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Mukundan Thelakkat

Mukundan Thelakkat

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
72
Citations
17135
World Ranking
4085
National Ranking
229

Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17016
World Ranking
5317
National Ranking
387

Mukundan Thelakkat 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 Mukundan Thelakkat sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 292 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mukundan Thelakkat 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 Mukundan Thelakkat sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mukundan Thelakkat is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. Thelakkat's work also touches on Polymers and Plastics, Automotive Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Thelakkat has contributed extensively to the study of conducting polymers and their practical applications. Their research encompasses various aspects of organic electronics and photovoltaics, along with advanced battery materials and technologies. Specific topics include advancements in battery materials, photochromic and fluorescence chemistry, and perovskite materials and their applications.

Frequent co-authors with whom Thelakkat has collaborated include John Mohanraj, Adrian Hochgesang, Jürgen Köhler, Florian Meichsner, and Harimohan Erabhoina.

Key publication venues for Thelakkat's work are:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Macromolecules
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Recent significant papers authored by or involving Thelakkat include:

  • "Environmental exposure enhances the internalization of microplastic particles into cells," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Roadmap on organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite semiconductors and devices," 2021, APL Materials
  • "Role of PCBM in the Suppression of Hysteresis in Perovskite Solar Cells," 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "The Key Role of Side Chain Linkage in Structure Formation and Mixed Conduction of Ethylene Glycol Substituted Polythiophenes," 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Polymer Thermoelectrics: Opportunities and Challenges," 2020, Macromolecules

Best Publications

  • Star-shaped, dendrimeric and polymeric triarylamines as photoconductors and hole transport materials for electro-optical applications

    Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Use Of Transition Metal Carbene Complexes In Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (Oleds)

    Martina Egen;Klaus Kahle;Markus Bold;Thomas Gessner

  • Synthesis and Properties of Novel Derivatives of 1,3,5‐Tris(diarylamino)benzenes for Electroluminescent Devices

    Mukundan Thelakkat;Hans-Werner Schmidt

  • Systematic investigation of the role of compact TiO2 layer in solid state dye-sensitized TiO2 solar cells

    Bin Peng;Gert Jungmann;Claus Jäger;Dietrich Haarer

  • Capturing the Sun: A Review of the Challenges and Perspectives of Perovskite Solar Cells

    Michiel L. Petrus;Johannes Schlipf;Cheng Li;Tanaji P. Gujar

  • Transition metal complexes with carbene ligands as emitters for organic light-emitting diodes (oleds)

    Markus Bold;Christian Lennartz;Martina Prinz;Hans-Werner Schmidt

  • Highly Efficient Solar Cells using TiO2 Nanotube Arrays Sensitized with a Donor-Antenna Dye

    Karthik Shankar;Jayasundera Bandara;Maggie Paulose;Helga Wietasch

  • Environmental exposure enhances the internalization of microplastic particles into cells.

    Anja Ramsperger;Vinay Kumar Bangalore Narayana;Wolfgang Gross;John Mohanraj

  • Characterization of the adsorption of Ru-bpy dyes on mesoporous TiO2 films with UV-Vis, Raman, and FTIR spectroscopies.

    C. Pérez León;L. Kador;and B. Peng;M. Thelakkat

  • Supermolecular control of charge transfer in dye-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 films: towards a quantitative structure-function relationship.

    Saif A. Haque;Samantha Handa;Katja Peter;Emilio Palomares

  • Control of aggregate formation in poly(3‐hexylthiophene) by solvent, molecular weight, and synthetic method

    Christina Scharsich;Ruth H. Lohwasser;Michael Sommer;Udom Asawapirom

  • Plasmonic nanomeshes: their ambivalent role as transparent electrodes in organic solar cells

    Christian Stelling;Chetan R. Singh;Matthias Karg;Tobias A. F. König

  • Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells using red and near-IR absorbing Bodipy sensitizers.

    Safacan Kolemen;Yusuf Cakmak;Sule Erten-Ela;Yigit Altay

  • Charge Separation at Self‐Assembled Nanostructured Bulk Interface in Block Copolymers

    Stefan M. Lindner;Sven Hüttner;Arnaud Chiche;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Swallow-tail substituted liquid crystalline perylene bisimides: synthesis and thermotropic properties.

    André Wicklein;Andreas Lang;Mathis-Andreas Muth;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Temperature and Molecular Weight Dependent Hierarchical Equilibrium Structures in Semiconducting Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Zhiyong Wu;Albrecht Petzold;Thomas Henze;Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  • Crystalline-crystalline donor-acceptor block copolymers.

    Michael Sommer;Andreas S. Lang;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Highly Efficient Solid-State Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Solar Cells Using Donor-Antenna Dyes Capable of Multistep Charge-Transfer Cascades

    Chedarampet S. Karthikeyan;Helga Wietasch;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • Microphase‐Separated Donor–Acceptor Diblock Copolymers: Influence of HOMO Energy Levels and Morphology on Polymer Solar Cells

    Michael Sommer;Stefan M. Lindner;Mukundan Thelakkat

  • A high transconductance accumulation mode electrochemical transistor.

    Sahika Inal;Jonathan Rivnay;Pierre Leleux;Marc Ferro;Marc Ferro

  • Toward Perfect Control of End Groups and Polydispersity in Poly(3-hexylthiophene) via Catalyst Transfer Polymerization

    Ruth H. Lohwasser;Mukundan Thelakkat

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Werner Schmidt
Hans-Werner Schmidt University of Bayreuth
Michael Sommer
Michael Sommer Chemnitz University of Technology
Dietrich Haarer
Dietrich Haarer University of Bayreuth
Thomas Thurn-Albrecht
Thomas Thurn-Albrecht Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Anna Köhler
Anna Köhler University of Bayreuth
Eliot Gann
Eliot Gann National Institute of Standards and Technology
Christopher R. McNeill
Christopher R. McNeill Monash University
Harald Hoppe
Harald Hoppe Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ullrich Steiner
Ullrich Steiner University of Freiburg
Georg Krausch
Georg Krausch Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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