2026 Anvar A. Zakhidov: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	73	3737	3616	1019	959	539	40953

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the design, fabrication, characterization and understanding of advanced functional nanomaterials and associated devices, from carbon nanotubes, superconducting or magnetic fullerenes and photonic crystals to solar cells, OLEDs and cold field emission cathodes

Overview

Anvar A. Zakhidov is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans several fields, predominantly in engineering and materials science, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics of their work include:

Perovskite Materials and Applications
Conducting Polymers and Applications
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Advancements in Battery Materials
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Advanced Battery Technologies Research

Zakhidov's recent publications illustrate a breadth of interdisciplinary research. Selected papers include:

Room-Temperature Lasing from Mie-Resonant Nonplasmonic Nanoparticles, 2020, ACS Nano
Remote Heteroepitaxy of GaN Microrod Heterostructures for Deformable Light-Emitting Diodes and Wafer Recycle, 2020, Science Advances
Mechanical Energy Harvesters with Tensile Efficiency of 17.4% and Torsional Efficiency of 22.4% Based on Homochirally Plied Carbon Nanotube Yarns, 2023, Nature Energy
More Powerful Twistron Carbon Nanotube Yarn Mechanical Energy Harvesters, 2022, Advanced Materials
Reconfigurable Perovskite LEC: Effects of Ionic Additives and Dual Function Devices, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials

Their frequent collaborators include Ross Haroldson, Sergey Makarov, J. Oliva, Masoud Alahbakhshi, and Jason D. Slinker.

Zakhidov has published extensively in venues such as Advanced Optical Materials, Journal of Energy Storage, arXiv (Cornell University), MRS Communications, and Advanced Functional Materials.

Recognition for their contributions includes fellowships from major organizations: they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2009. The APS fellowship citation noted pioneering contributions to the design, fabrication, characterization, and understanding of advanced functional nanomaterials and associated devices, covering a range of materials and technologies including carbon nanotubes, superconducting or magnetic fullerenes, photonic crystals, solar cells, OLEDs, and cold field emission cathodes.

Best Publications

Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

Ray H. Baughman;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Walt A. de Heer

13213
Citations
Carbon Nanotube Actuators

Ray H. Baughman;Changxing Cui;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Zafar Iqbal

3272
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Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets

Mei Zhang;Mei Zhang;Shaoli Fang;Shaoli Fang;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Sergey B. Lee;Sergey B. Lee

2204
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Carbon Structures with Three-Dimensional Periodicity at Optical Wavelengths

Anvar A Zakhidov;Ray Henry Baughman;Zafar Iqbal;Changxing Cui

1526
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Fabrication and application of nanofiber ribbons and sheets and twisted and non-twisted nanofiber yarns

Mei Zhang;Shaoli Fang;Ray H. Baughman;Anvar A. Zakhidov

1414
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Negative Poisson's ratios as a common feature of cubic metals

Ray H. Baughman;Justin M. Shacklette;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Sven Stafström

904
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Doping effect of buckminsterfullerene in conducting polymer: Change of absorption spectrum and quenching of luminescene

Shigenori Morita;Anvar A Zakhidov;Katsumi Yoshino

699
Citations
Giant-Stroke, Superelastic Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles

Ali E. Aliev;Jiyoung Oh;Mikhail E. Kozlov;Alexander A. Kuznetsov

687
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Harvesting Waste Thermal Energy Using a Carbon-Nanotube-Based Thermo-Electrochemical Cell

Renchong Hu;Baratunde A Cola;Nanda Haram;Joseph N Barisci

547
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Extended carrier lifetimes and diffusion in hybrid perovskites revealed by Hall effect and photoconductivity measurements.

Y. Chen;Y. Chen;H. T. Yi;X. Wu;R. Haroldson

511
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Aerosol-synthesized SWCNT networks with tunable conductivity and transparency by a dry transfer technique.

Antti Kaskela;Albert G. Nasibulin;Marina Y. Timmermans;Brad Aitchison

501
Citations
Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in negative refraction metamaterials

V. M. Agranovich;V. M. Agranovich;Y. R. Shen;R. H. Baughman;A. A. Zakhidov

468
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Biscrolling nanotube sheets and functional guests into yarns.

Márcio D. Lima;Shaoli Fang;Xavier Lepró;Chihye Lewis

426
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Magnetic field effects in hybrid perovskite devices

C. Zhang;D. Sun;C. X. Sheng;C. X. Sheng;Y. X. Zhai

334
Citations
Electro-optic behavior of liquid-crystal-filled silica opal photonic crystals: effect of liquid-crystal alignment.

Daeseung Kang;Joseph E. Maclennan;Noel A. Clark;Anvar A. Zakhidov

327
Citations
Evacuated tube solar collectors integrated with phase change materials

Alexios Papadimitratos;Sarvenaz Sobhansarbandi;Vladimir Pozdin;Anvar Zakhidov;Anvar Zakhidov

310
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Three dimensionally periodic structural assemblies on nanometer and longer scales

Anvar Zakhidov;Ray Baughman;Changxing Cui;Ilyas I. Khayrullin

293
Citations
Stimulated emission in high-gain organic media

S. V. Frolov;Z. V. Vardeny;K. Yoshino;A. Zakhidov

290
Citations
Electro-optic Behavior of Liquid-Crystal-Filled Silica Opal Photonic Crystals

Ray H. Baughman;Noel A. Clark;Daeseung Kang;Joseph E. Maclennan

286
Citations
Thermal transport in MWCNT sheets and yarns

Ali E. Aliev;Csaba Guthy;Mei Zhang;Shaoli Fang

240
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