Rafail Khalfin

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Rafail Khalfin is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafail Khalfin has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 17 papers in Biomaterials and 10 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rafail Khalfin's work include Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (8 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (8 papers) and Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (7 papers). Rafail Khalfin is often cited by papers focused on Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (8 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (8 papers) and Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (7 papers). Rafail Khalfin collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United Kingdom and United States. Rafail Khalfin's co-authors include Yachin Cohen, Eyal Zussman, Alexander L. Yarin, Wael Salalha, Yael Dror, G. I. Titelman, V. N. Gel'man, S. Bron, Havazelet Bianco‐Peled and Dmitry M. Rein and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Rafail Khalfin

38 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Characteristics and microstructure of aqueous colloidal dispersions of graphite oxide

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafail Khalfin Israel	21	961	919	790	659	342	40	2.1k
Jeong Hyun Yeum South Korea	28	749 0.8×	991 1.1×	535 0.7×	816 1.2×	317 0.9×	116	2.2k
Carl D. Saquing United States	20	975 1.0×	983 1.1×	403 0.5×	359 0.5×	344 1.0×	24	1.9k
Vladimir Djoković Serbia	27	723 0.8×	560 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	985 1.5×	367 1.1×	76	2.5k
Junchao Huang China	26	906 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	511 0.6×	699 1.1×	252 0.7×	45	2.7k
Hongqian Bao Singapore	18	1.5k 1.6×	831 0.9×	1.3k 1.6×	413 0.6×	195 0.6×	21	2.6k
Liqin Ge China	25	556 0.6×	564 0.6×	377 0.5×	405 0.6×	319 0.9×	112	1.9k
Weidong Zhou China	29	638 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	768 1.0×	993 1.5×	214 0.6×	49	2.4k
Harri Kosonen Finland	17	890 0.9×	2.0k 2.2×	823 1.0×	578 0.9×	337 1.0×	30	3.3k
Hongliang Kang China	30	664 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	711 0.9×	434 0.7×	182 0.5×	67	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Khalfin, Rafail, et al.. (2022). Structural Insights into Cellulose-Coated Oil in Water Emulsions. Langmuir. 38(37). 11171–11179. 3 indexed citations

Shpigel, Netanel, Sergey Sigalov, Fyodor Malchik, et al.. (2019). Quantification of porosity in extensively nanoporous thin films in contact with gases and liquids. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4394–4394. 15 indexed citations

Medronho, Bruno, Alexandra Filipe, Rafail Khalfin, et al.. (2019). Silk Fibroin Dissolution in Tetrabutylammonium Hydroxide Aqueous Solution. Biomacromolecules. 20(11). 4107–4116. 22 indexed citations

Sui, XiaoMeng, et al.. (2019). Extreme scale-dependent tensile properties of epoxy fibers. eXPRESS Polymer Letters. 13(11). 993–1003. 19 indexed citations

Wei, Zongsu, Shuang Luo, Ruiyang Xiao, Rafail Khalfin, & Raphael Semiat. (2017). Characterization and quantification of chromate adsorption by layered porous iron oxyhydroxide: An experimental and theoretical study. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 338. 472–481. 36 indexed citations

Rein, Dmitry M., et al.. (2017). Semidilute solution structure of cellulose in an ionic liquid and its mixture with a polar organic co-solvent studied by small-angle X-ray scattering. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 55(11). 888–894. 19 indexed citations

Rein, Dmitry M., et al.. (2015). Cellulose gel dispersion: From pure hydrogel suspensions to encapsulated oil-in-water emulsions. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 137. 70–76. 21 indexed citations

Khalfin, Rafail, et al.. (2015). Celecoxib Encapsulation in β-Casein Micelles: Structure, Interactions, and Conformation. Langmuir. 31(26). 7183–7192. 44 indexed citations

Rein, Dmitry M., Rafail Khalfin, Noemi Szekély, & Yachin Cohen. (2014). True molecular solutions of natural cellulose in the binary ionic liquid-containing solvent mixtures. Carbohydrate Polymers. 112. 125–133. 55 indexed citations

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Patil, Nilesh, et al.. (2013). Conductive PVDF-HFP Nanofibers with Embedded TTF-TCNQ Charge Transfer Complex. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 5(13). 6066–6072. 10 indexed citations

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Rein, Dmitry M., Rafail Khalfin, & Yachin Cohen. (2012). Cellulose as a novel amphiphilic coating for oil-in-water and water-in-oil dispersions. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 386(1). 456–463. 53 indexed citations

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Portnaya, Irina, Rafail Khalfin, Ellina Kesselman, et al.. (2010). Mixed micellization between natural and synthetic block copolymers: β-casein and Lutrol F-127. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(8). 3153–3160. 20 indexed citations

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Khalfin, Rafail, et al.. (2010). About the albumin structure in solution and related electro-spinnability issues. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 47(2). 261–265. 26 indexed citations

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Khalfin, Rafail, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of nanoparticle dispersion in polypropylene by small‐angle X‐ray scattering. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 109(1). 350–354.

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Rein, Dmitry M., et al.. (2007). Electrospinning of ultrahigh‐molecular‐weight polyethylene nanofibers. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 45(7). 766–773. 57 indexed citations

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Khalfin, Rafail, et al.. (2005). Harnessing the Melting Peculiarities of Ultra‐High Molecular Weight Polyethylene Fibers for the Processing of Compacted Fiber Composites. Macromolecular Materials and Engineering. 290(7). 653–656. 6 indexed citations

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Botoshansky, Mark, et al.. (2004). Solvates of zafirlukast. Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 60(12). o843–o846. 4 indexed citations

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Rein, Dmitry M., et al.. (2003). Phase transitions in ultraoriented polyethylene fibers under moderate pressures: A synchrotron X‐ray study. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 42(1). 53–59. 16 indexed citations

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Dror, Yael, Wael Salalha, Rafail Khalfin, et al.. (2003). Carbon Nanotubes Embedded in Oriented Polymer Nanofibers by Electrospinning. Langmuir. 19(17). 7012–7020. 442 indexed citations

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Tadmor, Rafael, Rafail Khalfin, & Yachin Cohen. (2002). Reversible Gelation in Isotropic Solutions of the Helical Polypeptide Poly(γ-benzyl-l-glutamate): Kinetics and Formation Mechanism of the Fibrillar Network. Langmuir. 18(19). 7146–7150. 39 indexed citations

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