2026 Xiangbing Zeng: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	50	10297	9943	415	396	156	8231
Chemistry	50	14477	13043	805	717	153	8187

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

10297

9943

415

396

156

8231

Chemistry

14477

13043

805

717

153

8187

Materials Science

D-Index

Citations

8231

World Ranking

10297

National Ranking

415

Chemistry

D-Index

Citations

8187

World Ranking

14477

National Ranking

805

Overview

Xiangbing Zeng is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple areas within materials science and engineering, focusing on the intersection of molecular design and functional materials development.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

Materials Science
Engineering

Further specialization is evident in subfields such as:

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Organic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Polymers and Plastics

Their research addresses topics including:

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Advancements in Battery Materials
Polymer Crystallization and Properties

Zeng's publication record demonstrates contributions to several prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues where their work appears include:

Macromolecules
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
Nature Communications

Among notable recent papers are:

"Extraordinary Acceleration of Cogwheel Helical Self-Organization of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides by the Dendron Sequence Encoding Their Tertiary Structure" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Spontaneously chiral cubic liquid crystal: three interpenetrating networks with a twist" (2020), Journal of Materials Chemistry C
"Liquid Organic Frameworks: The Single-Network 'Plumber's Nightmare' Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystal" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
"Helical Networks of π-Conjugated Rods - A Robust Design Concept for Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Phases with Achiral Ia3¯d and Chiral I23 Lattice" (2020), Advanced Functional Materials
"A case of antiferrochirality in a liquid crystal phase of counter-rotating staircases" (2022), Nature Communications

Zeng frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

Goran Ungar
Feng Liu
Yaxin Li
Liliana Cseh
G. A. Gehring

Best Publications

Supramolecular dendritic liquid quasicrystals

Xiangbing Zeng;Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Virgil Percec

861
Citations
Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice

Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Xiangbing Zeng;Virgil Percec

487
Citations
Frank–Kasper, quasicrystalline and related phases in liquid crystals

Goran Ungar;Xiangbing Zeng

260
Citations
Learning polymer crystallization with the aid of linear, branched and cyclic model compounds.

Goran Ungar;Xiang-bing Zeng

256
Citations
Predicting the structure of supramolecular dendrimers via the analysis of libraries of AB3 and constitutional isomeric AB2 biphenylpropyl ether self-assembling dendrons.

Brad M. Rosen;Daniela A. Wilson;Christopher J. Wilson;Mihai Peterca

231
Citations
A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal

Xiangbing Zeng;Goran Ungar;Marianne Impéror-Clerc

210
Citations
Liquid Crystalline Networks Composed of Pentagonal, Square, and Triangular Cylinders

Bin Chen;Xiangbing Zeng;Ute Baumeister;Goran Ungar

202
Citations
Designing libraries of first generation AB3 and AB2 self-assembling dendrons via the primary structure generated from combinations of (AB)(y)-AB3 and (AB)(y)-AB2 building blocks.

Virgil Percec;Catherine M. Mitchell;Wook-Dong Cho;Satoshi Uchida

196
Citations
Induction of thermotropic bicontinuous cubic phases in liquid-crystalline ammonium and phosphonium salts.

Takahiro Ichikawa;Masafumi Yoshio;Atsushi Hamasaki;Satomi Taguchi

185
Citations
A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality

Cécile Roche;Hao-Jan Sun;Pawaret Leowanawat;Fumito Araoka

180
Citations
Carbohydrate Rod Conjugates: Ternary Rod−Coil Molecules Forming Complex Liquid Crystal Structures

Bin Chen;Ute Baumeister;Gerhard Pelzl;Malay Kumar Das

159
Citations
3D Ordered Gold Strings by Coating Nanoparticles with Mesogens

Xiangbing Zeng;Feng Liu;Alan G. Fowler;Goran Ungar

156
Citations
Dynamic Mirror‐Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

Christian Dressel;Feng Liu;Marko Prehm;Xiangbing Zeng

151
Citations
Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides into Complex Helical Columns

Virgil Percec;Mihai Peterca;Timur Tadjiev;Xiangbing Zeng

142
Citations
Complex Multicolor Tilings and Critical Phenomena in Tetraphilic Liquid Crystals

Xiangbing Zeng;Robert Kieffer;Benjamin Glettner;Constance Nürnberger

121
Citations
Simple Cubic Packing of Gold Nanoparticles through Rational Design of Their Dendrimeric Corona

Kiyoshi Kanie;Masaki Matsubara;Xiangbing Zeng;Feng Liu

117
Citations
Hollow six-stranded helical columns of a helicene.

Maxim A. Shcherbina;Xiang-bing Zeng;Timur Tadjiev;Goran Ungar

112
Citations
Self-Repairing Complex Helical Columns Generated via Kinetically Controlled Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides

Virgil Percec;Steven D. Hudson;Mihai Peterca;Pawaret Leowanawat

112
Citations
Self-Assembly at Different Length Scales: Polyphilic Star-Branched Liquid Crystals and Miktoarm Star Copolymers

Goran Ungar;Goran Ungar;Carsten Tschierske;Volker Abetz;Robert Holyst

110
Citations
Transformation from Kinetically into Thermodynamically Controlled Self-Organization of Complex Helical Columns with 3D Periodicity Assembled from Dendronized Perylene Bisimides

Virgil Percec;Hao-Jan Sun;Pawaret Leowanawat;Mihai Peterca

109
Citations