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7729
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Wei Zhang 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 Wei Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 192 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wei Zhang 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 Wei Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wei Zhang is affiliated with Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China. Their research portfolio primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with substantial contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist has actively worked on topics related to phase-change materials and chalcogenides, which form the core of much of their research output. Additional topics covered include chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, advanced memory and neural computing, 2D materials and their applications, high entropy alloys studies, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, and additive manufacturing materials and processes.

Wei Zhang has published in a range of venues, frequently contributing to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Materials Today Communications

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing" (2023), published in Nature Electronics
  • "Recent Advances on Neuromorphic Devices Based on Chalcogenide Phase-Change Materials" (2020), published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction towards industrial applications" (2022), published in Carbon Energy
  • "Unveiling the structural origin to control resistance drift in phase-change memory materials" (2020), published in Materials Today
  • "Main group metal elements for ambient-condition electrochemical nitrogen reduction" (2021), published in Journal of Energy Chemistry

Wei Zhang frequently collaborates with a core group of coauthors, including:

  • E. Ma
  • Jiangjing Wang
  • Riccardo Mazzarello
  • Yuxing Zhou
  • Volker L. Deringer

Best Publications

  • Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing

    Wei Zhang;Riccardo Mazzarello;Matthias Wuttig;Matthias Wuttig;Evan Ma

  • Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing

    Feng Rao;Feng Rao;Keyuan Ding;Keyuan Ding;Yuxing Zhou;Yonghui Zheng

  • Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation

    Keyuan Ding;Jiangjing Wang;Yuxing Zhou;He Tian

  • Role of vacancies in metal–insulator transitions of crystalline phase-change materials

    Wei Zhang;Alex Thiess;Peter Zalden;R Zeller

  • Aging mechanisms in amorphous phase-change materials

    Jean Yves Raty;Wei Zhang;Jennifer Luckas;Chao Chen

  • An organic electrochemical transistor for multi-modal sensing, memory and processing

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  • Recent Advances on Neuromorphic Devices Based on Chalcogenide Phase-Change Materials

    Ming Xu;Xianliang Mai;Jun Lin;Wei Zhang

  • Glass-like thermal conductivity in ytterbium-doped lanthanum zirconate pyrochlore

    Chunlei Wan;Wei Zhang;Yifeng Wang;Zhixue Qu

  • Bonding nature of local structural motifs in amorphous GeTe

    Volker L. Deringer;Wei Zhang;Marck Lumeij;Stefan Maintz

  • Unveiling the structural origin to control resistance drift in phase-change memory materials

    Wei Zhang;Evan Ma

  • Highly porous ZrO2 ceramics fabricated by a camphene-based freeze-casting route: Microstructure and properties

    Jiecai Han;Changqing Hong;Xinghong Zhang;Jiancong Du

  • Metal-Insulator Transition Driven by Vacancy Ordering in GeSbTe Phase Change Materials.

    Valeria Bragaglia;Fabrizio Arciprete;Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Antonio Massimiliano Mio

  • Single Atom Excels as the Smallest Functional Material

    Wei Zhang;Weitao Zheng

  • Element-resolved atomic structure imaging of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material

    Bin Zhang;Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Zhenju Shen;Yongjin Chen

  • Epitaxial growth of iridium and platinum films on sapphire by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

    Roberto Vargas;Takashi Goto;Wei Zhang;Toshio Hirai

  • Effect of graphite flake orientation on microstructure and mechanical properties of ZrB2–SiC–graphite composite

    Shanbao Zhou;Zhi Wang;Wei Zhang

  • Blue phosphorene monolayers as potential nano sensors for volatile organic compounds under point defects

    Suyang Sun;Tanveer Hussain;Wei Zhang;Amir Karton

  • Main group metal elements for ambient-condition electrochemical nitrogen reduction

    Ying Sun;Yu Wang;Hui Li;Wei Zhang

  • Epitaxial Synthesis of Blue Phosphorene

    Wei Zhang;Hanna Enriquez;Yongfeng Tong;Azzedine Bendounan

  • Phase Diagram of the BaO-CuO Binary System

    Wei Zhang;Kozo Osamura;Shojiro Ochiai

  • Designing Conductive‐Bridge Phase‐Change Memory to Enable Ultralow Programming Power

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  • Atomic-scale observation of non-classical nucleation-mediated phase transformation in a titanium alloy.

    Xiaoqian Fu;Xu-Dong Wang;Beikai Zhao;Qinghua Zhang

  • Space-charge dominated epitaxial BaTiO3 heterostructures

    Wei Zhang;Wei Zhang;Yiqun Gao;Limin Kang;Meiling Yuan

  • Epitaxial Synthesis of Blue Phosphorene

    Wei Zhang;Hanna Enriquez;Yongfeng Tong;Azzedine Bendounan

  • κ‐Phase Formation in Fe–Mn–Al–C Austenitic Steels

    Wenwen Song;Wei Zhang;Jörg von Appen;Richard Dronskowski

  • Crystallization Properties of the Ge2Sb2Te5 Phase-Change Compound from Advanced Simulations

    Ider Ronneberger;Wei Zhang;Hagai Eshet;Hagai Eshet;Riccardo Mazzarello

  • Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons on the (111) Surface of Cu, Ag, and Au

    Yan Li;Wei Zhang;Markus Morgenstern;Riccardo Mazzarello

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Wuttig
Matthias Wuttig RWTH Aachen University
Chun-Lin Jia
Chun-Lin Jia Xi'an Jiaotong University
Evan Ma
Evan Ma Xi'an Jiaotong University
Richard Dronskowski
Richard Dronskowski RWTH Aachen University
Rudolf Zeller
Rudolf Zeller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ze Zhang
Ze Zhang Zhejiang University
Henning Riechert
Henning Riechert Infineon Technologies (Germany)
Stefan Blügel
Stefan Blügel Forschungszentrum Jülich
Peter H. Dederichs
Peter H. Dederichs Forschungszentrum Jülich
Raffaella Calarco
Raffaella Calarco Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology

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