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Timothy M. Swager

Timothy M. Swager

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Materials Science

D-Index
126
Citations
70024
World Ranking
392
National Ranking
147

Chemistry

D-Index
126
Citations
70676
World Ranking
380
National Ranking
167

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2016 - Linus Pauling Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society
  • 2012 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Timothy M. Swager is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research output spans numerous publications, predominantly covering organic chemistry and materials chemistry, with additional work in electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, and spectroscopy.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Subfields studied include:

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Spectroscopy

Swager's research also addresses several key topics, among them:

  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

Selected recent publications demonstrate a focus on sensor technology, organic chemistry, and material properties:

  • Ultratrace PFAS Detection Using Amplifying Fluorescent Polymers, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Recent Progress in Amine Gas Sensors for Food Quality Monitoring: Novel Architectures for Sensing Materials and Systems, 2022, ACS Sensors
  • An Organic Chemist's Guide to N-Nitrosamines: Their Structure, Reactivity, and Role as Contaminants, 2021, The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Switchable Full-Color Reflective Photonic Ellipsoidal Particles, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Azulene-Pyridine-Fused Heteroaromatics, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Swager frequently publishes in several key venues, including:

  • Synfacts
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Sensors
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Macromolecules

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of Swager's career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Haosheng Feng
  • Shao-Xiong Lennon Luo
  • Alberto Concellón
  • Máté J. Bezdek
  • Richard Y. Liu

Throughout their career, Swager has received several recognitions and fellowships:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2020)
  • Linus Pauling Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2016)
  • Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2013)
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2012)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1994)

Best Publications

  • Chemical sensors based on amplifying fluorescent conjugated polymers.

    Samuel W. Thomas;and Guy D. Joly;Timothy M. Swager

  • Conjugated polymer-based chemical sensors.

    D T McQuade;A E Pullen;T M Swager

  • Fluorescent Porous Polymer Films as TNT Chemosensors: Electronic and Structural Effects

    Jye-Shane Yang and;Timothy M. Swager

  • The Molecular Wire Approach to Sensory Signal Amplification

    Timothy M. Swager

  • Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensors

    Vera Schroeder;Suchol Savagatrup;Maggie He;Sibo Lin

  • Cu3(hexaiminotriphenylene)2: An Electrically Conductive 2D Metal–Organic Framework for Chemiresistive Sensing

    Michael G. Campbell;Dennis Sheberla;Sophie F. Liu;Timothy M. Swager

  • Porous Shape Persistent Fluorescent Polymer Films: An Approach to TNT Sensory Materials

    Jye-Shane Yang;Timothy M. Swager

  • Fluorescent Chemosensors Based on Energy Migration in Conjugated Polymers: The Molecular Wire Approach to Increased Sensitivity

    Qin Zhou;Timothy M. Swager

  • Sensitivity gains in chemosensing by lasing action in organic polymers

    Aimée Rose;Zhengguo Zhu;Conor F. Madigan;Timothy M. Swager

  • Emerging Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

    Jan Markus Schnorr;Timothy Manning Swager

  • Chemiresistive Sensor Arrays from Conductive 2D Metal–Organic Frameworks

    Michael Glenn Campbell;Sophie Liu;Timothy M Swager;Mircea Dinca

  • Discrete Intensity Jumps and Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in the Spectroscopy of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules

    David A. Vanden Bout;Wai-Tak Yip;Wai-Tak Yip;Dehong Hu;Dehong Hu;Dian-Kui Fu;Dian-Kui Fu

  • High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

    Qing Zhe Ni;Eugenio Daviso;Thach V. Can;Evgeny Markhasin

  • TOTAPOL: a biradical polarizing agent for dynamic nuclear polarization experiments in aqueous media.

    Changsik Song;Kan-Nian Hu;Chan-Gyu Joo;Timothy M. Swager

  • Control of conformational and interpolymer effects in conjugated polymers.

    J. Kim;T. M. Swager

  • Polymer‐Based Photonic Crystals

    Alexander C. Edrington;Augustine M. Urbas;Peter DeRege;Cinti X. Chen

  • Iptycenes in the design of high performance polymers.

    Timothy M. Swager

  • Detection of Bacteria with Carbohydrate-Functionalized Fluorescent Polymers

    Matthew D. Disney;Juan Zheng;Timothy M. Swager;Peter H. Seeberger

  • Fluorescent Detection of Chemical Warfare Agents: Functional Group Specific Ratiometric Chemosensors

    Shi-Wei Zhang;Timothy M. Swager

  • Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Aggregation Induced Emission with Through-Space Charge Transfer.

    Hiroyuki Tsujimoto;Dong-Gwang Ha;Georgios Markopoulos;Hyun Sik Chae

  • Method for enhancing the sensitivity of fluorescent chemosensors: energy migration in conjugated polymers

    Qin Zhou;Timothy M. Swager

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