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Materials Science

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60
Citations
15031
World Ranking
6967
National Ranking
73

Chemistry

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Yves Geerts 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 Yves Geerts sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 235 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yves Geerts 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 Yves Geerts sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yves Geerts is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of materials science and engineering. Their work predominantly intersects the subfields of electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, atomic and molecular physics, and organic chemistry.

The main topics addressed by Geerts' publications include:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Organic and Molecular Conductors Research
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications

Geerts has contributed numerous papers to scientific literature, with recent examples including:

  • Molecular Semiconductors for Logic Operations: Dead-End or Bright Future?, 2020, published in Advanced Materials
  • Transiently delocalized states enhance hole mobility in organic molecular semiconductors, 2023, published in Nature Materials
  • High-Performance Humidity Sensing in π-Conjugated Molecular Assemblies through the Engineering of Electron/Proton Transport and Device Interfaces, 2022, published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Understanding the Role of Bulky Side Chains on Polymorphism of BTBT-Based Organic Semiconductors, 2020, published in Crystal Growth & Design
  • Enhancing Long-Term Device Stability Using Thin Film Blends of Small Molecule Semiconductors and Insulating Polymers to Trap Surface-Induced Polymorphs, 2020, published in Advanced Functional Materials

Key frequent coauthors collaborating with Geerts include:

  • Guillaume Schweicher
  • Roland Resel
  • Jie Liu
  • Rémy Jouclas
  • Félix Devaux

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues, contributing multiple publications in each:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Advanced Materials
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Discotic liquid crystals: a new generation of organic semiconductors

    Sergey Sergeyev;Wojciech Pisula;Yves Henri Geerts

  • Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Polymers for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Photovoltaic Devices

    Hugo Bronstein;Zhuoying Chen;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Weimin Zhang

  • Semi-metallic polymers

    Olga Bubnova;Zia Ullah Khan;Hui Wang;Slawomir Braun

  • Charge transport properties in discotic liquid crystals: a quantum-chemical insight into structure-property relationships.

    Vincent Lemaur;Demetrio A da Silva Filho;Veaceslav Coropceanu;Matthias Lehmann

  • Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Perylene, Terrylene, and Quaterrylene Diimides in Aprotic Solution

    Sang Kwon Lee;Yanbing Zu;Andreas Herrmann;Yves Geerts

  • Molecular packing of high-mobility diketo pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer semiconductors with branched alkyl side chains

    Xinran Zhang;Lee J. Richter;Dean M. DeLongchamp;R. Joseph Kline

  • Efficient white light-emitting diodes realized with new processable blends of conjugated polymers

    Stefan Tasch;Emil List;O. Ekström;Wilhelm Graupner

  • Rapid Charge Transport Along Self‐Assembling Graphitic Nanowires

    A. M. van der Craats;J. M. Warman;Klaus Müllen;Y. Geerts

  • Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Impact of Dopant Strength and Electronic Coupling

    Henry Méndez;Georg Heimel;Andreas Opitz;Katrein Sauer

  • Substrate-Induced and Thin-Film Phases: Polymorphism of Organic Materials on Surfaces

    Andrew Owen Fletcher Jones;Basab Chattopadhyay;Yves H. Geerts;Roland Resel

  • Optically switchable transistors by simple incorporation of photochromic systems into small-molecule semiconducting matrices.

    Mirella El Gemayel;Karl Börjesson;Martin Herder;Duc T. Duong

  • Reducing dynamic disorder in small-molecule organic semiconductors by suppressing large-amplitude thermal motions

    Steffen Illig;Alexander S. Eggeman;Alessandro Troisi;Lang Jiang

  • Tailoring Discotic Mesophases: Columnar Order Enforced with Hydrogen Bonds

    Raluca I. Gearba;Matthias Lehmann;Jérémy Levin;Dimitri A. Ivanov

  • High charge-carrier mobility in pi-deficient discotic mesogens: design and structure-property relationship.

    Matthias Lehmann;Matthias Lehmann;Gaël Kestemont;Rafael Gómez Aspe;Claudine Buess-Herman

  • Molecular Semiconductors for Logic Operations: Dead-End or Bright Future?

    Guillaume Schweicher;Guillaume Garbay;Rémy Jouclas;François Vibert

  • Bulky end-capped [1]benzothieno[3,2-b]benzothiophenes: reaching high-mobility organic semiconductors by fine tuning of the crystalline solid-state order.

    Guillaume Schweicher;Vincent Lemaur;Claude Niebel;Christian Ruzié

  • Highly fluorescent crystalline and liquid crystalline columnar phases of pyrene-based structures.

    Anna Hayer;Véronique de Halleux;Anna Köhler;Abdel El-Garoughy

  • 1,3,6,8-tetraphenylpyrene derivatives: Towards fluorescent liquid-crystalline columns?

    V. de Halleux;J.‐P. Calbert;P. Brocorens;J. Cornil;J. Cornil

  • Electronic delocalization in discotic liquid crystals: a joint experimental and theoretical study.

    Xavier Crispin;Jérome Cornil;Rainer Friedlein;Koji Kamiya Okudaira

  • Unraveling Unprecedented Charge Carrier Mobility through Structure Property Relationship of Four Isomers of Didodecyl[1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene.

    Yusuke Tsutsui;Guillaume Schweicher;Basab Chattopadhyay;Tsuneaki Sakurai

  • Chasing the "Killer" Phonon Mode for the Rational Design of Low-Disorder, High-Mobility Molecular Semiconductors.

    Guillaume Schweicher;Gabriele D'Avino;Michael T. Ruggiero;Michael T. Ruggiero;David J. Harkin

  • Efficient red- and orange-light-emitting diodes realized by excitation energy transfer from blue-light-emitting conjugated polymers

    Stefan Tasch;Emil List;C. Hochfilzer;Günther Leising

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Cornil
Jérôme Cornil University of Mons
Vincent Lemaur
Vincent Lemaur University of Mons
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Roberto Lazzaroni
Roberto Lazzaroni University of Mons
Roland Resel
Roland Resel Graz University of Technology
Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Günther Leising
Günther Leising Graz University of Technology
Ullrich Scherf
Ullrich Scherf University of Wuppertal
Yoann Olivier
Yoann Olivier University of Namur
Jean-Luc Brédas
Jean-Luc Brédas University of Arizona

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