Ming Zheng

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
162 papers, 12.7k citations indexed

About

Ming Zheng is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ming Zheng has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 12.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Materials Chemistry, 64 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ming Zheng's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (104 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (55 papers) and Graphene research and applications (44 papers). Ming Zheng is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (104 papers), Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (55 papers) and Graphene research and applications (44 papers). Ming Zheng collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Ming Zheng's co-authors include Anand Jagota, Bruce A. Diner, E. D. Semke, R. Scott McLean, Xiaomin Tu, Constantine Y. Khripin, Jeffrey Fagan, S. Lustig, Nancy G. Tassi and Suresh Manohar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ming Zheng

159 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

DNA-assisted dispersion and separation of carbon nanotubes

2003 2.2k citations Ming Zheng, Anand Jagota et al. profile →
Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Sorting by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly

2003 1.3k citations Ming Zheng, Anand Jagota et al. Science profile →
DNA sequence motifs for structure-specific recognition and separation of carbon nanotubes

2009 906 citations Xiaomin Tu, Anand Jagota et al. profile →
Chirality Pure Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Sorting, and Characterization

2020 374 citations Feng Yang, Meng Wang et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Detection of ovarian cancer via the spectral fingerprinting of quantum-defect-modified carbon nanotubes in serum by machine learning

2022 127 citations Mijin Kim, Yoona Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ming Zheng United States	55	9.5k	5.5k	2.6k	2.6k	2.1k	162	12.7k
Alexander Star United States	60	8.3k 0.9×	6.0k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	4.9k 1.9×	1000 0.5×	174	14.1k
R. Bruce Weisman United States	50	12.4k 1.3×	5.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	4.1k 1.9×	175	15.9k
Sergei M. Bachilo United States	39	10.5k 1.1×	4.4k 0.8×	943 0.4×	2.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.6×	140	12.3k
Wei Feng China	63	14.6k 1.5×	6.5k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	4.0k 1.5×	1.1k 0.5×	221	18.9k
Thomas Nann Australia	46	8.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	4.2k 1.6×	621 0.3×	162	11.6k
Qing‐Hua Xu Singapore	75	10.9k 1.1×	5.6k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	5.9k 2.3×	1.8k 0.9×	314	18.3k
Jian Hou China	61	8.4k 0.9×	3.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	5.6k 2.2×	3.3k 1.6×	362	16.1k
Ling Huang China	65	8.9k 0.9×	3.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	4.5k 1.7×	997 0.5×	275	12.9k
Vasilios Georgakilas Greece	41	10.7k 1.1×	5.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	4.1k 1.6×	557 0.3×	117	14.6k
Naotoshi Nakashima Japan	58	6.6k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	4.7k 1.8×	913 0.4×	385	12.7k

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Zhang, Huimin, Junqin Li, Ming Zheng, et al.. (2025). Simultaneous light-triggered formation of polymer microspheres and enhancement of electrohydrodynamic instabilities in a cholesteric liquid crystal system for bistable device. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 422. 126926–126926. 1 indexed citations

Li, Han, Ming Zheng, & Jeffrey Fagan. (2025). Precise Partitioning of Metallic Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes and Enantiomers through Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction. ACS Nano. 19(14). 14137–14149. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Yanzhao, et al.. (2025). A salt-driven mechanism for precise chirality sorting of carbon nanotubes. Science Advances. 11(28). eadx3958–eadx3958. 1 indexed citations

Tu, Xiaomin, et al.. (2025). Single-chirality single-wall carbon nanotubes for electrochemical biosensing. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(9). 4959–4967. 3 indexed citations

Zheng, Ming & Ruojie Sha. (2024). A mirror-image experiment: Sorting carbon nanotubes by L-DNA. PNAS Nexus. 4(1). pgaf013–pgaf013. 1 indexed citations

Gao, Weilu, Xinwei Li, Yohei Yomogida, et al.. (2021). Band structure dependent electronic localization in macroscopic films of single-chirality single-wall carbon nanotubes. Carbon. 183. 774–779. 6 indexed citations

Zheng, Ming, Qiang Yin, Dongyuan Wang, et al.. (2021). A fluorescent probe of uranyl for acid and high water system and imaging in living cells. Microchemical Journal. 167. 106302–106302. 17 indexed citations

Zhao, Mengyu, Kexin Wang, Jason K. Streit, et al.. (2020). DNA-directed nanofabrication of high-performance carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Science. 368(6493). 878–881. 121 indexed citations

Yang, Feng, Meng Wang, Daqi Zhang, et al.. (2020). Chirality Pure Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Sorting, and Characterization. Chemical Reviews. 120(5). 2693–2758. 374 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sun, Wei, Jie Shen, Zhao Zhao, et al.. (2020). Precise pitch-scaling of carbon nanotube arrays within three-dimensional DNA nanotrenches. Science. 368(6493). 874–877. 118 indexed citations

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Yang, Yoona, et al.. (2020). Pathway-Dependent Structures of DNA-Wrapped Carbon Nanotubes: Direct Sonication vs Surfactant/DNA Exchange. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Younghee, S. V. Goupalov, Braden M. Weight, et al.. (2020). Hidden Fine Structure of Quantum Defects Revealed by Single Carbon Nanotube Magneto-Photoluminescence. ACS Nano. 14(3). 3451–3460. 16 indexed citations

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Gifford, Brendan J., Avishek Saha, Braden M. Weight, et al.. (2019). Mod(n-m,3) Dependence of Defect-State Emission Bands in Aryl-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 19(12). 8503–8509. 25 indexed citations

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Pei, Hao, Ruojie Sha, Xiwei Wang, et al.. (2019). Organizing End-Site-Specific SWCNTs in Specific Loci Using DNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(30). 11923–11928. 55 indexed citations

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Saha, Avishek, Brendan J. Gifford, Xiaowei He, et al.. (2018). Narrow-band single-photon emission through selective aryl functionalization of zigzag carbon nanotubes. Nature Chemistry. 10(11). 1089–1095. 86 indexed citations

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Galassi, Thomas Vito, Prakrit V. Jena, Janki Shah, et al.. (2018). An optical nanoreporter of endolysosomal lipid accumulation reveals enduring effects of diet on hepatic macrophages in vivo. Science Translational Medicine. 10(461). 89 indexed citations

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Zheng, Ming, Siwei Zhao, Yuan‐Ru Guo, et al.. (2018). Cellulose nanofiber induced self-assembly of zinc oxide nanoparticles: Theoretical and experimental study on interfacial interaction. Carbohydrate Polymers. 195. 525–533. 58 indexed citations

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Streit, Jason K., Hui Gui, Jeffery Fagan, et al.. (2015). Spectroscopic Investigations into the Redox Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Khripin, Constantine Y., Xiaomin Tu, John M. Heddleston, et al.. (2012). High-Resolution Length Fractionation of Surfactant-Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes. Analytical Chemistry. 85(3). 1382–1388. 52 indexed citations

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Onoa, Bibiana, Ming Zheng, M. S. Dresselhaus, & Bruce A. Diner. (2006). Carbon nanotubes and nucleic acids: tools and targets. physica status solidi (a). 203(6). 1124–1131. 12 indexed citations

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