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Mario Leclerc

Mario Leclerc

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Materials Science
Canada
2026
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Chemistry
Canada
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
111
Citations
52660
World Ranking
678
National Ranking
10

Chemistry

D-Index
111
Citations
52409
World Ranking
760
National Ranking
13

Mario Leclerc 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 Mario Leclerc sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 393 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mario Leclerc 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 Mario Leclerc sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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

  • 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

  • Bulk heterojunction solar cells with internal quantum efficiency approaching 100

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

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

    Nicolas Blouin;Alexandre Michaud;David Gendron;Salem Wakim

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

    Nicolas Blouin;Alexandre Michaud;Mario Leclerc

  • 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

  • Processable Low-Bandgap Polymers for Photovoltaic Applications†

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

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

    Yingping Zou;Ahmed Najari;Philippe Berrouard;Serge Beaupré

  • Polyfluorenes: Twenty years of progress

    Mario Leclerc

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

    Maxime Ranger;Dany Rondeau;Mario Leclerc

  • Polycarbazoles: 25 Years of Progress

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

  • Optical sensors based on hybrid aptamer/conjugated polymer complexes

    Mario Leclerc;Hoang-Anh Ho;Maurice Boissinot

  • Colorimetric and Fluorometric Detection of Nucleic Acids Using Cationic Polythiophene Derivatives

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

  • High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells with Long Operating Lifetimes

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

  • Optical Detection of DNA and Proteins with Cationic Polythiophenes

    Hoang-A. Ho;Ahmed Najari;Mario Leclerc

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

    Nicolas Blouin;Mario Leclerc

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

    Lauren G. Mercier;Mario Leclerc

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

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

  • Conducting polymers: Efficient thermoelectric materials

    Nidhi Dubey;Mario Leclerc

  • Structural analysis of poly(3‐alkylthiophene)s

    Mario Leclerc;Francisco Martinez Diaz;Gerhard Wegner

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Beaupré
Serge Beaupré Université Laval
Ye Tao
Ye Tao National Research Council Canada
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Yingping Zou
Yingping Zou Central South University
Michel G. Bergeron
Michel G. Bergeron Université Laval
Gianni Zotti
Gianni Zotti National Research Council (CNR)
Yuning Li
Yuning Li University of Waterloo
Robert E. Prud'homme
Robert E. Prud'homme University of Montreal
Shinuk Cho
Shinuk Cho University of Ulsan
Agnès Rivaton
Agnès Rivaton University of Clermont Auvergne

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