Richard A. Vaia

32.8k total citations · 14 hit papers
348 papers, 27.1k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Vaia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Vaia has authored 348 papers receiving a total of 27.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Materials Chemistry, 123 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 101 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Vaia's work include Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (72 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (43 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (43 papers). Richard A. Vaia is often cited by papers focused on Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties (72 papers), Advanced Materials and Mechanics (43 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (43 papers). Richard A. Vaia collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Portugal. Richard A. Vaia's co-authors include Emmanuel P. Giannelis, Hilmar Koerner, Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Barry L. Farmer, Kyoungweon Park, Karen I. Winey, Hendrik Heinz, Timothy J. White, Timothy J. Bunning and H. A. Ishii and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Vaia

338 papers receiving 26.6k 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.

Synthesis and properties of two-dimensional nanostructures by direct intercalation of polymer melts in layered silicates

1993 919 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Accurate Simulation of Surfaces and Interfaces of Face-Centered Cubic Metals Using 12−6 and 9−6 Lennard-Jones Potentials

2008 886 citations Richard A. Vaia et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →
Thermal Degradation Chemistry of Alkyl Quaternary Ammonium Montmorillonite

2001 881 citations Richard A. Vaia et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Remotely actuated polymer nanocomposites—stress-recovery of carbon-nanotube-filled thermoplastic elastomers

2004 843 citations Hilmar Koerner, M. Alexander et al. profile →
Polymer Melt Intercalation in Organically-Modified Layered Silicates: Model Predictions and Experiment

1997 808 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis profile →
Interlayer Structure and Molecular Environment of Alkylammonium Layered Silicates

1994 765 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Structure and Dynamics of Polymer-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites

1996 758 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Lattice Model of Polymer Melt Intercalation in Organically-Modified Layered Silicates

1997 616 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis profile →
Polymer Nanocomposites

2007 575 citations Richard A. Vaia et al. profile →
Kinetics of Polymer Melt Intercalation

1995 571 citations Richard A. Vaia, Emmanuel P. Giannelis et al. profile →
New polymer electrolyte nanocomposites: Melt intercalation of poly(ethylene oxide) in mica‐type silicates

1995 519 citations Richard A. Vaia et al. Advanced Materials profile →
50th Anniversary Perspective: Are Polymer Nanocomposites Practical for Applications?

2017 510 citations Richard A. Vaia et al. profile →
Mechanism for Liquid Phase Exfoliation of MoS₂

2015 394 citations Ali M. Jawaid, Dhriti Nepal et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
Halogen Etch of Ti₃AlC₂ MAX Phase for MXene Fabrication

2021 269 citations Ali M. Jawaid, Dhriti Nepal et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Vaia United States	78	13.3k	10.7k	6.6k	5.1k	4.2k	348	27.1k
Emmanuel P. Giannelis United States	88	17.4k 1.3×	13.8k 1.3×	7.4k 1.1×	6.7k 1.3×	2.2k 0.5×	315	35.2k
Alan H. Windle United Kingdom	72	8.7k 0.7×	14.8k 1.4×	6.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.3×	4.4k 1.0×	283	23.6k
Karen I. Winey United States	74	11.6k 0.9×	11.6k 1.1×	6.0k 0.9×	2.2k 0.4×	1.5k 0.3×	301	23.1k
Vladimir V. Tsukruk United States	83	5.2k 0.4×	10.1k 0.9×	10.3k 1.5×	6.2k 1.2×	5.1k 1.2×	496	30.5k
Manfred Stamm Germany	78	6.5k 0.5×	9.7k 0.9×	6.9k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	1.8k 0.4×	549	26.8k
Christopher K. Ober United States	80	6.0k 0.5×	9.3k 0.9×	8.1k 1.2×	3.3k 0.6×	3.5k 0.8×	581	28.7k
Wei Feng China	84	6.3k 0.5×	11.4k 1.1×	6.5k 1.0×	1.7k 0.3×	4.4k 1.0×	565	25.8k
Stephen Z. D. Cheng United States	80	11.3k 0.8×	11.2k 1.0×	2.7k 0.4×	7.2k 1.4×	2.9k 0.7×	528	23.4k
Olli Ikkala Finland	86	5.2k 0.4×	8.7k 0.8×	6.9k 1.0×	10.8k 2.1×	3.0k 0.7×	352	27.0k
Yurii K. Gun’ko Ireland	69	4.1k 0.3×	16.9k 1.6×	7.6k 1.1×	2.3k 0.4×	4.4k 1.0×	334	25.4k

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Chalmpes, Nikolaos, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Yield and Compatibility of Exfoliated MoS ₂ through Iodine‐Assisted Thermal Treatment of Powders. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(24).

Nalaoh, Phattananawee, et al.. (2025). One-step functionalization of gold nanorods with N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. RSC Advances. 15(7). 5007–5010. 1 indexed citations

He, Guang S., et al.. (2024). Two-photon pumped forward, backward and random lasing in a stilbazolium dye nanocomposite solution containing LAPONITE® as a scattering center. Nanoscale. 17(4). 2292–2303. 1 indexed citations

Jawaid, Ali M., et al.. (2024). Thickness-dependent electronic relaxation dynamics in solution-phase redox-exfoliated MoS2 heterostructures. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(14). 1 indexed citations

Lu, Jun, Wenbing Wu, Si Li, et al.. (2024). Nano-achiral complex composites for extreme polarization optics. Nature. 630(8018). 860–865. 35 indexed citations

Gomes, Anderson S. L., et al.. (2023). Intensity-Dependent Optical Response of 2D LTMDs Suspensions: From Thermal to Electronic Nonlinearities. Nanomaterials. 13(15). 2267–2267. 6 indexed citations

Dunlap, John H., Shao‐Xiong Lennon Luo, José Antonio Garrido Torres, et al.. (2023). Continuous flow synthesis of pyridinium salts accelerated by multi-objective Bayesian optimization with active learning. Chemical Science. 14(30). 8061–8069. 30 indexed citations

Silva-Neto, Manoel L. da, et al.. (2023). Intensity-Dependent Thermally Induced Nonlinear Optical Response of Two-Dimensional Layered Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides in Suspension. ACS Photonics. 10(2). 484–492. 17 indexed citations

Tran, Ly D., Jason K. Streit, Jennifer Carpena‐Núñez, et al.. (2022). Divergent Properties in Structural Isomers of Triphenylamine-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks. Chemistry of Materials. 34(2). 529–536. 45 indexed citations

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Silva-Neto, Manoel L. da, Henrique B. Ribeiro, Cid B. de Araújo, et al.. (2021). Femtosecond nonlinear refraction of 2D semi-metallic redox exfoliated ZrTe2 at 800 nm. Applied Physics Letters. 118(1). 12 indexed citations

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Torsi, Riccardo, Ali M. Jawaid, Rahul Rao, et al.. (2021). Reversibly Tailoring Optical Constants of Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide MoS₂ Films: Impact of Dopant-Induced Screening from Chemical Adsorbates and Mild Film Degradation. ACS Photonics. 8(6). 1705–1717. 12 indexed citations

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Silva-Neto, Manoel L. da, Leonardo de S. Menezes, Cid B. de Araújo, et al.. (2020). Fifth-order optical nonlinear response of semiconducting 2D LTMD MoS₂. Optics Letters. 46(2). 226–226. 7 indexed citations

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Silva-Neto, Manoel L. da, Henrique B. Ribeiro, Isabel C. S. Carvalho, et al.. (2020). Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Properties of 2D Metallic NbS₂ in the Near Infrared. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(28). 15425–15433. 29 indexed citations

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Greybush, Nicholas J., Kristin M. Charipar, Jeffrey A. Geldmeier, et al.. (2019). Dynamic Plasmonic Pixels. ACS Nano. 13(4). 3875–3883. 75 indexed citations

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Wang, David H., et al.. (2010). Electrothermal Polymer Nanocomposite Actuators. Advanced Materials. 22(31). 3430–3435. 53 indexed citations

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Mirau, Peter A., et al.. (2006). NMR Characterization of the Interface in Polyurethane/Carbon Nanotube Composites. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Vaia, Richard A. & John F. Maguire. (2006). Polymer Nanocomposites with Prescribed Morphology. 17(5). 561–577. 3 indexed citations

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Koerner, Hilmar, et al.. (2004). Piezo- and pyro-resistivity of carbon nanotube-elastomer nanocomposites. APS. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Anderson, Kelly, et al.. (2003). Coarse-Grained NPT Molecular Dynamics of Polymer-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2003. 1 indexed citations

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Vaia, Richard A., Maura S. Weathers, & William A. Bassett. (1994). Anomalous peaks in grazing incidence thin film X-ray diffraction. Powder Diffraction. 9(1). 44–49. 9 indexed citations

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