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2026

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Materials Science

D-Index
145
Citations
89473
World Ranking
189
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science 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

Overview

Michael F. Toney is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Engineering and Materials Science. Within these broader fields, their work covers several subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Automotive Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research topics emphasize advancements in battery materials and technologies, exploring areas such as:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Michael F. Toney has published extensively in numerous venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael F. Toney include:

  • Surface regulation enables high stability of single-crystal lithium-ion cathodes at high voltage, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Crystallization in one-step solution deposition of perovskite films: Upward or downward?, 2021, Science Advances
  • Persistent and partially mobile oxygen vacancies in Li-rich layered oxides, 2021, Nature Energy
  • A Review of Existing and Emerging Methods for Lithium Detection and Characterization in Li-Ion and Li-Metal Batteries, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Beyond Local Solvation Structure: Nanometric Aggregates in Battery Electrolytes and Their Effect on Electrolyte Properties, 2021, ACS Energy Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with several colleagues, most notably:

  • Hans-Georg Steinrück
  • Johanna Nelson Weker
  • Chuntian Cao
  • Partha P. Paul
  • Christopher J. Takacs

Best Publications

  • Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries

    Jun Liu;Zhenan Bao;Yi Cui;Eric J. Dufek

  • Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–shell fuel cell catalysts

    Peter Strasser;Peter Strasser;Shirlaine Koh;Toyli Anniyev;Jeff Greeley

  • Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility.

    Iain McCulloch;Martin Heeney;Clare Bailey;Kristijonas Genevicius

  • A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

    Rodrigo Noriega;Rodrigo Noriega;Jonathan Rivnay;Jonathan Rivnay;Koen Vandewal;Felix P. V. Koch

  • High K/sub u/ materials approach to 100 Gbits/in/sup 2/

    D. Weller;A. Moser;L. Folks;M.E. Best

  • Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method

    Yongbo Yuan;Gaurav Giri;Alexander L. Ayzner;Alexander L. Ayzner;Arjan P. Zoombelt

  • Quantitative determination of organic semiconductor microstructure from the molecular to device scale.

    Jonathan Rivnay;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Chad E. Miller;Alberto Salleo

  • Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Interactions with Aqueous Solutions and Microbial Organisms.

    Gordon E. Brown;Victor E. Henrich;William H. Casey;David L. Clark

  • Highly stretchable, transparent, and conductive polymer

    Yue Wang;Zhenan Bao

  • Dependence of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Film Morphology and Field-Effect Mobility on Molecular Weight

    R.Joseph Kline;Michael D. McGehee;Ekaterina N. Kadnikova;Jinsong Liu

  • Tuning charge transport in solution-sheared organic semiconductors using lattice strain

    Gaurav Giri;Eric Verploegen;Eric Verploegen;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Sule Atahan-Evrenk

  • Highly oriented crystals at the buried interface in polythiophene thin-film transistors

    R. Joseph Kline;Michael D. McGehee;Michael F. Toney

  • Band Gap Tuning via Lattice Contraction and Octahedral Tilting in Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics.

    Rohit Prasanna;Aryeh Gold-Parker;Aryeh Gold-Parker;Tomas Leijtens;Bert Conings

  • Voltage-dependent ordering of water molecules at an electrode–electrolyte interface

    Michael F. Toney;Jason N. Howard;Jason N. Howard;Jocelyn Richer;Jocelyn Richer;Gary L. Borges

  • Interdiffusion of PCBM and P3HT Reveals Miscibility in a Photovoltaically Active Blend

    Neil D. Treat;Michael A. Brady;Gordon Smith;Michael F. Toney

  • High-Capacity Micrometer-Sized Li2S Particles as Cathode Materials for Advanced Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries

    Yuan Yang;Guangyuan Zheng;Sumohan Misra;Johanna Nelson

  • Siloxane-terminated solubilizing side chains: bringing conjugated polymer backbones closer and boosting hole mobilities in thin-film transistors.

    Jianguo Mei;Do Hwan Kim;Alexander L. Ayzner;Alexander L. Ayzner;Michael F. Toney

  • Effects of Thermal Annealing Upon the Morphology of Polymer-Fullerene Blends

    Eric Verploegen;Rajib Mondal;Christopher J. Bettinger;Seihout Sok

  • Coupling between oxygen redox and cation migration explains unusual electrochemistry in lithium-rich layered oxides

    William E. Gent;Kipil Lim;Yufeng Liang;Qinghao Li

  • Dynamics of pore formation during laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

    Aiden A. Martin;Nicholas P. Calta;Saad A. Khairallah;Jenny Wang

  • Crystalline Ultrasmooth Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkylsilanes for Organic Field-Effect Transistors

    Yutaka Ito;Ajay A Virkar;Stefan Mannsfeld;Joon Hak Oh

  • Direct observation of the alignment of ferromagnetic spins by antiferromagnetic spins

    F. Nolting;A. Scholl;J. Stöhr;J. W. Seo

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Michael D. McGehee
Michael D. McGehee University of Colorado Boulder
Alberto Salleo
Alberto Salleo Stanford University
Xiaodan Gu
Xiaodan Gu University of Southern Mississippi
R. Joseph Kline
R. Joseph Kline National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dean M. DeLongchamp
Dean M. DeLongchamp National Institute of Standards and Technology
Yi Cui
Yi Cui Stanford University
Michael L. Chabinyc
Michael L. Chabinyc University of California, Santa Barbara
Dieter Weller
Dieter Weller University of York

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