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Materials Science

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84
Citations
57976
World Ranking
2209
National Ranking
644

Chemistry

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84
Citations
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Bradley F. Chmelka 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 Bradley F. Chmelka sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 235 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Bradley F. Chmelka 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 Bradley F. Chmelka sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Bradley F. Chmelka is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with significant contributions in Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The key areas of study in their work include Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Conducting polymers and applications, Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, NMR spectroscopy and applications, and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications.

Chmelka has published in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Nature Reviews Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials

The following recent papers exemplify part of their scholarly output:

  • Insight into the structures and dynamics of organic semiconductors through solid-state NMR spectroscopy, 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • Unifying Charge Generation, Recombination, and Extraction in Low-Offset Non-Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Scaling analyses for hyperpolarization transfer across a spin-diffusion barrier and into bulk solid media, 2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Synthetic Placement of Active Sites in MFI Zeolites for Selective Toluene Methylation to para-Xylene, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrochemical Oxidative Fluorination of an Oxide Perovskite, 2021, Chemistry of Materials

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Michael B. Schmithorst
  • G. N. Manjunatha Reddy
  • Guillermo C. Bazan
  • Shona M. Becwar
  • Martin Seifrid

Award recognition includes the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Triblock copolymer syntheses of mesoporous silica with periodic 50 to 300 angstrom pores

    Dongyuan Zhao;Jianglin Feng;Qisheng Huo;Nicholas Melosh

  • Nonionic Triblock and Star Diblock Copolymer and Oligomeric Surfactant Syntheses of Highly Ordered, Hydrothermally Stable, Mesoporous Silica Structures

    Dongyuan Zhao;Qisheng Huo;Jianglin Feng;Bradley F. Chmelka

  • Generalized syntheses of large-pore mesoporous metal oxides with semicrystalline frameworks

    Peidong Yang;Dongyuan Zhao;David I. Margolese;Bradley F. Chmelka

  • Organization of Organic Molecules with Inorganic Molecular Species into Nanocomposite Biphase Arrays

    Q. Huo;D. I. Margolese;U. Ciesla;D. G. Demuth;D. G. Demuth

  • Cooperative Formation of Inorganic-Organic Interfaces in the Synthesis of Silicate Mesostructures

    Alain Monnier;F. Schüth;F. Schüth;F. Schüth;Q. Huo;D. Kumar

  • Block Copolymer Templating Syntheses of Mesoporous Metal Oxides with Large Ordering Lengths and Semicrystalline Framework

    Peidong Yang;Dongyuan Zhao;David I. Margolese;Bradley F. Chmelka

  • Hierarchically ordered oxides

    Peidong Yang;Tao Deng;Dongyuan Zhao;Pingyun Feng

  • Direct Syntheses of Ordered SBA-15 Mesoporous Silica Containing Sulfonic Acid Groups

    D. Margolese;J. A. Melero;S. C. Christiansen;B. F. Chmelka

  • Continuous Mesoporous Silica Films with Highly Ordered Large Pore Structures

    Dongyuan Zhao;Peidong Yang;Nick Melosh;Jianglin Feng

  • Silicatein filaments and subunits from a marine sponge direct the polymerization of silica and silicones in vitro

    Jennifer N. Cha;Katsuhiko Shimizu;Yan Zhou;Sean C. Christiansen

  • Cooperative organization of inorganic-surfactant and biomimetic assemblies

    A. Firouzi;D. Kumar;L. M. Bull;T. Besier

  • MESOCELLULAR SILICEOUS FOAMS WITH UNIFORMLY SIZED CELLS AND WINDOWS

    Patrick Schmidt-Winkel;Wayne W. Lukens;Dongyuan Zhao;Peidong Yang

  • Directing Zeolite Structures into Hierarchically Nanoporous Architectures

    Kyungsu Na;Kyungsu Na;Changbum Jo;Changbum Jo;Jeongnam Kim;Kanghee Cho;Kanghee Cho

  • General Predictive Syntheses of Cubic, Hexagonal, and Lamellar Silica and Titania Mesostructured Thin Films§

    Peter C. A. Alberius;Karen L. Frindell;Ryan C. Hayward;Edward J. Kramer

  • Mirrorless lasing from mesostructured waveguides patterned by soft lithography

    Peidong Yang;Gernot Wirnsberger;Howard C. Huang;Steven R. Cordero

  • Some developments in nuclear magnetic resonance of solids.

    B. F. Chmelka;A. Pines

  • Hydrophobic Interactions Modulate Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles

    Ana Sánchez-Iglesias;Marek Grzelczak;Marek Grzelczak;Thomas Altantzis;Bart Goris

  • Magnetic Field Alignment of Ordered Silicate-Surfactant Composites and Mesoporous Silica

    Sarah H. Tolbert;Ali Firouzi;Galen D. Stucky;Bradley F. Chmelka

  • Oxygen-17 NMR in solids by dynamic-angle spinning and double rotation

    B. F. Chmelka;B. F. Chmelka;Karl Todd Mueller;Karl Todd Mueller;A. Pines;A. Pines;J. Stebbins;J. Stebbins

  • Efficient and color-tunable oxyfluoride solid solution phosphors for solid-state white lighting.

    Won Bin Im;Nathan George;Joshua Kurzman;Stuart Brinkley

  • Molecular and Mesoscopic Structures of Transparent Block Copolymer-Silica Monoliths

    N. A. Melosh;P. Lipic;Frank S Bates;F. Wudl

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Peidong Yang
Peidong Yang University of California, Berkeley
Dongyuan Zhao
Dongyuan Zhao Fudan University
Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines University of California, Berkeley
Ryong Ryoo
Ryong Ryoo Korea Institute of Energy Technology
Jacob N. Israelachvili
Jacob N. Israelachvili University of California, Santa Barbara
Ryan C. Hayward
Ryan C. Hayward University of Colorado Boulder
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Ferdi Schüth
Ferdi Schüth Max Planck Society
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri University of California, Santa Barbara

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