Safiya Khalil

483 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 401 citations indexed

About

Safiya Khalil is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Safiya Khalil has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 401 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 3 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Safiya Khalil's work include Covalent Organic Framework Applications (7 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (2 papers). Safiya Khalil is often cited by papers focused on Covalent Organic Framework Applications (7 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (2 papers). Safiya Khalil collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Arab Emirates. Safiya Khalil's co-authors include Rafael Verduzco, Morgan Barnes, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Yilin Li, Dongyang Zhu, Muhammad M. Rahman, Zhuqing Zhang, Chia‐Ping Tseng, Yifan Zhu and Guiyin Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Chemistry of Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Safiya Khalil

9 papers receiving 397 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Covalent Organic Frameworks for Batteries

2021 248 citations Dongyang Zhu, Guiyin Xu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Safiya Khalil United States	5	317	185	174	94	36	9	401
Johannes Maschita Germany	6	351 1.1×	101 0.5×	237 1.4×	141 1.5×	29 0.8×	7	424
Ankita De Germany	10	212 0.7×	177 1.0×	121 0.7×	54 0.6×	32 0.9×	18	336
Pragalbh Shekhar India	8	224 0.7×	135 0.7×	150 0.9×	113 1.2×	52 1.4×	15	364
Dolly Yadav South Korea	11	275 0.9×	108 0.6×	93 0.5×	234 2.5×	19 0.5×	22	426
Alexander J. Kibler United Kingdom	8	180 0.6×	150 0.8×	97 0.6×	55 0.6×	30 0.8×	13	313
Jialong Jiang China	9	137 0.4×	235 1.3×	106 0.6×	79 0.8×	17 0.5×	18	354
Surya Sekhar Manna India	11	228 0.7×	177 1.0×	88 0.5×	60 0.6×	14 0.4×	25	415
Yun‐Dong Cao China	14	199 0.6×	201 1.1×	42 0.2×	72 0.8×	14 0.4×	32	333
Qiujian Xie China	12	277 0.9×	72 0.4×	150 0.9×	189 2.0×	38 1.1×	24	375

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Safiya Khalil

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Elgazzar, Ahmad, et al.. (2025). Sulfonated Silica Particles as Proton-Conductive Porous Solid Electrolytes for CO₂ Electrolysis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(19). 28181–28187. 2 indexed citations

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Khalil, Safiya, Ji Hoon Kim, Ahmad Elgazzar, et al.. (2025). Covalent Organic Frameworks as Porous Solid Electrolytes for Electrochemical CO ₂ Reduction. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(41). 4 indexed citations

3.

Khalil, Safiya, Muhua Sun, Zhi Yang, et al.. (2025). In Situ Observation of Covalent Organic Framework Growth in Solution. Small. 21(39). e02087–e02087. 1 indexed citations

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Khalil, Safiya, Guanhui Gao, Yu Chen, et al.. (2024). Continuous Synthesis and Processing of Covalent Organic Frameworks in a Flow Reactor. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(41). 55206–55217. 1 indexed citations

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Khaleel, Maryam, et al.. (2023). Intergrowth of Zeolites LTA and FAU/EMT in Nanosized Particles Synthesized from Organic-Free Gels. Crystal Growth & Design. 23(5). 3104–3112. 6 indexed citations

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Khalil, Safiya, Matthew D. Meyer, Po‐Chun Huang, et al.. (2022). Enabling Solution Processable COFs through Suppression of Precipitation during Solvothermal Synthesis. ACS Nano. 16(12). 20964–20974. 53 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dongyang, Guiyin Xu, Morgan Barnes, et al.. (2021). Covalent Organic Frameworks for Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(32). 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Dongyang, Zhuqing Zhang, Lawrence B. Alemany, et al.. (2021). Rapid, Ambient Temperature Synthesis of Imine Covalent Organic Frameworks Catalyzed by Transition-Metal Nitrates. Chemistry of Materials. 33(9). 3394–3400. 50 indexed citations

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Zhu, Dongyang, Yilin Li, Morgan Barnes, et al.. (2020). Transformation of One-Dimensional Linear Polymers into Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Frameworks Through Sequential Reversible and Irreversible Chemistries. Chemistry of Materials. 33(1). 413–419. 36 indexed citations

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