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Materials Science

D-Index
86
Citations
27253
World Ranking
2058
National Ranking
86

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
84
Citations
24671
World Ranking
421
National Ranking
29

S. Ravi P. Silva publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S. Ravi P. Silva sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 607 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

S. Ravi P. Silva D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S. Ravi P. Silva sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

S. Ravi P. Silva is affiliated with the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom and has an extensive publication record focusing on engineering and materials science. Their work spans 234 publications in engineering and 157 in materials science, emphasizing subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The research topics covered by Silva include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Frequent coauthors of Silva include Guosheng Shao, Wei Zhang, Qing Sun, Bonan Kang, and Bo Shen.

Silva has published regularly in several venues, including:

  • Energy & environment materials
  • Nano Energy
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Advanced Science
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Silva are:

  • Critical review of recent progress of flexible perovskite solar cells, 2020, Materials Today
  • Stable Hollow-Structured Silicon Suboxide-Based Anodes toward High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Meet Electrospinning: Recent Advances and the Key Parameters for High Gravimetric and Volume Energy Density, 2021, Advanced Science
  • A flexible metallic TiC nanofiber/vertical graphene 1D/2D heterostructured as active electrocatalyst for advanced Li-S batteries, 2021, InfoMat
  • Recent progress in silver nanowire networks for flexible organic electronics, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Silva has contributed to book publications as well, including a book titled Uma introdução à geometria espacial, scheduled for publication in 2025 by Seven Editora eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Raman spectroscopy on amorphous carbon films

    J. Schwan;S. Ulrich;V. Batori;H. Ehrhardt

  • Low-threshold cold cathodes made of nitrogen-doped chemical-vapour-deposited diamond

    Ken Okano;Satoshi Koizumi;S. Ravi P. Silva;Gehan A. J. Amaratunga

  • Nitrogen containing hydrogenated amorphous carbon for thin-film field emission cathodes

    Gehan A. J. Amaratunga;S. R. P. Silva

  • Influence of ion energy and substrate temperature on the optical and electronic properties of tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C) films

    M. Chhowalla;J. Robertson;C. W. Chen;S. R. P. Silva

  • From 1D and 2D ZnO nanostructures to 3D hierarchical structures with enhanced gas sensing properties

    Mohammad R. Alenezi;Mohammad R. Alenezi;Simon J. Henley;Neil G. Emerson;S. Ravi P. Silva

  • Properties of carbon ion deposited tetrahedral amorphous carbon films as a function of ion energy

    Shi Xu;B. K. Tay;H. S. Tan;Li Zhong

  • Nitrogen modification of hydrogenated amorphous carbon films

    S. R. P. Silva;J. Robertson;G. A. J. Amaratunga;B. Rafferty

  • Triple functionalisation of single-walled carbon nanotubes with doxorubicin, a monoclonal antibody, and a fluorescent marker for targeted cancer therapy

    Elena Heister;Vera Neves;Carmen Tîlmaciu;Kamil Lipert

  • Hardness, elastic modulus, and structure of very hard carbon films produced by cathodic‐arc deposition with substrate pulse biasing

    George M. Pharr;Daniel L. Callahan;Shaun D. McAdams;Ting Y. Tsui

  • Role of the Exposed Polar Facets in the Performance of Thermally and UV Activated ZnO Nanostructured Gas Sensors.

    Mohammad R. Alenezi;Abdullah S. Alshammari;K. D. G. I. Jayawardena;Michail J Beliatis

  • Pulsed-laser-induced nanoscale island formation in thin metal-on-oxide films

    S. J. Henley;J. D. Carey;S. R. P. Silva

  • Polyurea-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes: synthesis, morphology, and Raman spectroscopy.

    Chao Gao;Yi Zheng Jin;Hao Kong;Raymond L D Whitby

  • Large-area synthesis of carbon nanofibres at room temperature.

    Bojan O. Boskovic;Vlad Stolojan;Rizwan U.A. Khan;Sajad Haq

  • Tetrahedral amorphous carbon films prepared by magnetron sputtering and dc ion plating

    J. Schwan;S. Ulrich;H. Roth;H. Ehrhardt

  • Triboelectric nanogenerators: providing a fundamental framework

    R. D. I. G. Dharmasena;K. D. G. I. Jayawardena;C. A. Mills;C. A. Mills;J. H. B. Deane

  • Mechanical properties and Raman spectra of tetrahedral amorphous carbon films with high sp3 fraction deposited using a filtered cathodic arc

    Shi Xu;D. Flynn;B. K. Tay;S. Prawer

  • Higher Dispersion Efficacy of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes in Chemical and Biological Environments

    Elena Heister;Constanze Lamprecht;Vera Neves;Carmen Tîlmaciu

  • Photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy in hydrogenated carbon films

    B. Marchon;Jing Gui;K. Grannen;G.C. Rauch

  • Critical review of recent progress of flexible perovskite solar cells

    Jing Zhang;Wei Zhang;Hui-Ming Cheng;Hui-Ming Cheng;Hui-Ming Cheng;S. Ravi P. Silva

  • Stable Hollow‐Structured Silicon Suboxide‐Based Anodes toward High‐Performance Lithium‐Ion Batteries

    Hao Tian;Huajun Tian;Wu Yang;Fan Zhang

  • ‘Inorganics-in-Organics’: recent developments and outlook for 4G polymer solar cells

    K.D.G. Imalka Jayawardena;Lynn J. Rozanski;Christopher A. Mills;Michail Beliatis

  • Characterization of a‐C:H:N deposition from CH4/N2 rf plasmas using optical emission spectroscopy

    K. J. Clay;S. P. Speakman;G. A. J. Amaratunga;S. R. P. Silva

Frequent Co-Authors

Johnjoe McFadden
Johnjoe McFadden University of Surrey
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler University of Vienna
Emmanuel Flahaut
Emmanuel Flahaut Paul Sabatier University
Hui-Ming Cheng
Hui-Ming Cheng Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Guosheng Shao
Guosheng Shao Zhengzhou University
Geyu Lu
Geyu Lu Jilin University
Jeremy Sloan
Jeremy Sloan University of Warwick
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga
Gehan A. J. Amaratunga University of Cambridge
Mark H. Rümmeli
Mark H. Rümmeli Soochow University
Steven J. Hinder
Steven J. Hinder University of Surrey

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