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Zitang Wei

Materials Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2017Rising activity
Crystallization and Solubility StudiesX-ray Diffraction in CrystallographyPerovskite Materials and Applications2D Materials and ApplicationsCovalent Organic Framework Applications

Publications

57

Citations

1,155

Est. group size

~12

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2017

Research summary
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Zitang Wei's research focuses on two-dimensional polymer materials, especially 2D polyaramids, exploring how these ultra-thin, sheet-like molecules can be grown, characterized, and engineered into films, nanoplatelets, and mechanical devices with unusual properties like molecular-scale impermeability. The work also includes designing polymers that can be intentionally broken down (depolymerized) using heat or force, and applying nanoscale sensing tools to biomedical detection problems such as bladder cancer diagnostics. This research blends polymer chemistry, materials characterization (microscopy, spectroscopy, crystallography), and nanotechnology.

2D polymers and polyaramidsPolymer depolymerization and mechanochemistryNanomaterial characterization techniquesNanosensors for biomedical detectionCrystal structure and materials analysis

Publication output has been variable but shows a marked increase in the past five years, with notably high activity in 2023 and continued strong output through 2025-2026 compared to earlier years in the decade.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 7.8/year recently
2017: 5 publications17182019: 2 publications192020: 1 publication202021: 10 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 18 publications18232024: 4 publications242025: 8 publications252026: 6 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • The Cambridge Structural Database×22
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society×5
  • ChemRxiv×3
  • ACS Nano×2
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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