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90
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Xiangdong Yao 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 Xiangdong Yao sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 244 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiangdong Yao 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 Xiangdong Yao sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Xiangdong Yao is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has a research profile primarily focused on engineering, energy, and materials science. Their work emphasizes renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment, with substantial contributions in electrical and electronic engineering as well as materials chemistry and catalysis.

The main research topics addressed by Xiangdong Yao include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications

Among recent scientific publications associated with Yao, notable papers include:

  • Metal-Free Thiophene-Sulfur Covalent Organic Frameworks: Precise and Controllable Synthesis of Catalytic Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Single Carbon Vacancy Traps Atomic Platinum for Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis (2022), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Edge-Rich Fe−N4 Active Sites in Defective Carbon for Oxygen Reduction Catalysis (2020), Advanced Materials
  • Recent advances in liquid-phase chemical hydrogen storage (2020), Energy Storage Materials
  • Sulfur-Modified Oxygen Vacancies in Iron-Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets: Enabling Extremely High Activity of the Oxygen Evolution Reaction to Achieve the Industrial Water Splitting Benchmark (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Publication venues where Xiangdong Yao frequently publishes are:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Small
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Advanced Functional Materials

Yao collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Yi Jia
  • Xuecheng Yan
  • Qilong Wu
  • Aijun Du
  • Jun Chen

Best Publications

  • Ultrathin Iron-Cobalt Oxide Nanosheets with Abundant Oxygen Vacancies for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction.

    Linzhou Zhuang;Lei Ge;Yisu Yang;Mengran Li

  • Defect Graphene as a Trifunctional Catalyst for Electrochemical Reactions

    Yi Jia;Longzhou Zhang;Aijun Du;Guoping Gao

  • A Heterostructure Coupling of Exfoliated Ni–Fe Hydroxide Nanosheet and Defective Graphene as a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Yi Jia;Longzhou Zhang;Guoping Gao;Hua Chen

  • Graphene Defects Trap Atomic Ni Species for Hydrogen and Oxygen Evolution Reactions

    Longzhou Zhang;Yi Jia;Guoping Gao;Xuecheng Yan

  • Atomically isolated nickel species anchored on graphitized carbon for efficient hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis.

    Lili Fan;Peng Fei Liu;Xuecheng Yan;Lin Gu

  • Phosphate removal from wastewater using red mud.

    Weiwei Huang;Shaobin Wang;Zhonghua Zhu;Li Li

  • Identification of active sites for acidic oxygen reduction on carbon catalysts with and without nitrogen doping

    Yi Jia;Longzhou Zhang;Longzhou Zhang;Linzhou Zhuang;Hongli Liu

  • Coordination of Atomic Co-Pt Coupling Species at Carbon Defects as Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

    Longzhou Zhang;Julia Melisande Theresa Agatha Fischer;Yi Jia;Xuecheng Yan

  • Defects on carbons for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction.

    Xuecheng Yan;Yi Jia;Xiangdong Yao

  • Electronic Structure Tuning in Ni3FeN/r-GO Aerogel toward Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Yu Gu;Shuai Chen;Jun Ren;Yi Alec Jia

  • Progress in sodium borohydride as a hydrogen storage material: Development of hydrolysis catalysts and reaction systems

    Sean S. Muir;Xiangdong Yao;Xiangdong Yao

  • Insight into the design of defect electrocatalysts: From electronic structure to adsorption energy

    Chao Xie;Dafeng Yan;Wei Chen;Yuqin Zou

  • Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Kinetics and Stability by Synergistic Effects of in Situ Formed CeH2.73 and Ni in CeH2.73-MgH2‑Ni Nanocomposites

    L. Z. Ouyang;X. S. Yang;M. Zhu;M. Zhu;J. W. Liu

  • Single Carbon Vacancy Traps Atomic Platinum for Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis.

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  • Mg–TM (TM: Ti, Nb, V, Co, Mo or Ni) core–shell like nanostructures: synthesis, hydrogen storage performance and catalytic mechanism

    Jie Cui;Jie Cui;Jiangwen Liu;Hui Wang;Liuzhang Ouyang

  • Twins in Cd1−xZnxS solid solution: Highly efficient photocatalyst for hydrogen generation from water

    Maochang Liu;Lianzhou Wang;Gaoqing Max Lu;Xiangdong Yao;Xiangdong Yao

  • The Role of Defect Sites in Nanomaterials for Electrocatalytic Energy Conversion

    Yi Jia;Kun Jiang;Haotian Wang;Xiangdong Yao;Xiangdong Yao

  • Density functional theory analysis of structural and electronic properties of orthorhombic perovskite CH3NH3PbI3

    Yun Wang;Tim John Gould;John Francis Dobson;Haimin Zhang

  • A Defect-Driven Metal-free Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Electrolyte

    Daohao Li;Yi Jia;Guojing Chang;Jun Chen

  • Metal-Free Thiophene-Sulfur Covalent Organic Frameworks: Precise and Controllable Synthesis of Catalytic Active Sites for Oxygen Reduction

    Daohao Li;Daohao Li;Cuiyan Li;Lijie Zhang;Hui Li

  • Remarkable enhancement in dehydrogenation of MgH2 by a nano-coating of multi-valence Ti-based catalysts

    Jie Cui;Jie Cui;Hui Wang;Jiangwen Liu;Liuzhang Ouyang

  • Carbon for the oxygen reduction reaction: a defect mechanism

    Huanyu Zhao;Huanyu Zhao;Chenghua Sun;Zhao Jin;Da-Wei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Jia
Yi Jia Griffith University
Dongjiang Yang
Dongjiang Yang Qingdao University
Gao Qing Lu
Gao Qing Lu University of Surrey
Aijun Du
Aijun Du Queensland University of Technology
Huijun Zhao
Huijun Zhao Griffith University
Zhonghua Zhu
Zhonghua Zhu University of Queensland
Sean C. Smith
Sean C. Smith Australian National University
Jin Zou
Jin Zou University of Queensland
Hui-Ming Cheng
Hui-Ming Cheng Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Haimin Zhang
Haimin Zhang Griffith University

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