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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
111
Citations
41875
World Ranking
781
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Tomás Torres is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain and has a significant body of research primarily in materials science and engineering. Their work spans several subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The main topics of their research can be outlined as:

  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics

Tomás Torres has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, reflecting multidisciplinary research activities. These co-authors include:

  • Jorge Labella
  • Dirk M. Guldi
  • Giovanni Bottari
  • Giulia Lavarda
  • M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz

The researcher's publications appear in multiple venues specializing in chemistry and materials science. Notable frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie

Selected recent papers illustrate the focus and scope of their research:

  • "Benefits, Problems, and Solutions of Silver Nanowire Transparent Conductive Electrodes in Indium Tin Oxide (ITO)-Free Flexible Solar Cells" (2020), Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Toward Sustainable, Colorless, and Transparent Photovoltaics: State of the Art and Perspectives for the Development of Selective Near-Infrared Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells" (2021), Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Catalyst Development for High-Temperature Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (HT-PEMFC) Applications" (2023), Advanced Materials
  • "Recent advances in subphthalocyanines and related subporphyrinoids" (2022), Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Inducing Open-Shell Character in Porphyrins through Surface-Assisted Phenalenyl π-Extension" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society

In addition to journal articles, Tomás Torres has contributed to book publications, including a work published by Ariadna Ediciones eBooks titled Aproximaciones al marxismo latinoamericano. Teoría, historia y política (2021).

Recognition from the scientific community includes the honor of being a Member of the European Academy of Sciences awarded in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Role of Structural Factors in the Nonlinear Optical Properties of Phthalocyanines and Related Compounds

    Gema de la Torre;Purificación Vázquez;F Agulló-López;Tomás Torres

  • Meso-Substituted Porphyrins for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

    Maxence Urbani;Michael Grätzel;Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin;Tomás Torres;Tomás Torres

  • Covalent and noncovalent phthalocyanine-carbon nanostructure systems: synthesis, photoinduced electron transfer, and application to molecular photovoltaics.

    Giovanni Bottari;Gema de la Torre;Dirk M. Guldi;Tomás Torres

  • Phthalocyanines: from outstanding electronic properties to emerging applications.

    Christian G. Claessens;Uwe Hahn;Tomás Torres

  • Phthalocyanines: old dyes, new materials. Putting color in nanotechnology

    Gema de la Torre;Christian G. Claessens;Tomás Torres

  • Phthalocyanines and related compounds:organic targets for nonlinear optical applications

    G. de la Torre;P. Vázquez;F. Agulló-López;T. Torres

  • Lighting porphyrins and phthalocyanines for molecular photovoltaics

    M. Victoria Martínez-Díaz;Gema de la Torre;Tomás Torres;Tomás Torres

  • Subphthalocyanines: singular nonplanar aromatic compounds-synthesis, reactivity, and physical properties.

    Christian G. Claessens;David Gonzalez-Rodriguez;Tomas Torres

  • The unique features and promises of phthalocyanines as advanced photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy of cancer.

    Pui-Chi Lo;M. Salomé Rodríguez-Morgade;Ravindra K. Pandey;Dennis K. P. Ng

  • Molecular cosensitization for efficient panchromatic dye-sensitized solar cells

    Juan-José Cid;Jun-Ho Yum;Song-Rim Jang;Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin

  • PbS and CdS Quantum Dot-Sensitized Solid-State Solar Cells: “Old Concepts, New Results”

    HyoJoong Lee;Henry C. Leventis;Soo-Jin Moon;Peter Chen

  • Increased light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells with energy relay dyes

    Brian E. Hardin;Brian E. Hardin;Eric T. Hoke;Paul B. Armstrong;Jun-Ho Yum

  • Subphthalocyanines, subporphyrazines, and subporphyrins: singular nonplanar aromatic systems.

    Christian G. Claessens;David González-Rodríguez;M. Salomé Rodríguez-Morgade;Anaïs Medina

  • Phthalocyanines for dye-sensitized solar cells

    Maxence Urbani;Maxence Urbani;Maria-Eleni Ragoussi;Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin;Tomás Torres;Tomás Torres

  • Chemical functionalization and characterization of graphene-based materials

    Giovanni Bottari;Giovanni Bottari;Ma Ángeles Herranz;Leonie Wibmer;Michel Volland

  • Molecular Engineering of Peripherally And Axially Modified Phthalocyanines for Optical Limiting and Nonlinear Optics

    Sean M. O'flaherty;Stephanie V. Hold;Michael J. Cook;Tomas Torres

  • Catalysis of recombination and its limitation on open circuit voltage for dye sensitized photovoltaic cells using phthalocyanine dyes.

    Brian C O'Regan;Ismael López-Duarte;M Victoria Martínez-Díaz;Amparo Forneli

  • Towards artificial photosynthesis: Supramolecular, donor–acceptor, porphyrin- and phthalocyanine/carbon nanostructure ensembles

    Giovanni Bottari;Olga Trukhina;Mine Ince;Tomas Torres;Tomas Torres

  • Influence of Peripheral Substitution on the Magnetic Behavior of Single‐Ion Magnets Based on Homo‐ and Heteroleptic TbIII Bis(phthalocyaninate)

    Carolina R. Ganivet;Beatriz Ballesteros;Gema de la Torre;Juan M. Clemente-Juan

  • Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical, Photophysical, and Electrochemical Properties of Subphthalocyanines

    B. del Rey;U. Keller;T. Torres;G. Rojo

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michael Grätzel
Michael Grätzel École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Fernando Agulló-López
Fernando Agulló-López Autonomous University of Madrid
João P. C. Tomé
João P. C. Tomé Instituto Superior Técnico
Emilio Palomares
Emilio Palomares Institut Català d'Investigació Química
Jonathan L. Sessler
Jonathan L. Sessler The University of Texas at Austin
Jun-Ho Yum
Jun-Ho Yum École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Santi Nonell
Santi Nonell Ramon Llull University

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