Lluı́s Blancafort

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Lluı́s Blancafort is a scholar working on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lluı́s Blancafort has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, 39 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 36 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lluı́s Blancafort's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (50 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (25 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (22 papers). Lluı́s Blancafort is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (50 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (25 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (22 papers). Lluı́s Blancafort collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and China. Lluı́s Blancafort's co-authors include Michael A. Robb, Quan‐Song Li, Annapaola Migani, Michael J. Bearpark, Roberto Improta, Fabrizio Santoro, Martin J. Paterson, Alexander A. Voityuk, Massimo Olivucci and Bern Kohler and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Lluı́s Blancafort

111 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Quantum Mechanical Studies on the Photophysics and the Photochemistry of Nucleic Acids and Nucleobases

2016 392 citations Lluı́s Blancafort et al. profile →
Through-Space Interaction of Tetraphenylethylene: What, Where, and How

2022 155 citations Junkai Liu, Haoke Zhang 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						Papers	Cites
Lluı́s Blancafort Spain	38	2.0k	1.9k	1.7k	1.4k	1.0k	113	4.8k
Boiko Cohen Spain	33	1.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	682 0.7×	105	4.9k
Alexander A. Voityuk Spain	39	1.5k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.5k 1.8×	1.1k 1.0×	171	5.2k
Zhenggang Lan China	39	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	653 0.5×	557 0.5×	138	4.8k
Felix Plasser United Kingdom	38	2.3k 1.1×	2.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.1×	524 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	110	5.7k
T. Gustavsson France	40	2.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.9×	621 0.6×	131	5.0k
Carlos E. Crespo‐Hernández United States	40	2.9k 1.5×	2.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	3.7k 2.6×	912 0.9×	110	6.5k
Pratik Sen India	39	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	860 0.8×	199	4.1k
Ulrich E. Steiner Germany	33	2.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	641 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	129	4.3k
Jörge Peón Mexico	29	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	640 0.6×	76	3.7k
N. P. Érnsting Germany	49	3.6k 1.8×	3.1k 1.6×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	150	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lluı́s Blancafort

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lluı́s Blancafort

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lluı́s Blancafort

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lluı́s Blancafort. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lluı́s Blancafort based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lluı́s Blancafort. Lluı́s Blancafort is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Parella, Teodor, et al.. (2025). Shortcut to Highly Fluorescent Perylene Derivatives: From Fluoranthene Fissure‐Coupling to Late‐Stage Aromatic Extension. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(6).

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Huang, Haiyan, et al.. (2025). An iterative synthesis of poly-substituted indole oligomers reveals a short effective conjugation length in eumelanin model compounds. Chemical Science. 16(10). 4537–4548. 1 indexed citations

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Paolino, Marco, Claudia Bonechi, Germano Giuliani, et al.. (2024). Reactivity of a Morita–Baylis–Hillman Adduct Derivative Bearing a Triphenylamine Moiety with Lysine Models. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 19(20). e202400617–e202400617. 1 indexed citations

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Anstöter, Cate S., Lluı́s Blancafort, Kyril M. Solntsev, et al.. (2023). Alkylated green fluorescent protein chromophores: dynamics in the gas phase and in aqueous solution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(35). 23626–23636. 7 indexed citations

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Bortoli, Marco, et al.. (2023). Indole-5,6-quinones display hallmark properties of eumelanin. Nature Chemistry. 15(6). 787–793. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Junkai, Haoke Zhang, Lianrui Hu, et al.. (2022). Through-Space Interaction of Tetraphenylethylene: What, Where, and How. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(17). 7901–7910. 155 indexed citations breakdown →

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Djordjevic, Ivan, Lluı́s Blancafort, John V. Hanna, et al.. (2020). CaproGlu: Multifunctional tissue adhesive platform. Biomaterials. 260. 120215–120215. 25 indexed citations

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Xie, Ni, Herman H. Y. Sung, Alexander A. Voityuk, et al.. (2019). Unusual Through‐Space Interactions between Oxygen Atoms that Mediate Inverse Morphochromism of an AIE Luminogen. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(22). 8552–8559. 33 indexed citations

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Xie, Ni, Herman H. Y. Sung, Alexander A. Voityuk, et al.. (2019). Unusual Through‐Space Interactions between Oxygen Atoms that Mediate Inverse Morphochromism of an AIE Luminogen. Angewandte Chemie. 132(22). 8630–8637. 6 indexed citations

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Albero, Josep, Alfonso Vidal, Annapaola Migani, et al.. (2018). Phosphorus-Doped Graphene as a Metal-Free Material for Thermochemical Water Reforming at Unusually Mild Conditions. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7(1). 838–846. 34 indexed citations

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Peng, Xing‐Liang, Annapaola Migani, Quan‐Song Li, Ze‐Sheng Li, & Lluı́s Blancafort. (2017). Theoretical study of non-Hammettvs.Hammett behaviour in the thermolysis and photolysis of arylchlorodiazirines. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(2). 1181–1188. 17 indexed citations

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Migani, Annapaola & Lluı́s Blancafort. (2017). What Controls Photocatalytic Water Oxidation on Rutile TiO₂(110) under Ultra-High-Vacuum Conditions?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34). 11845–11856. 57 indexed citations

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Giussani, Angelo, Javier Segarra‐Martí, Artur Nenov, et al.. (2016). Multiple Decay Mechanisms and 2D‐UV Spectroscopic Fingerprints of Singlet Excited Solvated Adenine‐Uracil Monophosphate. Chemistry - A European Journal. 22(22). 7497–7507. 31 indexed citations

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Blancafort, Lluı́s. (2014). Photochemistry and Photophysics at Extended Seams of Conical Intersection. ChemPhysChem. 15(15). 3166–3181. 73 indexed citations

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Horke, Daniel A., Quan‐Song Li, Lluı́s Blancafort, & Jan R. R. Verlet. (2013). Ultrafast above-threshold dynamics of the radical anion of a prototypical quinone electron-acceptor. Nature Chemistry. 5(8). 711–717. 84 indexed citations

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Li, Quan‐Song & Lluı́s Blancafort. (2013). A conical intersection model to explain aggregation induced emission in diphenyl dibenzofulvene. Chemical Communications. 49(53). 5966–5966. 168 indexed citations

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Corral, Inés, Ferran Feixas, Annapaola Migani, et al.. (2011). A non-adiabatic quantum-classical dynamics study of the intramolecular excited state hydrogen transfer in ortho-nitrobenzaldehyde. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(32). 14685–14685. 17 indexed citations

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Lasorne, Benjamin, et al.. (2010). Exploring the sloped-to-peaked S2/S1 seam of intersection of thymine with electronic structure and direct quantum dynamics calculations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(19). 4949–4949. 79 indexed citations

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Jiménez‐Halla, J. Óscar C., Eduard Matito, Lluı́s Blancafort, Juvencio Robles, & Miquel Solà. (2009). Tuning aromaticity in trigonal alkaline earth metal clusters and their alkali metal salts. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 30(16). 2764–2776. 38 indexed citations

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Blancafort, Lluı́s. (2007). Energetics of Cytosine Singlet Excited-State Decay Paths-A Difficult Case for CASSCF and CASPT2†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 83(3). 603–610. 75 indexed citations

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