Long-Qing Chen - Selected Publications#

1. L. Q. Chen, Phase-field models for microstructure evolution, Annual Review of Materials Research 32 (1), 113-140 (2002), (Cited 2821 times, the most cited paper on phase-field method)

2. L. Q. Chen, J. Shen, Applications of semi-implicit Fourier-spectral method to phase field equations, Computer Physics Communications 108 (2-3), 147-158 (1998), (Cited 1125 times, Proposed a spectral method for solving phase-field equations which has now been adopted by many other groups)

3. F. Li, D. B. Lin, Z. B. Chen, Z. X. Cheng, J. L. Wang, C. C. Li, Z. Xu, Q. W. Huang, X. Z. Liao, L.Q . Chen (Co-corresponding author), T. R. Shrout, and S. J. Zhang, Ultrahigh piezoelectricity in ferroelectric ceramics by design. Nature Materials, 2018. 17(4): p. 349-+ (Cited 691 times, achieved highest piezoelectricity guided by phase-field simulations)

4. A. K. Yadav, C. T. Nelson, S. L. Hsu, Z. Hong, J. D. Clarkson, C. M. Schlepüetz, A. R. Damodaran, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, L. R. Dedon, D. Chen, A. Vishwanath, A. M. Minor, L. Q. Chen, J. F. Scott, L. W. Martin, R. Ramesh, Observation of polar vortices, Nature, 530 (7589), 198-201 (2016). (Cited 687 times, Phase-field simulations guided experiments for discovering novel topological polar states)

5. L. Q. Chen and W. Yang, Computer simulation of the domain dynamics of a quenched System with large number of nonconserved order parameters – the grain growth kinetics. Physical Review B, 1994. 50(21): p. 15752-15756. (Cited 535 times, Proposed the first grain growth phase-field model which has become one of the most often employed model s for modeling grain growth kinetics by many other groups)

6. Y. L. Li, S. Y. Hu, Z. K. Liu, and L. Q. Chen, Effect of substrate constraint on the stability and evolution of ferroelectric domain structures in thin films. Acta Materialia, 2002. 50(2): P. 395-411. (Cited 505 times, developed the first phase-field model for predicting domain structures/ switching in thin films)

7. S. Y. Hu and L. Q. Chen, A phase-field model for evolving microstructures with strong elastic inhomogeneity. Acta Materialia, 2001. 49(11): P. 1879-1890. (Cited 464 times, developed an efficient algorithm to modeling strain-dominated microstructure evolution in systems with strong spatial-dependent elastic constants within the phase-field approach)

8. C. R. Qiu, B. Wang, N. Zhang, S. J. Zhang, J. F. Liu, D. Walker, Y. Wang, H. Tian, T. R. Shrout, Z. Xu, L. Q. Chen (Co-corresponding author), and F. Li, Transparent ferroelectric crystals with ultrahigh piezoelectricity. Nature, 2020. 577(7790): 350-+ (Cited 269 times, phase-field simulations guided the discovery of transparent ferroelectric crystals with ultrahigh piezoelectricity)

9. B. Wang, Y. J. Gu, S. J. Zhang, and L. Q. Chen, Flexoelectricity in solids: progress, challenges, and perspectives. Progress in Materials Science, 2019. 106. (Cited 196 times, review article on flexoelectricity in solids)

10. L. Q. Chen and Y. H. Zhao, From classical thermodynamics to phase-field method. Progress in Materials Science, 2022. 124:100868 (Cited 72 times, review article)