Balaji Purushothaman

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

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Balaji Purushothaman is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Balaji Purushothaman has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Balaji Purushothaman's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (29 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Balaji Purushothaman is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (29 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (14 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (10 papers). Balaji Purushothaman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Balaji Purushothaman's co-authors include John E. Anthony, Sean Parkin, Anne‐Frances Miller, Matthew J. Bruzek, David J. Jones, Wallace W. H. Wong, Andrew B. Holmes, Iain McCulloch, Jegadesan Subbiah and Michael F. Toney and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Balaji Purushothaman

36 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

2022 308 citations Ján Koščo, Soranyel González‐Carrero et al. Nature Energy profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Balaji Purushothaman United States	24	1.8k	958	912	673	324	37	2.5k
Mindaugas Kirkus United Kingdom	22	1.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	597 0.7×	258 0.4×	179 0.6×	29	2.3k
Aniket Datar United States	13	1.0k 0.6×	644 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	484 0.7×	119 0.4×	23	2.2k
Juan Luis Delgado Spain	36	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	2.1k 2.3×	1.3k 1.9×	265 0.8×	93	3.9k
Daniele Di Nuzzo United Kingdom	24	2.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	435 0.6×	111 0.3×	31	2.9k
Yohann Nicolas France	21	1.2k 0.7×	550 0.6×	969 1.1×	259 0.4×	685 2.1×	31	2.0k
Tao He China	24	1.1k 0.6×	680 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	178 0.3×	323 1.0×	44	2.2k
Runli Tang China	28	1.0k 0.6×	530 0.6×	1.8k 2.0×	392 0.6×	336 1.0×	47	2.6k
Chung‐Chih Wu Taiwan	27	2.6k 1.5×	680 0.7×	2.2k 2.4×	393 0.6×	526 1.6×	56	3.4k
Alexander W. Hains United States	12	2.3k 1.3×	1.7k 1.8×	871 1.0×	203 0.3×	194 0.6×	17	2.8k
Afshin Dadvand Canada	19	985 0.6×	406 0.4×	878 1.0×	311 0.5×	161 0.5×	30	1.7k

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Dahiya, Abhishek Singh, Ayoub Zumeit, Adamos Christou, et al.. (2024). Printing semiconductor-based devices and circuits for flexible electronic skin. Applied Physics Reviews. 11(4). 11 indexed citations

Moruzzi, Floriana, Weimin Zhang, Balaji Purushothaman, et al.. (2023). Solution-processable polymers of intrinsic microporosity for gas-phase carbon dioxide photoreduction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3443–3443. 23 indexed citations

Koščo, Ján, Soranyel González‐Carrero, Calvyn T. Howells, et al.. (2022). Generation of long-lived charges in organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Nature Energy. 7(4). 340–351. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Hu, Maximilian Moser, Suhao Wang, et al.. (2020). Acene Ring Size Optimization in Fused Lactam Polymers Enabling High n-Type Organic Thermoelectric Performance. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(1). 260–268. 85 indexed citations

Onwubiko, Ada, Wan Yue, Cameron Jellett, et al.. (2018). Fused electron deficient semiconducting polymers for air stable electron transport. Nature Communications. 9(1). 416–416. 161 indexed citations

Purushothaman, Balaji, et al.. (2017). Single-Molecule Level Insight into Nanoscale Environment-Dependent Photophysics in Blends. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(22). 12483–12494. 6 indexed citations

Knall, Astrid‐Caroline, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2016). Naphthacenodithiophene Based Polymers—New Members of the Acenodithiophene Family Exhibiting High Mobility and Power Conversion Efficiency. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(38). 6961–6969. 20 indexed citations

Gao, Mei, Jegadesan Subbiah, Paul B. Geraghty, et al.. (2016). Development of a High-Performance Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymer: Synergy in Materials and Device Optimization. Chemistry of Materials. 28(10). 3481–3487. 36 indexed citations

Sherman, Jes, Balaji Purushothaman, Sean Parkin, et al.. (2015). Role of crystallinity of non-fullerene acceptors in bulk heterojunctions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 3(18). 9989–9998. 20 indexed citations

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Sherman, Jes, Tunna Baruah, Guang Wu, et al.. (2015). Crystalline Alloys of Organic Donors and Acceptors Based on TIPS-Pentacene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(36). 20823–20832. 14 indexed citations

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Purushothaman, Balaji, et al.. (2013). Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunctions: Distinguishing Between Effects of Energy Offsets and Molecular Packing on Optoelectronic Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117(47). 24752–24760. 15 indexed citations

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Duong, Duc T., Bright Walker, Jason Lin, et al.. (2012). Molecular solubility and hansen solubility parameters for the analysis of phase separation in bulk heterojunctions. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 50(20). 1405–1413. 108 indexed citations

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Seyler, Helga, Balaji Purushothaman, David J. Jones, Andrew B. Holmes, & Wallace W. H. Wong. (2012). Hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene in organic electronics. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 84(4). 1047–1067. 92 indexed citations

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Purushothaman, Balaji, Sean Parkin, Jeremy W. Ward, et al.. (2012). Synthesis and charge transport studies of stable, soluble hexacenes. Chemical Communications. 48(66). 8261–8261. 33 indexed citations

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Jones, David J., Balaji Purushothaman, Shaomin Ji, Andrew B. Holmes, & Wallace W. H. Wong. (2012). Synthesis of electron-poor hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes. Chemical Communications. 48(65). 8066–8066. 45 indexed citations

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Purushothaman, Balaji, Matthew J. Bruzek, Sean Parkin, Anne‐Frances Miller, & John E. Anthony. (2011). Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Crystalline Nonacenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(31). 7013–7017. 262 indexed citations

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Chung, Yeon Sook, Nayool Shin, Jihoon Kang, et al.. (2010). Zone-Refinement Effect in Small Molecule−Polymer Blend Semiconductors for Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(3). 412–415. 56 indexed citations

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Lee, Stephanie S., Chang Su Kim, Enrique D. Gomez, et al.. (2009). Controlling Nucleation and Crystallization in Solution‐Processed Organic Semiconductors for Thin‐Film Transistors. Advanced Materials. 21(35). 3605–3609. 139 indexed citations

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Lee, Stephanie S., Chang Su Kim, Enrique D. Gomez, et al.. (2009). Organic Thin‐Film Transistors: Controlling Nucleation and Crystallization in Solution‐Processed Organic Semiconductors for Thin‐Film Transistors (Adv. Mater. 35/2009). Advanced Materials. 21(35).

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Fathima, Nishter Nishad, et al.. (2008). Consequence of UV irradiation on the Zirconium tanned collagen: a molecular level study. Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association. 103(12). 422–427. 3 indexed citations

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