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Joseph Zyss 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 Joseph Zyss sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 517 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joseph Zyss 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 Joseph Zyss sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% 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

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

Overview

Joseph Zyss is affiliated with École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a specialized focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. Additional subfields of interest include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Polymers and Plastics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work centers on several key research topics, such as Perovskite Materials and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research.

Joseph Zyss has published extensively in several journals, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • The European Physical Journal Applied Physics
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Organic Electronics
  • Chemical Engineering Journal

Their notable recent papers include:

  • The benefits of ionic liquids for the fabrication of efficient and stable perovskite photovoltaics (2021, Chemical Engineering Journal)
  • Spray Pyrolyzed TiO2 Embedded Multi-Layer Front Contact Design for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells (2021, Nano-Micro Letters)
  • Ionic Liquid-Assisted MAPbI3 Nanoparticle-Seeded Growth for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells (2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • Electronic Transport in the Biopigment Sepia Melanin (2020, ACS Applied Bio Materials)
  • Photocatalytic degradation of emerging antibiotic pollutants in waters by TiO2/Hydroxyapatite nanocomposite materials (2021, Surfaces and Interfaces)

Collaboration forms an important aspect of Joseph Zyss's research activities. Frequent coauthors include Md. Shahiduzzaman, Tetsuya Taima, Makoto Karakawa, A. Laghzizil, and Masahiro Nakano.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules and crystals

    D. S. Chemla;J. Zyss

  • Nonlinear optics in multipolar media: theory and experiments

    Joseph Zyss;Isabelle Ledoux

  • Relations between microscopic and macroscopic lowest-order optical nonlinearities of molecular crystals with one- or two-dimensional units

    J. Zyss;J. L. Oudar

  • Demonstration of efficient nonlinear optical crystals with vanishing molecular dipole moment: Second‐harmonic generation in 3‐methyl‐4‐nitropyridine‐1‐oxide

    J. Zyss;D. S. Chemla;J. F. Nicoud

  • Molecular engineering implications of rotational invariance in quadratic nonlinear optics: From dipolar to octupolar molecules and materials

    Joseph Zyss

  • Stilbazolium-MPS3 Nanocomposites with Large Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity and Permanent Magnetization

    Pascal G. Lacroix;René Clément;Keitaro Nakatani;Joseph Zyss

  • Chirality and hydrogen bonding in molecular crystals for phase‐matched second‐harmonic generation: N‐(4‐nitrophenyl)‐(L)‐prolinol (NPP)

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  • Structural dependence of nonlinear-optical properties of methyl-(2,4-dinitrophenyl)-aminopropanoate crystals

    J. L. Oudar;J. Zyss

  • Influence of the molecular environment in solution measurements of the Second-order optical susceptibility for urea and derivatives

    I. Ledoux;J. Zyss

  • Chiral metal complexes with large octupolar optical nonlinearities

    Christophe Dhenaut;Isabella Ledoux;Ifor D. W. Samuel;Joseph Zyss

  • Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Properties of Subphthalocyanines

    B. del Rey;U. Keller;T. Torres;G. Rojo

  • Multipolar molecules and multipolar fields: probing and controlling the tensorial nature of nonlinear molecular media

    S. Brasselet;J. Zyss

  • The molecular and supramolecular engineering of polymeric electro-optic materials

    BH Robinson;LR Dalton;LR Dalton;AW Harper;A Ren

  • Through-Space Charge Transfer and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Substituted Paracyclophane

    Joseph Zyss;Isabelle Ledoux;Sergei Volkov;Vladimir Chernyak

  • Crystal Engineering of Some 2,4,6-Triaryloxy-1,3,5-triazines: Octupolar Nonlinear Materials

    Venkat R. Thalladi;Sophie Brasselet;Hans-Christoph Weiss;Dieter Blaser

  • Second order optical nonlinearity in octupolar aromatic systems

    Manuel Joffre;David Yaron;Robert J. Silbey;Joseph Zyss

  • Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation by Metal Surfaces with Nanoscale Roughness: Nanoscale Dephasing, Depolarization, and Correlations

    Mark I Stockman;David J Bergman;Cristelle Anceau;Sophie Brasselet

  • Dramatic shape sensitivity of directional emission patterns from similarly deformed cylindrical polymer lasers

    Harald G. L. Schwefel;Nathan B. Rex;Hakan E. Tureci;Richard K. Chang

  • Saturation of cubic optical nonlinearity in long-chain polyene oligomers

    Ifor D. W. Samuel;Isabelle Ledoux;Christophe Dhenaut;Joseph Zyss

  • Second-harmonic generation from non-dipolar non-centrosymmetric aromatic charge-transfer molecules

    I. Ledoux;J. Zyss;J.S. Siegel;J. Brienne

  • On the second-order polarizability of conjugated .pi.-electron molecules with octupolar symmetry: the case of triaminotrinitrobenzene

    J. L. Bredas;F. Meyers;B. M. Pierce;J. Zyss

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabelle Ledoux
Isabelle Ledoux École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Olivier Maury
Olivier Maury École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Tomás Torres
Tomás Torres Autonomous University of Madrid
Fernando Agulló-López
Fernando Agulló-López Autonomous University of Madrid
Jean-Marie Lehn
Jean-Marie Lehn University of Strasbourg
Ifor D. W. Samuel
Ifor D. W. Samuel University of St Andrews
Clément Sanchez
Clément Sanchez Collège de France
Dominique Roberto
Dominique Roberto University of Milan
Renato Ugo
Renato Ugo University of Milan
Shi Xue Dou
Shi Xue Dou University of Wollongong

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