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102
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35429
World Ranking
972
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319

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Junhong Chen is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, and molecular biology.

Their research encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Frequent collaborators with whom Chen has published multiple works include:

  • Hongting Pu
  • Xiaoyu Sui
  • Hyun-June Jang
  • Xingkang Huang
  • Yale Wang

Chen has contributed to various prestigious academic journals, with repeated publications in:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Chemical Society Reviews
  • Energy & environment materials

The following are selected recent publications highlighting Chen's research focus and timeline:

  • "Understanding, discovery, and synthesis of 2D materials enabled by machine learning," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Selectivity of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance Sensors and Sorbents in Water," 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Unlocking the potential: machine learning applications in electrocatalyst design for electrochemical hydrogen energy transformation," 2024, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Strategies for Rational Design of High-Power Lithium-ion Batteries," 2020, Energy & environment materials
  • "Tailoring MOF-derived porous carbon nanorods confined red phosphorous for superior potassium-ion storage," 2021, Nano Energy

Chen's research integrates machine learning approaches in materials science, focusing on applications such as electrocatalyst design and sensor selectivity. Their work explores energy storage technologies, particularly in lithium-ion and potassium-ion batteries, while also addressing analytical sensors and bioanalysis techniques.

Recognized by professional organizations, Chen has received fellowships acknowledging their contributions:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013

Best Publications

  • Crumpled Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene Nanosheets with Ultrahigh Pore Volume for High‐Performance Supercapacitor

    Zhenhai Wen;Xinchen Wang;Shun Mao;Zheng Bo

  • Reduced graphene oxide for room-temperature gas sensors

    Ganhua Lu;Leonidas E Ocola;Junhong Chen;Junhong Chen

  • Constructing 2D porous graphitic C3 N4 nanosheets/nitrogen-doped graphene/layered MoS2 ternary nanojunction with enhanced photoelectrochemical activity.

    Yang Hou;Zhenhai Wen;Shumao Cui;Xiaoru Guo

  • An Advanced Nitrogen‐Doped Graphene/Cobalt‐Embedded Porous Carbon Polyhedron Hybrid for Efficient Catalysis of Oxygen Reduction and Water Splitting

    Yang Hou;Zhenhai Wen;Shumao Cui;Suqin Ci

  • Enhanced Adsorptive Removal of Methyl Orange and Methylene Blue from Aqueous Solution by Alkali-Activated Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

    Jie Ma;Fei Yu;Fei Yu;Lu Zhou;Lu Jin

  • Ultrahigh sensitivity and layer-dependent sensing performance of phosphorene-based gas sensors.

    Shumao Cui;Haihui Pu;Spencer A. Wells;Zhenhai Wen

  • High-performance bi-functional electrocatalysts of 3D crumpled graphene–cobalt oxide nanohybrids for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions

    Shun Mao;Zhenhai Wen;Taizhong Huang;Taizhong Huang;Yang Hou

  • Graphene oxide and its reduction: modeling and experimental progress

    Shun Mao;Haihui Pu;Junhong Chen

  • Green preparation of reduced graphene oxide for sensing and energy storage applications

    Zheng Bo;Xiaorui Shuai;Shun Mao;Huachao Yang

  • Nitrogen‐Enriched Core‐Shell Structured Fe/Fe3C‐C Nanorods as Advanced Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Zhenhai Wen;Suqin Ci;Suqin Ci;Fei Zhang;Xinliang Feng

  • Metal–Organic-Framework-Derived Fe-N/C Electrocatalyst with Five-Coordinated Fe-Nx Sites for Advanced Oxygen Reduction in Acid Media

    Qingxue Lai;Qingxue Lai;Lirong Zheng;Yanyu Liang;Jianping He

  • Specific Protein Detection Using Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheet Decorated with Gold Nanoparticle‐Antibody Conjugates

    Shun Mao;Ganhua Lu;Kehan Yu;Zheng Bo

  • Gas detection using low-temperature reduced graphene oxide sheets

    Ganhua Lu;Leonidas E. Ocola;Junhong Chen

  • Metal−Organic Framework‐Derived Nitrogen‐Doped Core‐Shell‐Structured Porous Fe/Fe3C@C Nanoboxes Supported on Graphene Sheets for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reactions

    Yang Hou;Taizhong Huang;Zhenhai Wen;Shun Mao

  • Multilayered Si nanoparticle/reduced graphene oxide hybrid as a high-performance lithium-ion battery anode.

    Jingbo Chang;Xingkang Huang;Guihua Zhou;Shumao Cui

  • Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition synthesis of vertically oriented graphene nanosheets

    Zheng Bo;Yong Yang;Junhong Chen;Kehan Yu

  • Toward Practical Gas Sensing with Highly Reduced Graphene Oxide: A New Signal Processing Method To Circumvent Run-to-Run and Device-to-Device Variations

    Ganhua Lu;Sungjin Park;Kehan Yu;Rodney S. Ruoff

  • Stabilizing MoS2 Nanosheets through SnO2 Nanocrystal Decoration for High-Performance Gas Sensing in Air.

    Shumao Cui;Zhenhai Wen;Xingkang Huang;Jingbo Chang

  • Two-dimensional nanomaterial-based field-effect transistors for chemical and biological sensing

    Shun Mao;Jingbo Chang;Haihui Pu;Ganhua Lu

  • Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review

    Heyang Yuan;Yang Hou;Ibrahim M. Abu-Reesh;Junhong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shun Mao
Shun Mao Tongji University
Ganhua Lu
Ganhua Lu University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Zhenhai Wen
Zhenhai Wen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shumao Cui
Shumao Cui University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Zheng Bo
Zheng Bo Zhejiang University
Yang Hou
Yang Hou Zhejiang University
Fei Yu
Fei Yu Shanghai Ocean University
Jie Ma
Jie Ma Tongji University
Chris Yuan
Chris Yuan Case Western Reserve University
Michael Weinert
Michael Weinert University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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