Loon‐Seng Tan

9.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
183 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Loon‐Seng Tan is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Loon‐Seng Tan has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Materials Chemistry, 86 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 69 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Loon‐Seng Tan's work include Synthesis and properties of polymers (52 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (41 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (30 papers). Loon‐Seng Tan is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and properties of polymers (52 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies (41 papers) and Conducting polymers and applications (30 papers). Loon‐Seng Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Singapore. Loon‐Seng Tan's co-authors include Paras N. Prasad, Guang S. He, Qingdong Zheng, Jong‐Beom Baek, David H. Wang, Richard A. Vaia, Ramamurthi Kannan, Timothy J. White, Kyung Min Lee and Melissa Sander and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Loon‐Seng Tan

178 papers receiving 7.9k citations

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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.

Multiphoton Absorbing Materials: Molecular Designs, Characterizations, and Applications

2008 1.9k citations Guang S. He, Loon‐Seng Tan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Loon‐Seng Tan United States	44	5.0k	3.8k	2.4k	1.5k	1.2k	183	8.1k
Xiaogong Wang China	43	3.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	265	6.6k
Søren Hvilsted Denmark	45	2.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.6×	1.1k 0.9×	174	6.7k
Naotoshi Nakashima Japan	58	6.6k 1.3×	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	4.7k 3.9×	385	12.7k
Robert D. Miller United States	50	4.9k 1.0×	2.2k 0.6×	3.4k 1.4×	2.8k 1.9×	3.5k 2.9×	181	12.5k
David L. Officer Australia	50	5.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	799 0.5×	2.9k 2.4×	219	9.6k
Dong Young Kim South Korea	41	2.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	2.6k 2.2×	168	6.1k
Chad Huffman United States	14	9.0k 1.8×	3.7k 1.0×	2.0k 0.8×	857 0.6×	2.3k 1.9×	25	10.9k
Mikhail E. Itkis United States	59	11.6k 2.3×	4.3k 1.1×	3.2k 1.3×	3.3k 2.2×	5.2k 4.3×	137	16.8k
Dimitri A. Ivanov France	44	2.0k 0.4×	937 0.2×	2.3k 0.9×	793 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	254	5.7k
Wen‐Yong Lai China	56	5.3k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	3.9k 1.6×	3.6k 2.4×	8.5k 7.0×	289	13.2k

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Loftus, Lauren M., Ayelet Teitelboim, Ramamurthi Kannan, et al.. (2025). Formulation-dependent optical properties of hybrid sol-gel glasses containing diphenylamine–fluorene–benzothiazole dyes. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. 114(1). 223–234.

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Tan, Loon‐Seng, et al.. (2024). Development of a Novel, All‐Aromatic High Tensile Modulus Liquid Crystalline Polyimide for Fused Filament Fabrication Applications. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(24). 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Haitao, Loon‐Seng Tan, Feng Xue, & Laxiang Yang. (2024). An enhanced spectrophotometric method for determination of hydrogen peroxide during vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of water. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia. 39(3). 397–408.

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Park, Jung Yeon, Songhyun Lim, Hyejin Cho, et al.. (2024). Assembly of 2′,3′-Cyclic guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine monophosphate and their spontaneous intracellular disassembly for enhanced antitumor immunity via natural STING pathway activation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 500. 157037–157037. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, David H., et al.. (2021). Intermolecular Interactions and Intramolecular Motions in Photomechanical Effect: Nonlinear Thermo- and Photomechanical Behaviors of Azobenzene-Functionalized Amide–Imide Block Copolymers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(40). 48127–48140. 10 indexed citations

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Yu, Zhenning, David J. Stewart, Thomas M. Cooper, et al.. (2020). Influence of Structural Isomerism on the Photophysical Properties of a Series of Donor–Acceptor 1-Naphthalenecarbonitrile Derivatives Possessing Amine Substituents. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(11). 2113–2122. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Matthew L., et al.. (2019). Tuned photomechanical switching of laterally constrained arches. Smart Materials and Structures. 28(7). 75009–75009. 6 indexed citations

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Stewart, David J., Ramamurthi Kannan, Tod A. Grusenmeyer, et al.. (2018). Effects of intramolecular hydrogen bonding and sterically forced non-coplanarity on organic donor/acceptor two-photon-absorbing molecules. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(29). 19398–19407. 14 indexed citations

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Wie, Jeong Jae, et al.. (2018). The contribution of hydrogen bonding to the photomechanical response of azobenzene-functionalized polyamides. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 6(22). 5964–5974. 34 indexed citations

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Buskohl, Philip R., et al.. (2018). Soft Robotics: Autonomous Motility of Polymer Films (Adv. Mater. 7/2018). Advanced Materials. 30(7). 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhongbo, David H. Wang, Morton H. Litt, Loon‐Seng Tan, & Lei Zhu. (2017). High‐Temperature and High‐Energy‐Density Dipolar Glass Polymers Based on Sulfonylated Poly(2,6‐dimethyl‐1,4‐phenylene oxide). Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(6). 1528–1531. 160 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhongbo, David H. Wang, Morton H. Litt, Loon‐Seng Tan, & Lei Zhu. (2017). High‐Temperature and High‐Energy‐Density Dipolar Glass Polymers Based on Sulfonylated Poly(2,6‐dimethyl‐1,4‐phenylene oxide). Angewandte Chemie. 130(6). 1544–1547. 61 indexed citations

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Wang, Min, Tzuyang Yu, Loon‐Seng Tan, et al.. (2016). Novel photoswitchable dielectric properties on nanomaterials of electronic core–shell γ-FeO_x@Au@fullerosomes for GHz frequency applications. Nanoscale. 8(12). 6589–6599. 7 indexed citations

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Sivapalan, Sean T., Jarrett H. Vella, Matthew J. Dalton, et al.. (2012). Plasmonic Enhancement of the Two Photon Absorption Cross Section of an Organic Chromophore Using Polyelectrolyte-Coated Gold Nanorods. Langmuir. 28(24). 9147–9154. 53 indexed citations

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Lee, Kyung Min, David H. Wang, Hilmar Koerner, et al.. (2012). Enhancement of Photogenerated Mechanical Force in Azobenzene‐Functionalized Polyimides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(17). 4117–4121. 101 indexed citations

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Wang, David H., et al.. (2010). Electrothermal Polymer Nanocomposite Actuators. Advanced Materials. 22(31). 3430–3435. 53 indexed citations

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Wang, David H., et al.. (2009). Direct Measurement of the Percolation Probability in Carbon Nanofiber-Polyimide Nanocomposites. Physical Review Letters. 102(11). 116601–116601. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, David H., Loon‐Seng Tan, Houjin Huang, Liming Dai, & Eiji Ōsawa. (2008). In-Situ Nanocomposite Synthesis: Arylcarbonylation and Grafting of Primary Diamond Nanoparticles with a Poly(ether−ketone) in Polyphosphoric Acid. Macromolecules. 42(1). 114–124. 34 indexed citations

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Nadeau, Lloyd J., Jim C. Spain, Ramamurthi Kannan, & Loon‐Seng Tan. (2005). Conversion of 2-(4-carboxyphenyl)-6-nitrobenzothiazole to 4-(6-amino-5-hydroxybenzothiazol-2-yl)benzoic acid by a recombinant E. coli strain. Chemical Communications. 564–565. 1 indexed citations

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Chiang, Long Y., Prashant A. Padmawar, Taizoon Canteenwala, et al.. (2002). Synthesis of C60-diphenylaminofluorene dyad with large 2PA cross-sections and efficient intramolecular two-photon energy transfer. Chemical Communications. 1854–1855. 43 indexed citations

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