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Benoît Champagne

Benoît Champagne

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Chemistry
Belgium
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
21442
World Ranking
3804
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Benoît Champagne is affiliated with the University of Namur in Belgium and has produced extensive research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their scholarly work encompasses more than 200 publications in Materials Science and over 120 in Chemistry, with a significant focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The research topics Benoît Champagne has concentrated on include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Among notable recent publications are:

  • "Performance of DFT functionals for calculating the second-order nonlinear optical properties of dipolar merocyanines," 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • "Controlled Generation of 9-Boratriptycene by Lewis Adduct Dissociation: Accessing a Non-Planar Triarylborane," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Predicting the Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Responses of Organic Materials: The Role of Dynamics," 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • "Taming the Lewis Superacidity of Non-Planar Boranes: C−H Bond Activation and Non-Classical Binding Modes at Boron," 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Tuning Electronic and Morphological Properties for High-Performance Wavelength-Selective Organic Near-Infrared Cavity Photodetectors," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

Benoît Champagne frequently publishes in various scientific venues, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • ChemPhysChem

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Johan Wouters
  • Nikolay Tumanov
  • Guillaume Berionni
  • Damien Mahaut
  • Aurélien Chardon

Best Publications

  • Assessment of Conventional Density Functional Schemes for Computing the Polarizabilities and Hyperpolarizabilities of Conjugated Oligomers: An Ab Initio Investigation of Polyacetylene Chains

    B. Champagne;E. A. Perpete;S. J. A. van Gisbergen;E. J. Baerends

  • Assessment of Conventional Density Functional Schemes for Computing the Dipole Moment and (Hyper)polarizabilities of Push−Pull π-Conjugated Systems†

    Benoît Champagne;and Eric A. Perpète;Denis Jacquemin;Stan J. A. van Gisbergen and

  • Electric field dependence of the exchange-correlation potential in molecular chains

    S.J.A. van Gisbergen;P.R.T. Schipper;O.V. Gritsenko;E.J. Baerends

  • Design and characterization of molecular nonlinear optical switches.

    Frédéric Castet;Vincent Rodriguez;Jean-Luc Pozzo;Laurent Ducasse

  • Second Hyperpolarizability (γ) of Singlet Diradical System: Dependence of γ on the Diradical Character

    Masayoshi Nakano;Ryohei Kishi;Tomoshige Nitta;Takashi Kubo

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Teranthene: A Singlet Biradical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Having Kekulé Structures

    Akihito Konishi;Yasukazu Hirao;Masayoshi Nakano;Akihiro Shimizu

  • Nonlinear optical molecular switches as selective cation sensors.

    Benoît Champagne;Aurélie Plaquet;Jean-Luc Pozzo;Vincent Rodriguez

  • Relationship between third-order nonlinear optical properties and magnetic interactions in open-shell systems: a new paradigm for nonlinear optics.

    Masayoshi Nakano;Ryohei Kishi;Suguru Ohta;Hideaki Takahashi

  • Singlet Diradical Character from Experiment

    Kenji Kamada;Koji Ohta;Akihiro Shimizu;Takashi Kubo

  • In silico optimization of merocyanine-spiropyran compounds as second-order nonlinear optical molecular switches.

    Aurélie Plaquet;Aurélie Plaquet;Maxime Guillaume;Maxime Guillaume;Benoît Champagne;Frédéric Castet

  • Electron correlation effects on the first hyperpolarizability of push–pull π-conjugated systems

    Marc de Wergifosse;Benoît Champagne

  • Basis set and electron correlation effects on the polarizability and second hyperpolarizability of model open-shell π-conjugated systems

    Benoît Champagne;Edith Botek;Masayoshi Nakano;Tomoshige Nitta

  • Reference molecules for nonlinear optics: A joint experimental and theoretical investigation

    Frédéric Castet;Elena Bogdan;Aurélie Plaquet;Laurent Ducasse

  • Theoretical Design of Open-Shell Singlet Molecular Systems for Nonlinear Optics

    Masayoshi Nakano;Benoît Champagne

  • Density-functional theory (hyper)polarizabilities of push-pull π-conjugated systems: Treatment of exact exchange and role of correlation

    Felipe A. Bulat;Alejandro Toro-Labbé;Benoît Champagne;Bernard Kirtman

  • Calculation of electric dipole (hyper)polarizabilities by long-range-correction scheme in density functional theory: a systematic assessment for polydiacetylene and polybutatriene oligomers.

    Bernard Kirtman;Sean Bonness;Alejandro Ramirez-Solis;Benoit Champagne

  • Two‐Way Molecular Switches with Large Nonlinear Optical Contrast

    Fabien Mançois;Jean Luc Pozzo;Jianfeng Pan;Frédéric Adamietz

  • Large Off-Diagonal Contribution to the Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities of Λ-Shaped Molecules

    Mingli Yang;Benoit Champagne

  • Three-wave mixing in chiral liquids

    Peer Fischer;Diederik S. Wiersma;Roberto Righini;Benoît Champagne

  • Time dependent density functional theory investigation of the resonance Raman properties of the julolidinemalononitrile push-pull chromophore in various solvents

    Julien Guthmuller;Benoît Champagne

Frequent Co-Authors

Masayoshi Nakano
Masayoshi Nakano Osaka University
Jean-Marie André
Jean-Marie André University of Namur
Frédéric Castet
Frédéric Castet University of Bordeaux
Takashi Kubo
Takashi Kubo Osaka University
Kenji Kamada
Kenji Kamada National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Bernard Kirtman
Bernard Kirtman University of California, Santa Barbara
Koji Ohta
Koji Ohta National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Denis Jacquemin
Denis Jacquemin University of Nantes
Wouter Maes
Wouter Maes Hasselt University
Dirk Vanderzande
Dirk Vanderzande Hasselt University

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