Sameer R. Rao

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Sameer R. Rao is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sameer R. Rao has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 6 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Sameer R. Rao's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (8 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (8 papers). Sameer R. Rao is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (10 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (8 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (8 papers). Sameer R. Rao collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and India. Sameer R. Rao's co-authors include Evelyn N. Wang, Hyunho Kim, Sungwoo Yang, Omar M. Yaghi, Eugene A. Kapustin, Ari S. Umans, Shankar Narayanan, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Alina LaPotin and Lin Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sameer R. Rao

26 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight

2017 1.5k citations Hyunho Kim, Sungwoo Yang et al. Science profile →
Adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates

2018 604 citations Hyunho Kim, Sameer R. Rao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sameer R. Rao United States	13	1.7k	1.2k	736	703	660	29	3.1k
Hyunho Kim United States	15	1.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	804 1.1×	996 1.4×	746 1.1×	17	3.5k
Sungwoo Yang United States	25	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	918 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	623 0.9×	46	4.1k
Ari S. Umans United States	4	702 0.4×	516 0.4×	539 0.7×	490 0.7×	268 0.4×	4	1.6k
Anutosh Chakraborty Singapore	48	1.8k 1.1×	4.4k 3.6×	856 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	664 1.0×	152	6.3k
Weiqiu Huang China	24	336 0.2×	678 0.6×	427 0.6×	895 1.3×	197 0.3×	118	2.0k
Yu. I. Aristov Russia	55	2.2k 1.3×	7.5k 6.2×	587 0.8×	1.5k 2.1×	270 0.4×	231	8.7k
Toshihide Horikawa Japan	28	395 0.2×	683 0.6×	365 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	604 0.9×	70	3.1k
Wei Han China	29	521 0.3×	596 0.5×	717 1.0×	1.6k 2.3×	298 0.5×	146	3.1k
Ruiqi Zhao China	29	915 0.6×	240 0.2×	219 0.3×	2.1k 2.9×	318 0.5×	101	3.4k
Lei Peng China	36	305 0.2×	454 0.4×	127 0.2×	1.4k 2.0×	247 0.4×	155	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sameer R. Rao

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Pratt, M. R., Tim Ameel, & Sameer R. Rao. (2025). Modeling of thermal enhancement and scaling analysis for omnidirectional magnetic field generator to actively detumble space debris. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 241. 126733–126733.

Gao, Yiwei, et al.. (2024). High-yield atmospheric water capture via bioinspired material segregation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2321429121–e2321429121. 9 indexed citations

Kingstedt, Owen T., et al.. (2024). Investigation of Thermomechanical Coupling in Inconel 718 at Homologous Temperatures of 0.2 and 0.5. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 55(9). 3591–3600. 2 indexed citations

Pratt, M. R., et al.. (2024). High-speed bottom-up surface temperature measurements of a flat plate: A thermal analog for laser metal additive manufacturing. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 122. 65–82. 3 indexed citations

Rao, Sameer R., et al.. (2024). Compact rapid cycling fuel-fired atmospheric water harvesting device for all-day water production. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(8). 102115–102115.

Rao, Sameer R., et al.. (2024). On the continuous nature of phase change in near-critical carbon dioxide. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 225. 125383–125383. 3 indexed citations

Pratt, M. R., Tim Ameel, & Sameer R. Rao. (2024). Thermal Management of Omnimagnet for Space Debris Mitigation. 1–8.

Rao, Sameer R., et al.. (2023). Experimental Investigation of Orientation Effects on Pseudocritical Transition Dynamics in Heated Microchannel With Side-View Schlieren Imaging. 1 indexed citations

Hochhalter, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Flow regimes and heat transfer mechanisms affecting supercritical transition in microchannels. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 218. 124749–124749. 9 indexed citations

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Rao, Sameer R., et al.. (2023). Experimental investigation of boiling heat transfer coefficient in two-phase carbon dioxide in a microchannel with side-view schlieren flow visualization. 14. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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LaPotin, Alina, Yang Zhong, Lenan Zhang, et al.. (2020). Dual-Stage Atmospheric Water Harvesting Device for Scalable Solar-Driven Water Production. Joule. 5(1). 166–182. 272 indexed citations

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LaPotin, Alina, Hyunho Kim, Sameer R. Rao, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2019). Adsorption-Based Atmospheric Water Harvesting: Impact of Material and Component Properties on System-Level Performance. Accounts of Chemical Research. 52(6). 1588–1597. 308 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lenan, Yangying Zhu, Zhengmao Lu, et al.. (2018). Characterization of thin film evaporation in micropillar wicks using micro-Raman spectroscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 113(16). 19 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunho, Sameer R. Rao, Eugene A. Kapustin, et al.. (2018). Adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1191–1191. 604 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Lenan, Yangying Zhu, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2018). IN SITU TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT OF EVAPORATION IN MICROPILLAR WICK STRUCTURES USING MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY. International Heat Transfer Conference 16. 763–771. 2 indexed citations

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Rieth, Adam J., Ashley M. Wright, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2018). Tunable Metal–Organic Frameworks Enable High-Efficiency Cascaded Adsorption Heat Pumps. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(50). 17591–17596. 89 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunho, Sungwoo Yang, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2017). Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight. Science. 356(6336). 430–434. 1454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Yangying, et al.. (2017). Suppressing high-frequency temperature oscillations in microchannels with surface structures. Applied Physics Letters. 110(3). 36 indexed citations

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Rao, Sameer R., et al.. (2016). Active control of flow boiling oscillation amplitude and frequency using a transverse jet in crossflow. Applied Physics Letters. 108(13). 13 indexed citations

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Sundararajan, Arun, et al.. (1982). Effect of relative humidity on growth of sodium oxide aerosols.. Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology. 19(2). 151–157. 2 indexed citations

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