Bradley S. Files

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Bradley S. Files is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bradley S. Files has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 4 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bradley S. Files's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (11 papers), Smart Materials for Construction (3 papers) and Nanotechnology research and applications (3 papers). Bradley S. Files is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (11 papers), Smart Materials for Construction (3 papers) and Nanotechnology research and applications (3 papers). Bradley S. Files collaborates with scholars based in United States. Bradley S. Files's co-authors include Sivaram Arepalli, Min‐Feng Yu, Rodney S. Ruoff, Pavel Nikolaev, Viktor G. Hadjiev, Amal K. Dutta, Dayakar Penumadu, Leonard Yowell, William E. Holmes and Olga Gorelik and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Carbon.

In The Last Decade

Bradley S. Files

11 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Tensile Loading of Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes ... 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Tensile Loading of Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and their Mechanical Properties
    2000 2.0k citations Min‐Feng Yu, Bradley S. Files et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Bradley S. Files
Reto Haggenmueller United States
Alain Peigney France
C. Bower United States
Alain Derré France
Caterina Soldano Italy
A. Eitan United States
Kent A. Watson United States
Lingbo Zhu United States
Fangming Du United States
Ibtsam Riaz United Kingdom
Reto Haggenmueller United States
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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bradley S. Files. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bradley S. Files based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bradley S. Files. Bradley S. Files is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Hadjiev, Viktor G., Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Piyush Thakre, et al.. (2005). Buckling instabilities of octadecylamine functionalized carbon nanotubes embedded in epoxy. Composites Science and Technology. 66(1). 128–136. 29 indexed citations
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Arepalli, Sivaram, Pavel Nikolaev, Olga Gorelik, et al.. (2004). Protocol for the characterization of single-wall carbon nanotube material quality. Carbon. 42(8-9). 1783–1791. 234 indexed citations
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Dutta, Amal K., Dayakar Penumadu, & Bradley S. Files. (2004). Nanoindentation testing for evaluating modulus and hardness of single-walled carbon nanotube–reinforced epoxy composites. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 19(1). 158–164. 65 indexed citations
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Files, Bradley S. & Craig R. Forest. (2004). Elastomer Filled With Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations
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Dutta, Amal K., Dayakar Penumadu, & Bradley S. Files. (2004). Nanoindentation testing for evaluating modulus and hardness of single-walled carbon nanotube?reinforced epoxy composites. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 19(1). 158–164.
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Penumadu, Dayakar, Amal K. Dutta, George M. Pharr, & Bradley S. Files. (2003). Mechanical properties of blended single-wall carbon nanotube composites. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 18(8). 1849–1853. 60 indexed citations
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Arepalli, Sivaram, et al.. (2001). Production and measurements of individual single-wall nanotubes and small ropes of carbon. Applied Physics Letters. 78(11). 1610–1612. 37 indexed citations
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Hadjiev, Viktor G., M. N. Iliev, Sivaram Arepalli, Pavel Nikolaev, & Bradley S. Files. (2001). Raman scattering test of single-wall carbon nanotube composites. Applied Physics Letters. 78(21). 3193–3195. 120 indexed citations
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Yu, Min‐Feng, Bradley S. Files, Sivaram Arepalli, & Rodney S. Ruoff. (2000). Tensile Loading of Ropes of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes and their Mechanical Properties. Physical Review Letters. 84(24). 5552–5555. 1994 indexed citations breakdown →
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Files, Bradley S.. (2000). Processing of carbon nanotubes for revolutionary space applications. 13 indexed citations
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Files, Bradley S.. (1999). NASA/JSC Carbon Nanotube Project Status. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 1(4). 507–509. 4 indexed citations
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Files, Bradley S.. (1997). Design of a biomimetic self-healing superalloy composite. PhDT. 5 indexed citations

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