2026 Richard Martel: 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	71	4159	4026	62	58	324	30436

Richard Martel publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Martel sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 324 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Richard Martel D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Richard Martel sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard Martel is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, focusing primarily on materials science and engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within these fields, with significant attention to materials chemistry and electronic engineering subfields.

Their main areas of study include materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, as well as molecular biology. The scientist's research topics cover:

Graphene research and applications
Carbon nanotubes in composites
2D materials and applications
Graphene and nanomaterials applications
Molecular junctions and nanostructures
Boron and carbon nanomaterials research
Diamond and carbon-based materials research

Richard Martel has coauthored numerous papers with collaborators including Charlotte Allard, Étienne Gaufrès, Luc Stafford, Annick Loiseau, and P. Desjardins. Their frequent coauthors have contributed to advancing knowledge mainly in nanomaterials and related engineering applications.

Publications by Richard Martel appear predominantly in venues such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, arXiv (Cornell University), and Materials Horizons. Their contributions to these venues reflect a sustained engagement with materials science and related disciplines.

Recent notable papers include:

"Banning carbon nanotubes would be scientifically unjustified and damaging to innovation," published in 2020 in Nature Nanotechnology
"Reproducible graphene synthesis by oxygen-free chemical vapour deposition," published in 2024 in Nature
"Confinement of Dyes inside Boron Nitride Nanotubes: Photostable and Shifted Fluorescence down to the Near Infrared," published in 2020 in Advanced Materials
"Preferential self-healing at grain boundaries in plasma-treated graphene," published in 2020 in Nature Materials
"Advanced 1D heterostructures based on nanotube templates and molecules," published in 2024 in Chemical Society Reviews

Best Publications

Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

R. Martel;T. Schmidt;H. R. Shea;T. Hertel

4068
Citations
Carbon nanotubes as schottky barrier transistors.

S. Heinze;J. Tersoff;R. Martel;V. Derycke

1719
Citations
Carbon Nanotube Inter- and Intramolecular Logic Gates

V. Derycke;R. Martel;J. Appenzeller;Ph. Avouris

1660
Citations
Photooxidation and quantum confinement effects in exfoliated black phosphorus

Alexandre Favron;Etienne Gaufrès;Frédéric Fossard;Anne-Laurence Phaneuf-L'Heureux

1366
Citations
Electrically Induced Optical Emission from a Carbon Nanotube FET

J. A. Misewich;R. Martel;Ph. Avouris;J. C. Tsang

1209
Citations
Ambipolar electrical transport in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes.

R. Martel;V. Derycke;C. Lavoie;J. Appenzeller

1068
Citations
Vertical scaling of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors using top gate electrodes

S. J. Wind;J. Appenzeller;R. Martel;V. Derycke

1058
Citations
Carbon nanotube electronics

P. Avouris;J. Appenzeller;R. Martel;S.J. Wind

1028
Citations
Controlling doping and carrier injection in carbon nanotube transistors

V. Derycke;R. Martel;J. Appenzeller;Ph. Avouris

952
Citations
Photoconductivity of Single Carbon Nanotubes

M. Freitag;Y. Martin;J. A. Misewich;R. Martel

812
Citations
Current Saturation and Electrical Breakdown in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Philip G. Collins;M. Hersam;M. Arnold;R. Martel

810
Citations
Atomic force microscope tip-induced local oxidation of silicon: kinetics, mechanism, and nanofabrication

Phaedon Avouris;Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel

694
Citations
Field-modulated carrier transport in carbon nanotube transistors.

J. Appenzeller;J. Knoch;V. Derycke;R. Martel

654
Citations
Manipulation of Individual Carbon Nanotubes and Their Interaction with Surfaces

Tobias Hertel;Richard Martel;Phaedon Avouris

525
Citations
Methodology for electrically induced selective breakdown of nanotubes

Phaedon Avouris;Philip G. Collins;Vincent Stephane Derycke;Richard Martel

412
Citations
Carbon nanotubes: nanomechanics, manipulation, and electronic devices

Ph Avouris;T Hertel;R Martel;T Schmidt

408
Citations
Probing charge transfer at surfaces using graphene transistors.

Pierre L Levesque;Shadi S Sabri;Carla M Aguirre;Jonathan Guillemette

391
Citations
The Role of the Oxygen/Water Redox Couple in Suppressing Electron Conduction in Field-Effect Transistors

Carla M. Aguirre;Pierre L. Levesque;Matthieu Paillet;François Lapointe

389
Citations
Method of fabricating self-aligned nanotube field effect transistor

Joerg Appenzeller;Phaedon Avouris;Kevin K. Chan;Philip G. Collins

358
Citations
Rings of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Richard Martel;Herbert R. Shea;Phaedon Avouris

338
Citations