Lyu Zhou

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lyu Zhou is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lyu Zhou has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lyu Zhou's work include Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (14 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers) and Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials (6 papers). Lyu Zhou is often cited by papers focused on Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (14 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (6 papers) and Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials (6 papers). Lyu Zhou collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and China. Lyu Zhou's co-authors include Qiaoqiang Gan, Haomin Song, Boon S. Ooi, Zongfu Yu, Matthew Singer, Nan Zhang, Tien Khee Ng, Chen Xu, Jian Liang and Ming Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lyu Zhou

24 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

  1. A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling
    2019 551 citations Lyu Zhou, Haomin Song et al. Nature Sustainability profile →

Peers

Lyu Zhou
Matthew Singer United States
Zhenhui Lin China
Yanpei Tian United States
Desong Fan China
Tsz Chung Ho Hong Kong
Huajie Tang China
Yong-Gang Wu China
Xuhang Shi China
Andrew Caratenuto United States
Matthew Singer United States
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Countries citing papers authored by Lyu Zhou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lyu Zhou

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lyu Zhou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lyu Zhou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lyu Zhou 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 Lyu Zhou. Lyu Zhou 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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Yang, Kaijie, et al.. (2025). Towards practical applications of radiative cooling. 1(4). 235–254. 10 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, et al.. (2025). Transparent phase change hydrogel for energy-efficient thermal regulation in window applications. Journal of Energy Storage. 113. 115601–115601. 4 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, et al.. (2024). Radiative cooling for vertical solar panels. iScience. 27(2). 108806–108806. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunyan, Baohui Shi, Jinlong He, et al.. (2023). Carbon Additive Manufacturing with a Near‐Replica “Green‐to‐Brown” Transformation. Advanced Materials. 35(38). e2208230–e2208230. 12 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Xiaobo Yin, & Qiaoqiang Gan. (2023). Best practices for radiative cooling. Nature Sustainability. 6(9). 1030–1032. 51 indexed citations
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Liu, Ruiying, Wenhong Yang, Lyu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Imaging-based intelligent spectrometer on a plasmonic rainbow chip. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1902–1902. 34 indexed citations
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Xu, Lujia, Erkan Aydın, Michele De Bastiani, et al.. (2023). Parasitic Heating of Perovskite‐ and Silicon‐Based Photovoltaics (Adv. Energy Mater. 24/2023). Advanced Energy Materials. 13(24). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chunyan, Baohui Shi, Jinlong He, et al.. (2023). Carbon Additive Manufacturing with a Near‐Replica “Green‐to‐Brown” Transformation (Adv. Mater. 38/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(38). 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Nan Zhang, Matthew Singer, et al.. (2022). Super-Resolution Displacement Spectroscopic Sensing over a Surface “Rainbow”. Engineering. 17. 75–81. 6 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Yanpei Tian, Yu Han, et al.. (2022). Radiative cooling for energy sustainability: Materials, systems, and applications. Physical Review Materials. 6(9). 33 indexed citations
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Hu, Haifeng, Lyu Zhou, Jing Zeng, et al.. (2021). Multiple concentric rainbows induced by microscale concave interfaces for reflective displays. Applied Materials Today. 24. 101146–101146. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, et al.. (2021). Sustainable and Inexpensive Polydimethylsiloxane Sponges for Daytime Radiative Cooling. Advanced Science. 8(23). e2102502–e2102502. 152 indexed citations
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Liu, Youhai, Haomin Song, Zongmin Bei, et al.. (2021). Ultra-thin dark amorphous TiOx hollow nanotubes for full spectrum solar energy harvesting and conversion‡. Nano Energy. 84. 105872–105872. 31 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Haomin Song, Nan Zhang, et al.. (2021). Hybrid concentrated radiative cooling and solar heating in a single system. Cell Reports Physical Science. 2(2). 100338–100338. 67 indexed citations
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Zhang, Nan, Haifeng Hu, Matthew Singer, et al.. (2020). Large‐Scale Sub‐1‐nm Random Gaps Approaching the Quantum Upper Limit for Quantitative Chemical Sensing. Advanced Optical Materials. 8(24). 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Haomin Song, Jian Liang, et al.. (2019). All-day radiative cooling using beam-controlled architectures. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Tong, Zhancheng Li, Shuqi Chen, et al.. (2019). Efficient generation of broadband short-wave infrared vector beams with arbitrary polarization. Applied Physics Letters. 114(2). 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Haomin Song, Jian Liang, et al.. (2019). All-day radiative cooling using beam-controlled architectures. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. ATh1I.2–ATh1I.2. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lyu, Haomin Song, Jian Liang, et al.. (2019). A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling. Nature Sustainability. 2(8). 718–724. 551 indexed citations breakdown →
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Song, Haomin, Youhai Liu, Zhejun Liu, et al.. (2018). Cold Vapor Generation beyond the Input Solar Energy Limit. Advanced Science. 5(8). 1800222–1800222. 282 indexed citations

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