Cai Chen

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Cai Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Cai Chen has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Materials Chemistry, 36 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 17 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Cai Chen's work include Microstructure and mechanical properties (19 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (17 papers) and Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications (11 papers). Cai Chen is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and mechanical properties (19 papers), Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties (17 papers) and Magnesium Alloys: Properties and Applications (11 papers). Cai Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, France and Ukraine. Cai Chen's co-authors include Yuen Wu, László S. Tóth, Jia Yang, Wenxing Chen, Yunteng Qu, Kuang Liang, Ying Wang, Han‐Qing Yu, Xiao Zhou and Gui‐Xiang Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Cai Chen

83 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

Identification of Fenton-like active Cu sites by heteroatom modulation of electronic density

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cai Chen China	23	919	843	577	429	226	92	1.9k
Na Wei China	29	848 0.9×	902 1.1×	602 1.0×	379 0.9×	391 1.7×	83	2.2k
Haibin Sun China	27	1.0k 1.1×	310 0.4×	319 0.6×	611 1.4×	110 0.5×	102	2.0k
Lingjie Zhang China	26	747 0.8×	467 0.6×	827 1.4×	1.1k 2.6×	119 0.5×	89	2.4k
Yongchao Zhang China	19	664 0.7×	700 0.8×	285 0.5×	817 1.9×	152 0.7×	49	1.8k
Junlei Tang China	27	1.1k 1.2×	368 0.4×	464 0.8×	688 1.6×	60 0.3×	146	2.0k
Fei Shi China	29	1.2k 1.3×	642 0.8×	356 0.6×	895 2.1×	174 0.8×	137	3.0k
Wei Feng China	27	1.3k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	287 0.5×	834 1.9×	87 0.4×	123	2.3k
Ye Cong China	30	2.6k 2.9×	2.1k 2.5×	703 1.2×	937 2.2×	100 0.4×	117	4.1k
Ning Li China	26	867 0.9×	702 0.8×	277 0.5×	1.6k 3.8×	244 1.1×	121	2.5k

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Zhang, Yazhou, et al.. (2025). Influence of process parameters on microstructure and properties of Cu−Cr−Nb−Y alloy manufactured by laser powder bed fusion. Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China. 35(4). 1212–1232.

Chen, Cai & Wangzhong Mu. (2025). Utilization of Non‐Metallic Inclusion to Induce Intragranular Acicular Ferrite Formation Contributing to “Oxide Metallurgy”: Effect of Ti/Al Content on the Microstructure Evolution. steel research international. 96(8).

Chen, Cai, Benoît Beausir, Zuojuan Du, et al.. (2025). Texture multi-polarization and its impact on mechanical anisotropy in Mg-10Gd alloy. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 36. 7881–7896. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Kailiang, Cai Chen, Haizhen Sun, et al.. (2024). Flexible concentration control of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids in a microfluidic device via AC electrothermal flow. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 380. 116043–116043. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Cai, Yan Zhan, Baozhong Lü, et al.. (2024). Self-adhesive ionic cable derived from natural bark as osmotic energy generator. Nano Energy. 131. 110326–110326. 2 indexed citations

Han, Xiao, Yanan Zhou, Xiaolin Tai, et al.. (2024). In-situ atomic tracking of intermetallic compound formation during thermal annealing. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7200–7200. 18 indexed citations

Zhang, Yazhou, et al.. (2024). Improving the strength–ductility of laser powder bed fusion René 104 through high-density stacking faults induced by Sc and Y microalloying. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 192. 161–172. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Qiuping, Kui Chen, Hui Jiang, et al.. (2023). Cell-inspired design of cascade catalysis system by 3D spatially separated active sites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5338–5338. 35 indexed citations

Li, Jingwen, et al.. (2023). Planar fault assisted dynamic recrystallization in copper during high-velocity impacts. Journal of Applied Physics. 133(24). 245101–245101.

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Wang, Mingchuan, Kai Zhang, Cai Chen, & Weijie Liu. (2023). An explicit dynamic FFT method for homogenizing heterogeneous solids under large deformations. International Journal of Engineering Science. 192. 103930–103930. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Mingchuan, et al.. (2022). A mixed FFT-Galerkin approach for incompressible or slightly compressible hyperelastic solids under finite deformation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 396. 115092–115092. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Cai, Mingchuan Wang, Ningning Liang, et al.. (2022). The Effect of Rotary-Die Equal-Channel Angular Pressing Process on the Microstructure, the Mechanical and Friction Properties of GW103 Alloy. Materials. 15(24). 9005–9005. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Cai, Mingchuan Wang, Shun Xu, et al.. (2022). High strength and high ductility of Mg-10Gd-3Y alloy achieved by a novel extrusion-shearing process. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 931. 167498–167498. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Mingchuan, Cai Chen, & Weijie Liu. (2021). Establish algebraic data-driven constitutive models for elastic solids with a tensorial sparse symbolic regression method and a hybrid feature selection technique. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 159. 104742–104742. 21 indexed citations

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D, Liu, et al.. (2016). Size-dependent cytotoxicity of Fe3O4 nanoparticles induced by biphasic regulation of oxidative stress in different human hepatoma cells. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Yao, et al.. (2016). Novel guanidinylated bioresponsive poly(amidoamine)s designed for short hairpin RNA delivery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Menon, Aditya Krishna, Cai Chen, Weihong Wang, Tao Wen, & Fang Chen. (2015). An Approach to Sparse, Fine-Grained OD Estimation. Transportation Research Board 94th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations

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Pardis, N., Cai Chen, R. Ebrahimi, et al.. (2015). Microstructure, texture and mechanical properties of cyclic expansion–extrusion deformed pure copper. Materials Science and Engineering A. 628. 423–432. 55 indexed citations

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Pardis, N., et al.. (2014). Development of new routes of severe plastic deformation through cyclic expansion–extrusion process. Materials Science and Engineering A. 613. 357–364. 32 indexed citations

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Chen, Cai. (2001). Geo-relation and course construction of World Economic Geography. Shijie dili yanjiu. 1 indexed citations

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