Tomáš Polcar

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
244 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Tomáš Polcar is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomáš Polcar has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 187 papers in Materials Chemistry, 153 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 107 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tomáš Polcar's work include Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (141 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (98 papers) and Advanced materials and composites (47 papers). Tomáš Polcar is often cited by papers focused on Metal and Thin Film Mechanics (141 papers), Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (98 papers) and Advanced materials and composites (47 papers). Tomáš Polcar collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United Kingdom and Portugal. Tomáš Polcar's co-authors include A. Cavaleiro, M. Callisti, Р. Новак, Manuel Evaristo, Miroslav Karlı́k, N.M.G. Parreira, Paolo Nicolini, Antonio Cammarata, Filipe Fernandes and Hüseyin Şener Şen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Tomáš Polcar

236 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

UItra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomáš Polcar Czechia	40	4.5k	3.7k	2.7k	1.1k	563	244	6.3k
David Holec Austria	41	3.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	860 0.8×	425 0.8×	205	5.6k
Marcel A.J. Somers Denmark	41	3.7k 0.8×	3.4k 0.9×	3.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	300 0.5×	283	6.8k
G. Abadias France	42	3.2k 0.7×	3.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	425 0.8×	160	5.2k
P. Panjan Slovenia	38	3.3k 0.7×	3.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	214 0.4×	238	5.0k
L. Rebouta Portugal	41	3.0k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	781 0.3×	1.8k 1.6×	520 0.9×	142	4.7k
P. Goudeau France	34	2.6k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	981 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	394 0.7×	222	4.2k
S. Van Petegem Switzerland	41	3.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	3.1k 1.2×	407 0.4×	350 0.6×	145	4.7k
Christopher R. Weinberger United States	39	3.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 1.0×	380 0.3×	526 0.9×	119	4.9k
T.W. Scharf United States	37	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	464 0.4×	392 0.7×	110	4.5k
R.D. Arnell United Kingdom	35	2.9k 0.7×	3.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	261 0.5×	102	5.0k

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AlMotasem, A.T., N. Daghbouj, Teodor Huminiuc, et al.. (2025). Exploring solute segregation in sputtered W-10 at. % M (M=Ti, Ag, and Ta): Experimental insights and atomistic modeling. Materialia. 39. 102346–102346. 1 indexed citations

Che, S., Limin Zhang, N. Daghbouj, et al.. (2025). Exceptional radiation resistance of hardened amorphous SiC under high-temperature hydrogen ion implantation. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 45(12). 117459–117459. 1 indexed citations

Cammarata, Antonio, et al.. (2024). Current perspective towards a general framework to describe and harness friction at the nanoscale. Progress in Surface Science. 99(3). 100753–100753. 1 indexed citations

Fraile, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Tungsten wall cratering under high-velocity dust impacts: Influence of impact angle and temperature. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 600. 155289–155289. 3 indexed citations

Polcar, Tomáš, et al.. (2024). Exploring nanoscale metallic multilayer Ta/Cu films: Structure and some insights on deformation and strengthening mechanisms. Materials Characterization. 212. 113933–113933. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Chun, et al.. (2024). Influence of applied tensile/compressive stress on He-irradiated SiC: Examining defect evolution through experimental investigation and DFT simulations. Ceramics International. 50(22). 47902–47909. 7 indexed citations

Konyashin, I., Ruslan Muydinov, Antonio Cammarata, et al.. (2024). Face-centered cubic carbon as a fourth basic carbon allotrope with properties of intrinsic semiconductors and ultra-wide bandgap. Communications Materials. 5(1). 5 indexed citations

Wang, Zhiqiang, Limin Zhang, A.T. AlMotasem, et al.. (2024). Exploring defect behavior in helium-irradiated single-crystal and nanocrystalline 3C-SiC at 800°C: A synergy of experimental and simulation techniques. Acta Materialia. 279. 120281–120281. 17 indexed citations

Li, Jiaqi, N. Daghbouj, Ke Chen, et al.. (2024). Helium's impact: Unraveling bubble formation in Fe2AlB2 under extreme conditions of temperature and fluence. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 598. 155187–155187. 5 indexed citations

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Polcar, Tomáš, et al.. (2024). A new reactive Mo-S-C force field to explore structure and properties of MoS2-C 2D materials and films. Computational Materials Science. 241. 113034–113034. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Li, Linjiang Chai, Shuai Xu, et al.. (2023). Study on the corrosion behavior of laser surface remelted and laser cladding of ferritic/martensitic steels after exposure to lead-bismuth eutectic at 700 °C. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 590. 154888–154888. 4 indexed citations

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Polcar, Tomáš, et al.. (2023). Computational selection of singlet fission colorants. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1229. 114343–114343. 3 indexed citations

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Şen, Hüseyin Şener, N. Daghbouj, Bingsheng Li, et al.. (2023). Interaction of Stacking Faults with point/extended defects in Fe-He irradiated 6H-SiC. Acta Materialia. 256. 119129–119129. 21 indexed citations

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Sahu, Sandeep, et al.. (2023). Interfacial characteristics of austenitic 316 L and martensitic 15–5PH stainless steels joined by laser powder bed fusion. Materials Characterization. 198. 112719–112719. 10 indexed citations

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Polcar, Tomáš, et al.. (2021). The mechanised testing and sequential wear‐analysis of replica Bronze Age palstave blades. Archaeometry. 64(1). 177–192. 4 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Filipe, et al.. (2020). Room and High Temperature Tribological Performance of Multilayered TiSiN/TiN and TiSiN/TiN(Ag) Coatings Deposited by Sputtering. Coatings. 10(12). 1191–1191. 16 indexed citations

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Şen, Hüseyin Şener & Tomáš Polcar. (2019). Vacancy-interface-helium interaction in Zr-Nb multi-layer system: A first-principles study. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 518. 11–20. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, He, Chung‐Che Huang, & Tomáš Polcar. (2019). Controllable Tunneling Triboelectrification of Two-Dimensional Chemical Vapor Deposited MoS2. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 334–334. 11 indexed citations

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Polcar, Tomáš, et al.. (2017). Modelling tribological processes to examine the use-intensity of Bronze Age palstave axes. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

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Lopes, C., Cristiana Gonçalves, Joel Borges, et al.. (2014). Evolution of the functional properties of titanium–silver thin films for biomedical applications: Influence of in-vacuum annealing. Surface and Coatings Technology. 261. 262–271. 21 indexed citations

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