2026 Xuehua Zhang: 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	61	6790	6563	117	112	285	13270

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Materials Science

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13270

Overview

Xuehua Zhang is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and specializes primarily in the field of Engineering. Their research contributions span several subfields, including Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers a range of main research topics, notably:

Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Petroleum Processing and Analysis
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies

Zhang has published frequently in several key academic venues. The most common publication platforms include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Chemical Engineering Journal
Langmuir
Advanced Functional Materials

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhang include:

A Roadmap Review of Thermally Conductive Polymer Composites: Critical Factors, Progress, and Prospects (2023), published in Advanced Functional Materials
Physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplets out of equilibrium (2020), published in Nature Reviews Physics
Conductive polymer based hydrogels and their application in wearable sensors: a review (2023), published in Materials Horizons
Review on formation of cold plasma activated water (PAW) and the applications in food and agriculture (2022), published in Food Research International
Ultrahigh Density of Gas Molecules Confined in Surface Nanobubbles in Ambient Water (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Collaborations form an important aspect of Zhang's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

Ben Bin Xu
Detlef Lohse
Qiuyun Lu
Somasekhara Goud Sontti
Jae Bem You

Best Publications

Surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets

Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang

836
Citations
Two-dimensional mesoporous carbon nanosheets and their derived graphene nanosheets: synthesis and efficient lithium ion storage.

Yin Fang;Yingying Lv;Renchao C Che;Haoyu Wu

672
Citations
Nanobubbles at the interface between water and a hydrophobic solid

Xue Hua Zhang;and Anthony Quinn;William A. Ducker

432
Citations
Highly Ordered Mesoporous Silica Films with Perpendicular Mesochannels by a Simple Stöber‐Solution Growth Approach

Zhaogang Teng;Gengfeng Zheng;Yuqian Dou;Wei Li

401
Citations
Controllable corrugation of chemically converted graphene sheets in water and potential application for nanofiltration

Ling Qiu;Xuehua Zhang;Wenrong Yang;Yufei Wang

380
Citations
A nanoscale gas state

Xue H Zhang;Abbas Khan;William A Ducker

327
Citations
Electrochemically controlled formation and growth of hydrogen nanobubbles

Lijuan Zhang;Yi Zhang;Xuehua Zhang;Zhaoxia Li

279
Citations
Pinning and gas oversaturation imply stable single surface nanobubbles

Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang;Xuehua Zhang

276
Citations
Stability of interfacial nanobubbles.

Xuehua Zhang;Derek Y. C. Chan;Dayang Wang;Nobuo Maeda

251
Citations
Strain Sensors with Adjustable Sensitivity by Tailoring the Microstructure of Graphene Aerogel/PDMS Nanocomposites

Shuying Wu;Raj B. Ladani;Jin Zhang;Kamran Ghorbani

249
Citations
Conductive polymer based hydrogels and their application in wearable sensors: a review.

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238
Citations
Physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplets out of equilibrium

Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang

236
Citations
Highly efficient visible-light driven photocatalytic reduction of CO2 over g-C3N4 nanosheets/tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin iron(III) chloride heterogeneous catalysts

Lin Lin;Lin Lin;Chunchao Hou;Xuehua Zhang;Yanjie Wang;Yanjie Wang

230
Citations
Deformable Hollow Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanocapsules for Significantly Improved Cellular Uptake

Zhaogang Teng;Chunyan Wang;Yuxia Tang;Wei Li

223
Citations
Evaporation-triggered microdroplet nucleation and the four life phases of an evaporating Ouzo drop

Huanshu Tan;C Christian Diddens;Pengyu Lv;Jgm Hans Kuerten

200
Citations
Detection of novel gaseous states at the highly oriented pyrolytic graphite-water interface

Xue Hua Zhang;Xiaodong Zhang;Jielin Sun;Zhixiang Zhang

189
Citations
Ultrahigh Density of Gas Molecules Confined in Surface Nanobubbles in Ambient Water

Limin Zhou;Xingya Wang;Hyun-Joon Shin;Jian Wang

163
Citations
Removal of induced nanobubbles from water/graphite interfaces by partial degassing.

Xuehua Zhang;Gang Li;Nobuo Maeda;Jun Hu

161
Citations
Do Stable Nanobubbles Exist in Mixtures of Organic Solvents and Water

Annette Häbich;William Ducker;Dave E. Dunstan;Xuehua Zhang

150
Citations
Formation of surface nanodroplets under controlled flow conditions

Xuehua Zhang;Xuehua Zhang;Ziyang Lu;Huanshu Tan;Huanshu Tan;Lei Bao

142
Citations
Super‐Soft Hydrogel Particles with Tunable Elasticity in a Microfluidic Blood Capillary Model

Jiwei Cui;Mattias Björnmalm;Kang Liang;Chenglong Xu

136
Citations
Organic Sensitizers Based on Hexylthiophene-Functionalized Indolo[3,2-b]carbazole for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Xue-Hua Zhang;Zhong-Sheng Wang;Yan Cui;Nagatoshi Koumura

126
Citations