Bolin Liao

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Bolin Liao is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bolin Liao has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Materials Chemistry, 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bolin Liao's work include Thermal properties of materials (35 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (32 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (16 papers). Bolin Liao is often cited by papers focused on Thermal properties of materials (35 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (32 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (16 papers). Bolin Liao collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Bolin Liao's co-authors include Gang Chen, Jiawei Zhou, Keivan Esfarjani, Bo Qiu, Zhifeng Ren, Kevin Lukas, Cyril Opeil, Qian Zhang, Yucheng Lan and Weishu Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Bolin Liao

78 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 200 400 600
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.

  1. High thermoelectric performance by resonant dopant indium in nanostructured SnTe
    2013 672 citations Bolin Liao, Keivan Esfarjani et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bolin Liao United States 25 2.3k 1.1k 551 496 402 85 3.0k
Andrea Cepellotti United States 13 2.6k 1.1× 641 0.6× 460 0.8× 258 0.5× 339 0.8× 15 3.0k
Yee Sin Ang Singapore 34 3.0k 1.3× 1.7k 1.6× 1.1k 1.9× 656 1.3× 175 0.4× 191 4.3k
Guillaume Cassabois France 34 3.3k 1.4× 1.4k 1.3× 1.6k 3.0× 489 1.0× 185 0.5× 104 4.6k
J.-S. Chung South Korea 24 2.0k 0.8× 743 0.7× 376 0.7× 1.0k 2.1× 74 0.2× 76 2.7k
F. Völklein Germany 23 1.2k 0.5× 786 0.7× 448 0.8× 108 0.2× 435 1.1× 74 1.9k
Yong‐Hang Zhang United States 26 947 0.4× 1.9k 1.8× 1.1k 2.0× 106 0.2× 83 0.2× 167 2.3k
E. A. Dobisz United States 31 1.9k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.5k 2.8× 546 1.1× 59 0.1× 97 3.8k
Avik W. Ghosh United States 34 2.4k 1.0× 2.6k 2.4× 2.2k 4.0× 736 1.5× 163 0.4× 161 4.6k
Alireza Faghaninia United States 17 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 180 0.3× 384 0.8× 132 0.3× 21 2.6k
J. M. Rickman United States 30 2.0k 0.9× 477 0.4× 449 0.8× 257 0.5× 31 0.1× 132 3.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bolin Liao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bolin Liao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bolin Liao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bolin Liao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bolin Liao. Bolin Liao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Esfarjani, Keivan, Harold T. Stokes, Meng Han, et al.. (2025). ALATDYN: A set of Anharmonic LATtice DYNamics codes to compute thermodynamic and thermal transport properties of crystalline solids. Computer Physics Communications. 312. 109575–109575. 2 indexed citations
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Patra, Lokanath, et al.. (2024). Impact of dimensionality on the magnetocaloric effect in two-dimensional magnets. Journal of Applied Physics. 136(2). 7 indexed citations
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Shaheen, Basamat S., et al.. (2024). Imaging hot photocarrier transfer across a semiconductor heterojunction with ultrafast electron microscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(40). e2410428121–e2410428121. 2 indexed citations
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Gadre, Chaitanya, Xingxu Yan, Toshihiro Aoki, et al.. (2023). Defect and Disorder Induced Phonon Softening in Boron Arsenide Using STEM-EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 651–652. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Taeyong, So Yeon Park, Vasudevan Iyer, et al.. (2023). Mapping the pathways of photo-induced ion migration in organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1846–1846. 64 indexed citations
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Liao, Bolin, et al.. (2023). Blending Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for Controlled Thermal Conductivity. ACS Materials Letters. 6(1). 10–16. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Shuai, et al.. (2022). Egret Swarm Optimization Algorithm: An Evolutionary Computation Approach for Model Free Optimization. Biomimetics. 7(4). 144–144. 76 indexed citations
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Ellis, Scott R., N. C. Bartelt, François Léonard, et al.. (2021). Scanning ultrafast electron microscopy reveals photovoltage dynamics at a deeply buried p−Si/SiO2 interface. Physical review. B.. 104(16). 12 indexed citations
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Yue, Shengying, et al.. (2021). Impact of Electron-Phonon Interaction on Thermal Transport: A Review. Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. 25(2). 73–90. 50 indexed citations
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Wong, Joeson, Artur R. Davoyan, Bolin Liao, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal Imaging of Thickness-Induced Band-Bending Junctions. Nano Letters. 21(13). 5745–5753. 11 indexed citations
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Yue, Shengying, et al.. (2020). Phonon softening near topological phase transitions. Physical review. B.. 102(23). 17 indexed citations
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Najafi, Ebrahim, et al.. (2020). Carrier density oscillation in the photoexcited semiconductor. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(12). 125102–125102. 2 indexed citations
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Yue, Shengying, Runqing Yang, & Bolin Liao. (2019). Controlling thermal conductivity of two-dimensional materials via externally induced phonon-electron interaction. Physical review. B.. 100(11). 36 indexed citations
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Yue, Shengying, Long Cheng, Bolin Liao, & Ming Hu. (2018). Electron–phonon interaction and superconductivity in the high-pressure cI16 phase of lithium from first principles. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(42). 27125–27130. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Runqing, Shengying Yue, & Bolin Liao. (2018). Hydrodynamic Phonon Transport Perpendicular to Diffuse-Gray Boundaries. Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. 23(1). 25–35. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Runqing, Shengying Yue, & Bolin Liao. (2018). Hydrodynamic Phonon Transport Between Non-hydrodynamic Contacts. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Hassan, Mohammed Th., J. Spencer Baskin, Bolin Liao, & Ahmed H. Zewail. (2017). High-temporal-resolution electron microscopy for imaging ultrafast electron dynamics. Nature Photonics. 11(7). 425–430. 85 indexed citations
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Liao, Bolin, A. A. Maznev, Keith A. Nelson, & Gang Chen. (2016). Photo-excited charge carriers suppress sub-terahertz phonon mode in silicon at room temperature. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13174–13174. 59 indexed citations
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Hsu, Wei‐Chun, Bolin Liao, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Jiawei Zhou, & Gang Chen. (2015). Limiting efficiencies of solar energy conversion and photo-detection via internal emission of hot electrons and hot holes in gold. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations
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Liao, Bolin, Mona Zebarjadi, Keivan Esfarjani, & Gang Chen. (2012). Cloaking Core-Shell Nanoparticles from Conducting Electrons in Solids. Physical Review Letters. 109(12). 126806–126806. 52 indexed citations

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