science innovations:

  • "An Encapsulation-Rearrangement Strategy to Integrate Superhydrophobicity into Mesoporous Metal-Organic Frameworks" (2020), Matter
  • "Weak interactions in conducting metal-organic frameworks" (2021), Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Suppressing Defect Formation in Metal-Organic Framework Membranes via Plasma-Assisted Synthesis for Gas Separations" (2021), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Highly hydrophobic metal-organic framework for self-protecting gate dielectrics" (2020), Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • "Intrinsic Ultralow-Threshold Laser Action from Rationally Molecular Design of Metal-Organic Framework Materials" (2020), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Yen-Hsiang Liu, Saqib Kamal, Arif I. Inamdar, Pounraj Thanasekaran, and Chen-Hsiung Hung.

Kuang-Lieh Lu publishes often in a range of scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Mechanical damage of carbon nanotubes by ultrasound

    K.L. Lu;R.M. Lago;Y.K. Chen;M.L.H. Green

  • Crystal Engineering: Toward Intersecting Channels from a Neutral Network with a bcu‐Type Topology

    Tzuoo Tsair Luo;Hui-Lien Tsai;Shang Li Yang;Yen Hsiang Liu

  • Semiconductor Metal-Organic Frameworks: Future Low-Bandgap Materials.

    Muhammad Usman;Shruti Mendiratta;Kuang-Lieh Lu

  • [CdII(bpdc).H2O]n: A robust, thermally stable porous framework through a combination of a 2-D grid and a cadmium dicarboxylate cluster chain (H2bpdc = 2,2'-bipyridyl-4,4'-dicarboxylic acid)

    Yen-Hsiang Liu;Yi-Long Lu;Huang-Chun Wu;Ju-Chun Wang

  • Filling carbon nanotubes with small palladium metal crystallites: the effect of surface acid groups

    R. M. Lago;S. C. Tsang;K. L. Lu;Y. K. Chen

  • Metal-containing molecular rectangles: synthesis and photophysical properties

    Pounraj Thanasekaran;Rong-Tang Liao;Yen-Hsiang Liu;Thangamuthu Rajendran

  • Structure optimization of ruthenium photosensitizers for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells - A goal toward a "bright" future

    Jen Fu Yin;Jen Fu Yin;Murugesan Velayudham;Dibyendu Bhattacharya;Hong-Cheu Lin

  • Integration of a (-Cu-S-)n plane in a metal-organic framework affords high electrical conductivity.

    Abhishek Pathak;Abhishek Pathak;Jing-Wen Shen;Muhammad Usman;Ling-Fang Wei

  • Self-Assembled Arrays of Single-Walled Metal-Organic Nanotubes

    Tzuoo-Tsair Luo;Huang-Chun Wu;Yu-Chen Jao;Sheng-Ming Huang

  • Self-Assembly, Reorganization, and Photophysical Properties of Silver(I)−Schiff-Base Molecular Rectangle and Polymeric Array Species

    Huang-Chun Wu;P. Thanasekaran;Chi-Hwe Tsai;Jing-Yun Wu

  • Functionalized Silica Matrices and Palladium: A Versatile Heterogeneous Catalyst for Suzuki, Heck, and Sonogashira Reactions

    Pitchaimani Veerakumar;Pounraj Thanasekaran;Kuang-Lieh Lu;Shang-Bin Liu

  • Influence of water content on the self-assembly of metal-organic frameworks based on pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylate

    Yi-Long Lu;Jing-Yun Wu;Ming-Che Chan;Sheng-Ming Huang

  • Unusual Robust Luminescent Porous Frameworks Self-Assembled from Lanthanide Ions and 2,2‘-Bipyridine-4,4‘-dicarboxylate

    † Jing-Yun Wu;Tzu-Tang Yeh,†,‡;† Yuh-Sheng Wen;and Jen Twu

  • Luminescence Enhancement Induced by Aggregation of Alkoxy-Bridged Rhenium(I) Molecular Rectangles

    Balasubramanian Manimaran;Pounraj Thanasekaran;Thangamuthu Rajendran;Ren-Jay Lin

  • First light-emitting neutral molecular rectangles.

    Thangamuthu Rajendran;Balasubramanian Manimaran;Fang-Yuan Lee;Gene-Hsiang Lee

  • Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal–organic framework

    Sheng Han Lo;Sheng Han Lo;Liang Feng;Kui Tan;Zhehao Huang

  • One-step orthogonal-bonding approach to the self-assembly of neutral rhenium-based metallacycles: synthesis, structures, photophysics, and sensing applications.

    Pounraj Thanasekaran;Chung-Chou Lee;Kuang-Lieh Lu

  • Aggregation-induced phosphorescence enhancement (AIPE) based on transition metal complexes—An overview

    Veerasamy Sathish;Veerasamy Sathish;Arumugam Ramdass;Pounraj Thanasekaran;Kuang-Lieh Lu

  • Electrically Driven White Light Emission from Intrinsic Metal–Organic Framework

    Golam Haider;Golam Haider;Muhammad Usman;Tzu-Pei Chen;Packiyaraj Perumal

  • Highly dispersed silica-supported nanocopper as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst : application in the synthesis of 1,2,3-triazoles and thioethers

    Pitchaimani Veerakumar;Murugesan Velayudham;Kuang-Lieh Lu;Seenivasan Rajagopal

  • Assembly of a robust, thermally stable porous cobalt(II) nicotinate framework based on a dicobalt carboxylate unit.

    Yen-Hsiang Liu;Hui-Lien Tsai;Yi-Long Lu;Yuh-Sheng Wen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shie-Ming Peng
Shie-Ming Peng National Taiwan University
Gene-Hsiang Lee
Gene-Hsiang Lee National Taiwan University
Jih Ru Hwu
Jih Ru Hwu National Tsing Hua University
Gregory L. Geoffroy
Gregory L. Geoffroy Iowa State University
Chad A. Mirkin
Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University
Pitchaimani Veerakumar
Pitchaimani Veerakumar National Taiwan University
Hong-Cheu Lin
Hong-Cheu Lin National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Chia-Her Lin
Chia-Her Lin National Taiwan Normal University
Yu-Ju Chen
Yu-Ju Chen Academia Sinica
Kuo-Chuan Ho
Kuo-Chuan Ho National Taiwan University

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