M.S. Dhlamini

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

M.S. Dhlamini is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, M.S. Dhlamini has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Materials Chemistry, 63 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in M.S. Dhlamini's work include Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (32 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (19 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (17 papers). M.S. Dhlamini is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (32 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (19 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (17 papers). M.S. Dhlamini collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo. M.S. Dhlamini's co-authors include M. Mâaza, B.M. Mothudi, Force Tefo Thema, E. Manikandan, Bonex Mwakikunga, Guy L. Kabongo, Touhami Mokrani, Rudzani Sigwadi, Mohammed Khenfouch and L.L. Noto and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Chemical Engineering Journal and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

M.S. Dhlamini

135 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Strain and grain size of TiO2 nanoparticles from TEM, Raman spectroscopy and XRD: The revisiting of the Williamson-Hall plot method

2018 414 citations M.S. Dhlamini, M. Mâaza et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M.S. Dhlamini South Africa	28	2.0k	1.2k	703	628	620	139	3.4k
Thắng Bách Phan Vietnam	27	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	645 0.9×	716 1.1×	451 0.7×	223	3.6k
Jing Hu China	38	2.2k 1.1×	2.5k 2.0×	1.2k 1.7×	1.0k 1.7×	856 1.4×	183	4.6k
Xiang Xu China	23	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	487 0.7×	867 1.4×	863 1.4×	62	3.7k
Gaber A. M. Mersal Saudi Arabia	34	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	651 0.9×	831 1.3×	878 1.4×	188	3.9k
Arun Thirumurugan India	31	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	931 1.3×	568 0.9×	891 1.4×	157	3.1k
F. Paraguay‐Delgado Mexico	27	1.7k 0.9×	992 0.8×	739 1.1×	328 0.5×	283 0.5×	178	2.7k
Noshin Mir Iran	26	1.7k 0.8×	810 0.6×	735 1.0×	353 0.6×	318 0.5×	62	2.6k
Yingliang Liu China	35	1.4k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	416 0.6×	416 0.7×	1.3k 2.1×	101	3.3k
Abdullah Y. Obaid Saudi Arabia	35	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	563 0.9×	593 1.0×	106	3.4k
Lei Yuan China	31	1.6k 0.8×	876 0.7×	727 1.0×	624 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	110	3.1k

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Dhlamini, M.S. & Alan C. Brent. (2025). The Impact of Fixed-Tilt PV Arrays on Vegetation Growth Through Ground Sunlight Distribution at a Solar Farm in Aotearoa New Zealand. Energies. 18(20). 5412–5412. 1 indexed citations

Mâaza, M., et al.. (2025). Improving the Oxygen Evolution Reaction Performance of Ternary Layered Double Hydroxides by Tuning All Three Cations’ Electronic Structures. Nanomaterials. 15(3). 177–177. 2 indexed citations

Rono, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). An experimental and computational investigation of Thulium doped TiO2 as n-type material for potential application in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy. 14(1).

Mbule, Pontsho, et al.. (2024). Synthesis, characterization, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy performance and photodegradation of methylene blue: Mesoporous PEG/TiO2 by sol-gel electrospinning. Physica B Condensed Matter. 696. 416627–416627. 1 indexed citations

Noto, L.L., et al.. (2024). Computational and experimental investigation of the structure, morphology, optical and electrical properties of TiO2 and caffeine adsorbed TiO2 in methyl ammonium lead iodide. Materials Today Communications. 38. 108453–108453. 1 indexed citations

Mbule, Pontsho, et al.. (2024). Stability of perovskite active layers induced by caffeine: A mini review. Next research.. 1(2). 100022–100022.

Adedokun, Oluwaseun, et al.. (2024). Sol–gel synthesized lithium–cobalt co-doped titanium (IV) oxide nanocomposite as an efficient photocatalyst for environmental remediation. Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie. 239(5). 803–820. 4 indexed citations

Kabongo, Guy L., et al.. (2024). Unravelling the effect of crystal lattice compression on the supercapacitive performance of hydrothermally grown nanostructured hollandite α-MnO2 induced by incremental growth time. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25837–25837. 7 indexed citations

Kabongo, Guy L., et al.. (2023). Strain induced by temperature evolution of mesoporous ZnO nanopowders and its effect on structural, optical and electrical impedance properties. Materials Today Proceedings. 1 indexed citations

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Mâaza, M., et al.. (2023). Laser liquid ablation for silver nanoparticles synthesis and conjugation with hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 treatment. Materials Today Proceedings. 14 indexed citations

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Dhlamini, M.S., et al.. (2022). Sol-gel synthesis and characterization of Ho3+ doped TiO2 nanoparticles: Evaluation of absorption efficiency and electrical conductivity for possible application in perovskite solar cells. Optical Materials. 130. 112569–112569. 11 indexed citations

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Dhlamini, M.S., et al.. (2022). Sol-gel derived mesoporous TiO2: Effects of non-ionic co-polymers on the pore size, morphology, specific surface area and optical properties analysis. Results in Materials. 14. 100266–100266. 25 indexed citations

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Adedokun, Oluwaseun, et al.. (2021). Thickness Variation Effects on the Efficiency of Simulated Hybrid Cu2ZnSnS4-Based Solar Cells Using SCAPS-1D. Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry. 12(6). 7478–7487. 7 indexed citations

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Noto, L.L., et al.. (2018). Structural, photoluminescence and thermoluminescence study of novel Li+ co-activated lanthanum oxide activated with Dy3+ and Eu3+ obtained by microwave-assisted solution combustion synthesis. Optical Materials. 88. 540–550. 13 indexed citations

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Khamlich, S., T. Khamliche, M.S. Dhlamini, et al.. (2017). Rapid microwave-assisted growth of silver nanoparticles on 3D graphene networks for supercapacitor application. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 493. 130–137. 64 indexed citations

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Kabongo, Guy L., Pontsho Mbule, G.H. Mhlongo, et al.. (2016). Photoluminescence Quenching and Enhanced Optical Conductivity of P3HT-Derived Ho3+-Doped ZnO Nanostructures. Nanoscale Research Letters. 11(1). 418–418. 40 indexed citations

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Dhlamini, M.S., et al.. (2015). Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for Sepia Melanin. 3(2). 25–29. 62 indexed citations

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Diallo, Abdoulaye, et al.. (2015). Titanium dioxide nanoparticles biosynthesis for dye sensitized solar cells application: review. 3(1). 12–17. 18 indexed citations

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Ngom, B.D., et al.. (2015). Natural Dye Sensitizer for Grӓtzel Cells: Sepia Melanin. 3(1). 1–6. 31 indexed citations

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Dhlamini, M.S., J.J. Terblans, R.E. Kroon, et al.. (2008). Photoluminescence properties of SiO2 surface-passivated PbS nanoparticles. South African Journal of Science. 104. 398–400. 7 indexed citations

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