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Dwight S. Seferos

Dwight S. Seferos

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
62
Citations
17906
World Ranking
6377
National Ranking
104

Chemistry

D-Index
62
Citations
17798
World Ranking
8701
National Ranking
224

Dwight S. Seferos 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 Dwight S. Seferos sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 219 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dwight S. Seferos 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 Dwight S. Seferos sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% 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

  • 2019 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry, Royal Society of Canada
  • 2013 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dwight S. Seferos is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the fields of engineering and materials science. Their research spans numerous subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, organic chemistry, and molecular biology.

The main research topics associated with their work include:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Organic electronics and photovoltaics
  • Advanced battery materials and technologies
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Advancements in battery materials
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Perovskite materials and applications

Seferos's recent publications reflect these topics and cover a range of subjects in chemistry and material sciences. Notable papers include:

  • Group 16 conjugated polymers based on furan, thiophene, selenophene, and tellurophene, published in 2022 in Chemical Society Reviews
  • Rigid Conjugated Diamine Templates for Stable Dion-Jacobson-Type Two-Dimensional Perovskites, published in 2021 in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Aqueous zinc batteries: Design principles toward organic cathodes for grid applications, published in 2022 in iScience
  • Selenium Substitution Enhances Reverse Intersystem Crossing in a Delayed Fluorescence Emitter, published in 2020 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Design strategies for organic carbonyl materials for energy storage: Small molecules, oligomers, polymers and supramolecular structures, published in 2020 in EcoMat

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Macromolecules, and Chemical Science.

Collaborative work is a feature of Seferos's academic output, with frequent coauthors including Eloi Grignon, Alan J. Lough, Alicia M. Battaglia, Chad A. Mirkin, and Shuyang Ye.

Awards recognized in Seferos's career include the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada in 2019 and being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Gold nanoparticles for biology and medicine.

    David A. Giljohann;Dwight S. Seferos;Dwight S. Seferos;Weston L. Daniel;Matthew D. Massich

  • The rise of organic electrode materials for energy storage

    Tyler B. Schon;Bryony T. McAllister;Peng-Fei Li;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Gene regulation with polyvalent siRNA-nanoparticle conjugates.

    David A. Giljohann;Dwight S. Seferos;Andrew E. Prigodich;Pinal C. Patel

  • Nano-Flares: Probes for Transfection and mRNA Detection in Living Cells

    Dwight S. Seferos;David A. Giljohann;Haley D. Hill;and Andrew E. Prigodich

  • Oligonucleotide Loading Determines Cellular Uptake of DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles

    David A. Giljohann;Dwight S. Seferos;Pinal C. Patel;Jill E. Millstone

  • Polyvalent DNA nanoparticle conjugates stabilize nucleic acids.

    Dwight S. Seferos;Andrew E. Prigodich;David A. Giljohann;Pinal C. Patel

  • Aptamer Nano-flares for Molecular Detection in Living Cells

    Dan Zheng;Dwight S. Seferos;David A. Giljohann;Pinal C. Patel

  • Vibronic contributions to charge transport across molecular junctions

    James G. Kushmerick;Jason Lazorcik;Charles H. Patterson;Ranganathan Shashidhar

  • Atomistic band gap engineering in donor-acceptor polymers.

    Gregory L. Gibson;Theresa M. McCormick;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Nano-Flares for mRNA Regulation and Detection

    Andrew E. Prigodich;Dwight S. Seferos;Matthew D. Massich;David A. Giljohann

  • Controlling phase separation and optical properties in conjugated polymers through selenophene-thiophene copolymerization.

    Jon Hollinger;Ashlee A. Jahnke;Neil Coombs;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Chalcogen bonding in solution: interactions of benzotelluradiazoles with anionic and uncharged Lewis bases.

    Graham E. Garrett;Gregory L. Gibson;Rita N. Straus;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Chemically patterned microspheres for controlled nanoparticle assembly in the construction of SERS hot spots

    Gary Braun;Ioana Pavel;Andrew R. Morrill;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Exciton delocalization drives rapid singlet fission in nanoparticles of acene derivatives.

    Ryan D. Pensack;Andrew J. Tilley;Sean R. Parkin;Tia S. Lee

  • Observation of Two Triplet-Pair Intermediates in Singlet Exciton Fission

    Ryan D. Pensack;Evgeny E. Ostroumov;Andrew J. Tilley;Samuel Mazza

  • Conjugated Polymers: Evaluating DFT Methods for More Accurate Orbital Energy Modeling

    Theresa M. McCormick;Colin R. Bridges;Elisa I. Carrera;Paul M. DiCarmine

  • Quantitative Analysis of Thiolated Ligand Exchange on Gold Nanoparticles Monitored by 1H NMR Spectroscopy

    Ashley M. Smith;Lauren E. Marbella;Kathryn A. Johnston;Michael J. Hartmann

  • Regulating immune response using polyvalent nucleic acid-gold nanoparticle conjugates

    Matthew D Massich;David A Giljohann;Dwight S Seferos;Louise E Ludlow

  • Robust Visible Light Photoswitching with Ortho-Thiol Substituted Azobenzenes

    Subhas Samanta;Theresa M. McCormick;Simone K. Schmidt;Dwight S. Seferos

  • Chemically Addressable Perovskite Nanocrystals for Light-Emitting Applications.

    Haizhu Sun;Haizhu Sun;Zhenyu Yang;Mingyang Wei;Wei Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Chad A. Mirkin
Chad A. Mirkin Northwestern University
Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Gregory D. Scholes
Gregory D. Scholes Princeton University
Yuning Li
Yuning Li University of Waterloo
Jill E. Millstone
Jill E. Millstone University of Pittsburgh
Edward H. Sargent
Edward H. Sargent Northwestern University
David D. Awschalom
David D. Awschalom Argonne National Laboratory
John E. Anthony
John E. Anthony University of Kentucky
Geoffrey A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin University of Toronto
Haizhu Sun
Haizhu Sun Northeast Normal University

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