Rafael G. Mendes

12.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
251 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

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Rafael G. Mendes is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael G. Mendes has authored 251 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 227 papers in Materials Chemistry, 68 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 50 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rafael G. Mendes's work include Graphene research and applications (155 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (146 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (45 papers). Rafael G. Mendes is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (155 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (146 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (45 papers). Rafael G. Mendes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Poland and China. Rafael G. Mendes's co-authors include Alicja Bachmatiuk, B. Büchner, Thomas Gemming, Jamie H. Warner, Thomas Pichler, J. Eckert, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Paola Ayala, Jiong Zhao and Rafael G. Mendes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rafael G. Mendes

249 papers receiving 10.5k 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.

Silicon carbide-free graphene growth on silicon for lithium-ion battery with high volumetric energy density

2015 500 citations In Hyuk Son, Jong Hwan Park et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael G. Mendes Germany	56	8.3k	4.1k	2.4k	1.9k	827	251	10.7k
Nicole Grobert United Kingdom	55	8.2k 1.0×	3.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	732 0.9×	180	10.6k
Alicja Bachmatiuk Germany	51	7.5k 0.9×	4.4k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	542 0.7×	196	10.3k
Wonbong Choi United States	53	7.6k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	883 1.1×	187	10.5k
Cristina Gómez‐Navarro Spain	30	6.5k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	857 1.0×	56	8.3k
Martin Kalbáč Czechia	41	5.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	610 0.7×	257	7.1k
Pengfei Yang China	16	5.7k 0.7×	3.9k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	696 0.8×	45	8.3k
Y. Wu China	6	5.6k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	682 0.8×	9	7.8k
Hiroki Ago Japan	51	8.3k 1.0×	3.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.8×	194	10.2k
Yenny Hernández Germany	25	9.8k 1.2×	5.5k 1.3×	4.9k 2.0×	2.4k 1.3×	751 0.9×	41	12.6k
Ayrat M. Dimiev Russia	28	5.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	453 0.5×	79	7.1k

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Guzenko, N.V., Marcin Godzierz, Anna Hercog, et al.. (2023). Flexible Piezoresistive Polystyrene Composite Sensors Filled with Hollow 3D Graphitic Shells. Polymers. 15(24). 4674–4674. 3 indexed citations

Tokarska, Klaudia, Qitao Shi, Łukasz Otulakowski, et al.. (2020). Facile production of ultra-fine silicon nanoparticles. Royal Society Open Science. 7(9). 200736–200736. 7 indexed citations

Karlsson, Linda H., Jens Birch, Aurelija Mockutė, et al.. (2017). Graphene on graphene formation from PMMA residues during annealing. Vacuum. 137. 191–194. 8 indexed citations

Ibrahim, Imad, Thomas Gemming, W. Weber, et al.. (2016). Current Progress in the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Type-Selected Horizontally Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. ACS Nano. 10(8). 7248–7266. 20 indexed citations

Song, Xiuju, Junfeng Gao, Yufeng Nie, et al.. (2015). Chemical vapor deposition growth of large-scale hexagonal boron nitride with controllable orientation. Nano Research. 8(10). 3164–3176. 174 indexed citations

Son, In Hyuk, Jong Hwan Park, Soonchul Kwon, et al.. (2015). Silicon carbide-free graphene growth on silicon for lithium-ion battery with high volumetric energy density. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7393–7393. 500 indexed citations breakdown →

Börrnert, Felix, et al.. (2014). A cheap and quickly adaptable in situ electrical contacting TEM sample holder design. Ultramicroscopy. 139. 1–4. 2 indexed citations

Davami, Keivan, Mehrdad Shaygan, Jiong Zhao, et al.. (2014). Synthesis and characterization of carbon nanowalls on different substrates by radio frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Carbon. 72. 372–380. 123 indexed citations

Hu, Xuebo, Mengqi Zeng, Yangyong Sun, et al.. (2014). Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Anchored Fe₃O₄ Nanoparticles on Graphene Foam and Lithium Battery Performance. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 6(24). 22527–22533. 86 indexed citations

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Stepanov, Alexey, В. А. Бурилов, Asiya R. Mustafina, et al.. (2013). Water transverse relaxation rates in aqueous dispersions of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoclusters with diverse hydrophilic coating. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 443. 450–458. 16 indexed citations

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Havlíček, Marek, W. Jantsch, Ż. Wilamowski, et al.. (2012). Indirect exchange interaction in fully metal-semiconductor separated single-walled carbon nanotubes revealed by electron spin resonance. Physical Review B. 86(4). 10 indexed citations

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Mendes, Rafael G., Alicja Bachmatiuk, Ahmed A. El‐Gendy, et al.. (2012). A Facile Route to Coat Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Few-Layer Graphene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(44). 23749–23756. 23 indexed citations

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Lin, Jarrn‐Horng, Ching‐Shiun Chen, Rafael G. Mendes, et al.. (2011). Growth of Carbon Nanotubes Catalyzed by Defect-Rich Graphite Surfaces. Chemistry of Materials. 23(7). 1637–1639. 35 indexed citations

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Lin, Jarrn‐Horng, et al.. (2010). Self-assembly formation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on gold surfaces. Nanoscale. 2(12). 2835–2835. 17 indexed citations

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Bystrzejewski, M., A. Huczko, H. Lange, et al.. (2010). Dispersion and diameter separation of multi-wall carbon nanotubes in aqueous solutions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 345(2). 138–142. 104 indexed citations

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Schäffel, Franziska, Jamie H. Warner, Alicja Bachmatiuk, et al.. (2009). On the catalytic hydrogenation of graphite for graphene nanoribbon fabrication. physica status solidi (b). 246(11-12). 2540–2544. 24 indexed citations

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Mendes, Rafael G., Franziska Schäffel, Markus Löffler, et al.. (2008). Unifying catalyst size dependencies in floating catalyst and supported catalyst carbon nanotube synthesis. physica status solidi (a). 205(6). 1386–1390. 2 indexed citations

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Mendes, Rafael G., Franziska Schäffel, Teresa de los Arcos, et al.. (2008). On the graphitisation role of oxide supports in carbon nanotube CVD synthesis. physica status solidi (b). 245(10). 1939–1942. 8 indexed citations

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Bystrzejewski, M. & Rafael G. Mendes. (2007). Novel Nanomaterials for Prospective Biomedical Applications: Synthesis, Structure and Toxicity. Polish Journal of Chemistry. 81(7). 1219–1255. 17 indexed citations

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Ayala, Paola, F.L. Freire, Rafael G. Mendes, A. Grüneis, & Thomas Pichler. (2007). Chemical vapor deposition of functionalized single‐walled carbon nanotubes with defined nitrogen doping. physica status solidi (b). 244(11). 4051–4055. 22 indexed citations

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