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48
Citations
14121
World Ranking
4462
National Ranking
1280

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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