2026 Xiaobo Yin: 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	66	5231	5061	1598	1591	179	29231

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

5231

5061

1598

1591

179

29231

Overview

Xiaobo Yin is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China, focusing primarily on engineering disciplines. Their research prominently covers several specialized fields within engineering, including civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as biomedical engineering.

The main topics addressed in Xiaobo Yin's work encompass thermal radiation and cooling technologies, urban heat island mitigation, building energy and comfort optimization, optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, radiative heat transfer studies, and the effects of light on plants.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Ronggui Yang, Gang Tan, Ablimit Aili, Lihua Shen, and Liqiu Wang. The scientist's publications appear often in the following venues:

Science
SSRN Electronic Journal
Applied Energy
Advanced Materials
Cell Reports Physical Science

Recent published papers showcase a range of topics within environmental and materials science, highlighting energy and cooling technologies. These papers include:

Terrestrial radiative cooling: Using the cold universe as a renewable and sustainable energy source, 2020, Science
Dynamic glazing with switchable solar reflectance for radiative cooling and solar heating, 2022, Cell Reports Physical Science
Increasing greenhouse production by spectral-shifting and unidirectional light-extracting photonics, 2021, Nature Food
Durability-enhanced vanadium dioxide thermochromic film for smart windows, 2020, Materials Today Physics
Selective directional liquid transport on shoot surfaces of Crassula muscosa, 2024, Science

Best Publications

A graphene-based broadband optical modulator

Ming Liu;Xiaobo Yin;Erick Ulin-Avila;Baisong Geng

3826
Citations
Scalable-manufactured randomized glass-polymer hybrid metamaterial for daytime radiative cooling

Yao Zhai;Yaoguang Ma;Sabrina N. David;Dongliang Zhao

2258
Citations
A radiative cooling structural material.

Tian Li;Yao Zhai;Shuaiming He;Wentao Gan

1474
Citations
Photonic spin hall effect at metasurfaces

Xiaobo Yin;Ziliang Ye;Junsuk Rho;Yuan Wang

1346
Citations
Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide

Ziliang Ye;Ting Cao;Ting Cao;Kevin O’Brien;Hanyu Zhu

1139
Citations
Switching terahertz waves with gate-controlled active graphene metamaterials

Seung Hoon Lee;Muhan Choi;Muhan Choi;Teun Teun Kim;Teun Teun Kim;Seungwoo Lee

1020
Citations
Observation of piezoelectricity in free-standing monolayer MoS2

Hanyu Zhu;Yuan Wang;Jun Xiao;Ming Liu

898
Citations
Double-Layer Graphene Optical Modulator

Ming Liu;Xiaobo Yin;Xiang Zhang;Xiang Zhang

884
Citations
Experimental demonstration of an acoustic magnifying hyperlens.

Jensen Li;Lee Fok;Xiaobo Yin;Xiaobo Yin;Guy Bartal

865
Citations
Switching teraherz waves with gate-controlled active graphene metamaterials

Seung Hoon Lee;Muhan Choi;Teun-Teun Kim;Seungwoo Lee

823
Citations
Radiative sky cooling: Fundamental principles, materials, and applications

Dongliang Zhao;Dongliang Zhao;Ablimit Aili;Yao Zhai;Shaoyu Xu

810
Citations
Edge Nonlinear Optics on a MoS2 Atomic Monolayer

Xiaobo Yin;Ziliang Ye;Daniel A. Chenet;Yu Ye

804
Citations
A holey-structured metamaterial for acoustic deep-subwavelength imaging

Jie Zhu;Johan Christensen;Jesper Jung;Luis Martin-Moreno

742
Citations
Photoinduced handedness switching in terahertz chiral metamolecules

Shuang Zhang;Jiangfeng Zhou;Yong-Shik Park;Junsuk Rho

528
Citations
Spherical hyperlens for two-dimensional sub-diffractional imaging at visible frequencies

Junsuk Rho;Ziliang Ye;Yi Xiong;Xiaobo Yin;Xiaobo Yin

495
Citations
Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams.

Peng Zhang;Yi Hu;Yi Hu;Tongcang Li;Drake Cannan

418
Citations
Experimental realization of three-dimensional indefinite cavities at the nanoscale with anomalous scaling laws

Xiaodong Yang;Jie Yao;Junsuk Rho;Xiaobo Yin

418
Citations
Phase Mismatch–Free Nonlinear Propagation in Optical Zero-Index Materials

Haim Suchowski;Kevin O’Brien;Zi Jing Wong;Alessandro Salandrino

363
Citations
Acoustic rainbow trapping

Jie Zhu;Yongyao Chen;Xuefeng Zhu;Xuefeng Zhu;Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

361
Citations
Colloquium: Phononic thermal properties of two-dimensional materials

Xiaokun Gu;Yujie Wei;Xiaobo Yin;Baowen Li

360
Citations
Electrical generation and control of the valley carriers in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide

Yu Ye;Jun Xiao;Hailong Wang;Ziliang Ye

350
Citations