Matthew S. Rahn

971 total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 781 citations indexed

About

Matthew S. Rahn is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew S. Rahn has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 781 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Matthew S. Rahn's work include Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (5 papers), Graphene research and applications (4 papers) and Boron Compounds in Chemistry (2 papers). Matthew S. Rahn is often cited by papers focused on Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (5 papers), Graphene research and applications (4 papers) and Boron Compounds in Chemistry (2 papers). Matthew S. Rahn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and China. Matthew S. Rahn's co-authors include Mark C. Hersam, Qiucheng Li, Xiaolong Liu, Boris I. Yakobson, Shaowei Li, Pierre Darancet, Eric Schwenker, Richard G. Hennig, Venkata Surya Chaitanya Kolluru and Maria K. Y. Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Matthew S. Rahn

9 papers receiving 769 citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks

2021 237 citations Austin M. Evans, Ashutosh Giri et al. Nature Materials profile →
Borophene synthesis beyond the single-atomic-layer limit

2021 223 citations Xiaolong Liu, Qiucheng Li et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew S. Rahn United States	7	685	159	95	94	86	10	781
Nitesh Kumar India	14	479 0.7×	243 1.5×	57 0.6×	72 0.8×	42 0.5×	19	708
Martin Ade Germany	16	946 1.4×	206 1.3×	115 1.2×	70 0.7×	20 0.2×	30	1.1k
Aliasghar Shokri Iran	15	729 1.1×	445 2.8×	23 0.2×	138 1.5×	62 0.7×	81	910
Heba Ahmed Australia	18	487 0.7×	324 2.0×	101 1.1×	420 4.5×	28 0.3×	23	877
Abanti Nag India	15	1.0k 1.5×	425 2.7×	85 0.9×	50 0.5×	29 0.3×	33	1.2k
Shweta D. Dabhi India	16	555 0.8×	342 2.2×	29 0.3×	61 0.6×	29 0.3×	50	758
Himadri R. Soni India	13	561 0.8×	154 1.0×	113 1.2×	109 1.2×	12 0.1×	27	644
Yao Fu China	20	822 1.2×	681 4.3×	82 0.9×	80 0.9×	29 0.3×	64	1.1k
Vivekanand Shukla Sweden	18	1.1k 1.6×	679 4.3×	29 0.3×	111 1.2×	20 0.2×	26	1.2k
Yanqiao Xu China	19	1.0k 1.5×	734 4.6×	73 0.8×	125 1.3×	40 0.5×	54	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew S. Rahn

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Liu, Xiaolong, et al.. (2025). Achieving Ambient Stability of Borophene via Ultrahigh Vacuum Alumina Encapsulation. Nano Letters. 25(25). 10240–10245.

2.

Liu, Xiaolong, et al.. (2022). Probing borophene oxidation at the atomic scale. Nanotechnology. 33(23). 235702–235702. 22 indexed citations

3.

Evans, Austin M., Ashutosh Giri, Vinod K. Sangwan, et al.. (2021). Thermally conductive ultra-low-k dielectric layers based on two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks. Nature Materials. 20(8). 1142–1148. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Liu, Xiaolong, et al.. (2021). Borophene synthesis beyond the single-atomic-layer limit. Nature Materials. 21(1). 35–40. 223 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Li, Qiucheng, Venkata Surya Chaitanya Kolluru, Matthew S. Rahn, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of borophane polymorphs through hydrogenation of borophene. Science. 371(6534). 1143–1148. 182 indexed citations

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Li, Shaowei, Chengmei Zhong, Alex Henning, et al.. (2020). Molecular-Scale Characterization of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Mixed-Dimensional InSe–Organic van der Waals Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 14(3). 3509–3518. 18 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaolong, Luqing Wang, Shaowei Li, et al.. (2019). Geometric imaging of borophene polymorphs with functionalized probes. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1642–1642. 81 indexed citations

8.

Rahn, Matthew S., et al.. (2016). In situ and ex situ functionalization of nanostructured gallium oxy‐hydroxide with a porphyrin dye. Scanning. 38(6). 671–683. 9 indexed citations

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Rahn, Matthew S., et al.. (2015). In situ functionalization of gallium nitride powder with a porphyrin dye. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 30(19). 2910–2918. 4 indexed citations

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Golas, Avantika, et al.. (2014). Enzymes produced by autoactivation of blood factor XII in buffer. Biomaterials. 37. 1–12. 5 indexed citations

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