Colin Preston

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Colin Preston is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin Preston has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Colin Preston's work include Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (5 papers). Colin Preston is often cited by papers focused on Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (5 papers). Colin Preston collaborates with scholars based in United States and China. Colin Preston's co-authors include Liangbing Hu, Hongli Zhu, Zhiqiang Fang, Yuanyuan Li, Xiaogang Han, Jeremy N. Munday, Jiayu Wan, John Cumings, Jia Huang and Yu‐Chen Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, ACS Nano and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Colin Preston

19 papers receiving 2.9k 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. Transparent paper: fabrications, properties, and device applications
    2013 468 citations Hongli Zhu, Zhiqiang Fang et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Colin Preston United States 17 1.4k 1.3k 955 730 448 19 2.9k
Hirotaka Koga Japan 37 2.4k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 1.9k 2.0× 1.2k 1.6× 743 1.7× 104 4.7k
Rafael Libanori Switzerland 19 1.3k 0.9× 926 0.7× 315 0.3× 621 0.9× 364 0.8× 35 2.5k
Shuaidi Zhang United States 16 1.9k 1.4× 560 0.4× 660 0.7× 503 0.7× 1.0k 2.3× 23 2.7k
Kesong Hu United States 15 1.1k 0.8× 701 0.5× 279 0.3× 1.0k 1.4× 589 1.3× 18 2.2k
Soney Varghese India 24 820 0.6× 423 0.3× 412 0.4× 364 0.5× 635 1.4× 85 1.9k
Xiang‐Fa Wu United States 30 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 677 0.7× 588 0.8× 988 2.2× 90 3.0k
Jize Liu China 31 1.3k 0.9× 446 0.3× 469 0.5× 808 1.1× 845 1.9× 74 2.7k
Doug Henderson United States 11 555 0.4× 664 0.5× 368 0.4× 216 0.3× 364 0.8× 13 1.6k
Sureeporn Koombhongse United States 4 2.6k 1.9× 3.3k 2.6× 1.4k 1.4× 264 0.4× 1.2k 2.6× 4 4.0k
Sijie Wan China 23 1.5k 1.1× 729 0.6× 463 0.5× 1.9k 2.6× 412 0.9× 34 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Colin Preston

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin Preston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin Preston

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Colin Preston. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Colin Preston 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 Colin Preston. Colin Preston is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Preston, Colin, et al.. (2016). Boron-doped few-walled carbon nanotubes: novel synthesis and properties. Nanotechnology. 27(44). 445601–445601. 13 indexed citations
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Preston, Colin, et al.. (2015). Scalable nanomanufacturing of surfactant-free carbon nanotube inks for spray coatings with high conductivity. Nano Research. 8(7). 2242–2250. 27 indexed citations
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Preston, Colin, et al.. (2015). Liquid Crystal Properties and Self Alignment of Silver (Ag) Nanowires as a Function of Flow. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 610(1). 235–239. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, Colin Preston, Azzam N. Mansour, et al.. (2015). Nanocarbon-copper thin film as transparent electrode. Applied Physics Letters. 106(19). 16 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, Zhiqiang Fang, Zhu Wang, et al.. (2015). Extreme Light Management in Mesoporous Wood Cellulose Paper for Optoelectronics. ACS Nano. 10(1). 1369–1377. 171 indexed citations
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Fang, Zhiqiang, Hongli Zhu, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2014). Light Management in Flexible Glass by Wood Cellulose Coating. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5842–5842. 17 indexed citations
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Fang, Zhiqiang, Hongli Zhu, Colin Preston, & Liangbing Hu. (2014). Development, application and commercialization of transparent paper. 1(1). 15004–15004. 51 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, Yuanyuan Li, Zhiqiang Fang, et al.. (2014). Highly Thermally Conductive Papers with Percolative Layered Boron Nitride Nanosheets. ACS Nano. 8(4). 3606–3613. 444 indexed citations
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Bao, Wenzhong, Zhiqiang Fang, Jiayu Wan, et al.. (2014). Aqueous Gating of van der Waals Materials on Bilayer Nanopaper. ACS Nano. 8(10). 10606–10612. 26 indexed citations
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Fang, Zhiqiang, Hongli Zhu, Wenzhong Bao, et al.. (2014). Highly transparent paper with tunable haze for green electronics. Energy & Environmental Science. 7(10). 3313–3319. 128 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, Heming Wang, Yuanyuan Li, et al.. (2014). Lightweight, conductive hollow fibers from nature as sustainable electrode materials for microbial energy harvesting. Nano Energy. 10. 268–276. 64 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, et al.. (2013). Transparent nanopaper with tailored optical properties. Nanoscale. 5(9). 3787–3787. 218 indexed citations
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Han, Xiaogang, Huixin Zhu, Colin Preston, et al.. (2013). Scalable, printable, surfactant-free graphene ink directly from graphite. Nanotechnology. 24(20). 205304–205304. 62 indexed citations
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Zhu, Hongli, Zhiqiang Fang, Colin Preston, Yuanyuan Li, & Liangbing Hu. (2013). Transparent paper: fabrications, properties, and device applications. Energy & Environmental Science. 7(1). 269–287. 468 indexed citations breakdown →
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Preston, Colin, Yunlu Xu, Xiaogang Han, Jeremy N. Munday, & Liangbing Hu. (2013). Optical haze of transparent and conductive silver nanowire films. Nano Research. 6(7). 461–468. 169 indexed citations
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Preston, Colin, Zhiqiang Fang, Joseph B. Murray, et al.. (2013). Silver nanowire transparent conducting paper-based electrode with high optical haze. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2(7). 1248–1254. 121 indexed citations
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Huang, Jia, Hongli Zhu, Yu‐Chen Chen, et al.. (2013). Highly Transparent and Flexible Nanopaper Transistors. ACS Nano. 7(3). 2106–2113. 384 indexed citations
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Fang, Zhiqiang, Hongli Zhu, Yongbo Yuan, et al.. (2013). Novel Nanostructured Paper with Ultrahigh Transparency and Ultrahigh Haze for Solar Cells. Nano Letters. 14(2). 765–773. 409 indexed citations
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Fang, Zhiqiang, Hongli Zhu, Colin Preston, et al.. (2013). Highly transparent and writable wood all-cellulose hybrid nanostructured paper. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 1(39). 6191–6191. 118 indexed citations

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