Yulan Chen

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
142 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Yulan Chen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yulan Chen has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Materials Chemistry, 50 papers in Organic Chemistry and 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Yulan Chen's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (52 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers) and Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (19 papers). Yulan Chen is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (52 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (22 papers) and Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications (19 papers). Yulan Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and Germany. Yulan Chen's co-authors include Rint P. Sijbesma, Markus Bulters, Étienne Ducrot, Costantino Creton, Yuan Yuan, E. W. Meijer, Gwm Gerrit Peters, Subramanian Karthikeyan, A. J. H. Spiering and Mengjiao Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yulan Chen

136 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

2014 983 citations Yulan Chen, Rint P. Sijbesma et al. profile →
Mechanically induced chemiluminescence from polymers incorporating a 1,2-dioxetane unit in the main chain

2012 592 citations Yulan Chen, Rint P. Sijbesma et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Azobenzene as a photoswitchable mechanophore

2023 89 citations Yiran Li, Bin Xue et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yulan Chen China	31	2.0k	1.7k	969	939	835	142	4.7k
Charles‐André Fustin Belgium	40	2.0k 1.0×	3.1k 1.9×	556 0.6×	866 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	143	5.4k
Søren Hvilsted Denmark	45	2.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	1.9k 2.0×	1.2k 1.4×	174	6.7k
Kohji Ohno Japan	42	2.1k 1.0×	3.6k 2.1×	414 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.6×	150	6.9k
Mingjun Huang China	43	2.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	289 0.3×	644 0.7×	1.0k 1.3×	162	5.3k
June Huh South Korea	41	2.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	421 0.4×	1.3k 1.4×	1.3k 1.5×	144	5.2k
Chih‐Chia Cheng Taiwan	37	1.6k 0.8×	750 0.4×	722 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	891 1.1×	209	4.6k
Stephanie Hoeppener Germany	42	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.4×	520 0.5×	1.8k 2.0×	1.3k 1.6×	222	6.5k
Jon A. Preece United Kingdom	41	1.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	432 0.4×	1.0k 1.1×	363 0.4×	159	4.8k
Susan A. Odom United States	34	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	626 0.6×	791 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	81	5.1k
Mika Torkkeli Finland	41	2.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	299 0.3×	908 1.0×	1.5k 1.8×	118	5.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Chen, Yulan, Orencio Durán, & Thomas Pähtz. (2025). On the testing of grain shape corrections to bedload transport equations with grain-resolved numerical simulations.

Chen, Yulan, Amjad Farooq, Xindong Wei, et al.. (2025). Transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of recalcitrant phosphorus solubilization mechanisms in Trametes gibbosa. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1520459–1520459. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yulan, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal Variations and Socio-Economic Influencing Factors of Soil Erosion at Different Spatial Scales in Key Agricultural Areas of the Qinghai—Tibet Plateau from 2000 to 2022: A Case Study of the Huangshui River Basin. Water. 17(1). 88–88. 1 indexed citations

Li, Junyu, et al.. (2025). Mechanochemically Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Polymers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(50). e202517113–e202517113.

Sun, Peng, Qi Wang, Jin Yang, et al.. (2025). Quantitative stress and damage mapping in multiple network elastomers using a single mechanophore. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10079–10079.

Wang, Zihan, et al.. (2023). A Double-Layer Hydrogel Dressing with High Mechanical Strength and Water Resistance Used for Drug Delivery. Molecules. 28(2). 499–499. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Weiyan, Zhihong Li, Qingli Liu, et al.. (2023). Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectral Inversion of Soil Available Potassium Content Based on Different Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms. Agronomy. 13(3). 617–617. 7 indexed citations

Duan, Yuchen, et al.. (2023). Bioassay of Carcinoembryonic Antigens by Organic Field-effect Transistors Based on D-A Type Conjugated Polymer. Chemical Research in Chinese Universities. 39(6). 877–883. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Jinhui, Shuang Liu, Yuan Yuan, & Yulan Chen. (2023). Wide-ranging Force Responsive Composites based on 1,2-Dioxetane and ZnS as Luminescent Probes in Polyurethanes. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 41(8). 1162–1168. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Mengjiao, et al.. (2023). A Flexible and Wearable Strain Sensor from Polypyrrole‐Doped Elastomers with Dual Functions in Motion Monitoring and Thermotherapy^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 41(13). 1545–1551. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Yiran, Bin Xue, Jiahui Yang, et al.. (2023). Azobenzene as a photoswitchable mechanophore. Nature Chemistry. 16(3). 446–455. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wu, Yingjie, Xipeng Liu, Qin Dong, et al.. (2022). Remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons-contaminated soil: Analysis based on Chinese patents. Chemosphere. 297. 134173–134173. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Mengjiao & Yulan Chen. (2021). Developing real-time mechanochromic probes for polymeric materials. Chem. 7(4). 838–840. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Fan, Yuan Yuan, Rint P. Sijbesma, & Yulan Chen. (2020). Sensitized Mechanoluminescence Design toward Mechanically Induced Intense Red Emission from Transparent Polymer Films. Macromolecules. 53(3). 905–912. 32 indexed citations

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Sheng, Wanxing, et al.. (2019). Distribution State Estimation Based on Fusion of Three Data Sources ConsideringMeasurement Delay. 31(12). 108–115. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Wenmao, Xin Wu, Xiang Gao, et al.. (2019). Maleimide–thiol adducts stabilized through stretching. Nature Chemistry. 11(4). 310–319. 221 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yuan, Hongliang Huang, Long Chen, & Yulan Chen. (2017). N,N′-Bicarbazole: A Versatile Building Block toward the Construction of Conjugated Porous Polymers for CO₂ Capture and Dyes Adsorption. Macromolecules. 50(13). 4993–5003. 133 indexed citations

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Chen, Yulan, Tomasz Marszałek, Torsten Fritz, et al.. (2017). Contorted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with cove regions and zig-zag edges. Chemical Communications. 53(60). 8474–8477. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Rongjin, Yulan Chen, Yuan‐Zhi Tan, et al.. (2017). A novel angularly fused bistetracene: facile synthesis, crystal packing and single-crystal field effect transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(6). 1308–1312. 26 indexed citations

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Han, Yi, Bo Zhu, Ying Chen, Zhishan Bo, & Yulan Chen. (2017). Amphiphilic dendrons with a pyrene functional group at the focal point: synthesis, self-assembly and generation-dependent DNA condensation. Polymer Chemistry. 8(33). 4798–4804. 9 indexed citations

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