Jérôme Cornil

35.7k total citations · 12 hit papers
382 papers, 31.1k citations indexed

About

Jérôme Cornil is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jérôme Cornil has authored 382 papers receiving a total of 31.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 265 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 135 papers in Materials Chemistry and 121 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Jérôme Cornil's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (179 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (119 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (109 papers). Jérôme Cornil is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (179 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (119 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (109 papers). Jérôme Cornil collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Jérôme Cornil's co-authors include Jean‐Luc Brédas, David Beljonne, Veaceslav Coropceanu, Demétrio A. da Silva Filho, Yoann Olivier, R. Silbey, J. P. Calbert, Vincent Lemaur, J. L. Brédas and Joseph E. Norton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Jérôme Cornil

376 papers receiving 30.8k citations

Hit Papers

Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors 1996 2026 2006 2016 2007 2004 2009 2002 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors
    2007 3.9k citations Jérôme Cornil, Yoann Olivier et al. profile →
  2. Charge-Transfer and Energy-Transfer Processes in π-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers:  A Molecular Picture
    2004 2.5k citations David Beljonne, Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →
  3. Molecular Understanding of Organic Solar Cells: The Challenges
    2009 1.3k citations Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →
  4. Organic semiconductors: A theoretical characterization of the basic parameters governing charge transport
    2002 1.1k citations Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →
  5. The Role of Driving Energy and Delocalized States for Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductors
    2012 991 citations Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne et al. profile →
  6. Interchain Interactions in Organic π-Conjugated Materials: Impact on Electronic Structure, Optical Response, and Charge Transport
    2001 911 citations Jérôme Cornil, David Beljonne et al. profile →
  7. Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers
    2014 901 citations Vincent Lemaur, Yoann Olivier et al. profile →
  8. Single-electron transistor of a single organic molecule with access to several redox states
    2003 692 citations Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →
  9. Optical Bandgaps of π‐Conjugated Organic Materials at the Polymer Limit: Experiment and Theory
    2007 546 citations Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →
  10. Influence of Interchain Interactions on the Absorption and Luminescence of Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers:  A Quantum-Chemical Characterization
    1998 538 citations Jérôme Cornil et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  11. Characterization of the Interface Dipole at Organic/ Metal Interfaces
    2002 446 citations Jérôme Cornil, Roberto Lazzaroni et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  12. The exciton binding energy in luminescent conjugated polymers
    1996 300 citations Jérôme Cornil et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jérôme Cornil Belgium 76 23.3k 11.8k 11.1k 4.4k 4.1k 382 31.1k
Stephen Barlow United States 80 16.9k 0.7× 10.4k 0.9× 11.5k 1.0× 5.4k 1.2× 1.9k 0.5× 383 28.0k
David Beljonne Belgium 101 24.2k 1.0× 10.3k 0.9× 20.1k 1.8× 5.6k 1.3× 5.1k 1.3× 533 39.6k
John E. Anthony United States 84 21.7k 0.9× 7.7k 0.6× 9.0k 0.8× 6.9k 1.6× 3.2k 0.8× 405 29.4k
Veaceslav Coropceanu United States 66 16.2k 0.7× 7.7k 0.7× 7.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.7× 2.4k 0.6× 199 20.9k
Zhigang Shuai China 92 19.0k 0.8× 5.8k 0.5× 20.0k 1.8× 3.9k 0.9× 3.5k 0.9× 458 32.1k
Paul L. Burn Australia 75 28.0k 1.2× 17.1k 1.5× 12.9k 1.2× 2.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 476 32.9k
Masayoshi Watanabe Japan 97 20.5k 0.9× 7.9k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 4.9k 1.1× 2.0k 0.5× 594 39.7k
Huanli Dong China 77 16.2k 0.7× 7.7k 0.7× 10.6k 1.0× 3.2k 0.7× 942 0.2× 368 23.5k
Howard E. Katz United States 86 19.0k 0.8× 9.2k 0.8× 7.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.7× 2.6k 0.6× 357 26.1k
Samson A. Jenekhe United States 99 22.8k 1.0× 18.5k 1.6× 10.3k 0.9× 5.8k 1.3× 1.2k 0.3× 347 31.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pham, Chien Thang, et al.. (2025). Acyl thiosemicarbazides as novel inhibitors for zinc substrate in saline solution. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1351. 144342–144342.
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Bonnaud, Leïla, Maurice Gonon, David Cornil, et al.. (2024). Effect of surface pretreatment on the production of LDH for post-treatment with benzoxazine resin. Surface and Coatings Technology. 479. 130538–130538. 7 indexed citations
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Scardamaglia, Mattia, Juan Casanova‐Cháfer, Robert H. Temperton, et al.. (2024). Operando Investigation of WS2 Gas Sensors: Simultaneous Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Electrical Characterization in Unveiling Sensing Mechanisms during Toxic Gas Exposure. ACS Sensors. 9(8). 4079–4088. 15 indexed citations
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Gicevičius, Mindaugas, Marta Mas‐Torrent, Jérôme Cornil, et al.. (2024). Impact of hydrophilic side chains on the thin film transistor performance of a benzothieno–benzothiophene derivative. Materials Advances. 5(15). 6285–6294. 2 indexed citations
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Heinrich, Benoı̂t, Olivier Jeannin, Olivier de Sagazan, et al.. (2024). Grafting Electron‐Accepting Fragments on [4]cyclo‐2,7‐carbazole Scaffold: Tuning the Structural and Electronic Properties of Nanohoops. Advanced Science. 11(13). e2309115–e2309115. 10 indexed citations
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Slassi, Amine, Ádám Gali, Jérôme Cornil, & Anton Pershin. (2023). Non-covalent Functionalization of Pristine and Defective WSe2 by Electron Donor and Acceptor Molecules. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 5(3). 1660–1669. 4 indexed citations
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Kumar, Shiv, Jonathan R. Adsetts, Michael Y. Wong, et al.. (2022). Photoluminescence and electrochemiluminescence of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters containing diphenylphosphine chalcogenide-substituted carbazole donors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(12). 4646–4667. 32 indexed citations
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Nikitin, Daniil, Pavel Pleskunov, David Cornil, et al.. (2022). Plasmonic Ag/Cu/PEG nanofluids prepared when solids meet liquids in the gas phase. Nanoscale Advances. 5(3). 955–969. 14 indexed citations
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Diez‐Cabanes, Valentín, et al.. (2022). F-Center-Mediated Growth of Patterned Organic Semiconductor Films on Alkali Halides. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(40). 46086–46094. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Jian, Amine Slassi, Xu Han, et al.. (2021). Tuning the Electronic Bandgap of Graphdiyne by H‐Substitution to Promote Interfacial Charge Carrier Separation for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(29). 95 indexed citations
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Chauvin, Adrien, Jozef Veselý, Julien De Winter, et al.. (2021). Magnetron sputter deposition of silver onto castor oil: The effect of plasma parameters on nanoparticle properties. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 615. 126286–126286. 13 indexed citations
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Duez, Quentin, Haidy Metwally, Vincent Lemaur, et al.. (2020). Effects of electrospray mechanisms and structural relaxation on polylactide ion conformations in the gas phase: insights from ion mobility spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(7). 4193–4204. 11 indexed citations
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Troian‐Gautier, Ludovic, et al.. (2020). MLCT Excited-State Behavior of Trinuclear Ruthenium(II) 2,2′-Bipyridine Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(1). 366–379. 23 indexed citations
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Cornil, David, et al.. (2020). Fine Control of the Chemistry of Nitrogen Doping in TiO2: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(31). 17401–17412. 25 indexed citations
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Duez, Quentin, Sébastien Moins, Vincent Lemaur, et al.. (2019). One Step Further in the Characterization of Synthetic Polymers by Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry: Evaluating the Contribution of End-groups. Polymers. 11(4). 688–688. 10 indexed citations
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Duez, Quentin, Maxime Romain, Julien De Winter, et al.. (2018). Discrimination of positional isomers by ion mobility mass spectrometry: application to organic semiconductors. Analytical Methods. 10(20). 2303–2306. 2 indexed citations
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Martins, José C., Vincent Lemaur, Jérôme Cornil, et al.. (2017). Potential of polymethacrylate pseudo crown ethers as solid state polymer electrolytes. Chemical Communications. 53(51). 6899–6902. 19 indexed citations
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Keerthi, Ashok, Boya Radha, Hao Lü, et al.. (2017). Edge Functionalization of Structurally Defined Graphene Nanoribbons for Modulating the Self-Assembled Structures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(46). 16454–16457. 46 indexed citations
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Cornil, David, et al.. (2016). Oxygen vacancy stabilized zirconia (OVSZ); a joint experimental and theoretical study. Scripta Materialia. 124. 26–29. 49 indexed citations

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