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Samia Kahlal

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
43
Citations
6346
World Ranking
17273
National Ranking
765

Samia Kahlal publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samia Kahlal sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 220 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Samia Kahlal D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samia Kahlal sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Samia Kahlal is a researcher affiliated with the University of Rennes in France. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions to Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Samia Kahlal has co-authored numerous papers with frequent collaborators including Jean-Yves Saillard, C. W. Liu, Tzu-Hao Chiu, Jian-Hong Liao, and Marie Cordier. These partnerships reflect a broad network of research in related fields.

The prominent publication venues where Samia's work appears often include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Nanoscale
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Samia Kahlal illustrate the focus of their research on hydride-containing metal clusters and their catalytic or structural properties:

  • Hydride-Containing Eight-Electron Pt/Ag Superatoms: Structure, Bonding, and Multi-NMR Studies, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Hydride-containing 2-Electron Pd/Cu Superatoms as Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution, 2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Polyhydrido Copper Nanoclusters with a Hollow Icosahedral Core: [Cu30H18{E2P(OR)2}12] (E=S or Se; R=nPr, iPr or iBu), 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Copper Clusters Containing Hydrides in Trigonal Pyramidal Geometry, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Isolation and Structural Elucidation of 15-Nuclear Copper Dihydride Clusters: An Intermediate in the Formation of a Two-Electron Copper Superatom, 2020, Small

Their body of work advances understanding in the synthesis and characterization of nanoclusters involving precious metals such as platinum, silver, copper, and palladium. This includes studies on their electronic structure, bonding, and catalytic potential in hydrogen evolution reactions.

Best Publications

  • Polymorphic copper iodide clusters: insights into the mechanochromic luminescence properties.

    Quentin Benito;Xavier F. Le Goff;Sébastien Maron;Alexandre Fargues

  • Metal-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne “Click” Reactions: Mechanistic Overview and Recent Trends

    Changlong Wang;Djamila Ikhlef;Samia Kahlal;Jean-Yves Saillard

  • Thermochromic Luminescence of Copper Iodide Clusters: The Case of Phosphine Ligands

    Sandrine Perruchas;Cédric Tard;Xavier F Le Goff;Alexandre Fargues

  • [Ag<sub>21</sub>{S<sub>2</sub>P(O<i>i</i>Pr)<sub>2</sub>}<sub>12</sub>]<sup>+</sup>: An Eight‐Electron Superatom

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  • Synthesis and characterization of hypoelectronic rhenaboranes. Analysis of the geometric and electronic structures of species following neither borane nor metal cluster electron-counting paradigms.

    Boris Le Guennic;Haijun Jiao;Samia Kahlal;† Jean-Yves Saillard

  • Geometry flexibility of copper iodide clusters: variability in luminescence thermochromism.

    Quentin Benito;Xavier F Le Goff;Gregory Nocton;Alexandre Fargues

  • Electroswitchable photoluminescence activity: synthesis, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, photophysics, and X-ray crystal and electronic structures of [Re(bpy)(CO)3(C[triple bond]C[bond]C6H4[bond]C[triple bond]C)Fe(C5Me5)(dppe)][PF6](n) (n = 0, 1).

    Keith Man-Chung Wong;Sally Chan-Fung Lam;Chi-Chiu Ko;Nianyong Zhu

  • A nanospheric polyhydrido copper cluster of elongated triangular orthobicupola array: liberation of H2 from solar energy.

    Rajendra S. Dhayal;Jian-Hong Liao;Yan-Ru Lin;Ping-Kuei Liao

  • Chinese Puzzle Molecule: A 15 Hydride, 28 Copper Atom Nanoball

    Alison J. Edwards;Rajendra S. Dhayal;Ping‐Kuei Liao;Jian‐Hong Liao

  • [Cu32(H)20{S2P(OiPr)2}12]: The Largest Number of Hydrides Recorded in a Molecular Nanocluster by Neutron Diffraction

    Rajendra S. Dhayal;Jian‐Hong Liao;Samia Kahlal;Xiaoping Wang

  • [Cu13 {S2 CNn Bu2 }6 (acetylide)4 ]+ : A Two-Electron Superatom.

    Kiran Kumarvarma Chakrahari;Jian‐Hong Liao;Samia Kahlal;Yu‐Chiao Liu

  • Eight‐Electron Silver and Mixed Gold/Silver Nanoclusters Stabilized by Selenium Donor Ligands

    Wan-Ting Chang;Po-Yi Lee;Jian-Hong Liao;Kiran Kumarvarma Chakrahari

  • Synthesis, Photophysics, Electrochemistry, Theoretical, and Transient Absorption Studies of Luminescent Copper(I) and Silver(I) Diynyl Complexes. X-ray Crystal Structures of [Cu3(μ-dppm)3(μ3-η1-C⋮CC⋮CPh)2]PF6 and [Cu3(μ-dppm)3(μ3-η1-C⋮CC⋮CH)2]PF6

    Wing-Yin Lo;Chi-Ho Lam;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Nianyong Zhu

  • Diselenophosphate‐Induced Conversion of an Achiral [Cu20H11{S2P(OiPr)2}9] into a Chiral [Cu20H11{Se2P(OiPr)2}9] Polyhydrido Nanocluster

    Rajendra S. Dhayal;Jian-Hong Liao;Xiaoping Wang;Yu-Chiao Liu

  • Evaluation of Ligands Effect on the Photophysical Properties of Copper Iodide Clusters

    Brendan Huitorel;Hani El Moll;Raquel Utrera-Melero;Marie Cordier

  • Hydrido copper clusters supported by dithiocarbamates: oxidative hydride removal and neutron diffraction analysis of [Cu7(H){S2C(aza-15-crown-5)}6].

    Ping-Kuei Liao;Ching-Shiang Fang;Alison J. Edwards;Samia Kahlal;Samia Kahlal

  • [Ag20{S2P(OR)2}12]: A Superatom Complex with a Chiral Metallic Core and High Potential for Isomerism

    Rajendra Dhayal;Rajendra Dhayal;Yan-Ru Lin;Jian-Hong Liao;Yuan-Jang Chen

  • Four-coordinate nickel(II) and copper(II) complex based ONO tridentate Schiff base ligands: synthesis, molecular structure, electrochemical, linear and nonlinear properties, and computational study

    Néstor Novoa;Néstor Novoa;Thierry Roisnel;Paul Hamon;Samia Kahlal

  • Homoleptic Platinum/Silver Superatoms Protected by Dithiolates: Linear Assemblies of Two and Three Centered Icosahedra Isolobal to Ne2 and I3.

    Tzu-Hao Chiu;Jian-Hong Liao;Franck Gam;Isaac Chantrenne

  • An eleven-vertex deltahedron with hexacapped trigonal bipyramidal geometry

    C. W. Liu;Ping-Kuei Liao;Ching-Shiang Fang;Jean-Yves Saillard

  • Neutron diffraction studies of a four-coordinated hydride in near square-planar geometry.

    Jian Hong Liao;Rajendra Singh Dhayal;Xiaoping Wang;Samia Kahlal

  • Synthesis, Chemistry, DFT Calculations, and ROMP Activity of Monomeric Benzylidene Complexes Containing a Chelating Diphosphine and of Four Generations of Metallodendritic Analogues. Positive and Negative Dendritic Effects and Formation of Dendritic Ruthenium−Polynorbornene Stars

    Sylvain Gatard;Samia Kahlal;Denise Méry;Sylvain Nlate

  • [Ag7(H){E2P(OR)2}6] (E = Se, S): Precursors for the Fabrication of Silver Nanoparticles

    C. W. Liu;Yan-Ru Lin;Ching-Shiang Fang;Camille Latouche

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Halet
Jean-François Halet University of Rennes
Thierry Roisnel
Thierry Roisnel University of Rennes
Roland A. Fischer
Roland A. Fischer Technical University of Munich
Christian Gemel
Christian Gemel Technical University of Munich
Vincent Dorcet
Vincent Dorcet University of Rennes
Sundargopal Ghosh
Sundargopal Ghosh Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Xiaoping Wang
Xiaoping Wang Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jean-François Carpentier
Jean-François Carpentier University of Rennes
Olivier Cador
Olivier Cador University of Rennes
Juarez L. F. Da Silva
Juarez L. F. Da Silva Universidade de São Paulo

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