Yilun Gong

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 958 citations indexed

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Yilun Gong is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yilun Gong has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 958 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 12 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yilun Gong's work include High Entropy Alloys Studies (9 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (8 papers) and High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (7 papers). Yilun Gong is often cited by papers focused on High Entropy Alloys Studies (9 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (8 papers) and High-Temperature Coating Behaviors (7 papers). Yilun Gong collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and China. Yilun Gong's co-authors include Roger C. Reed, Yuanbo T. Tang, Chinnapat Panwisawas, Joseph N. Ghoussoub, André A. N. Németh, D.G. McCartney, J. W. Clark, Jörg Neugebauer, Fritz Körmann and Blazej Grabowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Acta Materialia.

In The Last Decade

Yilun Gong

27 papers receiving 927 citations

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Alloys-by-design: Application to new superalloys for additive manufacturing

2020 418 citations Yuanbo T. Tang, Chinnapat Panwisawas et al. Acta Materialia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yilun Gong United Kingdom	14	804	298	257	205	98	27	958
Felix Theska Australia	15	534 0.7×	195 0.7×	179 0.7×	80 0.4×	130 1.3×	30	637
Mukul Anand India	12	453 0.6×	282 0.9×	150 0.6×	89 0.4×	83 0.8×	33	616
A. Sambasiva Rao India	15	738 0.9×	385 1.3×	307 1.2×	46 0.2×	143 1.5×	37	876
Philippe Lours France	18	508 0.6×	407 1.4×	394 1.5×	62 0.3×	151 1.5×	61	780
Yaakov Idell United States	9	947 1.2×	404 1.4×	151 0.6×	343 1.7×	142 1.4×	18	1.0k
Allan Harte United Kingdom	18	555 0.7×	809 2.7×	207 0.8×	46 0.2×	206 2.1×	30	1.1k
Julia Kundin Germany	17	832 1.0×	801 2.7×	486 1.9×	82 0.4×	146 1.5×	68	1.2k
Masayuki Kudoh Japan	15	695 0.9×	367 1.2×	283 1.1×	58 0.3×	160 1.6×	86	798
J.Y. Guédou France	11	569 0.7×	300 1.0×	119 0.5×	40 0.2×	153 1.6×	14	615
Yuzeng Chen China	16	455 0.6×	378 1.3×	119 0.5×	41 0.2×	86 0.9×	32	628

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Shi, Hao, Xukai Zhang, Chang Liu, et al.. (2025). Exceptional high-temperature corrosion resistance of multi-component alloys via modulating Al and Nb. Corrosion Science. 253. 112990–112990. 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Yujun, Yilun Gong, Stephan Laube, et al.. (2025). Role of oxygen in phase stability and mechanical behavior of the bcc HfNbTaTiZr high-entropy alloy during aging. Acta Materialia. 298. 121400–121400. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Chengguang, Yilun Gong, Chang Liu, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen accommodation and its role in lattice symmetry in a TiNbZr medium-entropy alloy. Acta Materialia. 288. 120852–120852. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Chang, Zhongji Sun, Wenjun Lu, et al.. (2024). Near-theoretical strength and deformation stabilization achieved via grain boundary segregation and nano-clustering of solutes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9283–9283. 26 indexed citations

Li, Yue, Yilun Gong, Yuan Yu, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning‐Enabled Tomographic Imaging of Chemical Short‐Range Atomic Ordering. Advanced Materials. 36(44). e2407564–e2407564. 11 indexed citations

Zhu, Li, Prashanth Srinivasan, Yilun Gong, et al.. (2024). Melting properties of the refractory metals V and W and the binary VW alloy fully from first principles. Physical review. B.. 109(9). 10 indexed citations

Tang, Yuanbo T., Chinnapat Panwisawas, Benjamin M. Jenkins, et al.. (2023). Multi-length-scale study on the heat treatment response to supersaturated nickel-based superalloys: Precipitation reactions and incipient recrystallisation. Additive manufacturing. 62. 103389–103389. 13 indexed citations

Li, Yue, Ye Wei, Zhangwei Wang, et al.. (2023). Quantitative three-dimensional imaging of chemical short-range order via machine learning enhanced atom probe tomography. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7410–7410. 30 indexed citations

Ding, Qingqing, Yilun Gong, Xiao Wei, et al.. (2023). Microstructures and mechanical properties of a L12-structured precipitation strengthened Co-based superalloy. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 26. 7789–7802. 15 indexed citations

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Barba, Daniel, Satoshi Utada, Yilun Gong, et al.. (2023). Deformation Mechanisms Rationalisation to Design for Creep Resistance in Polycrystalline Ni-Based Superalloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 54(5). 1886–1901. 6 indexed citations

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Gong, Yilun, Simon P.A. Gill, R.L. Higginson, et al.. (2023). Assessment of corrosive attack of Fe9Cr1Mo alloys in pressurised CO2 for prediction of breakaway oxidation. Corrosion Science. 222. 111385–111385. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Junliang, Hazel Gardner, Yilun Gong, et al.. (2023). Origin of age softening in the refractory high-entropy alloys. Science Advances. 9(49). eadj1511–eadj1511. 20 indexed citations

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Ghoussoub, Joseph N., Yuanbo T. Tang, André A. N. Németh, et al.. (2022). On the Influence of Alloy Composition on the Additive Manufacturability of Ni-Based Superalloys. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 53(3). 962–983. 48 indexed citations

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Tang, Yuanbo T., Chinnapat Panwisawas, Benjamin M. Jenkins, et al.. (2022). Multi-Length-Scale Study on the Heat Treatment Response to Supersaturated Nickel-Based Superalloys: Precipitation Reactions and Incipient Recrystallisation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Panwisawas, Chinnapat, Yilun Gong, Yuanbo T. Tang, Roger C. Reed, & Junji Shinjo. (2021). Additive manufacturability of superalloys: Process-induced porosity, cooling rate and metal vapour. Additive manufacturing. 47. 102339–102339. 41 indexed citations

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Gong, Yilun, David J. Young, C. Atkinson, et al.. (2020). Modelling of the degradation of martensitic stainless steels by the Boudouard reaction. Corrosion Science. 173. 108699–108699. 10 indexed citations

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Bagot, Paul A.J., Anna Radecka, Andrew P. Magyar, et al.. (2018). The effect of oxidation on the subsurface microstructure of a Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Scripta Materialia. 148. 24–28. 35 indexed citations

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Gong, Yilun, David J. Young, Paraskevas Kontis, et al.. (2017). On the breakaway oxidation of Fe9Cr1Mo steel in high pressure CO2. Acta Materialia. 130. 361–374. 57 indexed citations

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Larsson, Henrik, et al.. (2016). Oxidation of iron at 600 °C – experiments and simulations. Materials and Corrosion. 68(2). 133–142. 26 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaobin, Zhiming Yu, Yilun Gong, Jian Wang, & Mengkun Tian. (2010). Diamond film growth on the Mo–Re alloy foil. Journal of Crystal Growth. 314(1). 58–61. 3 indexed citations

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