2026 Chung-Yuen Hui: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	77	258	234	126	106	340	18124
Materials Science	78	3037	2933	845	794	334	18297

Overview

Chung-Yuen Hui is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and specializes in engineering, with a strong focus on mechanical engineering and related subfields. Their research portfolio comprises over 150 publications primarily in engineering disciplines, including mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, biomedical engineering, molecular medicine, and polymers and plastics.

Their work covers several main topics which include:

Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions
Tribology and Lubrication Engineering
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
Elasticity and Material Modeling
Gear and Bearing Dynamics Analysis
Advanced Materials and Mechanics

Among the frequently used publication venues for their research are:

Soft Matter
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Extreme Mechanics Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal

Chung-Yuen Hui has collaborated extensively with a number of researchers, including Anand Jagota, Alan T. Zehnder, Zezhou Liu, Bangguo Zhu, and Jian Ping Gong. These coauthorships highlight their integration into research networks focused on materials science and mechanical properties.

Selected recent papers exemplify the scope and focus of their work:

"The Fracture of Highly Deformable Soft Materials: A Tale of Two Length Scales," 2020, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
"Fiber-Reinforced Viscoelastomers Show Extraordinary Crack Resistance That Exceeds Metals," 2020, Advanced Materials
"Steady state crack growth in viscoelastic solids: A comparative study," 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
"How chain dynamics affects crack initiation in double-network gels," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Determination of material parameters in constitutive models using adaptive neural network machine learning," 2023, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

The research conducted by Chung-Yuen Hui integrates principles of material mechanics, deformation behavior, and viscoelastic properties. Their investigations often address fracture mechanics, crack resistance, and the influence of molecular or chain dynamics on material performance.

Best Publications

Failure mechanisms of polymer interfaces reinforced with block copolymers

Costantino Creton;Edward J. Kramer;Chung Yuen Hui;Hugh R. Brown

623
Citations
Constraints on Microcontact Printing Imposed by Stamp Deformation

C. Y. Hui;A. Jagota;Yu-Yun Lin;E. J. Kramer

574
Citations
Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 1. Making contact

N. J. Glassmaker;A. Jagota;C.-Y. Hui;J. Kim

485
Citations
Elastocapillarity: Surface Tension and the Mechanics of Soft Solids

Robert W. Style;Anand Jagota;Chung-Yuen Hui;Eric R. Dufresne

384
Citations
Fibrous nonlinear elasticity enables positive mechanical feedback between cells and ECMs

Matthew S. Hall;Farid Alisafaei;Ehsan Ban;Xinzeng Feng

365
Citations
Design of biomimetic fibrillar interfaces: 2. Mechanics of enhanced adhesion.

C.-Y. Hui;N. J. Glassmaker;T. Tang;A. Jagota

337
Citations
Biologically inspired crack trapping for enhanced adhesion

Nicholas J. Glassmaker;Anand Jagota;Chung-Yuen Hui;William L. Noderer

315
Citations
Crack blunting and the strength of soft elastic solids

C.-Y. Hui;A Jagota;S. J Bennison;J. D. Londono

288
Citations
Fracture toughness of hydrogels: measurement and interpretation

Rong Long;Chung-Yuen Hui

287
Citations
The asymptotic stress and strain field near the tip of a growing crack under creep conditions

C. Y. Hui;H. Riedel

273
Citations
Mechanically tunable dry adhesive from wrinkled elastomers

Pei-Chun Lin;Pei-Chun Lin;Shilpi Vajpayee;Anand Jagota;Chung-Yuen Hui

265
Citations
Adhesive contact of cylindrical lens and a flat sheet

Manoj K. Chaudhury;Timothy Weaver;C. Y. Hui;E. J. Kramer

261
Citations
An interface model for the prediction of Young's modulus of layered silicate‐elastomer nanocomposites

D. Shia;C. Y. Hui;S. D. Burnside;E. P. Giannelis

261
Citations
Case‐II diffusion in polymers. I. Transient swelling

C.‐Y. Hui;K.‐C. Wu;Ronald C. Lasky;Edward J. Kramer

227
Citations
Peeling Single-Stranded DNA from Graphite Surface to Determine Oligonucleotide Binding Energy by Force Spectroscopy

Suresh Manohar;Amber R. Mantz;Kevin E. Bancroft;Chung-Yuen Hui

220
Citations
Adhesion and Fracture of Interfaces Between Immiscible Polymers: from the Molecular to the Continuum Scal

Costantino Creton;Edward J. Kramer;Hugh R. Brown;Chung-Yuen Hui

219
Citations
The Fracture of Highly Deformable Soft Materials: A Tale of Two Length Scales

Rong Long;Chung-Yuen Hui;Chung-Yuen Hui;Jian Ping Gong;Eran Bouchbinder

216
Citations
Time Dependent Behavior of a Dual Cross-Link Self-Healing Gel: Theory and Experiments

Rong Long;Koichi Mayumi;Costantino Creton;Tetsuharu Narita

213
Citations
Effect of Stamp Deformation on the Quality of Microcontact Printing: Theory and Experiment

Kenneth G. Sharp;Gregory S. Blackman;Nicholas J. Glassmaker;Anand Jagota

212
Citations
Reinforcement of polymer interfaces with random copolymers.

Chi-An Dai;Benita J. Dair;Kevin H. Dai;Christopher K. Ober

209
Citations
Case-II diffusion in polymers. II. Steady-state front motion

C.‐Y. Hui;K.‐C. Wu;Ronald C. Lasky;Edward J. Kramer

201
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anand Jagota Lehigh University

Rong Long University of Colorado Boulder

Alan T. Zehnder Cornell University

Costantino Creton ESPCI Paris

Edward J. Kramer University of California, Santa Barbara

Andy Ruina Cornell University

Kenneth R. Shull Northwestern University

Hugh R. Brown University of Wollongong

Leonid Kogan MIT

Elie Raphaël PSL University

External Links

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