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Materials Science

D-Index
99
Citations
41762
World Ranking
1089
National Ranking
360

Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
40150
World Ranking
1519
National Ranking
582

Xiaoyang Zhu 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 Xiaoyang Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 369 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiaoyang Zhu 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 Xiaoyang Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Xiaoyang Zhu is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has an extensive research profile focusing on the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Biomedical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The core research themes addressed by Xiaoyang Zhu revolve around advanced topics in 2D materials and applications, perovskite materials and their uses, graphene research, MXene and MAX phase materials, quantum dots synthesis and properties, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Their recent published papers are as follows:

  • Correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Disassembling 2D van der Waals crystals into macroscopic monolayers and reassembling into artificial lattices, 2020, Science
  • Magnetic Order and Symmetry in the 2D Semiconductor CrSBr, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Visualization of moiré superlattices, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Polariton panorama, 2020, Nanophotonics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Xiaoyang Zhu include Xavier Roy, Cory R. Dean, James Hone, Abhay N. Pasupathy, and D. N. Basov.

The venues where Zhu has published most frequently include arXiv (Cornell University), Nano Letters, The Journal of Chemical Physics, The Cambridge Structural Database, and Nature Materials.

Best Publications

  • Lead halide perovskite nanowire lasers with low lasing thresholds and high quality factors

    Haiming Zhu;Yongping Fu;Fei Meng;Xiaoxi Wu

  • Two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetism in atomically thin Fe3GeTe2.

    Zaiyao Fei;Bevin Huang;Paul Malinowski;Wenbo Wang

  • Charge Transfer on the Nanoscale: Current Status

    David M. Adams;Louis Brus;Christopher E. D. Chidsey;Stephen Creager

  • Trap states in lead iodide perovskites.

    Xiaoxi Wu;M. Tuan Trinh;Daniel Niesner;Haiming Zhu

  • Hot-electron transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals.

    William A. Tisdale;Kenrick J. Williams;Kenrick J. Williams;Brooke A. Timp;David J. Norris

  • Correlated electronic phases in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

    Lei Wang;Lei Wang;En-Min Shih;Augusto Ghiotto;Lede Xian

  • Metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications and the study of physical properties

    Yongping Fu;Haiming Zhu;Jie Chen;Jie Chen;Matthew P. Hautzinger

  • Screening in crystalline liquids protects energetic carriers in hybrid perovskites

    Haiming Zhu;Kiyoshi Miyata;Yongping Fu;Jue Wang

  • Hot charge-transfer excitons set the time limit for charge separation at donor/acceptor interfaces in organic photovoltaics

    Askat E. Jailaubekov;Adam P. Willard;John R. Tritsch;Wai Lun Chan

  • Large polarons in lead halide perovskites

    Kiyoshi Miyata;Daniele Meggiolaro;Daniele Meggiolaro;M. Tuan Trinh;Prakriti P. Joshi

  • Using coherence to enhance function in chemical and biophysical systems

    Gregory D. Scholes;Graham R. Fleming;Lin X. Chen;Lin X. Chen;Alán Aspuru-Guzik

  • Two-Dimensional Itinerant Ising Ferromagnetism in Atomically thin Fe3GeTe2

    Zaiyao Fei;Bevin Huang;Paul Malinowski;Wenbo Wang

  • Charge Carriers in Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites Might Be Protected as Large Polarons

    X.-Y. Zhu;V. Podzorov

  • Photochemistry at adsorbate/metal interfaces

    X.-L. Zhou;X.-Y. Zhu;J.M. White

  • Broad Wavelength Tunable Robust Lasing from Single-Crystal Nanowires of Cesium Lead Halide Perovskites (CsPbX3, X = Cl, Br, I)

    Yongping Fu;Haiming Zhu;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Qi Ding

  • Molecular helices as electron acceptors in high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Yu Zhong;M. Tuan Trinh;Rongsheng Chen;Rongsheng Chen;Geoffrey E. Purdum

  • Observing the multiexciton state in singlet fission and ensuing ultrafast multielectron transfer.

    Wai-lun Chan;Manuel Ligges;Askat Jailaubekov;Loren Kaake

  • Mechanism for Broadband White-Light Emission from Two-Dimensional (110) Hybrid Perovskites

    Te Hu;Te Hu;Matthew D. Smith;Emma R. Dohner;Meng-Ju Sher

  • Extended carrier lifetimes and diffusion in hybrid perovskites revealed by Hall effect and photoconductivity measurements.

    Y. Chen;Y. Chen;H. T. Yi;X. Wu;R. Haroldson

  • Charge-transfer excitons at organic semiconductor surfaces and interfaces.

    X.-Y. Zhu;Q. Yang;M. Muntwiler

Frequent Co-Authors

J. M. White
J. M. White The University of Texas at Austin
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls Columbia University
James Hone
James Hone Columbia University
Xavier Roy
Xavier Roy Columbia University
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Cory Dean
Cory Dean Columbia University
Michael L. Steigerwald
Michael L. Steigerwald Columbia University
Haiming Zhu
Haiming Zhu Zhejiang University
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science

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