Jonathan A. Malen

6.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
102 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan A. Malen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan A. Malen has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Materials Chemistry, 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jonathan A. Malen's work include Thermal properties of materials (45 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (22 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (19 papers). Jonathan A. Malen is often cited by papers focused on Thermal properties of materials (45 papers), Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (22 papers) and Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies (19 papers). Jonathan A. Malen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Jonathan A. Malen's co-authors include Alan J. H. McGaughey, Arun Majumdar, Rachel A. Segalman, Keith T. Regner, Carmel Majidi, Matthew J. Powell‐Palm, Zonghui Su, Kanhayalal Baheti, Daniel P. Sellan and Xiaonan Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan A. Malen

96 papers receiving 4.7k citations

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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.

High thermal conductivity in soft elastomers with elongated liquid metal inclusions

2017 558 citations Matthew J. Powell‐Palm, Jonathan A. Malen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Broadband phonon mean free path contributions to thermal conductivity measured using frequency domain thermoreflectance

2013 476 citations Daniel P. Sellan, Zonghui Su et al. Nature Communications profile →
A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions

2019 268 citations Michael J. Ford, Cedric P. Ambulo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

2021 237 citations Austin M. Evans, Ashutosh Giri et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan A. Malen United States	33	3.0k	1.6k	1.2k	1.0k	828	102	4.8k
Arden L. Moore United States	25	5.1k 1.7×	942 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	865 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	54	6.1k
Theodorian Borca‐Tasciuc United States	34	3.7k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	908 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	120	5.1k
Xin Qian China	30	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	915 0.8×	797 0.8×	770 0.9×	74	5.8k
Michael T. Pettes United States	35	5.4k 1.8×	1.6k 1.0×	906 0.8×	836 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	99	6.7k
Baratunde A. Cola United States	32	2.5k 0.8×	948 0.6×	640 0.6×	534 0.5×	604 0.7×	96	3.4k
Asegun Henry United States	34	3.6k 1.2×	908 0.6×	805 0.7×	847 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	76	5.1k
Jin-Wu Jiang China	45	5.5k 1.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	620 0.6×	421 0.5×	132	6.5k
Denis L. Nika Moldova	28	5.3k 1.8×	971 0.6×	945 0.8×	519 0.5×	1.5k 1.8×	61	6.1k
Christopher Harrison United States	24	2.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.8×	1.2k 1.1×	260 0.3×	55	5.5k
Bohayra Mortazavi Germany	55	7.5k 2.5×	2.4k 1.6×	727 0.6×	522 0.5×	320 0.4×	154	8.8k

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Song, Yiwen, Husam Walwil, Mi‐Hee Ji, et al.. (2025). Phonon transport in Al-rich AlxGa1−xN thin films. Journal of Applied Physics. 138(8).

Malen, Jonathan A., et al.. (2025). Thermal conductivities of WC-Ni cermet powders for powder bed additive manufacturing. Powder Technology. 460. 121032–121032. 2 indexed citations

Mondal, B.N., et al.. (2025). Two-Color Thermography of GMAW to Enable Real-Time Hardness Prediction. Welding Journal. 104(9). 351–s.

Kantzos, Christopher, Jack Beuth, Jonathan A. Malen, et al.. (2024). Limits of dispersoid size and number density in oxide dispersion strengthened alloys fabricated with powder bed fusion-laser beam. Additive manufacturing. 81. 104022–104022. 9 indexed citations

Ogoke, Francis, et al.. (2024). Deep learning for melt pool depth contour prediction from surface thermal images via vision transformers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 100243–100243. 3 indexed citations

Kovačević, Saša, et al.. (2023). Shape distortion in sintering results from nonhomogeneous temperature activating a long-range mass transport. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2667–2667. 9 indexed citations

Ogoke, Francis, et al.. (2023). Convolutional neural networks for melt depth prediction and visualization in laser powder bed fusion. The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 129(7-8). 3047–3062. 9 indexed citations

Ogoke, Francis, et al.. (2023). Surrogate modeling of melt pool temperature field using deep learning. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100123–100123. 19 indexed citations

McGaughey, Alan J. H., et al.. (2023). Reduced thermal resistance of amorphous Al2O3 thin films on β-Ga2O3 and amorphous SiO2 substrates via rapid thermal annealing. Applied Physics Letters. 123(13). 7 indexed citations

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Ogoke, Francis, et al.. (2022). Surrogate Modeling of Melt Pool Thermal Field Using Deep Learning. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Evans, Austin M., Ashutosh Giri, Vinod K. Sangwan, et al.. (2021). Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks. Nature Materials. 20(8). 1142–1148. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

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Babaei, Hasan, Mallory E. DeCoster, Minyoung Jeong, et al.. (2020). Observation of reduced thermal conductivity in a metal-organic framework due to the presence of adsorbates. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4010–4010. 130 indexed citations

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Ford, Michael J., Cedric P. Ambulo, Teresa A. Kent, et al.. (2019). A multifunctional shape-morphing elastomer with liquid metal inclusions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(43). 21438–21444. 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Powell‐Palm, Matthew J., et al.. (2018). Thermal conductivity of metal powders for powder bed additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing. 21. 201–208. 163 indexed citations

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Jain, Ankit, et al.. (2017). Phonon-boundary scattering in nanoporous silicon films: Comparison of Monte Carlo techniques. Journal of Applied Physics. 122(12). 38 indexed citations

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Adachi, Michael M., Fengjia Fan, Daniel P. Sellan, et al.. (2015). Microsecond-sustained lasing from colloidal quantum dot solids. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8694–8694. 114 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinyu, et al.. (2015). Modifying the thermal conductivity of small molecule organic semiconductor thin films with metal nanoparticles. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16095–16095. 40 indexed citations

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Su, Zonghui & Jonathan A. Malen. (2013). Heat Dissipation in GaN Based Power Electronics. ECS Transactions. 58(4). 343–349. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hao, Jae Sung Son, Jaeyoung Jang, et al.. (2013). Bi_1–xSb_x Alloy Nanocrystals: Colloidal Synthesis, Charge Transport, and Thermoelectric Properties. ACS Nano. 7(11). 10296–10306. 38 indexed citations

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Su, Zonghui, Jonathan A. Malen, Li Huang, & R. F. Davis. (2012). Temperature Dependent Thermal Properties in LEDs for Solid State Lighting. 579–583. 4 indexed citations

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