2026 Mohammad F. Islam: 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	53	9083	8770	2209	2050	215	14203

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Materials Science

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2050

215

14203

Overview

Mohammad F. Islam is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, focusing primarily on research in engineering and materials science. Their work spans multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, molecular biology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their research covers a variety of main topics, with notable emphasis on carbon nanotubes in composites, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, advanced materials and mechanics, nanotechnology research and applications, nanoparticles synthesis and applications, tactile and sensory interactions, and teleoperation and haptic systems.

Islam has contributed to several recent papers published in well-known venues:

A self-healing electrically conductive organogel composite, 2023, Nature Electronics
Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology
ReCompFig: Designing Dynamically Reconfigurable Kinematic Devices Using Compliant Mechanisms and Tensioning Cables, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sustainable Morphing Matter: Design and Engineering Practices, 2023, Advanced Materials Technologies
A compliant metastructure design with reconfigurability up to six degrees of freedom, 2025, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors working alongside Mohammad F. Islam include Ke Zhong, Dinesh K. Patel, Lining Yao, Carmel Majidi, and Humphrey Yang.

They have published regularly in journals and conferences such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, Advanced Materials Technologies, Biophysical Journal, Nature Electronics, and Nature Nanotechnology.

Best Publications

High Weight Fraction Surfactant Solubilization of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Water

M. F. Islam;E. Rojas;D. M. Bergey;and A. T. Johnson

2710
Citations
Very Low Conductivity Threshold in Bulk Isotropic Single‐Walled Carbon Nanotube–Epoxy Composites

Mateusz B. Bryning;Mohammad F. Islam;James M. Kikkawa;Arjun G. Yodh

789
Citations
Carbon Nanotube Aerogels

Mateusz B. Bryning;Daniel E. Milkie;Mohammad F. Islam;Mohammad F. Islam;Lawrence A. Hough;Lawrence A. Hough

701
Citations
Premelting at Defects within Bulk Colloidal Crystals

Ahmed M. Alsayed;Ahmed M. Alsayed;Mohammad F. Islam;Mohammad F. Islam;Jian Zhang;Jian Zhang;Peter J. Collings;Peter J. Collings

592
Citations
Graphene coating makes carbon nanotube aerogels superelastic and resistant to fatigue

Kyu Hun Kim;Youngseok Oh;M. F. Islam

537
Citations
Thermal conductivity and interfacial resistance in single-wall carbon nanotube epoxy composites

M. B. Bryning;D. E. Milkie;M. F. Islam;J. M. Kikkawa

495
Citations
Morphology and mechanics of fungal mycelium.

M. R. Islam;G. Tudryn;R. Bucinell;L. Schadler

356
Citations
Single-walled carbon nanotube aerogel-based elastic conductors.

Kyu Hun Kim;Mert Vural;Mohammad F. Islam

291
Citations
Direct measurement of the polarized optical absorption cross section of single-wall carbon nanotubes.

M. F. Islam;D. E. Milkie;C. L. Kane;A. G. Yodh

289
Citations
Viscoelasticity of single wall carbon nanotube suspensions.

L. A. Hough;M. F. Islam;P. A. Janmey;A. G. Yodh

253
Citations
Rheological microscopy: local mechanical properties from microrheology.

D. T. Chen;E. R. Weeks;John C Crocker;M. F. Islam

249
Citations
Titanium nitride films for micro-supercapacitors: Effect of surface chemistry and film morphology on the capacitance

Amine Achour;Amine Achour;Raul Lucio Porto;Mohamed-Akram Soussou;Mohammad Islam

210
Citations
Fluctuations and Rheology in Active Bacterial Suspensions

Daniel T.N. Chen;Andy C.W. Lau;Lawrence A. Hough;Mohammad F. Islam

193
Citations
Small angle neutron scattering from single-wall carbon nanotube suspensions: evidence for isolated rigid rods and rod networks

Wei Zhou;M. F Islam;H. Wang;D. L Ho

179
Citations
Processes and applications of carbon nanotube dispersions

Arjun G. Yodh;Mohammad F. Islam;Alan T. Johnson;Danvers E. Johnston

173
Citations
Carbon Nanotubes Reorganize Actin Structures in Cells and ex Vivo

Brian D. Holt;Philip A. Short;Andrew D. Rape;Yu-li Wang

171
Citations
Single wall carbon nanotubes enter cells by endocytosis and not membrane penetration

Peter N Yaron;Brian D Holt;Philip A Short;Mathias Lösche;Mathias Lösche

170
Citations
Structure of semidilute single-wall carbon nanotube suspensions and gels.

L. A. Hough;M. F. Islam;B. Hammouda;and A. G. Yodh

157
Citations
Quantum confinement effect in ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by co-precipitate method

Umair Manzoor;Mohammad Islam;Lubna Tabassam;Shams Ur Rahman

150
Citations
Mechanical and Thermal Management Characteristics of Ultrahigh Surface Area Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Aerogels

Kyu Hun Kim;Youngseok Oh;Mohammad F. Islam

146
Citations