K. L. Ngai

Research.com Recognitions

• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Physical Properties of Polymers

  James Mark;Kia Ngai;William Graessley;Leo Mandelkern

  967
  Citations

• Classification of secondary relaxation in glass-formers based on dynamic properties.

  K. L. Ngai;M. Paluch

  906
  Citations

• Correlation of polymer segmental chain dynamics with temperature-dependent time-scale shifts

  Donald J. Plazek;Kia L. Ngai

  654
  Citations

• Dynamic and thermodynamic properties of glass-forming substances

  K.L. Ngai

  581
  Citations

• Identification of Different Modes of Molecular Motion in Polymers That Cause Thermorheological Complexity

  K. L. Ngai;D. J. Plazek

  450
  Citations

• Chemical structure and intermolecular cooperativity: dielectric relaxation results

  K. L. Ngai;C. M. Roland

  404
  Citations

• Three Coupled Relations for Relaxations in Complex Systemsa

  K. L. Ngai;R. W. Rendell;A. K. Rajagopal;S. Teitler

  351
  Citations

• Relation between the activation energy of the Johari-Goldstein β relaxation and T g of glass formers

  K. L. Ngai;S. Capaccioli

  331
  Citations

• Surface polaritons in a circularly cylindrical interface: Surface plasmons

  C. A. Pfeiffer;E. N. Economou;K. L. Ngai

  312
  Citations

• Similarity of relaxation in supercooled liquids and interacting arrays of oscillators.

  K. L. Ngai;Kwok Yeung Tsang;Kwok Yeung Tsang

  303
  Citations

• Nature and properties of the Johari–Goldstein β-relaxation in the equilibrium liquid state of a class of glass-formers

  K. L. Ngai;P. Lunkenheimer;C. León;U. Schneider

  286
  Citations

• Slowing down of relaxation in a complex system by constraint dynamics

  K. L. Ngai;A. K. Rajagopal;S. Teitler

  277
  Citations

• Frequency dependence of dielectric loss in condensed matter

  K. L. Ngai;C. T. White

  263
  Citations

• Origin of constant loss in ionic conductors.

  León C;Rivera A;Várez A;Sanz J

  252
  Citations

• Comments on the electric modulus function

  I.M. Hodge;K.L. Ngai;C.T. Moynihan

  246
  Citations

• Observation of the Component Dynamics in a Miscible Polymer Blend by Dielectric and Mechanical Spectroscopies

  A. Alegria;J. Colmenero;K. L. Ngai;C. M. Roland

  239
  Citations

• Do theories of the glass transition, in which the structural relaxation time does not define the dispersion of the structural relaxation, need revision?

  K L Ngai;R Casalini;S Capaccioli;M Paluch

  239
  Citations

• Viscoelastic properties of polymers. 4. Thermorheological complexity of the softening dispersion in polyisobutylene

  D. J. Plazek;I.-C. Chay;K. L. Ngai;C. M. Roland

  233
  Citations

• Correlation between the activation enthalpy and Kohlrausch exponent for ionic conductivity in oxide glasses.

  Kia L. Ngai;Steve W. Martin

  231
  Citations

• Anomalous isotope-mass effect in lithium borate glasses: Comparison with a unified relaxation model

  K. L. Ngai;R. W. Rendell;H. Jain

  229
  Citations

• Dynamical heterogeneity in a miscible polymer blend

  C. M. Roland;K. L. Ngai

  224
  Citations