Yurii K. Gun’ko

30.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
334 papers, 25.4k citations indexed

About

Yurii K. Gun’ko is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yurii K. Gun’ko has authored 334 papers receiving a total of 25.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 243 papers in Materials Chemistry, 92 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 73 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yurii K. Gun’ko's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (121 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (48 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (44 papers). Yurii K. Gun’ko is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (121 papers), Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (48 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (44 papers). Yurii K. Gun’ko collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Russia and Germany. Yurii K. Gun’ko's co-authors include Jonathan N. Coleman, Umar Khan, Werner J. Blau, Michele T. Byrne, Finn Purcell‐Milton, Valeria Nicolosi, I.T. McGovern, John J. Boland, Serena A. Cussen and Alexander O. Govorov and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yurii K. Gun’ko

324 papers receiving 24.9k citations

Hit Papers

High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfolia... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2008 2006 2006 2009 2004 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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.

  1. High-yield production of graphene by liquid-phase exfoliation of graphite
    2008 5.2k citations Valeria Nicolosi, Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  2. Small but strong: A review of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube–polymer composites
    2006 3.2k citations Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  3. Mechanical Reinforcement of Polymers Using Carbon Nanotubes
    2006 1.3k citations Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  4. Recent Advances in Research on Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Composites
    2009 720 citations Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  5. High Performance Nanotube‐Reinforced Plastics: Understanding the Mechanism of Strength Increase
    2004 508 citations Valeria Nicolosi, Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  6. Oxygen Radical Functionalization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets
    2012 494 citations Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. profile →
  7. Theory of Photoinjection of Hot Plasmonic Carriers from Metal Nanostructures into Semiconductors and Surface Molecules
    2013 492 citations Yurii K. Gun’ko et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →
  8. Microplastic release from the degradation of polypropylene feeding bottles during infant formula preparation
    2020 410 citations Dunzhu Li, Yunhong Shi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yurii K. Gun’ko Ireland 69 16.9k 7.6k 5.4k 4.4k 4.1k 334 25.4k
Lawrence B. Alemany United States 43 13.4k 0.8× 7.6k 1.0× 6.1k 1.1× 3.7k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 109 21.5k
Yonghui Deng China 81 12.3k 0.7× 5.7k 0.7× 7.0k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 1.9k 0.5× 289 22.9k
Dmitry V. Kosynkin United States 32 12.5k 0.7× 7.4k 1.0× 7.7k 1.4× 4.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.6× 49 20.1k
Franklin Kim United States 38 15.0k 0.9× 7.5k 1.0× 8.7k 1.6× 6.6k 1.5× 2.2k 0.5× 52 22.0k
Ya‐Ping Sun United States 82 26.1k 1.5× 9.3k 1.2× 4.1k 0.8× 2.0k 0.5× 3.5k 0.9× 303 31.9k
Chao Gao China 70 11.5k 0.7× 9.6k 1.3× 6.9k 1.3× 8.2k 1.8× 4.0k 1.0× 336 23.7k
İlhan A. Aksay United States 67 14.8k 0.9× 8.3k 1.1× 13.7k 2.5× 5.3k 1.2× 3.8k 0.9× 182 30.2k
Byeongdu Lee United States 67 9.9k 0.6× 3.2k 0.4× 3.9k 0.7× 4.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 320 18.4k
Yang Bai China 80 18.9k 1.1× 6.0k 0.8× 7.7k 1.4× 2.6k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 439 26.2k
Michael Giersig Germany 76 14.9k 0.9× 7.1k 0.9× 7.9k 1.5× 6.4k 1.5× 1.4k 0.3× 321 23.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shvets, I. V., et al.. (2025). Unveiling Chirality in MoS2 Nanosheets: A Breakthrough in Phase Engineering for Enhanced Chiroptical Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202420437–e202420437. 4 indexed citations
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Fleischer, K., David Caffrey, Stuart Ansell, et al.. (2024). Investigating the Local Bonding Structure of Amorphous Zinc Tin Oxide to Elucidate the Effect of Altering the Intercation Ratio. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(39). 16733–16739. 1 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, et al.. (2024). Chiroptically active quantum nanonails. Nanoscale Horizons. 9(6). 1013–1022. 1 indexed citations
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Back, Michele, et al.. (2023). Chirality in luminescent Cs3Cu2Br5microcrystals producedvialigand-assisted reprecipitation. Chemical Communications. 59(40). 6024–6027. 3 indexed citations
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McNeill, Helen, et al.. (2023). MnFe2O4@SiO2@CeO2 core–shell nanostructures for applications in water remediation. RSC Advances. 13(16). 10513–10522. 4 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, et al.. (2023). Chiroptically Active Multi-Modal Calcium Carbonate-Based Nanocomposites. Nanomaterials. 14(1). 100–100. 1 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, et al.. (2022). Two-Dimensional Chiroptically Active Copper Oxide Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(44). 18980–18987. 10 indexed citations
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Pyatakov, A. P., N. A. Pyataev, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, et al.. (2022). Optimization of Zn–Mn ferrite nanoparticles for low frequency hyperthermia: Exploiting the potential of superquadratic field dependence of magnetothermal response. Applied Physics Letters. 120(10). 102403–102403. 10 indexed citations
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Li, Dunzhu, Yunhong Shi, Daniel K. Kehoe, et al.. (2022). Microbe-Based Sensor for Long-Term Detection of Urine Glucose. Sensors. 22(14). 5340–5340. 13 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, Michele Back, E. Cattaruzza, et al.. (2022). Chiral non-stoichiometric ternary silver indium sulfide quantum dots: investigation on the chirality transfer by cysteine. Nanoscale. 14(33). 12174–12182. 16 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, Robert McKenna, Lorcan J. Brennan, et al.. (2018). Induction of Chirality in Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials: Chiral 2D MoS2 Nanostructures. ACS Nano. 12(2). 954–964. 112 indexed citations
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Litvin, Aleksandr P., Aliaksei Dubavik, Sergei A. Cherevkov, et al.. (2018). Strong Enhancement of PbS Quantum Dot NIR Emission Using Plasmonic Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Nanoporous Silicate Matrix. Advanced Optical Materials. 6(6). 17 indexed citations
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Brennan, Lorcan J., Finn Purcell‐Milton, Barry McKenna, et al.. (2018). Large area quantum dot luminescent solar concentrators for use with dye-sensitised solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(6). 2671–2680. 47 indexed citations
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Gun’ko, Yurii K., et al.. (2018). Multimodal Magnetic-Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications. Applied Sciences. 8(1). 97–97. 55 indexed citations
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Ushakova, Elena V., Sergei A. Cherevkov, Aleksandr P. Litvin, et al.. (2018). 3D superstructures with an orthorhombic lattice assembled by colloidal PbS quantum dots. Nanoscale. 10(17). 8313–8319. 4 indexed citations
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Purcell‐Milton, Finn, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of CaCO3nano- and micro-particles by dry ice carbonation. Chemical Communications. 53(49). 6657–6660. 84 indexed citations
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Visheratina, Anastasia, Finn Purcell‐Milton, Vera Kuznetsova, et al.. (2017). Chiral recognition of optically active CoFe2O4magnetic nanoparticles by CdSe/CdS quantum dots stabilised with chiral ligands. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5(7). 1692–1698. 31 indexed citations
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Martynenko, Irina V., Aleksandr P. Litvin, Finn Purcell‐Milton, et al.. (2017). Application of semiconductor quantum dots in bioimaging and biosensing. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 5(33). 6701–6727. 265 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Iftikhar, Joseph E. McCarthy, А. В. Баранов, & Yurii K. Gun’ko. (2015). Development of Graphene Nano-Platelet Based Counter Electrodes for Solar Cells. Materials. 8(9). 5953–5973. 20 indexed citations
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Keane, Páraic M., Shane A. Gallagher, Ian P. Clark, et al.. (2012). Photophysical studies of CdTe quantum dots in the presence of a zinc cationic porphyrin. Dalton Transactions. 41(42). 13159–13159. 23 indexed citations

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