Ali Esfandiar

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ali Esfandiar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Esfandiar has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Materials Chemistry, 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ali Esfandiar's work include Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (13 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers). Ali Esfandiar is often cited by papers focused on Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (13 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers). Ali Esfandiar collaborates with scholars based in Iran, United Kingdom and China. Ali Esfandiar's co-authors include Omid Akhavan, Elham Ghaderi, Azam Iraji zad, Mohammad Abdolahad, Shahnaz Ghasemi, M. Lozada-Hidalgo, A. K. Geǐm, I. V. Grigorieva, Zahra Alavi and Mohammadreza Kalaee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ali Esfandiar

56 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Wrapping Bacteria by Graphene Nanosheets for Isolation from Environment, Reactivation by Sonication, and Inactivation by Near-Infrared Irradiation

2011 576 citations Ali Esfandiar et al. profile →
Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision

2016 562 citations Boya Radha, Ali Esfandiar et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Esfandiar Iran	22	2.1k	1.9k	1.2k	687	454	58	3.4k
Susanta Sinha Roy India	35	2.2k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	726 1.1×	864 1.9×	171	4.2k
Ashour M. Ahmed Egypt	32	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	773 1.1×	456 1.0×	128	3.0k
Xiao Xie China	31	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.8×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.5×	63	4.9k
B. Lesiak Poland	24	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	614 0.9×	648 1.4×	112	4.2k
Liqiang Lu China	29	2.0k 0.9×	745 0.4×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	511 1.1×	92	3.6k
Leszek Stobiński Poland	31	3.0k 1.4×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	871 1.3×	851 1.9×	151	5.1k
Yantao Chen China	28	2.4k 1.2×	893 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	327 0.7×	47	4.1k
P. Sujatha Dévi India	38	2.7k 1.3×	745 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	792 1.2×	1.0k 2.2×	144	4.0k
Bastian J. M. Etzold Germany	37	1.6k 0.8×	900 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.3k 2.0×	578 1.3×	158	4.3k
Robert Bogdanowicz Poland	34	1.7k 0.8×	813 0.4×	1.7k 1.5×	448 0.7×	462 1.0×	230	4.1k

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Wang, Yongkang, Xavier R. Advincula, Ali Esfandiar, et al.. (2025). Spontaneous Surface Charging and Janus Nature of the Hexagonal Boron Nitride–Water Interface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(33). 30107–30116. 4 indexed citations

Esfandiar, Ali, et al.. (2025). Highly efficient photo-supercapacitor based on Mg-doped NiOx/SnO2 p-n heterojunction. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 1015. 178920–178920. 2 indexed citations

Asen, Parvin, et al.. (2024). MXene/carbon hybrid nanostructures and heteroatom-doped derivatives for enhanced electrochemical energy storage. Journal of Energy Storage. 90. 111751–111751. 21 indexed citations

Shooshtari, Leyla, et al.. (2024). Wearable broadband MoS2 photodetector for dual heart rate and UV detection powered by PDMS-MXene TENG. Chemical Engineering Journal. 499. 155953–155953. 13 indexed citations

Imani, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Li-ion batteries from an electronic structure viewpoint: From anionic redox to structural stability. Journal of Power Sources. 600. 234240–234240. 5 indexed citations

Jamshidi, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Highly efficient single photon coupling via surface plasmons into single-mode optical fiber. Optics Communications. 575. 131270–131270.

Esfandiar, Ali, et al.. (2023). Gapless linear dispersion in Bi2Se3 nanoparticles for high-performance broadband photodetectors. Materials Today Physics. 38. 101235–101235. 6 indexed citations

zad, Azam Iraji, et al.. (2023). Facile Fabrication of Highly Oriented Dense Ti₃C₂ Fibers with Enhanced Strength and Supercapacitance Performance by Coagulation Condition Tuning. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(4). 2276–2285. 9 indexed citations

zad, Azam Iraji, et al.. (2023). Green synthesize of copper nanoparticles on the cotton fabric as a self-regenerating and high-efficient plasmonic solar evaporator. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12762–12762. 11 indexed citations

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Ranjbar, Saba, et al.. (2022). Electrochemical and computational studies of bio-mimicked Ti3C2Tx MXene-based sensor with multivalent interface. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 623. 1063–1074. 16 indexed citations

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Shooshtari, Leyla, et al.. (2022). Design of effective self-powered SnS2/halide perovskite photo-detection system based on triboelectric nanogenerator by regarding circuit impedance. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 7227–7227. 19 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Ali, et al.. (2021). Plasmonic enhancement of photocurrent generation in two-dimensional heterostructure of WSe ₂ /MoS ₂. Nanotechnology. 32(32). 325203–325203. 15 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Ali, et al.. (2021). Mechanical behaviors of titanium nitride and carbide MXenes: A molecular dynamics study. Applied Surface Science. 566. 150633–150633. 58 indexed citations

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Esfandiar, Ali, et al.. (2021). High flux and complete dyes removal from water by reduced graphene oxide laminate on Poly Vinylidene Fluoride/graphene oxide membranes. Environmental Research. 201. 111576–111576. 37 indexed citations

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Shooshtari, Leyla, Ali Esfandiar, Yasin Orooji, Mahmoud Samadpour, & Reza Rahighi. (2021). Ultrafast and stable planar photodetector based on SnS2 nanosheets/perovskite structure. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 19353–19353. 36 indexed citations

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Janfaza, Sajjad, et al.. (2019). A selective chemiresistive sensor for the cancer-related volatile organic compound hexanal by using molecularly imprinted polymers and multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Microchimica Acta. 186(3). 137–137. 52 indexed citations

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Gopinadhan, K., Sheng Hu, Ali Esfandiar, et al.. (2018). Complete steric exclusion of ions and proton transport in two-dimensional water. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Qorbani, Mohammad, Satyanarayana Samireddi, Naimeh Naseri, et al.. (2017). Multi-porous Co ₃ O ₄ nanoflakes @ sponge-like few-layer partially reduced graphene oxide hybrids: towards highly stable asymmetric supercapacitors. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(24). 12569–12577. 97 indexed citations

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Lozada-Hidalgo, M., Sheng Zhang, Shanshan Hu, et al.. (2017). Scalable and efficient separation of hydrogen isotopes using graphene-based electrochemical pumping. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15215–15215. 137 indexed citations

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Radha, Boya, Ali Esfandiar, Fengchao Wang, et al.. (2016). Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision. Nature. 538(7624). 222–225. 562 indexed citations breakdown →

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