Brian R. Donovan

680 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 570 citations indexed

About

Brian R. Donovan is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Mechanical Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian R. Donovan has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 570 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 8 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 6 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Brian R. Donovan's work include Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers), Polymer composites and self-healing (7 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (6 papers). Brian R. Donovan is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Materials and Mechanics (8 papers), Polymer composites and self-healing (7 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (6 papers). Brian R. Donovan collaborates with scholars based in United States. Brian R. Donovan's co-authors include Timothy J. White, Joselle M. McCracken, Tyler Guin, Suk‐kyun Ahn, Derek L. Patton, Hayden E. Fowler, Anesia D. Auguste, Nicholas P. Godman, Vincent P. Tondiglia and Gary E. Wnek and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Brian R. Donovan

14 papers receiving 563 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.

Materials as Machines

2020 265 citations Joselle M. McCracken, Brian R. Donovan et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian R. Donovan United States	9	401	373	177	128	91	14	570
Shaoshuai Ma China	12	315 0.8×	464 1.2×	177 1.0×	168 1.3×	115 1.3×	28	722
Xiaojie Qian China	8	530 1.3×	483 1.3×	365 2.1×	129 1.0×	75 0.8×	8	725
Subi Choi South Korea	10	336 0.8×	315 0.8×	151 0.9×	100 0.8×	55 0.6×	15	494
Aditya Agrawal United States	8	343 0.9×	306 0.8×	119 0.7×	125 1.0×	62 0.7×	13	532
Bo Zuo China	9	467 1.2×	389 1.0×	112 0.6×	161 1.3×	72 0.8×	15	604
Kyle R. Schlafmann United States	6	455 1.1×	305 0.8×	149 0.8×	236 1.8×	53 0.6×	6	560
Zhen‐Zhou Nie China	11	311 0.8×	251 0.7×	78 0.4×	94 0.7×	74 0.8×	17	437
Rob C. P. Verpaalen Netherlands	11	419 1.0×	360 1.0×	143 0.8×	153 1.2×	107 1.2×	13	566
Feijie Ge China	14	462 1.2×	428 1.1×	211 1.2×	193 1.5×	166 1.8×	25	757
Yahe Wu China	12	638 1.6×	522 1.4×	390 2.2×	131 1.0×	100 1.1×	18	866

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian R. Donovan

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Worrell, Brady T., et al.. (2024). Catalytic Chain Transfer in Crosslinking Photopolymerizations. Synlett. 35(18). 2049–2057. 2 indexed citations

2.

McCracken, Joselle M., et al.. (2021). Molecular Engineering of Mesogenic Constituents Within Liquid Crystalline Elastomers to Sharpen Thermotropic Actuation. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(16). 69 indexed citations

3.

McCracken, Joselle M., Brian R. Donovan, & Timothy J. White. (2020). Materials as Machines. Advanced Materials. 32(20). e1906564–e1906564. 265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Auguste, Anesia D., Brian R. Donovan, Nicholas P. Godman, et al.. (2019). Deformation and Elastic Recovery of Acrylate-Based Liquid Crystalline Elastomers. Macromolecules. 52(21). 8248–8255. 26 indexed citations

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Fowler, Hayden E., Brian R. Donovan, Joselle M. McCracken, Francisco López Jiménez, & Timothy J. White. (2019). Localizing genesis in polydomain liquid crystal elastomers. Soft Matter. 16(2). 330–336. 10 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2019). Mechanotropic Elastomers. Angewandte Chemie. 131(39). 13882–13886. 4 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2019). Mechanotropic Elastomers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(39). 13744–13748. 27 indexed citations

8.

McCracken, Joselle M., Vincent P. Tondiglia, Anesia D. Auguste, et al.. (2019). Liquid Crystalline Elastomers: Microstructured Photopolymerization of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Oxygen‐Rich Environments (Adv. Funct. Mater. 40/2019). Advanced Functional Materials. 29(40). 2 indexed citations

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McCracken, Joselle M., Vincent P. Tondiglia, Anesia D. Auguste, et al.. (2019). Microstructured Photopolymerization of Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Oxygen‐Rich Environments. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(40). 32 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2018). All‐Optical Control of Shape. Advanced Materials. 31(2). e1805750–e1805750. 69 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2017). Synthesis and thiol–ene photopolymerization of (meth)allyl‐terminated polysulfides. Journal of Applied Polymer Science. 134(46). 4 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2016). Thiol–Trifluorovinyl Ether (TFVE) Photopolymerization: An On-Demand Synthetic Route to Semifluorinated Polymer Networks. Macromolecules. 49(20). 7667–7675. 6 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2015). Functional, composite polythioether nanoparticles via thiol–alkyne photopolymerization in miniemulsion. Chemical Communications. 51(54). 10910–10913. 27 indexed citations

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Donovan, Brian R., et al.. (2014). Thiol–ene adhesives from clove oil derivatives. RSC Advances. 4(106). 61927–61935. 27 indexed citations

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