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Materials Science

D-Index
50
Citations
8231
World Ranking
10295
National Ranking
415

Chemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
8187
World Ranking
14475
National Ranking
805

Xiangbing Zeng 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 Xiangbing Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 156 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiangbing Zeng 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 Xiangbing Zeng sits on this spectrum.

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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

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

  • Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice

    Goran Ungar;Yongsong Liu;Xiangbing Zeng;Virgil Percec

  • Frank–Kasper, quasicrystalline and related phases in liquid crystals

    Goran Ungar;Xiangbing Zeng

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

    Goran Ungar;Xiang-bing Zeng

  • 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

  • A triple-network tricontinuous cubicliquid crystal

    Xiangbing Zeng;Goran Ungar;Marianne Impéror-Clerc

  • Liquid Crystalline Networks Composed of Pentagonal, Square, and Triangular Cylinders

    Bin Chen;Xiangbing Zeng;Ute Baumeister;Goran Ungar

  • 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

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

    Takahiro Ichikawa;Masafumi Yoshio;Atsushi Hamasaki;Satomi Taguchi

  • A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality

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

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

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

  • 3D Ordered Gold Strings by Coating Nanoparticles with Mesogens

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

  • Dynamic Mirror‐Symmetry Breaking in Bicontinuous Cubic Phases

    Christian Dressel;Feng Liu;Marko Prehm;Xiangbing Zeng

  • Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides into Complex Helical Columns

    Virgil Percec;Mihai Peterca;Timur Tadjiev;Xiangbing Zeng

  • Complex Multicolor Tilings and Critical Phenomena in Tetraphilic Liquid Crystals

    Xiangbing Zeng;Robert Kieffer;Benjamin Glettner;Constance Nürnberger

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

    Kiyoshi Kanie;Masaki Matsubara;Xiangbing Zeng;Feng Liu

  • Hollow six-stranded helical columns of a helicene.

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Feng Liu
Feng Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Carsten Tschierske
Carsten Tschierske Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Marko Prehm
Marko Prehm Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania
Mihai Peterca
Mihai Peterca University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Heiney
Paul A. Heiney University of Pennsylvania
Ute Baumeister
Ute Baumeister Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society
Ruibin Zhang
Ruibin Zhang University of Sydney

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