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Materials Science

D-Index
76
Citations
20330
World Ranking
3290
National Ranking
109

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
78
Citations
20564
World Ranking
612
National Ranking
47

Xiaolei Shi publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaolei Shi sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 256 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Xiaolei Shi D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Xiaolei Shi sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Xiaolei Shi is affiliated with Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Their main fields of study include Materials Science and Engineering, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their research primarily concentrates on advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal properties of materials, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, perovskite materials and applications, and quantum dots synthesis and properties.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi2Te3 thermoelectric thin film, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From materials to applications, 2021, Materials Today
  • Advances in the design and assembly of flexible thermoelectric device, 2022, Progress in Materials Science
  • Conducting polymer-based flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From mechanisms to applications, 2021, Progress in Materials Science

Frequent collaborators of Xiaolei Shi include:

  • Zhi-Gang Chen
  • Wei-Di Liu
  • Meng Li
  • Qingfeng Liu
  • Wenyi Chen

Xiaolei Shi's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Science

Best Publications

  • Advanced Thermoelectric Design: From Materials and Structures to Devices

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Jin Zou;Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen

  • Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Generators: Challenges and Innovations.

    Yuan Wang;Lei Yang;Xiao‐Lei Shi;Xun Shi

  • High-performance SnSe thermoelectric materials: Progress and future challenge

    Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen;Xiaolei Shi;Li-Dong Zhao;Jin Zou

  • Harvesting waste heat with flexible Bi_2Te_3 thermoelectric thin film

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  • Flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From materials to applications

    Li Zhang;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yan-Ling Yang;Zhi-Gang Chen;Zhi-Gang Chen

  • Novel Thermal Diffusion Temperature Engineering Leading to High Thermoelectric Performance in Bi2Te3‐Based Flexible Thin‐Films

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  • Biomass‐Derived Carbon for High‐Performance Batteries: From Structure to Properties

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  • Ultrahigh light transmission through a C-shaped nanoaperture.

    Xiaolei Shi;Lambertus Hesselink;Robert L. Thornton

  • Conducting polymer-based flexible thermoelectric materials and devices: From mechanisms to applications

    Shengduo Xu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Matthew Dargusch;Chongan Di

  • Flexible power generators by Ag2Se thin films with record-high thermoelectric performance

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  • High-Performance Thermoelectric SnSe: Aqueous Synthesis, Innovations, and Challenges

    Xiao Lei Shi;Xinyong Tao;Jin Zou;Zhi Gang Chen

  • SrTiO3-based thermoelectrics: Progress and challenges

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Hao Wu;Qingfeng Liu;Wei Zhou

  • Fiber-based thermoelectrics for solid, portable, and wearable electronics

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Wen-Yi Chen;Ting Zhang;Jin Zou

  • Advances in Ag2Se-based thermoelectrics from materials to applications

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  • Advances in Ionic Thermoelectrics: From Materials to Devices

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  • High-performance in n-type PbTe-based thermoelectric materials achieved by synergistically dynamic doping and energy filtering

    Hang-Tian Liu;Qiang Sun;Yan Zhong;Qian Deng

  • A Solvothermal Synthetic Environmental Design for High‐Performance SnSe‐Based Thermoelectric Materials

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  • High-Performance PEDOT:PSS Flexible Thermoelectric Materials and Their Devices by Triple Post-Treatments

    Shengduo Xu;Min Hong;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yuan Wang

  • High Thermoelectric Performance in p-type Polycrystalline Cd-doped SnSe Achieved by a Combination of Cation Vacancies and Localized Lattice Engineering

    Xiaolei Shi;Angyin Wu;Tianli Feng;Tianli Feng;Kun Zheng

  • Advances and challenges in 2D MXenes: from structures to energy storage and conversions

    Weixue Meng;Xingjiang Liu;Haoqiang Song;Yu Xie

  • Polycrystalline SnSe with Extraordinary Thermoelectric Property via Nanoporous Design.

    Xiaolei Shi;Angyin Wu;Weidi Liu;Raza Moshwan

  • Mechanisms for enhancing power throughput from planar nano-apertures for near-field optical data storage

    Xiaolei Shi;Lambertus Hesselink

  • Boosting the thermoelectric performance of p-type heavily Cu-doped polycrystalline SnSe via inducing intensive crystal imperfections and defect phonon scattering

    Xiaolei Shi;Kun Zheng;Min Hong;Weidi Liu

  • Flexible Carbon-Fiber/Semimetal Bi Nanosheet Arrays as Separable and Recyclable Plasmonic Photocatalysts and Photoelectrocatalysts

    Yanling Yang;Huajun Chen;Huajun Chen;Xinxin Zou;Xiao-Lei Shi

  • Enhanced thermoelectric properties of nanostructured n-type Bi2Te3 by suppressing Te vacancy through non-equilibrium fast reaction

    Yuan Wang;Yuan Wang;Wei-Di Liu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Min Hong;Min Hong

  • Realizing high thermoelectric properties of SnTe via synergistic band engineering and structure engineering

    Raza Moshwan;Wei-Di Liu;Xiao-Lei Shi;Xiao-Lei Shi;Yun-Peng Wang;Yun-Peng Wang

  • Realizing High Thermoelectric Performance in n-Type Highly Distorted Sb-Doped SnSe Microplates via Tuning High Electron Concentration and Inducing Intensive Crystal Defects

    Xiao-Lei Shi;Kun Zheng;Wei-Di Liu;Yuan Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhigang Chen
Zhigang Chen Queensland University of Technology
Jin Zou
Jin Zou University of Queensland
Min Hong
Min Hong University of Southern Queensland
Qiang Sun
Qiang Sun Peking University
Matthew S. Dargusch
Matthew S. Dargusch University of Queensland
John Erik Hershey
John Erik Hershey General Electric (United States)
Siyu Lu
Siyu Lu Zhengzhou University
Li Xu
Li Xu Tsinghua University
Lambertus Hesselink
Lambertus Hesselink Stanford University
Sokrates T. Pantelides
Sokrates T. Pantelides Vanderbilt University

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