Ruochen Lan

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ruochen Lan is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruochen Lan has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ruochen Lan's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (30 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (23 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (12 papers). Ruochen Lan is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (30 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (23 papers) and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (12 papers). Ruochen Lan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Ruochen Lan's co-authors include Huai Yang, Lanying Zhang, Chen Shen, Rui Huang, Jinying Bao, Jian Sun, Zhongping Zhang, Zhaozhong Li, Ling Wang and Qian Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ruochen Lan

46 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Annual Energy‐Saving Smart Windows with Actively Controll... 2024 2026 2025 2024 20 40 60
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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.

  1. Annual Energy‐Saving Smart Windows with Actively Controllable Passive Radiative Cooling and Multimode Heating Regulation
    2024 62 citations Yuan Deng, Yihai Yang et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruochen Lan China 25 685 568 567 527 260 47 1.6k
Laurens T. de Haan Netherlands 23 1.4k 2.1× 1.0k 1.8× 1.2k 2.2× 514 1.0× 224 0.9× 41 2.3k
Takuya Ohzono Japan 24 967 1.4× 816 1.4× 493 0.9× 270 0.5× 112 0.4× 83 1.7k
Martin Brehmer Germany 16 1.1k 1.5× 753 1.3× 979 1.7× 514 1.0× 284 1.1× 33 1.8k
A. R. Tajbakhsh United Kingdom 20 1.0k 1.5× 683 1.2× 823 1.5× 447 0.8× 169 0.7× 33 1.7k
Zoey S. Davidson United States 15 960 1.4× 868 1.5× 480 0.8× 224 0.4× 75 0.3× 24 1.6k
Christopher E. Tabor United States 26 570 0.8× 1.8k 3.1× 779 1.4× 860 1.6× 259 1.0× 55 2.9k
Casper L. van Oosten Netherlands 7 1.2k 1.8× 673 1.2× 810 1.4× 443 0.8× 103 0.4× 7 1.6k
Anne Hélène Gelebart Netherlands 10 1.4k 2.0× 930 1.6× 578 1.0× 389 0.7× 124 0.5× 12 1.7k
Yu Xia China 18 930 1.4× 1.0k 1.8× 1.2k 2.1× 1.0k 2.0× 67 0.3× 47 2.6k
Chul‐Joon Heo South Korea 22 258 0.4× 796 1.4× 354 0.6× 536 1.0× 106 0.4× 43 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruochen Lan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruochen Lan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ruochen Lan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ruochen Lan 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 Ruochen Lan. Ruochen Lan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Liu, Jiao, Juan Wei, Junjie Wu, et al.. (2025). Light‐Dynamic Chirality Inversion of Circularly Polarized Organic Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence Enabled by Soft Helical Superstructure. Advanced Optical Materials. 13(17). 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Xueqin, Yihai Yang, Yuan Deng, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Thermal Management Performance of Switchable Radiative Cooling Film by Multiple Wavelength Modulation. Advanced Functional Materials. 36(23).
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Chen, Xinyu, Jingyu Chen, Xinyue Song, et al.. (2024). Bioinspired Mechanochromic Liquid Crystal Materials: From Fundamentals to Functionalities and Applications. Advanced Materials. 36(50). e2403766–e2403766. 32 indexed citations
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Chen, Wenhui, Ruochen Lan, Qifeng Zhang, et al.. (2024). Knotted Artificial Muscles for Bio‐Mimetic Actuation under Deepwater. Advanced Materials. 36(27). e2400763–e2400763. 41 indexed citations
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Chen, Xinyu, et al.. (2024). Programmable light‐driven soft actuator enabled by structurally anisotropic liquid crystalline network. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(1). 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuhan, Baohua Yuan, Yingjie Shi, et al.. (2024). A multi-responsive 3D deformable soft actuator with tunable structural color enabled by a graphene/cholesteric liquid crystal elastomer composite. Materials Horizons. 12(6). 2014–2024. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Jingyu, Jun Huang, Xinyu Chen, et al.. (2024). Dynamic handedness inversion of self-organized helical superstructures enabled by novel thermally stable light-driven chiral hydrazone switches. Chemical Science. 15(41). 17041–17048. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiao, Junjie Wu, Juan Wei, et al.. (2024). Dynamically Modulating the Dissymmetry Factor of Circularly Polarized Organic Ultralong Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence from Soft Helical Superstructures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(12). e202319536–e202319536. 46 indexed citations
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Lan, Ruochen, Xiang‐Guo Hu, Jingyu Chen, et al.. (2024). Adaptive liquid crystal polymers based on dynamic bonds: From fundamentals to functionalities. 2(1). 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yuhan, Chenjie Song, Jinying Bao, et al.. (2023). Near-infrared light-driven liquid crystalline elastomers with simultaneously enhanced actuation strain and stress. Science China Materials. 66(12). 4803–4813. 12 indexed citations
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Song, Chenjie, Yuhan Zhang, Jinying Bao, et al.. (2023). Light‐Responsive Programmable Shape‐Memory Soft Actuator Based on Liquid Crystalline Polymer/Polyurethane Network. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(17). 55 indexed citations
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Wang, Zizheng, Jinying Bao, Rui Huang, et al.. (2023). Light- and humidity-driven fluorescence changeable soft robot enabled by water-gated photoinduced electron transfer pathway. Science China Materials. 66(6). 2445–2453. 13 indexed citations
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Deng, Yuan, Yihai Yang, Yuanhang Xiao, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast Switchable Passive Radiative Cooling Smart Windows with Synergistic Optical Modulation. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(35). 78 indexed citations
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Saeed, Mohsin Hassan, Kitae Kim, Jin Hong Lee, et al.. (2023). Electrostatically Powered Multimode Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Actuators. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(48). 56285–56292. 15 indexed citations
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Bao, Jinying, Zizheng Wang, Chen Shen, et al.. (2022). Freestanding Helical Nanostructured Chiro‐Photonic Crystal Film and Anticounterfeiting Label Enabled by a Cholesterol‐Grafted Light‐Driven Molecular Motor. Small Methods. 6(5). e2200269–e2200269. 54 indexed citations
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Hu, Junmei, Wei Hu, Shuaifeng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Combined effect of hydroxylated and fluorinated acrylate monomers on improving the electro-optical and mechanical performances of PDLC-films. Liquid Crystals. 49(6). 769–779. 23 indexed citations
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Lan, Ruochen, Yanzi Gao, Chen Shen, et al.. (2021). Humidity‐Responsive Liquid Crystalline Network Actuator Showing Synergistic Fluorescence Color Change Enabled by Aggregation Induced Emission Luminogen. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(17). 94 indexed citations

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