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D-Index
49
Citations
8161
World Ranking
10587
National Ranking
2960

Wenjun Lu 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 Wenjun Lu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 150 publications — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wenjun Lu 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 Wenjun Lu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wenjun Lu is affiliated with Southern University of Science and Technology in China and has an extensive publication record focused on engineering and materials science. Their research spans a variety of subfields including mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, aerospace engineering, mechanics of materials, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • Advanced materials and composites
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
  • Metal and Thin Film Mechanics

Wenjun Lu has contributed to several papers with significant citation counts, highlighting various developments in alloy behavior and material strength. Notable publications include:

  • "A strong and ductile medium-entropy alloy resists hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Tailoring planar slip to achieve pure metal-like ductility in body-centred-cubic multi-principal element alloys" (2023, Nature Materials)
  • "Ultrastrong lightweight compositionally complex steels via dual-nanoprecipitation" (2020, Science Advances)
  • "Superior mechanical properties of a selective-laser-melted AlZnMgCuScZr alloy enabled by a tunable hierarchical microstructure and dual-nanoprecipitation" (2021, Materials Today)
  • "Chemical heterogeneity enhances hydrogen resistance in high-strength steels" (2021, Nature Materials)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Wenjun Lu include:

  • Zhiming Li
  • Dierk Raabe
  • Junhua Hou
  • Fengchao An
  • Dirk Ponge

Their research is published predominantly in venues such as:

  • Materials Science and Engineering A
  • Acta Materialia
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Journal of Plasticity

The body of work by Wenjun Lu demonstrates a consistent focus on the mechanical properties and compositional complexity of alloys, often highlighting the enhancement of material strength, ductility, and resistance to environmental degradation.

Best Publications

  • Ultrastrong Medium-Entropy Single-Phase Alloys Designed via Severe Lattice Distortion

    Seok Su Sohn;Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva;Yuji Ikeda;Yuji Ikeda;Fritz Körmann;Fritz Körmann

  • A strong and ductile medium-entropy alloy resists hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion

    Hong Luo;Hong Luo;Seok Su Sohn;Seok Su Sohn;Wenjun Lu;Linlin Li

  • Bidirectional Transformation Enables Hierarchical Nanolaminate Dual‐Phase High‐Entropy Alloys

    Wenjun Lu;Christian H. Liebscher;Gerhard Dehm;Dierk Raabe

  • Ultrastrong lightweight compositionally complex steels via dual-nanoprecipitation

    Zhangwei Wang;Wenjun Lu;Huan Zhao;Christian H. Liebscher

  • Reactive wear protection through strong and deformable oxide nanocomposite surfaces

    Chang Liu;Zhiming Li;Wenjun Lu;Wenjun Lu;Yan Bao

  • Beating hydrogen with its own weapon: Nano-twin gradients enhance embrittlement resistance of a high-entropy alloy

    Hong Luo;Wenjun Lu;Xufei Fang;Dirk Ponge

  • Chemical heterogeneity enhances hydrogen resistance in high-strength steels.

    Binhan Sun;Wenjun Lu;Wenjun Lu;Baptiste Gault;Baptiste Gault;Ran Ding;Ran Ding

  • Metalloid substitution elevates simultaneously the strength and ductility of face-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

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  • Rationally Incorporated MoS2/SnS2 Nanoparticles on Graphene Sheets for Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries

    Yong Jiang;Yibo Guo;Wenjun Lu;Zhenyu Feng

  • Selective laser melting enabling the hierarchically heterogeneous microstructure and excellent mechanical properties in an interstitial solute strengthened high entropy alloy

    Z. G. Zhu;X. H. An;Wenjun Lu;Zhiming Li

  • A novel supersaturated medium entropy alloy with superior tensile properties and corrosion resistance

    Ao Fu;Bin Liu;Wenjun Lu;Bo Liu

  • Hydrogen embrittlement of an interstitial equimolar high-entropy alloy

    Hong Luo;Zhiming Li;Wenjun Lu;Dirk Ponge

  • Massive interstitial solid solution alloys achieve near-theoretical strength

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  • Dislocation-induced breakthrough of strength and ductility trade-off in a non-equiatomic high-entropy alloy

    Wenqi Guo;Jing Su;Wenjun Lu;Christian H. Liebscher

  • Characterizing solute hydrogen and hydrides in pure and alloyed titanium at the atomic scale

    Yanhong Chang;Andrew J. Breen;Zahra Tarzimoghadam;Philipp Kürnsteiner

  • Ti and its alloys as examples of cryogenic focused ion beam milling of environmentally-sensitive materials.

    Yanhong Chang;Wenjun Lu;Julien Guénolé;Leigh T. Stephenson

  • Crystal-Glass High-Entropy Nanocomposites with Near Theoretical Compressive Strength and Large Deformability.

    Ge Wu;Shanoob Balachandran;Baptiste Gault;Baptiste Gault;Wenzhen Xia

  • On the formation of hierarchical microstructure in a Mo-doped NiCoCr medium-entropy alloy with enhanced strength-ductility synergy

    Junyang He;Surendra Kumar Makineni;Wenjun Lu;Yuanyuan Shang

  • Carbon and strain partitioning in a quenched and partitioned steel containing ferrite

    Xiaodong Tan;Dirk Ponge;Wenjun Lu;Yunbo Xu

  • On the mechanism of extraordinary strain hardening in an interstitial high-entropy alloy under cryogenic conditions

    Zhangwei Wang;Wenjun Lu;Dierk Raabe;Zhiming Li

  • Enhanced strength-ductility synergy and transformation induced plasticity of the selective laser melting fabricated 304L stainless steel

    Zhiguang Zhu;Weilin Li;Quy Bau Nguyen;Xianghai An

  • Revealing extra strengthening and strain hardening in heterogeneous two-phase nanostructures

    Jianjun Li;Wenjun Lu;Shaohua Chen;Chunhui Liu

  • Beyond Solid Solution High‐Entropy Alloys: Tailoring Magnetic Properties via Spinodal Decomposition

    Ziyuan Rao;Biswanath Dutta;Fritz Körmann;Fritz Körmann;Wenjun Lu;Wenjun Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Zhiming Li
Zhiming Li Central South University
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Gerhard Dehm
Gerhard Dehm Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Dirk Ponge
Dirk Ponge Max Planck Society
Jianjun Li
Jianjun Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Seok Su Sohn
Seok Su Sohn Korea University
David Dye
David Dye Imperial College London
Jörg Neugebauer
Jörg Neugebauer Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Christina Scheu
Christina Scheu Max Planck Society

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