Ho Cheung Shum

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
178 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Ho Cheung Shum is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ho Cheung Shum has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 63 papers in Materials Chemistry and 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ho Cheung Shum's work include Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (58 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (55 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (26 papers). Ho Cheung Shum is often cited by papers focused on Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization (58 papers), Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (55 papers) and Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (26 papers). Ho Cheung Shum collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ho Cheung Shum's co-authors include David A. Weitz, Youchuang Chao, Daeyeon Lee, Yang Song, Zhou Liu, Qingming Ma, Alban Sauret, Hao Yuan, Sze Yi Mak and Matthew Y. H. Tang 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

Ho Cheung Shum

173 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Emerging aqueous two-phase systems: from fundamentals of interfaces to biomedical applications

2019 313 citations Youchuang Chao, Ho Cheung Shum profile →
Development and future of droplet microfluidics

2024 94 citations Ho Cheung Shum et al. Lab on a Chip profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ho Cheung Shum Hong Kong	44	3.5k	2.1k	1.5k	870	697	178	6.6k
Alberto Fernández‐Nieves United States	46	3.3k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	428 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	135	7.5k
Eric M. Furst United States	42	2.3k 0.7×	3.5k 1.7×	820 0.6×	982 1.1×	1.5k 2.2×	143	7.2k
Kathleen J. Stebe United States	52	2.4k 0.7×	3.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.0×	814 0.9×	1.8k 2.6×	169	8.0k
Ke Wang China	45	1.7k 0.5×	2.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	872 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	203	6.4k
Shin‐ichi Sawada Japan	40	1.8k 0.5×	3.4k 1.7×	1.3k 0.9×	1.7k 2.0×	1.1k 1.6×	206	8.1k
Fei Chen China	38	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	654 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	356 0.5×	274	5.3k
Eric J. Amis United States	54	3.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	874 1.0×	1.7k 2.5×	144	8.6k
Hong Yang China	55	4.9k 1.4×	2.6k 1.3×	2.9k 2.0×	454 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	440	11.3k
Claus Duschl Germany	35	1.8k 0.5×	941 0.5×	975 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	623 0.9×	97	4.7k
Motomu Tanaka Germany	37	1.9k 0.6×	775 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	2.8k 3.3×	686 1.0×	244	6.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ho Cheung Shum

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ho Cheung Shum

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Acharya, Aneesha, et al.. (2025). Gum-on-a-Chip Exploring Host-Microbe Interactions: Periodontal Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery. Journal of Tissue Engineering. 16. 1798804660–1798804660. 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Ruotong, et al.. (2024). A droplet robotic system enabled by electret-induced polarization on droplet. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6220–6220. 12 indexed citations

Pan, Yi, Yanting Shen, Jingxuan Tian, et al.. (2024). Vascular network-inspired fluidic system (VasFluidics) with spatially functionalizable membranous walls. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1437–1437. 9 indexed citations

Chen, Feipeng, Wei Guo, & Ho Cheung Shum. (2024). Fractal-Dependent Growth of Solidlike Condensates. Physical Review Letters. 133(11). 118401–118401. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Feipeng, et al.. (2024). Size Scaling of Condensates in Multicomponent Phase Separation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(23). 16000–16009. 5 indexed citations

Li, Qingchuan, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Membraneless Droplets for Synaptic‐Like Clustering of Lipid Vesicles. Angewandte Chemie. 135(45).

Zhan, Yan, Chang Li, Zhigang Che, et al.. (2023). Light management using photonic structures towards high-index perovskite optoelectronics: fundamentals, designing, and applications. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(10). 4135–4163. 22 indexed citations

Li, Huizeng, Huanqing Cui, Yi Pan, et al.. (2023). Heterogeneous Self-Assembly of a Single Type of Nanoparticle Modulated by Skin Formation. ACS Nano. 17(12). 11645–11654. 13 indexed citations

Li, Qingchuan, et al.. (2023). Synthetic Membraneless Droplets for Synaptic‐Like Clustering of Lipid Vesicles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(45). e202313096–e202313096. 9 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yang, et al.. (2022). Generation of Fermat’s spiral patterns by solutal Marangoni-driven coiling in an aqueous two-phase system. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7206–7206. 15 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hao, Jingxuan Tian, Youchuang Chao, et al.. (2021). Hand-Powered Microfluidics for Parallel Droplet Digital Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assays. ACS Sensors. 6(8). 2868–2874. 25 indexed citations

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Chao, Youchuang, et al.. (2021). Controlled Formation of All-Aqueous Janus Droplets by Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation of an Aqueous Three-Phase System. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 125(2). 562–570. 19 indexed citations

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Xie, Ganhua, Joe Forth, Shipei Zhu, et al.. (2020). Hanging droplets from liquid surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(15). 8360–8365. 31 indexed citations

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Yuan, Hao, Youchuang Chao, & Ho Cheung Shum. (2020). Droplet and Microchamber‐Based Digital Loop‐Mediated Isothermal Amplification (dLAMP). Small. 16(9). e1904469–e1904469. 78 indexed citations

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Chao, Youchuang, Jie Feng, Hao Yuan, et al.. (2020). Flower-like droplets obtained by self-emulsification of a phase-separating (SEPS) aqueous film. Soft Matter. 16(26). 6050–6055. 9 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yage, Xiangyu Fu, Wei Guo, et al.. (2019). Electrocoalescence of liquid marbles driven by embedded electrodes for triggering bioreactions. Lab on a Chip. 19(20). 3526–3534. 19 indexed citations

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Chan, Yau Kei, et al.. (2019). All-Aqueous Thin-Film-Flow-Induced Cell-Based Monolayers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(25). 22869–22877. 6 indexed citations

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Chao, Youchuang, et al.. (2018). Generation of High‐Order All‐Aqueous Emulsion Drops by Osmosis‐Driven Phase Separation. Small. 14(39). e1802107–e1802107. 54 indexed citations

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Tang, Ying, Zhenyu Yan, William C. Cho, et al.. (2017). Cadherin- and Rigidity-Dependent Growth of Lung Cancer Cells in a Partially Confined Microenvironment. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 4(2). 446–455. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Zhou, et al.. (2016). Rapid mixing of viscous liquids by electrical coiling. The HKU Scholars Hub (University of Hong Kong). 11 indexed citations

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