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D-Index
37
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World Ranking
8440
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Joel L. Plawsky publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joel L. Plawsky sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 246 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Joel L. Plawsky D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joel L. Plawsky sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Joel L. Plawsky is affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. The primary field of study is engineering, with a focus on mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, and polymers and plastics.

The main research topics covered by Joel L. Plawsky include:

  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
  • Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Membrane Separation Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Mixing
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Joel L. Plawsky are:

  • "High-Conductivity and High-Capacitance Electrospun Fibers for Supercapacitor Applications," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "The ICECool Fundamentals Effort on Evaporative Cooling of Microelectronics," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
  • "Rip currents: A spontaneous heat transfer enhancement mechanism in a wickless heat pipe," 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Antimicrobial effects of positively charged, conductive electrospun polymer fibers," 2020, Materials Science and Engineering C
  • "Radical Lifetimes in Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization: A Monte Carlo and Deterministic Investigation," 2020, Macromolecules

Joel L. Plawsky has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Corey Woodcock
  • Surya Karla
  • Georges Belfort
  • Somdatta Bhattacharya
  • Robert J. Linhardt

Common publication venues for Plawsky's work include:

  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Journal of Membrane Science
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Joel L. Plawsky has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Spaceflight Promotes Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Wooseong Kim;Farah K. Tengra;Zachary Young;Jasmine Shong

  • Nano- and Microstructures for Thin-Film Evaporation—A Review

    J. L. Plawsky;A. G. Fedorov;S. V. Garimella;H. B. Ma

  • Porous silica materials as low-k dielectrics for electronic and optical interconnects

    A. Jain;S. Rogojevic;S. Ponoth;N. Agarwal

  • Surface modified spin-on xerogel films as interlayer dielectrics

    S. V. Nitta;V. Pisupatti;A. Jain;P. C. Wayner

  • High thermal conductivity epoxy-silver composites based on self-constructed nanostructured metallic networks

    Kamyar Pashayi;Hafez Raeisi Fard;Fengyuan Lai;Sushumna Iruvanti

  • REVIEW OF THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY, SURFACE CHEMISTRY, AND FLUID PHYSICS ON EVAPORATION AT THE CONTACT LINE

    Joel L. Plawsky;Manas Ojha;Arya Chatterjee;Peter C. Wayner

  • Modeling of hydration reactions using neural networks to predict the average properties of cement paste

    Ki-Bong Park;Takafumi Noguchi;Joel Plawsky

  • Thermal conductivity study of porous low-k dielectric materials

    Chuan Hu;Michael Morgen;Paul S. Ho;Anurag Jain

  • Comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of fluid flow and heat transfer in a microscopic evaporating meniscus in a miniature heat exchanger

    Sashidhar S. Panchamgam;Arya Chatterjee;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

  • Transport phenomena fundamentals

    Joel L. Plawsky

  • Piranha Pin Fin (PPF) — Advanced flow boiling microstructures with low surface tension dielectric fluids

    Corey Woodcock;Xiangfei Yu;Joel Plawsky;Yoav Peles

  • Experimental investigation of contact angle, curvature, and contact line motion in dropwise condensation and evaporation.

    Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

  • Omnidirectional reflector using nanoporous SiO 2 as a low-refractive-index material

    J Q Xi;Manas Ojha;Woojin Cho;J L Plawsky

  • Contact line behavior for a highly wetting fluid under superheated conditions

    R. Raj;C. Kunkelmann;Peter Stephan;J. Plawsky

  • Processing dependent thermal conductivity of nanoporous silica xerogel films

    Anurag Jain;Svetlana Rogojevic;Shom Ponoth;William N. Gill

  • Ultra-high heat flux dissipation with Piranha Pin Fins

    Corey Woodcock;Chisela Ng'oma;Michael Sweet;Yingying Wang

  • An investigation of convective heat transfer in microchannel with Piranha Pin Fin

    X. Yu;C. Woodcock;J. Plawsky;Y. Peles

  • Engineered nanoporous and nanostructured films

    Joel L. Plawsky;Jong Kyu Kim;E. Fred Schubert

  • Internal high-reflectivity omni-directional reflectors

    J.-Q. Xi;Manas Ojha;J. L. Plawsky;W. N. Gill

  • The ICECool Fundamentals Effort on Evaporative Cooling of Microelectronics

    Avram Bar-Cohen;Mehdi Asheghi;Timothy J. Chainer;Suresh V. Garimella

  • Etching of xerogel in high-density fluorocarbon plasmas

    T. E. F. M. Standaert;E. A. Joseph;G. S. Oehrlein;A. Jain

  • Experimental Determination of the Effect of Disjoining Pressure on Shear in the Contact Line Region of a Moving Evaporating Thin Film

    Sashidhar S. Panchamgam;Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Sunando DasGupta

  • Interfacial Force Field Characterization in a Constrained Vapor Bubble Thermosyphon

    Sunando Dasgupta;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner

  • Inferred pressure gradient and fluid flow in a condensing sessile droplet based on the measured thickness profile

    Shripad J. Gokhale;Joel L. Plawsky;Peter C. Wayner;Sunando DasGupta

  • An augmented Young-Laplace model of an evaporating meniscus in a micro-channel with high heat flux

    P. C. Wayner;J. Plawsky;J. A. Schonberg;S. Dasgupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Wayner
Peter C. Wayner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Toh-Ming Lu
Toh-Ming Lu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sunando DasGupta
Sunando DasGupta Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yoav Peles
Yoav Peles University of Central Florida
E. F. Schubert
E. F. Schubert Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Steven M. Cramer
Steven M. Cramer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Theeradetch Detchprohm
Theeradetch Detchprohm Georgia Institute of Technology
Jonathan S. Dordick
Jonathan S. Dordick Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert J. Linhardt
Robert J. Linhardt Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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