2026 Liming Dai: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	178	653	597	13	13	828	125736
Materials Science	184	50	48	3	3	774	131889

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award
2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2019 - Australian Laureate Fellow
2012 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Liming Dai is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research spans a wide range of topics within engineering, energy, and materials science, with significant contributions to subfields such as renewable energy, sustainability, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and catalysis.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advanced battery technologies research
Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Fuel Cells and Related Materials
Advancements in Battery Materials

Liming Dai has published extensively in prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Advanced Materials
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie
Advanced Functional Materials
Nano Energy

Key recent papers highlight the scope of their work:

"Electrocatalysis for CO₂conversion: from fundamentals to value-added products," 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
"Two-birds-one-stone: multifunctional supercapacitors beyond traditional energy storage," 2021, Energy & Environmental Science
"Carbon-based metal-free electrocatalysts: from oxygen reduction to multifunctional electrocatalysis," 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
"Heteroatom-doped carbon catalysts for zinc-air batteries: progress, mechanism, and opportunities," 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
"Harnessing the interplay of Fe-Ni atom pairs embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon for bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis," 2020, Nano Energy

Collaboration has been a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

Yang Hou
Rose Amal
Chuangang Hu
Jingwen Sun
Junwu Zhu

The scientist has received several honors and recognitions over their career:

Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2020)
Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2020)
Australian Laureate Fellow (2019)
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2012)

Best Publications

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube arrays with high electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction.

Kuanping Gong;Feng Du;Zhenhai Xia;Michael Durstock

7739
Citations
Nitrogen-Doped Graphene as Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cells

Liangti Qu;Yong Liu;Jong Beom Baek;Liming Dai

4346
Citations
Metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions

Liming Dai

3136
Citations
Metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction.

Liming Dai;Yuhua Xue;Liangti Qu;Hyun-Jung Choi

2442
Citations
Plasma-Engraved Co3 O4 Nanosheets with Oxygen Vacancies and High Surface Area for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

Lei Xu;Qianqian Jiang;Zhaohui Xiao;Xingyue Li

2171
Citations
Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots with Oxygen-Rich Functional Groups

Yan Li;Yang Zhao;Huhu Cheng;Yue Hu

2139
Citations
Carbon Nanomaterials for Advanced Energy Conversion and Storage

Liming Dai;Dong Wook Chang;Jong-Beom Baek;Wen Lu

1940
Citations
Defect Chemistry of Nonprecious-Metal Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reactions

Dafeng Yan;Yunxiao Li;Jia Huo;Ru Chen

1563
Citations
Scalable synthesis of hierarchically structured carbon nanotube–graphene fibres for capacitive energy storage

Dingshan Yu;Kunli Goh;Hong Wang;Li Wei

1513
Citations
Carbon-based metal-free catalysts

Xien Liu;Liming Dai;Liming Dai

1452
Citations
Self-Assembled Graphene/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Films for Supercapacitors

Dingshan Yu;Liming Dai

1317
Citations
BCN Graphene as Efficient Metal-Free Electrocatalyst for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Shuangyin Wang;Lipeng Zhang;Zhenhai Xia;Ajit Roy

1297
Citations
Identification of catalytic sites for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution in N-doped graphene materials: Development of highly efficient metal-free bifunctional electrocatalyst

Hong Bin Yang;Jianwei Miao;Sung Fu Hung;Jiazang Chen

1250
Citations
Electrocatalysis for CO2 conversion: from fundamentals to value-added products

Genxiang Wang;Junxiang Chen;Yichun Ding;Pingwei Cai

1138
Citations
Novel MOF‐Derived Co@N‐C Bifunctional Catalysts for Highly Efficient Zn–Air Batteries and Water Splitting

Mingdao Zhang;Mingdao Zhang;Quanbin Dai;Hegen Zheng;Mindong Chen

1133
Citations
Etched and doped Co9S8/graphene hybrid for oxygen electrocatalysis

Shuo Dou;Li Tao;Jia Huo;Shuangyin Wang

1079
Citations
Power generation with laterally packaged piezoelectric fine wires

Rusen Yang;Yong Qin;Liming Dai;Zhong Lin Wang

1039
Citations
Highly luminescent carbon nanodots by microwave-assisted pyrolysis

Xinyun Zhai;Peng Zhang;Peng Zhang;Changjun Liu;Changjun Liu;Tao Bai

1029
Citations
Are diamond nanoparticles cytotoxic

Amanda M. Schrand;Houjin Huang;Cataleya Carlson;John J. Schlager

983
Citations
Polyaniline-grafted reduced graphene oxide for efficient electrochemical supercapacitors

Nanjundan Ashok Kumar;Hyun-Jung Choi;Yeon Ran Shin;Dong Wook Chang

956
Citations
N,P-Codoped Carbon Networks as Efficient Metal-free Bifunctional Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution Reactions.

Jintao Zhang;Jintao Zhang;Liangti Qu;Gaoquan Shi;Jiangyong Liu;Jiangyong Liu

933
Citations