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Karen K. Gleason

Karen K. Gleason

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Materials Science

D-Index
93
Citations
30109
World Ranking
1469
National Ranking
463

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For invention, application development, scale-up, and commercialization of chemically vapor deposited polymers.

Overview

Karen K. Gleason is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research involves interdisciplinary studies bridging materials chemistry, polymers, bioengineering, and electrical engineering.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Chemical vapour deposition, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Nanoscale control by chemically vapour-deposited polymers, 2020, Nature Reviews Physics
  • Texture and nanostructural engineering of conjugated conducting and semiconducting polymers, 2020, Materials Today Advances
  • Designing Organic and Hybrid Surfaces and Devices with Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD), 2023, Advanced Materials
  • Optimizing the Optoelectronic Properties of Face-On Oriented Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) via Water-Assisted Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Meysam Heydari Gharahcheshmeh
  • Maxwell T. Robinson
  • Xiaoxue Wang
  • Edward F. Gleason
  • Linus Krieg

The most common venues for publication are:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Science
  • Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Nature Reviews Physics

Main fields of study covered by their work are:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Subfields in which the scientist is active include:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Polymers and Plastics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Bioengineering

Key research topics featured in their publications are:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Semiconductor materials and devices

Karen K. Gleason was recognized as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for contributions involving the invention, application development, scale-up, and commercialization of chemically vapor deposited polymers.

Best Publications

  • Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Forests

    Kenneth K. S. Lau;José Bico;Kenneth B. K. Teo;Manish Chhowalla

  • Superhydrophobic fibers produced by electrospinning and chemical vapor deposition

    Karen K. Gleason;Gregory C. Rutledge;Malancha Gupta;Minglin Ma

  • Chemical vapour deposition

    Luzhao Sun;Guowen Yuan;Libo Gao;Jieun Yang

  • Chemical Vapor Deposition of Conformal, Functional, and Responsive Polymer Films

    Mahriah E. Alf;Ayse Asatekin;Miles C. Barr;Salmaan H. Baxamusa

  • Durable and scalable icephobic surfaces: similarities and distinctions from superhydrophobic surfaces.

    Hossein Sojoudi;M. Wang;Nicolas Boscher;Gareth H. McKinley

  • Initiated and Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition of Polymeric Thin Films: iCVD and oCVD

    Wyatt E. Tenhaeff;Karen K. Gleason

  • Decorated electrospun fibers exhibiting superhydrophobicity

    Minglin Ma;Malancha Gupta;Zhi Li;Lei Zhai

  • Direct monolithic integration of organic photovoltaic circuits on unmodified paper.

    Miles C. Barr;Jill A. Rowehl;Richard R. Lunt;Jingjing Xu

  • Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) of Poly(alkyl acrylates): An Experimental Study

    Kenneth K. S Lau;Karen K Gleason

  • Chain mobility in the amorphous region of nylon 6 observed under active uniaxial deformation

    Leslie S. Loo;Robert E. Cohen;Karen K. Gleason

  • Determination of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes and vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests using nanoindentation

    H.J. Qi;K.B.K. Teo;K.K.S. Lau;M.C. Boyce

  • Oxidative Chemical Vapor Deposition of Electrically Conducting Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Films

    John P. Lock;and Sung Gap Im;Karen K. Gleason

  • Stable Dropwise Condensation for Enhancing Heat Transfer via the Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD) of Grafted Polymer Films

    Adam T. Paxson;Jose L. Yagüe;Karen K. Gleason;Kripa K. Varanasi

  • Surface-Tethered Zwitterionic Ultrathin Antifouling Coatings on Reverse Osmosis Membranes by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Rong Yang;Jingjing Xu;Gozde Ozaydin-Ince;Sze Yinn Wong

  • Systematic control of the electrical conductivity of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) via oxidative chemical vapor deposition

    Sung Gap Im;Karen K. Gleason

  • Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition of Linear and Cross-linked Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) for Use as Thin-Film Hydrogels

    Kelvin Chan;Karen K Gleason

  • 25th Anniversary Article: CVD Polymers: A New Paradigm for Surface Modifi cation and Device Fabrication

    Anna Maria Coclite;Rachel M. Howden;David C. Borrelli;Christy D. Petruczok

  • Multiple-quantum NMR study of clustering in hydrogenated amorphous silicon.

    J. Baum;K. K. Gleason;A. Pines;A. N. Garroway

  • High electrical conductivity and carrier mobility in oCVD PEDOT thin films by engineered crystallization and acid treatment

    Xiaoxue Wang;Xu Zhang;Lei Sun;Dongwook Lee

  • Molecular engineered conjugated polymer with high thermal conductivity

    Yanfei Xu;Xiaoxue Wang;Jiawei Zhou;Bai Song

  • Polymer-free Near-Infrared Photovoltaics With Single Chirality (6,5) Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Active Layers

    Rishabh M. Jain;Rachel Howden;Kevin Tvrdy;Steven Shimizu

  • Chemical vapor deposition of fluorocarbon polymer thin films

    Karen K. Gleason;Scott J. H. Limb;Edward F. Gleason;Herbert H. Sawin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sung Gap Im
Sung Gap Im Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Mary C. Boyce
Mary C. Boyce Columbia University
Christopher K. Ober
Christopher K. Ober Cornell University
Richard R. Lunt
Richard R. Lunt Michigan State University

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