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50
Citations
13368
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10087
National Ranking
2422

Overview

Zhihua Chen is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States and specializes in engineering research with a focus on building and construction. Their work spans multiple subfields, including building and construction, electrical and electronic engineering, civil and structural engineering, mechanical engineering, and environmental engineering. The core topics of Chen's research include building energy and comfort optimization, structural load-bearing analysis, structural behavior of reinforced concrete, BIM and construction integration, structural engineering and vibration analysis, innovations in concrete and construction materials, and advanced memory and neural computing.

Zhihua Chen has contributed to at least five recent publications, reflecting a diverse portfolio of research interests and collaboration. Selected recent papers include:

  • "An elastic and reconfigurable synaptic transistor based on a stretchable bilayer semiconductor," 2022, Nature Electronics
  • "Archetype identification and urban building energy modeling for city-scale buildings based on GIS datasets," 2022, Building Simulation
  • "Impacts of climate change and building energy efficiency improvement on city-scale building energy consumption," 2023, Journal of Building Engineering
  • "Foundry-compatible high-resolution patterning of vertically phase-separated semiconducting films for ultraflexible organic electronics," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Attention mechanism-based transfer learning model for day-ahead energy demand forecasting of shopping mall buildings," 2023, Energy

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Chen cover a range of expertise and include Yixing Chen, Yansheng Du, Jiadi Liu, Antonio Facchetti, and Deng Zhang. These collaborations have fostered interdisciplinary research outputs linking various engineering domains.

The primary publication venues where Chen's work appears repeatedly include:

  • Journal of Building Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Thin-Walled Structures
  • Structures
  • Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Zhihua Chen's research addresses engineering challenges with an emphasis on optimizing building energy consumption, structural performance, and integration of advanced computational methods. This multidisciplinary approach is supported by a substantial body of work in related scientific journals and collaborations with other experts in the field.

Best Publications

  • A high-mobility electron-transporting polymer for printed transistors

    He Yan;Zhihua Chen;Yan Zheng;Christopher Newman

  • Naphthalenedicarboximide- vs Perylenedicarboximide-Based Copolymers. Synthesis and Semiconducting Properties in Bottom-Gate N-Channel Organic Transistors

    Zhihua Chen;Yan Zheng;He Yan;Antonio Facchetti

  • Aggregation in a high-mobility n-type low-bandgap copolymer with implications on semicrystalline morphology.

    Robert Steyrleuthner;Marcel Schubert;Ian Howard;Bastian Klaumünzer

  • Unconventional face-on texture and exceptional in-plane order of a high mobility n-type polymer.

    Jonathan Rivnay;Michael F. Toney;Yan Zheng;Isaac V. Kauvar

  • Influence of Aggregation on the Performance of All-Polymer Solar Cells Containing Low-Bandgap Naphthalenediimide Copolymers

    Marcel Schubert;Daniel Dolfen;Johannes Frisch;Steffen Roland

  • Drastic Control of Texture in a High Performance n-Type Polymeric Semiconductor and Implications for Charge Transport

    Jonathan Rivnay;Robert Steyrleuthner;Leslie H. Jimison;Alberto Casadei

  • Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics.

    Sadir G. Bucella;Sadir G. Bucella;Alessandro Luzio;Eliot Gann;Lars Thomsen

  • Defective Carbon-Based Materials for the Electrochemical Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide

    Shucheng Chen;Zhihua Chen;Samira Siahrostami;Taeho Roy Kim

  • Band‐Like Electron Transport in Organic Transistors and Implication of the Molecular Structure for Performance Optimization

    Nikolas Aron Minder;Shimpei Ono;Shimpei Ono;Zhihua Chen;Antonio Facchetti

  • All-Polymer Solar Cell Performance Optimized via Systematic Molecular Weight Tuning of Both Donor and Acceptor Polymers

    Nanjia Zhou;Alexander S. Dudnik;Ting I N G Li;Eric F. Manley

  • Heavily n-Dopable π-Conjugated Redox Polymers with Ultrafast Energy Storage Capability

    Yanliang Liang;Zhihua Chen;Yan Jing;Yaoguang Rong

  • Combining electron-neutral building blocks with intramolecular "conformational locks" affords stable, high-mobility p- and n-channel polymer semiconductors.

    Hui Huang;Zhihua Chen;Rocio Ponce Ortiz;Rocio Ponce Ortiz;Christopher Newman

  • The role of regioregularity, crystallinity, and chain orientation on electron transport in a high-mobility n-type copolymer.

    Robert Steyrleuthner;Riccardo Di Pietro;Brian A. Collins;Frank Polzer

  • High Electron Mobility in Vacuum and Ambient for PDIF-CN2 Single-Crystal Transistors

    Anna S. Molinari;Helena Alves;Zhihua Chen;Antonio Facchetti

  • High‐Efficiency All‐Polymer Solar Cells Based on a Pair of Crystalline Low‐Bandgap Polymers

    Cheng Mu;Peng Liu;Wei Ma;Kui Jiang

  • Dialkoxybithiazole: a new building block for head-to-head polymer semiconductors.

    Xugang Guo;Jordan Quinn;Zhihua Chen;Hakan Usta

  • Very Low Degree of Energetic Disorder as the Origin of High Mobility in an n-channel Polymer Semiconductor

    Mario Caironi;Matt Bird;Daniele Fazzi;Zhihua Chen

  • A Chemically Doped Naphthalenediimide-Bithiazole Polymer for n-Type Organic Thermoelectrics

    Suhao Wang;Hengda Sun;Tim Erdmann;Tim Erdmann;Gang Wang

  • Bulk Electron Transport and Charge Injection in a High Mobility n‐Type Semiconducting Polymer

    Robert Steyrleuthner;Marcel Schubert;Frank Jaiser;James C. Blakesley

  • Role of photoactive layer morphology in high fill factor all-polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Simone Fabiano;Zhihua Chen;Sina Vahedi;Antonio Facchetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonio Facchetti
Antonio Facchetti Northwestern University
Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks Northwestern University
Simone Fabiano
Simone Fabiano Linköping University
He Yan
He Yan Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dieter Neher
Dieter Neher University of Potsdam
Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi University of Groningen
Alberto F. Morpurgo
Alberto F. Morpurgo University of Geneva
Alberto Salleo
Alberto Salleo Stanford University
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen Northwestern University
Rocio Ponce Ortiz
Rocio Ponce Ortiz University of Malaga

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