Jean-Luc Brédas

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
• 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2021 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
• 2020 - Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society “for seminal theoretical contributions to the design and understanding of novel molecules and materials in thefields of organic electronics and photonics
• 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
• 2013 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics
• 2013 - David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, American Physical Society
• 2009 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
• 2008 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• 2004 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the quantum-chemical description of nonlinear optical properties of molecules and molecular systems.
• 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1993 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical studies of electronic structure of conjugated polymers, their conductivity when doped and their nonlinear optical polarizabilities

Overview

Best Publications

• Electroluminescence in conjugated polymers

  R. H. Friend;R. W. Gymer;A. B. Holmes;J. H. Burroughes

  7929
  Citations

• Charge transport in organic semiconductors.

  Veaceslav Coropceanu;Jérôme Cornil;Demetrio A da Silva Filho;Yoann Olivier

  5240
  Citations

• Charge-Transfer and Energy-Transfer Processes in π-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers: A Molecular Picture

  Jean-Luc Brédas;David Beljonne;Veaceslav Coropceanu;Jérôme Cornil

  3333
  Citations

• Design of organic molecules with large two-photon absorption cross sections

  Marius Albota;David Beljonne;Jean-Luc Bredas;Jeffrey E. Ehrlich

  2825
  Citations

• Polarons, bipolarons, and solitons in conducting polymers

  Jean Luc Bredas;G. Bryan Street

  2505
  Citations

• A Universal Method to Produce Low―Work Function Electrodes for Organic Electronics

  Yinhua Zhou;Canek Fuentes-Hernandez;Jaewon Shim;Jens Meyer

  2353
  Citations

• Molecular Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: The Challenges

  Jean-Luc Brédas;Jean-Luc Brédas;Joseph E. Norton;Jérôme Cornil;Jérôme Cornil;Veaceslav Coropceanu

  1779
  Citations

• THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE IN ORGANIC MATERIALS : THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS

  Jl Bredas;C Adant;P Tackx;Andre Persoons

  1679
  Citations

• Introduction to Organic Thin Film Transistors and Design of n-Channel Organic Semiconductors

  Christopher R. Newman;C. Daniel Frisbie;Demetrio A. da Silva Filho;§ Jean-Luc Brédas

  1669
  Citations

• Organic semiconductors: A theoretical characterization of the basic parameters governing charge transport

  J. L. Brédas;J. P. Calbert;D. A. da Silva Filho;J. Cornil

  1565
  Citations

• Chain-length dependence of electronic and electrochemical properties of conjugated systems: polyacetylene, polyphenylene, polythiophene, and polypyrrole

  Jean-Luc Bredas;R. Silbey;D. S. Boudreaux;R. R. Chance

  1509
  Citations

• Interchain Interactions in Organic π-Conjugated Materials: Impact on Electronic Structure, Optical Response, and Charge Transport

  J. Cornil;J. Cornil;D. Beljonne;D. Beljonne;J. P. Calbert;Jean-Luc Bredas;Jean-Luc Bredas

  1210
  Citations

• Polaron lattice in highly conducting polyaniline: Theoretical and optical studies.

  S. Stafström;J. L. Brédas;A. J. Epstein;H. S. Woo

  1118
  Citations

• Structure−Property Relationships for Two-Photon Absorbing Chromophores: Bis-Donor Diphenylpolyene and Bis(styryl)benzene Derivatives

  Mariacristina Rumi;Jeffrey E. Ehrlich;Ahmed A. Heikal;Joseph W. Perry

  1095
  Citations

• Single-electron transistor of a single organic molecule with access to several redox states

  Sergey Kubatkin;Andrey Danilov;Mattias Hjort;Jérôme Cornil;Jérôme Cornil

  1043
  Citations

• Up-Conversion Intersystem Crossing Rates in Organic Emitters for Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Impact of the Nature of Singlet vs Triplet Excited States

  Pralok Kumar Samanta;Dongwook Kim;Dongwook Kim;Veaceslav Coropceanu;Jean-Luc Bredas

  959
  Citations

• Effect of electronic polarization on charge-transport parameters in molecular organic semiconductors.

  Edward F. Valeev;Veaceslav Coropceanu;Demetrio A. Da Silva Filho;Seyhan Salman

  954
  Citations

• Design rules for minimizing voltage losses in high-efficiency organic solar cells.

  Deping Qian;Zilong Zheng;Huifeng Yao;Wolfgang Tress

  912
  Citations

• Highly conducting polyparaphenylene, polypyrrole, and polythiophene chains: An ab initio study of the geometry and electronic-structure modifications upon doping

  J. L. Brédas;B. Thémans;J. G. Fripiat;J. M. André

  912
  Citations

• Polarons and bipolarons in polypyrrole: Evolution of the band structure and optical spectrum upon doing

  J. L. Brédas;J. C. Scott;K. Yakushi;G. B. Street

  904
  Citations

• Comparative theoretical study of the doping of conjugated polymers: Polarons in polyacetylene and polyparaphenylene

  Jean-Luc Bredas;R. R. Chance;R. Silbey

  814
  Citations