2026 Prashant K. Jain: 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	66	5226	5056	1365	1279	156	37130

Overview

Prashant K. Jain is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with extensive contributions totaling 76 and 65 publications respectively.

The scientist's work covers several subfields, including:

Materials Chemistry
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

The main topics explored by Prashant K. Jain in their research include:

Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
Graphene research and applications
Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advancements in Battery Materials

Recent notable publications by Prashant K. Jain include:

"A rich catalog of C-C bonded species formed in CO2 reduction on a plasmonic photocatalyst," 2021, Nature Communications
"Roadmap on quantum nanotechnologies," 2021, Nanotechnology
"Time-resolved transmission electron microscopy for nanoscale chemical dynamics," 2023, Nature Reviews Chemistry
"Light-Induced Voltages in Catalysis by Plasmonic Nanostructures," 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
"Plasmon-Assisted Ammonia Electrosynthesis," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Prashant K. Jain frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including:

Balaji Padya
V. P. Madhurima
Kusum Kumari
Francis M. Alcorn
Pushkal Badoniya

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Nano Letters
Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

Calculated Absorption and Scattering Properties of Gold Nanoparticles of Different Size, Shape, and Composition: Applications in Biological Imaging and Biomedicine

Prashant K. Jain;Kyeong Seok Lee;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

5588
Citations
Noble Metals on the Nanoscale: Optical and Photothermal Properties and Some Applications in Imaging, Sensing, Biology, and Medicine

Prashant K. Jain;Xiaohua Huang;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

4881
Citations
Plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) using gold nanoparticles

Xiaohua Huang;Prashant K. Jain;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

2794
Citations
Localized surface plasmon resonances arising from free carriers in doped quantum dots

Joseph M. Luther;Joseph M. Luther;Prashant K. Jain;Prashant K. Jain;Trevor Ewers;Trevor Ewers;A. Paul Alivisatos;A. Paul Alivisatos

1982
Citations
On the Universal Scaling Behavior of the Distance Decay of Plasmon Coupling in Metal Nanoparticle Pairs: A Plasmon Ruler Equation

Prashant K. Jain;Wenyu Huang;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

1902
Citations
Gold nanoparticles: interesting optical properties and recent applications in cancer diagnostics and therapy

Xiaohua Huang;Prashant K Jain;Ivan H El-Sayed;Mostafa A El-Sayed

1782
Citations
Review of Some Interesting Surface Plasmon Resonance-enhanced Properties of Noble Metal Nanoparticles and Their Applications to Biosystems

Prashant K. Jain;Xiaohua Huang;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

1641
Citations
Au nanoparticles target cancer

Prashant K. Jain;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

1513
Citations
Plasmonic coupling in noble metal nanostructures

Prashant K. Jain;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

1106
Citations
Plasmon Coupling in Nanorod Assemblies: Optical Absorption, Discrete Dipole Approximation Simulation, and Exciton-Coupling Model

Prashant K. Jain;Susie Eustis;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

988
Citations
Multiferroic Behavior Associated with an Order−Disorder Hydrogen Bonding Transition in Metal−Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with the Perovskite ABX3 Architecture

Prashant Jain;Vasanth Ramachandran;Ronald J. Clark;Hai Dong Zhou

854
Citations
Cation exchange on the nanoscale: an emerging technique for new material synthesis, device fabrication, and chemical sensing

Jessy B. Rivest;Prashant K. Jain

544
Citations
Order−Disorder Antiferroelectric Phase Transition in a Hybrid Inorganic−Organic Framework with the Perovskite Architecture

Prashant Jain;Naresh S. Dalal;Brian H. Toby;Harold W. Kroto

520
Citations
Determination of the Minimum Temperature Required for Selective Photothermal Destruction of Cancer Cells with the Use of Immunotargeted Gold Nanoparticles

Xiaohua Huang;Prashant K. Jain;Ivan H. El-Sayed;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

519
Citations
Coupling of Optical Resonances in a Compositionally Asymmetric Plasmonic Nanoparticle Dimer

Sassan Sheikholeslami;Young-wook Jun;Prashant K. Jain;A. Paul Alivisatos

452
Citations
Plasmonic Control of Multi-Electron Transfer and C–C Coupling in Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction on Au Nanoparticles

Sungju Yu;Andrew J. Wilson;Jaeyoung Heo;Prashant K. Jain

447
Citations
Universal Scaling of Plasmon Coupling in Metal Nanostructures: Extension from Particle Pairs to Nanoshells

Prashant K. Jain;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

364
Citations
Harvesting multiple electron-hole pairs generated through plasmonic excitation of Au nanoparticles.

Youngsoo Kim;Jeremy G. Smith;Prashant K. Jain

361
Citations
Noble metal nanoparticle pairs: effect of medium for enhanced nanosensing.

Prashant K. Jain;Mostafa A. El-Sayed

354
Citations
Surface plasmon resonance enhanced magneto-optics (SuPREMO): Faraday rotation enhancement in gold-coated iron oxide nanocrystals.

Prashant K. Jain;Yanhong Xiao;Ronald L. Walsworth;Adam Ezra Cohen

353
Citations
Plasmon Resonances of Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Physical Principles and New Opportunities

Jacob A. Faucheaux;Alexandria L. D. Stanton;Prashant K. Jain

319
Citations