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Citations
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World Ranking
265
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111

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For pioneering novel applications of conjugated polymers and related nanomaterials.

Overview

Ray H. Baughman is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily in Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics covered in their work focus on advanced materials and their applications, featuring:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Carbon Nanotubes in Composites
  • Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Dielectric materials and actuators

Baughman has authored several recent papers published in high-impact journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Super-tough MXene-functionalized graphene sheets" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "High-strength scalable graphene sheets by freezing stretch-induced alignment" (2021, Nature Materials)
  • "Unipolar stroke, electroosmotic pump carbon nanotube yarn muscles" (2021, Science)
  • "Water-induced strong isotropic MXene-bridged graphene sheets for electrochemical energy storage" (2024, Science)
  • "Scalable Synthesis and Characterization of Multilayer γ-Graphyne, New Carbon Crystals with a Small Direct Band Gap" (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Baughman include:

  • Shaoli Fang
  • Zhong Wang
  • Seon Jeong Kim
  • Mengmeng Zhang
  • Oleg V. Kulikov

Publication venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Science
  • Advanced Materials

The scientist has received several recognitions, such as being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2015, and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2008 for pioneering applications of conjugated polymers and related nanomaterials.

Best Publications

  • Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

    Ray H. Baughman;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Walt A. de Heer

  • Carbon Nanotubes: Present and Future Commercial Applications

    Michael F. L. De Volder;Michael F. L. De Volder;Michael F. L. De Volder;Sameh H. Tawfick;Sameh H. Tawfick;Ray H. Baughman;A. John Hart;A. John Hart

  • Carbon Nanotube Actuators

    Ray H. Baughman;Changxing Cui;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Zafar Iqbal

  • Strong, Transparent, Multifunctional, Carbon Nanotube Sheets

    Mei Zhang;Mei Zhang;Shaoli Fang;Shaoli Fang;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Sergey B. Lee;Sergey B. Lee

  • Multifunctional Carbon Nanotube Yarns by Downsizing an Ancient Technology

    Mei Zhang;Ken R. Atkinson;Ray H. Baughman

  • Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres

    Alan B. Dalton;Steve Collins;Edgar Muñoz;Joselito M. Razal

  • Structure‐property predictions for new planar forms of carbon: Layered phases containing sp2 and sp atoms

    R. H. Baughman;H. Eckhardt;M. Kertesz

  • Carbon Structures with Three-Dimensional Periodicity at Optical Wavelengths

    Anvar A Zakhidov;Ray Henry Baughman;Zafar Iqbal;Changxing Cui

  • Artificial Muscles from Fishing Line and Sewing Thread

    Carter S. Haines;Márcio D. Lima;Na Li;Geoffrey M. Spinks

  • Fabrication and application of nanofiber ribbons and sheets and twisted and non-twisted nanofiber yarns

    Mei Zhang;Shaoli Fang;Ray H. Baughman;Anvar A. Zakhidov

  • Conducting polymer artificial muscles

    R.H. Baughman

  • Polymer artificial muscles

    Tissaphern Mirfakhrai;John D.W. Madden;Ray H. Baughman

  • Three-dimensionally bonded spongy graphene material with super compressive elasticity and near-zero Poisson’s ratio

    Yingpeng Wu;Ningbo Yi;Lu Huang;Tengfei Zhang

  • Negative Poisson's ratios as a common feature of cubic metals

    Ray H. Baughman;Justin M. Shacklette;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Sven Stafström

  • Optical Nonlinearities in One-Dimensional-Conjugated Polymer Crystals.

    C. Sauteret;J. P. Hermann;R. Frey;F. Pradère

  • Direct electron transfer of glucose oxidase on carbon nanotubes

    Anthony Guiseppi-Elie;Chenghong Lei;Ray H Baughman

  • Electrically, Chemically, and Photonically Powered Torsional and Tensile Actuation of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Yarn Muscles

    Marcio D. Lima;Na Li;Na Li;Monica Jung de Andrade;Shaoli Fang

  • Giant-Stroke, Superelastic Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles

    Ali E. Aliev;Jiyoung Oh;Mikhail E. Kozlov;Alexander A. Kuznetsov

  • Controlled assembly of carbon nanotubes by designed amphiphilic Peptide helices.

    Gregg R. Dieckmann;Alan B. Dalton;Paul A. Johnson;Joselito Razal

  • Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles

    Javad Foroughi;Geoffrey M. Spinks;Gordon G. Wallace;Jiyoung Oh

  • Highly conducting charge‐transfer complexes of poly(p‐phenylene)

    D. M. Ivory;G. G. Miller;J. M. Sowa;L. W. Shacklette

Frequent Co-Authors

Anvar A. Zakhidov
Anvar A. Zakhidov The University of Texas at Dallas
Shaoli Fang
Shaoli Fang The University of Texas at Dallas
Seon Jeong Kim
Seon Jeong Kim Hanyang University
Mikhail E. Kozlov
Mikhail E. Kozlov The University of Texas at Dallas
Mei Zhang
Mei Zhang Florida State University
Ronald R. Chance
Ronald R. Chance Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan B. Dalton
Alan B. Dalton University of Sussex
Geoffrey M. Spinks
Geoffrey M. Spinks University of Wollongong
Gordon G. Wallace
Gordon G. Wallace University of Wollongong
Ronald L. Elsenbaumer
Ronald L. Elsenbaumer The University of Texas at Arlington

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