Benjamin Le Ouay

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Le Ouay is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Le Ouay has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Materials Chemistry, 25 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Le Ouay's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (24 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (11 papers) and Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity (6 papers). Benjamin Le Ouay is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (24 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (11 papers) and Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity (6 papers). Benjamin Le Ouay collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and Switzerland. Benjamin Le Ouay's co-authors include Francesco Stellacci, Takashi Uemura, Susumu Kitagawa, Takashi Kitao, Mickaël Boudot, Takeshi Yanagida, Patricia Horcajada, Guillaume Maurin, Florian Moreau and Alexandré Vimont and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Le Ouay

47 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.

Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles: A surface science insight

2015 1.1k citations Benjamin Le Ouay, Francesco Stellacci profile →
Nanostructuration of PEDOT in Porous Coordination Polymers for Tunable Porosity and Conductivity

2016 208 citations Benjamin Le Ouay, Takashi Kitao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Le Ouay Japan	18	1.7k	1.0k	621	406	321	48	2.6k
Alexandros P. Katsoulidis United Kingdom	29	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	676 1.1×	417 1.0×	412 1.3×	52	3.2k
Sujitra Wongkasemjit Thailand	33	1.7k 1.0×	621 0.6×	926 1.5×	328 0.8×	376 1.2×	141	3.4k
Xiao‐Lan Yu China	30	891 0.5×	844 0.8×	429 0.7×	714 1.8×	377 1.2×	84	2.5k
Rami Al‐Oweini Germany	22	1.6k 1.0×	729 0.7×	214 0.3×	335 0.8×	261 0.8×	44	2.3k
Fabio Marmottini Italy	33	2.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	368 0.6×	285 0.7×	374 1.2×	87	3.8k
Hongfang Li China	27	1.5k 0.9×	624 0.6×	368 0.6×	399 1.0×	512 1.6×	83	2.6k
Junwei Ye China	34	2.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	866 1.4×	679 1.7×	544 1.7×	146	4.3k
Kaikai Ma United States	33	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	603 1.0×	135 0.3×	368 1.1×	68	3.0k
Huan Yang China	28	987 0.6×	794 0.8×	197 0.3×	385 0.9×	442 1.4×	84	2.4k
Thomas Cacciaguerra France	25	1.3k 0.8×	408 0.4×	469 0.8×	552 1.4×	519 1.6×	60	2.4k

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Shi, Yan, et al.. (2025). Post‐synthetic Breaking of Inversion Symmetry in Metal Complex‐based Host–guest Systems. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 28(13).

Suzuki, Ryo, Masaru Tachibana, Kazuki Komatsu, et al.. (2024). Mechanical Properties of Modulative Undulating Layers in Two-Dimensional Metal–Organic Frameworks. Chemistry of Materials. 36(11). 5446–5455. 6 indexed citations

Hori, Yuichiro, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Performances of Enzyme/Metal–Organic Polyhedra Composites by Mixed-Protein Co-Immobilization. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(40). 54423–54434. 1 indexed citations

Sharma, Nidhi, et al.. (2024). Metal–organic framework/Nb₄C₃T_x MXene composites for ultrasensitive detection of dopamine. Chemical Communications. 60(57). 7307–7310. 13 indexed citations

Nakaya, Manabu, et al.. (2024). Giant anisotropic thermal expansion of copper-cyanido flat layers with flexible copper nodes. Chemical Communications. 60(51). 6512–6515. 1 indexed citations

Boruah, Purna K., Gitashree Darabdhara, Priyakshree Borthakur, Benjamin Le Ouay, & Manash R. Das. (2023). Fe3O4 quantum dots anchored on functionalized graphene: A multimodal platform for sensing and remediation of Cr(VI). Chemical Engineering Journal. 474. 145797–145797. 17 indexed citations

Ouay, Benjamin Le, et al.. (2023). Efficient water-based purification of metal–organic polyhedra by centrifugal ultrafiltration. Dalton Transactions. 52(42). 15321–15325. 1 indexed citations

Nakaya, Manabu, et al.. (2022). Zero area thermal expansion of honeycomb layers via double distortion relaxation in (PPh₄)[Cu₂(CN)₃]. CrystEngComm. 24(33). 5880–5884. 6 indexed citations

Ohtani, Ryo, et al.. (2021). Node Distortion Modulation for Anisotropic Thermal Expansions of Two‐dimensional Coordination Polymers. ChemNanoMat. 7(5). 534–538. 6 indexed citations

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Ouay, Benjamin Le, et al.. (2021). Crystalline assembly of metal–organic polyhedra driven by ionic interactions with polyoxometalates. Chemical Communications. 57(42). 5187–5190. 18 indexed citations

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Yoshino, Haruka, Kiyoshi Miyata, Ken Onda, et al.. (2021). Guest-Tunable Excited States in a Cyanide-Bridged Luminescent Coordination Polymer. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(9). 6140–6146. 12 indexed citations

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Ohtani, Ryo, Haruka Yoshino, Hiroyoshi Ohtsu, et al.. (2021). Flexibility Control of Two‐Dimensional Coordination Polymers by Crystal Morphology: Water Adsorption and Thermal Expansion. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(72). 18135–18140. 12 indexed citations

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Yoshino, Haruka, et al.. (2021). A Cyanido-bridged Luminescent Coordination Polymer Composed of Janus-type Layers and Its Two-dimensional Negative Thermal Expansion. Chemistry Letters. 50(8). 1577–1580. 6 indexed citations

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Ouay, Benjamin Le & Takashi Uemura. (2020). Terminus-dependent insertion of molten poly(ethylene glycol) into a flexible metal-organic framework. European Polymer Journal. 134. 109855–109855. 2 indexed citations

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Ouay, Benjamin Le, Shuto Mochizuki, Masayoshi Takayanagi, et al.. (2018). Selective sorting of polymers with different terminal groups using metal-organic frameworks. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3635–3635. 60 indexed citations

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Zuber, Flavia, et al.. (2017). Core–Shell Silver Nanoparticles in Endodontic Disinfection Solutions Enable Long-Term Antimicrobial Effect on Oral Biofilms. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(40). 34762–34772. 47 indexed citations

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Wang, Yizhan, Offer Zeiri, Manoj Raula, et al.. (2016). Host–guest chemistry with water-soluble gold nanoparticle supraspheres. Nature Nanotechnology. 12(2). 170–176. 73 indexed citations

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Ouay, Benjamin Le, Thibaud Coradin, & Christel Laberty‐Robert. (2012). Silica–carbon hydrogels as cytocompatible bioelectrodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 1(5). 606–609. 12 indexed citations

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Wragg, David S., Benjamin Le Ouay, Andrew M. Beale, et al.. (2010). Ionothermal synthesis and crystal structures of metal phosphate chains. Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 183(7). 1625–1631. 9 indexed citations

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Devic, Thomas, Patricia Horcajada, Christian Serre, et al.. (2009). Functionalization in Flexible Porous Solids: Effects on the Pore Opening and the Host−Guest Interactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(3). 1127–1136. 455 indexed citations

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