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D-Index
63
Citations
14022
World Ranking
8433
National Ranking
1472

Wei Liu publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wei Liu sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 303 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Wei Liu D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Wei Liu is affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University in China and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Spectroscopy, Polymers and Plastics, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The researcher has focused on several key topics in their publications:

  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties

Wei Liu has frequently collaborated with other researchers including Xuchuan Jiang, Yaxiong Wang, Runda Guo, Lei Wang, and Ziyi Kang. These collaborations have supported contributions to notable publication venues.

Their publications appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Science Bulletin
  • Polymers

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Wei Liu include:

  • Molecular engineering of anthracene-based emitters for highly efficient nondoped deep-blue fluorescent OLEDs, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from d10-Metal Carbene Complexes through Intermolecular Charge Transfer and Multicolor Emission with a Monomer-Dimer Equilibrium, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Exceptionally efficient deep blue anthracene-based luminogens: design, synthesis, photophysical, and electroluminescent mechanisms, 2021, Science Bulletin
  • The Effect of OMMT on the Properties of Vehicle Damping Carbon Black-Natural Rubber Composites, 2020, Polymers
  • One F atom matters: synthesis, aggregation-induced emission and stimuli-responsiveness of three isomers of fluoro/formyl substituted tetraphenylethene derivatives, 2022, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

The research contributions encompass synthesis, photophysical studies, and electroluminescent mechanisms, with a particular emphasis on deep-blue fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and polymer composites.

Best Publications

  • Synthesis of Oxindoles by Iron‐Catalyzed Oxidative 1,2‐Alkylarylation of Activated Alkenes with an Aryl C(sp2)H Bond and a C(sp3)H Bond Adjacent to a Heteroatom

    Wen-Ting Wei;Ming-Bo Zhou;Jian-Hong Fan;Wei Liu

  • Highly Sensitive and Selective Uranium Detection in Natural Water Systems Using a Luminescent Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework Equipped with Abundant Lewis Basic Sites: A Combined Batch, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy, and First Principles Simulation Investigation.

    Wei Liu;Xing Dai;Zhuanling Bai;Yanlong Wang

  • Umbellate distortions of the uranyl coordination environment result in a stable and porous polycatenated framework that can effectively remove cesium from aqueous solutions.

    Yanlong Wang;Zhiyong Liu;Yuxiang Li;Zhuanling Bai

  • Recent advances in guest effects on spin-crossover behavior in Hofmann-type metal-organic frameworks

    Zhao-Ping Ni;Jun-Liang Liu;Md. Najbul Hoque;Wei Liu

  • A mesoporous cationic thorium-organic framework that rapidly traps anionic persistent organic pollutants

    Yuxiang Li;Zaixing Yang;Yanlong Wang;Zhuanling Bai

  • Broadband unidirectional scattering by magneto-electric core-shell nanoparticles.

    Wei Liu;Andrey E. Miroshnichenko;Dragomir N. Neshev;Yuri S. Kivshar

  • Tailor-Made Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks for the Full Separation of Propane from Propylene Through Selective Size Exclusion.

    Hao Wang;Hao Wang;Xinglong Dong;Valentina Colombo;Qining Wang

  • Copper Iodide Based Hybrid Phosphors for Energy-Efficient General Lighting Technologies

    Wei Liu;Yang Fang;Jing Li

  • High-Performance Bismuth-Doped Nickel Aerogel Electrocatalyst for the Methanol Oxidation Reaction.

    Amare Aregahegn Dubale;Yuanyuan Zheng;Honglei Wang;René Hübner

  • Correlation between green luminescence and morphology evolution of ZnO films

    J.D. Ye;S.L. Gu;F. Qin;S.M. Zhu

  • A Family of Highly Efficient CuI-Based Lighting Phosphors Prepared by a Systematic, Bottom-up Synthetic Approach

    Wei Liu;Yang Fang;George Z. Wei;Simon J. Teat

  • All-in-One: Achieving Robust, Strongly Luminescent and Highly Dispersible Hybrid Materials by Combining Ionic and Coordinate Bonds in Molecular Crystals.

    Wei Liu;Kun Zhu;Simon J. Teat;Gangotri Dey

  • Solid-state fluorescence properties and reversible piezochromic luminescence of aggregation-induced emission-active 9,10-bis[(9,9-dialkylfluorene-2-yl)vinyl]anthracenes

    Lingyu Bu;Mingxiao Sun;Deteng Zhang;Wei Liu

  • Systematic Approach in Designing Rare-Earth-Free Hybrid Semiconductor Phosphors for General Lighting Applications

    Xiao Zhang;Wei Liu;George Z. Wei;Debasis Banerjee

  • Assembly of silver Trigons into a buckyball-like Ag180 nanocage

    Zhi Wang;Hai-Feng Su;Yuan-Zhi Tan;Stan Schein

  • Reversible piezochromic luminescence of 9,10-bis[(N-alkylcarbazol-3-yl)vinyl]anthracenes and the dependence on N-alkyl chain length

    Yalong Wang;Wei Liu;Lingyu Bu;Jinfeng Li

  • Ultra-directional forward scattering by individual core-shell nanoparticles.

    Wei Liu;Jianfa Zhang;Bing Lei;Haotong Ma

  • Alkoxy-position effects on piezofluorochromism and aggregation-induced emission of 9,10-bis(alkoxystyryl)anthracenes.

    Wei Liu;Yalong Wang;Mingxiao Sun;Deteng Zhang

  • Ultra-directional forward scattering by individual core-shell nanoparticles

    Wei Liu;Jianfa Zhang;Bing Lei;Wenke Xie

  • A Systematic Approach to Achieving High Performance Hybrid Lighting Phosphors with Excellent Thermal- and Photostability

    Yang Fang;Wei Liu;Simon J. Teat;Gangotri Dey

  • Mesoporous ZnS nanospheres: a high activity heterogeneous catalyst for synthesis of 5-substituted 1H-tetrazoles from nitriles and sodium azide

    Leiming Lang;Baojun Li;Wei Liu;Li Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Pu Zhou
Pu Zhou National University of Defense Technology
Jing Li
Jing Li Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko University of New South Wales
Jing-Lin Zuo
Jing-Lin Zuo Nanjing University
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University
Xiao-Zeng You
Xiao-Zeng You Nanjing University
Shuao Wang
Shuao Wang Soochow University
Ming-Liang Tong
Ming-Liang Tong Sun Yat-sen University
Dragomir N. Neshev
Dragomir N. Neshev Australian National University
Simon J. Teat
Simon J. Teat Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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