Rajesh Kappera

4.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
15 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Rajesh Kappera is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rajesh Kappera has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rajesh Kappera's work include 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (5 papers) and Graphene research and applications (3 papers). Rajesh Kappera is often cited by papers focused on 2D Materials and Applications (8 papers), MXene and MAX Phase Materials (5 papers) and Graphene research and applications (3 papers). Rajesh Kappera collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Rajesh Kappera's co-authors include Manish Chhowalla, Damien Voiry, Aditya D. Mohite, Gautam Gupta, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, Brittany Branch, Cecília de Carvalho Castro Silva, Tewodros Asefa, Daniel Kaplan and Jun Lou and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Rajesh Kappera

14 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Phase-engineered low-resistance contacts for ultrathin Mo... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2016 2014 2014 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Phase-engineered low-resistance contacts for ultrathin MoS2 transistors
    2014 1.5k citations Rajesh Kappera, Damien Voiry et al. Nature Materials profile →
  2. The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen
    2016 725 citations Damien Voiry, Raymond Fullon et al. Nature Materials profile →
  3. Covalent functionalization of monolayered transition metal dichalcogenides by phase engineering
    2014 656 citations Damien Voiry, Anandarup Goswami et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  4. Evolution of the Electronic Band Structure and Efficient Photo-Detection in Atomic Layers of InSe
    2014 550 citations Sidong Lei, Liehui Ge et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rajesh Kappera United States 10 3.3k 1.9k 1.2k 527 280 15 4.1k
Pengtao Xu China 20 1.3k 0.4× 906 0.5× 896 0.7× 521 1.0× 257 0.9× 36 2.4k
Jianqi Zhu China 19 1.7k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 492 0.4× 390 0.7× 275 1.0× 31 2.4k
Juhong Park United States 13 2.6k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 394 0.3× 401 0.8× 376 1.3× 16 3.5k
Spencer A. Wells United States 16 2.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 469 0.4× 609 1.2× 160 0.6× 22 3.1k
Sin‐Yi Pang Hong Kong 17 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 659 0.5× 471 0.9× 376 1.3× 32 2.1k
Jan‐Kai Chang Taiwan 16 2.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 536 0.4× 913 1.7× 237 0.8× 28 3.0k
Dhinesh Babu Velusamy South Korea 20 1.2k 0.4× 1.7k 0.9× 556 0.5× 438 0.8× 387 1.4× 25 2.3k
Damien Hanlon Ireland 24 2.7k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 620 0.5× 753 1.4× 580 2.1× 28 3.5k
Zhengtang Luo Hong Kong 24 2.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 205 0.2× 953 1.8× 302 1.1× 44 3.1k
Hongying Mao China 26 1.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 306 0.3× 929 1.8× 380 1.4× 76 2.6k

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Cummins, Dustin, Ulises Martinez, Andriy Sherehiy, et al.. (2016). Efficient hydrogen evolution in transition metal dichalcogenides via a simple one-step hydrazine reaction. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11857–11857. 191 indexed citations
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Voiry, Damien, Raymond Fullon, Jieun Yang, et al.. (2016). The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen. Nature Materials. 15(9). 1003–1009. 725 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cummins, Dustin, Ulises Martinez, Rajesh Kappera, et al.. (2015). Catalytic Activity in Lithium-Treated Core–Shell MoOx/MoS2 Nanowires. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(40). 22908–22914. 29 indexed citations
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Yalcin, Sibel Ebru, Charudatta Galande, Rajesh Kappera, et al.. (2015). Direct Imaging of Charge Transport in Progressively Reduced Graphene Oxide Using Electrostatic Force Microscopy. ACS Nano. 9(3). 2981–2988. 28 indexed citations
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Galande, Charudatta, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, et al.. (2014). Photo Induced Fluorescence Enhancement and Correlated FTIR of Single Layer Graphene Oxide. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 2 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Hisato, Jean‐Christophe Blancon, Rajesh Kappera, et al.. (2014). Spatially Resolved Photoexcited Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Phase-Engineered Monolayer MoS2. ACS Nano. 9(1). 840–849. 57 indexed citations
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Voiry, Damien, Anandarup Goswami, Rajesh Kappera, et al.. (2014). Covalent functionalization of monolayered transition metal dichalcogenides by phase engineering. Nature Chemistry. 7(1). 45–49. 656 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kappera, Rajesh, Damien Voiry, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, et al.. (2014). Phase-engineered low-resistance contacts for ultrathin MoS2 transistors. Nature Materials. 13(12). 1128–1134. 1509 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lei, Sidong, Liehui Ge, Sina Najmaei, et al.. (2014). Evolution of the Electronic Band Structure and Efficient Photo-Detection in Atomic Layers of InSe. ACS Nano. 8(2). 1263–1272. 550 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kappera, Rajesh, Damien Voiry, Sibel Ebru Yalcin, et al.. (2014). Metallic 1T phase source/drain electrodes for field effect transistors from chemical vapor deposited MoS2. APL Materials. 2(9). 154 indexed citations
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Kappera, Rajesh, et al.. (2014). Study on the grain size, valence state and electrical properties of bismuth ferrite nanofibers. 8. 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Solanki, Aniruddh, Sy‐Tsong Dean Chueng, Perry T. Yin, et al.. (2013). Axonal Alignment and Enhanced Neuronal Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells on Graphene‐Nanoparticle Hybrid Structures. Advanced Materials. 25(38). 5477–5482. 183 indexed citations
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Banerjee, Sankha, Rajesh Kappera, Kimberly Cook-Chennault, & Manish Chhowalla. (2013). Multi-Walled Carbon-Nanotube Based Flexible Piezoelectric Films with Graphene Monolayers. 2(3). 195–202. 5 indexed citations
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Kappera, Rajesh, et al.. (2010). Nanohole structures for efficiency enhancement in thin film photovoltaics. 507. 1–5. 1 indexed citations
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