2026 Damian Pociecha: 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	49	10532	10174	33	33	337	8940

Overview

Damian Pociecha is affiliated with the University of Warsaw in Poland. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a notable focus on subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's published work spans a variety of topics related to liquid crystal research, molecular spectroscopy, chirality, and advanced materials. The main topics of their research include:

Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Molecular spectroscopy and chirality
Surfactants and Colloidal Systems
Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Photonic Crystals and Applications
Material Dynamics and Properties

Damian Pociecha has contributed multiple papers to various scientific journals, underlining involvement in studies related to nematic phases, chiral symmetry breaking, and ferronematic liquid crystals. Selected recent publications include:

"Multiple Polar and Non-polar Nematic Phases," 2021, ChemPhysChem
"Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in polar fluid-heliconical ferroelectric nematic phase," 2024, Science
"Intrinsically chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: An inversion of the helical twist sense at the chiral nematic - Chiral ferronematic phase transition," 2022, Journal of Molecular Liquids
"Liquid Crystal Dimers and Smectic Phases from the Intercalated to the Twist-Bend," 2022, Crystals
"Supramolecular Chirality Synchronization in Thin Films of Plasmonic Nanocomposites," 2020, ACS Nano

Their publications are frequently found in venues that specialize in liquid crystals and materials chemistry. Regular publication platforms include:

Liquid Crystals
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Molecular Liquids
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
The Cambridge Structural Database

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Damian Pociecha's career, with frequent coauthors including Ewa Górecka, Corrie T. Imrie, John M. D. Storey, Rebecca Walker, and Magdalena Majewska. These collaborations reflect activity within interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing knowledge in liquid crystal research and related fields.

Best Publications

Bent-core liquid crystals forming two- and three-dimensional modulated structures.

J. Szydlowska;J. Mieczkowski;J. Matraszek;D. W. Bruce

177
Citations
Multi-level chirality in liquid crystals formed by achiral molecules.

Mirosław Salamończyk;Mirosław Salamończyk;Nataša Vaupotič;Nataša Vaupotič;Damian Pociecha;Rebecca Walker

168
Citations
Axially polar columnar phase made of polycatenar bent-shaped molecules.

Ewa Gorecka;Damian Pociecha;Jozef Mieczkowski;Joanna Matraszek

167
Citations
A Twist‐Bend Nematic (NTB) Phase of Chiral Materials

Ewa Gorecka;Nataša Vaupotič;Anna Zep;Damian Pociecha

157
Citations
Heliconical smectic phases formed by achiral molecules.

Jordan P. Abberley;Ross Killah;Rebecca Walker;John M. D. Storey

140
Citations
Liquid-Crystalline Phases Made of Gold Nanoparticles†

Michal Wojcik;Wiktor Lewandowski;Joanna Matraszek;Jozef Mieczkowski

135
Citations
Multiple Polar and Non-polar Nematic Phases.

Stevie Brown;Ewan Cruickshank;John M. D. Storey;Corrie T. Imrie

127
Citations
The role of a terminal chain in promoting the twist-bend nematic phase: the synthesis and characterisation of the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yl)-6-(4-alkyloxyanilinebenzylidene-4′-oxy)hexanes

Daniel A. Paterson;Catriona A. Crawford;Damian Pociecha;Rebecca Walker

120
Citations
Do the short helices exist in the nematic TB phase

Ewa Górecka;Mirosław Salamończyk;Anna Zep;Damian Pociecha

120
Citations
Electric-field-induced polar biaxial order in a nontilted smectic phase of an asymmetric bent-core liquid crystal.

Yoshio Shimbo;Ewa Gorecka;Damian Pociecha;Fumito Araoka

119
Citations
Molecular curvature, specific intermolecular interactions and the twist-bend nematic phase: the synthesis and characterisation of the 1-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yl)-6-(4-alkylanilinebenzylidene-4'-oxy)hexanes (CB6O.m).

Rebecca Walker;Damian Pociecha;Grant J. Strachan;John M. D. Storey

111
Citations
Ferroelectric mesophase with randomized interlayer structure.

Damian Pociecha;Mojca Cepic;Ewa Gorecka;Jozef Mieczkowski

109
Citations
Spontaneous chirality through mixing achiral components: a twist-bend nematic phase driven by hydrogen-bonding between unlike components.

R. Walker;D. Pociecha;J. P. Abberley;A. Martinez-Felipe

108
Citations
Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

Ewan Cruickshank;Mirosław Salamończyk;Damian Pociecha;Grant J. Strachan

108
Citations
Structure studies of the nematic phase formed by bent-core molecules.

N. Vaupotic;N. Vaupotic;J. Szydlowska;M. Salamonczyk;A. Kovarova

103
Citations
Enantiomeric excess dependence of the phase diagram of antiferroelectric liquid crystals.

Gorecka E;Pociecha D;Cepic M;Zeks B

98
Citations
Ideal Liquid Crystal Display Mode Using Achiral Banana-Shaped Liquid Crystals

Yoshio Shimbo;Yoichi Takanishi;Ken Ishikawa;Ewa Gorecka

97
Citations
Structure of nanoscale-pitch helical phases: blue phase and twist-bend nematic phase resolved by resonant soft X-ray scattering.

Mirosław Salamończyk;Nataša Vaupotič;Nataša Vaupotič;Damian Pociecha;Cheng Wang

88
Citations
Ferroelectric phases in a chiral bent-core smectic liquid crystal: dielectric and optical second-harmonic generation measurements

E. Gorecka;D. Pociecha;F. Araoka;D. R. Link

87
Citations
New series of ferroelectric liquid crystals with two or three chiral centres exhibiting antiferroelectric and hexatic phases

M. Ka par;V. Hamplová;V. Novotná;M. Glogarová

84
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