2026 Yves Geerts: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	60	6969	6734	73	71	235	15031
Chemistry	60	9602	8691	121	113	232	14938

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

1646
Citations
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

1020
Citations
Semi-metallic polymers

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

923
Citations
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

583
Citations
Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy and Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence of Perylene, Terrylene, and Quaterrylene Diimides in Aprotic Solution

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

574
Citations
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

468
Citations
Efficient white light-emitting diodes realized with new processable blends of conjugated polymers

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

403
Citations
Rapid Charge Transport Along Self‐Assembling Graphitic Nanowires

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

333
Citations
Doping of Organic Semiconductors: Impact of Dopant Strength and Electronic Coupling

Henry Méndez;Georg Heimel;Andreas Opitz;Katrein Sauer

280
Citations
Substrate-Induced and Thin-Film Phases: Polymorphism of Organic Materials on Surfaces

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

269
Citations
Optically switchable transistors by simple incorporation of photochromic systems into small-molecule semiconducting matrices.

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

217
Citations
Reducing dynamic disorder in small-molecule organic semiconductors by suppressing large-amplitude thermal motions

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

211
Citations
Tailoring Discotic Mesophases: Columnar Order Enforced with Hydrogen Bonds

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

204
Citations
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

195
Citations
Molecular Semiconductors for Logic Operations: Dead-End or Bright Future?

Guillaume Schweicher;Guillaume Garbay;Rémy Jouclas;François Vibert

193
Citations
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

186
Citations
Highly fluorescent crystalline and liquid crystalline columnar phases of pyrene-based structures.

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

183
Citations
1,3,6,8-tetraphenylpyrene derivatives: Towards fluorescent liquid-crystalline columns?

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

182
Citations
Electronic delocalization in discotic liquid crystals: a joint experimental and theoretical study.

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

175
Citations
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

172
Citations
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

168
Citations
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

166
Citations