Ken C. Pradel

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ken C. Pradel is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken C. Pradel has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ken C. Pradel's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (15 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (10 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (8 papers). Ken C. Pradel is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (15 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (10 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (8 papers). Ken C. Pradel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Ken C. Pradel's co-authors include Zhong Lin Wang, Zong‐Hong Lin, Gang Cheng, Long Lin, Yusheng Zhou, Ya Yang, Sangmin Lee, Wenxi Guo, Wenzhuo Wu and Youfan Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ken C. Pradel

34 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Harvesting Water Drop Energy by a Sequential Contact‐Electrification and Electrostatic‐Induction Process

2014 703 citations Zong‐Hong Lin, Ken C. Pradel et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Pyroelectric Nanogenerators for Harvesting Thermoelectric Energy

2012 648 citations Ya Yang, Wenxi Guo et al. Nano Letters profile →
Networks of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Harvesting Water Wave Energy: A Potential Approach toward Blue Energy

2015 556 citations Jun Chen, Jin Yang et al. ACS Nano profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken C. Pradel United States	22	3.4k	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	35	4.4k
Tae Yun Kim South Korea	22	3.8k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	916 0.9×	962 1.0×	32	4.4k
Guozhang Dai China	26	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	644 0.6×	747 0.7×	71	4.2k
Chunhua Du China	31	4.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	847 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	105	6.1k
Cheng Xu China	21	4.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	920 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	45	5.2k
Aifang Yu China	37	4.0k 1.2×	2.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.1×	678 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	86	5.2k
Manoj Kumar Gupta India	34	4.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	987 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	114	5.6k
Jinhyeong Kwon South Korea	33	3.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	2.9k 2.1×	924 0.9×	958 1.0×	78	5.3k
Habeom Lee South Korea	36	4.5k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	3.2k 2.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	79	6.1k
Myunghwan Byun South Korea	34	3.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	697 0.7×	73	5.4k
Dukhyun Choi South Korea	46	5.0k 1.4×	3.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	183	6.9k

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Pradel, Ken C., et al.. (2023). (Invited) triboelectric Nanogenerator Based Sensors for Water Quality Evaluation. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-01(34). 1929–1929.

Suzuki, Yudai, et al.. (2022). Natural quantum reservoir computing for temporal information processing. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1353–1353. 48 indexed citations

Subramani, Thiyagu, et al.. (2019). Three-dimensional radial junction solar cell based on ordered silicon nanowires. Nanotechnology. 30(34). 344001–344001. 13 indexed citations

Ding, Yong, Yu Chen, Ken C. Pradel, et al.. (2018). Domain structures and Prco antisite point defects in double-perovskite PrBaCo2O5+δ and PrBa0.8Ca0.2Co2O5+δ. Ultramicroscopy. 193. 64–70. 12 indexed citations

Pradel, Ken C., Jun Uzuhashi, Toshiaki Takei, et al.. (2018). Investigation of nanoscale voids in Sb-doped p-type ZnO nanowires. Nanotechnology. 29(33). 335204–335204. 13 indexed citations

Pradel, Ken C., et al.. (2017). Low-temperature hydrothermally grown 100 μm vertically well-aligned ultralong and ultradense ZnO nanorod arrays with improved PL property. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 702. 700–709. 33 indexed citations

Jevasuwan, Wipakorn, et al.. (2017). Pencil-shaped silicon nanowire synthesis and photovoltaic application. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 56(8). 85201–85201. 13 indexed citations

Ding, Yong, Yu Chen, Ken C. Pradel, Meilin Liu, & Zhong Lin Wang. (2016). In-situ transmission electron microscopy study of oxygen vacancy ordering and dislocation annihilation in undoped and Sm-doped CeO2 ceramics during redox processes. Journal of Applied Physics. 120(21). 16 indexed citations

Ding, Yong, Ken C. Pradel, & Zhong Lin Wang. (2016). In situ transmission electron microscopy observation of ZnO polar and non-polar surfaces structure evolution under electron beam irradiation. Journal of Applied Physics. 119(1). 20 indexed citations

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Pradel, Ken C., et al.. (2016). Solution derived p-ZnO/n-Si nanowire heterojunctions for photodetection. Chemical Physics Letters. 658. 158–161. 19 indexed citations

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Pradel, Ken C., Yong Ding, Wenzhuo Wu, et al.. (2016). Optoelectronic Properties of Solution Grown ZnO n-p or p-n Core–Shell Nanowire Arrays. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 8(7). 4287–4291. 41 indexed citations

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Ding, Yong, Yuzi Liu, Ken C. Pradel, et al.. (2015). Quantifying mean inner potential of ZnO nanowires by off-axis electron holography. Micron. 78. 67–72. 6 indexed citations

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Chen, Jun, Jin Yang, Zhaoling Li, et al.. (2015). Networks of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Harvesting Water Wave Energy: A Potential Approach toward Blue Energy. ACS Nano. 9(3). 3324–3331. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pradel, Ken C., Wenzhuo Wu, Yong Ding, & Zhong Lin Wang. (2014). Solution-Derived ZnO Homojunction Nanowire Films on Wearable Substrates for Energy Conversion and Self-Powered Gesture Recognition. Nano Letters. 14(12). 6897–6905. 121 indexed citations

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Wang, Sihong, Zong‐Hong Lin, Simiao Niu, et al.. (2013). Motion Charged Battery as Sustainable Flexible-Power-Unit. ACS Nano. 7(12). 11263–11271. 135 indexed citations

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Yang, Ya, Jong Hoon Jung, Byung Kil Yun, et al.. (2012). Flexible Pyroelectric Nanogenerators using a Composite Structure of Lead‐Free KNbO₃ Nanowires. Advanced Materials. 24(39). 5357–5362. 240 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yusheng, Ronan Hinchet, Ya Yang, et al.. (2012). Nano‐Newton Transverse Force Sensor Using a Vertical GaN Nanowire based on the Piezotronic Effect. Advanced Materials. 25(6). 883–888. 91 indexed citations

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Yang, Ya, Ken C. Pradel, Qingshen Jing, et al.. (2012). Thermoelectric Nanogenerators Based on Single Sb-Doped ZnO Micro/Nanobelts. ACS Nano. 6(8). 6984–6989. 194 indexed citations

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Pradel, Ken C., Kwonnam Sohn, & Jiaxing Huang. (2011). Cross‐Flow Purification of Nanowires. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(15). 3412–3416. 56 indexed citations

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Sohn, Kwonnam, Franklin Kim, Ken C. Pradel, et al.. (2009). Construction of Evolutionary Tree for Morphological Engineering of Nanoparticles. ACS Nano. 3(8). 2191–2198. 100 indexed citations

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