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Overview

Hongwen Ren is affiliated with Jeonbuk National University in South Korea. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and materials science, with a focus on the development and analysis of advanced materials and their properties.

The main fields of study for Hongwen Ren include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Subfields of their work cover:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Mechanics of Materials

Their research topics address key aspects such as:

  • Electromagnetic wave absorption materials
  • Dielectric materials and actuators
  • Tribology and Wear Analysis
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties
  • Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
  • Aluminum Alloy Microstructure Properties

Hongwen Ren has published several papers on composite materials and their thermal and electromagnetic properties. Selected recent works include:

  • Interfacial metallization in segregated structured PEEK composite for enhanced thermal conductivity and electromagnetic interference shielding, 2024, Materials Today Nano
  • Multifunctional PEEK-derived composites with thermal conductivity, electromagnetic shielding and active/passive thermal management properties, 2024, Applied Materials Today
  • Effect and Mechanism of Solidified Microstructure on Deformation Behavior, Mechanical Properties, and Residual Stress of Cu-Ni-Si Alloy, 2022, Materials
  • PEEK-derived composite film combines high thermal conductivity and excellent joule heating properties for smart thermal management electronic sensing floors, 2025, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Reconfigurable nonlinear optical computing device for retina-inspired computing, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hongwen Ren include:

  • Fengyu Wen
  • Yageng Bai
  • Yashu He
  • Haoyuan Tan
  • Jierun Ma

The most common venues for Hongwen Ren's work are:

  • Materials Today Nano
  • Applied Materials Today
  • Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Variable focus liquid lens

    Shin-Tson Wu;Hongwen Ren

  • Tunable-focus liquid lens controlled using a servo motor

    Hongwen Ren;David Fox;P. Andrew Anderson;Benjamin Wu

  • Tunable Fresnel lens using nanoscale polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

    Hongwen Ren;Yun-Hsing Fan;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Tunable-focus flat liquid crystal spherical lens

    Hongwen Ren;Yun-Hsing Fan;Sebastian Gauza;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Tunable electronic lens using a gradient polymer network liquid crystal

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Liquid crystal lens with large focal length tunability and low operating voltage.

    Hongwen Ren;David W. Fox;Benjamin Wu;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Adaptive dielectric liquid lens.

    Hongwen Ren;Haiqing Xianyu;Su Xu;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Variable-focus liquid lens by changing aperture

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Adaptive liquid crystal lens with large focal length tunability.

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Switchable Fresnel lens using polymer-stabilized liquid crystals

    Yun-Hsing Fan;Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Tunable-focus microlens arrays using nanosized polymer-dispersed liquid crystal droplets

    Hongwen Ren;Yun Hsing Fan;Yi-Hsin Lin;Shin Tson Wu

  • Fast-response and scattering-free polymer network liquid crystals for infrared light modulators

    Yun Hsing Fan;Yi-Hsin Lin;Hongwen Ren;Sebastian Gauza

  • Tunable-focus liquid microlens array using dielectrophoretic effect.

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Liquid-crystal microlens arrays using patterned polymer networks

    Hongwen Ren;Yun-Hsing Fan;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Polarization-independent phase modulation using a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal

    Hongwen Ren;Yi-Hsin Lin;Yun Hsing Fan;Shin Tson Wu

  • Inhomogeneous nanoscale polymer-dispersed liquid crystals with gradient refractive index

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Past, present, and future of fringe-field switching-liquid crystal display

    Dae Hyung Kim;Young Jin Lim;Da Eun Kim;Hongwen Ren

  • Reflective reversed-mode polymer stabilized cholesteric texture light switches

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Refractive-index matching between liquid crystals and photopolymers

    Jun Li;Greg Baird;Yi-Hsin Lin;Hongwen Ren

  • Introduction to Adaptive Lenses: Wu/Introduction to Adaptive Lenses

    Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

  • Dielectrophoretically tunable optofluidic devices

    Su Xu;Hongwen Ren;Shin-Tson Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shin-Tson Wu
Shin-Tson Wu University of Central Florida
Yi-Hsin Lin
Yi-Hsin Lin National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Seung Hee Lee
Seung Hee Lee Jeonbuk National University
Changwoon Nah
Changwoon Nah Jeonbuk National University
Yan-qing Lu
Yan-qing Lu Nanjing University
Han-Ping D. Shieh
Han-Ping D. Shieh National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Nelson V. Tabiryan
Nelson V. Tabiryan University of Central Florida

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