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D-Index
48
Citations
14121
World Ranking
4464
National Ranking
1281

Renkun Chen publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renkun Chen sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 134 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Renkun Chen D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Renkun Chen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Renkun Chen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, Thermal Properties of Materials, Phase Change Materials Research, Nuclear Materials and Radiation Effects, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, High Entropy Alloys Studies, and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization.

Renkun Chen has contributed frequently to several publication venues. These include arXiv (Cornell University) with 18 publications, the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer with 6, the Journal of Applied Physics with 5, Solar Energy with 4, and Nature Communications with 3 papers.

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "Emerging Materials and Strategies for Personal Thermal Management," 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator," 2021, Science Robotics
  • "Size disorder as a descriptor for predicting reduced thermal conductivity in medium- and high-entropy pyrochlore oxides," 2020, Scripta Materialia
  • "From high-entropy ceramics to compositionally-complex ceramics: A case study of fluorite oxides," 2020, Journal of the European Ceramic Society
  • "An Adaptive and Wearable Thermal Camouflage Device," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

Renkun Chen has collaborated extensively with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include Ka Man Chung with 28 joint publications, Tianshi Feng with 25, Sarath Adapa with 22, Jian Zeng with 20, and Qingyang Wang with 14.

Best Publications

  • Enhanced thermoelectric performance of rough silicon nanowires

    Allon I. Hochbaum;Renkun Chen;Raul Diaz Delgado;Wenjie Liang

  • Nanowires for enhanced boiling heat transfer.

    Renkun Chen;Ming Chang Lu;Vinod Srinivasan;Zhijie Wang

  • Emerging Materials and Strategies for Personal Thermal Management

    Run Hu;Yida Liu;Sunmi Shin;Shiyao Huang

  • Wearable thermoelectrics for personalized thermoregulation

    Sahngki Hong;Yue Gu;Joon Kyo Seo;Joseph Wang

  • Thermal conductance of thin silicon nanowires.

    Renkun Chen;Allon I. Hochbaum;Padraig Murphy;Joel Moore;Joel Moore

  • Electrospun liquid crystal elastomer microfiber actuator.

    Qiguang He;Zhijian Wang;Yang Wang;Zijun Wang

  • Size disorder as a descriptor for predicting reduced thermal conductivity in medium- and high-entropy pyrochlore oxides

    Andrew J. Wright;Qingyang Wang;Shu Ting Ko;Ka Man Chung

  • From high-entropy ceramics to compositionally-complex ceramics: A case study of fluorite oxides

    Andrew J. Wright;Qingyang Wang;Chuying Huang;Andy Nieto

  • Thermal Conductivity of Ge and Ge–Si Core–Shell Nanowires in the Phonon Confinement Regime

    Matthew C Wingert;Zack C Y Chen;Edward Dechaumphai;Jaeyun Moon

  • Dendrite Suppression Membranes for Rechargeable Zinc Batteries.

    Byoung-Sun Lee;Shuang Cui;Xing Xing;Haodong Liu

  • Critical heat flux of pool boiling on Si nanowire array-coated surfaces

    Ming Chang Lu;Renkun Chen;Vinod Srinivasan;Van P. Carey

  • Quadratic Fermi node in a 3D strongly correlated semimetal

    Takeshi Kondo;M. Nakayama;R. Chen;J. J. Ishikawa

  • Fabrication of microdevices with integrated nanowires for investigating low-dimensional phonon transport.

    Kedar Hippalgaonkar;Baoling Huang;Renkun Chen;Karma Sawyer

  • Osmotic Pumping and Salt Rejection by Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel for Continuous Solar Desalination

    Jian Zeng;Qingyang Wang;Yang Shi;Yang Shi;Ping Liu

  • Thermal transport in amorphous materials: a review

    Matthew C Wingert;Jianlin Zheng;Soonshin Kwon;Renkun Chen

  • Thermoelectrics of Nanowires.

    Renkun Chen;Jaeho Lee;Woochul Lee;Deyu Li

  • An Adaptive and Wearable Thermal Camouflage Device

    Sahngki Hong;Sunmi Shin;Renkun Chen

  • Spark erosion: a high production rate method for producing Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 nanoparticles with enhanced thermoelectric performance

    P K Nguyen;K H Lee;J Moon;S I Kim

  • Ultra-sensitive thermal conductance measurement of one-dimensional nanostructures enhanced by differential bridge.

    Matthew C. Wingert;Zack C. Y. Chen;Shooshin Kwon;Jie Xiang

  • High performance multi-scaled nanostructured spectrally selective coating for concentrating solar power

    Jaeyun Moon;Dylan Lu;Bryan VanSaders;Tae Kyoung Kim

  • High-Performance Screen-Printed Thermoelectric Films on Fabrics

    Sunmi Shin;Rajan Kumar;Jong Wook Roh;Dong-Su Ko

  • Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in Rough Silicon Nanowires

    Renkun Chen;Allon I. Hochbaum;Raul Diaz Delgado;Wenjie Liang

  • Size Disorder as a Descriptor for Predicting Reduced Thermal Conductivity in Medium- and High-Entropy Pyrochlores

    Andrew J. Wright;Qingyang Wang;Shu-Ting Ko;Ka Man Chung

  • Engineering of Materials

    Mona Zebarjadi;Gang Chen;Zhifeng Ren;Sunmi Shin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sungho Jin
Sungho Jin University of California, San Diego
Arun Majumdar
Arun Majumdar Stanford University
Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley
Zhaowei Liu
Zhaowei Liu University of California, San Diego
Jian Luo
Jian Luo University of California, San Diego
Yu Qiao
Yu Qiao University of California, San Diego
Shengqiang Cai
Shengqiang Cai University of California, San Diego
Joel E. Moore
Joel E. Moore Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yongqiang Wang
Yongqiang Wang Los Alamos National Laboratory
Joseph Wang
Joseph Wang University of California, San Diego

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