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Lim Wei Yap publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lim Wei Yap sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 61 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Lim Wei Yap D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lim Wei Yap sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Lim Wei Yap is affiliated with Monash University in Australia, where their research spans various intersecting domains within engineering and materials science. With a primary focus on biomedical engineering, they have contributed extensively to subfields including cognitive neuroscience, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

The core topics of Lim Wei Yap's work address advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, conducting polymers and their applications, tactile and sensory interactions, as well as the synthesis and application of gold and silver nanoparticles, advanced photocatalysis techniques, copper-based nanomaterials, and non-invasive vital sign monitoring.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Vertically Aligned Gold Nanowires as Stretchable and Wearable Epidermal Ion-Selective Electrode for Noninvasive Multiplexed Sweat Analysis, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Nanowire-Based Soft Wearable Human-Machine Interfaces for Future Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Self-powered gold nanowire tattoo triboelectric sensors for soft wearable human-machine interface, 2020, Nano Energy
  • A Soft Resistive Acoustic Sensor Based on Suspended Standing Nanowire Membranes with Point Crack Design, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • A soft and ultrasensitive force sensing diaphragm for probing cardiac organoids instantaneously and wirelessly, 2022, Nature Communications

Lim Wei Yap's collaborative work involves frequent coauthors including Wenlong Cheng, Shu Gong, Qianqian Shi, Runfang Fu, and Zi-Jun Yong, reflecting interdisciplinary efforts within the field.

The prominent publication venues in which they have contributed are:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nano Energy
  • Materials Horizons
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Nature Communications

The breadth of Lim Wei Yap's research output highlights a concentration in:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within the subfields, their scholarship spans:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics

Overall, Lim Wei Yap's scientific contributions center on developing and applying advanced materials and technologies that intersect engineering and biomedical applications, with a strong emphasis on wearable sensors and nanomaterial systems.

Best Publications

  • Highly Stretchy Black Gold E-Skin Nanopatches as Highly Sensitive Wearable Biomedical Sensors

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Daniel Tze Huei Lai;Bin Su;Bin Su;Kae Jye Si;Kae Jye Si

  • Disruptive, Soft, Wearable Sensors.

    Yunzhi Ling;Yunzhi Ling;Tiance An;Tiance An;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu

  • Mimosa-inspired design of a flexible pressure sensor with touch sensitivity

    Bin Su;Shu Gong;Zheng Ma;Lim Wei Yap

  • Tattoolike Polyaniline Microparticle-Doped Gold Nanowire Patches as Highly Durable Wearable Sensors

    Shu Gong;Daniel T H Lai;Yan Wang;Yan Wang;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap

  • Percolating Network of Ultrathin Gold Nanowires and Silver Nanowires toward “Invisible” Wearable Sensors for Detecting Emotional Expression and Apexcardiogram

    My Duyen Ho;Yunzhi Ling;Yunzhi Ling;Lim Wei Yap;Yan Wang;Yan Wang

  • Manufacturable Conducting Rubber Ambers and Stretchable Conductors from Copper Nanowire Aerogel Monoliths

    Yue Tang;Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Yi Chen;Lim Wei Yap

  • Local Crack-Programmed Gold Nanowire Electronic Skin Tattoos for In-Plane Multisensor Integration.

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu;Qingfeng Zhai;Qingfeng Zhai

  • Hierarchically Structured Vertical Gold Nanowire Array-Based Wearable Pressure Sensors for Wireless Health Monitoring.

    Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu;Yunzhi Ling;Yunzhi Ling;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Mingjie Yang;Mingjie Yang

  • Plasmonic core–shell nanoparticles for SERS detection of the pesticide thiram: size- and shape-dependent Raman enhancement

    Pengzhen Guo;Pengzhen Guo;Pengzhen Guo;Debabrata Sikdar;Xiqiang Huang;Kae Jye Si;Kae Jye Si

  • Standing Enokitake-like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics

    Yan Wang;Shu Gong;Stephen Jia Wang;Xinyi Yang

  • Ultralow-density copper nanowire aerogel monoliths with tunable mechanical and electrical properties

    Yue Tang;Yue Tang;Kai Leng Yeo;Kai Leng Yeo;Yi Chen;Yi Chen;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap

  • Vertically Aligned Gold Nanowires as Stretchable and Wearable Epidermal Ion-Selective Electrode for Noninvasive Multiplexed Sweat Analysis

    Qingfeng Zhai;Lim Wei Yap;Ren Wang;Shu Gong

  • Nanowire-Based Soft Wearable Human–Machine Interfaces for Future Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications

    Kaixiuan Wang;Lim Wei Yap;Shu Gong;Ren Wang

  • Two-Dimensional Bipyramid Plasmonic Nanoparticle Liquid Crystalline Superstructure with Four Distinct Orientational Packing Orders

    Qianqian Shi;Kae Jye Si;Debabrata Sikdar;Lim Wei Yap

  • Fabrication of highly transparent and flexible nanomesh electrode via self-assembly of ultrathin gold nanowires

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Yunmeng Zhao;Yunmeng Zhao;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Qianqian Shi;Qianqian Shi

  • Self-powered gold nanowire tattoo triboelectric sensors for soft wearable human-machine interface

    Tiance An;Tiance An;David Vera Anaya;Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap

  • A Wearable Second Skin-Like Multifunctional Supercapacitor with Vertical Gold Nanowires and Electrochromic Polyaniline

    Tiance An;Tiance An;Yunzhi Ling;Yunzhi Ling;Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu

  • A Soft Resistive Acoustic Sensor Based on Suspended Standing Nanowire Membranes with Point Crack Design

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Yi Zhu;Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu

  • Multiscale Soft-Hard Interface Design for Flexible Hybrid Electronics.

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Bowen Zhu;Bowen Zhu;Wenlong Cheng;Wenlong Cheng

  • Dual-Coded Plasmene Nanosheets as Next-Generation Anticounterfeit Security Labels

    Kae Jye Si;Debabrata Sikdar;Lim Wei Yap;Jeremy Kee Keong Foo

  • Black Gold: Broadband, High Absorption of Visible Light for Photochemical Systems

    Charlene Ng;Charlene Ng;Lim Wei Yap;Lim Wei Yap;Ann Roberts;Wenlong Cheng;Wenlong Cheng

  • Self-assembled Ultrathin Gold Nanowires as Highly Transparent, Conductive and Stretchable Supercapacitor

    Shu Gong;Shu Gong;Yunmeng Zhao;Yunmeng Zhao;Qianqian Shi;Yan Wang;Yan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wenlong Cheng
Wenlong Cheng Monash University
Shu Gong
Shu Gong Monash University
Yan Wang
Yan Wang Hefei University of Technology
Bowen Zhu
Bowen Zhu Monash University
Malin Premaratne
Malin Premaratne Monash University
George P. Simon
George P. Simon Monash University
Bin Su
Bin Su Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Daniel E. Gómez
Daniel E. Gómez RMIT University
Xinyong Li
Xinyong Li Dalian University of Technology
Joseph Wang
Joseph Wang University of California, San Diego

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