Lucia Fernandez-Ballester

749 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 579 citations indexed

About

Lucia Fernandez-Ballester is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 579 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 6 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lucia Fernandez-Ballester's work include Polymer crystallization and properties (12 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (8 papers) and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Lucia Fernandez-Ballester is often cited by papers focused on Polymer crystallization and properties (12 papers), Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (8 papers) and Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies (6 papers). Lucia Fernandez-Ballester collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. Lucia Fernandez-Ballester's co-authors include Julia A. Kornfield, Qing Yang, Rajendra K. Krishnaswamy, Derek W. Thurman, Gwm Gerrit Peters, Zhe Ma, Dario Cavallo, Weijun Zhou, Bing Wang and Yongfeng Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Lucia Fernandez-Ballester

19 papers receiving 567 citations

Hit Papers

Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics f... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 40 80 120
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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.

  1. Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health
    2023 132 citations Svetlana Romanova, İlhami Okur et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lucia Fernandez-Ballester United States 11 359 145 122 118 95 20 579
James W. Summers United States 16 538 1.5× 91 0.6× 50 0.4× 62 0.5× 62 0.7× 56 723
Г. Е. Заиков Russia 9 148 0.4× 152 1.0× 61 0.5× 11 0.1× 50 0.5× 42 358
В. А. Герасин Russia 11 184 0.5× 129 0.9× 94 0.8× 5 0.0× 89 0.9× 51 390
Rudolph D. Deanin United States 11 310 0.9× 84 0.6× 55 0.5× 10 0.1× 131 1.4× 49 537
Kent B. Abbås Sweden 17 658 1.8× 104 0.7× 26 0.2× 43 0.4× 143 1.5× 26 770
Takeshi Kuroki Japan 12 302 0.8× 39 0.3× 76 0.6× 11 0.1× 149 1.6× 47 497
Г. Е. Заиков Russia 11 255 0.7× 125 0.9× 31 0.3× 7 0.1× 97 1.0× 64 427
Meiling Xue China 14 420 1.2× 257 1.8× 24 0.2× 14 0.1× 63 0.7× 30 524
Sandrine Morlat France 8 373 1.0× 124 0.9× 60 0.5× 4 0.0× 140 1.5× 8 550
Arkady D. Litmanovich Russia 9 119 0.3× 87 0.6× 12 0.1× 15 0.1× 121 1.3× 17 353

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucia Fernandez-Ballester

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hossain, Md. Sazzad, Tianlin Li, Nagarajan Raghavan, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8132–8132. 1 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, et al.. (2025). Generalization of Surface Freezing in P3AT Thin Films. Macromolecules. 58(12). 6088–6097.
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Romanova, Svetlana, İlhami Okur, Dong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Rebuttal to Correspondence on “Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health”. Environmental Science & Technology. 58(20). 9015–9015. 1 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, et al.. (2024). Selecting for Surface-Induced vs Bulk Crystallization in P3HT Thin Films: Distinct Morphology, Orientation, and Linear Growth Rates. Macromolecules. 57(6). 2639–2650. 4 indexed citations
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Romanova, Svetlana, İlhami Okur, Dong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Release of Microplastics and Nanoplastics from Plastic Containers and Reusable Food Pouches: Implications for Human Health. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(26). 9782–9792. 132 indexed citations breakdown →
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Strzalka, Joseph, et al.. (2023). Direct Observation of Two-Step, Stratified Crystallization and Morphology in Conjugated Polymer Thin Films. Macromolecules. 56(8). 3083–3094. 6 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, et al.. (2022). Combined role of regioregularity and molecular weight on melt-crystallization and self-nucleation of poly(3-hexylthiophene). Polymer. 259. 125341–125341. 7 indexed citations
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Zheng, Lirong, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Gwm Gerrit Peters, & Zhe Ma. (2018). Concomitant Crystallization in Propylene/Ethylene Random Copolymer with Strong Flow at Elevated Temperatures. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 57(20). 6870–6877. 8 indexed citations
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Monnier, Xavier, Laurence Chevalier, Antonella Esposito, et al.. (2017). Local and segmental motions of the mobile amorphous fraction in semi-crystalline polylactide crystallized under quiescent and flow-induced conditions. Polymer. 126. 141–151. 13 indexed citations
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Dargent, Éric, et al.. (2017). Effect of Random Ethylene Comonomer on Relaxation of Flow-Induced Precursors in Isotactic Polypropylene. Macromolecules. 50(17). 6396–6403. 11 indexed citations
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Balzano, Luigi, Zhe Ma, Dario Cavallo, et al.. (2016). Molecular Aspects of the Formation of Shish-Kebab in Isotactic Polypropylene. Macromolecules. 49(10). 3799–3809. 53 indexed citations
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Ma, Zhe, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Dario Cavallo, Tim Gough, & Gwm Gerrit Peters. (2013). High-Stress Shear-Induced Crystallization in Isotactic Polypropylene and Propylene/Ethylene Random Copolymers. Macromolecules. 46(7). 2671–2680. 35 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, Derek W. Thurman, Weijun Zhou, & Julia A. Kornfield. (2012). Effect of Long Chains on the Threshold Stresses for Flow-Induced Crystallization in iPP: Shish Kebabs vs Sausages. Macromolecules. 45(16). 6557–6570. 58 indexed citations
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Li, Hui, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Laurent Delbreilh, et al.. (2011). Supramolecular Nanolayer Reconfiguration after Molecular Intercalation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115(21). 10351–10356. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Huan, J. Cuppens, Ellen Biermans, et al.. (2011). Tuning of the size and the lattice parameter of ion-beam synthesized Pb nanoparticles embedded in Si. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 45(3). 35301–35301. 7 indexed citations
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Balzano, Luigi, Dario Cavallo, Tim B. van Erp, et al.. (2010). Dynamics of fibrillar precursors of shishes as a function of stress. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 14. 12005–12005. 14 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, Derek W. Thurman, & Julia A. Kornfield. (2009). Real-time depth sectioning: Isolating the effect of stress on structure development in pressure-driven flow. Journal of Rheology. 53(5). 1229–1254. 29 indexed citations
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Krishnaswamy, Rajendra K., Qing Yang, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, & Julia A. Kornfield. (2008). Effect of the Distribution of Short-Chain Branches on Crystallization Kinetics and Mechanical Properties of High-Density Polyethylene. Macromolecules. 41(5). 1693–1704. 135 indexed citations
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Fernandez-Ballester, Lucia, Tim Gough, Florian Meneau, et al.. (2008). Simultaneous birefringence, small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering to detect precursors and characterize morphology development during flow-induced crystallization of polymers. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 15(2). 185–190. 21 indexed citations
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Kannan, Rangaramanujam M., et al.. (2003). Deformation-Induced Morphology Changes and Orientation Behavior in Syndiotactic Polypropylene. Macromolecules. 36(17). 6472–6483. 34 indexed citations

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