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2026
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Engineering and Technology
USA
2025

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
88
Citations
33807
World Ranking
126
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award

Overview

Wei Chen is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and has a research focus spanning engineering, energy, and materials science, with a significant body of work in electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry.

Their scholarly contributions address key topics in electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced battery technologies research, and fuel cells and related materials. Additional areas include advanced photocatalysis techniques, electrochemical analysis and applications, catalytic processes in materials science, and the study of conducting polymers and their applications.

Wei Chen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, most notably Youjun Fan, Zhongying Fang, Jin-Han Guo, Muhammad Waqas, and Du-Hong Chen.

Their publication record includes contributions to various scientific journals, with a notable number of papers appearing in Electrochimica Acta, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Analytical Chemistry.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Platinum Modulates Redox Properties and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Adsorption Kinetics of Ni(OH)2 for Biomass Upgrading, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Facet Engineering of Advanced Electrocatalysts Toward Hydrogen/Oxygen Evolution Reactions, 2023, Nano-Micro Letters
  • Sub-2 nm Ultrathin and Robust 2D FeNi Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets Packed with 1D FeNi-MOFs for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Highly Stable Phosphonate-Based MOFs with Engineered Bandgaps for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • W-doping induced abundant active sites in a 3D NiS2/MoO2 heterostructure as an efficient electrocatalyst for urea oxidation and hydrogen evolution reaction, 2021, Chemical Engineering Journal

Best Publications

  • Comparative Studies of Metamodeling Techniques under Multiple Criteria

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  • Comparative studies of metamodelling techniques under multiple modelling criteria

    R. Jin;W. Chen;Timothy William Simpson

  • The Roadmap to 6G: AI Empowered Wireless Networks

    Khaled B. Letaief;Wei Chen;Yuanming Shi;Jun Zhang

  • High-index faceted Ni3S2 nanosheet arrays as highly active and ultrastable electrocatalysts for water splitting.

    Liang Liang Feng;Guangtao Yu;Yuanyuan Wu;Guo Dong Li

  • Sub-nanometre sized metal clusters: from synthetic challenges to the unique property discoveries

    Yizhong Lu;Wei Chen

  • An efficient algorithm for constructing optimal design of computer experiments

    Ruichen Jin;Wei Chen;Agus Sudjianto

  • Hydroxychloroquine in patients with mainly mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019: open label, randomised controlled trial.

    Wei Tang;Zhujun Cao;Mingfeng Han;Zhengyan Wang

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline compounds

    Maarten de Jong;Wei Chen;Thomas Angsten;Anubhav Jain

  • Sequential Optimization and Reliability Assessment Method for Efficient Probabilistic Design

    Xiaoping Du;Wei Chen

  • Graphene wrapped Cu2O nanocubes: Non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors for the detection of glucose and hydrogen peroxide with enhanced stability

    Minmin Liu;Ru Liu;Wei Chen

  • Graphene-supported nanoelectrocatalysts for fuel cells: synthesis, properties, and applications.

    Minmin Liu;Ruizhong Zhang;Wei Chen

  • Porous graphitic carbon nitride synthesized via direct polymerization of urea for efficient sunlight-driven photocatalytic hydrogen production

    Yuewei Zhang;Jinghai Liu;Guan Wu;Wei Chen

  • Procedure for robust design: Minimizing variations caused by noise factors and control factors

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  • A procedure for robust design: Minimizing variations caused by noise factors and control factors

    Wei Chen;J. K. Allen;Kwok Leung Tsui;F. Mistree

  • Nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots: facile synthesis and application as a "turn-off" fluorescent probe for detection of Hg2+ ions.

    Ruizhong Zhang;Wei Chen

  • Coupling Mo2C with Nitrogen‐Rich Nanocarbon Leads to Efficient Hydrogen‐Evolution Electrocatalytic Sites

    Yipu Liu;Guangtao Yu;Guo Dong Li;Yuanhui Sun

  • A synthetic host-guest system achieves avidin-biotin affinity by overcoming enthalpy-entropy compensation.

    Mikhail V. Rekharsky;Tadashi Mori;Cheng Yang;Young Ho Ko

  • Sampling Strategies for Computer Experiments: Design and Analysis

    T. Simpson;L. Dennis;W. Chen

  • Oxygen Electroreduction Catalyzed by Gold Nanoclusters: Strong Core Size Effects

    Wei Chen;Shaowei Chen

  • A framework for data-driven analysis of materials under uncertainty: Countering the curse of dimensionality

    M. A. Bessa;M. A. Bessa;R. Bostanabad;Z. Liu;A. Hu

  • Deep learning predicts path-dependent plasticity.

    M Mozaffar;R Bostanabad;R Bostanabad;W Chen;K Ehmann

  • Towards a Better Understanding of Modeling Feasibility Robustness in Engineering Design

    Xiaoping Du;Wei Chen

  • On Sequential Sampling for Global Metamodeling in Engineering Design

    Ruichen Jin;Wei Chen;Agus Sudjianto

  • Quality utility : a Compromise Programming approach to robust design

    Wei Chen;Margaret M. Wiecek;Jinhuan Zhang

  • The use of metamodeling techniques for optimization under uncertainty

    Ruichen Jin;Xiaoping Du;Wei Chen

  • Computational microstructure characterization and reconstruction: Review of the state-of-the-art techniques

    Ramin Bostanabad;Yichi Zhang;Xiaolin Li;Tucker Kearney

  • A comparative study of uncertainty propagation methods for black-box-type problems

    Sang Hoon Lee;Wei Chen

  • Quantification of model uncertainty: Calibration, model discrepancy, and identifiability

    Paul D. Arendt;Daniel W. Apley;Wei Chen

  • An integrated framework for optimization under uncertainty using inverse Reliability strategy

    Xiaoping Du;Agus Sudjianto;Wei Chen

  • An Approach to Decision-Based Design With Discrete Choice Analysis for Demand Modeling

    Henk Jan Wassenaar;Wei Chen

  • Efficient Uncertainty Analysis Methods for Multidisciplinary Robust Design

    Xiaoping Du;Wei Chen

  • A database to enable discovery and design of piezoelectric materials

    Maarten de Jong;Wei Chen;Henry Geerlings;Mark Asta

  • A Variation-Based Method for Product Family Design

    Raviraj U. Nayak;Wei Chen;Timothy W. Simpson

  • Comparative studies of metamodeling techniques under multiple modeling criteria

    Ruichen Jin;Wei Chen;Timothy W. Simpson

  • A Highly Efficient Gradient Boosting Decision Tree

    Guolin Ke;Qi Meng;Taifeng Wang;Wei Chen

  • Charting the complete elastic properties of inorganic crystalline

    Wei Chen;Thomas Angsten;Anubhav Jain;Randy Notestine

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristin A. Persson
Kristin A. Persson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hao Zhang
Hao Zhang Jiangnan University
Lili Hu
Lili Hu Chinese Academy of Sciences
L. Catherine Brinson
L. Catherine Brinson Duke University
Geoffroy Hautier
Geoffroy Hautier Dartmouth College
Yong Q. Chen
Yong Q. Chen Jiangnan University
Timothy W. Simpson
Timothy W. Simpson Pennsylvania State University
Huaili Zheng
Huaili Zheng Chongqing University
Min Xu
Min Xu University of Technology Sydney
Gerbrand Ceder
Gerbrand Ceder University of California, Berkeley

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