Longji Cui

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Longji Cui is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Longji Cui has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 10 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Longji Cui's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (9 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (8 papers). Longji Cui is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (12 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (9 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (8 papers). Longji Cui collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Longji Cui's co-authors include Pramod Reddy, Edgar Meyhöfer, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Wonho Jeong, Ruijiao Miao, Fabian Pauly, F. J. Garcı́a-Vidal, Johannes Feist, Dakotah Thompson and Víctor Fernández-Hurtado and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Longji Cui

27 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
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. Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field
    2015 334 citations Kyeongtae Kim, Bai Song et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Longji Cui United States 14 740 614 601 601 256 28 1.4k
Wonho Jeong United States 11 749 1.0× 552 0.9× 701 1.2× 603 1.0× 273 1.1× 14 1.4k
Kyeongtae Kim South Korea 15 654 0.9× 548 0.9× 767 1.3× 535 0.9× 207 0.8× 36 1.4k
Dakotah Thompson United States 14 1.1k 1.5× 215 0.4× 508 0.8× 1.5k 2.5× 449 1.8× 17 1.8k
Shanhui Fan United States 13 1.1k 1.4× 854 1.4× 233 0.4× 507 0.8× 177 0.7× 23 1.8k
Keunhan Park United States 18 456 0.6× 267 0.4× 253 0.4× 459 0.8× 129 0.5× 45 1.2k
Menaka De Zoysa Japan 23 1.3k 1.8× 1.0k 1.7× 156 0.3× 722 1.2× 89 0.3× 79 1.9k
Dejiu Fan United States 15 239 0.3× 551 0.9× 227 0.4× 353 0.6× 154 0.6× 22 877
Sander A. Mann United States 23 636 0.9× 827 1.3× 552 0.9× 116 0.2× 114 0.4× 41 1.6k
M. W. Wanlass United States 24 937 1.3× 2.0k 3.3× 473 0.8× 349 0.6× 161 0.6× 132 2.3k
Nian-Hua Liu China 18 862 1.2× 502 0.8× 405 0.7× 140 0.2× 61 0.2× 121 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Longji Cui

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Longji Cui

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Longji Cui. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Longji Cui 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 Longji Cui. Longji Cui 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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Habibi, Mohammad, Albert Beardo, & Longji Cui. (2025). Near-Field Thermal Radiation as a Probe of Nanoscale Hot Electron and Phonon Transport. ACS Nano. 19(6). 6033–6043. 4 indexed citations
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Habibi, Mohammad & Longji Cui. (2025). Achieving Simultaneously High Efficiency and Power Density in Zero-Vacuum-Gap Thermophotovoltaic Devices. ACS Photonics. 12(10). 5623–5629.
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Chen, Hongxuan, Mohammad Habibi, Giacomo Prampolini, et al.. (2025). Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions. Nature Materials. 24(8). 1258–1264. 2 indexed citations
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Cao, Changsheng, Jiabin Chen, Wen Wen, et al.. (2025). Manipulating d-orbital of Cu single atom site by coordination engineering for selective oxidation of benzene. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5790–5790. 7 indexed citations
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Habibi, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Enhanced power density in zero-vacuum-gap thermophotovoltaic devices. Energy & Environmental Science. 18(3). 1514–1523. 4 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, et al.. (2024). Molecular perspective and engineering of thermal transport and thermoelectricity in polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(18). 10614–10658. 6 indexed citations
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Raschke, Markus B., et al.. (2024). Molecular scale nanophotonics: hot carriers, strong coupling, and electrically driven plasmonic processes. Nanophotonics. 13(13). 2281–2322. 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Haixin, Ping Duan, Chuancheng Jia, et al.. (2024). Energy conversion and transport in molecular-scale junctions. Applied Physics Reviews. 11(4). 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Guangming, Longji Cui, Ziyi Chen, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical boroncarbonitride nanosheets as metal-free catalysts for enhanced oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Chemical Engineering Science. 288. 119848–119848. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Xin, Longji Cui, Xueda Ding, et al.. (2024). Guanine-derived core-shell FeCo alloy confined in graphene-like N-doped carbon as efficient bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable Zn-air batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 998. 174805–174805. 4 indexed citations
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Habibi, Mohammad & Longji Cui. (2023). Modelling and performance analysis of a novel thermophotovoltaic system with enhanced radiative heat transfer for combined heat and power generation. Applied Energy. 343. 121221–121221. 5 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, et al.. (2022). Tuning Light Emission Crossovers in Atomic-Scale Aluminum Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions. Nano Letters. 22(20). 8068–8075. 18 indexed citations
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Natelson, Douglas, et al.. (2021). Probing energy dissipation in molecular-scale junctions via surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: vibrational pumping and hot carrier enhanced light emission. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 33(13). 134001–134001. 7 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Sunghoon Hur, Zico Alaia Akbar, et al.. (2019). Thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions. Nature. 572(7771). 628–633. 147 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Ruijiao Miao, Kun Wang, et al.. (2017). Peltier cooling in molecular junctions. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(2). 122–127. 134 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Wonho Jeong, Víctor Fernández-Hurtado, et al.. (2017). Study of radiative heat transfer in Ångström- and nanometre-sized gaps. Nature Communications. 8(1). 127 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Wonho Jeong, Sunghoon Hur, et al.. (2017). Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions. Science. 355(6330). 1192–1195. 163 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Ruijiao Miao, Chang Jiang, Edgar Meyhöfer, & Pramod Reddy. (2017). Perspective: Thermal and thermoelectric transport in molecular junctions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 146(9). 141 indexed citations
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Cui, Longji, Edgar Meyhöfer, & Pramod Reddy. (2016). Harmony with superatoms. Nature Materials. 16(1). 10–11. 4 indexed citations
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Kim, Kyeongtae, Bai Song, Víctor Fernández-Hurtado, et al.. (2015). Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field. Nature. 528(7582). 387–391. 334 indexed citations breakdown →

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