2026 Kung-Hwa Wei: 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	78	2951	2851	28	28	271	23623

Overview

Kung-Hwa Wei is affiliated with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their main research topics include:

Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Conducting Polymers and Applications
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Advancements in Battery Materials
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Wei has published extensively in notable venues, including:

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Small
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Electrochimica Acta
ACS Applied Energy Materials

Among their recent publications are the following papers with significant citation counts:

"Shallow Iodine Defects Accelerate the Degradation of α-Phase Formamidinium Perovskite," 2020, Joule
"Surface Reconstruction of Halide Perovskites During Post-treatment," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics," 2023, Nature Sustainability
"Transparent Hole-Transporting Frameworks: A Unique Strategy to Design High-Performance Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics," 2020, Advanced Materials
"Sequential Deposition of Donor and Acceptor Provides High-Performance Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics Having a Pseudo p-i-n Active Layer Structure," 2021, Advanced Energy Materials

Wei frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Yang Yang
Bin Chang
Yu-Che Lin
Hao-Wen Cheng
Shaun Tan

Best Publications

Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

Ang Yu Lu;Hanyu Zhu;Jun Xiao;Chih Piao Chuu

2574
Citations
Epitaxial growth of a monolayer WSe2-MoS2 lateral p-n junction with an atomically sharp interface

Ming Yang Li;Yumeng Shi;Chia Chin Cheng;Li Syuan Lu

1144
Citations
Highly Efficient Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production by MoSx Grown on Graphene‐Protected 3D Ni Foams

Yung Huang Chang;Cheng Te Lin;Tzu Yin Chen;Chang Lung Hsu

776
Citations
Synthesis and characterization of novel segmented polyurethane/clay nanocomposites

T. K. Chen;Y. I. Tien;Kung-Hwa Wei

734
Citations
Improving device efficiency of polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells through enhanced crystallinity and reduced grain boundaries induced by solvent additives.

Ming-Shin Su;Chih-Yin Kuo;Mao-Chuan Yuan;U-Ser Jeng

546
Citations
Hydrogen bonding and mechanical properties in segmented montmorillonite/polyurethane nanocomposites of different hard segment ratios

Y. I. Tien;Kung-Hwa Wei

507
Citations
Thermally and Mechanically Enhanced Clay/Polyimide Nanocomposite via Reactive Organoclay

Horng Long Tyan;Yau Cheng Liu;Kung-Hwa Wei

475
Citations
High-tensile-property layered silicates/polyurethane nanocomposites by using reactive silicates as pseudo chain extenders

Y. I. Tien;Kung-Hwa Wei

375
Citations
Polyimide-Side-Chain Tethered Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Nanocomposites for Low-Dielectric Film Applications

Chyi Ming Leu;Yao Te Chang;Kung-Hwa Wei

368
Citations
Graphene/MoS2 Heterostructures for Ultrasensitive Detection of DNA Hybridisation

Phan Thi Kim Loan;Wenjing Zhang;Cheng Te Lin;Kung-Hwa Wei

342
Citations
Synthesis and Dielectric Properties of Polyimide-Tethered Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane (POSS) Nanocomposites via POSS-diamine

Chyi Ming Leu;Yao Te Chang;Kung-Hwa Wei

340
Citations
Simultaneous Use of Small‐ and Wide‐Angle X‐ray Techniques to Analyze Nanometerscale Phase Separation in Polymer Heterojunction Solar Cells

Mao-Yuan Chiu;U-Ser Jeng;Chiu-Hun Su;Keng S. Liang

295
Citations
Opening an Electrical Band Gap of Bilayer Graphene with Molecular Doping

Wenjing Zhang;Cheng Te Lin;Keng Ku Liu;Teddy Tite

286
Citations
Shallow Iodine Defects Accelerate the Degradation of α-Phase Formamidinium Perovskite

Shaun Tan;Ilhan Yavuz;Marc H. Weber;Tianyi Huang

279
Citations
Synthesis and dielectric properties of polyimide-chain-end tethered polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane nanocomposites

Chyi Ming Leu;G. Mahesh Reddy;Kung-Hwa Wei;Ching Fong Shu

261
Citations
Status and Prospects of ZnO-Based Resistive Switching Memory Devices

Firman Mangasa Simanjuntak;Debashis Panda;Kung-Hwa Wei;Tseung-Yuen Tseng

260
Citations
Interfacial Charge Carrier Dynamics in Core-Shell Au-CdS Nanocrystals

Ting Ting Yang;Wei Ta Chen;Yung-Jung Hsu;Kung-Hwa Wei

257
Citations
Competition between Fullerene Aggregation and Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystallization upon Annealing of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Wei-Ru Wu;U-Ser Jeng;Chun-Jen Su;Kung-Hwa Wei

249
Citations
Enhancement of imidization of poly(amic acid) through forming poly(amic acid)/organoclay nanocomposites

Horng Long Tyan;Yau Cheng Liu;Kung-Hwa Wei

248
Citations
Layer-by-layer graphene/TCNQ stacked films as conducting anodes for organic solar cells.

Chang Lung Hsu;Cheng Te Lin;Jen Hsien Huang;Chih Wei Chu

247
Citations
Effect of reactivity of organics-modified montmorillonite on the thermal and mechanical properties of montmorillonite/polyimide nanocomposites

Horng-Long Tyan;Chyi-Ming Leu;Kung-Hwa Wei

238
Citations