World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Award Badge
Best Scientists
2025
Award Badge
Materials Science
China
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Best Scientists

D-Index
185
Citations
126070
World Ranking
513
National Ranking
13

Materials Science

D-Index
194
Citations
136462
World Ranking
42
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in China Leader Award

Overview

Zhuang Liu is affiliated with Soochow University in China and has contributed extensively to research in Engineering and Medicine. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Immunology, and Oncology.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics such as Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery, Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Extracellular vesicles in disease, and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Among recent publications by Zhuang Liu are:

  • ROS-scavenging hydrogel to promote healing of bacteria infected diabetic wounds, 2020, Biomaterials
  • Recent progress of chemodynamic therapy-induced combination cancer therapy, 2020, Nano Today
  • Programmable probiotics modulate inflammation and gut microbiota for inflammatory bowel disease treatment after effective oral delivery, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A general strategy towards personalized nanovaccines based on fluoropolymers for post-surgical cancer immunotherapy, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Ultrafine Titanium Monoxide (TiO1+x) Nanorods for Enhanced Sonodynamic Therapy, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Zhuang Liu collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Qian Chen
  • Liang Cheng
  • Ziliang Dong
  • Liangzhu Feng
  • Nailin Yang

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Biomaterials
  • ACS Nano
  • Advanced Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Small

Best Publications

  • PEGylated Nanographene Oxide for Delivery of Water-Insoluble Cancer Drugs

    Zhuang Liu;Joshua T. Robinson;Xiaoming Sun;Hongjie Dai

  • Nano-Graphene Oxide for Cellular Imaging and Drug Delivery.

    Xiaoming Sun;Zhuang Liu;Kevin Welsher;Joshua Tucker Robinson

  • Graphene in Mice: Ultrahigh In Vivo Tumor Uptake and Efficient Photothermal Therapy

    Kai Yang;Shuai Zhang;Guoxin Zhang;Xiaoming Sun

  • Drug delivery with carbon nanotubes for in vivo cancer treatment.

    Zhuang Liu;Kai Chen;Corrine Davis;Sarah Sherlock

  • Functional Nanomaterials for Phototherapies of Cancer

    Liang Cheng;Chao Wang;Liangzhu Feng;Kai Yang

  • Carbon Nanotubes in Biology and Medicine: In vitro and in vivo Detection, Imaging and Drug Delivery

    Zhuang Liu;Scott Tabakman;Kevin Welsher;Hongjie Dai

  • Upconversion nanophosphors for small-animal imaging

    Jing Zhou;Zhuang Liu;Fuyou Li

  • In vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumour targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice

    Zhuang Liu;Weibo Cai;Lina He;Nozomi Nakayama

  • Nano-graphene in biomedicine: theranostic applications

    Kai Yang;Liangzhu Feng;Xiaoze Shi;Zhuang Liu

  • Supramolecular chemistry on water-soluble carbon nanotubes for drug loading and delivery.

    Zhuang Liu;Xiaoming Sun;Nozomi Nakayama-Ratchford;Hongjie Dai

  • Photothermal therapy with immune-adjuvant nanoparticles together with checkpoint blockade for effective cancer immunotherapy

    Qian Chen;Ligeng Xu;Chao Liang;Chao Wang

  • Hollow MnO 2 as a tumor-microenvironment-responsive biodegradable nano-platform for combination therapy favoring antitumor immune responses.

    Guangbao Yang;Ligeng Xu;Yu Chao;Jun Xu

  • Carbon nanotubes as photoacoustic molecular imaging agents in living mice.

    Adam De La Zerda;Cristina Zavaleta;Shay Keren;Srikant Vaithilingam

  • A route to brightly fluorescent carbon nanotubes for near-infrared imaging in mice

    Kevin Welsher;Zhuang Liu;Zhuang Liu;Sarah P. Sherlock;Joshua Tucker Robinson

  • Circulation and long-term fate of functionalized, biocompatible single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice probed by Raman spectroscopy

    Zhuang Liu;Corrine Davis;Weibo Cai;Lina He

  • Drug Delivery with PEGylated MoS2 Nano‐sheets for Combined Photothermal and Chemotherapy of Cancer

    Teng Liu;Chao Wang;Xing Gu;Hua Gong

  • PEGylated WS2 Nanosheets as a Multifunctional Theranostic Agent for in vivo Dual-Modal CT/Photoacoustic Imaging Guided Photothermal Therapy

    Liang Cheng;Jingjing Liu;Xing Gu;Hua Gong

  • Carbon Nanotubes as Intracellular Transporters for Proteins and DNA: An Investigation of the Uptake Mechanism and Pathway

    Nadine Wong Shi Kam;Zhuang Liu;Hongjie Dai

  • Photothermally Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy Delivered by Nano-Graphene Oxide

    Bo Tian;Chao Wang;Shuai Zhang;Liangzhu Feng

  • Innovative Strategies for Hypoxic-Tumor Photodynamic Therapy

    Xingshu Li;Nahyun Kwon;Tian Guo;Zhuang Liu

  • Temperature Sensing and In Vivo Imaging by Molybdenum Sensitized Visible Upconversion Luminescence of Rare‐Earth Oxides

    Bin Dong;Baosheng Cao;Yangyang He;Yangyang He;Zhuang Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liang Cheng
Liang Cheng Brown University
Liangzhu Feng
Liangzhu Feng Soochow University
Kai Yang
Kai Yang Soochow University
Chao Liang
Chao Liang Xi'an Jiaotong University
Qian Chen
Qian Chen Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Hongjie Dai
Hongjie Dai University of Hong Kong
Xuan Yi
Xuan Yi Qilu University of Technology
Guosheng Song
Guosheng Song Hunan University
Weibo Cai
Weibo Cai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Shuit-Tong Lee
Shuit-Tong Lee Macau University of Science and Technology

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Zhuang Liu

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles