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D-Index
65
Citations
20489
World Ranking
5524
National Ranking
1437

Yong 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 Yong Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 216 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yong 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 Yong Zhu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Yong Zhu is a researcher affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their academic work is concentrated primarily in the field of Engineering, with particular emphasis on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cognitive Neuroscience, Materials Chemistry, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research topics span several advanced areas, including:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies

Yong Zhu has contributed to numerous scientific publications over the years. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Gas-Permeable, Ultrathin, Stretchable Epidermal Electronics with Porous Electrodes (2020, ACS Nano)
  • Real-time monitoring of plant stresses via chemiresistive profiling of leaf volatiles by a wearable sensor (2021, Matter)
  • Emerging Wearable Sensors for Plant Health Monitoring (2021, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Caterpillar-inspired soft crawling robot with distributed programmable thermal actuation (2023, Science Advances)
  • Surface Wrinkling for Flexible and Stretchable Sensors (2022, Small)

Their frequent co-authors include Yuxuan Liu, Shuang Wu, Shanshan Yao, He Huang, and Guangming Cheng.

Yong Zhu has published extensively in several scientific journals and conference venues, with the highest number of publications in:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Microscopy and Microanalysis
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Science Advances
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Recognitions received by Yong Zhu include the ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award in 2019 and election as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Highly Conductive and Stretchable Silver Nanowire Conductors

    Feng Xu;Yong Zhu

  • A review on mechanics and mechanical properties of 2D materials—Graphene and beyond

    Deji Akinwande;Christopher J. Brennan;J. Scott Bunch;Philip Egberts

  • Technology Roadmap for Flexible Sensors.

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  • Wearable multifunctional sensors using printed stretchable conductors made of silver nanowires

    Shanshan Yao;Yong Zhu

  • Nanomaterial‐Enabled Stretchable Conductors: Strategies, Materials and Devices

    Shanshan Yao;Yong Zhu

  • Nanomaterial-Enabled Wearable Sensors for Healthcare.

    Shanshan Yao;Puchakayala Swetha;Yong Zhu

  • Surface-Energy-Assisted Perfect Transfer of Centimeter-Scale Monolayer and Few-Layer MoS2 Films onto Arbitrary Substrates

    Alper Gurarslan;Yifei Yu;Liqin Su;Yiling Yu

  • Printing Conductive Nanomaterials for Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: A Review of Materials, Processes, and Applications

    Qijin Huang;Yong Zhu

  • An electromechanical material testing system for in situ electron microscopy and applications

    Yong Zhu;Horacio Dante Espinosa

  • Mechanical Properties of Vapor−Liquid−Solid Synthesized Silicon Nanowires

    Yong Zhu;Feng Xu;Qingquan Qin;Wayne Y. Fung

  • Mechanical Force-Triggered Drug Delivery.

    Yuqi Zhang;Yuqi Zhang;Jicheng Yu;Hunter N. Bomba;Yong Zhu;Yong Zhu

  • Size effects on elasticity, yielding, and fracture of silver nanowires: In situ experiments

    Yong Zhu;Qingquan Qin;Feng Xu;Fengru Fan

  • Stretchable and reversibly deformable radio frequency antennas based on silver nanowires.

    Lingnan Song;Amanda C. Myers;Jacob J. Adams;Yong Zhu

  • Interfacial Sliding and Buckling of Monolayer Graphene on a Stretchable Substrate

    Tao Jiang;Rui Huang;Yong Zhu

  • Nanomaterial-Enabled Flexible and Stretchable Sensing Systems: Processing, Integration, and Applications

    Shanshan Yao;Ping Ren;Runqiao Song;Yuxuan Liu

  • A thermal actuator for nanoscale in situ microscopy testing: design and characterization

    Yong Zhu;Alberto Corigliano;Horacio D Espinosa

  • Hypoxia and H2O2 Dual-Sensitive Vesicles for Enhanced Glucose-Responsive Insulin Delivery

    Jicheng Yu;Chenggen Qian;Chenggen Qian;Yuqi Zhang;Zheng Cui

  • Electrohydrodynamic printing of silver nanowires for flexible and stretchable electronics.

    Zheng Cui;Yiwei Han;Qijin Huang;Jingyan Dong

  • Wavy Ribbons of Carbon Nanotubes for Stretchable Conductors

    Feng Xu;Xin Wang;Yuntian Zhu;Yong Zhu

  • Gas-Permeable, Ultrathin, Stretchable Epidermal Electronics with Porous Electrodes

    Weixin Zhou;Weixin Zhou;Shanshan Yao;Hongyu Wang;Qingchuan Du

  • Frozen clip models are efficient video learners

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  • Mechanical Properties of ZnO Nanowires Under Different Loading Modes

    Feng Xu;Qingqun Qin;Ashish Mishra;Yi Gu

Frequent Co-Authors

Horacio D. Espinosa
Horacio D. Espinosa Northwestern University
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
Xiaoning Jiang
Xiaoning Jiang North Carolina State University
John F. Muth
John F. Muth North Carolina State University
Zhen Gu
Zhen Gu Zhejiang University
Jingyan Dong
Jingyan Dong North Carolina State University
Veena Misra
Veena Misra North Carolina State University
Gregory N. Parsons
Gregory N. Parsons North Carolina State University
John W. Connell
John W. Connell Langley Research Center
Ting Zhu
Ting Zhu Georgia Institute of Technology

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