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Li-Dong Zhao

Li-Dong Zhao

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
103
Citations
48477
World Ranking
907
National Ranking
286

Li-Dong Zhao 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 Li-Dong Zhao 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.

Li-Dong Zhao 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 Li-Dong Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Li-Dong Zhao is affiliated with Beihang University in China, contributing extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research focuses particularly on materials chemistry and the development of thermoelectric materials and devices.

The scientist has authored numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • "Seeking new, highly effective thermoelectrics" (2020), published in Science
  • "Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments" (2021), published in Science
  • "High thermoelectric performance realized through manipulating layered phonon-electron decoupling" (2022), published in Science
  • "Lattice plainification advances highly effective SnSe crystalline thermoelectrics" (2023), published in Science
  • "Band Sharpening and Band Alignment Enable High Quality Factor to Enhance Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type PbS" (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Zhao's frequent co-authors include:

  • Bingchao Qin
  • Dongyang Wang
  • Xiang Gao
  • Tao Hong
  • Shulin Bai

The main publication venues where Zhao has contributed are:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Materials Lab
  • Materials Today Physics
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Zhao's major areas of study are primarily within Materials Science, with a substantial number of publications in Engineering. Subfields of focus include Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The central topics in Zhao's research are:

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Best Publications

  • Ultralow thermal conductivity and high thermoelectric figure of merit in SnSe crystals

    Li Dong Zhao;Shih Han Lo;Yongsheng Zhang;Hui Sun

  • Rationally Designing High-Performance Bulk Thermoelectric Materials

    Gangjian Tan;Li Dong Zhao;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • Ultrahigh power factor and thermoelectric performance in hole-doped single-crystal SnSe

    Li Dong Zhao;Li Dong Zhao;Gangjian Tan;Shiqiang Hao;Jiaqing He

  • Thermoelectric materials: Energy conversion between heat and electricity

    Xiao Zhang;Li Dong Zhao

  • 3D charge and 2D phonon transports leading to high out-of-plane ZT in n-type SnSe crystals

    Cheng Chang;Minghui Wu;Dongsheng He;Yanling Pei

  • High-performance nanostructured thermoelectric materials

    Jing-Feng Li;Wei-Shu Liu;Wei-Shu Liu;Li-Dong Zhao;Li-Dong Zhao;Min Zhou;Min Zhou

  • The panoscopic approach to high performance thermoelectrics

    Li Dong Zhao;Vinayak P. Dravid;Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

  • All-scale hierarchical thermoelectrics: MgTe in PbTe facilitates valence band convergence and suppresses bipolar thermal transport for high performance

    L. D. Zhao;H. J. Wu;S. Q. Hao;C. I. Wu

  • BiCuSeO oxyselenides: new promising thermoelectric materials

    Li-Dong Zhao;Jiaqing He;David Berardan;Yuanhua Lin

  • High Thermoelectric Performance of p-Type SnTe via a Synergistic Band Engineering and Nanostructuring Approach

    Gangjian Tan;Li Dong Zhao;Fengyuan Shi;Jeff W. Doak

  • Non-equilibrium processing leads to record high thermoelectric figure of merit in PbTe-SrTe.

    Gangjian Tan;Fengyuan Shi;Shiqiang Hao;Li Dong Zhao;Li Dong Zhao

  • Broad temperature plateau for thermoelectric figure of merit ZT>2 in phase-separated PbTe0.7S0.3

    H. J. Wu;L.-D. Zhao;F. S. Zheng;D. Wu

  • High thermoelectric performance in low-cost SnS 0.91 Se 0.09 crystals.

    Wenke He;Dongyang Wang;Haijun Wu;Yu Xiao

  • High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

    Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen;Xiaolei Shi;Li-Dong Zhao;Jin Zou

  • SnSe: a remarkable new thermoelectric material

    Li Dong Zhao;Cheng Chang;Gangjian Tan;Mercouri G Kanatzidis

  • High Performance Thermoelectrics from Earth-Abundant Materials: Enhanced Figure of Merit in PbS by Second Phase Nanostructures

    Li Dong Zhao;Shih Han Lo;Jiaqing He;Hao Li

  • Seeking new, highly effective thermoelectrics

    Yu Xiao;Li-Dong Zhao

  • Power generation and thermoelectric cooling enabled by momentum and energy multiband alignments.

    Bingchao Qin;Dongyang Wang;Xixi Liu;Yongxin Qin

  • Codoping in SnTe: Enhancement of Thermoelectric Performance through Synergy of Resonance Levels and Band Convergence

    Gangjian Tan;Fengyuan Shi;Shiqiang Hao;Hang Chi

  • Efficient uranium capture by polysulfide/layered double hydroxide composites.

    Shulan Ma;Shulan Ma;Lu Huang;Lijiao Ma;Yurina Shim

  • Thermoelectric and mechanical properties of nano-SiC-dispersed Bi2Te3 fabricated by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering

    Li-Dong Zhao;Bo-Ping Zhang;Jing-Feng Li;Min Zhou

  • High thermoelectric performance via hierarchical compositionally alloyed nanostructures

    Li Dong Zhao;Shiqiang Hao;Shih Han Lo;Chun I. Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mercouri G. Kanatzidis
Mercouri G. Kanatzidis Northwestern University
Jiaqing He
Jiaqing He Southern University of Science and Technology
Haijun Wu
Haijun Wu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Vinayak P. Dravid
Vinayak P. Dravid Northwestern University
Jing-Feng Li
Jing-Feng Li Tsinghua University
Gangjian Tan
Gangjian Tan Wuhan University of Technology
Chris Wolverton
Chris Wolverton Northwestern University
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Shengkai Gong
Shengkai Gong Beihang University
Ctirad Uher
Ctirad Uher University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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