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D-Index
48
Citations
9566
World Ranking
15135
National Ranking
842

Thomas J. Penfold 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 Thomas J. Penfold sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 179 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Thomas J. Penfold 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 Thomas J. Penfold sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas J. Penfold is a researcher affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with significant contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Radiation.

Their research covers various main topics, including:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures

Thomas J. Penfold has been published frequently in several venues, with notable repeated contributions to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Chemical Science
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Their recent papers include:

  • Pathways to increase the dissymmetry in the interaction of chiral light and chiral molecules, 2021, Chemical Science
  • A Deep Neural Network for the Rapid Prediction of X-ray Absorption Spectra, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Understanding and Designing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters: Beyond the Energy Gap Approximation, 2020, The Chemical Record
  • Progress in the Theory of X-ray Spectroscopy: From Quantum Chemistry to Machine Learning and Ultrafast Dynamics, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
  • Competition between the heavy atom effect and vibronic coupling in donor-bridge-acceptor organometallics, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Paul G. Waddell
  • Julien Eng
  • Michael R. Probert
  • Michael J. Hall
  • Conor D. Rankine

Best Publications

  • Revealing the spin-vibronic coupling mechanism of thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

    Marc K. Etherington;Jamie Gibson;Heather F. Higginbotham;Thomas J. Penfold

  • Spin-Vibronic Mechanism for Intersystem Crossing

    Thomas J. Penfold;Etienne Gindensperger;Chantal Daniel;Christel M. Marian

  • The Importance of Vibronic Coupling for Efficient Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Molecules

    Jamie Gibson;Andrew P. Monkman;Thomas J. Penfold

  • Photophysics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules

    Fernando B Dias;Thomas J Penfold;Andrew P Monkman

  • The theory of thermally activated delayed fluorescence for organic light emitting diodes

    T. J. Penfold;F. B. Dias;A. P. Monkman

  • Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters.

    Marc K. Etherington;Flavio Franchello;Jamie Gibson;Thomas Northey

  • Pathways to increase the dissymmetry in the interaction of chiral light and chiral molecules.

    Jake L. Greenfield;Jessica Wade;Jochen R. Brandt;Xingyuan Shi

  • Recent experimental and theoretical developments in time-resolved X-ray spectroscopies

    C.J. Milne;T.J. Penfold;T.J. Penfold;M. Chergui

  • On Predicting the Excited State Properties of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitters

    Thomas J. Penfold

  • Triazatruxene: A Rigid Central Donor Unit for a D-A3 Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Material Exhibiting Sub-Microsecond Reverse Intersystem Crossing and Unity Quantum Yield via Multiple Singlet-Triplet State Pairs.

    Paloma L. dos Santos;Jonathan S. Ward;Daniel G. Congrave;Andrei S. Batsanov

  • Nonadiabatic coupling reduces the activation energy in thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

    Jamie Gibson;Thomas Penfold

  • The role of solid state solvation on the charge transfer state of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitter

    Thomas Northey;Jessica E Stacey;Thomas James Penfold

  • Solvent-induced luminescence quenching: static and time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy of a copper(I) phenanthroline complex.

    T. J. Penfold;S. Karlsson;G. Capano;F. A. Lima

  • Competing ultrafast intersystem crossing and internal conversion in the "channel 3" region of benzene

    R. S. Minns;D. S. N. Parker;T. J. Penfold;G. A. Worth

  • Mapping of the photoinduced electron traps in TiO 2 by picosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    M. Hannelore Rittmann-Frank;Chris J. Milne;Jochen Rittmann;Marco Reinhard

  • Revealing hole trapping in zinc oxide nanoparticles by time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy.

    Thomas J. Penfold;Jakub Szlachetko;Fabio G. Santomauro;Alexander Britz

  • The contributions of molecular vibrations and higher triplet levels to the intersystem crossing mechanism in metal-free organic emitters

    Rongjuan Huang;João Avó;Thomas Northey;E. Chaning-Pearce

  • A Quantum Dynamics Study of the Ultrafast Relaxation in a Prototypical Cu(I)-Phenanthroline

    G. Capano;M. Chergui;U. Rothlisberger;I. Tavernelli

  • Ultrafast dynamics of the S1 excited state of benzene

    D.S.N. Parker;R.S. Minns;T.J. Penfold;G.A. Worth

  • Probing the transition from hydrophilic to hydrophobic solvation with atomic scale resolution

    Van-Thai Pham;Thomas J Penfold;Thomas J Penfold;Renske M van der Veen;Renske M van der Veen;Frederico Lima

Frequent Co-Authors

Majed Chergui
Majed Chergui École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ivano Tavernelli
Ivano Tavernelli IBM (United States)
Ursula Rothlisberger
Ursula Rothlisberger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Fernando B. Dias
Fernando B. Dias Durham University
Andrew P. Monkman
Andrew P. Monkman Durham University
Martin R. Bryce
Martin R. Bryce Durham University
Michael W. George
Michael W. George University of Nottingham
Manfred Bochmann
Manfred Bochmann University of East Anglia

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