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Qilong Cheng

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2009Rising activity
Adhesion, Friction, and Surface InteractionsThermal Radiation and Cooling TechnologiesAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsTribology and Lubrication EngineeringThermal properties of materials

Publications

54

Citations

533

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2009

Research summary
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Qilong Cheng works in engineering on materials and small-scale devices, including microrobots for medical sensing and drug delivery, wearable and implantable sensors (such as contact lenses for eye pressure monitoring), radiative cooling materials for buildings, and mycelium-based (fungal) materials for filtering ions and making textiles. The work spans material design, thermal management, and biomedical device applications, often combining lab-based fabrication with numerical simulation.

Microrobots and biomedical devicesWearable/implantable sensorsRadiative cooling and thermal management materialsMycelium-based nanomaterials and textilesLubrication and surface/tribology simulation

Publication output has grown over the last decade, rising from a few papers per year around 2017-2019 to a peak of around 8-11 per year in 2024-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.6/year recently
2017: 2 publications17182019: 3 publications192020: 7 publications202021: 6 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 7 publications232024: 8 publications242025: 11 publications11252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Applied Physics Letters×4
  • Advanced Functional Materials×3
  • Tribology Letters×3
  • Nano Energy×2
  • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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