Mingwei Chen

69.7k total citations · 35 hit papers
502 papers, 59.6k citations indexed

About

Mingwei Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mingwei Chen has authored 502 papers receiving a total of 59.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 300 papers in Materials Chemistry, 140 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 108 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mingwei Chen's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (94 papers), Nanoporous metals and alloys (90 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (75 papers). Mingwei Chen is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (94 papers), Nanoporous metals and alloys (90 papers) and Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys (75 papers). Mingwei Chen collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Mingwei Chen's co-authors include Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Pan Liu, Manish Chhowalla, Damien Voiry, Goki Eda, Hisato Yamaguchi, Yinmin Wang, Xingyou Lang and Yoshikazu Ito and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mingwei Chen

494 papers receiving 58.6k citations

Hit Papers

Photoluminescence from Chemically Exfoliated MoS2 2002 2026 2010 2018 2011 2002 2013 2015 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Photoluminescence from Chemically Exfoliated MoS2
    2011 3.5k citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. Nano Letters profile →
  2. High tensile ductility in a nanostructured metal
    2002 2.5k citations Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  3. Enhanced catalytic activity in strained chemically exfoliated WS2 nanosheets for hydrogen evolution
    2013 2.4k citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  4. A precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy with outstanding tensile properties
    2015 2.2k citations Junyang He, Hui Wang et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  5. Conducting MoS2 Nanosheets as Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2013 2.0k citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. Nano Letters profile →
  6. Nanoporous metal/oxide hybrid electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors
    2011 1.9k citations Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita et al. profile →
  7. Ultrastrong steel via minimal lattice misfit and high-density nanoprecipitation
    2017 1.1k citations Hui Wang, Xiongjun Liu et al. profile →
  8. Efficient hydrogen production on MoNi4 electrocatalysts with fast water dissociation kinetics
    2017 1.1k citations Jian Zhang, Tao Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Deformation Twinning in Nanocrystalline Aluminum
    2003 1.0k citations Mingwei Chen, E. Ma et al. Science profile →
  10. Accelerated Hydrogen Evolution Kinetics on NiFe‐Layered Double Hydroxide Electrocatalysts by Tailoring Water Dissociation Active Sites
    2018 872 citations Guangbo Chen, Jian Zhang et al. profile →
  11. Ductile CoCrFeNiMox high entropy alloys strengthened by hard intermetallic phases
    2016 846 citations W.H. Liu, Zhaoping Lü et al. Acta Materialia profile →
  12. Multifunctional Porous Graphene for High‐Efficiency Steam Generation by Heat Localization
    2015 845 citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  13. High Catalytic Activity of Nitrogen and Sulfur Co‐Doped Nanoporous Graphene in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2014 815 citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  14. Coherent Atomic and Electronic Heterostructures of Single-Layer MoS2
    2012 814 citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  15. Atomic origins of the high catalytic activity of nanoporous gold
    2012 805 citations Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata et al. profile →
  16. Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS2
    2015 719 citations Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  17. Nanoporous Graphene with Single‐Atom Nickel Dopants: An Efficient and Stable Catalyst for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production
    2015 685 citations Pan Liu, Akihiko Hirata et al. profile →
  18. Covalent functionalization of monolayered transition metal dichalcogenides by phase engineering
    2014 656 citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  19. Tunable Photoluminescence from Graphene Oxide
    2012 600 citations Mingwei Chen, Takeshi Fujita et al. profile →
  20. Versatile nanoporous bimetallic phosphides towards electrochemical water splitting
    2016 553 citations Pan Liu, Akihiko Hirata et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  21. Engineering water dissociation sites in MoS2 nanosheets for accelerated electrocatalytic hydrogen production
    2016 527 citations Jian Zhang, Tao Wang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  22. Experimental characterization of shear transformation zones for plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses
    2008 526 citations Mingwei Chen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. Core–Shell‐Structured CNT@RuO2 Composite as a High‐Performance Cathode Catalyst for Rechargeable Li–O2 Batteries
    2013 509 citations Pan Liu, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  24. Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Glasses: Microscopic Understanding of Strength and Ductility
    2008 499 citations Mingwei Chen profile →
  25. Direct observation of local atomic order in a metallic glass
    2010 488 citations Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita et al. profile →
  26. Highly optimized embedded-atom-method potentials for fourteen fcc metals
    2011 437 citations Takeshi Fujita, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  27. Mechanical properties of refractory high-entropy alloys: Experiments and modeling
    2016 415 citations Hongwei Yao, Junwei Qiao et al. Journal of Alloys and Compounds profile →
  28. A brief overview of bulk metallic glasses
    2011 403 citations Mingwei Chen NPG Asia Materials profile →
  29. An assessment on the future development of high-entropy alloys: Summary from a recent workshop
    2015 403 citations Zhaoping Lü, Hui Wang et al. profile →
  30. Geometric Frustration of Icosahedron in Metallic Glasses
    2013 396 citations Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita et al. Science profile →
  31. A hexagonal close-packed high-entropy alloy: The effect of entropy
    2016 385 citations Junwei Qiao, Michael C. Gao et al. Materials & Design profile →
  32. Characterization of Nanoscale Mechanical Heterogeneity in a Metallic Glass by Dynamic Force Microscopy
    2011 369 citations Akihiko Hirata, Akihisa Inoue et al. profile →
  33. Grain rotation mediated by grain boundary dislocations in nanocrystalline platinum
    2014 362 citations Lihua Wang, Jiao Teng et al. Nature Communications profile →
  34. High-temperature bulk metallic glasses developed by combinatorial methods
    2019 255 citations Akihiko Hirata, Mingwei Chen et al. profile →
  35. Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale
    2022 192 citations Lihua Wang, Yin Zhang et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mingwei Chen Japan 114 33.9k 18.9k 18.8k 17.3k 10.1k 502 59.6k
Ju Li United States 127 33.2k 1.0× 14.6k 0.8× 27.8k 1.5× 4.5k 0.3× 8.1k 0.8× 827 65.5k
Yang Ren United States 119 22.7k 0.7× 14.9k 0.8× 27.8k 1.5× 4.2k 0.2× 14.2k 1.4× 1.2k 56.2k
Lars Hultman Sweden 106 53.4k 1.6× 10.7k 0.6× 24.2k 1.3× 7.5k 0.4× 8.5k 0.8× 814 67.3k
Qing Jiang China 105 24.2k 0.7× 5.6k 0.3× 16.3k 0.9× 15.0k 0.9× 6.3k 0.6× 1.1k 45.3k
Yucheng Wu China 71 12.4k 0.4× 8.4k 0.4× 9.8k 0.5× 6.1k 0.4× 5.1k 0.5× 1.2k 27.5k
Haiyan Wang United States 90 23.8k 0.7× 7.1k 0.4× 11.1k 0.6× 3.0k 0.2× 9.6k 0.9× 1.4k 39.2k
Takeshi Fujita Japan 82 20.7k 0.6× 4.6k 0.2× 13.3k 0.7× 12.9k 0.7× 6.9k 0.7× 517 35.5k
Horst Hahn Germany 83 16.2k 0.5× 11.7k 0.6× 9.5k 0.5× 2.6k 0.1× 4.5k 0.4× 765 29.3k
Ying Chen China 98 23.0k 0.7× 4.7k 0.2× 16.0k 0.8× 8.6k 0.5× 6.8k 0.7× 1.1k 43.5k
Jin Zou Australia 106 33.8k 1.0× 4.1k 0.2× 17.9k 1.0× 7.6k 0.4× 5.1k 0.5× 894 46.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Meiling, et al.. (2025). Research progress of single-atom, dual-atom and nanocluster electrocatalysts for sustainable ammonia synthesis. Molecular Catalysis. 586. 115390–115390.
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Chen, Ran, et al.. (2024). Strong and ductile low carbon low alloy steels with multiphase bimodal microstructure. International Journal of Plasticity. 181. 104097–104097. 22 indexed citations
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Kudo, Akira, Wence Xu, Zhonghui Gao, et al.. (2024). Tuning Electrocatalytic Activities of Dealloyed Nanoporous Catalysts by Macroscopic Strain Engineering. Nano Letters. 24(18). 5543–5549. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Mengjia, Ruichun Luo, Yuxin Liu, et al.. (2023). An unexpected interfacial Mo-rich phase in 2D molybdenum disulfide and 3D gold heterojunctions. Nanoscale. 15(36). 14906–14911. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Lihua, Yin Zhang, Zhi Zeng, et al.. (2022). Tracking the sliding of grain boundaries at the atomic scale. Science. 375(6586). 1261–1265. 192 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wei, Qinqin, Xiandong Xu, Qiang Shen, et al.. (2022). Metal-carbide eutectics with multiprincipal elements make superrefractory alloys. Science Advances. 8(27). eabo2068–eabo2068. 49 indexed citations
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Lin, Chih-Wei, Tsui-Ling Hsu, Han‐Chung Wu, et al.. (2021). Homogeneous antibody and CAR-T cells with improved effector functions targeting SSEA-4 glycan on pancreatic cancer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(50). 27 indexed citations
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Chen, Guangbo, Tao Wang, Pan Liu, et al.. (2020). Promoted oxygen reduction kinetics on nitrogen-doped hierarchically porous carbon by engineering proton-feeding centers. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(9). 2849–2855. 125 indexed citations
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Fan, Gangwei, Shizhong Zhang, Mingwei Chen, Dongsheng Zhang, & Shang Ren. (2020). Impacts of Underground Coal Mining on the Roots of Xeromorphic Plant: A Case Study. Environmental Engineering Science. 38(6). 500–512. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Qing, Yi Ding, & Mingwei Chen. (2018). Nanoporous metal by dealloying for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. MRS Bulletin. 43(1). 43–48. 112 indexed citations
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Chen, Mingwei, HoKwon Kim, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, et al.. (2018). Large-grain MBE-grown GaSe on GaAs with a Mexican hat-like valence band dispersion. npj 2D Materials and Applications. 2(1). 66 indexed citations
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Caravan, Rebecca L., M. Anwar H. Khan, Judit Zádor, et al.. (2018). The reaction of hydroxyl and methylperoxy radicals is not a major source of atmospheric methanol. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4343–4343. 37 indexed citations
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Chen, Na, Hongping Li, Akihiko Hirata, et al.. (2017). Transparent magnetic semiconductor with embedded metallic glass nano-granules. Materials & Design. 132. 208–214. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, W.H., Zhaoping Lü, Junyang He, et al.. (2016). Ductile CoCrFeNiMox high entropy alloys strengthened by hard intermetallic phases. Acta Materialia. 116. 332–342. 846 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yao, Hongwei, et al.. (2016). Mechanical properties of refractory high-entropy alloys: Experiments and modeling. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 696. 1139–1150. 415 indexed citations breakdown →
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He, Junyang, Hui Wang, Hailong Huang, et al.. (2015). A precipitation-hardened high-entropy alloy with outstanding tensile properties. Acta Materialia. 102. 187–196. 2164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reddy, Kolan Madhav, Pan Liu, Akihiko Hirata, Takeshi Fujita, & Mingwei Chen. (2013). Atomic structure of amorphous shear bands in boron carbide. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2483–2483. 203 indexed citations
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Asao, Naoki, Menggenbateer, Taketoshi Minato, et al.. (2012). Aerobic oxidation of alcohols in the liquid phase with nanoporous gold catalysts. Chemical Communications. 48(38). 4540–4540. 66 indexed citations
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Chen, Mingwei. (2011). A brief overview of bulk metallic glasses. NPG Asia Materials. 3(9). 82–90. 403 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liao, Mei-Hsiu, Tong‐Rong Jan, Mingwei Chen, et al.. (2011). Investigation of a Potential Scintigraphic Tracer for Imaging Apoptosis: Radioiodinated Annexin V‐Kunitz Protease Inhibitor Fusion Protein. BioMed Research International. 2011(1). 675701–675701. 4 indexed citations

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