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D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
75
Citations
19715
World Ranking
3471
National Ranking
1112

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
19426
World Ranking
4450
National Ranking
840

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
74
Citations
19018
World Ranking
821
National Ranking
144

Yan Zhao 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 Yan Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 279 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yan Zhao 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 Yan Zhao sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 92nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Yan Zhao is affiliated with Wuhan University of Technology in China and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their work concentrates on several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Advanced Memory and Neural Computing, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, 2D Materials and Applications, and Covalent Organic Framework Applications.

Yan Zhao has published research in several prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent papers illustrate a range of research interests and advancements in organic electronics and materials science. Selected recent publications include:

  • Organic Synaptic Transistors: The Evolutionary Path from Memory Cells to the Application of Artificial Neural Networks (2021), Advanced Functional Materials
  • Wearable Electronics Based on Stretchable Organic Semiconductors (2023), Small
  • Recent progress in organic field-effect transistor-based integrated circuits (2021), Journal of Polymer Science
  • A comprehensive nano-interpenetrating semiconducting photoresist toward all-photolithography organic electronics (2021), Science Advances
  • Ultrafast In Situ Synthesis of Large-Area Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks on Substrates for Flexible Chemiresistive Sensing (2020), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Yan Zhao has collaborated frequently with other researchers. The most common co-authors include:

  • Yunqi Liu, with 72 joint publications
  • Yongkun Yan, with 20 joint publications
  • Zeng Wu, with 16 joint publications
  • Kai Chi, with 15 joint publications
  • Wenhao Li, with 15 joint publications

Best Publications

  • Highly π-extended copolymers with diketopyrrolopyrrole moieties for high-performance field-effect transistors.

    Huajie Chen;Yunlong Guo;Gui Yu;Yan Zhao

  • A stable solution-processed polymer semiconductor with record high-mobility for printed transistors

    Jun Li;Yan Zhao;Huei Shuan Tan;Yunlong Guo

  • 25th Anniversary Article: Recent Advances in n‐Type and Ambipolar Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

    Yan Zhao;Yunlong Guo;Yunqi Liu

  • A Potential Perylene Diimide Dimer-Based Acceptor Material for Highly Efficient Solution-Processed Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells with 4.03% Efficiency

    Xin Zhang;Zhenhuan Lu;Long Ye;Chuanlang Zhan

  • Solution processed organic thermoelectrics: towards flexible thermoelectric modules

    Yani Chen;Yan Zhao;Ziqi Liang

  • A Superamphiphobic Coating with an Ammonia-Triggered Transition to Superhydrophilic and Superoleophobic for Oil–Water Separation†

    Zhiguang Xu;Yan Zhao;Hongxia Wang;Xungai Wang

  • Magnetic Liquid Marbles: A “Precise” Miniature Reactor

    Yuhua Xue;Hongxia Wang;Yan Zhao;Liming Dai

  • Magnetic liquid marbles: manipulation of liquid droplets using highly hydrophobic Fe3O4 nanoparticles.

    Yan Zhao;Jian Fang;Hongxia Wang;Xungai Wang

  • A Waterborne Coating System for Preparing Robust, Self-healing, Superamphiphobic Surfaces

    Hua Zhou;Hongxia Wang;Haitao Niu;Yan Zhao

  • Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D Printed Tablets for Intragastric Floating Delivery of Domperidone.

    Xuyu Chai;Hongyu Chai;Xiaoyu Wang;Jingjing Yang

  • In situ controllable synthesis of magnetic Prussian blue/graphene oxide nanocomposites for removal of radioactive cesium in water

    Hongjun Yang;Lei Sun;Jiali Zhai;Haiyan Li

  • Sustainable development in the Yellow River Basin: Issues and strategies

    Yi-ping Chen;Bo-jie Fu;Yan Zhao;Kai-bo Wang

  • Directional Fluid Transport in Thin Porous Materials and its Functional Applications.

    Yan Zhao;Hongxia Wang;Hua Zhou;Tong Lin

  • Magnetic prussian blue/graphene oxide nanocomposites caged in calcium alginate microbeads for elimination of cesium ions from water and soil

    Hongjun Yang;Hongjun Yang;Haiyan Li;Jiali Zhai;Lei Sun

  • Superhydrophobic cotton fabric fabricated by electrostatic assembly of silica nanoparticles and its remarkable buoyancy

    Yan Zhao;Yanwei Tang;Xungai Wang;Tong Lin

  • A self-roughened and biodegradable superhydrophobic coating with UV shielding, solar-induced self-healing and versatile oil–water separation ability

    Xiuli Dong;Shouwei Gao;Jianying Huang;Shuhui Li;Shuhui Li

  • Sulfur-bridged annulene-TCNQ co-crystal: a self-assembled ''molecular level heterojunction'' with air stable ambipolar charge transport behavior.

    Jing Zhang;Hua Geng;Tarunpreet Singh Virk;Yan Zhao

  • Anisotropic wetting characteristics on submicrometer-scale periodic grooved surface.

    Yan Zhao;Qinghua Lu;Mei Li;Xin Li

  • Superamphiphobic Fabrics: Superstrong, Chemically Stable, Superamphiphobic Fabrics from Particle‐Free Polymer Coatings (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 6/2015)

    Hua Zhou;Hongxia Wang;Haitao Niu;Jian Fang

  • Fluorine-Free Superhydrophobic Coatings with pH-induced Wettability Transition for Controllable Oil–Water Separation

    Zhiguang Xu;Yan Zhao;Hongxia Wang;Hua Zhou

  • All‐Solution‐Processed, High‐Performance n‐Channel Organic Transistors and Circuits: Toward Low‐Cost Ambient Electronics

    Yan Zhao;Chong-an Di;Xike Gao;Yunbin Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald G. Truhlar
Donald G. Truhlar University of Minnesota
Huaming Li
Huaming Li Jiangsu University
Tong Lin
Tong Lin Tianjin Polytechnic University
Jiabiao Lian
Jiabiao Lian Jiangsu University
Yunqi Liu
Yunqi Liu Fudan University
Liqiang Mai
Liqiang Mai Wuhan University of Technology
Xungai Wang
Xungai Wang Arizona State University
Zhiguang Xu
Zhiguang Xu Jiaxing University
Yunlong Guo
Yunlong Guo University of Tokyo
Gui Yu
Gui Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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