Alessandro Varotto

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Varotto is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Varotto has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Varotto's work include Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (10 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (5 papers). Alessandro Varotto is often cited by papers focused on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (10 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (8 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (5 papers). Alessandro Varotto collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Alessandro Varotto's co-authors include Charles Michael Drain, Ivana Radivojevic, Fred Wudl, Nicolas A. Batara, Neil D. Treat, Michael L. Chabinyc, Craig J. Hawker, Alan J. Heeger, Mohammed Al‐Hashimi and Martin Heeney and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Varotto

17 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Self-Organized Porphyrinic Materials 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Self-Organized Porphyrinic Materials
    2009 567 citations Charles Michael Drain, Alessandro Varotto et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alessandro Varotto United States 12 781 490 340 270 174 17 1.2k
Beatriz Ballesteros Spain 14 1.1k 1.4× 381 0.8× 304 0.9× 161 0.6× 143 0.8× 18 1.3k
Cheng‐Hsuan Lai Taiwan 14 651 0.8× 319 0.7× 271 0.8× 143 0.5× 129 0.7× 15 1.1k
A.C. Durrell United States 13 583 0.7× 234 0.5× 420 1.2× 104 0.4× 128 0.7× 20 1.1k
Florian Schlütter Germany 14 562 0.7× 265 0.5× 376 1.1× 172 0.6× 108 0.6× 16 958
Adrien Kaeser France 14 957 1.2× 483 1.0× 542 1.6× 154 0.6× 228 1.3× 16 1.6k
David Martel France 14 448 0.6× 295 0.6× 273 0.8× 129 0.5× 84 0.5× 27 930
Sabin–Lucian Suraru Germany 17 604 0.8× 911 1.9× 439 1.3× 509 1.9× 91 0.5× 21 1.5k
Frédéric Lafolet France 20 650 0.8× 716 1.5× 215 0.6× 127 0.5× 232 1.3× 62 1.3k
Yannick Rio France 19 820 1.0× 284 0.6× 635 1.9× 204 0.8× 93 0.5× 27 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alessandro Varotto

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alessandro Varotto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Varotto

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Jurow, Matthew J., Alessandro Varotto, Viacheslav Manichev, et al.. (2013). Self-organized nanostructured materials of alkylated phthalocyanines and underivatized C60 on ITO. RSC Advances. 3(44). 21360–21360. 5 indexed citations
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Treat, Neil D., Alessandro Varotto, Christopher J. Takacs, et al.. (2012). Polymer-Fullerene Miscibility: A Metric for Screening New Materials for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(38). 15869–15879. 194 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, et al.. (2012). ChemInform Abstract: Highly Fluorinated Porphyrins: From Ultra‐Thin Films to Nanoparticles in Catalysis. ChemInform. 43(13). 1 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, Neil D. Treat, Jang Jo, et al.. (2011). 1,4‐Fullerene Derivatives: Tuning the Properties of the Electron Transporting Layer in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(22). 5166–5169. 101 indexed citations
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Brunetti, Fulvio G., Alessandro Varotto, Nicolas A. Batara, & Fred Wudl. (2011). “Deconvoluted Fullerene” Derivatives: Synthesis and Characterization. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(31). 8604–8608. 26 indexed citations
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Wang, Mingfeng, Yanming Sun, Minghong Tong, et al.. (2011). PCBM Disperse-Red Ester with Strong Visible-Light Absorption: Implication of Molecular Design and Morphological Control for Organic Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(1). 1313–1321. 18 indexed citations
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Shuttle, Christopher G., Neil D. Treat, Jian Fan, et al.. (2011). In situ current voltage measurements for optimization of a novel fullerene acceptor in bulk heterojunction photovoltaics. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 50(3). 174–179. 3 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, Neil D. Treat, Jang Jo, et al.. (2011). 1,4‐Fullerene Derivatives: Tuning the Properties of the Electron Transporting Layer in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 123(22). 5272–5275. 13 indexed citations
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Radivojevic, Ivana, et al.. (2010). Commercially viable porphyrinoid dyes for solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 3(12). 1897–1897. 46 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, Chang‐Yong Nam, Ivana Radivojevic, et al.. (2010). Phthalocyanine Blends Improve Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(8). 2552–2554. 92 indexed citations
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Carofiglio, Tommaso, Elisa Lubian, & Alessandro Varotto. (2010). Synthesis, heterogenization and sensing properties of melamine-bridged bis-porphyrin dimers. Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. 14(8). 701–707. 4 indexed citations
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Drain, Charles Michael, Alessandro Varotto, & Ivana Radivojevic. (2009). Self-Organized Porphyrinic Materials. Chemical Reviews. 109(5). 1630–1658. 567 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drain, Charles Michael, Alessandro Varotto, & Ivana Radivojevic. (2009). ChemInform Abstract: Self‐Organized Porphyrinic Materials. ChemInform. 40(36). 1 indexed citations
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Carofiglio, Tommaso, Elisa Lubian, Ileana Menegazzo, Giacomo Saielli, & Alessandro Varotto. (2009). Melamine-Bridged Bis(porphyrin-ZnII) Receptors: Molecular Recognition Properties. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 74(23). 9034–9043. 25 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, et al.. (2009). Fabrication of Metal Nanoparticles Using Toroidal Plasmid DNA as a Sacrificial Mold. ACS Nano. 3(2). 339–344. 32 indexed citations
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Varotto, Alessandro, L. Todaro, M. Vinodu, et al.. (2008). Self-organization of a new fluorous porphyrin and C60 films on indium-tin-oxide electrode. Chemical Communications. 4921–4921. 30 indexed citations
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Carofiglio, Tommaso, Alessandro Varotto, & Umberto Tonellato. (2004). One-Pot Synthesis of Cyanuric Acid-Bridged Porphyrin−Porphyrin Dyads. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 69(23). 8121–8124. 32 indexed citations

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