The paper written by the R & D team of advanced flame retardant polymer materials led by Professor FANG Zhengping of NingboTech was announced one of the 100 most influential international academic papers in China during the Conference on the Release of Statistic Data of Chinese Scientific and Technological Papers. The principal corresponding author of the paper is RAN Shiya from NingboTech.

In order to guide the scientific and technological management departments and researchers to shift their focus from the number of papers to quality and influence, as well as to encourage innovation, the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China has made it a habit to release the report on the information of excellent scientific and technological papers in China since 2016. “China’s 100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in 2019” were selected from the papers indexed by SCI in 2019 of which the first author is a Chinese national. Priority was given to papers dedicated to China’s advantageous disciplines, major development fields, key fields of international cooperation and research hotspots in the selection process. Attention was also paid to papers with innovative research results and high citations.

The information of the paper is as follows:

Title: Improved flame resistance and thermo-mechanical properties of epoxy resin nanocomposites from functionalized graphene oxide via self-assembly in water

Authors: Fang, Fang; Ran, Shiya*; Fang, Zhengping; Song, Pingan*; Wang, Hao

Journal: COMPOSITES PART B-ENGINEERING. 2019, 165: 406-416

The first author of this paper is FANG Fang, a doctoral student under the guidance of Professor FANG Zhengping. Since its release, it has been cited on the Web of Science for 105 times. The paper is also a highly cited and hot topic paper indexed by ESI.