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Krzysztof Kempa

Krzysztof Kempa

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
46
Citations
9076
World Ranking
5118
National Ranking
1456

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to understanding basic physics of plasmons in condensed matter systems

Overview

Krzysztof Kempa is affiliated with Boston College in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Publications by Krzysztof Kempa have appeared in various research venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Express
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Solar RRL

Recent published papers include:

  • "Strain Engineering of a MXene/CNT Hierarchical Porous Hollow Microsphere Electrocatalyst for a High-Efficiency Lithium Polysulfide Conversion Process" (2021), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Hierarchical Defective Fe3-xC@C Hollow Microsphere Enables Fast and Long-Lasting Lithium-Sulfur Batteries" (2020), published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "An internal encapsulating layer for efficient, stable, repairable and low-lead-leakage perovskite solar cells" (2022), published in Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Rapid Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of SnO2 Quantum Dots for Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells" (2021), published in ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • "Reducing friction and engine vibrations with trace amounts of carbon nanotubes in the lubricating oil" (2020), published in Tribology International

The scientist frequently collaborates with coauthors such as Guofu Zhou, Michael Naughton, Xin Wang, Jun-Ming Liu, and Jinwei Gao.

Krzysztof Kempa has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016 for pioneering contributions to understanding the basic physics of plasmons in condensed matter systems.

Best Publications

  • Superplastic carbon nanotubes

    J. Y. Huang;S. Chen;Z. Q. Wang;K. Kempa

  • Photonic Crystals Based on Periodic Arrays of Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

    K. Kempa;B. Kimball;J. Rybczynski;Z. P. Huang

  • Shadow Nanosphere Lithography: Simulation and Experiment

    A. Kosiorek;W. Kandulski;P. Chudzinski;K. Kempa

  • Metamaterial-Plasmonic Absorber Structure for High Efficiency Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells

    Yang Wang;Tianyi Sun;Trilochan Paudel;Yi Zhang

  • Receiving and transmitting light-like radio waves: Antenna effect in arrays of aligned carbon nanotubes

    Y. Wang;K. Kempa;B. Kimball;J. B. Carlson

  • Uniform Self-Forming Metallic Network as a High-Performance Transparent Conductive Electrode

    Bing Han;Ke Pei;Yuanlin Huang;Xiaojian Zhang

  • Layer-by-layer assembled composites from multiwall carbon nanotubes with different morphologies

    Maciej Olek;John Ostrander;Stefan Jurga;Helmut Möhwald

  • Multipole plasmon modes at a metal surface.

    K.-D. Tsuei;E. W. Plummer;A. Liebsch;K. Kempa

  • Carbon Nanotubes as Optical Antennae

    Krzysztof Kempa;Jakub Rybczynski;Zhongping Huang;Keith Gregorczyk

  • Strain Engineering of a MXene/CNT Hierarchical Porous Hollow Microsphere Electrocatalyst for a High-Efficiency Lithium Polysulfide Conversion Process.

    Xin Wang;Dan Luo;Jiayi Wang;Jiayi Wang;Zhenghao Sun

  • The normal modes at the surface of simple metals

    K.-D Tsuei;E.W Plummer;A Liebsch;E Pehlke

  • Growth of large periodic arrays of carbon nanotubes

    Z. P. Huang;D. L. Carnahan;J. Rybczynski;M. Giersig

  • Unrestricted superlensing in a triangular two dimensional photonic crystal.

    Xiwen Wang;Z. F. Ren;K. Kempa

  • Foundations of Plasmonics

    Y. Wang;E. W. Plummer;K. Kempa

  • Hierarchical Defective Fe3-xC@C Hollow Microsphere Impulses Fast and Long-lasting Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

    Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Gaoran Li;Jiayi Wang;Guoliang Cui;Guoliang Cui

  • Bio-inspired networks for optoelectronic applications

    Bing Han;Yuanlin Huang;Ruopeng Li;Qiang Peng

  • Lattice thermal conductivity of wires

    S. G. Walkauskas;D. A. Broido;K. Kempa;T. L. Reinecke

  • Enhanced Introduction of Gold Nanoparticles into Vital Acidothiobacillus ferrooxidans by Carbon Nanotube-based Microwave Electroporation

    José A. Rojas-Chapana;Miguel A. Correa-Duarte;Zhifeng Ren;Krzysztof Kempa

  • Insights into the mechanism of the enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity of black phosphorus/BiVO4 heterostructure: a first-principles study

    Yuxuan Chen;Tingting Shi;Pengyi Liu;Xinguo Ma

  • Giant field enhancement at carbon nanotube tips induced by multistage effect

    J. Y. Huang;K. Kempa;S. H. Jo;S. Chen

  • Nanomechanical properties of silica-coated multiwall carbon nanotubes-poly(methyl methacrylate) composites.

    M. Olek;K. Kempa;S. Jurga;M. Giersig

  • Apparatus and methods for solar energy conversion using nanoscale cometal structures

    Krzysztof J. Kempa;Michael J. Naughton;Zhifeng Ren;Jakub A. Rybczynski

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhifeng Ren
Zhifeng Ren University of Houston
Jinwei Gao
Jinwei Gao South China Normal University
Guofu Zhou
Guofu Zhou South China Normal University
Michael Giersig
Michael Giersig Freie Universität Berlin
Xubing Lu
Xubing Lu South China Normal University
Xingsen Gao
Xingsen Gao South China Normal University
Chuan Fei Guo
Chuan Fei Guo Southern University of Science and Technology
Zhongwei Chen
Zhongwei Chen University of Waterloo
Yiwang Chen
Yiwang Chen Nanchang University

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