Fazel Shojaei

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Fazel Shojaei is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Fazel Shojaei has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Materials Chemistry, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Fazel Shojaei's work include 2D Materials and Applications (39 papers), Graphene research and applications (23 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (20 papers). Fazel Shojaei is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (39 papers), Graphene research and applications (23 papers) and MXene and MAX Phase Materials (20 papers). Fazel Shojaei collaborates with scholars based in Iran, Germany and South Korea. Fazel Shojaei's co-authors include Hong Seok Kang, Bohayra Mortazavi, Xiaoying Zhuang, Alexander V. Shapeev, Timon Rabczuk, Jeunghee Park, Dong Myung Jang, Brahmanandam Javvaji, Kidong Park and Chan Su Jung and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nano Letters and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Fazel Shojaei

57 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Exceptional piezoelectricity, high thermal conductivity and stiffness and promising photocatalysis in two-dimensional MoSi2N4 family confirmed by first-principles

2020 482 citations Bohayra Mortazavi, Brahmanandam Javvaji et al. Nano Energy profile →
Reversible Halide Exchange Reaction of Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Colloidal Nanocrystals for Full-Range Band Gap Tuning

2015 450 citations Kidong Park, Jeunghee Park et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fazel Shojaei Iran	28	2.3k	1.4k	356	309	215	59	2.7k
Wei Kang China	17	1.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	346 1.0×	293 0.9×	180 0.8×	47	1.8k
R. Chandramohan India	29	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	302 0.8×	345 1.1×	135 0.6×	136	2.3k
Qingxiao Zhou China	26	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	212 0.6×	317 1.0×	114 0.5×	96	2.2k
Yogesh Sonvane India	27	2.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	277 0.8×	219 0.7×	218 1.0×	160	2.6k
Huaiyong Li China	25	1.5k 0.7×	779 0.6×	317 0.9×	253 0.8×	108 0.5×	81	1.8k
Peter P. Murmu New Zealand	26	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	250 0.7×	592 1.9×	129 0.6×	69	2.3k
Thanayut Kaewmaraya Thailand	24	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.7×	202 0.6×	348 1.1×	94 0.4×	80	1.8k
Tianxing Wang China	36	3.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.4×	447 1.3×	426 1.4×	444 2.1×	188	4.2k
R. Thangavel India	26	1.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	400 1.1×	417 1.3×	119 0.6×	135	2.0k

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Soleimani, Maryam, et al.. (2025). Computational Screening of 2D Heterostructures for Efficient Photocatalytic Water Splitting. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(13). 9748–9759.

Mohajeri, Afshan, et al.. (2025). Strain-Tuned Z-Scheme Heterostructures of GeH/GeCH ₃ , GeH/InSe, and GeCH ₃ /InSe for Efficient Photocatalysis. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(48). 21434–21447.

Hamidi, Hoda, et al.. (2025). Computational Analyses of Peganum harmala Alkaloids as Green Corrosion Inhibitors on Fe(110). Langmuir. 41(5). 3249–3258. 6 indexed citations

Soleimani, Mohammad, Fazel Shojaei, & Mahdi Pourfath. (2024). Solar-driven water splitting: Theoretical insights into M2Te5 (M=Al, In) monolayer photocatalysts. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 79. 666–675. 1 indexed citations

Shojaei, Fazel, Qinghua Zhang, Xiaoying Zhuang, & Bohayra Mortazavi. (2024). Remarkably high tensile strength and lattice thermal conductivity in wide band gap oxidized holey graphene C2O nanosheet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19(1). 99–99. 3 indexed citations

Soleimani, Maryam, et al.. (2024). Graphsene as a novel porous two-dimensional carbon material for enhanced oxygen reduction electrocatalysis. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 9129–9129. 10 indexed citations

Mortazavi, Bohayra, Masoud Shahrokhi, Fazel Shojaei, Timon Rabczuk, & Xiaoying Zhuang. (2024). A machine learning-assisted exploration of the structural stability, electronic, optical, heat conduction and mechanical properties of C3N4 graphitic carbon nitride monolayers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100024–100024. 6 indexed citations

Shojaei, Fazel, et al.. (2023). Two-dimensional Cr2X2Y6 (X = Si, Ge; Y = S, Se, Te) family with potential application in photocatalysis. Applied Surface Science. 630. 157319–157319. 12 indexed citations

Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, Fei Ding, & Xiaoying Zhuang. (2023). Anomalous tensile strength and thermal expansion, and low thermal conductivity in wide band gap boron monoxide monolayer. FlatChem. 42. 100575–100575. 5 indexed citations

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Shojaei, Fazel, Bohayra Mortazavi, Xiaoying Zhuang, & Mahdi Pourfath. (2022). Negative Poisson's ratio and thickness-dependent optoelectronic response in two-dimensional thermoelectric TlCuSe. Materials Chemistry and Physics. 295. 127155–127155. 2 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, M. Yagmurcukardes, Meysam Makaremi, & Xiaoying Zhuang. (2022). A Theoretical Investigation on the Physical Properties of Zirconium Trichalcogenides, ZrS3, ZrSe3 and ZrTe3 Monolayers. Energies. 15(15). 5479–5479. 11 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, M. Yagmurcukardes, Alexander V. Shapeev, & Xiaoying Zhuang. (2022). Anisotropic and outstanding mechanical, thermal conduction, optical, and piezoelectric responses in a novel semiconducting BCN monolayer confirmed by first-principles and machine learning. Carbon. 200. 500–509. 33 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, Masoud Shahrokhi, et al.. (2022). Electronic, Optical, Mechanical and Li-Ion Storage Properties of Novel Benzotrithiophene-Based Graphdiyne Monolayers Explored by First Principles and Machine Learning. Batteries. 8(10). 194–194. 9 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, Xiaoying Zhuang, & Luiz Felipe C. Pereira. (2021). First-principles investigation of electronic, optical, mechanical and heat transport properties of pentadiamond: A comparison with diamond. Carbon Trends. 3. 100036–100036. 17 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, & Xiaoying Zhuang. (2021). Ultrahigh stiffness and anisotropic Dirac cones in BeN4 and MgN4 monolayers: a first-principles study. Materials Today Nano. 15. 100125–100125. 48 indexed citations

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Brahmanandam Javvaji, Fazel Shojaei, et al.. (2020). Exceptional piezoelectricity, high thermal conductivity and stiffness and promising photocatalysis in two-dimensional MoSi2N4 family confirmed by first-principles. Nano Energy. 82. 105716–105716. 482 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mortazavi, Bohayra, Fazel Shojaei, Brahmanandam Javvaji, et al.. (2020). First-principles investigation of mechanical, electronic and optical properties of H-, F- and Cl-diamane. Applied Surface Science. 528. 147035–147035. 65 indexed citations

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Kim, Doyeon, Kidong Park, Fazel Shojaei, et al.. (2019). Thickness-dependent bandgap and electrical properties of GeP nanosheets. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(27). 16526–16532. 56 indexed citations

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Shojaei, Fazel & Wan‐Jian Yin. (2018). Stability Trend of Tilted Perovskites C. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 6 indexed citations

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Shojaei, Fazel, Jae Ryang Hahn, & Hong Seok Kang. (2016). Effect of Si–Si Bonds in Silicon-Doped α-Phosphorene Bilayers: Two-Dimensional Layers and One-Dimensional Nanoribbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 120(30). 17106–17114. 5 indexed citations

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