Libor Kvı́tek

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
88 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Libor Kvı́tek is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Libor Kvı́tek has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Materials Chemistry, 29 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Libor Kvı́tek's work include Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (31 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (24 papers) and Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles (10 papers). Libor Kvı́tek is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (31 papers), Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (24 papers) and Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles (10 papers). Libor Kvı́tek collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Poland. Libor Kvı́tek's co-authors include Aleš Panáček, Radek Zbořil, Robert Prucek, Milan Kolář, Renata Večeřová, Jana Soukupová, Taťjana Nevěčná, Naděžda Pizúrová, Virender K. Sharma and Monika Smékalová and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Libor Kvı́tek

85 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Silver Colloid Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Their Antibacterial Activity

2006 1.9k citations Aleš Panáček, Libor Kvı́tek et al. profile →
Effect of Surfactants and Polymers on Stability and Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles (NPs)

2008 819 citations Libor Kvı́tek, Aleš Panáček et al. profile →
Antifungal activity of silver nanoparticles against Candida spp.

2009 788 citations Aleš Panáček, Milan Kolář et al. profile →
Bacterial resistance to silver nanoparticles and how to overcome it

2017 773 citations Aleš Panáček, Libor Kvı́tek et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Libor Kvı́tek	5.1k	2.7k	1.1k	1.1k	768	88	7.3k
Aleš Panáček	5.4k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	827 1.1×	80	7.4k
Robert Prucek	5.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	782 1.0×	68	7.6k
Jose Luis Elechiguerra	5.9k 1.1×	3.1k 1.2×	720 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	759 1.0×	14	7.7k
José Rubén Morones‐Ramírez	6.0k 1.2×	3.3k 1.2×	891 0.8×	767 0.7×	921 1.2×	75	9.7k
Katherine B. Holt	5.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	904 0.8×	660 0.6×	698 0.9×	73	8.5k
Kishore M. Paknikar	3.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	704 0.6×	459 0.4×	1.4k 1.8×	127	8.4k
Renata Večeřová	3.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	601 0.5×	594 0.5×	547 0.7×	37	5.2k
Idrees Khan	4.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	904 0.8×	592 0.5×	794 1.0×	88	7.3k
Khalid Saeed	4.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	674 0.6×	1.3k 1.6×	127	9.2k
Alka Yadav	4.6k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	604 0.5×	450 0.4×	844 1.1×	48	6.6k

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Kvı́tek, Libor, et al.. (2025). Emerging strategies of bacterial adaptation mechanisms to silver and metal oxide nanomaterials. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 50.

Kvı́tek, Libor, et al.. (2025). Innovative Approaches in Cancer Treatment: Emphasizing the Role of Nanomaterials in Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition. Pharmaceutics. 17(6). 783–783. 1 indexed citations

Lapčík, Lubomir, et al.. (2025). Silica Aerogels as a Promising Vehicle for Effective Water Splitting for Hydrogen Production. Molecules. 30(6). 1212–1212. 1 indexed citations

Prucek, Robert, Aleš Panáček, Josef Kašlík, et al.. (2025). The Solvothermal Method: An Efficient Tool for the Preparation of Ni-Based Catalysts with High Activity in CO2 Methanation. Nanomaterials. 15(17). 1379–1379. 1 indexed citations

Mistrík, Martin, Milan Kolář, Kateřina Langová, et al.. (2025). Revealing the mechanism of synergistic antibacterial effect of silver nanoparticles in combination with vancomycin against Enterococcus species by fluorescence microscopy visualization. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 13(35). 10903–10915.

Homonnay, Z., Laura Bereczki, Vladimir M. Petruševski, et al.. (2025). Studies on a Urea-Complexed Iron(III) Dichromate, a Precursor of Chromium-Rich Nanospinel Catalysts Prepared for the Reductive Transformation of Carbon Dioxide. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(7). 3427–3444.

Večeřová, Renata, Tomáš Malina, Martin Petr, et al.. (2025). Selenium nanoparticles: influence of reducing agents on particle stability and antibacterial activity at biogenic concentrations. Nanoscale. 17(13). 8170–8182. 3 indexed citations

Lapčík, Lubomir, Barbora Lapčíková, Martin Vašina, et al.. (2024). Improved mechanical properties of graphene-modified basalt fibre–epoxy composites. Nanotechnology Reviews. 13(1). 10 indexed citations

Panáček, David, Renata Večeřová, Milan Kolář, et al.. (2024). E. coli and S. aureus resist silver nanoparticles via an identical mechanism, but through different pathways. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1552–1552. 17 indexed citations

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Prucek, Robert, et al.. (2024). CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol over In2O3 Decorated by Metals of the Iron Triad. Molecules. 29(22). 5325–5325. 2 indexed citations

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Prucek, Robert, et al.. (2024). Nanodiamond Supported Ultra-Small Palladium Nanoparticles as an Efficient Catalyst for Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions. Catalysts. 14(1). 53–53. 8 indexed citations

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Prucek, Robert, et al.. (2024). Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy effective substrates based on silver particle layers: Analytical applications, spectral reproducibility, benefits, and future developments. Optical Materials. 159. 116542–116542. 2 indexed citations

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Prucek, Robert, Aleš Panáček, Josef Kašlík, et al.. (2024). NiO Nano- and Microparticles Prepared by Solvothermal Method—Amazing Catalysts for CO2 Methanation. Molecules. 29(20). 4838–4838. 1 indexed citations

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Prucek, Robert, et al.. (2023). A sonochemical approach for a silver particle layer SERS substrates preparation and subsequent application in qualitative analysis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 100158–100158. 1 indexed citations

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Sandoval, Stefania, Zdenĕk Bastl, Libor Kvı́tek, et al.. (2023). Cyclohexane Oxidative Dehydrogenation on Graphene-Oxide-Supported Cobalt Ferrite Nanohybrids: Effect of Dynamic Nature of Active Sites on Reaction Selectivity. ACS Catalysis. 13(20). 13484–13505. 11 indexed citations

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Kvı́tek, Libor, et al.. (2023). Effects of different-sized silver nanoparticles on morphological and functional alterations in lung cancer and non-cancer lung cells. Neoplasma. 70(3). 390–401. 4 indexed citations

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Qadir, Muhammad I., et al.. (2022). Hydrogenation of CO2 on Nanostructured Cu/FeOx Catalysts: The Effect of Morphology and Cu Load on Selectivity. Catalysts. 12(5). 516–516. 6 indexed citations

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Homonnay, Z., Libor Kvı́tek, Veronika Harmat, et al.. (2022). Thermally Induced Solid-Phase Quasi-Intramolecular Redox Reactions of [Hexakis(urea-O)iron(III)] Permanganate: An Easy Reaction Route to Prepare Potential (Fe,Mn)O_x Catalysts for CO₂ Hydrogenation. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(36). 14403–14418. 13 indexed citations

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Mistrík, Martin, Zdeněk Škrott, Petr Müller, et al.. (2021). Microthermal-induced subcellular-targeted protein damage in cells on plasmonic nanosilver-modified surfaces evokes a two-phase HSP-p97/VCP response. Nature Communications. 12(1). 713–713. 9 indexed citations

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Rathi, Anuj K., Manoj B. Gawande, K. K. R. Datta, et al.. (2016). Gold nanoparticle-decorated graphene oxide: Synthesis and application in oxidation reactions under benign conditions. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical. 424. 121–127. 61 indexed citations

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