2026 Xi Ling: 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	50	10067	9722	2411	2235	109	16182

Xi Ling 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 Xi Ling sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 109 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xi Ling 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 Xi Ling sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xi Ling is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Additional subfields include biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and electronic, optical and magnetic materials.

Their work covers a variety of topics, which include:

2D Materials and Applications
MXene and MAX Phase Materials
Graphene research and applications
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides

Xi Ling has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific venues. The top publication outlets include:

ACS Nano
Nano Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Electronics
ChemPhysChem

Some of their notable recent papers include:

High tunnelling electroresistance in a ferroelectric van der Waals heterojunction via giant barrier height modulation, 2020, Nature Electronics
Flexible and high-performance electrochromic devices enabled by self-assembled 2D TiO2/MXene heterostructures, 2021, Nature Communications
Healing of donor defect states in monolayer molybdenum disulfide using oxygen-incorporated chemical vapour deposition, 2021, Nature Electronics
Deep-Learning-Enabled Fast Optical Identification and Characterization of 2D Materials, 2020, Advanced Materials
Realization of 2D crystalline metal nitrides via selective atomic substitution, 2020, Science Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Qishuo Tan, Hikari Kitadai, Jun Cao, Tianshu Li, and Liangbo Liang, with multiple joint publications in various fields related to their research expertise.

Best Publications

The renaissance of black phosphorus

Xi Ling;Han Wang;Shengxi Huang;Fengnian Xia

1556
Citations
Can graphene be used as a substrate for Raman enhancement

Xi Ling;Liming Xie;Yuan Fang;Hua Xu

1418
Citations
Role of the seeding promoter in MoS2 growth by chemical vapor deposition.

Xi Ling;Yi-Hsien Lee;Yuxuan Lin;Wenjing Fang

816
Citations
Synthesis and transfer of single-layer transition metal disulfides on diverse surfaces.

Yi Hsien Lee;Lili Yu;Han Wang;Wenjing Fang

761
Citations
Dielectric Screening of Excitons and Trions in Single-Layer MoS2

Yuxuan Lin;Xi Ling;Lili Yu;Shengxi Huang

719
Citations
Graphene/MoS2 Hybrid Technology for Large-Scale Two-Dimensional Electronics

Lili Yu;Yi Hsien Lee;Xi Ling;Elton J G Santos

696
Citations
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on a flat graphene surface

Weigao Xu;Xi Ling;Jiaqi Xiao;Mildred S. Dresselhaus

609
Citations
Raman enhancement effect on two-dimensional layered materials: graphene, h-BN and MoS2

Xi Ling;Wenjing Fang;Yi-Hsien Lee;Paulo T. Araujo

601
Citations
Graphene as a substrate to suppress fluorescence in resonance Raman spectroscopy.

Liming Xie;Xi Ling;Yuan Fang;Jin Zhang

584
Citations
MoS2 Field-Effect Transistor with Sub-10 nm Channel Length

Amirhasan Nourbakhsh;Ahmad Zubair;Redwan N. Sajjad;K G Amir Tavakkoli

504
Citations
Anisotropic Electron-Photon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Black Phosphorus

Xi Ling;Shengxi Huang;Eddwi H. Hasdeo;Liangbo Liang

429
Citations
Two-dimensional MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for Wi-Fi-band wireless energy harvesting.

Xu Zhang;Jesús Grajal;Jose Luis Vazquez-Roy;Ujwal Radhakrishna

383
Citations
Trion-Induced Negative Photoconductivity in Monolayer MoS 2

C. H. Lui;A. J. Frenzel;A. J. Frenzel;D. V. Pilon;Y.-H. Lee;Y.-H. Lee

328
Citations
Probing the interlayer coupling of twisted bilayer MoS2 using photoluminescence spectroscopy.

Shengxi Huang;Xi Ling;Liangbo Liang;Jing Kong

308
Citations
High tunnelling electroresistance in a ferroelectric van der Waals heterojunction via giant barrier height modulation

Jiangbin Wu;Hung-Yu Chen;Ning Yang;Jun Cao

298
Citations
Raman spectroscopy of transition metal dichalcogenides.

Riichiro Saito;Y. Tatsumi;S. Huang;X. Ling

294
Citations
Leveraging Nanocavity Harmonics for Control of Optical Processes in 2D Semiconductors

Gleb M. Akselrod;Tian Ming;Christos Argyropoulos;Christos Argyropoulos;Thang B. Hoang

272
Citations
First-layer effect in graphene-enhanced Raman scattering.

Xi Ling;Jin Zhang

271
Citations
Tuning Electronic Structure of Single Layer MoS2 through Defect and Interface Engineering

Yan Chen;Yan Chen;Shengxi Huang;Xiang Ji;Kiran Adepalli

270
Citations
Flexible and high-performance electrochromic devices enabled by self-assembled 2D TiO2/MXene heterostructures.

Ran Li;Xiaoyuan Ma;Jianmin Li;Jun Cao

266
Citations
Graphene‐Veiled Gold Substrate for Surface‐Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Weigao Xu;Jiaqi Xiao;Yanfeng Chen;Yabin Chen

249
Citations
Parallel Stitching of 2D Materials.

Xi Ling;Yuxuan Lin;Qiong Ma;Ziqiang Wang

247
Citations