Kaushik Balakrishnan

5.3k citations

42 papers · 4.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 23

Polymers and Plastics top 1%
- Conducting polymers and applications 8
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 2%
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication 5
Materials Chemistry top 2%
- Graphene research and applications 5
- Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials 5
Biomaterials top 2%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 2%
- Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics 8
Biomedical Engineering
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials 7
Aerospace Engineering
- Combustion and Detonation Processes 5
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies 5

Co-authors: Ling Zang Aniket Datar Pulickel M. Ajayan Arava Leela Mohana Reddy Max Yen Yanke Che Jincai Zhao Róbert Vajtai
Cited by: Polymers and Plastics Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry
Partner nations: United States Qatar China

In The Last Decade

Kaushik Balakrishnan

42 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

2011 Ultrathin Planar Graphene Supercapacitors
2006 Effect of Side-Chain Substituents on Self-Assembly of Perylene Diimide Molecules: Morphology Control

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1	Strain sensing skin-like film using zinc oxide nanostructures grown on PDMS and reduced graphene oxide Tejus Satish,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Hemtej Gullapalli,Satish Nagarajaiah,Róbert Vajtai,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2017	1
2	Graphene Q-switched Ho^3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1190 nm Shujing Liu,Xiushan Zhu,Gongwen Zhu,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Jie Zong,Kort Wiersma,Arturo Chavez-Pirson,Robert A. Norwood,N. Peyghambarian	2015	26
3	Tunable light emission from co-assembled structures of benzothiadiazole molecules Kaushik Balakrishnan,Wei-Liang Hsu,Shuntarō Mataka,Stanley Pau	2014	7
4	Full-Stokes imaging polarimeter using an array of elliptical polarizer Wei-Liang Hsu,Graham Myhre,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Neal Brock,Mohammed Ibn‐Elhaj,Stanley Pau	2014	101
5	Metal nanowire-graphene composite transparent electrodes Trent Mankowski,Zhaozhao Zhu,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Ali Sehpar Shikoh,Farid Touati,Mohieddine Benammar,Masud Mansuripur,Charlies M. Falco	2014	1
6	One-dimensional self-assembly of a water soluble perylene diimide molecule by pH triggered hydrogelation Aniket Datar,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Ling Zang	2013	127
7	Patterned cholesteric liquid crystal polymer film Wei-Liang Hsu,Ji Ma,Graham Myhre,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Stanley Pau	2013	12
8	Supercapacitor Operating At 200 Degrees Celsius Raquel S. Borges,Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,Marco‐Tulio F. Rodrigues,Hemtej Gullapalli,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Glaura G. Silva,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2013	96
9	Graphene Q-switched 278 μm Er^3+-doped fluoride fiber laser Chen Wei,Xiushan Zhu,Fengqiu Wang,Yuwei Xu,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Feng Song,Robert A. Norwood,N. Peyghambarian	2013	152
10	Fe^2+:ZnSe and graphene Q-switched singly Ho^3+-doped ZBLAN fiber lasers at 3 μm Gongwen Zhu,Xiushan Zhu,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Robert A. Norwood,N. Peyghambarian	2013	99
11	Synthesis of iron nanoparticles from hemoglobin and myoglobin Arshad Sayyad,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Lijie Ci,Ahmad Kabbani,Róbert Vajtai,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2012	22
12	Multi-mode waveguides from ultra-long self-assembled hexagonal faceted microtubules of a benzothiadiazole molecule Kaushik Balakrishnan,Arshad Sayyad,Graham Myhre,Shuntarō Mataka,Stanley Pau	2012	10
13	Ultrafine nanofibers fabricated from an arylene–ethynylene macrocyclic molecule using surface assisted self-assembly Aniket Datar,Dustin E. Gross,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Xiaomei Yang,Jeffrey S. Moore,Ling Zang	2012	17
14	Controlled, Stepwise Reduction and Band Gap Manipulation of Graphene Oxide Akshay Mathkar,Dylan Tozier,Paris Cox,Peijie Ong,Charudatta Galande,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Arava Leela Mohana Reddy,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2012	358
15	Flexible ZnO–Cellulose Nanocomposite for Multisource Energy Conversion Ashavani Kumar,Hemtej Gullapalli,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Andrés R. Botello‐Méndez,Róbert Vajtai,Mauricio Terrones,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2011	71
16	Chemical reaction mediated self-assembly of PTCDA into nanofibers Arshad Sayyad,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Pulickel M. Ajayan	2011	17
17	Characterization of the Mixing Layer Resulting from the Detonation of Heterogeneous Explosive Charges Kaushik Balakrishnan,Suresh Menon	2011	19
18	Highly Polarized and Self-Waveguided Emission from Single-Crystalline Organic Nanobelts Yanke Che,Xiaomei Yang,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Jian‐Min Zuo,Ling Zang	2009	99
19	Ultralong Nanobelts Self-Assembled from an Asymmetric Perylene Tetracarboxylic Diimide Yanke Che,Aniket Datar,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Ling Zang	2007	285
20	Detection of Explosives with a Fluorescent Nanofibril Film Tammene Naddo,Yanke Che,Wei Zhang,Kaushik Balakrishnan,Xiaomei Yang,Max Yen,Jincai Zhao,Jeffrey S. Moore,Ling Zang	2007	361

About Kaushik Balakrishnan

Kaushik Balakrishnan is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomaterials, having authored 42 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (8 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (7 papers), Graphene research and applications (5 papers), Combustion and Detonation Processes (5 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (5 papers), Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (5 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Polymers and Plastics (960 citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (1.3k citations) and Materials Chemistry (2.5k citations). Kaushik Balakrishnan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Qatar and China. Frequent co-authors include Ling Zang, Aniket Datar, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Arava Leela Mohana Reddy, Max Yen, Yanke Che, Jincai Zhao, Róbert Vajtai, Jian‐Min Zuo and Jialing Huang.

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