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France
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
28543
World Ranking
3197
National Ranking
84

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Didier Gigmes is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Engineering. Their work spans various subfields, including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics addressed in their research cover a range of specialized areas such as Photopolymerization techniques and applications, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization, Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry, Dental materials and restorations, Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

Gigmes has contributed to multiple recent papers with diverse thematic focus and publication venues. Notable publications include:

  • Enantioselective Radical Reactions Using Chiral Catalysts, 2022, Chemical Reviews
  • Bis-chalcone derivatives derived from natural products as near-UV/visible light sensitive photoinitiators for 3D/4D printing, 2020, Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • Monocomponent Photoinitiators based on Benzophenone-Carbazole Structure for LED Photoinitiating Systems and Application on 3D Printing, 2020, Polymers
  • One-Step Synthesis of Degradable Vinylic Polymer-Based Latexes via Aqueous Radical Emulsion Polymerization, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Degradable Polystyrene via the Cleavable Comonomer Approach, 2022, Macromolecules

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Frédéric Dumur, Jacques Lalevée, Guillaume Noirbent, Yohann Guillaneuf, and Malek Nechab. These collaborations reflect ongoing teamwork in various research directions related to their expertise.

Gigmes' research is regularly published in established scientific venues, highlighting thematic consistency in their field of study. The top publication venues for their work include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • European Polymer Journal
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Best Publications

  • Single-ion BAB triblock copolymers as highly efficient electrolytes for lithium-metal batteries

    Renaud Bouchet;Sébastien Maria;Rachid Meziane;Abdelmaula Aboulaich

  • 3.10 - Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization

    J. Nicolas;Y. Guillaneuf;D. Bertin;D. Gigmes

  • ReviewNitroxide-mediated polymerization

    Julien Nicolas;Yohann Guillaneuf;Catherine Lefay;Denis Bertin

  • 3.10 - Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization

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  • Organized Formation of 2D Extended Covalent Organic Frameworks at Surfaces

    Nikolas A. A. Zwaneveld;Rémy Pawlak;Mathieu Abel;Daniel Catalin

  • Visible light sensitive photoinitiating systems: Recent progress in cationic and radical photopolymerization reactions under soft conditions

    Pu Xiao;Jing Zhang;Frédéric Dumur;Mohamad Ali Tehfe

  • Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization: Scope, Limitations, and Application to (Bio)Degradable Materials

    Antoine Tardy;Julien Nicolas;Didier Gigmes;Catherine Lefay

  • Enantioselective Radical Reactions Using Chiral Catalysts.

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  • Polymer-Grafted-Nanoparticles Nanocomposites: Dispersion, Grafted Chain Conformation, and Rheological Behavior

    Chloé Chevigny;Florent Dalmas;Emanuela Di Cola;Didier Gigmes

  • Efficient dual radical/cationic photoinitiator under visible light: a new concept

    Jacques Lalevée;Nicolas Blanchard;Mohamad-Ali Tehfe;Mathieu Peter

  • Green Chemistry: Sunlight-Induced Cationic Polymerization of Renewable Epoxy Monomers Under Air

    Mohamad-Ali Tehfe;Jacques Lalevée;Didier Gigmes;Jean Pierre Fouassier

  • Recent advances on organic blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

    Thanh Tuân Bui;Fabrice Goubard;Malika Ibrahim-Ouali;Didier Gigmes

  • Kinetic subtleties of nitroxide mediated polymerization

    Denis Bertin;Didier Gigmes;Sylvain R. A. Marque;Paul Tordo

  • Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization: The Pivotal Role of the kd Value of the Initiating Alkoxyamine and the Importance of the Experimental Conditions

    Florence Chauvin;Pierre-Emmanuel Dufils;Didier Gigmes;Yohann Guillaneuf

  • Toward Nitroxide-Mediated Photopolymerization

    Yohann Guillaneuf;Denis Bertin;Didier Gigmes;Davy-Louis Versace

  • First Effective Nitroxide-Mediated Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate

    Yohann Guillaneuf;Didier Gigmes;Sylvain R. A. Marque;Paola Astolfi

  • Recent Advances and Challenges in the Design of Organic Photoacid and Photobase Generators for Polymerizations.

    Nicolas Zivic;Paula Kishi Kuroishi;Frédéric Dumur;Didier Gigmes

  • High Performance Near-Infrared (NIR) Photoinitiating Systems Operating under Low Light Intensity and in the Presence of Oxygen

    A. H. Bonardi;F. Dumur;T. M. Grant;G. Noirbent

  • Structure design of naphthalimide derivatives: toward versatile photoinitiators for near-UV/Visible LEDs, 3D printing, and water-soluble photoinitiating systems

    Jing Zhang;Frédéric Dumur;Pu Xiao;Bernadette Graff

  • Polyaromatic Structures as Organo-Photoinitiator Catalysts for Efficient Visible Light Induced Dual Radical/Cationic Photopolymerization and Interpenetrated Polymer Networks Synthesis

    Mohamad-Ali Tehfe;Jacques Lalevée;Sofia Telitel;Emmanuel Contal

  • Polar, Steric, and Stabilization Effects in Alkoxyamines C−ON Bond Homolysis: A Multiparameter Analysis

    Denis Bertin;Didier Gigmes;Sylvain R. A. Marque;Paul Tordo

  • Subtle ligand effects in oxidative photocatalysis with iridium complexes: application to photopolymerization.

    Jacques Lalevée;Mathieu Peter;Frédéric Dumur;Didier Gigmes

  • Copper Complexes in Radical Photoinitiating Systems: Applications to Free Radical and Cationic Polymerization upon Visible LEDs

    Pu Xiao;Frederic Dumur;Jing Zhang;Jean Pierre Fouassier

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Dumur
Frédéric Dumur Aix-Marseille University
Fabrice Morlet-Savary
Fabrice Morlet-Savary University of Upper Alsace
Jean-Pierre Fouassier
Jean-Pierre Fouassier University of Upper Alsace
Denis Bertin
Denis Bertin Aix-Marseille University
Olivier Ouari
Olivier Ouari Aix-Marseille University
Julien Nicolas
Julien Nicolas University of Paris-Saclay
Paul Tordo
Paul Tordo Aix-Marseille University
Franck D'Agosto
Franck D'Agosto Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
François Boué
François Boué University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-François Lutz
Jean-François Lutz University of Strasbourg

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