2026 Bruce H. Robinson: 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	57	8012	7746	1988	1846	175	10698
Chemistry	59	10268	9291	2848	2347	185	11079

Overview

Bruce H. Robinson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering, materials science, and medicine. Their work centers on advancing understanding and development in several interdisciplinary areas.

Their main fields of study include:

Engineering
Materials Science
Medicine

Within these areas, they have focused on subfields such as:

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Biomedical Engineering
Nephrology
Complementary and alternative medicine

Robinson's research encompasses a variety of topics including:

Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Photonic and Optical Devices
Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

They have published numerous papers in well-regarded venues. Notable recent papers include:

Ultrahigh Electro-Optic Coefficients, High Index of Refraction, and Long-Term Stability from Diels-Alder Cross-Linkable Binary Molecular Glasses (2020, Chemistry of Materials)
Electro-Optic Activity in Excess of 1000 pm V⁻¹ Achieved via Theory-Guided Organic Chromophore Design (2021, Advanced Materials)
Design and synthesis of chromophores with enhanced electro-optic activities in both bulk and plasmonic-organic hybrid devices (2021, Materials Horizons)
Bis(4-dialkylaminophenyl)heteroarylamino donor chromophores exhibiting exceptional hyperpolarizabilities (2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C)
Perspective: Nanophotonic electro-optics enabling THz bandwidths, exceptional modulation and energy efficiencies, and compact device footprints (2023, APL Materials)

Frequent publication venues associated with their work include:

Chemistry of Materials
Advanced Materials
Materials Horizons
APL Materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Throughout their career, they have collaborated with several researchers multiple times, including Delwin L. Elder, Lewis E. Johnson, Larry R. Dalton, Huajun Xu, and Yovan de Coene.

Best Publications

Low (Sub-1-Volt) Halfwave Voltage Polymeric Electro-optic Modulators Achieved by Controlling Chromophore Shape

Yongqiang Shi;Cheng Zhang;Hua Zhang;James H. Bechtel

1282
Citations
From molecules to opto-chips: organic electro-optic materials

Larry R. Dalton;William H. Steier;Bruce H. Robinson;Chang Zhang

555
Citations
Encoding of anisotropic diffusion with tetrahedral gradients: a general mathematical diffusion formalism and experimental results.

Thomas E. Conturo;Robert C. McKinstry;Erbil Akbudak;Bruce H. Robinson

378
Citations
Monte Carlo Statistical Mechanical Simulations of the Competition of Intermolecular Electrostatic and Poling-Field Interactions in Defining Macroscopic Electro-Optic Activity for Organic Chromophore/Polymer Materials†

B. H. Robinson;L. R. Dalton

340
Citations
The molecular and supramolecular engineering of polymeric electro-optic materials

BH Robinson;LR Dalton;LR Dalton;AW Harper;A Ren

318
Citations
The role of London forces in defining noncentrosymmetric order of high dipole moment–high hyperpolarizability chromophores in electrically poled polymeric thin films

Larry R. Dalton;Aaron W. Harper;Bruce H. Robinson

310
Citations
The design of a biochip: a self-assembling molecular-scale memory device

Bruce H. Robinson;Nadrian C. Seeman

268
Citations
Rational enhancement of second-order nonlinearity: bis-(4-methoxyphenyl)hetero-aryl-amino donor-based chromophores: design, synthesis, and electrooptic activity.

Joshua A. Davies;Arumugasamy Elangovan;Philip A. Sullivan;Benjamin C. Olbricht

227
Citations
Translating microscopic optical nonlinearity into macroscopic optical nonlinearity: the role of chromophore chromophore electrostatic interactions

A. W. Harper;S. Sun;L. R. Dalton;S. M. Garner

214
Citations
Optimizing calculations of electronic excitations and relative hyperpolarizabilities of electrooptic chromophores.

Lewis E. Johnson;Larry R. Dalton;Bruce H. Robinson

205
Citations
Systematic study of the structure-property relationship of a series of ferrocenyl nonlinear optical chromophores.

Yi Liao;Bruce E. Eichinger;Kimberly A. Firestone;Marnie Haller

201
Citations
Molecular dynamics in liquids: spin-lattice relaxation of nitroxide spin labels

Bruce H. Robinson;Duncan A. Haas;Colin Mailer

184
Citations
Silicon–Organic and Plasmonic–Organic Hybrid Photonics

Wolfgang Heni;Yasar Kutuvantavida;Christian Haffner;Heiner Zwickel

179
Citations
Theory-guided design and synthesis of multichromophore dendrimers: an analysis of the electro-optic effect.

Philip A. Sullivan;Harrison Rommel;Yi Liao;Benjamin C. Olbricht

163
Citations
Nonlinearities of organic electro-optic materials in nanoscale slots and implications for the optimum modulator design.

Wolfgang Heni;Christian Haffner;Delwin L Elder;Andreas F Tillack

161
Citations
Room-temperature electron spin dynamics in free-standing ZnO quantum dots.

William K. Liu;Kelly M. Whitaker;Alyssa L. Smith;Kevin R. Kittilstved

156
Citations
Linewidth analysis of spin labels in liquids. I. Theory and data analysis

B.H. Robinson;C. Mailer;A.W. Reese

154
Citations
Comparison of static first hyperpolarizabilities calculated with various quantum mechanical methods.

Isborn Cm;Leclercq A;Vila Fd;Dalton Lr

153
Citations
Systematic Nanoengineering of Soft Matter Organic Electro-optic Materials†

Larry R. Dalton;Stephanie J. Benight;Lewis E. Johnson;Daniel B Knorr

151
Citations
Docking Phospholipase A2 on Membranes Using Electrostatic Potential-Modulated Spin Relaxation Magnetic Resonance

Ying Lin;Robert Nielsen;Diana Murray;Wayne L. Hubbell

149
Citations
Rational Design of Organic Electro-Optic Materials

Alex Jen;Robert Neilsen;Bruce Robinson;William H. Steier

3
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