Robert Colby

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

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Robert Colby is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Colby has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Robert Colby's work include Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (13 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (11 papers) and Graphene research and applications (9 papers). Robert Colby is often cited by papers focused on Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (13 papers), Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (11 papers) and Graphene research and applications (9 papers). Robert Colby collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Qatar. Robert Colby's co-authors include Eric A. Stach, Qingkai Yu, Yong P. Chen, Helin Cao, Deepak Pandey, Wei Wu, Jifa Tian, Dongguang Wei, Zhihong Liu and Zhihua Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robert Colby

57 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition

2011 1.3k citations Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui et al. Nature Materials profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Phase segregation dynamics in mixed-halide perovskites revealed by plunge-freeze cryo-electron microscopy 2025 ·Cell Reports Physical Science ·(unknown), Yi Cui, Yanbin Li, Julian A. Vigil, (unknown), Partha Nandi, Robert Colby, (unknown), Hemamala I. Karunadasa, Aaron M. Lindenberg	2
2	Understanding Nucleation of Mesophase Pitch Tactoids using 4D-STEM 2023 ·Microscopy and Microanalysis ·Robert Colby, Kazem V. Edmond, (unknown), Stuart E. Smith	1
3	Identifying and imaging polymer functionality at high spatial resolution with core-loss EELS 2023 ·Ultramicroscopy ·Robert Colby, Robert E.A. Williams, D. L. Carpenter, Núria Bagués, (unknown), David W. McComb	11
4	Infiltration of direct-spun carbon nanotube articles 2022 ·Composites Science and Technology ·Bharath Natarajan, Robert Colby, Daniel J. Ryan, Peter W. Jacobs	3
5	A method for measuring the local gas pressure within a gas-flow stage in situ in the transmission electron microscope 2015 ·Ultramicroscopy ·Robert Colby, Daan Hein Alsem, (unknown), B. Kabius	5
6	Soft landing of bare PtRu nanoparticles for electrochemical reduction of oxygen 2015 ·Nanoscale ·Grant E. Johnson, Robert Colby, Mark Engelhard, Daewon Moon, Julia Laskin	29
7	Soft landing of bare nanoparticles with controlled size, composition, and morphology 2015 ·Nanoscale ·Grant E. Johnson, Robert Colby, Julia Laskin	66
8	Visualizing nanoscale 3D compositional fluctuation of lithium in advanced lithium-ion battery cathodes 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Arun Devaraj, Meng Gu, Robert Colby, Pengfei Yan, C. M. Wang, Jianming Zheng, Jie Xiao, Aziz Genç, Junyu Zhang, Ilias Belharouak, Dapeng Wang, Khalil Amine, S. Thevuthasan	123
9	Impact of lattice mismatch and stoichiometry on the structure and bandgap of (Fe,Cr)₂O₃epitaxial thin films 2014 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Tiffany C. Kaspar, (unknown), Mark Bowden, Robert Colby, V. Shutthanandan, Sandeep Manandhar, Yi Wang, Peter V. Sushko, Scott A. Chambers	33
10	Spatial control of functional properties via octahedral modulations in complex oxide superlattices 2014 ·Nature Communications ·E. J. Moon, Robert Colby, (unknown), Evguenia Karapetrova, Christian M. Schlepütz, M. R. Fitzsimmons, Steven J. May	66
11	Reversible nano-structuring of SrCrO3-δ through oxidation and reduction at low temperature 2014 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Peter V. Sushko, Robert Colby, Yingge Du, Mark Bowden, Scott A. Chambers	67
12	Subsurface synthesis and characterization of Ag nanoparticles embedded in MgO 2013 ·Nanotechnology ·(unknown), Arun Devaraj, Robert Colby, Archana Pandey, Tamás Varga, V. Shutthanandan, Sandeep Manandhar, Patrick Z. El‐Khoury, A. Kayani, Wayne P. Hess, S. Thevuthasan	23
13	Role of Photoexcitation and Field Ionization in the Measurement of Accurate Oxide Stoichiometry by Laser-Assisted Atom Probe Tomography 2013 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Arun Devaraj, Robert Colby, Wayne P. Hess, Daniel E. Perea, (unknown)	129
14	Coexistence of weak ferromagnetism and polar lattice distortion in epitaxial NiTiO3 thin films of the LiNbO3-type structure 2013 ·Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena ·Tamás Varga, Timothy C. Droubay, Mark Bowden, Robert Colby, Sandeep Manandhar, V. Shutthanandan, Dehong Hu, B. Kabius, Edoardo Aprà, W. A. Shelton, Scott A. Chambers	22
15	Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition breakdown → 2011 ·Nature Materials ·Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby, Jifa Tian, Zhihua Su, Helin Cao, Zhihong Liu, Deepak Pandey, Dongguang Wei, Ting‐Fung Chung, Peng Peng, Nathan P. Guisinger, Eric A. Stach, Jiming Bao, (unknown), Yong P. Chen	1259
16	First experimental demonstration of gate-all-around III–V MOSFETs by top-down approach 2011 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Jiangjiang Gu, (unknown), Yanqing Wu, Robert Colby, Roy G. Gordon, P. D. Ye	82
17	Large-scale graphitic thin films synthesized on Ni and transferred to insulators:\n Structural and electronic properties 2010 ·Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) ·Helin Cao, Qingkai Yu, Robert Colby, Deepak Pandey, (unknown), Jie Lian, Dmitry Zemlyanov, Isaac Childres, Vladimir P. Drachev, Eric A. Stach, Muhammad Hussain, Hao Li, (unknown), Yong P. Chen	82
18	Single-crystal Grains and Grain Boundaries in Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition 2010 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Qingkai Yu, Luis A. Jauregui, Wei Wu, Robert Colby, Jifa Tian, Zhihua Su, Helin Cao, Zhihong Liu, Deepak Pandey, Dongguang Wei, Ting‐Fung Chung, Peng Peng, Nathan P. Guisinger, Eric A. Stach, Jiming Bao, S. S. Pei, Yong P. Chen	1
19	Controlled Growth of Ordered Nanopore Arrays in GaN 2010 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Robert Colby, Eric A. Stach, T. Sands	8
20	III-nitride nanopyramid light emitting diodes grown by organometallic vapor phase epitaxy 2010 ·Journal of Applied Physics ·(unknown), Robert Colby, (unknown), Zhiwen Liang, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Nestor J. Zaluzec, R. Edwin Garcı́a, Eric A. Stach, T. Sands	25

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