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Sara E. Skrabalak

Sara E. Skrabalak

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Materials Science

D-Index
51
Citations
23114
World Ranking
9715
National Ranking
2342

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2017 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2014 - ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sara E. Skrabalak is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their work focuses on various topics within materials science, with notable emphasis on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, Laser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles, and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science.

Publications by Sara E. Skrabalak include recent papers such as:

  • Synthesis of monodisperse high entropy alloy nanocatalysts from core@shell nanoparticles (2021, Nanoscale Horizons)
  • Plasmonic Anticounterfeit Tags with High Encoding Capacity Rapidly Authenticated with Deep Machine Learning (2021, ACS Nano)
  • Quinary, Senary, and Septenary High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticle Catalysts from Core@Shell Nanoparticles and the Significance of Intraparticle Heterogeneity (2022, ACS Nano)
  • Best Practices for Using AI When Writing Scientific Manuscripts (2023, ACS Nano)
  • Effect of lattice mismatch and shell thickness on strain in core@shell nanocrystals (2020, Nanoscale Advances)

Frequent collaborators in Sara E. Skrabalak's research include:

  • Matthew N. Gordon
  • Hannah M. Ashberry
  • Sandra L. A. Bueno
  • Kaustav Chatterjee
  • Nabojit Kar

The scientist's work has been disseminated through multiple publication venues, with a majority of contributions appearing in Chemistry of Materials, The Cambridge Structural Database, Nanoscale, ACS Nano, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Sara E. Skrabalak has also contributed to book literature, including a publication with the American Chemical Society titled Metal Nanocrystals (2020).

Awards and recognitions received by Sara E. Skrabalak include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2017
  • ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2014
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2013

Best Publications

  • Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics?

    Younan Xia;Yujie Xiong;Byungkwon Lim;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) in nanoparticle synthesis

    Kallum M. Koczkur;Stefanos Mourdikoudis;Stefanos Mourdikoudis;Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Lakshminarayana Polavarapu;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Gold nanocages: synthesis, properties, and applications.

    Sara E. Skrabalak;Jingyi Chen;Yugang Sun;Xianmao Lu

  • Facile synthesis of Ag nanocubes and Au nanocages

    Sara E Skrabalak;Leslie Au;Xingde Li;Younan Xia

  • Chemical Synthesis of Novel Plasmonic Nanoparticles

    Xianmao Lu;Matthew Rycenga;Sara E Skrabalak;Benjamin Wiley

  • Rapid synthesis of silver nanowires through a CuCl- or CuCl2-mediated polyol process

    Kylee E. Korte;Sara E. Skrabalak;Younan Xia

  • Gold Nanocages for Biomedical Applications

    Sara E. Skrabalak;Jingyi Chen;Leslie Au;Xianmao Lu

  • Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles for Plasmonic and Sensing Applications

    Claire M. Cobley;Sara E. Skrabalak;Dean J. Campbell;Younan Xia

  • Photoacoustic tomography of a rat cerebral cortex in vivo with au nanocages as an optical contrast agent.

    Xinmai Yang;Sara E. Skrabalak;Zhi-Yuan Li;Younan Xia

  • On the polyol synthesis of silver nanostructures: glycolaldehyde as a reducing agent.

    Sara E. Skrabalak;Benjamin J. Wiley;Munho Kim;Eric V. Formo

  • Cover Picture: Shape‐Controlled Synthesis of Metal Nanocrystals: Simple Chemistry Meets Complex Physics? (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2009)

    Younan Xia;Yujie Xiong;Byungkwon Lim;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Plasmonic Nanoparticles as a Physically Unclonable Function for Responsive Anti‐Counterfeit Nanofingerprints

    Alison F. Smith;Alison F. Smith;Paul Patton;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Metal nanomaterials for optical anti-counterfeit labels

    Alison F. Smith;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Formkontrolle bei der Synthese von Metallnanokristallen: einfache Chemie, komplexe Physik?

    Younan Xia;Yujie Xiong;Byungkwon Lim;Sara E. Skrabalak

  • Porous MoS2 synthesized by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis.

    Sara E. Skrabalak;Kenneth S. Suslick

  • Excitation enhancement of CdSe quantum dots by single metal nanoparticles

    Yeechi Chen;Keiko Munechika;Ilan Jen-La Plante;Andrea M. Munro

  • Engineering plasmonic metal colloids through composition and structural design.

    N. E. Motl;A. F. Smith;A. F. Smith;C. J. DeSantis;S. E. Skrabalak

  • Random Alloyed versus Intermetallic Nanoparticles: A Comparison of Electrocatalytic Performance.

    Jocelyn T. L. Gamler;Hannah M. Ashberry;Sara E. Skrabalak;Kallum M. Koczkur

  • Size-Dependent Disorder–Order Transformation in the Synthesis of Monodisperse Intermetallic PdCu Nanocatalysts

    Chenyu Wang;Dennis P. Chen;Xiahan Sang;Raymond R. Unocic

  • Gold nanocages for cancer detection and treatment

    Sara E Skrabalak;Leslie Au;Xianmao Lu;Xingde Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Younan Xia
Younan Xia Johns Hopkins University
Raymond R. Unocic
Raymond R. Unocic Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Kenneth S. Suslick
Kenneth S. Suslick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xianmao Lu
Xianmao Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jingyi Chen
Jingyi Chen University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Byungkwon Lim
Byungkwon Lim Sungkyunkwan University
Yujie Xiong
Yujie Xiong University of Science and Technology of China
Xiahan Sang
Xiahan Sang Wuhan University of Technology
Lyudmila M. Bronstein
Lyudmila M. Bronstein Indiana University
Yawen Tang
Yawen Tang Nanjing Normal University

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