Ajeet Kumar

836 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 719 citations indexed

About

Ajeet Kumar is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ajeet Kumar has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 719 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 4 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ajeet Kumar's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Ajeet Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (4 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (2 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Ajeet Kumar collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Ajeet Kumar's co-authors include Tao Ye, Paul S. Weiss, Tomohide Takami, James M. Tour, Austen K. Flatt, Byung-Chan Yu, J. Fraser Stoddart, Tony Jun Huang, Yi Liu and Ying‐Wei Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ajeet Kumar

11 papers receiving 711 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles

2009 229 citations Bala Krishna Juluri, Ajeet Kumar et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ajeet Kumar Germany	7	326	323	256	136	110	12	719
Melanie C. O’Sullivan United Kingdom	10	453 1.4×	595 1.8×	160 0.6×	124 0.9×	110 1.0×	10	827
Hyejin Yoo South Korea	14	208 0.6×	532 1.6×	270 1.1×	82 0.6×	79 0.7×	20	755
Chang‐Cun Yan China	19	468 1.4×	430 1.3×	300 1.2×	163 1.2×	49 0.4×	29	1.1k
Olivier Galangau France	15	291 0.9×	526 1.6×	171 0.7×	126 0.9×	64 0.6×	39	724
Pyosang Kim South Korea	11	224 0.7×	527 1.6×	277 1.1×	61 0.4×	51 0.5×	15	804
Giuseppe Sforazzini Italy	17	236 0.7×	384 1.2×	356 1.4×	123 0.9×	96 0.9×	31	797
Debangshu Chaudhuri India	16	228 0.7×	502 1.6×	577 2.3×	183 1.3×	85 0.8×	35	1.0k
Stefanie Herbst Germany	11	171 0.5×	339 1.0×	258 1.0×	67 0.5×	56 0.5×	14	754
Peter Spenst Germany	12	360 1.1×	604 1.9×	228 0.9×	171 1.3×	83 0.8×	13	932
Jadranka Dokić Germany	9	148 0.5×	460 1.4×	249 1.0×	136 1.0×	47 0.4×	11	668

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ajeet Kumar

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12 of 12 papers shown

Kumar, Ajeet, et al.. (2025). Photoredox capacity expanded by the Cu site of CuFe-Mabiq. Chemical Communications. 61(31). 5731–5734.

Kumar, Ajeet, Roger Jan Kutta, Patrick Nuernberger, et al.. (2025). Oxetane Cleavage Pathways in the Excited State: Photochemical Kinetic Resolution as an Approach to Enantiopure Oxetanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(16). 13893–13904. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Ajeet, Sebastian Reiter, Erling Thyrhaug, et al.. (2024). Reassessing the role and lifetime of Q _x in the energy transfer dynamics of chlorophyll a. Chemical Science. 16(4). 1684–1695. 3 indexed citations

Chen, Junsheng, Ajeet Kumar, Cecilia Cerretani, et al.. (2023). Excited-State Dynamics in a DNA-Stabilized Ag₁₆ Cluster with Near-Infrared Emission. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(17). 4078–4083. 19 indexed citations

Geitner, Felix S., Ajeet Kumar, Erling Thyrhaug, et al.. (2023). Probing Charge‐Transfer Processes in a Covalently Linked [Ge₉]‐Cluster Imine Dyad. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(29). e202304088–e202304088. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Ajeet, et al.. (2023). Transient absorption spectroscopy based on uncompressed hollow core fiber white light proves pre-association between a radical ion photocatalyst and substrate. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(14). 144201–144201. 29 indexed citations

Li, Nian, Renjun Guo, Anna Lena Oechsle, et al.. (2022). Operando Study of Structure Degradation in Solid‐State Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells with a TiO₂ Photoanode Having Ordered Mesopore Arrays. Solar RRL. 6(9). 6 indexed citations

Wu, Shangze, Valeria Butera, Daniel J. Scott, et al.. (2021). Hole-mediated photoredox catalysis: tris( p -substituted)biarylaminium radical cations as tunable, precomplexing and potent photooxidants. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(6). 1132–1142. 117 indexed citations

Ghosh, Arnab, Bikash Jana, Ajeet Kumar, Srijon Ghosh, & Amitava Patra. (2020). Manipulation of the exciton diffusion length of conjugated polymer nanoparticles: role of electron and hole scavenger molecules. Bulletin of Materials Science. 43(1). 6 indexed citations

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Ye, Tao, Ajeet Kumar, Sourav Saha, et al.. (2010). Changing Stations in Single Bistable Rotaxane Molecules under Electrochemical Control. ACS Nano. 4(7). 3697–3701. 68 indexed citations

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Juluri, Bala Krishna, Ajeet Kumar, Yi Liu, et al.. (2009). A Mechanical Actuator Driven Electrochemically by Artificial Molecular Muscles. ACS Nano. 3(2). 291–300. 229 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kumar, Ajeet, Tao Ye, Tomohide Takami, et al.. (2008). Reversible Photo-Switching of Single Azobenzene Molecules in Controlled Nanoscale Environments. Nano Letters. 8(6). 1644–1648. 239 indexed citations

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