Hou Chen

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
236 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Hou Chen is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hou Chen has authored 236 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Organic Chemistry, 68 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 64 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hou Chen's work include Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (51 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (28 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (26 papers). Hou Chen is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (51 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (28 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (26 papers). Hou Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Hou Chen's co-authors include Liangjiu Bai, Wenxiang Wang, Huawei Yang, Rongjun Qu, Donglei Wei, Lixia Yang, Yuzhong Niu, Ying Liang, Changmei Sun and Chunnuan Ji and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials and Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hou Chen

234 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

New ligands double the scope of the catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hou Chen China	39	1.9k	1.5k	1.2k	1.0k	1.0k	236	5.7k
Liangjiu Bai China	36	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	709 0.7×	457 0.4×	176	4.0k
Muhammad Siddiq Pakistan	34	1.2k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	835 0.8×	623 0.6×	192	4.8k
Zhiping Zhou China	38	907 0.5×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	745 0.7×	207	5.1k
Jianwei Fu China	44	1.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.7×	184	7.4k
Jonggeon Jegal South Korea	37	713 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	78	5.4k
Khalid A. Alamry Saudi Arabia	39	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	823 0.7×	879 0.8×	500 0.5×	169	4.9k
Giuseppe Mele Italy	41	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	960 0.9×	345 0.3×	187	5.9k
Chin Hua Chia Malaysia	45	822 0.4×	2.3k 1.5×	2.1k 1.7×	886 0.8×	940 0.9×	245	6.3k
Gang Wang China	36	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	991 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	246 0.2×	190	4.7k
Zhangfa Tong China	46	820 0.4×	2.8k 1.9×	984 0.8×	569 0.5×	696 0.7×	227	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hou Chen

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Zhou, Tianjun, Pan Li, Yujie Sun, et al.. (2025). BSA/PEI/GOD modified cellulose nanocrystals for construction of hydrogel-based flexible glucose sensors for sweat detection. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(8). 2705–2716. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jiarui, Pengxiao Liu, Wenxiang Wang, et al.. (2024). Phytic acid extracted cellulose nanocrystals for designing self-healing and anti-freezing hydrogels’ flexible sensor. Chemical Engineering Journal. 493. 152276–152276. 37 indexed citations

Wang, Jingyang, Wenxiang Wang, Hou Chen, et al.. (2024). Design of antifreeze, self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels with proline and functional cellulose nanocrystals for the application in wearable flexible sensors. European Polymer Journal. 220. 113452–113452. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Bingxiang, Liping Luan, Ziwei Li, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of heterostructured microspheres for efficient removal of malachite green and basic fuchsine. Chemical Engineering Science. 303. 120956–120956. 9 indexed citations

Li, Jiayu, et al.. (2024). Synthesis, properties and application of pesticides encapsulated hydrogels. European Polymer Journal. 215. 113196–113196. 9 indexed citations

Wang, Wenxiang, Liangjiu Bai, Hou Chen, et al.. (2024). Phytic Acid-Functional Cellulose Nanocrystals and Their Application in Self-Healing Nanocomposite Hydrogels. Langmuir. 40(28). 14602–14612. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Xinyu, Hao Niu, Huawei Yang, et al.. (2024). In Situ Generation of H₂O₂ over MoO_x Decorated on Cu₂O@CuO Core–Shell Particle Nanoarchitectonics for Boosting Photocatalytic Oxidative Desulfurization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(5). 5957–5964. 10 indexed citations

Gao, Yu, Yuejie Chen, Tianjun Zhou, et al.. (2023). GBAP/L-proline assist of self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels and their applications in antifreeze, high-sensitivity flexible sensors. European Polymer Journal. 195. 112211–112211. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Qing, Ziyan Wang, Liangjiu Bai, et al.. (2023). Fabrication of amphoteric gelatin nanospheres-doped self-healing nanocomposite hydrogels and the application in flexible sensors. Reactive and Functional Polymers. 192. 105729–105729.

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Sun, Qing, Liangjiu Bai, Wenxiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Polydopamine functionalized stellate mesoporous silica using mussel inspired chemistry for ultrastretchable, conductive and self-healing hydrogel on wearable strain sensors. Materials Today Communications. 37. 107148–107148. 2 indexed citations

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Song, Ya, Yingnan Zhang, Huawei Yang, et al.. (2023). Lightweight Flexible Solid-State Supercapacitor Based On Metal–Graphene-Textile Composite Electrodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(17). 8707–8716. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Huili, Jianmin Fu, Donglei Wei, et al.. (2023). Regioselective and Diastereoselective Halofunctionalization of Alkenes Promoted by Organophotocatalytic Solar Catalysis. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 88(11). 6911–6917. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Nan, Feng Gao, Yanan Wang, et al.. (2022). Wearable Flexible Sensors for Human Motion Detection with Self-Healing, Tough Guar Gum-Hydrogels of GO-P4VPBA/PDA Janus Nanosheets. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 4(5). 3394–3407. 17 indexed citations

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Bai, Jiabao, Ya Song, Huawei Yang, et al.. (2022). VO_x Nanoclusters on CePO₄ Nanowires for Oxidative Desulfurization of Thiophene. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 5(11). 16612–16619. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenxiang, Hou Chen, Liangjiu Bai, et al.. (2019). Self-healing and tough GO-supported hydrogels preparedviasurface-initiated ATRP and photocatalytic modification. New Journal of Chemistry. 43(7). 3099–3110. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenxiang, Liangjiu Bai, Lixia Yang, et al.. (2019). Microwave‐Assisted Reversible Coordination‐Mediated Polymerization for Self‐Healing Hybrid Materials: RGO@PDA Simultaneous as Catalyst and Nanocomposites in One‐Pot. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 304(12). 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Guanglin, Wenxiang Wang, Hou Chen, et al.. (2019). Surface Engineering of Porous Carbon for Self-Healing Nanocomposite Hydrogels by Mussel-Inspired Chemistry and PET-ATRP. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(41). 38126–38135. 33 indexed citations

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Liu, Shumin, Guanglin Wang, Zhixiang Sun, et al.. (2019). Fabrication of dual network self-healing alginate/guar gum hydrogels based on polydopamine-type microcapsules from mesoporous silica nanoparticles. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 129. 916–926. 63 indexed citations

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Wang, Jing, et al.. (2018). Electrochemical immunosensor detection of tumor markers based on a GO composite nanoprobe for signal amplification. Analytical Methods. 10(5). 526–532. 14 indexed citations

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Bai, Liangjiu, Wenxiang Wang, Hou Chen, et al.. (2018). RAFT-mediated Pickering emulsion polymerization with cellulose nanocrystals grafted with random copolymer as stabilizer. RSC Advances. 8(50). 28660–28667. 14 indexed citations

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