Guillermo C. Bazan

77.1k total citations · 30 hit papers
731 papers, 63.4k citations indexed

About

Guillermo C. Bazan is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillermo C. Bazan has authored 731 papers receiving a total of 63.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 421 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 304 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 194 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Guillermo C. Bazan's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (316 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (294 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (117 papers). Guillermo C. Bazan is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (316 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (294 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (117 papers). Guillermo C. Bazan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and China. Guillermo C. Bazan's co-authors include Alan J. Heeger, Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen, Bin Liu, D. Moses, Brent S. Gaylord, Jin Young Kim, Jeff Peet, Gregory C. Welch, Zachary B. Henson and Aung Ko Ko Kyaw and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Guillermo C. Bazan

714 papers receiving 62.7k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Efficiency enhancement in low-bandgap polymer solar cells by processing with alkane dithiols
    2007 2.8k citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. Nature Materials profile →
  2. Electrochemical Considerations for Determining Absolute Frontier Orbital Energy Levels of Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cell Applications
    2011 1.9k citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  3. Processing Additives for Improved Efficiency from Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
    2008 1.5k citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Concurrent Tandem Catalysis
    2005 1.3k citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  5. Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Morphology and Performance Relationships
    2014 1.1k citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  6. Intensity Dependence of Current–Voltage Characteristics and Recombination in High-Efficiency Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Solar Cells
    2013 950 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. ACS Nano profile →
  7. Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes
    2013 787 citations Akshay Rao, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  8. Improved Light Harvesting and Improved Efficiency by Insertion of an Optical Spacer (ZnO) in Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Solar Cells
    2013 566 citations Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  9. Non‐Basic High‐Performance Molecules for Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells
    2012 558 citations Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  10. “Plastic” Solar Cells: Self-Assembly of Bulk Heterojunction Nanomaterials by Spontaneous Phase Separation
    2009 549 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  11. Homogeneous Fluorescence-Based DNA Detection with Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers
    2004 548 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  12. Streamlined microwave-assisted preparation of narrow-bandgap conjugated polymers for high-performance bulk heterojunction solar cells
    2009 547 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  13. High‐Mobility Field‐Effect Transistors Fabricated with Macroscopic Aligned Semiconducting Polymers
    2014 533 citations Ming Wang, Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen et al. profile →
  14. DNA detection using water-soluble conjugated polymers and peptide nucleic acid probes
    2002 529 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  15. Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices
    2009 524 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. Nature Materials profile →
  16. Improved High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells via Incorporation of a Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Interlayer
    2011 520 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  17. Design strategies for organic semiconductors beyond the molecular formula
    2012 510 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  18. Understanding Energy Loss in Organic Solar Cells: Toward a New Efficiency Regime
    2017 508 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  19. Narrow Bandwidth Luminescence from Blends with Energy Transfer from Semiconducting Conjugated Polymers to Europium Complexes
    1999 474 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  20. Efficient Solution‐Processed Small‐Molecule Solar Cells with Inverted Structure
    2013 470 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  21. High‐Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Enhanced by Solvent Treatment
    2013 468 citations Guillermo C. Bazan, Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen et al. profile →
  22. Design and Synthesis of Molecular Donors for Solution-Processed High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells
    2013 442 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  23. Solvent Additives: Key Morphology‐Directing Agents for Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells
    2018 439 citations Caitlin McDowell, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  24. Multilayer Polymer Light‐Emitting Diodes: White‐Light Emission with High Efficiency
    2005 429 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  25. General Strategy for Self-Assembly of Highly Oriented Nanocrystalline Semiconducting Polymers with High Mobility
    2014 422 citations Ming Wang, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  26. A High‐Performance Solution‐Processed Organic Photodetector for Near‐Infrared Sensing
    2019 407 citations Jianfei Huang, Jaewon Lee et al. profile →
  27. Polymer Homo‐Tandem Solar Cells with Best Efficiency of 11.3%
    2015 399 citations Cheng‐Kang Mai, Guillermo C. Bazan et al. profile →
  28. The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells
    2021 350 citations Akchheta Karki, Jaewon Lee et al. profile →
  29. Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization of 2,3-difunctionalized norbornadienes by Mo(:CHBu-tert)(:NC6H3Pr-iso2-2,6)(OBu-tert)2
    1990 283 citations Guillermo C. Bazan et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  30. Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization of 2,3-difunctionalized 7-oxanorbornenes and 7-oxanorbornadienes by Mo(CHCMe2R)(NC6H3-iso-Pr2-2,6)(O-tert-Bu)2 and Mo(CHCMe2R)(NC6H3-iso-Pr2-2,6)(OCMe2CF3)2
    1991 239 citations Guillermo C. Bazan 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Guillermo C. Bazan United States 130 41.9k 32.4k 18.8k 12.0k 6.8k 731 63.4k
Yunqi Liu China 109 34.1k 0.8× 16.9k 0.5× 30.3k 1.6× 7.8k 0.7× 11.1k 1.6× 910 59.3k
Mark E. Thompson United States 120 54.1k 1.3× 17.2k 0.5× 36.7k 2.0× 11.1k 0.9× 4.3k 0.6× 440 68.3k
Daoben Zhu China 130 39.3k 0.9× 21.8k 0.7× 43.8k 2.3× 12.1k 1.0× 16.3k 2.4× 1.1k 83.8k
Frank Würthner Germany 123 19.4k 0.5× 9.7k 0.3× 33.2k 1.8× 19.3k 1.6× 4.5k 0.7× 715 56.5k
Timothy M. Swager United States 106 17.6k 0.4× 11.0k 0.3× 28.2k 1.5× 13.0k 1.1× 7.6k 1.1× 679 49.8k
Fred Wudl United States 105 33.1k 0.8× 28.2k 0.9× 21.4k 1.1× 21.9k 1.8× 4.8k 0.7× 594 59.8k
Jean‐Luc Brédas United States 138 62.4k 1.5× 33.9k 1.0× 35.9k 1.9× 12.7k 1.1× 11.2k 1.6× 1.0k 91.3k
Alex K.‐Y. Jen United States 149 67.9k 1.6× 43.3k 1.3× 28.5k 1.5× 6.0k 0.5× 8.0k 1.2× 1.1k 83.5k
Seth R. Marder United States 111 27.4k 0.7× 15.9k 0.5× 26.9k 1.4× 10.3k 0.9× 15.0k 2.2× 714 58.3k
Wai‐Yeung Wong Hong Kong 96 24.3k 0.6× 10.8k 0.3× 22.7k 1.2× 9.6k 0.8× 3.0k 0.4× 989 42.5k

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All Works

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Chen, Yuhui, Dandan Yao, Jingjing Jia, et al.. (2025). Host–Guest Antimicrobial Based on Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte and Cyclodextrin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202504581–e202504581. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Chaofan, et al.. (2025). Aqueous asymmetric pseudocapacitor featuring high areal energy and power using conjugated polyelectrolytes and Ti3C2Tx MXene. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7984–7984. 7 indexed citations
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Finol, Esteban, et al.. (2025). Tailoring Lipid Nanoparticle with Ex Situ Incorporated Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte for Enhanced mRNA Delivery Efficiency. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 14(14). e2405048–e2405048.
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Lee, Wonho, Amit Kumar Harit, Chae Yeon Park, et al.. (2025). Emerging Potential of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes beyond Boundaries. ACS Nano. 19(6). 5938–5965. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Wen, Shengpeng Xia, Miaomiao Zhang, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances of Conjugated Polymers-Based Biohybrid Systems for the Synthesis of Value-Added Chemicals. CCS Chemistry. 8(1). 142–163.
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Wang, Bing, Yi‐Ming Chen, Hyunjin Kim, et al.. (2024). Auto recalibration based on dual-mode sensing for robust optical continuous glucose monitoring. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 418. 136277–136277. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Jiawei, Donglei Zhou, Junzhi Ye, et al.. (2023). Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskite Superstructures for Ultrapure Green Emissions. Nanomaterials. 13(5). 815–815. 8 indexed citations
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Schopp, Nora, Ernazar Abdikamalov, М. Н. Солован, et al.. (2023). Interstellar photovoltaics. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16114–16114. 5 indexed citations
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Schopp, Nora, В. В. Брус, Jaewon Lee, et al.. (2021). Effect of Palladium‐Tetrakis(Triphenylphosphine) Catalyst Traces on Charge Recombination and Extraction in Non‐Fullerene‐based Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(15). 38 indexed citations
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Khan, Aftab Aslam Parwaz, Guillermo C. Bazan, Hadi M. Marwani, et al.. (2020). Nanocomposite cross-linked conjugated polyelectrolyte/MWCNT/poly(pyrrole) for enhanced Mg2+ ion sensing and environmental remediation in real samples. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 9(5). 9667–9674. 12 indexed citations
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Schopp, Nora, В. В. Брус, Jaewon Lee, Guillermo C. Bazan, & Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen. (2020). A Simple Approach for Unraveling Optoelectronic Processes in Organic Solar Cells under Short‐Circuit Conditions. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(1). 42 indexed citations
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Athanasopoulos, Stavros, Stephan Gekle, Fabian Panzer, et al.. (2020). What is the role of planarity and torsional freedom for aggregation in a π-conjugated donor–acceptor model oligomer?. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(14). 4944–4955. 13 indexed citations
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Lee, Jaewon, Seo‐Jin Ko, Hansol Lee, et al.. (2019). Side-Chain Engineering of Nonfullerene Acceptors for Near-Infrared Organic Photodetectors and Photovoltaics. ACS Energy Letters. 4(6). 1401–1409. 224 indexed citations
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Tenopala‐Carmona, Francisco, Stephanie L. Fronk, Guillermo C. Bazan, Ifor D. W. Samuel, & J. Carlos Penedo. (2018). Real-time observation of conformational switching in single conjugated polymer chains. Science Advances. 4(2). eaao5786–eaao5786. 20 indexed citations
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Fuentes‐Hernandez, Canek, Wen-Fang Chou, Naoya Aizawa, et al.. (2016). Solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films over a limited depth. Nature Materials. 16(4). 474–480. 131 indexed citations
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Mai, Cheng‐Kang, Ruth A. Schlitz, Gregory M. Su, et al.. (2014). Side-Chain Effects on the Conductivity, Morphology, and Thermoelectric Properties of Self-Doped Narrow-Band-Gap Conjugated Polyelectrolytes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(39). 13478–13481. 172 indexed citations
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Thomas, Alexander W., Logan E. Garner, Kelly P. Nevin, et al.. (2013). A lipid membrane intercalating conjugated oligoelectrolyte enables electrode driven succinate production in Shewanella. Energy & Environmental Science. 6(6). 1761–1765. 50 indexed citations
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Watts, Benjamin, Tohru Araki, Harald Ade, et al.. (2008). Resonant Soft X-ray Reflectivity (RSoXR) for organic thin films characterrization. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 75. 1 indexed citations

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