Kefu Fu

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Kefu Fu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kefu Fu has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Materials Chemistry, 8 papers in Organic Chemistry and 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Kefu Fu's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (12 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (4 papers). Kefu Fu is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (12 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (8 papers) and Graphene research and applications (4 papers). Kefu Fu collaborates with scholars based in United States. Kefu Fu's co-authors include Ya‐Ping Sun, Yi Lin, Weijie Huang, Apparao M. Rao, Timothy W. Hanks, David Carroll, Shelby Taylor, Lance A. Riddle, Donghui Zhang and Alex Kitaygorodskiy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kefu Fu

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes:  Properties and Applicat... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 400 800 1.2k
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. Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes:  Properties and Applications
    2002 1.3k citations Ya‐Ping Sun, Kefu Fu et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kefu Fu United States 14 1.9k 835 649 570 416 17 2.5k
T. Randall Lee United States 11 2.1k 1.1× 915 1.1× 701 1.1× 882 1.5× 467 1.1× 14 3.0k
Nikolaos Karousis Greece 18 1.7k 0.9× 710 0.9× 383 0.6× 766 1.3× 480 1.2× 44 2.5k
Christopher A. Dyke United States 9 2.4k 1.3× 881 1.1× 698 1.1× 803 1.4× 539 1.3× 12 2.9k
Weijie Huang United States 21 2.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 885 1.4× 638 1.1× 470 1.1× 31 3.4k
P. Bhowmik United States 7 1.7k 0.9× 670 0.8× 452 0.7× 422 0.7× 383 0.9× 7 2.1k
Vito Sgobba Germany 25 1.9k 1.0× 415 0.5× 601 0.9× 1.2k 2.2× 553 1.3× 42 2.6k
Condell D. Doyle United States 7 1.6k 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 331 0.5× 602 1.1× 198 0.5× 7 2.2k
Jeffrey L. Bahr United States 12 3.3k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 1.4k 2.2× 920 1.6× 684 1.6× 13 4.2k
Yujun Qin China 28 1.4k 0.7× 708 0.8× 929 1.4× 1.1k 1.9× 277 0.7× 98 2.5k
E. Buzaneva Ukraine 15 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.4× 571 0.9× 1.5k 2.7× 378 0.9× 34 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kefu Fu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kefu Fu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kefu Fu

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Fu, Kefu, Huaping Li, Bing Zhou, et al.. (2004). Deuterium Attachment to Carbon Nanotubes in Deuterated Water. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126(14). 4669–4675. 13 indexed citations
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Martin, Robert B., et al.. (2003). Interesting fluorescence properties of C60-centered dendritic adduct with twelve symmetrically attached pyrenes. Chemical Communications. 2368–2368. 26 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu & Ya‐Ping Sun. (2003). Dispersion and Solubilization of Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 3(5). 351–364. 88 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, Robert B. Martin, Apparao M. Rao, & Ya‐Ping Sun. (2003). Spectroscopic Probing of Organic Molecules Encapsulated in Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes in Solution. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 3(1). 127–131. 5 indexed citations
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Martin, Robert B., Kefu Fu, & Ya-Ping Sun. (2003). Efficient intramolecular excited-state energy transfer in pyrenes–fullerene macromolecule. Chemical Physics Letters. 375(5-6). 619–624. 20 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, Weijie Huang, Yi Lin, et al.. (2002). Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Bovine Serum Albumin in Homogeneous Aqueous Solution. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 2(5). 457–461. 45 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, et al.. (2002). Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes with Bovine Serum Albumin in Homogeneous Aqueous Solution. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 2(5). 457–461. 52 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, et al.. (2002). Synthesis and optical properties of metal-centered dimeric fullerene macromolecules. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 150(1-3). 143–152. 11 indexed citations
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Sun, Ya‐Ping, Kefu Fu, Yi Lin, & Weijie Huang. (2002). Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes:  Properties and Applications. Accounts of Chemical Research. 35(12). 1096–1104. 1316 indexed citations breakdown →
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Qu, Liangwei, Robert B. Martin, Weijie Huang, et al.. (2002). Interactions of functionalized carbon nanotubes with tethered pyrenes in solution. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 117(17). 8089–8094. 63 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, Alex Kitaygorodskiy, Apparao M. Rao, & Yaping Sun. (2002). Deuterium Attachment to Carbon Nanotubes in Solution. Nano Letters. 2(10). 1165–1168. 14 indexed citations
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Huang, Weijie, Shelby Taylor, Kefu Fu, et al.. (2002). Attaching Proteins to Carbon Nanotubes via Diimide-Activated Amidation. Nano Letters. 2(4). 311–314. 390 indexed citations
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Sun, Ya‐Ping, Bing Zhou, Kevin B. Henbest, et al.. (2002). Luminescence anisotropy of functionalized carbon nanotubes in solution. Chemical Physics Letters. 351(5-6). 349–353. 46 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, Weijie Huang, Yi Lin, et al.. (2001). Defunctionalization of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters. 1(8). 439–441. 133 indexed citations
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DiMaio, Jeffrey R., John Ballato, R. Czerw, et al.. (2001). <title>Transparent silica glasses containing single-walled carbon nanotubes</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4452. 48–53. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Ya‐Ping, Weijie Huang, Yi Lin, et al.. (2001). Soluble Dendron-Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes:  Preparation, Characterization, and Properties,. Chemistry of Materials. 13(9). 2864–2869. 261 indexed citations
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Fu, Kefu, Alex Kitaygorodskiy, & Ya‐Ping Sun. (2000). Fullerene-Centered Macromolecules as Unimolecular Micellar Structures. Chemistry of Materials. 12(8). 2073–2075. 15 indexed citations

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