Brett A. Helms

12.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
160 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Brett A. Helms is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett A. Helms has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 65 papers in Materials Chemistry and 39 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Brett A. Helms's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (35 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (22 papers). Brett A. Helms is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (35 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (22 papers). Brett A. Helms collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Brett A. Helms's co-authors include Jean M. J. Fréchet, Thomas P. Russell, Craig J. Hawker, Delia J. Milliron, Raffaella Buonsanti, Angelique M. Scheuermann, Peter R. Christensen, Anna Llordés, Justin L. Mynar and E. W. Meijer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Brett A. Helms

158 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds

2019 531 citations Brett A. Helms et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Toward polymer upcycling—adding value and tackling circularity

2021 525 citations Brett A. Helms et al. Science profile →
Dendronized Linear Polymers via “Click Chemistry”

2004 518 citations Brett A. Helms et al. profile →

Peers

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Jeffrey Pyun United States

Jean‐François Gohy Belgium

Byeong‐Su Kim South Korea

Martin D. Hager Germany

Thomas H. Epps United States

Igor Luzinov United States

Christopher Y. Li United States

Sheng Dai Australia

Yiyong Mai China

Giuseppe Portale Netherlands

Jeffrey Pyun United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brett A. Helms

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Demarteau, Jérémy, Alexander R. Epstein, Nicodemo R. Ciccia, et al.. (2025). Circularity in polydiketoenamine thermoplastics via control over reactive chain conformation. Science Advances. 11(4). eads8444–eads8444. 1 indexed citations

Demarteau, Jérémy, et al.. (2025). Diffusion power spectra as a window into dynamic materials architecture. Science Advances. 11(15). eadt6144–eadt6144. 1 indexed citations

Zuba, Mateusz, Beth L. Armstrong, Dong‐Min Kim, et al.. (2024). Aqueous solution-based synthesis approach for carbon-disordered rocksalt composite cathode development and its limitations. Electrochimica Acta. 509. 145302–145302. 1 indexed citations

Hua, Mutian, et al.. (2024). Magnetic resonance insights into the heterogeneous, fractal-like kinetics of chemically recyclable polymers. Science Advances. 10(14). eadl0568–eadl0568. 4 indexed citations

Ko, Youngmin, Jiwoong Bae, Gan Chen, et al.. (2024). Topological Considerations in Electrolyte Additives for Passivating Silicon Anodes with Hybrid Solid–Electrolyte Interphases. ACS Energy Letters. 9(7). 3448–3455. 19 indexed citations

Fink, Zachary, Paul Y. Kim, Xuefei Wu, et al.. (2024). Repairable and Reconfigurable Structured Liquid Circuits. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(38). 7 indexed citations

Sui, Yang, et al.. (2024). Rewritable Surface‐Grafted Polymer Brushes with Dynamic Covalent Linkages. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(49). e202410862–e202410862. 5 indexed citations

Ciccia, Nicodemo R., Jake X. Shi, Subhajit Pal, et al.. (2023). Diverse functional polyethylenes by catalytic amination. Science. 381(6665). 1433–1440. 67 indexed citations

Demarteau, Jérémy, Zilong Wang, Baishakhi Bose, et al.. (2023). Biorenewable and circular polydiketoenamine plastics. Nature Sustainability. 6(11). 1426–1435. 31 indexed citations

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Aierken, Yierpan, Ankit Agrawal, Meiling Sun, et al.. (2021). Revealing Charge-Transfer Dynamics at Electrified Sulfur Cathodes Using Constrained Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(2). 739–744. 5 indexed citations

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Xie, Ganhua, Pei Li, Paul Y. Kim, et al.. (2021). Continuous, autonomous subsurface cargo shuttling by nature-inspired meniscus-climbing systems. Nature Chemistry. 14(2). 208–215. 25 indexed citations

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Xie, Ganhua, Joe Forth, Shipei Zhu, et al.. (2020). Hanging droplets from liquid surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(15). 8360–8365. 31 indexed citations

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Maho, Anthony, et al.. (2020). Aqueous Processing and Spray Deposition of Polymer-Wrapped Tin-Doped Indium Oxide Nanocrystals as Electrochromic Thin Films. Chemistry of Materials. 32(19). 8401–8411. 18 indexed citations

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Chai, Yu, Matthew Wong, Dong Li, et al.. (2020). Direct observation of nanoparticle-surfactant assembly and jamming at the water-oil interface. Science Advances. 6(48). 70 indexed citations

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Feng, Wenqian, Yu Chai, Joe Forth, et al.. (2019). Harnessing liquid-in-liquid printing and micropatterned substrates to fabricate 3-dimensional all-liquid fluidic devices. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1095–1095. 128 indexed citations

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Liu, Xubo, Noah Kent, Alejandro Ceballos, et al.. (2019). Reconfigurable ferromagnetic liquid droplets. Science. 365(6450). 264–267. 282 indexed citations

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Ma, Lin, Chengyin Fu, Longjun Li, et al.. (2019). Nanoporous Polymer Films with a High Cation Transference Number Stabilize Lithium Metal Anodes in Light-Weight Batteries for Electrified Transportation. Nano Letters. 19(2). 1387–1394. 62 indexed citations

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Cain, Jeffrey D., Amin Azizi, Kathleen Maleski, et al.. (2019). Sculpting Liquids with Two-Dimensional Materials: The Assembly of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene Sheets at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. ACS Nano. 13(11). 12385–12392. 62 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ziyi, Yufeng Jiang, Caili Huang, et al.. (2018). Guiding kinetic trajectories between jammed and unjammed states in 2D colloidal nanocrystal-polymer assemblies with zwitterionic ligands. Science Advances. 4(8). eaap8045–eaap8045. 32 indexed citations

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Williams, Teresa E., Daniela Ushizima, Chenhui Zhu, et al.. (2017). Nearest-neighbour nanocrystal bonding dictates framework stability or collapse in colloidal nanocrystal frameworks. Chemical Communications. 53(35). 4853–4856. 6 indexed citations

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