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Thomas Heine

Thomas Heine

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Chemistry
Germany
2026
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Materials Science
Germany
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
114
Citations
45188
World Ranking
612
National Ranking
34

Chemistry

D-Index
114
Citations
45838
World Ranking
673
National Ranking
49

Thomas Heine 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 Thomas Heine sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 473 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Heine 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 Thomas Heine sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 114 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 Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Heine is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany. The primary field of research is Materials Science, with a significant focus on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main research topics include Covalent Organic Framework Applications, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene Research and Applications, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, and MXene and MAX Phase Materials.

Frequent coauthors associated with Thomas Heine include:

  • Xinliang Feng
  • Agnieszka Kuc
  • Renhao Dong
  • Miroslav Položij
  • Hongde Yu

Publishing venues that have featured their work repeatedly are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Thomas Heine include:

  • "Linkage-engineered donor-acceptor covalent organic frameworks for optimal photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and air," 2024, Nature Catalysis
  • "High-Mobility Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Conjugated Covalent Organic Frameworks with p-Type Doping," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Highly accessible and dense surface single metal FeN4 active sites for promoting the oxygen reduction reaction," 2022, Energy & Environmental Science
  • "Two-Dimensional Boronate Ester Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films with Large Single Crystalline Domains for a Neuromorphic Memory Device," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Identification of Prime Factors to Maximize the Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution of Covalent Organic Frameworks," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Influence of quantum confinement on the electronic structure of the transition metal sulfide T S 2

    A. Kuc;N. Zibouche;T. Heine

  • Construction of crystalline 2D covalent organic frameworks with remarkable chemical (Acid/Base) stability via a combined reversible and irreversible route

    Sharath Kandambeth;Arijit Mallick;Binit Lukose;Manoj V. Mane

  • An atlas of two-dimensional materials

    Pere Miró;Martha Audiffred;Thomas Heine

  • Two-dimensional sp2 carbon–conjugated covalent organic frameworks

    Enquan Jin;Mizue Asada;Qing Xu;Sasanka Dalapati

  • Mechanochemical synthesis of chemically stable isoreticular covalent organic frameworks.

    Bishnu P. Biswal;Suman Chandra;Sharath Kandambeth;Binit Lukose

  • Chemically Stable Multilayered Covalent Organic Nanosheets from Covalent Organic Frameworks via Mechanical Delamination

    Suman Chandra;Sharath Kandambeth;Bishnu P. Biswal;Binit Lukose

  • Graphene nanostructures as tunable storage media for molecular hydrogen

    Serguei Patchkovskii;John S. Tse;Sergei N. Yurchenko;Lyuben Zhechkov

  • Highly Emissive Covalent Organic Frameworks

    Sasanka Dalapati;Enquan Jin;Matthew Addicoat;Thomas Heine

  • Mixed Matrix Membranes (MMMs) Comprising Exfoliated 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) for Efficient CO2 Separation

    Zixi Kang;Yongwu Peng;Yuhong Qian;Daqiang Yuan

  • Chemical sensing in two dimensional porous covalent organic nanosheets.

    Gobinda Das;Bishnu P. Biswal;Bishnu P. Biswal;Sharath Kandambeth;Sharath Kandambeth;V. Venkatesh

  • Enhancement of Chemical Stability and Crystallinity in Porphyrin‐Containing Covalent Organic Frameworks by Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds

    Sharath Kandambeth;Digambar Balaji Shinde;Manas K. Panda;Binit Lukose

  • Induced magnetic fields in aromatic [n]-annulenes—interpretation of NICS tensor components

    Clemence Corminboeuf;Thomas Heine;Gotthard Seifert;Paul von Ragué Schleyer

  • High-mobility band-like charge transport in a semiconducting two-dimensional metal–organic framework

    Renhao Dong;Peng Han;Himani Arora;Marco Ballabio

  • Interplaying Intrinsic and Extrinsic Proton Conductivities in Covalent Organic Frameworks

    Suman Chandra;Tanay Kundu;Kaushik Dey;Matthew Addicoat

  • Two-dimensional Cu2Si monolayer with planar hexacoordinate copper and silicon bonding.

    Li Ming Yang;Vladimir Bačić;Ivan A. Popov;Alexander I. Boldyrev

  • A stable non-classical metallofullerene family

    S. Stevenson;P. W. Fowler;T. Heine;J. C. Duchamp

  • GeP3: A Small Indirect Band Gap 2D Crystal with High Carrier Mobility and Strong Interlayer Quantum Confinement.

    Yu Jing;Yandong Ma;Yafei Li;Thomas Heine;Thomas Heine

  • On-water surface synthesis of crystalline, few-layer two-dimensional polymers assisted by surfactant monolayers

    Kejun Liu;Haoyuan Qi;Renhao Dong;Rishi Shivhare

  • Transition Metal Chalcogenides: Ultrathin Inorganic Materials with Tunable Electronic Properties

    Thomas Heine

  • Solid state organic amine detection in a photochromic porous metal organic framework

    Arijit Mallick;Arijit Mallick;Bikash Garai;Bikash Garai;Matthew A. Addicoat;Petko St. Petkov

  • An Efficient a Posteriori Treatment for Dispersion Interaction in Density-Functional-Based Tight Binding.

    Lyuben Zhechkov;Thomas Heine;Serguei Patchkovskii;Gotthard Seifert

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnieszka Kuc
Agnieszka Kuc Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Gabriel Merino
Gabriel Merino Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Matthew Addicoat
Matthew Addicoat Nottingham Trent University
Liangzhi Kou
Liangzhi Kou Queensland University of Technology
Ulrich Kortz
Ulrich Kortz Jacobs University
Clémence Corminboeuf
Clémence Corminboeuf École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Rahul Banerjee
Rahul Banerjee Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
Patrick W. Fowler
Patrick W. Fowler University of Sheffield
Christof Wöll
Christof Wöll Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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