Kumar Varoon Agrawal

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Kumar Varoon Agrawal is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kumar Varoon Agrawal has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Materials Chemistry, 43 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 38 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kumar Varoon Agrawal's work include Graphene research and applications (47 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (38 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (26 papers). Kumar Varoon Agrawal is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (47 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (38 papers) and Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (26 papers). Kumar Varoon Agrawal collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and China. Kumar Varoon Agrawal's co-authors include Michael Tsapatsis, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Guangwei He, Shiqi Huang, Mostapha Dakhchoune, Xueyi Zhang, Jing Zhao, Michael S. Strano, Mounir Mensi and Lee W. Drahushuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kumar Varoon Agrawal

89 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Synthesis of Self-Pillared Zeolite Nanosheets by Repetitive Branching

2012 700 citations Xueyi Zhang, Kumar Varoon Agrawal et al. profile →
Dispersible Exfoliated Zeolite Nanosheets and Their Application as a Selective Membrane

2011 586 citations Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Xueyi Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kumar Varoon Agrawal Switzerland	32	3.0k	1.9k	1.8k	1.2k	850	98	4.5k
Dun‐Yen Kang Taiwan	30	1.2k 0.4×	952 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	497 0.4×	529 0.6×	107	2.6k
Hans H. Funke United States	28	957 0.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	525 0.4×	287 0.3×	53	2.5k
L. Cot France	30	1.7k 0.6×	715 0.4×	654 0.4×	504 0.4×	629 0.7×	172	3.1k
Frank Steinbach Germany	23	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	205 0.2×	281 0.3×	51	2.2k
Yu. P. Yampolskii Russia	38	1.6k 0.5×	595 0.3×	3.6k 2.0×	763 0.6×	785 0.9×	143	4.7k
Toru Wakihara Japan	39	3.4k 1.1×	3.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	510 0.4×	94 0.1×	221	4.8k
Y. C. Jean United States	37	1.8k 0.6×	304 0.2×	2.0k 1.1×	826 0.7×	847 1.0×	113	5.0k
Urszula Narkiewicz Poland	28	1.6k 0.5×	245 0.1×	869 0.5×	682 0.6×	383 0.5×	177	3.0k
Yun-Jo Lee South Korea	42	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	834 0.7×	78 0.1×	85	4.2k
Yasuyuki Egashira Japan	28	1.9k 0.6×	994 0.5×	507 0.3×	252 0.2×	141 0.2×	102	2.8k

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Hao, Jian, et al.. (2025). Scalable synthesis of CO2-selective porous single-layer graphene membranes. 2(4). 241–251. 5 indexed citations

Ayappa, K. G., et al.. (2025). Gated CO2 permeation across dynamic graphene pores. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6252–6252.

Asgari, Mehrdad, Vikram V. Karve, Thorsten Felder, et al.. (2025). Anisotropic node distortions in amorphous MOFs: Low-valent Zr sites as catalytic hotspots. Chem. 11(11). 102619–102619. 1 indexed citations

Chi, Heng‐Yu, Shuqing Song, Kangning Zhao, et al.. (2025). Non-van-der-Waals Oriented Two-Dimensional UiO-66 Films by Rapid Aqueous Synthesis at Room Temperature. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(9). 7255–7263. 7 indexed citations

Silva, Wanderson O., et al.. (2025). Print-light-synthesis of electrocatalytically active gas diffusion electrodes for fuel cell applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(10). 7403–7412.

Goethem, Cédric Van, et al.. (2024). Stereochemical tuning, post-synthesis crosslinking and quaternizing to tune the membrane performance of ultra-stable polyamine nanofiltration membranes. Journal of Membrane Science. 717. 123531–123531. 1 indexed citations

Rezaei, Mojtaba, et al.. (2024). Direct synthesis of nanocrystalline single-layer porous graphene for hydrogen sieving. Carbon. 221. 118866–118866. 5 indexed citations

Agrawal, Kumar Varoon, et al.. (2024). Nanofluidics. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 4(1). 31 indexed citations

Yu, Ruohan, Wangwang Xu, Lei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Dynamic Behavior of Spatially Confined Sn Clusters and Its Application in Highly Efficient Sodium Storage with High Initial Coulombic Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 36(15). e2307151–e2307151. 11 indexed citations

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Goethem, Cédric Van, et al.. (2023). Development of tuneable polyamine top layer for nanofiltration with high stability in bleach and at extreme pHs. Journal of Membrane Science. 693. 122341–122341. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Qi, Yurun Miao, Luis Francisco Villalobos, et al.. (2023). Unit-cell-thick zeolitic imidazolate framework films for membrane application. Nature Materials. 22(11). 1387–1393. 68 indexed citations

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Li, Shaoxian, et al.. (2023). Selective Photonic Gasification of Strained Oxygen Clusters on Graphene for Tuning Pore Size in the Å Regime. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(10). 2844–2854. 7 indexed citations

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Goethem, Cédric Van, et al.. (2022). In depth analysis of heterogeneous catalysts for the chemoenzymatic dynamic kinetic resolution of β-amino esters. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(9). 2894–2902. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Wan‐Chi, Luis Francisco Villalobos, Shiqi Huang, et al.. (2022). Enhanced Water Evaporation from Å-Scale Graphene Nanopores. ACS Nano. 16(9). 15382–15396. 30 indexed citations

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Villalobos, Luis Francisco, Cédric Van Goethem, Kuang‐Jung Hsu, et al.. (2021). Bottom-up synthesis of graphene films hosting atom-thick molecular-sieving apertures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(37). 19 indexed citations

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Hao, Jian, Deepu J. Babu, Qi Liu, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of high-performance polycrystalline metal–organic framework membranes at room temperature in a few minutes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(16). 7633–7640. 43 indexed citations

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Bellisario, Darin O., Albert Tianxiang Liu, Daichi Kozawa, et al.. (2017). Experimental Observation of Real Time Molecular Dynamics Using Electromigrated Tunnel Junctions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(40). 22550–22558. 2 indexed citations

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Yuan, Zhe, Ananth Govind Rajan, Rahul Prasanna Misra, et al.. (2017). Mechanism and Prediction of Gas Permeation through Sub-Nanometer Graphene Pores: Comparison of Theory and Simulation. ACS Nano. 11(8). 7974–7987. 107 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Kumar Varoon, Jesse D. Benck, Zhe Yuan, et al.. (2017). Fabrication, Pressure Testing, and Nanopore Formation of Single-Layer Graphene Membranes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(26). 14312–14321. 45 indexed citations

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Stoeger, Jared A., Miguel Palomino, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, et al.. (2012). Oriented CoSAPO‐5 Membranes by Microwave‐Enhanced Growth on TiO₂‐Coated Porous Alumina. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(10). 2470–2473. 26 indexed citations

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