George Ni

9.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
19 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

George Ni is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, George Ni has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in George Ni's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (10 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (5 papers). George Ni is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers), Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (10 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (5 papers). George Ni collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. George Ni's co-authors include Gang Chen, Jia Zhu, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Hadi Ghasemi, Nenad Miljkovic, Selçuk Yerci, Amy Marconnet, James Loomis, Wen Shang and Peng Tao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

George Ni

19 papers receiving 8.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Solar steam generation by heat localization

2014 2.0k citations Hadi Ghasemi, George Ni et al. Nature Communications profile →
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation

2018 1.9k citations Peng Tao, George Ni et al. Nature Energy profile →
Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

2016 1.0k citations George Ni, Svetlana V. Boriskina et al. Nature Energy profile →
A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination

2018 814 citations George Ni, Seyed Hadi Zandavi et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by resonant states of aluminium doping in lead selenide

2011 400 citations Qinyong Zhang, Hui Wang 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						Papers	Cites
George Ni United States	14	7.0k	3.4k	1.3k	976	971	19	8.2k
Weichao Xu China	14	5.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	960 1.0×	621 0.6×	20	6.4k
Minmin Gao Singapore	33	6.7k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	996 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	875 0.9×	56	8.0k
Jinlei Li China	32	4.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	755 0.6×	810 0.8×	672 0.7×	48	6.8k
Yusuf Shi Saudi Arabia	28	3.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	944 0.7×	688 0.7×	954 1.0×	36	5.0k
Yingling Tan China	11	3.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	644 0.5×	911 0.9×	477 0.5×	16	4.7k
Chengbing Wang China	38	2.7k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	483 0.4×	545 0.6×	949 1.0×	126	4.4k
James Loomis United States	19	2.4k 0.3×	858 0.3×	387 0.3×	927 0.9×	818 0.8×	28	4.5k
Yida Wang China	27	3.5k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	662 0.5×	428 0.4×	447 0.5×	70	4.2k
Xuejiao Hu China	34	1.2k 0.2×	825 0.2×	137 0.1×	1.1k 1.1×	607 0.6×	101	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by George Ni

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Ni

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Ni

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19 of 19 papers shown

Li, Xiuqiang, George Ni, Thomas Cooper, et al.. (2019). Measuring Conversion Efficiency of Solar Vapor Generation. Joule. 3(8). 1798–1803. 325 indexed citations

Zhou, Lin, Xiuqiang Li, George Ni, Shining Zhu, & Jia Zhu. (2019). The revival of thermal utilization from the Sun: interfacial solar vapor generation. National Science Review. 6(3). 562–578. 340 indexed citations

Younes, Hammad, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, George Ni, et al.. (2019). Investigation of Magnetic Properties of γ-Fe2O3 NP-Decorated Carbon Nanostructured Mats. JOM. 71(9). 3142–3150. 8 indexed citations

Cooper, Thomas, Seyed Hadi Zandavi, George Ni, et al.. (2018). Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5086–5086. 275 indexed citations

Ni, George, Seyed Hadi Zandavi, Seyyed Morteza Javid, et al.. (2018). A salt-rejecting floating solar still for low-cost desalination. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(6). 1510–1519. 814 indexed citations breakdown →

Ruiz‐Clavijo, Alejandra, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Olga Caballero‐Calero, et al.. (2018). Engineering a Full Gamut of Structural Colors in All-Dielectric Mesoporous Network Metamaterials. ACS Photonics. 5(6). 2120–2128. 45 indexed citations

Tao, Peng, George Ni, Chengyi Song, et al.. (2018). Solar-driven interfacial evaporation. Nature Energy. 3(12). 1031–1041. 1909 indexed citations breakdown →

Rahman, Md. Mahfuzur, Hammad Younes, George Ni, et al.. (2017). Plasmonic nanofluids enhanced solar thermal transfer liquid. AIP conference proceedings. 1850. 110013–110013. 10 indexed citations

Boriskina, Svetlana V., Thomas Cooper, Lingping Zeng, et al.. (2017). Losses in plasmonics: from mitigating energy dissipation to embracing loss-enabled functionalities. Advances in Optics and Photonics. 9(4). 775–775. 157 indexed citations

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Zandavi, Seyed Hadi, Yi Huang, George Ni, et al.. (2017). Polymer Metamaterial Fabrics for Personal Radiative Thermal Management. FM4D.6–FM4D.6. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Xiuqiang, Renxing Lin, George Ni, et al.. (2017). Three-dimensional artificial transpiration for efficient solar waste-water treatment. National Science Review. 5(1). 70–77. 432 indexed citations

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Ni, George, Svetlana V. Boriskina, Hongxia Li, et al.. (2016). Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration. Nature Energy. 1(9). 1034 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rahman, Md. Mahfuzur, Hammad Younes, Jin-You Lu, et al.. (2016). Broadband light absorption by silver nanoparticle decorated silica nanospheres. RSC Advances. 6(109). 107951–107959. 10 indexed citations

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Rahman, Md. Mahfuzur, Hammad Younes, George Ni, Tiejun Zhang, & Amal Al Ghaferi. (2016). Synthesis and optical characterization of carbon nanotube arrays. Materials Research Bulletin. 77. 243–252. 18 indexed citations

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Ni, George, Nenad Miljkovic, Hadi Ghasemi, et al.. (2015). Volumetric solar heating of nanofluids for direct vapor generation. Nano Energy. 17. 290–301. 379 indexed citations

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Ghasemi, Hadi, George Ni, Amy Marconnet, et al.. (2014). Solar steam generation by heat localization. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4449–4449. 1959 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Qian, Qinyong Zhang, Dezhi Wang, et al.. (2012). Study on thermoelectric properties of n-type PbSe doped with B, Ga, and In. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qinyong, Dandan Wang, Qian Zhang, et al.. (2012). Effect of Silicon and Sodium on Thermoelectric Properties of Thallium-Doped Lead Telluride-Based Materials. Nano Letters. 12(5). 2324–2330. 64 indexed citations

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Zhang, Qinyong, Hui Wang, Weishu Liu, et al.. (2011). Enhancement of thermoelectric figure-of-merit by resonant states of aluminium doping in lead selenide. Energy & Environmental Science. 5(1). 5246–5251. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

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