Alex Kutana

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alex Kutana is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Kutana has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Alex Kutana's work include Graphene research and applications (21 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (20 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (13 papers). Alex Kutana is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (21 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (20 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (13 papers). Alex Kutana collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Alex Kutana's co-authors include Boris I. Yakobson, Evgeni S. Penev, Konstantinos P. Giapis, Zhiming Shi, Xiaolong Zou, Sunny Gupta, Luqing Wang, Zhuhua Zhang, Jincheng Lei and Pulickel M. Ajayan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alex Kutana

59 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Can Two-Dimensional Boron Superconduct?
    2016 425 citations Evgeni S. Penev, Alex Kutana et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Kutana United States 25 2.4k 939 307 301 201 60 2.8k
William Mickelson United States 23 1.6k 0.7× 646 0.7× 496 1.6× 368 1.2× 268 1.3× 35 2.3k
Dario Narducci Italy 25 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 438 1.4× 254 0.8× 228 1.1× 133 2.6k
Y. S. Raptis Greece 26 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 299 1.0× 323 1.1× 386 1.9× 92 2.2k
Jian Huang China 26 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 302 1.0× 265 0.9× 455 2.3× 214 2.5k
Yogesh Sonvane India 27 2.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 274 0.9× 218 0.7× 219 1.1× 160 2.6k
Frédéric Fossard France 22 1.8k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 498 1.6× 519 1.7× 221 1.1× 102 2.5k
Hakim Amara France 29 2.1k 0.9× 618 0.7× 335 1.1× 396 1.3× 210 1.0× 64 2.4k
Nuofu Chen China 22 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 1.2× 188 0.6× 252 0.8× 603 3.0× 143 2.1k
Shiyun Xiong China 30 1.8k 0.7× 769 0.8× 250 0.8× 238 0.8× 167 0.8× 102 2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Kutana

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kutana, Alex, et al.. (2025). Representing Born effective charges with equivariant graph convolutional neural networks. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 16719–16719. 2 indexed citations
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Asahi, Ryoji, et al.. (2024). Topochemical Fluoride Exchange Reaction with Anionic Electrons toward Fluoride-Ion Conduction in Layered Ba2–xAxNF1–x (A = Na, K). Chemistry of Materials. 36(11). 5671–5677. 2 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex, et al.. (2023). Limits of Hydrogen-Boosted Superconductivity in Borophene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(1). 483–488. 7 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex, et al.. (2023). Machine learning and atomistic origin of high dielectric permittivity in oxides. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 22236–22236. 12 indexed citations
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Yu, Henry, Alex Kutana, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2022). Electron Optics and Valley Hall Effect of Undulated Graphene. Nano Letters. 22(7). 2934–2940. 10 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex, et al.. (2022). Stability and electronic properties of gallenene. Nanoscale Advances. 4(5). 1408–1413. 8 indexed citations
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Yu, Henry, Sunny Gupta, Alex Kutana, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2021). Dimensionality-Reduced Fermi Level Pinning in Coplanar 2D Heterojunctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(17). 4299–4305. 23 indexed citations
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Jawaharraj, Kalimuthu, Alex Kutana, Manoj Tripathi, et al.. (2020). Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Sulfur Corrosion Inhibition. ACS Nano. 14(11). 14809–14819. 72 indexed citations
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Shrestha, Namita, Alex Kutana, Manoj Tripathi, et al.. (2020). Atomic Layers of Graphene for Microbial Corrosion Prevention. ACS Nano. 15(1). 447–454. 28 indexed citations
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Artyukhov, Vasilii I., Sunny Gupta, Alex Kutana, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2020). Flexoelectricity and Charge Separation in Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 20(5). 3240–3246. 36 indexed citations
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Okada, Mitsuhiro, Alex Kutana, Yu Kobayashi, et al.. (2018). Direct and Indirect Interlayer Excitons in a van der Waals Heterostructure of hBN/WS2/MoS2/hBN. ACS Nano. 12(3). 2498–2505. 110 indexed citations
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Susarla, Sandhya, Jordan A. Hachtel, Alex Kutana, et al.. (2018). Quaternary Alloys: Thermally Induced 2D Alloy‐Heterostructure Transformation in Quaternary Alloys (Adv. Mater. 45/2018). Advanced Materials. 30(45). 3 indexed citations
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Susarla, Sandhya, Vidya Kochat, Alex Kutana, et al.. (2017). Phase Segregation Behavior of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Binary Alloys Induced by Dissimilar Substitution. Chemistry of Materials. 29(17). 7431–7439. 29 indexed citations
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Penev, Evgeni S., Alex Kutana, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2016). Can Two-Dimensional Boron Superconduct?. Nano Letters. 16(4). 2522–2526. 425 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Ziang, Alex Kutana, Ajit K. Roy, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2016). Nanochimneys: Topology and Thermal Conductance of 3D Nanotube–Graphene Cone Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(2). 1257–1262. 16 indexed citations
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Yu, Henry, Alex Kutana, & Boris I. Yakobson. (2015). Dimensionality effects on electronic properties of lateral two-dimensional junctions. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2009). First-Principles Study of Chemisorption of Oxygen and Aziridine on Graphitic Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 113(33). 14721–14726. 16 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2007). Contact angles, ordering, and solidification of liquid mercury in carbon nanotube cavities. Physical Review B. 76(19). 31 indexed citations
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Kutana, Alex, Michael J. Gordon, & Konstantinos P. Giapis. (2006). Neutralization of hyperthermal Ne+ on metal surfaces. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 248(1). 16–20. 6 indexed citations
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Bolotin, Igor L., et al.. (2003). Scattering and recoiling mapping of the Kr–Pt(111) system by SARIS. Surface Science. 540(2-3). 285–294. 2 indexed citations

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