Didier Astruc

30.3k total citations · 14 hit papers
290 papers, 25.8k citations indexed

About

Didier Astruc is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Didier Astruc has authored 290 papers receiving a total of 25.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Organic Chemistry, 105 papers in Materials Chemistry and 88 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Didier Astruc's work include Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (87 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (53 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (35 papers). Didier Astruc is often cited by papers focused on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (87 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (53 papers) and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (35 papers). Didier Astruc collaborates with scholars based in France, China and Spain. Didier Astruc's co-authors include Jaime Ruiz Aranzaes, Feng Lu, Dong Wang, Qi Wang, Cátia Ornelas, Jaimé Ruiz, Élodie Boisselier, Pengxiang Zhao, Lionel Salmon and Manzhou Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Didier Astruc

282 papers receiving 25.4k citations

Hit Papers

Nanoparticles as Recyclable Catalysts: The Frontier betwe... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2005 2019 2015 2010 2019 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Nanoparticles as Recyclable Catalysts: The Frontier between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis
    2005 2.8k citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  2. State of the Art and Prospects in Metal–Organic Framework (MOF)-Based and MOF-Derived Nanocatalysis
    2019 2.0k citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  3. The Golden Age of Transfer Hydrogenation
    2015 1.6k citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  4. Dendrimers Designed for Functions: From Physical, Photophysical, and Supramolecular Properties to Applications in Sensing, Catalysis, Molecular Electronics, Photonics, and Nanomedicine
    2010 1.6k citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  5. Atomically Precise Noble Metal Nanoclusters as Efficient Catalysts: A Bridge between Structure and Properties
    2019 1.2k citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  6. Dendritic Catalysts and Dendrimers in Catalysis
    2001 938 citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  7. State of the art in gold nanoparticle synthesis
    2012 739 citations Didier Astruc et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →
  8. Basic concepts and recent advances in nitrophenol reduction by gold- and other transition metal nanoparticles
    2015 717 citations Didier Astruc et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →
  9. Palladium Nanoparticles as Efficient Green Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Carbon−Carbon Coupling Precatalysts:  A Unifying View
    2007 707 citations Didier Astruc profile →
  10. The recent development of efficient Earth-abundant transition-metal nanocatalysts
    2017 505 citations Didier Astruc et al. profile →
  11. Nanocatalysts and other nanomaterials for water remediation from organic pollutants
    2020 479 citations Didier Astruc et al. Coordination Chemistry Reviews profile →
  12. Introduction: Nanoparticles in Catalysis
    2020 445 citations Didier Astruc profile →
  13. Recent developments of nanocatalyzed liquid-phase hydrogen generation
    2021 277 citations Changlong Wang, Didier Astruc profile →
  14. Ultra-Tough, highly stable and Self-Adhesive Goatskin-Based intelligent Multi-Functional organogel e-skin as Temperature, Humidity, Strain, and bioelectric four-mode sensors for health monitoring
    2024 82 citations Rongrong Zhao, Ke Tao et al. Chemical Engineering Journal profile →

Peers

Didier Astruc
Didier Astruc France
Christopher W. Bielawski United States
Bradley F. Chmelka United States
Honglai Liu China
Javed Iqbal Pakistan
J. C. Scaiano Canada
Tomislav Friščić Canada
Jianmei Lu China
Jin Yong Lee South Korea
Nanfeng Zheng China
Didier Astruc France
Didier Astruc
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All Works

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Wang, Tiansheng & Didier Astruc. (2024). Electron-reservoir applications of ferrocenes and other late transition-metal sandwich complexes: Flow batteries, sensing, catalysis, and biomedicine. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 524. 216300–216300. 6 indexed citations
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Zhao, Rongrong, Ke Tao, Jinwei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Ultra-Tough, highly stable and Self-Adhesive Goatskin-Based intelligent Multi-Functional organogel e-skin as Temperature, Humidity, Strain, and bioelectric four-mode sensors for health monitoring. Chemical Engineering Journal. 485. 149816–149816. 82 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Qiuyan, Fangyu Fu, Jiaying Yan, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of N-doped porous biochar from chemical pollutant for efficient sulfadiazine degradation: Performance, mechanism and bio-toxicity assessment. Separation and Purification Technology. 353. 128432–128432. 18 indexed citations
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Kang, Naixin, Ruofan Shen, Baojun Li, et al.. (2023). Dramatic acceleration by visible light and mechanism of AuPd@ZIF-8-catalyzed ammonia borane methanolysis for efficient hydrogen production. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(10). 5245–5256. 34 indexed citations
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Liu, Fangfei, Xiong Liu, Tursun Abdiryim, Haibin Gu, & Didier Astruc. (2023). Heterometallic macromolecules: Synthesis, properties and multiple nanomaterial applications. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 500. 215544–215544. 7 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiachang, Xin Fan, Didier Astruc, & Haibin Gu. (2023). Robust conductive skin hydrogel e-skin constructed by top–down strategy for motion-monitoring. 5(1). 113 indexed citations
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Jin, Xiao‐Tao, Qiuyan Li, Yanlan Wang, et al.. (2023). Co3O4 Nanocubes for Degradation of Oxytetracycline in Wastewater via Peroxymonosulfate Activation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(13). 12497–12506. 24 indexed citations
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Liang, Liyuan, Sen Wang, Ji Wu, et al.. (2022). Overview of the materials design and sensing strategies of nanopore devices. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 478. 214998–214998. 32 indexed citations
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Wang, Yanlan, et al.. (2022). Efficient and controlled H2 release from sodium formate. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 9(14). 3514–3521. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Dong‐Sheng, et al.. (2022). “On–off” switch for H2 and O2 generation from HCOOH resp. H2O2. Carbon Energy. 5(3). 19 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiang, Xiao‐Tao Jin, Jiaying Yan, et al.. (2022). “On-off” control for on-demand H2 evolution upon Si-H bond hydrolysis: A combined experimental and theoretical study. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 324. 122261–122261. 17 indexed citations
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Wang, Changlong, Xiang Liu, Yufeng Wu, & Didier Astruc. (2022). PtNi@ZIF-8 nanocatalyzed high efficiency and complete hydrogen generation from hydrazine borane: origin and mechanistic insight. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10(34). 17614–17623. 23 indexed citations
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Zhao, Qiuxia, Naixin Kang, Marta Martínez Moro, et al.. (2022). Sharp Volcano-Type Synergy and Visible Light Acceleration in H2 Release upon B2(OH)4 Hydrolysis Catalyzed by Au-Rh@Click-Dendrimer Nanozymes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(3). 3834–3844. 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Weifeng, Jialu Shen, Zuo Wang, et al.. (2021). Turning waste into wealth: facile and green synthesis of carbon nanodots from pollutants and applications to bioimaging. Chemical Science. 12(35). 11722–11729. 62 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiang, Xu Meng, Xiuru Bi, et al.. (2021). Degradation of tetracycline over carbon nanosheet: high efficiency, mechanism and biotoxicity assessment. Environmental Science Nano. 8(12). 3762–3773. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Xiong, Amalia Rapakousiou, Christophe Deraedt, et al.. (2020). Multiple applications of polymers containing electron-reservoir metal-sandwich complexes. Chemical Communications. 56(77). 11374–11385. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Wenjuan, Shuang Chen, Eduardo Guisasola, et al.. (2020). ZIF-8-based vs. ZIF-8-derived Au and Pd nanoparticles as efficient catalysts for the Ullmann homocoupling reaction. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 7(20). 3945–3952. 16 indexed citations
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Zheng, Kaibo, et al.. (2019). Optimization of Cu catalysts for nitrophenol reduction, click reaction and alkyne coupling. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 7(4). 939–945. 57 indexed citations

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