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D-Index
61
Citations
13270
World Ranking
6790
National Ranking
117

Xuehua Zhang 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 Xuehua Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 285 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xuehua Zhang 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 Xuehua Zhang sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • 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

  • Nanobubbles at the interface between water and a hydrophobic solid

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

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

    Zhaogang Teng;Gengfeng Zheng;Yuqian Dou;Wei Li

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

    Ling Qiu;Xuehua Zhang;Wenrong Yang;Yufei Wang

  • A nanoscale gas state

    Xue H Zhang;Abbas Khan;William A Ducker

  • Electrochemically controlled formation and growth of hydrogen nanobubbles

    Lijuan Zhang;Yi Zhang;Xuehua Zhang;Zhaoxia Li

  • Pinning and gas oversaturation imply stable single surface nanobubbles

    Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang;Xuehua Zhang

  • Stability of interfacial nanobubbles.

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

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

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

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

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  • Physicochemical hydrodynamics of droplets out of equilibrium

    Detlef Lohse;Xuehua Zhang

  • 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

  • Deformable Hollow Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica Nanocapsules for Significantly Improved Cellular Uptake

    Zhaogang Teng;Chunyan Wang;Yuxia Tang;Wei Li

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

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

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

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

  • Ultrahigh Density of Gas Molecules Confined in Surface Nanobubbles in Ambient Water

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

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

    Xuehua Zhang;Gang Li;Nobuo Maeda;Jun Hu

  • Do Stable Nanobubbles Exist in Mixtures of Organic Solvents and Water

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

  • Formation of surface nanodroplets under controlled flow conditions

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

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

    Jiwei Cui;Mattias Björnmalm;Kang Liang;Chenglong Xu

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Lohse
Detlef Lohse University of Twente
Michel Versluis
Michel Versluis University of Twente
Jan C.T. Eijkel
Jan C.T. Eijkel University of Twente
Dan Li
Dan Li University of Melbourne
William A. Ducker
William A. Ducker Virginia Tech
Jun Hu
Jun Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Andrea Prosperetti
Andrea Prosperetti University of Houston
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata
Albert van den Berg
Albert van den Berg University of Twente
Greg G. Qiao
Greg G. Qiao University of Melbourne

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