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Materials Science

D-Index
59
Citations
11774
World Ranking
7414
National Ranking
1839

Chemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
11763
World Ranking
10189
National Ranking
2833

Tianbo Liu 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 Tianbo Liu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 226 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Tianbo Liu 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 Tianbo Liu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Tianbo Liu is affiliated with the University of Akron in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a notable focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their scholarly work covers several main topics, including:

  • Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Some of Tianbo Liu's recent publications include:

  • Chemical Modification of Polysaccharides: A Review of Synthetic Approaches, Biological Activity and the Structure-Activity Relationship, 2023, Molecules
  • Soil microbial community assembly model in response to heavy metal pollution, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Cost-effective polymer-based membranes for drinking water purification, 2022, Giant
  • Synthesis, Assembly, and Sizing of Neutral, Lanthanide Substituted Molybdenum Blue Wheels {Mo90Ln10}, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Supramolecular Nanostructures Constructed from Cluster-based Hybrid Macromolecules, 2020, Giant

Frequent co-authors in Liu's work include:

  • Jiancheng Luo
  • Yuqing Yang
  • Jiahui Chen
  • Ehsan Raee
  • Xiaohan Xu

Tianbo Liu has published extensively in several academic venues that are frequently featured in their bibliography. These venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Giant
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Surface Restructuring of Nanoparticles: An Efficient Route for Ligand−Metal Oxide Crosstalk

    T. Rajh;L. X. Chen;K. Lukas;T. Liu

  • Self-assembly in aqueous solution of wheel-shaped Mo154 oxide clusters into vesicles.

    Tianbo Liu;Ekkehard Diemann;Huilin Li;Andreas W. M. Dress

  • Solution behaviors and self-assembly of polyoxometalates as models of macroions and amphiphilic polyoxometalate–organic hybrids as novel surfactants

    Panchao Yin;Dong Li;Tianbo Liu

  • Self-Assembly of Organic−Inorganic Hybrid Amphiphilic Surfactants with Large Polyoxometalates as Polar Head Groups

    Jie Zhang;Yu-Fei Song;Leroy Cronin;Tianbo Liu

  • Nanofabrication in polymer matrices

    Tianbo Liu;Christian Burger;Benjamin Chu

  • Characterization of the PEO−PPO−PEO Triblock Copolymer and Its Application as a Separation Medium in Capillary Electrophoresis

    Chunhung Wu;Tianbo Liu;Benjamin Chu;Dieter K. Schneider

  • A Double‐Tailed Fluorescent Surfactant with a Hexavanadate Cluster as the Head Group

    Panchao Yin;Panchao Yin;Pingfan Wu;Pingfan Wu;Zicheng Xiao;Dong Li

  • Mediator-template assembly of nanoparticles.

    Mathew M. Maye;I. Im S Lim;Jin Luo;Zia Rab

  • Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Vesicles with Counterion- and pH-Controlled Fluorescent Properties

    Dong Li;Jie Song;Panchao Yin;Silas Simotwo

  • Characterization of Nanoparticles by Scattering Techniques

    Benjamin Chu;Tianbo Liu

  • Synthesis of Modular “Inorganic–Organic–Inorganic” Polyoxometalates and Their Assembly into Vesicles

    Chullikkattil P. Pradeep;Mauricio F. Misdrahi;Feng-Yan Li;Jie Zhang

  • Deprotonations and Charges of Well-Defined {Mo72Fe30} Nanoacids Simply Stepwise Tuned by pH Allow Control/Variation of Related Self-Assembly Processes

    Tianbo Liu;Brandon Imber;Ekkehard Diemann;Guang Liu

  • An Unusually Slow Self-Assembly of Inorganic Ions in Dilute Aqueous Solution

    Tianbo Liu

  • A complete macroion-"blackberry" assembly-macroion transition with continuously adjustable assembly sizes in {Mo132} water/acetone systems.

    Melissa L. Kistler;Anish Bhatt;Guang Liu;Diego Casa

  • Self-Patterning of Hydrophobic Materials into Highly Ordered Honeycomb Nanostructures at the Air/Water Interface

    Dawei Fan;Xiangfeng Jia;Peiqin Tang;Jingcheng Hao

  • Wheel-shaped polyoxotungstate [Cu20Cl(OH)24(H2O)12(P8W48O184)]25- macroanions form supramolecular "blackberry" structure in aqueous solution.

    Guang Liu;Tianbo Liu;Sib Sankar Mal;Ulrich Kortz

  • Supramolecular structures of polyoxomolybdate-based giant molecules in aqueous solution.

    Tianbo Liu

  • Hydrophilic macroionic solutions: what happens when soluble ions reach the size of nanometer scale?

    Tianbo Liu

  • Viscosity‐adjustable block copolymer for DNA separation by capillary electrophoresis

    Chunhung Wu;Tianbo Liu;Benjamin Chu

  • Use of block copolymer micelles on formation of hollow MoO3 nanospheres

    Tianbo Liu;Yi Xie;Benjamin Chu

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Chu
Benjamin Chu Stony Brook University
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Leroy Cronin
Leroy Cronin University of Glasgow
Achim Müller
Achim Müller Bielefeld University
Yongge Wei
Yongge Wei Tsinghua University
Ulrich Kortz
Ulrich Kortz Jacobs University
Peter C. Burns
Peter C. Burns University of Notre Dame
Bineta Keita
Bineta Keita University of Paris-Saclay
Jin Zhang
Jin Zhang Peking University
Chrys Wesdemiotis
Chrys Wesdemiotis University of Akron

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