Letian Chen

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Letian Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Letian Chen has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Letian Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (7 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (7 papers). Letian Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (7 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (7 papers). Letian Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Letian Chen's co-authors include Zhen Zhou, Xu Zhang, Sai Yao, Xu Hu, Yun Tian, Zhengyu Lu, An Chen, Jiyuan Tu, Ben Zhong Tang and Zujin Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Letian Chen

38 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

What is the Real Origin of the Activity of Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts in the O₂ Reduction Reaction? Critical Roles of Coordinating Pyrrolic N and Axially Adsorbing Species

2022 236 citations Xu Hu, Letian Chen et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Letian Chen China	17	772	769	555	207	107	44	1.4k
Hongzhi Cheng China	12	960 1.2×	752 1.0×	262 0.5×	93 0.4×	47 0.4×	23	1.3k
Xudong Jiang China	14	380 0.5×	479 0.6×	362 0.7×	123 0.6×	134 1.3×	30	1.1k
Mengwei Li China	17	460 0.6×	339 0.4×	282 0.5×	168 0.8×	36 0.3×	59	860
Min Cheng China	14	581 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	901 1.6×	238 1.1×	28 0.3×	22	1.7k
Guanzhi Wang United States	24	683 0.9×	1.5k 1.9×	1.4k 2.4×	94 0.5×	21 0.2×	44	2.3k
Abdul Jalil China	20	1.0k 1.4×	920 1.2×	793 1.4×	490 2.4×	48 0.4×	66	1.9k
Hao Deng China	22	632 0.8×	905 1.2×	1.1k 1.9×	167 0.8×	168 1.6×	59	1.6k
Yi Jiang China	24	671 0.9×	585 0.8×	500 0.9×	106 0.5×	11 0.1×	68	1.4k
Zhenhua Yao China	16	696 0.9×	290 0.4×	221 0.4×	109 0.5×	29 0.3×	35	1.1k
Søren B. Vendelbo Denmark	13	936 1.2×	469 0.6×	158 0.3×	791 3.8×	46 0.4×	19	1.5k

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Yin, Luming, Letian Chen, Yanbang Li, et al.. (2025). Size- and crystallinity-dependent oxygen vacancy engineering to modulate Fe active sites for enhanced reversible nitrogen fixation in Lithium-nitrogen batteries. Energy storage materials. 76. 104171–104171. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Zhanqi, et al.. (2025). Multimodal behavior of turbulent junction flow. Physics of Fluids. 37(5). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Letian, et al.. (2025). Hyperfluorescence circularly polarized OLEDs consisting of chiral TADF sensitizers and achiral multi-resonance emitters. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1656–1656. 18 indexed citations

Chen, Letian, Yun Tian, Hu Xu, et al.. (2025). Constant-Potential MD with Neural Network Potentials Reveals Cation Effects on CO ₂ Reduction at Au-Water Interfaces. JACS Au. 6(2). 868–880.

Chen, Letian, et al.. (2025). Logarithmic structures in the far-field stage of over-tripped boundary layer turbulence. Physics of Fluids. 37(2).

Liang, Xinghui, Letian Chen, Haoyang Jiang, et al.. (2025). In Situ Polymerized Hybrid Nanofiber Membranes Boost High-Voltage Stability of Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Nano. 19(30). 27620–27633.

Chen, Letian, et al.. (2025). Activity and stability origin of core–shell catalysts: unignorable atomic diffusion behavior. Chemical Science. 16(7). 3323–3328. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Letian, Yanan Hao, Zhendong Yang, et al.. (2025). Surficial Cross‐Linking Hydrogen Bonds Enabling High‐Rate and Robust Solid‐State Lithium Metal Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(5).

Hu, Xu, et al.. (2025). Automating structure–activity analysis for electrochemical nitrogen reduction catalyst design through multi-agent collaborations. National Science Review. 12(11). nwaf372–nwaf372. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Zhengyu, et al.. (2024). Prediction of Ground State Configurations and Electrochemical Properties of Li₃InCl₆ Doped with F, Br, and Ga. Chinese Physics Letters. 41(5). 58201–58201. 4 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Sheraz, Xu Hu, Letian Chen, H. U. Din, & Zhen Zhou. (2024). Functionalized MBenes as promising anode materials for high-performance alkali-ion batteries: a first-principles study. Nanotechnology. 35(28). 285401–285401. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Letian, Zijing Chen, Yiming Li, et al.. (2024). Ionic Bonding Without Directionality Facilitates Efficient Interfacial Bridging for Perovskite Solar Cells. Small. 20(28). e2308964–e2308964. 16 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianhui, Letian Chen, Hao Liu, et al.. (2024). Promising interlayer sensitization strategy for the construction of high-performance blue hyperfluorescence OLEDs. Light Science & Applications. 13(1). 139–139. 21 indexed citations

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Wu, Xing, Xiaoluo Peng, Letian Chen, Ben Zhong Tang, & Zujin Zhao. (2023). Through-Space Conjugated Molecule with Dual Delayed Fluorescence and Room-Temperature Phosphorescence for High-Performance OLEDs. ACS Materials Letters. 5(3). 664–672. 47 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhendong, Letian Chen, Haoyang Jiang, et al.. (2023). SnF₂‐Induced Highly Current‐Tolerant Solid Electrolytes for Solid‐State Sodium Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(47). 31 indexed citations

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Yang, Yuting, Bin Ye, Hu Xu, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Photoassisted Li‐O₂ Battery with Ce‐UiO‐66 Metal‐Organic Framework Based Photocathodes. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(14). 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Letian. (2023). Rotational symmetry of solutions of mean curvature flow coming out of a double cone II. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations. 62(2). 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Jinke, et al.. (2023). Exploring Robust Delayed Fluorescence Materials via Structural Rigidification for Realizing Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with High Efficiencies and Small Roll‐Offs. Small. 20(7). e2306800–e2306800. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, An, Zhilong Wang, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Accelerated Mining of 2D Van der Waals Heterojunctions by Integrating Supervised and Unsupervised Learning. Chemistry of Materials. 34(12). 5571–5583. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Letian, Xu Zhang, An Chen, et al.. (2021). Targeted design of advanced electrocatalysts by machine learning. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 43(1). 11–32. 93 indexed citations

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