2026 Michel Meunier: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	62	6446	6234	106	101	373	14559

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - OSA Fellows For fundamentals of laser materials processing and plasmonics and their applications in biomedical, nanotechnology and microelectronics.
2010 - SPIE Fellow
The Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Michel Meunier is affiliated with Polytechnique Montréal in Canada and has a substantial body of work in engineering and materials science. Their research extensively covers subfields such as biomedical engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics and optics, molecular biology, and materials chemistry.

The researcher's work addresses several main topics, including:

Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
Biosensors and Analytical Detection
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Human-Animal Interaction Studies

Michel Meunier has published research in several notable journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Small
Nanoscale Advances
ACS Applied Nano Materials
Advanced Functional Materials
Laser & Photonics Review

Key recent publications include:

"Optical Properties and Applications of Plasmonic-Metal Nanoparticles," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
"Porous Au-Ag Nanoparticles from Galvanic Replacement Applied as Single-Particle SERS Probe for Quantitative Monitoring," 2021, Small
"Antibody-Functionalized Gold Nanostar-Mediated On-Resonance Picosecond Laser Optoporation for Targeted Delivery of RNA Therapeutics," 2021, Small
"Formation Pathways of Porous Alloy Nanoparticles through Selective Chemical and Electrochemical Etching," 2021, Small
"Nonlinear Propagation of Laser Light in Plasmonic Nanocomposites," 2022, Laser & Photonics Review

Frequent co-authors with Michel Meunier include:

Sergiy Patskovsky
Leonidas Agiotis
Morteza Hasanzadeh Kafshgari
Cécile Darviot
Isabelle Largillière

Michel Meunier has contributed to book publications as well, with at least one known title:

"Éléments d'hydraulique torrentielle," published by éditions Quae eBooks in 2023

The professional recognitions awarded to Michel Meunier include:

OSA Fellow in 2012, cited for fundamentals of laser materials processing and plasmonics and their applications in biomedical, nanotechnology and microelectronics
SPIE Fellow in 2010
Member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

Surface Chemistry of Gold Nanoparticles Produced by Laser Ablation in Aqueous Media

Jean-Philippe Sylvestre;Suzie Poulin;Andrei V. Kabashin;Edward Sacher

834
Citations
Synthesis of colloidal nanoparticles during femtosecond laser ablation of gold in water

A. V. Kabashin;M. Meunier

692
Citations
Optical Properties and Applications of Plasmonic-Metal Nanoparticles

Lu Wang;Morteza Hasanzadeh Kafshgari;Michel Meunier

555
Citations
Stabilization and Size Control of Gold Nanoparticles during Laser Ablation in Aqueous Cyclodextrins

Jean-Philippe Sylvestre;Andrei V. Kabashin;Edward Sacher;Michel Meunier

451
Citations
Thermodynamic pathways to melting, ablation, and solidification in absorbing solids under pulsed laser irradiation

Patrick Lorazo;Patrick Lorazo;Laurent J. Lewis;Michel Meunier

440
Citations
Short-pulse laser ablation of solids: from phase explosion to fragmentation.

Patrick Lorazo;Patrick Lorazo;Laurent J. Lewis;Michel Meunier

427
Citations
Detection and measurement of power quality disturbances using wavelet transform

O. Poisson;P. Rioual;M. Meunier

405
Citations
Wavelets: a new tool for the resonant grounded power distribution systems relaying

O. Chaari;M. Meunier;F. Brouaye

378
Citations
Fabrication and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles by Femtosecond Laser Ablation in an Aqueous Solution of Cyclodextrins

Andrei V. Kabashin;Michel Meunier;Christopher Kingston;John H. T. Luong

328
Citations
Laser precision microfabrication

Koji Sugioka;Michel Meunier;Alberto Pique

325
Citations
An Analytic Model for the Dielectric Function of Au, Ag, and their Alloys

David Rioux;Simon Vallières;Sébastien Besner;Philip Muñoz

321
Citations
A transformer model for winding fault studies

P. Bastard;P. Bertrand;M. Meunier

294
Citations
Femtosecond laser ablation of gold in water: influence of the laser-produced plasma on the nanoparticle size distribution

J.-P. Sylvestre;A.V. Kabashin;E. Sacher;M. Meunier

265
Citations
Surface plasmon resonance detection of E. coli and methicillin-resistant S. aureus using bacteriophages.

Nancy Tawil;Edward Sacher;Rosemonde Mandeville;Michel Meunier

237
Citations
Plasma Mediated off-Resonance Plasmonic Enhanced Ultrafast Laser-Induced Nanocavitation

Étienne Boulais;Rémi Lachaine;Michel Meunier

217
Citations
Plasmonics for pulsed-laser cell nanosurgery: Fundamentals and applications

E. Boulais;R. Lachaine;A. Hatef;M. Meunier

189
Citations
New signal processing tools applied to power quality analysis

O. Poisson;P. Rioual;M. Meunier

171
Citations
Off-resonance plasmonic enhanced femtosecond laser optoporation and transfection of cancer cells

Judith Baumgart;Laure Humbert;Étienne Boulais;Rémi Lachaine

160
Citations
Ultrafast laser based “green” synthesis of non-toxic nanoparticles in aqueous solutions

S. Besner;A. V. Kabashin;F. M. Winnik;M. Meunier

159
Citations
Fragmentation of colloidal nanoparticles by femtosecond laser-induced supercontinuum generation

S. Besner;A. V. Kabashin;M. Meunier

153
Citations