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Yan Chen is a researcher affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and materials science. Within these broad areas, Yan Chen has contributed extensively to mechanical engineering, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, aerospace engineering, and mechanics of materials.

Their research topics include:

  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Microstructure and mechanical properties

Yan Chen has published over 400 papers throughout their career, demonstrating significant involvement in the areas of engineering and materials science. Their frequently published venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Materials Science and Engineering A
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Scripta Materialia

Among their recent publications are important contributions to battery materials and high-entropy alloys research. Notable papers include:

  • Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes by Targeted Healing, 2020, Joule
  • Strong yet ductile nanolamellar high-entropy alloys by additive manufacturing, 2022, Nature
  • A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries, 2020, Nature
  • High-throughput design of high-performance lightweight high-entropy alloys, 2021, Nature Communications
  • What is the Role of Nb in Nickel-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries?, 2021, ACS Energy Letters

Yan Chen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ke An (62 collaborations)
  • Dunji Yu (33 collaborations)
  • L.H. Dai (19 collaborations)
  • Haiying Wang (14 collaborations)
  • Peter K. Liaw (10 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Fabrication and ethanol sensing characteristics of ZnO nanowire gas sensors

    Q. Wan;Q. H. Li;Y. J. Chen;T. H. Wang

  • Gas-solid interfacial modification of oxygen activity in layered oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries.

    Bao Qiu;Minghao Zhang;Lijun Wu;Jun Wang

  • Efficient Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes by Targeted Healing

    Panpan Xu;Qiang Dai;Hongpeng Gao;Haodong Liu

  • Lattice distortion in a strong and ductile refractory high-entropy alloy

    Chanho Lee;Gian Song;Michael C. Gao;Rui Feng

  • A disordered rock salt anode for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries

    Haodong Liu;Zhuoying Zhu;Qizhang Yan;Sicen Yu

  • Linear Ethanol Sensing of SnO2 Nanorods with Extremely High Sensitivity

    Y. J. Chen;L. Nie;X. Y. Xue;Y. G. Wang

  • Microwave absorption properties of the ZnO nanowire-polyester composites

    Y. J. Chen;M. S. Cao;T. H. Wang;Q. Wan

  • Synthesis and ethanol sensing characteristics of single crystalline SnO2 nanorods

    Y. J. Chen;X. Y. Xue;Y. G. Wang;T. H. Wang

  • Low-resistance gas sensors fabricated from multiwalled carbon nanotubes coated with a thin tin oxide layer

    Y. X. Liang;Y. J. Chen;T. H. Wang

  • High-throughput design of high-performance lightweight high-entropy alloys.

    Rui Feng;Rui Feng;Chuan Zhang;Michael C. Gao;Michael C. Gao;Zongrui Pei;Zongrui Pei

  • High performance aluminum–cerium alloys for high-temperature applications

    Zachary C. Sims;Orlando R. Rios;David Weiss;Patrice E. A. Turchi

  • An Air-Stable Na3 SbS4 Superionic Conductor Prepared by a Rapid and Economic Synthetic Procedure.

    Hui Wang;Yan Chen;Zachary D. Hood;Zachary D. Hood;Gayatri Sahu

  • What is the Role of Nb in Nickel-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries?

    Fengxia Xin;Hui Zhou;Yanxu Zong;Mateusz Zuba

  • Enhancing fatigue life by ductile-transformable multicomponent B2 precipitates in a high-entropy alloy.

    Rui Feng;You Rao;Chuhao Liu;Xie Xie

  • Stable field emission from tetrapod-like ZnO nanostructures

    Q. H. Li;Q. Wan;Y. J. Chen;T. H. Wang

  • Design and Optimization of the Direct Recycling of Spent Li-Ion Battery Cathode Materials

    Panpan Xu;Zhenzhen Yang;Xiaolu Yu;John Holoubek

  • Synthesis and ethanol sensing properties of ZnSnO3 nanowires

    X. Y. Xue;Y. J. Chen;Y. G. Wang;T. H. Wang

  • Synthesis and ethanol sensing properties of indium-doped tin oxide nanowires

    X. Y. Xue;Y. J. Chen;Y. G. Liu;S. L. Shi

  • Field-emission from long SnO2 nanobelt arrays

    Y. J. Chen;Q. H. Li;Y. X. Liang;T. H. Wang

  • The effect of submicron grain size on thermal stability and mechanical properties of high-entropy carbide ceramics

    Fei Wang;Xiang Zhang;Xueliang Yan;Yongfeng Lu

  • Origin of High Li+ Conduction in Doped Li7La3Zr2O12 Garnets

    Yan Chen;Ezhiylmurugan Rangasamy;Chengdu Liang;Ke An

  • Operando Lithium Dynamics in the Li‐Rich Layered Oxide Cathode Material via Neutron Diffraction

    Haodong Liu;Yan Chen;Sunny Hy;Ke An

Frequent Co-Authors

Ke An
Ke An Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Chengdu Liang
Chengdu Liang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Xinyu Xue
Xinyu Xue University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Thomas Graule
Thomas Graule University of Freiburg
Zachary D. Hood
Zachary D. Hood Argonne National Laboratory
Ping Liu
Ping Liu University of California, San Diego
Ying Shirley Meng
Ying Shirley Meng University of Chicago
Peter K. Liaw
Peter K. Liaw University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Fanglin Chen
Fanglin Chen University of South Carolina
Michael J. Reece
Michael J. Reece Queen Mary University of London

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