2026 Mario Leclerc: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	111	678	646	10	9	393	52660
Chemistry	111	760	671	13	12	396	52409

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Materials Science

111

678

646

393

52660

Chemistry

111

760

671

396

52409

Materials Science

D-Index

111

Citations

52660

World Ranking

678

National Ranking

Chemistry

D-Index

111

Citations

52409

World Ranking

760

National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Mario Leclerc is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. Their research spans across multiple subfields including Polymers and Plastics, Molecular Biology, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's main research topics include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and the Synthesis and Properties of Polymers.

Notable recent publications by Mario Leclerc include:

A-DA'D-A non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells (2020), published in Science China Chemistry
Bioinspiration in light harvesting and catalysis (2020), published in Nature Reviews Materials
Low-Bandgap Non-fullerene Acceptors Enabling High-Performance Organic Solar Cells (2021), published in ACS Energy Letters
Reducing Voltage Losses in the A-DA'D-A Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells (2020), published in Chem
Recent Progress on Indoor Organic Photovoltaics: From Molecular Design to Production Scale (2020), published in ACS Energy Letters

Mario Leclerc frequently publishes in the following venues:

The Cambridge Structural Database
ACS Energy Letters
Science China Chemistry
Nature Reviews Materials
Chem

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including:

William Dupont
Louis-Philippe Boivin
David Gendron
Mathieu Mainville
Jun Yuan

Best Publications

Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Guichuan Zhang

5535
Citations
Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100

Sung Heum Park;Sung Heum Park;Anshuman Roy;Serge Beaupré;Shinuk Cho;Shinuk Cho

4509
Citations
Toward a rational design of poly(2,7-carbazole) derivatives for solar cells.

Nicolas Blouin;Alexandre Michaud;David Gendron;Salem Wakim

1626
Citations
A Low‐Bandgap Poly(2,7‐Carbazole) Derivative for Use in High‐Performance Solar Cells

Nicolas Blouin;Alexandre Michaud;Mario Leclerc

1554
Citations
Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Using Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione and Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]silole Copolymer with a Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.3%

Ta-Ya Chu;Jianping Lu;Serge Beaupré;Yanguang Zhang

1188
Citations
Processable Low-Bandgap Polymers for Photovoltaic Applications†

Pierre-Luc T. Boudreault;Ahmed Najari;Mario Leclerc

936
Citations
A thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione-based copolymer for efficient solar cells.

Yingping Zou;Ahmed Najari;Philippe Berrouard;Serge Beaupré

872
Citations
Polyfluorenes: Twenty years of progress

Mario Leclerc

854
Citations
New Well-Defined Poly(2,7-fluorene) Derivatives: Photoluminescence and Base Doping

Maxime Ranger;Dany Rondeau;Mario Leclerc

811
Citations
Polycarbazoles: 25 Years of Progress

Jean-François Morin;Mario Leclerc;Dominique Adès;Alain Siove

746
Citations
Optical sensors based on hybrid aptamer/conjugated polymer complexes

Mario Leclerc;Hoang-Anh Ho;Maurice Boissinot

662
Citations
Colorimetric and Fluorometric Detection of Nucleic Acids Using Cationic Polythiophene Derivatives

Hoang-Anh Ho;Maurice Boissinot;Michel G. Bergeron;Geneviève Corbeil

654
Citations
High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells with Long Operating Lifetimes

Craig H. Peters;I. T. Sachs-Quintana;John P. Kastrop;Serge Beaupré

566
Citations
Optical Detection of DNA and Proteins with Cationic Polythiophenes

Hoang-A. Ho;Ahmed Najari;Mario Leclerc

558
Citations
Poly(2,7-carbazole)s: structure-property relationships.

Nicolas Blouin;Mario Leclerc

544
Citations
Direct (Hetero)Arylation: A New Tool for Polymer Chemists

Lauren G. Mercier;Mario Leclerc

518
Citations
Direct (Hetero)arylation Polymerization: Simplicity for Conjugated Polymer Synthesis

Jean-Rémi Pouliot;François Grenier;J. Terence Blaskovits;Serge Beaupré

508
Citations
Conducting polymers: Efficient thermoelectric materials

Nidhi Dubey;Mario Leclerc

469
Citations
Structural analysis of poly(3‐alkylthiophene)s

Mario Leclerc;Francisco Martinez Diaz;Gerhard Wegner

468
Citations
Fluorescent polymeric transducer for the rapid, simple, and specific detection of nucleic acids at the zeptomole level.

Kim Doré;Sébastien Dubus;Hoang-Anh Ho;Isabelle Lévesque

439
Citations