Renkun Chen

12.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
119 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Renkun Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Renkun Chen has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Materials Chemistry, 39 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 33 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Renkun Chen's work include Thermal properties of materials (42 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (39 papers) and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (28 papers). Renkun Chen is often cited by papers focused on Thermal properties of materials (42 papers), Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (39 papers) and Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (28 papers). Renkun Chen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Renkun Chen's co-authors include Arun Majumdar, Peidong Yang, Allon I. Hochbaum, Wenjie Liang, Erik C. Garnett, Qingyang Wang, Sunmi Shin, Matthew C. Wingert, Jian Luo and V. Srinivasan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Renkun Chen

113 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

2008 3.3k citations Renkun Chen et al. profile →
Nanowires for Enhanced Boiling Heat Transfer

2009 578 citations Renkun Chen et al. profile →
Emerging Materials and Strategies for Personal Thermal Management

2020 486 citations Sunmi Shin, Renkun Chen et al. profile →
Wearable thermoelectrics for personalized thermoregulation

2019 416 citations Renkun Chen et al. profile →
Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator

2021 318 citations Jian Zeng, Renkun Chen et al. profile →
Size disorder as a descriptor for predicting reduced thermal conductivity in medium- and high-entropy pyrochlore oxides

2020 254 citations Qingyang Wang, Ka Man Chung et al. profile →
From high-entropy ceramics to compositionally-complex ceramics: A case study of fluorite oxides

2020 235 citations Qingyang Wang, Renkun Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renkun Chen United States	43	6.0k	2.8k	2.6k	2.3k	2.1k	119	10.1k
Hua Bao China	48	4.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	199	8.8k
Baoling Huang Hong Kong	54	3.9k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	218	8.9k
Xinwei Wang United States	45	5.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	3.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	270	9.3k
Yang Lü China	54	4.2k 0.7×	951 0.3×	3.0k 1.2×	4.3k 1.9×	2.6k 1.2×	341	11.3k
Dongliang Zhao China	51	4.2k 0.7×	5.5k 2.0×	736 0.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	310	11.4k
Harish C. Barshilia India	54	4.4k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	3.2k 1.5×	281	9.1k
Desalegne Teweldebrhan United States	18	11.9k 2.0×	1.3k 0.5×	3.7k 1.5×	1.5k 0.6×	3.8k 1.8×	26	14.4k
Xiulin Ruan United States	57	7.6k 1.3×	4.1k 1.5×	756 0.3×	615 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	210	10.4k
Suchismita Ghosh India	7	9.1k 1.5×	902 0.3×	3.3k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	3.0k 1.4×	29	11.5k
John T. L. Thong Singapore	48	5.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	420 0.2×	3.3k 1.5×	153	8.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Renkun, et al.. (2025). Entering the Strong Coupling Regime in Conventional Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(8).

Loutzenhiser, Peter G., Renkun Chen, & Clifford K. Ho. (2025). Progress in particle-based solar energy capture and storage for concentrated solar power and thermal technology applications. Solar Energy. 292. 113432–113432.

Pei, Yu, Tianshi Feng, Robert S. Chambers, Shengqiang Cai, & Renkun Chen. (2025). Thermoelectrically elevated hydrogel evaporation for personal cooling under extreme heat. Cell Reports Physical Science. 6(9). 102816–102816.

Feng, Tianshi, et al.. (2024). Flexible Thermoelectric Active Cooling Garment to Combat Extreme Heat. Advanced Materials Technologies. 10(7). 2 indexed citations

Feng, Tianshi, Jian Zeng, Ka Man Chung, et al.. (2024). Micromechanical origin of heat transfer to granular flow. Physical review. E. 109(4). L042902–L042902. 4 indexed citations

Feng, Tianshi, et al.. (2024). A model to separate conduction and radiation in high temperature laser flash measurements for semi-transparent materials. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 223. 125228–125228. 3 indexed citations

Feng, Tianshi, et al.. (2024). Ceramic-to-metal bonding using rare-earth containing Sn–Bi solder. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Electronics. 35(6). 369–369. 5 indexed citations

Feng, Tianshi, et al.. (2023). Optimisation of a packed particle magnetocaloric refrigerator: A combined experimental and theoretical study. International Journal of Refrigeration. 159. 64–73. 4 indexed citations

Chung, Ka Man, Tianshi Feng, Jian Zeng, et al.. (2023). Thermal conductivity measurement using modulated photothermal radiometry for nitrate and chloride molten salts. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 217. 124652–124652. 12 indexed citations

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Chung, Ka Man, Ye Zhang, Jian Zeng, et al.. (2023). In-situ thermophysical measurement of flowing molten chloride salt using modulated photothermal radiometry. Solar Energy. 265. 112124–112124. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Dawei, Yan Chen, Heidy Vega, et al.. (2022). Long- and short-range orders in 10-component compositionally complex ceramics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 100098–100098. 15 indexed citations

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Wingert, Matthew C., et al.. (2021). Phonon gas model for thermal conductivity of dense, strongly interacting liquids. Journal of Applied Physics. 129(23). 28 indexed citations

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Yang, Lin, Yi Tao, Yanglin Zhu, et al.. (2021). Observation of superdiffusive phonon transport in aligned atomic chains. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(7). 764–768. 61 indexed citations

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Dechaumphai, Edward, Courtney R. Green, Ratneshwar Lal, et al.. (2020). Sub-nanowatt microfluidic single-cell calorimetry. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2982–2982. 31 indexed citations

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Koga, Shumon, Mitsutoshi Makihata, Renkun Chen, Miroslav Krstić, & Albert P. Pisano. (2020). Energy Storage in Paraffin: A PDE Backstepping Experiment. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 29(4). 1490–1502. 10 indexed citations

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Shrestha, Ramesh, Xiao Luo, Sunmi Shin, et al.. (2020). Dual-mode solid-state thermal rectification. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4346–4346. 56 indexed citations

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O’Dwyer, Colm, Renkun Chen, Jr‐Hau He, Jaeho Lee, & Kafil M. Razeeb. (2017). Preface—Focus Issue on Thermoelectric Materials & Devices: Phonon Engineering, Advanced Materials and Thermal Transport. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 6(3). Y3–Y3. 4 indexed citations

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O’Dwyer, Colm, Renkun Chen, Jr‐Hau He, Jaeho Lee, & Kafil M. Razeeb. (2017). Scientific and Technical Challenges in Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Materials and Devices. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 6(3). N3058–N3064. 20 indexed citations

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Liu, Chin‐Hung, Young Jin Kim, Dong Won Chun, et al.. (2015). Universal solders for direct bonding and packaging of optical devices. Materials Letters. 152. 232–236. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Renkun. (2008). Nanowires for thermal energy conversion and management. PhDT. 2 indexed citations

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