2026 Qiang Zhu: 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	44	11929	11533	2770	2573	133	10513

Overview

Qiang Zhu is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on several subfields including Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably:

High Entropy Alloys Studies
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Machine Learning in Materials Science
Covalent Organic Framework Applications
Advanced materials and composites
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Qiang Zhu has contributed to several publications, with recent papers including:

"Reconstructed covalent organic frameworks", 2022, Nature
"3D Cage COFs: A Dynamic Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework with High-Connectivity Organic Cage Nodes", 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"A Pyrene-4,5,9,10-Tetraone-Based Covalent Organic Framework Delivers High Specific Capacity as a Li-Ion Positive Electrode", 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Additive manufacturing of Ni-based superalloys: Residual stress, mechanisms of crack formation and strategies for crack inhibition", 2022, Nano Materials Science
"Integrated Covalent Organic Framework/Carbon Nanotube Composite as Li-Ion Positive Electrode with Ultra-High Rate Performance", 2021, Advanced Energy Materials

Their frequent coauthors include:

Byungkyun Kang
Marc A. Little
Andrew I. Cooper
Chuan Guo
Xiaogang Hu

Qiang Zhu regularly publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the American Chemical Society
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Acta Materialia

Best Publications

Phagraphene: A Low-Energy Graphene Allotrope Composed of 5-6-7 Carbon Rings with Distorted Dirac Cones.

Zhenhai Wang;Xiang-Feng Zhou;Xiaoming Zhang;Qiang Zhu

677
Citations
Structure prediction drives materials discovery

Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Chris J. Pickard;Chris J. Pickard;Qiang Zhu;Richard J. Needs

674
Citations
Report on the sixth blind test of organic crystal-structure prediction methods

Anthony M. Reilly;Richard I. Cooper;Claire S. Adjiman;Saswata Bhattacharya

644
Citations
Semimetallic Two-Dimensional Boron Allotrope with Massless Dirac Fermions

Xiang-Feng Zhou;Xiang-Feng Zhou;Xiao Dong;Xiao Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Qiang Zhu

617
Citations
Unexpected Stable Stoichiometries of Sodium Chlorides

Weiwei Zhang;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Qiang Zhu

530
Citations
A stable compound of helium and sodium at high pressure

Xiao Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Alexander F. Goncharov;Elissaios Stavrou;Elissaios Stavrou

377
Citations
Rational design of all organic polymer dielectrics

Vinit Sharma;Chenchen Wang;Robert G. Lorenzini;Rui Ma

335
Citations
3D Cage COFs: A Dynamic Three-Dimensional Covalent Organic Framework with High-Connectivity Organic Cage Nodes.

Qiang Zhu;Xue Wang;Rob Clowes;Peng Cui

304
Citations
A Pyrene-4,5,9,10-Tetraone-Based Covalent Organic Framework Delivers High Specific Capacity as a Li-Ion Positive Electrode

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249
Citations
Predicting Phase Behavior Of Grain Boundaries With Evolutionary Search And Machine Learning

Qiang Zhu;Amit Samanta;Bingxi Li;Robert E. Rudd

180
Citations
Denser than diamond: Ab initio search for superdense carbon allotropes

Qiang Zhu;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Miguel A. Salvadó;Pilar Pertierra

164
Citations
Integrated Covalent Organic Framework/Carbon Nanotube Composite as Li-Ion Positive Electrode with Ultra-High Rate Performance

Hui Gao;Qiang Zhu;Alex R. Neale;Mounib Bahri

160
Citations
Stability of xenon oxides at high pressures.

Qiang Zhu;Daniel Y. Jung;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Colin W. Glass

159
Citations
Constrained evolutionary algorithm for structure prediction of molecular crystals: methodology and applications

Qiang Zhu;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Colin W. Glass;Harold T. Stokes

154
Citations
Evolutionary method for predicting surface reconstructions with variable stoichiometry

Qiang Zhu;Li Li;Artem R. Oganov;Philip B. Allen

142
Citations
Novel stable compounds in the Mg-O system under high pressure.

Qiang Zhu;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Andriy O. Lyakhov

136
Citations
Powder diffraction and crystal structure prediction identify four new coumarin polymorphs

Alexander G. Shtukenberg;Qiang Zhu;Qiang Zhu;Damien J. Carter;Leslie Vogt

130
Citations
Computation and data driven discovery of topological phononic materials.

Jiangxu Li;Jiaxi Liu;Jiaxi Liu;Stanley A. Baronett;Mingfeng Liu;Mingfeng Liu

127
Citations
PyXtal: A Python library for crystal structure generation and symmetry analysis

Scott Fredericks;Kevin Parrish;Dean Sayre;Qiang Zhu

122
Citations
Pressure-induced stabilization and insulator-superconductor transition of BH.

Chao-Hao Hu;Chao-Hao Hu;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov;Qiang Zhu;Guang-Rui Qian

114
Citations
Imaging nano-defects of metal waveguides using the microwave cavity interference enhancement method.

Hao Guo;Xin Li;Qiang Zhu;Zhenrong Zhang

113
Citations
Systematic search for low-enthalpy sp3 carbon allotropes using evolutionary metadynamics

Qiang Zhu;Qingfeng Zeng;Qingfeng Zeng;Artem R. Oganov;Artem R. Oganov

108
Citations
The phase diagram and hardness of carbon nitrides

Huafeng Dong;Artem R. Oganov;Qiang Zhu;Guang-Rui Qian

103
Citations