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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
159
Citations
110422
World Ranking
111
National Ranking
48

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Xiangfeng Duan is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple fields, mainly within Materials Science and Engineering. The subfields of focus include Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with significant publication counts in:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Yu Huang
  • Chengzhang Wan
  • Xidong Duan
  • Zhaoyang Lin
  • Sibo Wang

Publication venues where Xiangfeng Duan has disseminated their research most frequently include:

  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Catalysis
  • Nature Electronics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Duan are:

  • "Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors" (2023), published in ACS Nano
  • "A fundamental look at electrocatalytic sulfur reduction reaction" (2020), published in Nature Catalysis
  • "Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host-guest strategy" (2020), published in Nature Chemistry
  • "Combined anodic and cathodic hydrogen production from aldehyde oxidation and hydrogen evolution reaction" (2021), published in Nature Catalysis

Xiangfeng Duan was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Indium phosphide nanowires as building blocks for nanoscale electronic and optoelectronic devices

    Xiangfeng Duan;Yu Huang;Yi Cui;Jianfang Wang

  • Van der Waals heterostructures and devices

    Yuan Liu;Nathan O. Weiss;Xidong Duan;Hung-Chieh Cheng

  • Highly polarized photoluminescence and photodetection from single indium phosphide nanowires.

    Jianfang Wang;Mark S. Gudiksen;Xiangfeng Duan;Yi Cui

  • Single-nanowire electrically driven lasers

    Xiangfeng Duan;Yu Huang;Ritesh Agarwal;Charles M. Lieber

  • Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks

    Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Qingqiao Wei;Charles M. Lieber

  • Logic gates and computation from assembled nanowire building blocks.

    Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan;Yi Cui;Lincoln J. Lauhon

  • General Synthesis of Compound Semiconductor Nanowires

    Xiangfeng Duan;Charles M. Lieber

  • Approaching the Schottky-Mott limit in van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions.

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Jian Guo;Enbo Zhu;Lei Liao

  • General synthesis and definitive structural identification of MN4C4 single-atom catalysts with tunable electrocatalytic activities

    Huilong Fei;Juncai Dong;Yexin Feng;Christopher S. Allen

  • High-performance transition metal–doped Pt3Ni octahedra for oxygen reduction reaction

    Xiaoqing Huang;Zipeng Zhao;Liang Cao;Yu Chen

  • Progress, challenge and perspective of heterogeneous photocatalysts

    Yongquan Qu;Yongquan Qu;Xiangfeng Duan

  • Doping and Electrical Transport in Silicon Nanowires

    Yi Cui;Xiangfeng Duan;and Jiangtao Hu;Charles M. Lieber

  • Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction

    Mufan Li;Zipeng Zhao;Tao Cheng;Alessandro Fortunelli

  • Van der Waals integration before and beyond two-dimensional materials

    Yuan Liu;Yuan Liu;Yu Huang;Xiangfeng Duan

  • Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage

    Hongtao Sun;Lin Mei;Lin Mei;Junfei Liang;Zipeng Zhao

  • High-performance thin-film transistors using semiconductor nanowires and nanoribbons

    Xiangfeng Duan;Chunming Niu;Vijendra Sahi;Jian Chen

  • Holey graphene frameworks for highly efficient capacitive energy storage

    Yuxi Xu;Zhaoyang Lin;Xing Zhong;Xiaoqing Huang

  • High-speed graphene transistors with a self-aligned nanowire gate

    Lei Liao;Yung Chen Lin;Mingqiang Bao;Rui Cheng

  • Promises and prospects of two-dimensional transistors

    Yuan Liu;Xidong Duan;Hyeon-Jin Shin;Seongjun Park

  • Lateral epitaxial growth of two-dimensional layered semiconductor heterojunctions

    Xidong Duan;Chen Wang;Jonathan C. Shaw;Rui Cheng

  • Laser-Assisted Catalytic Growth of Single Crystal GaN Nanowires

    Xiangfeng Duan;Charles M. Lieber

  • Graphene nanomesh

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Frequent Co-Authors

Xidong Duan
Xidong Duan Hunan University
Lei Liao
Lei Liao Hunan University
Zipeng Zhao
Zipeng Zhao Beijing Institute of Technology
Yongquan Qu
Yongquan Qu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Qiyuan He
Qiyuan He City University of Hong Kong
Yuxi Xu
Yuxi Xu Westlake University
Anlian Pan
Anlian Pan Hunan University
Hao Wu
Hao Wu Harvard University
G. Gary Wang
G. Gary Wang University of Science and Technology of China
Yang Xu
Yang Xu Zhejiang University

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