Nicholas A. Heinz

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nicholas A. Heinz is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas A. Heinz has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Materials Chemistry, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Nicholas A. Heinz's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (16 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (7 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (6 papers). Nicholas A. Heinz is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (16 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (7 papers) and Thermal properties of materials (6 papers). Nicholas A. Heinz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Nicholas A. Heinz's co-authors include G. Jeffrey Snyder, Yanzhong Pei, Aaron D. LaLonde, Geoffroy Hautier, Matthew Peters, Ian T. Witting, Thomas C. Chasapis, Francesco Ricci, Heng Wang and Xiaoya Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas A. Heinz

20 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

The Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Telluride

2019 609 citations Ian T. Witting, Thomas C. Chasapis et al. Advanced Electronic Materials profile →
Stabilizing the Optimal Carrier Concentration for High Thermoelectric Efficiency

2011 399 citations Yanzhong Pei, Aaron D. LaLonde et al. Advanced Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas A. Heinz United States	12	2.0k	930	523	291	207	22	2.3k
E. S. Landry United States	12	1.4k 0.7×	218 0.2×	599 1.1×	26 0.1×	53 0.3×	21	1.7k
David G. Cahill United States	7	1.8k 0.9×	519 0.6×	458 0.9×	124 0.4×	29 0.1×	9	2.2k
Ali Saramat Sweden	9	4.3k 2.1×	1.9k 2.0×	922 1.8×	842 2.9×	295 1.4×	20	4.4k
Trevor P. Bailey United States	33	3.5k 1.7×	2.3k 2.4×	683 1.3×	427 1.5×	181 0.9×	59	3.7k
Jun Pei China	28	2.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	798 1.5×	312 1.1×	228 1.1×	78	2.9k
Zhenbin Ge United States	7	576 0.3×	122 0.1×	106 0.2×	120 0.4×	79 0.4×	8	1.1k
Gehong Zeng United States	25	1.8k 0.9×	454 0.5×	885 1.7×	137 0.5×	195 0.9×	61	2.0k
Gerda Rogl Austria	34	3.6k 1.8×	1.2k 1.2×	409 0.8×	1.5k 5.1×	78 0.4×	105	3.9k
E. Siivola United States	6	4.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.4×	1.6k 3.1×	409 1.4×	418 2.0×	14	4.4k
W. Zhang China	20	1.6k 0.8×	474 0.5×	194 0.4×	388 1.3×	35 0.2×	26	1.8k

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Tokmina‐Roszyk, Dorota, Chandani Singh, Fei Chen, et al.. (2025). Heat inactivation of proteins: implications for the Mars Sample Campaign and other extraterrestrial sample return missions. International Journal of Astrobiology. 24.

Heinz, Nicholas A., et al.. (2025). Application of optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy (O-PTIR) for future returned Mars samples. Review of Scientific Instruments. 96(8).

Kim, Hyun‐Sik, et al.. (2024). Transport properties of indium-alloyed and indium telluride nanostructured bismuth telluride. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(26). 18041–18047. 1 indexed citations

Boeder, Paul, et al.. (2023). An Accounting of Contamination Control Requirements, Implementation, and Verification of the Sample Tubes for the Mars 2020 Mission and Future Return Sample Science. Astrobiology. 23(8). 846–861. 2 indexed citations

White, Lauren M., et al.. (2020). Preparing for Mars 2020 and future space missions: technology advancements driving contamination control requirements and cleanroom protocols. 27–27. 3 indexed citations

Witting, Ian T., Thomas C. Chasapis, Francesco Ricci, et al.. (2019). The Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Telluride. Advanced Electronic Materials. 5(6). 609 indexed citations breakdown →

Ramakrishnan, A., et al.. (2018). Microstructural evolution during laser metal deposition of bismuth chalcogenides (Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3). Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 774. 509–514. 7 indexed citations

Kim, Hyun‐Sik, Nicholas A. Heinz, Zachary M. Gibbs, et al.. (2017). High thermoelectric performance in (Bi0.25Sb0.75)2Te3 due to band convergence and improved by carrier concentration control. Materials Today. 20(8). 452–459. 199 indexed citations

Snyder, G. Jeffrey, Raghav Khanna, Eric S. Toberer, Nicholas A. Heinz, & W. Seifert. (2016). Improved thermoelectric cooling based on the Thomson effect. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9821. 98210J–98210J. 2 indexed citations

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Barmatz, M., et al.. (2016). Efficient Microwave Approaches for Extracting Water from Hydrated Minerals. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Pei, Yanzhong, Aaron D. LaLonde, Nicholas A. Heinz, & G. Jeffrey Snyder. (2012). High Thermoelectric Figure of Merit in PbTe Alloys Demonstrated in PbTe–CdTe. Advanced Energy Materials. 2(6). 670–675. 251 indexed citations

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Heinz, Nicholas A., et al.. (2012). Hot pressing and nanostructuring of Bi₉₀Sb₁₀ alloys to concurrently improve mechanical and thermoelectric properties. physica status solidi (a). 209(12). 2565–2569. 4 indexed citations

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Zeier, Wolfgang G., Yanzhong Pei, Gregory Pomrehn, et al.. (2012). Phonon Scattering through a Local Anisotropic Structural Disorder in the Thermoelectric Solid Solution Cu₂Zn_1–xFe_xGeSe₄. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(2). 726–732. 100 indexed citations

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Heinz, Nicholas A., Teruyuki Ikeda, & G. Jeffrey Snyder. (2012). Formation of highly oriented large nanoscale In2Te3 precipitates in bulk Bi2Te3. Acta Materialia. 60(11). 4461–4467. 14 indexed citations

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Pei, Yanzhong, Aaron D. LaLonde, Nicholas A. Heinz, et al.. (2011). Stabilizing the Optimal Carrier Concentration for High Thermoelectric Efficiency. Advanced Materials. 23(47). 5674–5678. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pei, Yanzhong, Nicholas A. Heinz, & G. Jeffrey Snyder. (2011). Alloying to increase the band gap for improving thermoelectric properties of Ag2Te. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 21(45). 18256–18256. 164 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Teruyuki, et al.. (2011). Size control of Sb2Te3 Widmanstätten precipitates in thermoelectric PbTe. Acta Materialia. 59(7). 2679–2692. 25 indexed citations

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Pei, Yanzhong, Nicholas A. Heinz, Aaron D. LaLonde, & G. Jeffrey Snyder. (2011). Combination of large nanostructures and complex band structure for high performance thermoelectric lead telluride. Energy & Environmental Science. 4(9). 3640–3640. 155 indexed citations

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Heinz, Nicholas A., Teruyuki Ikeda, G. Jeffrey Snyder, & Douglas L. Medlin. (2011). Interfacial disconnections at Sb2Te3 precipitates in PbTe: Mechanisms of strain accommodation and phase transformation at a tetradymite/rocksalt telluride interface. Acta Materialia. 59(20). 7724–7735. 11 indexed citations

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Abid, Aamir D., Nicholas A. Heinz, Erik D. Tolmachoff, et al.. (2008). On evolution of particle size distribution functions of incipient soot in premixed ethylene–oxygen–argon flames. Combustion and Flame. 154(4). 775–788. 197 indexed citations

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