Paul F. Nealey

30.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
460 papers, 25.5k citations indexed

About

Paul F. Nealey is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul F. Nealey has authored 460 papers receiving a total of 25.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 279 papers in Materials Chemistry, 153 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 117 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Paul F. Nealey's work include Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (238 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (108 papers) and Advancements in Photolithography Techniques (86 papers). Paul F. Nealey is often cited by papers focused on Block Copolymer Self-Assembly (238 papers), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (108 papers) and Advancements in Photolithography Techniques (86 papers). Paul F. Nealey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and China. Paul F. Nealey's co-authors include Juan Pablo, Mark P. Stoykovich, Christopher J. Murphy, G. A. Abrams, Harun H. Solak, Marcus Müller, C. J. Murphy, Sang Ouk Kim, Huiman Kang and Steven L. Goodman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul F. Nealey

450 papers receiving 25.2k 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.

Epitaxial self-assembly of block copolymers on lithographically defined nanopatterned substrates

2003 1.4k citations Juan Pablo, Paul F. Nealey et al. profile →
Effects of synthetic micro- and nano-structured surfaces on cell behavior

1999 1.2k citations C. J. Murphy, Paul F. Nealey et al. profile →
Density Multiplication and Improved Lithography by Directed Block Copolymer Assembly

2008 1.0k citations Juan Pablo, Paul F. Nealey et al. profile →
Directed Assembly of Block Copolymer Blends into Nonregular Device-Oriented Structures

2005 834 citations Erik W. Edwards, Juan Pablo et al. profile →
Epithelial contact guidance on well-defined micro- and nanostructured substrates

2003 773 citations Paul F. Nealey et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul F. Nealey United States	81	14.7k	8.5k	6.1k	5.8k	4.7k	460	25.5k
Nicholas D. Spencer Switzerland	89	8.7k 0.6×	7.5k 0.9×	8.2k 1.3×	4.6k 0.8×	6.5k 1.4×	524	31.3k
Wilhelm T. S. Huck Netherlands	91	5.5k 0.4×	14.4k 1.7×	6.0k 1.0×	7.9k 1.4×	8.6k 1.8×	367	33.1k
Eugenia Kumacheva Canada	79	9.4k 0.6×	11.8k 1.4×	3.6k 0.6×	5.0k 0.9×	2.8k 0.6×	291	25.5k
Martin Möller Germany	75	7.9k 0.5×	5.8k 0.7×	8.1k 1.3×	3.0k 0.5×	4.2k 0.9×	636	23.3k
Christopher K. Ober United States	80	9.3k 0.6×	8.1k 1.0×	8.2k 1.3×	6.5k 1.1×	7.9k 1.7×	581	28.7k
Jan Genzer United States	61	5.0k 0.3×	8.7k 1.0×	4.1k 0.7×	3.2k 0.6×	7.6k 1.6×	311	20.8k
Vladimir V. Tsukruk United States	83	10.1k 0.7×	10.3k 1.2×	5.1k 0.8×	6.3k 1.1×	7.9k 1.7×	496	30.5k
Anna C. Balazs United States	62	8.0k 0.5×	4.5k 0.5×	5.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.2×	3.1k 0.7×	400	18.0k
Paul V. Braun United States	78	10.2k 0.7×	7.4k 0.9×	2.3k 0.4×	8.9k 1.5×	2.2k 0.5×	412	25.7k
B. Kasemo Sweden	86	9.1k 0.6×	14.7k 1.7×	1.6k 0.3×	6.2k 1.1×	5.5k 1.2×	448	32.9k

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Dong, Ban Xuan, et al.. (2025). Study of self-assembly behavior and ionic conductivity of conjugated liquid crystals with T-shaped facial-polyphilic structure. Science Advances. 11(20). eadt8303–eadt8303.

Wang, Zhongyang, Ge Sun, Nicholas H. C. Lewis, et al.. (2025). Water-mediated ion transport in an anion exchange membrane. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1099–1099. 13 indexed citations

Bagchi, Kushal, et al.. (2023). Functional soft materials from blue phase liquid crystals. Science Advances. 9(30). eadh9393–eadh9393. 46 indexed citations

Fang, Yan, Artem M. Rumyantsev, Heyi Liang, et al.. (2023). Scattering evidence of positional charge correlations in polyelectrolyte complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(32). e2302151120–e2302151120. 14 indexed citations

Bagchi, Kushal, et al.. (2022). A Generalizable Approach to Direct the Self‐Assembly of Functional Blue‐Phase Liquid Crystals. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(32). 15 indexed citations

Dolan, James A., Haogang Cai, Xiao Li, et al.. (2021). Broadband Liquid Crystal Tunable Metasurfaces in the Visible: Liquid Crystal Inhomogeneities Across the Metasurface Parameter Space. ACS Photonics. 8(2). 567–575. 66 indexed citations

Liu, Pei, Michael J. Counihan, Yisi Zhu, et al.. (2021). Increasing Ionic Conductivity of Poly(ethylene oxide) by Reaction with Metallic Li. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 24 indexed citations

Bennington, Peter, Daniel Sharon, Michael A. Webb, et al.. (2021). Role of solvation site segmental dynamics on ion transport in ethylene-oxide based side-chain polymer electrolytes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(15). 9937–9951. 35 indexed citations

Bennington, Peter, et al.. (2021). Ion Specific, Thin Film Confinement Effects on Conductivity in Polymerized Ionic Liquids. Macromolecules. 54(22). 10520–10528. 11 indexed citations

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Ren, Jiaxing, Tamar Segal‐Peretz, Chun Zhou, Gordon S. W. Craig, & Paul F. Nealey. (2020). Three-dimensional superlattice engineering with block copolymer epitaxy. Science Advances. 6(24). eaaz0002–eaaz0002. 14 indexed citations

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Lu, Xinyu, Hao Luo, Kai Wang, et al.. (2020). CO₂‐Based Dual‐Tone Resists for Electron Beam Lithography. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(13). 41 indexed citations

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Sunday, Daniel F., Moshe Dolejsi, Alice B. Chang, et al.. (2020). Confinement and Processing Can Alter the Morphology and Periodicity of Bottlebrush Block Copolymers in Thin Films. ACS Nano. 14(12). 17476–17486. 25 indexed citations

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Zhou, Chun, et al.. (2019). Enhanced microphase separation of thin films of low molecular weight block copolymer by the addition of an ionic liquid. Soft Matter. 15(48). 9991–9996. 2 indexed citations

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Arges, Christopher G., Ke Li, Le Zhang, et al.. (2019). Ionic conductivity and counterion condensation in nanoconfined polycation and polyanion brushes prepared from block copolymer templates. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 4(2). 365–378. 11 indexed citations

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Hur, Su‐Mi, Vikram Thapar, Abelardo Ramírez-Hernández, Paul F. Nealey, & Juan Pablo. (2018). Defect Annihilation Pathways in Directed Assembly of Lamellar Block Copolymer Thin Films. ACS Nano. 12(10). 9974–9981. 42 indexed citations

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Xiong, Shisheng, et al.. (2018). The Solvent Distribution Effect on the Self-Assembly of Symmetric Triblock Copolymers during Solvent Vapor Annealing. Macromolecules. 51(18). 7145–7151. 20 indexed citations

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Kambe, Yu, et al.. (2017). Ion Conduction in Microphase-Separated Block Copolymer Electrolytes. The Electrochemical Society Interface. 26(1). 61–67. 27 indexed citations

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Martínez‐González, José A., Xiao Li, Monirosadat Sadati, et al.. (2017). Directed self-assembly of liquid crystalline blue-phases into ideal single-crystals. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15854–15854. 114 indexed citations

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Liliensiek, Sara J., Sean Campbell, Paul F. Nealey, & C. J. Murphy. (2006). The scale of substratum topographic features modulates proliferation of corneal epithelial cells and corneal fibroblasts. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 79A(1). 185–192. 117 indexed citations

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Xiao, Shuaigang, et al.. (2005). Graphoepitaxy of cylinder-forming block copolymers for use as templates to pattern magnetic metal dot arrays. Nanotechnology. 16(7). S324–S329. 177 indexed citations

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