Cecil K. King’ondu

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

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Cecil K. King’ondu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Cecil K. King’ondu has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Cecil K. King’ondu's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Cecil K. King’ondu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (16 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (12 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (9 papers). Cecil K. King’ondu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tanzania and Botswana. Cecil K. King’ondu's co-authors include Steven L. Suib, Aparna Iyer, Chun‐Hu Chen, Hector F. Garcés, Hui Huang, Xuehai Tan, Huanlei Wang, Chris Holt, Alireza Kohandehghan and Tyler Stephenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Cecil K. King’ondu

62 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Interconnected Carbon Nanosheets Derived from Hemp for Ultrafast Supercapacitors with High Energy

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cecil K. King’ondu United States	27	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	927	480	62	3.2k
Muhammad Arif China	36	1.9k 1.3×	2.2k 1.8×	644 0.6×	2.6k 2.8×	670 1.4×	78	4.6k
Bo Hu China	28	1.0k 0.7×	2.4k 2.0×	438 0.4×	1.6k 1.7×	319 0.7×	97	3.9k
Yifeng Yu China	31	962 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	612 0.7×	114 0.2×	105	2.8k
Ru Yang China	33	840 0.6×	2.0k 1.7×	1.9k 1.6×	593 0.6×	195 0.4×	83	3.4k
Mani Karthik India	32	1.3k 0.9×	931 0.8×	744 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	134 0.3×	76	2.9k
Yiwei Luo China	17	795 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	345 0.4×	304 0.6×	39	2.6k
Yifan Zhang China	39	2.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.4×	607 0.5×	2.5k 2.7×	189 0.4×	113	4.3k
Guosheng Wu Canada	33	1.8k 1.2×	960 0.8×	537 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	195 0.4×	43	3.7k
Mengwei Yuan China	41	1.7k 1.2×	3.3k 2.8×	799 0.7×	2.9k 3.1×	309 0.6×	127	5.7k
Zhong‐Jie Jiang China	26	1.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	98 0.2×	68	3.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

King’ondu, Cecil K., et al.. (2024). Conventional and modern techniques for bioactive compounds recovery from plants: Review. Scientific African. 27. e02509–e02509. 32 indexed citations

Msagati, Titus A.M., et al.. (2024). The beneficiation of asphalt waste through conversion into an efficient activated carbon adsorbent for diazinon pesticide, optimized through response surface methodology. RSC Sustainability. 2(7). 2026–2042. 7 indexed citations

King’ondu, Cecil K., et al.. (2024). Fabrication of ZnO nanoparticles using marula (Sclerocarya birrea) leaf extract for catalytic degradation of rhodamine 6 G and methylene blue dyes under UV light irradiation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 100366–100366. 4 indexed citations

Msagati, Titus A.M., et al.. (2024). Unlocking the valorization potential of Rooibos tea waste-derived activated carbon in the adsorptive removal of remazol brilliant blue R dye. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 100054–100054. 5 indexed citations

Kivevele, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Optimization of furfural production from xylose over sulfated titanium-niobium mixed oxides catalyst in biphasic system. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 100125–100125. 4 indexed citations

Madikizela, Lawrence Mzukisi, et al.. (2024). Enhancing light-driven photocatalytic reactions through solid solutions of bismuth oxyhalide/bismuth rich photocatalysts: a systematic review. Catalysis Science & Technology. 14(22). 6466–6495. 9 indexed citations

Meijboom, Reinout, et al.. (2024). Biomass Nanoarchitectonics of abattoir waste to high coulombic efficient mesoporous carbon materials for supercapacitors. Journal of Energy Storage. 104. 114541–114541. 1 indexed citations

Elisadiki, Joyce, et al.. (2023). Electrosorption of paraquat pesticide on activated carbon modified by aluminium oxide (Al2O3) with capacitive deionization. Desalination. 572. 117116–117116. 5 indexed citations

Pogrebnaya, Tatiana, et al.. (2023). Mesoporous SnO2–MoO3 catalyst for diesel oxidative desulfurization: Impact of the SnO2/MoO3 ratio on catalytic efficiency. Heliyon. 9(8). e19202–e19202. 3 indexed citations

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Elisadiki, Joyce & Cecil K. King’ondu. (2020). Performance of ion intercalation materials in capacitive deionization/electrochemical deionization: A review. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 878. 114588–114588. 48 indexed citations

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Kibona, Talam E., et al.. (2020). Highly microporous Parinari Curatellifolia carbon nanomaterials for supercapacitors. Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects. 22. 100445–100445. 6 indexed citations

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King’ondu, Cecil K., et al.. (2019). Tamarindus Indica fruit shell ash: a low cost and effective catalyst for biodiesel production from Parinari curatellifolia seeds oil. SN Applied Sciences. 1(3). 1–9. 10 indexed citations

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Garcés, Hector F., Justin Roller, Cecil K. King’ondu, et al.. (2014). Formation of Platinum (Pt) Nanocluster Coatings on K-OMS-2 Manganese Oxide Membranes by Reactive Spray Deposition Technique (RSDT) for Extended Stability during CO Oxidation. Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science. 4(1). 23–35. 4 indexed citations

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King’ondu, Cecil K., et al.. (2014). Energy Characteristics of Five Indigenous Tree Species at Kitulangalo Forest Reserve in Morogoro, Tanzania.. International Journal of Renewable Energy Research. 4(4). 1078–1084. 4 indexed citations

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Poyraz, Altuğ S., Chung‐Hao Kuo, Sourav Biswas, Cecil K. King’ondu, & Steven L. Suib. (2013). A general approach to crystalline and monomodal pore size mesoporous materials. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2952–2952. 229 indexed citations

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Najafpour, Mohammad Mahdi, Kevin C. Leonard, Fu‐Ren F. Fan, et al.. (2013). Nano-size layered manganese–calcium oxide as an efficient and biomimetic catalyst for water oxidation under acidic conditions: comparable to platinum. Dalton Transactions. 42(14). 5085–5085. 50 indexed citations

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Genuino, Homer C., et al.. (2012). Effects of visible and UV light on the characteristics and properties of crude oil-in-water (O/W) emulsions. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 11(4). 692–702. 20 indexed citations

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Opembe, Naftali, Cecil K. King’ondu, & Steven L. Suib. (2012). Efficient Oxidation of 2,3,6-Trimethyl Phenol using Non-Exchanged and H+ Exchanged Manganese Oxide Octahedral Molecular Sieves (K-OMS-2 and H–K-OMS-2) as Catalysts. Catalysis Letters. 142(4). 427–432. 8 indexed citations

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Njagi, Eric C., et al.. (2011). Preferential oxidation of CO in H2-rich feeds over mesoporous copper manganese oxides synthesized by a redox method. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 36(11). 6768–6779. 48 indexed citations

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Frueh, Samuel, et al.. (2010). Pyrolytic Decomposition of Ammonia Borane to Boron Nitride. Inorganic Chemistry. 50(3). 783–792. 199 indexed citations

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