B. Thémans

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

B. Thémans is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Bioengineering. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Thémans has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 10 papers in Bioengineering. Recurrent topics in B. Thémans's work include Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (14 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (10 papers). B. Thémans is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (21 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (14 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (10 papers). B. Thémans collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Sweden. B. Thémans's co-authors include Jean‐Luc Brédas, J. M. André, R. R. Chance, J. M. André, J. G. Fripiat, G. B. Street, J. L. Brédas, W. R. Salaneck, R. Silbey and J. O. Nilsson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Solid State Communications.

In The Last Decade

B. Thémans

22 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Highly conducting polyparaphenylene, polypyrrole, and polythiophene chains: Anab initiostudy of the geometry and electronic-structure modifications upon doping

1984 575 citations Jean‐Luc Brédas, B. Thémans et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Thémans Belgium	16	1.6k	1.5k	421	385	264	22	2.1k
А. В. Ванников Russia	22	1.0k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	361 0.9×	435 1.1×	121 0.5×	170	1.7k
Hiroshi Koezuka Japan	16	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	250 0.6×	315 0.8×	233 0.9×	41	2.2k
A.J. Epstein United States	16	1.0k 0.6×	758 0.5×	489 1.2×	273 0.7×	135 0.5×	36	1.4k
A. Dhanabalan Brazil	22	840 0.5×	931 0.6×	137 0.3×	435 1.1×	219 0.8×	68	1.6k
F. Genoud France	19	1.3k 0.8×	921 0.6×	619 1.5×	176 0.5×	72 0.3×	53	1.5k
Kyukwan Zong South Korea	19	1.4k 0.8×	966 0.6×	242 0.6×	290 0.8×	306 1.2×	61	1.9k
D. M. Ivory United States	8	726 0.4×	600 0.4×	167 0.4×	175 0.5×	196 0.7×	9	976
E. E. Havinga Netherlands	15	568 0.4×	569 0.4×	94 0.2×	370 1.0×	486 1.8×	19	1.3k
Susan Ermer United States	17	510 0.3×	448 0.3×	207 0.5×	274 0.7×	218 0.8×	40	1.2k
Günther Götz Germany	28	683 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	92 0.2×	970 2.5×	589 2.2×	41	2.3k

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Thémans, B., W. R. Salaneck, & Jean‐Luc Brédas. (1989). Theoretical study of the influence of thermochromic effects on the electronic structure of poly(3-hexylthiophene). Synthetic Metals. 28(1-2). 359–364. 107 indexed citations

Salaneck, W. R., Olle Inganäs, J. O. Nilsson, et al.. (1989). Thermochromism in the poly(3-alkylthiophene)s: A study of conformational defects by photoelectron spectroscopy. Synthetic Metals. 28(1-2). 451–460. 70 indexed citations

Thémans, B., et al.. (1989). Theoretical design of small bandgap polypyrrole derivatives. Synthetic Metals. 28(1-2). 205–210. 47 indexed citations

Brédas, J. L., et al.. (1989). Electronic structure and nonlinear optical properties of aromatic polymers and their derivatives. Synthetic Metals. 28(3). D533–D542. 18 indexed citations

Salaneck, W. R., Olle Inganäs, B. Thémans, et al.. (1988). Thermochromism in poly(3-hexylthiophene) in the solid state: A spectroscopic study of temperature-dependent conformational defects. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 89(8). 4613–4619. 233 indexed citations

Catellani, M., Silvia Destri, William Porzio, B. Thémans, & Jean‐Luc Brédas. (1988). Thiazole-based polymers: Synthesis, characterization and electronic structure. Synthetic Metals. 26(3). 259–265. 20 indexed citations

Thémans, B., J. M. André, & Jean‐Luc Brédas. (1987). Electronic structure of the alkyl, benzyl and methoxy derivatives of polythiophene. Synthetic Metals. 21(1-3). 149–156. 37 indexed citations

Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, J. M. André, et al.. (1986). Étude Théorique des Propriétés Électroniques et Électrochimiques de la Polyaniline. Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges. 95(7). 511–521. 2 indexed citations

Chance, R. R., D. S. Boudreaux, J.F. Wolf, et al.. (1986). Polyaniline: A theoretical study. Synthetic Metals. 15(2-3). 105–114. 39 indexed citations

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Boudreaux, D. S., R. R. Chance, J.F. Wolf, et al.. (1986). Theoretical studies on polyaniline. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 85(8). 4584–4590. 133 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, G. B. Street, B. Thémans, & J. M. André. (1985). Organic polymers based on aromatic rings (polyparaphenylene, polypyrrole, polythiophene): Evolution of the electronic properties as a function of the torsion angle between adjacent rings. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 83(3). 1323–1329. 351 indexed citations

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Thémans, B., J. M. André, & Jean‐Luc Brédas. (1984). Electronic properties of polyquinolines and poly(2,6-naphthylene). Solid State Communications. 50(12). 1047–1050. 8 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, J. G. Fripiat, J. M. André, & R. R. Chance. (1984). Highly conducting polyparaphenylene, polypyrrole, and polythiophene chains: Anab initiostudy of the geometry and electronic-structure modifications upon doping. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 29(12). 6761–6773. 575 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, J. M. André, R. R. Chance, & R. Silbey. (1984). The role of mobile organic radicals and ions (solitons, polarons and bipolarons) in the transport properties of doped conjugated polymers. Synthetic Metals. 9(2). 265–274. 101 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, J. M. André, et al.. (1983). THEORETICAL STUDIES OF THE PHYSICS OF CHARGED DEFECT FORMATION IN DOPED ORGANIC POLYMERS : TOWARDS A COHERENT THEORETICAL PICTURE. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 44(C3). C3–373. 12 indexed citations

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André, J. M., Jean‐Luc Brédas, B. Thémans, & Lucjan Piela. (1983). Exchange, correlation, and band gaps in conjugated linear chains. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 23(3). 1065–1072. 10 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, & J. M. André. (1983). Valence effective Hamiltonian technique for nitrogen containing polymers: Electronic structure of polypyrrole, pyrolized polyacrylonitrile, paracyanogen, polymethineimine, and derivatives. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 78(10). 6137–6148. 115 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, J. M. André, & Lucjan Piela. (1983). Theoretical studies of localization phenomena in excited states of polyene chains. Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges. 92(1). 1–8. 3 indexed citations

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Brédas, J. L., B. Thémans, & J. M. André. (1983). Bipolarons in polypyrrole chains. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 27(12). 7827–7830. 126 indexed citations

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Brédas, Jean‐Luc, B. Thémans, & J. M. André. (1982). Electronic structure of highly conducting poly-(p-phenylene) chains: Anab initioHartree-Fock study. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 26(10). 6000–6002. 50 indexed citations

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