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85
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33217
World Ranking
2620
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912

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

George R. Newkome is affiliated with Florida Atlantic University in the United States. Their academic career encompasses extensive research primarily in chemistry and materials science, with a particular focus on organic chemistry and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research has covered several specialized subfields, including:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • Spectroscopy
  • Polymers and Plastics

Central topics in their body of work include:

  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Frequent publication venues for their work consist of:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Nature Chemistry
  • Progress in Polymer Science
  • Chemical Science
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by George R. Newkome include:

  • "Intra- and intermolecular self-assembly of a 20-nm-wide supramolecular hexagonal grid," 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • "Redox-active polymers: The magic key towards energy storage - a polymer design guideline progress in polymer science," 2021, Progress in Polymer Science
  • "Giant Truncated Metallo-Tetrahedron with Unexpected Supramolecular Aggregation Induced Emission Enhancement," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Versatile Applications of Metallopolymers," 2021, Progress in Polymer Science
  • "Sierpiński Pyramids by Molecular Entanglement," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Pingshan Wang
  • Charles N. Moorefield
  • Yiming Li
  • Zhe Zhang
  • Die Liu

George R. Newkome has been recognized with several professional honors, including becoming a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2012 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Micelles. Part 1. Cascade molecules: a new approach to micelles. A [27]-arborol

    George R. Newkome;Zhongqi Yao;Gregory R. Baker;Vinod K. Gupta

  • Advances in Dendritic Macromolecules

    George R. Newkome

  • Dendritic Molecules: Concepts, Syntheses, Perspectives

    George R. Newkome;C. N. Moorefield;F. Vögtle

  • Dendrimers and Dendrons: Concepts, Syntheses, Applications

    George R. Newkome;C. N. Moorefield;F. Vögtle

  • Cascade molecules: a new approach to micelles. A [27]-arborol

    G. R. Newkome;Zhong-Qi Yao;G. R. Baker;V. K. Gupta

  • Suprasupermolecules with Novel Properties: Metallodendrimers.

    George R. Newkome;Enfei He;Charles N. Moorefield

  • Square-planar Pd(II), Pt(II), and Au(III) terpyridine complexes: their syntheses, physical properties, supramolecular constructs, and biomedical activities.

    Ibrahim Eryazici;Charles N. Moorefield;George R. Newkome

  • MICELLES. PART 1. CASCADE MOLECULES: A NEW APPROACH TO MICELLES. A (27)-ARBOROL

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  • Modern Terpyridine Chemistry

    Ulrich S Schubert;Harald Hofmeier;George R Newkome

  • Poly(amidoamine), polypropylenimine, and related dendrimers and dendrons possessing different 1 → 2 branching motifs : An overview of the divergent procedures

    George R. Newkome;Carol D. Shreiner

  • Dendrimers derived from 1 → 3 branching motifs.

    George R Newkome;Carol Shreiner

  • Cyclometalation of the platinum metals with nitrogen and alkyl, alkenyl, and benzyl carbon donors

    George R. Newkome;Wallace E. Puckett;Vinod K. Gupta;Garry E. Kiefer

  • Modern Terpyridine Chemistry: SCHUBERT: MODERN TERPYRIDINE CHEMISTRY O-BK

    Ulrich S. Schubert;Harald Hofmeier;George R. Newkome

  • Alkane Cascade Polymers Possessing Micellar Topology: Micellanoic Acid Derivatives

    George R. Newkome;Charles N. Moorefield;Gregory R. Baker;Andrew L. Johnson

  • Nanoassembly of a Fractal Polymer: A Molecular "Sierpinski Hexagonal Gasket"

    George R. Newkome;Pingshan Wang;Charles N. Moorefield;Tae Joon Cho

  • Terpyridine-based metallosupramolecular constructs: tailored monomers to precise 2D-motifs and 3D-metallocages.

    Sourav Chakraborty;George R. Newkome;George R. Newkome

  • Chemistry of micelles series. Part 2. Cascade molecules. Synthesis and characterization of a benzene[9]3-arborol

    George R. Newkome;Zhongqi. Yao;Gregory R. Baker;Vinod K. Gupta

  • Cascade molecules. Part 6. Synthesis and characterization of two-directional cascade molecules and formation of aqueous gels

    George R. Newkome;Gregory R. Baker;Sadao Arai;Mary Jane Saunders

  • Poly(polyoxometalate) Dendrimers: Molecular Prototypes of New Catalytic Materials

    Huadong Zeng;George R. Newkome;Craig L. Hill

  • Dendrimers and dendrons

    G. R. Newkome;C. N. Moorefield;F. Vögtle

  • Routes to Dendritic Networks: Bis‐Dendrimers by Coupling of Cascade Macromolecules through Metal Centers

    George R. Newkome;Ralf Güther;Charles N. Moorefield;Francesca Cardullo

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles N. Moorefield
Charles N. Moorefield University of Akron
Frank R. Fronczek
Frank R. Fronczek Louisiana State University
Chrys Wesdemiotis
Chrys Wesdemiotis University of Akron
Xiaopeng Li
Xiaopeng Li Shenzhen University
Ulrich S. Schubert
Ulrich S. Schubert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Vinod Kumar Gupta
Vinod Kumar Gupta King Abdulaziz University
Fritz Vögtle
Fritz Vögtle University of Bonn
Stephen Z. D. Cheng
Stephen Z. D. Cheng University of Akron
Andreas Winter
Andreas Winter Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Mingjun Huang
Mingjun Huang South China University of Technology

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