Puru Jena

36.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
660 papers, 31.4k citations indexed

About

Puru Jena is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Puru Jena has authored 660 papers receiving a total of 31.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 408 papers in Materials Chemistry, 271 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 130 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Puru Jena's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (217 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (91 papers) and Graphene research and applications (91 papers). Puru Jena is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (217 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (91 papers) and Graphene research and applications (91 papers). Puru Jena collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Puru Jena's co-authors include Qian Wang, Qiang Sun, B. K. Rao, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Shiv N. Khanna, Jian Zhou, Xiaohong Chen, G. L. Gutsev, Saroj K. Nayak and Shunhong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Puru Jena

654 papers receiving 30.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Penta-graphene: A new carbon allotrope

2015 1.3k citations Qian Wang, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe et al. profile →
Materials for Hydrogen Storage: Past, Present, and Future

2011 900 citations Puru Jena The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters profile →
Ferromagnetism in Semihydrogenated Graphene Sheet

2009 739 citations Qian Wang, Qiang Sun et al. profile →
Clustering of Ti on a C₆₀ Surface and Its Effect on Hydrogen Storage

2005 662 citations Qiang Sun, Qian Wang et al. profile →
Assembling crystals from clusters

1992 552 citations Puru Jena et al. profile →
First-Principles Study of Hydrogen Storage on Li₁₂C₆₀

2006 524 citations Qiang Sun, Puru Jena et al. profile →
Physics and Chemistry of Small Clusters

1987 499 citations Puru Jena et al. profile →
Super Atomic Clusters: Design Rules and Potential for Building Blocks of Materials

2018 493 citations Puru Jena, Qiang Sun profile →
Hydrogen interactions with defects in crystalline solids

1992 447 citations Puru Jena et al. profile →
Atomic clusters: Building blocks for a class of solids

1995 430 citations Puru Jena et al. profile →

Peers

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Mark R. Pederson United States

Koblar Alan Jackson United States

Carlos Fiolhais Portugal

Oleg A. Vydrov United States

Yanming Ma China

C. Richard A. Catlow United Kingdom

Francesc Illas Spain

Stewart J. Clark United Kingdom

J. A. Chevary Canada

Gianfranco Pacchioni Italy

Mark R. Pederson United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Puru Jena

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Liu, Jiahui, et al.. (2025). Ductile Na₃La₅Br₁₈ as a Promising Solid-State Electrolyte with Fast Na⁺ Conduction and High Electrochemical and Interfacial Stability. ACS Materials Letters. 7(3). 761–769. 2 indexed citations

Kılıç, Mehmet Emin & Puru Jena. (2025). Single-atom vs. single-superatom as catalysts for ammonia production. Chemical Communications. 61(15). 3127–3130. 3 indexed citations

Mohanta, Manish Kumar & Puru Jena. (2025). Activation and electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide by transition metal atom-doped copper clusters. Nanoscale. 17(14). 8505–8514. 3 indexed citations

Sahoo, Ramesh Chandra, et al.. (2025). Nickel Silicate Hydroxides/Expanded Graphite as a Stable and Fast-Charging Anode for the Next-Generation Li-ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(9). 14157–14167. 1 indexed citations

Konwar, Dimpul, et al.. (2024). Design of high-capacity composite anode for next generation lithium-ion batteries. Chemical Engineering Journal. 502. 157941–157941.

Fang, Hong, Awad I. Ahmed, S.A. El-Hakam, et al.. (2024). Selective Reduction of Multivariate Metal–Organic Frameworks for Advanced Electrocatalytic Cathodes in High Areal Capacity and Long-Life Lithium–Sulfur Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(2). 2283–2295. 14 indexed citations

Jena, Puru, et al.. (2023). Janus behavior of Au atoms interacting with fluorine. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. 142(1). 1 indexed citations

Kılıç, Mehmet Emin & Puru Jena. (2023). Catalytic Potential of [B₁₂X₁₁]^2– (X = F, Cl, Br, I, CN) Dianions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(39). 8697–8701. 13 indexed citations

Deepika, et al.. (2022). Atomically Precise Core-Tailored Metal Chalcogenide Nanoclusters: Tuning the Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(14). 6512–6522. 9 indexed citations

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Li, Tingwei, et al.. (2022). Thermoelectric Figure of Merit of a Superatomic Crystal Re6Se8I2 Monolayer. Physical Review Applied. 18(6). 7 indexed citations

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Gholipour‐Ranjbar, Habib, Deepika, Puru Jena, & Julia Laskin. (2022). Gas-phase fragmentation of single heteroatom-incorporated Co5MS8(PEt3)6+ (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) nanoclusters. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 130–130. 8 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wenyang, Haoming Shen, Huanhuan Xie, et al.. (2021). Boron-Functionalized Organic Framework as a High-Performance Metal-Free Catalyst for N₂ Fixation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(50). 12142–12149. 17 indexed citations

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Zhong, Ming, Hong Fang, Deepika, & Puru Jena. (2021). Super-electrophiles of tri- and tetra-anions stabilized by selected terminal groups and their role in binding noble gas atoms. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(38). 21496–21500. 6 indexed citations

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Fang, Hong, et al.. (2020). Record-high stability and compactness of multiply-charged clusters aided by selected terminal groups. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(9). 4880–4883. 7 indexed citations

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Jena, Puru. (2020). Clusters and Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy. ACS Energy Letters. 5(2). 428–429. 4 indexed citations

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Reddy, G. Naaresh, Rakesh Parida, Puru Jena, Madhurima Jana, & Santanab Giri. (2019). Superhalogens as Building Blocks of Super Lewis Acids. ChemPhysChem. 20(12). 1607–1612. 11 indexed citations

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Fang, Hong, et al.. (2019). Boronated holey graphene: a case of 2D ferromagnetic metal. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(37). 21128–21135. 5 indexed citations

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Teprovich, Joseph A., Jason A. Weeks, Patrick A. Ward, et al.. (2019). Hydrogenated C₆₀ as High-Capacity Stable Anode Materials for Li Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(9). 6453–6460. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Shuo, Junyi Liu, Yu Qie, et al.. (2018). Discovery of a high-pressure phase of rutile-like CoO₂ and its potential as a cathode material. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(38). 18449–18457. 7 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoyin, Qian Wang, & Puru Jena. (2017). ψ-Graphene: A New Metallic Allotrope of Planar Carbon with Potential Applications as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(14). 3234–3241. 254 indexed citations

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