Paras N. Prasad

73.9k citations

937 papers · 62.1k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 118

Materials Chemistry top 0.01%
Biomedical Engineering top 0.01%
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 0.05%
Electrical and Electronic Engineering top 0.1%
Molecular Biology top 0.5%

Co-authors: Guang S. He Guanying Chen Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy Mark T. Swihart Indrajit Roy Ken‐Tye Yong David J. Williams Qingdong Zheng
Topics: Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (197 papers)Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (116 papers)Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (108 papers)
Cited by: Materials Chemistry Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Biomedical Engineering
Journals: Nature Chemical Reviews Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United States China South Korea

In The Last Decade

Paras N. Prasad

917 papers receiving 60.6k 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.

Upconversion Nanoparticles: Design, Nanochemistry, and Applications in Theranostics

2014 2.2k citations Guanying Chen, Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →
Introduction to Nonlinear Optical Effects in Molecules and Polymers

1991 1.9k citations Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →
Multiphoton Absorbing Materials: Molecular Designs, Characterizations, and Applications

2008 1.9k citations Guang S. He, Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →
Nanochemistry and Nanomedicine for Nanoparticle-based Diagnostics and Therapy

2016 1.2k citations Guanying Chen, Indrajit Roy et al. profile →
High Contrast in Vitro and in Vivo Photoluminescence Bioimaging Using Near Infrared to Near Infrared Up-Conversion in Tm³⁺ and Yb³⁺ Doped Fluoride Nanophosphors

2008 803 citations Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Paras N. Prasad et al. Nano Letters profile →
Two-dimensional MXenes: From morphological to optical, electric, and magnetic properties and applications

2020 771 citations Alexander Baev, Han Zhang et al. profile →
Ceramic-Based Nanoparticles Entrapping Water-Insoluble Photosensitizing Anticancer Drugs: A Novel Drug−Carrier System for Photodynamic Therapy

2003 707 citations Indrajit Roy, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. profile →
Highly Active Two-Photon Dyes: Design, Synthesis, and Characterization toward Application

1998 655 citations Guang S. He, Paras N. Prasad et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
(α-NaYbF₄:Tm³⁺)/CaF₂ Core/Shell Nanoparticles with Efficient Near-Infrared to Near-Infrared Upconversion for High-Contrast Deep Tissue Bioimaging

2012 616 citations Guanying Chen, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. ACS Nano profile →
Organically Modified Silica Nanoparticles Co-encapsulating Photosensitizing Drug and Aggregation-Enhanced Two-Photon Absorbing Fluorescent Dye Aggregates for Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy

2007 580 citations Sehoon Kim, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. profile →
Biocompatible Luminescent Silicon Quantum Dots for Imaging of Cancer Cells

2008 565 citations Ken‐Tye Yong, Indrajit Roy et al. ACS Nano profile →
Ultrasmall Monodisperse NaYF₄:Yb³⁺/Tm³⁺ Nanocrystals with Enhanced Near-Infrared to Near-Infrared Upconversion Photoluminescence

2010 558 citations Guanying Chen, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. ACS Nano profile →
Combined Optical and MR Bioimaging Using Rare Earth Ion Doped NaYF₄ Nanocrystals

2009 554 citations Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →
A General Approach to Binary and Ternary Hybrid Nanocrystals

2006 528 citations Hao Zeng, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. Nano Letters profile →
Light upconverting core–shell nanostructures: nanophotonic control for emerging applications

2014 484 citations Guanying Chen, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy et al. profile →
Two-Photon Photodynamic Therapy

1997 479 citations Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →
New Generation Cadmium-Free Quantum Dots for Biophotonics and Nanomedicine

2016 464 citations Mark T. Swihart, Ken‐Tye Yong et al. profile →
Dual heterogeneous interfaces enhance X-ray excited persistent luminescence for low-dose 3D imaging

2024 69 citations Paras N. Prasad et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Simultaneous Incorporation of Magnetic and Plasmonic Nanocrystals in a Chiral Conducting Polymer Yields Unprecedented Magneto‐Optic Response 2025 ·Small ·(unknown),Avisek Dutta,Jojo P. Joseph,(unknown),Alexander Baev,Hao Zeng,Luis Velarde,Paras N. Prasad,Mark T. Swihart	1
2	Rare-Earth-modified luminescent two-dimensional nanosheets derived from oxidized Mo ₂ CT _x MXene 2025 ·2D Materials ·(unknown),(unknown),Avisek Dutta,(unknown),Anthony Butler,Andrey N. Kuzmin,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Mark T. Swihart,Vasili Perebeinos,Huamin Li,Fei Yao,Paras N. Prasad	0
3	Content-Based Image Retrieval and Recommendation Based on User Reviews 2024 ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Paras N. Prasad	1
4	Giant Plasmonic Enhancement of Chiroptical Properties by Anisotropic Gold Nanocrystals Grown In Situ in a Chiral Polymer 2024 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown),Jojo P. Joseph,(unknown),Avisek Dutta,Rahul K. Das,Andrey N. Kuzmin,Alexander Baev,Luis Velarde,Paras N. Prasad,Mark T. Swihart	2
5	Unlocking nature’s brilliance: using Antarctic extremophile Shewanella baltica to biosynthesize lanthanide-containing nanoparticles with optical up-conversion 2024 ·Journal of Nanobiotechnology ·(unknown),(unknown),Mark T. Swihart,Kaiwen Chen,Blaine A. Pfeifer,Avisek Dutta,Artem Pliss,Andrey N. Kuzmin,José M. Pérez‐Donoso,Paras N. Prasad	3
6	Boron Nanoparticle-Enhanced Proton Therapy for Cancer Treatment 2023 ·Nanomaterials ·I. N. Zavestovskaya,(unknown),(unknown),Gleb V. Tikhonowski,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Anton A. Popov,Ivan V. Zelepukin,(unknown),(unknown),S. M. Klimentov,V. A. Ryabov,Paras N. Prasad,Sergey M. Deyev,Andrei V. Kabashin	11
7	Modulating the Chiroptical Response of Chiral Polymers with Extended Conjugation within the Structural Building Blocks 2022 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Jojo P. Joseph,(unknown),Avisek Dutta,Alexander Baev,Mark T. Swihart,Paras N. Prasad	10
8	Photoechogenic Inflatable Nanohybrids for Upconversion-Mediated Sonotheranostics 2021 ·ACS Nano ·Keunsoo Jeong,Dojin Kim,(unknown),(unknown),Jounghyun Yoo,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Youngsun Kim,Ajay Singh,Dong June Ahn,Dong Ha Kim,Joona Bang,Jungahn Kim,Paras N. Prasad,Sehoon Kim	9
9	Biocompatible and biodegradable inorganic nanostructures for nanomedicine: Silicon and black phosphorus 2019 ·Nano Today ·Meng Qiu,Ajay Singh,Dou Wang,Junle Qu,Mark T. Swihart,Han Zhang,Paras N. Prasad	249
10	Cellular transformations in near‐infrared light‐induced apoptosis in cancer cells revealed by label‐free CARS imaging 2019 ·Journal of Biophotonics ·(unknown),Andrey N. Kuzmin,Artem Pliss,Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy,Paras N. Prasad,Junle Qu	15
11	Laser-Processed Nanosilicon: A Multifunctional Nanomaterial for Energy and Healthcare 2019 ·ACS Nano ·Andrei V. Kabashin,Ajay Singh,Mark T. Swihart,I. N. Zavestovskaya,Paras N. Prasad	103
12	Optical Control of Nanoparticle Catalysis Influenced by Photoswitch Positioning in Hybrid Peptide Capping Ligands 2018 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown),Zak E. Hughes,(unknown),Yang Liu,Chang‐Keun Lim,Paras N. Prasad,Mark T. Swihart,Tiffany R. Walsh,Marc R. Knecht	17
13	Dramatic Enhancement of Quantum Cutting in Lanthanide-Doped Nanocrystals Photosensitized with an Aggregation-Induced Enhanced Emission Dye 2018 ·Nano Letters ·Wei Shao,Chang‐Keun Lim,Qi Li,Mark T. Swihart,Paras N. Prasad	43
14	Au–Cu_2−xSe heterogeneous nanocrystals for efficient photothermal heating for cancer therapy 2017 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry B ·Dewei Zhu,Maixian Liu,Xin Liu,Yang Liu,Paras N. Prasad,Mark T. Swihart	39
15	Surfactant-stripped naphthalocyanines for multimodal tumor theranostics with upconversion guidance cream 2017 ·Nanoscale ·Yumiao Zhang,Hao Hong,Boyang Sun,(unknown),Yiru Qin,Wei Wei,Depeng Wang,Mansik Jeon,Jumin Geng,Robert J. Nickles,Guanying Chen,Paras N. Prasad,Chulhong Kim,Jun Xia,Weibo Cai,Jonathan F. Lovell	42
16	Kuramite Cu₃SnS₄ and Mohite Cu₂SnS₃ Nanoplatelet Synthesis Using Covellite CuS Templates with Sn(II) and Sn(IV) Sources 2017 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Yang Liu,Maixian Liu,Deqiang Yin,Wei Wei,Paras N. Prasad,Mark T. Swihart	59
17	Near-IR responsive nanostructures for nanobiophotonics: emerging impacts on nanomedicine 2015 ·Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine ·Jun Song,Junle Qu,Mark T. Swihart,Paras N. Prasad	49
18	Nanoparticle-Mediated Targeted Delivery of Antiretrovirals to the Brain 2012 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Supriya D. Mahajan,Wing‐Cheung Law,Ravikumar Aalinkeel,Jessica L. Reynolds,Bindukumar Nair,Ken‐Tye Yong,Indrajit Roy,Paras N. Prasad,Stanley A. Schwartz	57
19	Biophotonic probing of macromolecular transformations during apoptosis 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Artem Pliss,Andrey N. Kuzmin,Aliaksandr V. Kachynski,Paras N. Prasad	43
20	Three-photon absorbing materials: characterization and applications 2003 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Guang S. He,Paras N. Prasad	14

About Paras N. Prasad

Paras N. Prasad is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biophysics and Acoustics and Ultrasonics, having authored 937 papers that have together received 62.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (197 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (116 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (108 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Materials Chemistry (37.8k citations), Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (12.9k citations) and Biomedical Engineering (26.6k citations). Paras N. Prasad has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Guang S. He, Guanying Chen, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Mark T. Swihart, Indrajit Roy, Ken‐Tye Yong, David J. Williams, Qingdong Zheng, Earl J. Bergey and Hans Ågren. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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