Read interviews, first-person essays, profiles, and other features about
people in a wide variety of fields, along with information on journals
& institutions in the topic of Graphene. All of the author comments
below are also listed in the site-wide
Author Commentaries listings
(available by month/year or alphabetically).
March
2009
Motohiko Ezawa; In our Special Topic on Graphene,
the paper "Peculiar width dependence of the electronic
properties of carbon nanoribbons" (Phys. Rev. B 73[4]:
art. no. 045432, January 2006) by Professor Motohiko Ezawa is a
key part of the Research Front on
Graphene
Nanoribbons, with 63 citations at the time of the analysis.
In this interview below, he talks with
ScienceWatch.com from
Thomson
Reuters about this highly cited paper. View
Article
February
2009
Konstantin Novoselov; In our Special Topics
analysis on graphene research over the past decade, the
scientist whose work ranks at #1 by total cites is Dr. Kostya
Novoselov, with 33 papers cited a total of 2,895 times.
According to
Essential Science IndicatorsSM from
Thomson
Reuters, his record includes 49 papers, largely classified
in Physics and Materials Science, cited 3,536. Here,
ScienceWatch.com correspondent Gary Taubes talks with
Dr. Novoselov about his pioneering work with graphene. View
Article
January
2009
Zhihong Chen; One of the key papers in the
Research Front on Graphene Nano-ribbons (which has been
mapped) is
"Graphene nano-ribbon electronics," (Chen ZH, et al.,
Physica E 40[2]: 228-32, December 2007), which has
garnered 39 citations since its publication and up to August
31, 2008. In this interview, lead author Dr. Zhihong Chen talks
with ScienceWatch.com about this paper and its
significance in the field of graphene research. View
Article
January
2009
Oded Hod, Gustavo Scuseria, & Veronica Barone;
According to our Special Topics analysis on Graphene, a key
paper in the Research Front Map on
Graphene
Nanoribbons is "Electronic structure and stability of
semiconducting graphene nanoribbons," (Nano Lett.
6[12]: 2748-54, 13 December 2006). In this interview,
ScienceWatch.com talks with one of the paper's
authors, Dr. Oded Hod, about the work and its impact on the
field. View
Article
December
2008
Francisco Guinea; According to our Special Topics
analysis of graphene research over the past decade, Dr.
Francisco Guinea ranks at #2 by total papers with 47 papers
cited a total of 1,091 times. Eighteen of his papers are
classified as Highly Cited Papers in
Essential Science IndicatorsSM from
Thomson
Reuters. In this interview, ScienceWatch.com talks
with Dr. Guinea about his graphene research. View
Article