Selected Journal Papers

 

Selected from over 150 Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers (* as corresponding author); h-index = 22 (as of 09/01/09)

• Ling Liu, Jianbing Zhao, Patricia J. Culligan, Yu Qiao and Xi Chen*, Thermally Responsive Fluid Behaviors in Hydrophobic Nanopores. Langmuir, 2009, 25: 11862-11868.
• Jie Yin, Eyal Bar-Kochba, and Xi Chen*, Mechanical Self-Assembly Fabrication of Gears. Soft Matter, 2009, 5: 3469 - 3474. The work is reported by Royal Society of Chemistry as a featured highlight story on Chemical Technology, http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2009/09/buckling_microgears.asp. This work is also highlighted by the popular website of NewScientist at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17507-mismatched-materials-produce-selfassembling-gears.html, by Popsci at http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/scientists-design-versatile-self-assembling-nanogears, by Today¡¯s Machining World at http://www.todaysmachiningworld.com/, by Technologijos at http://www.technologijos.lt/n/mokslas/fizika/straipsnis-8453/straipsnis?name=straipsnis-8453&l=2&p=1. The work is also highlighted on the website of Soft Matter.
• Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, A simple framework of spherical indentation for measuring elastoplastic properties, Mechanics of Materials, 2009, 41: 1025-1033.
• Jie Yin, Xi Chen* and Izhak Sheinman, Anisotropic Buckling Patterns in Spheroidal Film/Substrate Systems and their Implications in Some Natural and Biological Systems, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2009, 57: 1470-1484.
• Ling Liu, Jianbing Zhao, Chun-Yang Yin, Patricia J. Culligan, and Xi Chen*, Mechanisms of Water Infiltration into Conical Hydrophobic Nanopores. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009, 11: 6520-6524.
• Ling Liu, Xi Chen, Aijie Han, and Yu Qiao, Infiltration of Electrolytes into Molecular-Sized Nanopores, Physical Review Letters, 2009, 102: 184501.
• Liang Ma, Arun Yethiraj, Xi Chen* and Qiang Cui, A computational framework for mechanical response of macromolecules: application to the salt concentration dependence of DNA. Biophysical Journal, 2009, 96: 3543-3554.
• Ling Liu and Xi Chen*, Nanofluidic Transport in Branching Nanochannels: A Molecular Sieve Based on Y-Junction Nanotubes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2009, 113: 6468-6472.
• Zhongguo Sun, Guang Xi and Xi Chen*, Mechanism Study of Deformation and Mass Transfer for Binary Droplet Collisions with Particle Method, Physics of Fluids, 2009, 21: 032106.
• Weixu Zhang, Zhimin Xu, Tiejun Wang and Xi Chen*, Effect of Inner Gas Pressure on the Elastoplastic Behavior of Closed-Cell Metal Foams: A Second-Order Moment Micromechanics Model, International Journal of Plasticity, 2009, 25: 1231-1252.
• Yu Qiao, Ling Liu and Xi Chen*, Pressurized Liquid in Nanopores: A Modified Laplace-Young Equation, Nano Letters, 2009, 9: 984-988.
• Baoxing Xu, Zhufeng Yue, and Xi Chen*, An indentation fatigue depth propagation law. Scripta Materialia, 2009, 60: 854-857.
• Akio Yonezu, Baoxing Xu and Xi Chen*, Indentation Induced Lateral Crack in Ceramics with Surface Hardening. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2009, 507: 226-235.
• Ling Liu, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, Can Indentation Test Measure Unique Elastoplastic Properties? Journal of Materials Research, focal issue on nanoindentation, 2009, 24: 784-800.
• Zhongguo Sun, Guang Xi and Xi Chen*, A Numerical Study of Stir Mixing of Liquids with Particle Method, Chemical Engineering Science, 2009, 64: 341-350.
• Jie Yin, Chaorong Li, Zexian Cao, Izhak Sheinman and Xi Chen*, Stress-Driven Buckling Patterns in Spheroidal Core/Shell Structures, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences USA, 2008, 105: 19132-19135. The work is reported by Nature News at http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081117/full/news.2008.1236.html
• Ling Liu and Xi Chen*, Controlled Crack Arrest in Brittle Thin Films: The Effect of Embedded Voids, Acta Materialia, 2008, 56: 6214-6223.
• Yuye Tang, Jejoong Yoo, Arun Yethiraj, Qiang Cui and Xi Chen*, Mechanosensitive Channels: Insights from Continuum-Based Simulations, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, invited review paper, 2008, 52: 1-18.
• Na Li, Qulan Zhou, Xi Chen*, Tongmo Xu, Shien Hui and Di Zhang, Liquid Drop Impact on Solid Surface with Application to Water Drop Erosion on Turbine Blades, Part I: Nonlinear wave model and solution of one-dimensional impact, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2008, 50: 1526-1542.
• Qulan Zhou, Na Li, Xi Chen*, Tongmo Xu, Shien Hui and Di Zhang, Liquid Drop Impact on Solid Surface with Application to Water Drop Erosion on Turbine Blades, Part II: Axisymmetric solution and erosion analysis, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2008, 50: 1543-1558.
• Xi Chen*, Qiang Cui, Yuye Tang, Jejoong Yoo and Arun Yethiraj, Gating mechanisms of the mechanosensitive channels of large conductance, Part I: A Continuum Mechanics-Based Hierarchical Framework (selected by Faculty 1000 of Biology), Biophysical Journal, 2008, 95: 563-580.
• Yuye Tang, Jejoong Yoo, Arun Yethiraj, Qiang Cui and Xi Chen*, Gating mechanisms of the mechanosensitive channels of large conductance, Part II: Systematic Study of Conformational Transitions (Cover Article), Biophysical Journal, 2008, 95: 581-596.
• Akio Yonezu, Ling Liu and Xi Chen*, Spiral Crack in Diamond Like Carbon Film subjected to Contact Loading. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2008, 496: 67-76.
• Yuye Tang, Akio Yonezu, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, On Radial Crack and Half-Penny Crack Induced by Vickers Indentation. Proceedings of the Royal Society London A, 2008, 464: 2967-2984.
• Xi Chen, Guoxin Cao, Aijie Han, Venkata K. Punyamurtula, Ling Liu, Patricia J. Culligan, Taewan Kim and Yu Qiao, Nanoscale Fluid Transport: Size and Rate Effects. Nano Letters, 2008, 8: 2988-2992.
• Weixu Zhang, Tiejun Wang and Xi Chen*, Effect of Surface Stress on the Asymmetric Yield Strength of Nanowires. Journal of Applied Physics, 2008, 103: 123527.
• Aijie Han, Xi Chen and Yu Qiao, Effects of Addition of Electrolyte on Liquid Infiltration in a Hydrophobic Nanoporous Silica Gel, Langmuir, 2008, 24: 7044-7047.
• Ling Liu, Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, Mechanisms of nanoindentation on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and nanotube cluster. Journal of Nanomaterials, invited paper, 2008, 2008: 271763.
• Guoxin Cao, Yu Qiao, Qulan Zhou and Xi Chen*, Infiltration Behavior of Water in a Carbon Nanotube under External Pressure, Philosophical Magazine Letters, 2008, 88: 371-378.
• Ling Liu, Yu Qiao and Xi Chen*, Pressure-Driven Water Infiltration into Carbon Nanotube: The Effect of Applied Charges, Applied Physics Letters, 2008, 92: 101927.
• Nagahisa Ogasawara, Manhong Zhao, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, Comments on ¡°Extracting the plastic properties of metal materials from microindentation tests: Experimental comparison of recently published methods¡±: The correct ways of analyzing experimental data and reverse analysis of indentation tests, Journal of Materials Research, 2008, 23: 598-608.
• Xi Chen* and Yonggang Huang, Review: Nanomechanics Modeling and Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, invited review paper, 2008, 134: 211-216.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, The Size Dependence and Orientation Dependence of Elastic Properties of ZnO Nanofilms. International Journal of Solids and Structures, invited paper, 2008, 45: 1730-1753.
• Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen*, Chaorong Li, Ailing Ji and Zexian Cao, Self-Assembled Triangular and Labyrinth Buckling Patterns of Thin Films on Spherical Substrates. Physical Review Letters, 2008, 100: 036102.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, The size effect of nanoindentation on ZnO nanofilms, Journal of Applied Physics, 2007, 102: 123513.
• Manhong Zhao, Xi Chen*, Yong Xiang, Joost J. Vlassak, Dongyun Lee, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba, and Yong X. Gan, Measuring elastoplastic properties of thin films on an elastic substrate using sharp indentation, Acta Materialia, 2007, 55: 6260-6274.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, The effects of chirality and boundary conditions on the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2007, 44: 5447-5465.
• Xi Chen*, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Manhong Zhao and Norimasa Chiba, On the Uniqueness of Measuring Elastoplastic Properties from Indentation: the Indistinguishable Mystical Materials, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2007, 55: 1618-1660.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, Energy Analysis of Size-Dependent Elastic Properties of ZnO Nanofilms. Physical Review B, 2007, 76: 165407.
• Yu Qiao, Guoxin Cao, and Xi Chen*, Effect of gas molecules on nanofluidic behaviors, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2007, 129: 2355-2359. This work is highlighted by Nature Nanotechnology at http://www.nature.com/nnano/reshigh/2007/0207/full/nnano.2007.61.html
• Xi Chen* and Guoxin Cao, Review: Atomistic Studies of Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, invited review paper, 2007, 4: 1-17.
• Jin Yan, Anette M. Karlsson and Xi Chen, Determining plastic properties of a bulk material with residual stress by using conical indentation, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2007, 44: 3720-3737.
• Xi Chen, Falgun B. Surani, Xinguo Kong, Venkata K. Punyamurtula, and Yu Qiao, Energy Absorption Performance of a Steel Tube Enhanced by a Nanoporous Material Functionalized Liquid, Applied Physics Letters, 2006, 89: 241918.
• Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen*, and Jeffrey W. Kysar, Numerical Analysis of the Radial Breathing Mode of Individual Armchair and Zigzag Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes under Deformation, Journal of Applied Physics, 2006, 100: 124305.
• Manhong Zhao, Xi Chen*, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Anghel Constantin Razvan, Norimasa Chiba, Dongyun Lee and Yong X. Gan, A new sharp indentation method of measuring the elastic-plastic properties of soft and compliant materials by using the substrate effect. Journal of Materials Research, 2006, 21: 3134-3151.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, Buckling Behaviors of the Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes and a New Targeted-Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Physical Review B, 2006, 74: 165422.
• Guoxin Cao, Yuye Tang and Xi Chen*, Elastic properties of Carbon Nanotubes in Radial Direction (invited paper), Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, 2006: 219, 73-88.
• Kan Otani, Xi Chen, John W. Hutchinson and Mike Aziz, Three-Dimensional Modeling and Experimental Test of Ion Irradiation-Induced Anisotropic Stress Generation, Journal of Applied Physics, 2006: 100, 023535.
• Yuye Tang, Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen*, Jejoong Yoo, Arun Yethiraj and Qiang Cui, A finite element framework for studying mechanical response of macromolecules: Application to the gating of the mechanosensitive channel MscL (Cover Article), Biophysical Journal, 2006, 91: 1248-1263.
• Manhong Zhao, Xi Chen*, Jin Yan and Anette M. Karlsson, Determination of Uniaxial Residual Stress and Mechanical Properties by Instrumented Indentation, Acta Materialia, 2006: 2823-2832.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, Buckling of single-walled carbon nanotubes upon bending: Molecular dynamics simulations and finite element method, Physical Review B, 2006: 73, 155435.
• Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen* and Jeffrey W. Kysar, Thermal vibration and apparent thermal contraction of single-walled carbon nanotubes, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2006, 54: 1206-1236.
• Guoxin Cao and Xi Chen*, Mechanisms of Nanoindentation on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: The Effect of Nanotube Length, Journal of Materials Research, 2006, 21: 1048-1070.
• Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, A Limit Analysis-Based Approach to Determine the Material Plastic Properties with Conical Indentation, Journal of Materials Research, 2006, 21: 947-958.
• Xi Chen*, Yong Xiang and Joost J. Vlassak, A novel technique to measure mechanical properties of porous materials by nanoindentation: with application to low-k dielectric thin films, Journal of Materials Research, 2006, 21: 715-724.
• Xi Chen* and Guoxin Cao, A new structural mechanics approach of single-walled carbon nanotubes generalized from atomistic simulation, Nanotechnology, 2006, 17: 1004-1015.
• Manhong Zhao, Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, A new approach of measuring the elastic-plastic properties of bulk materials with spherical indentation. Acta Materialia, 2006, 54: 23-32.
• Xi Chen*, CMAS delamination mechanisms in EB-PVD thermal barrier coatings, Surface and Coatings Technology, 2006, 200: 3418-3427.
• Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, Measuring the plastic properties of bulk materials by one microindentation test. Scripta Materialia, 2006, 54: 65-76.
• Xi Chen*, Jin Yan and Anette M. Karlsson, On the determination of residual stress and mechanical properties by indentation, Materials Science and Engineering A, 2006, 416: 139-149.
• Guoxin Cao, Xi Chen* and Jeffrey W. Kysar, Strain Sensing with Carbon Nanotubes: Numerical Analysis of the Vibration Frequency of Deformed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, Physical Review B, 2005, 72: 195412.
• Yong Xiang, Xi Chen and Joost J. Vlassak, The plane strain bulge testing of thin films, Journal of Materials Research, 2005, 20: 2360-2370.
• Nagahisa Ogasawara, Norimasa Chiba and Xi Chen*, Representative strain in indentation analysis, Journal of Materials Research, 2005, 20: 2225-2234.
• Xi Chen*, John W. Hutchinson and Anthony G. Evans, The mechanics of indentation induced lateral cracking. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2005, 88:1233-1238.
• Ming F. Hsu, M. G. Nikolaides, A. D. Dinsmore, A. R. Bausch Vernita Gordon, Xi Chen, J. W. Hutchinson and D. A. Weitz, Fabrication and Characterization of Self-Assembled Shells Composed of Polystyrene Particles, Langmuir, 2005, 21: 2963-2970.
• Xi Chen*, Foreign object damage on the edge of a thin blade. Mechanics of Materials, 2005, 37: 447-457.
• Vernita Gordon, Xi Chen, John W. Hutchinson A. R. Bausch, M. Marquez, and David A. Weitz, Self-assembled inflated polymer membrane capsules, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004, 126: 14117-14122.
• Xi Chen* and John W. Hutchinson, Herringbone buckling patterns of compressed thin films on compliant substrates, Journal of Applied Mechanics 2004, 71: 597-603.
• Xi Chen*, Ming Y. He, I. Spitsberg, Norman A. Fleck, John W. Hutchinson and Anthony G. Evans, Mechanisms governing the high temperature erosion of thermal barrier coatings used in gas turbines, Wear, 2004, 256: 735-746.
• Xi Chen*, John W. Hutchinson, Ming Y. He and Anthony G. Evans, On the propagation and coalescence of delamination cracks in compressed coatings: with applications to thermal barrier coatings, Acta Materialia, 2003, 51: 2017-2030.
• Xi Chen*, R. Wang, Nan Yao, Anthony G. Evans, John W. Hutchinson and Robert W. Bruce, Foreign object damage in a thermal barrier system: mechanisms and simulations. Materials Science and Engineering A, 2003, 352: 221-231.
• Xi Chen* and John W. Hutchinson, Particle impact on metal substrates with application to foreign object damage to aircraft engines. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2002, 50: 2669-2690.
• Xi Chen* and Joost J. Vlassak, A numerical study on the measurement of thin film mechanical properties by means of nanoindentation. Journal of Materials Research, 2001, 16: 2974-2982.
• Xi Chen* and John W. Hutchinson, Foreign object damage and fatigue crack threshold: cracking outside shallow indents. International Journal of Fracture, 2001, 107: 31-51.
• Xi Chen*, Dai-Ning Fang and Keh-Chih Hwang, Micromechanics simulation of ferroelectric polarization switching. Acta Materialia, 1997, 45: 3181-3189.
• Xi Chen*, Dai-Ning Fang and Keh-Chih Hwang, A mesoscopic model of constitutive behavior of monocrystalline ferroelectrics. Smart Materials and Structures, 1997, 6: 145-151.

 

Full list of publication is available upon request, in addition to over 30 papers in conference proceedings and book chapters.

 

Selected impact factors: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 10.452; Phys. Rev. Lett. 7.218; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 8.091; Nano Lett. 9.627; Biophysical Journal 4.585; Soft Matter 4.70; J. Phys. Chem. B 4.115; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4.064; Phys. Rev. B 3.19; Nanotechnology 3.037; J. Mech. Phys. Solids 3.609; Acta Materialia 3.549; Materials Science and Engineering 1.49; Journal of Materials Research 2.354; Int. J. Solids Struct. 1.529; Journal of Applied Physics 2.498; Applied Physics Letters 4.207; Langmuir, 4.009; Engineering Fracture Mechanics 1.39; Journal of the American Ceramic Society 1.396; Scripta Materialia 2.161; Int. J. Plasticity 4.516; Surface and Coatings Technology 1.559; Thin Solid Films 1.932; Proceedings of Royal Society A 1.338; ; ; ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 1.08