Steve Collins

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Steve Collins is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Collins has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Steve Collins's work include Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (8 papers), Graphene research and applications (5 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (5 papers). Steve Collins is often cited by papers focused on Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (8 papers), Graphene research and applications (5 papers) and Fiber-reinforced polymer composites (5 papers). Steve Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. Steve Collins's co-authors include Edgar Muñoz, Ray H. Baughman, Alan Β. Dalton, Joselito M. Razal, Jonathan N. Coleman, Bog G. Kim, John P. Ferraris, Von Howard Ebron, Werner J. Blau and Dongseok Suh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Steve Collins

17 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres

2003 1.2k citations Alan Β. Dalton, Steve Collins et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steve Collins United States	14	1.5k	781	712	408	331	18	2.2k
Von Howard Ebron United States	8	1.2k 0.8×	694 0.9×	592 0.8×	344 0.8×	327 1.0×	9	1.8k
Bog G. Kim South Korea	17	1.6k 1.1×	669 0.9×	589 0.8×	306 0.8×	699 2.1×	40	2.3k
Joycelyn S. Harrison United States	24	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	910 1.3×	284 0.7×	149 0.5×	53	2.4k
Shanju Zhang United States	22	889 0.6×	385 0.5×	616 0.9×	313 0.8×	417 1.3×	65	1.6k
K. R. Atkinson Australia	7	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	719 1.0×	600 1.5×	527 1.6×	21	3.0k
Dmitri E. Tsentalovich United States	17	2.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	432 0.6×	567 1.4×	588 1.8×	30	2.8k
Bradley S. Files United States	8	2.1k 1.5×	724 0.9×	515 0.7×	423 1.0×	175 0.5×	12	2.6k
Lingbo Zhu United States	17	1.0k 0.7×	701 0.9×	376 0.5×	250 0.6×	143 0.4×	48	2.0k
Lili Yang China	29	900 0.6×	878 1.1×	797 1.1×	618 1.5×	460 1.4×	94	3.0k
E. Amram Bengio United States	11	1.1k 0.7×	537 0.7×	277 0.4×	349 0.9×	263 0.8×	12	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Steve Collins

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Collins

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18 of 18 papers shown

Oh, David, et al.. (2025). Design and Development of the Psyche Spacecraft for NASA’s Discovery Program. Space Science Reviews. 221(7).

Collins, Steve, et al.. (2017). Applications of Viscosity-Building Friction Reducers as Fracturing Fluids. 52 indexed citations

Oh, David, Dan M. Goebel, L. T. Elkins‐Tanton, et al.. (2016). Psyche: Journey to a Metal World. 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. 21 indexed citations

Oh, David, et al.. (2014). Feasibility of All-Electric Three Axis Momentum Management for Deep Space Small Body Rendezvous. 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference. 6 indexed citations

Abdullah, Che Azurahanim Che, Raquel Ovalle‐Robles, Shaoli Fang, et al.. (2014). Primary Liver Cells Cultured on Carbon Nanotube Substrates for Liver Tissue Engineering and Drug Discovery Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 6(13). 10373–10380. 22 indexed citations

Asanithi, Piyapong, Izabela Jurewicz, Raquel Ovalle‐Robles, et al.. (2011). Aligned, isotropic and patterned carbon nanotube substrates that control the growth and alignment of Chinese hamster ovary cells. Nanotechnology. 22(20). 205102–205102. 22 indexed citations

Zakhidov, Alexander A., Dongseok Suh, А. А. Кузнецов, et al.. (2009). Electrochemically Tuned Properties for Electrolyte‐Free Carbon Nanotube Sheets. Advanced Functional Materials. 19(14). 2266–2272. 22 indexed citations

Razal, Joselito M., Jonathan N. Coleman, Edgar Muñoz, et al.. (2007). Arbitrarily Shaped Fiber Assemblies from Spun Carbon Nanotube Gel Fibers. Advanced Functional Materials. 17(15). 2918–2924. 45 indexed citations

Muñoz, Edgar, Dongseok Suh, Steve Collins, et al.. (2005). Highly Conducting Carbon Nanotube/Polyethyleneimine Composite Fibers. Advanced Materials. 17(8). 1064–1067. 111 indexed citations

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Dalton, Alan Β., Alfonso Ortiz-Acevedo, Vasiliki Zorbas, et al.. (2004). Hierarchical Self‐Assembly of Peptide‐Coated Carbon Nanotubes. Advanced Functional Materials. 14(12). 1147–1151. 62 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Edgar, Alan Β. Dalton, Steve Collins, et al.. (2004). Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Composite Fibers. Advanced Engineering Materials. 6(10). 801–804. 46 indexed citations

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Baughman, Ray H., Steve Collins, Gordon G. Wallace, et al.. (2004). Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Fiber Composites. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 1 indexed citations

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Dalton, Alan Β., Steve Collins, Edgar Muñoz, et al.. (2003). Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres. Nature. 423(6941). 703–703. 1189 indexed citations breakdown →

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Collins, Steve, et al.. (2003). Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres - These extraordinary composite fibres can be woven into electronic textiles.. 94 indexed citations

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Coleman, Jonathan N., Werner J. Blau, Alan Β. Dalton, et al.. (2003). Improving the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotube sheets by intercalation of polymeric adhesives. Applied Physics Letters. 82(11). 1682–1684. 221 indexed citations

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Dalton, Alan Β., Steve Collins, Joselito M. Razal, et al.. (2003). Continuous carbon nanotube composite fibers: properties, potential applications, and problemsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: frontispiece figure. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/jm/b3/b312092a/. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 14(1). 1–1. 217 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Edgar, Alan Β. Dalton, Steve Collins, et al.. (2002). Synthesis of SiC nanorods from sheets of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Chemical Physics Letters. 359(5-6). 397–402. 27 indexed citations

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Collins, Steve. (2002). Deep Space 1 flight experience: adventures on an ion drive (AAS 02-072). NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations

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