Louis A. Cuccia

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
56 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

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Louis A. Cuccia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Louis A. Cuccia has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Louis A. Cuccia's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (9 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (9 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (7 papers). Louis A. Cuccia is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (9 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (9 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (7 papers). Louis A. Cuccia collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Louis A. Cuccia's co-authors include John A. Capobianco, John‐Christopher Boyer, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Alexandra N. E. Weissfloch, Romas J. Kazlauskas, Linette M. Demers, Antonella Badia, Jean‐Maríe Lehn, R. Bruce Lennox and Marc Schmutz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Louis A. Cuccia

55 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Synthesis of Colloidal Upconverting NaYF₄ Nanocrystals Doped with Er³⁺, Yb³⁺ and Tm³⁺, Yb³⁺ via Thermal Decomposition of Lanthanide Trifluoroacetate Precursors

2006 896 citations Fiorenzo Vetrone, Louis A. Cuccia et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
A rule to predict which enantiomer of a secondary alcohol reacts faster in reactions catalyzed by cholesterol esterase, lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia, and lipase from Candida rugosa

1991 804 citations Louis A. Cuccia et al. profile →
Synthesis of Colloidal Upconverting NaYF₄: Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ and Tm³⁺/Yb³⁺ Monodisperse Nanocrystals

2007 635 citations Louis A. Cuccia, John A. Capobianco et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Louis A. Cuccia Canada	24	2.8k	1.4k	1.2k	965	778	56	4.9k
Luigi Monsù Scolaro Italy	42	3.3k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	737 0.6×	1.8k 1.9×	930 1.2×	194	5.8k
Julia A. Weinstein United Kingdom	40	3.2k 1.1×	744 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.7×	827 1.1×	120	5.8k
Craig J. Medforth United States	48	6.6k 2.3×	2.6k 1.9×	930 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	921 1.2×	111	8.0k
Chun‐hsien Chen Taiwan	37	2.1k 0.7×	977 0.7×	2.3k 2.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	136	5.4k
Yoav Eichen Israel	30	1.6k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	958 1.0×	702 0.9×	118	4.4k
Lucia Pasquato Italy	36	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	874 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	626 0.8×	102	4.4k
C. Malla Reddy India	43	4.3k 1.5×	510 0.4×	823 0.7×	2.4k 2.5×	655 0.8×	129	7.3k
T. P. Radhakrishnan India	36	2.3k 0.8×	390 0.3×	820 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	733 0.9×	179	4.5k
Fausto Elisei Italy	41	2.9k 1.0×	519 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	677 0.9×	186	5.4k
Yilei Wu United States	41	3.5k 1.2×	410 0.3×	3.4k 2.9×	1.2k 1.3×	611 0.8×	82	6.0k

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Ji, Jie, Li Yao, Kunal S. Mali, et al.. (2025). Improving diacetylene photopolymerization in monolayers and ultrathin films. Nanoscale. 17(18). 11434–11440. 1 indexed citations

Do, Jean‐Louis, et al.. (2024). Shaking Up the Friedländer Reaction: Rapid, Scalable Mechanochemical Synthesis of Polyaryl‐Substituted Quinolines. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 366(24). 5135–5143. 8 indexed citations

Kim, Minsoo P., et al.. (2024). Contemporary evaluation of triboelectric nanogenerators as self-powered devices: A bibliometric analysis from 2012 to 2023. 7. 100093–100093. 2 indexed citations

Do, Jean‐Louis, et al.. (2023). Mechanochemical Desymmetrization of Unbiased Bis‐ and Tris‐alkynes to Access 3,5‐Isoxazoles‐Alkyne Adducts and Unsymmetrical Bis‐3,5‐isoxazoles**. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(29). 7 indexed citations

Do, Jean‐Louis, et al.. (2023). Rapid, room-temperature, solvent-free mechanochemical oxidation of elemental gold into organosoluble gold salts. Green Chemistry. 25(15). 5899–5906. 6 indexed citations

Ji, Jie, Zhen Wen, Rafik Naccache, et al.. (2023). A Pedagogical Approach to Assemble and Characterize Paper-Based Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Journal of Chemical Education. 100(12). 4917–4924. 4 indexed citations

Yu, Lihua, Zhen‐Feng Cai, Yuanzhi Xia, et al.. (2022). Defect-engineered surfaces to investigate the formation of self-assembled molecular networks. Chemical Science. 13(44). 13212–13219. 2 indexed citations

Martínez, R. Fernando, Louis A. Cuccia, Cristóbal Viedma, & Pedro Cintas. (2022). On the Origin of Sugar Handedness: Facts, Hypotheses and Missing Links-A Review. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 52(1-3). 21–56. 9 indexed citations

Do, Jean‐Louis, Hatem M. Titi, Louis A. Cuccia, & Tomislav Friščić. (2021). A new class of anionic metallohelicates based on salicylic and terephthalic acid units, accessible in solution and by mechanochemistry. Chemical Communications. 57(42). 5143–5146.

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Skripka, Artiom, Brandon Findlay, Fiorenzo Vetrone, et al.. (2020). Electrospun Upconverting Nanofibrous Hybrids with Smart NIR-Light-Controlled Drug Release for Wound Dressing. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 3(10). 7219–7227. 28 indexed citations

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Fang, Yuan, Mihaela Cibian, Garry S. Hanan, et al.. (2018). Alkyl chain length effects on double-deck assembly at a liquid/solid interface. Nanoscale. 10(31). 14993–15002. 19 indexed citations

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Fang, Yuan, Phuong Nguyen‐Hoang, Oleksandr Ivasenko, et al.. (2011). Charge-assisted hydrogen bond-directed self-assembly of an amphiphilic zwitterionic quinonemonoimine at the liquid–solid interface. Chemical Communications. 47(40). 11255–11255. 31 indexed citations

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Cuccia, Louis A.. (2011). Book Review of Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry: In Drug Discovery, Bioorganic Chemistry, and Materials Science and Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(18). 7236–7236. 1 indexed citations

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Naccache, Rafik, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Venkataramanan Mahalingam, Louis A. Cuccia, & John A. Capobianco. (2009). Controlled Synthesis and Water Dispersibility of Hexagonal Phase NaGdF₄:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials. 21(4). 717–723. 331 indexed citations

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Cuccia, Louis A., et al.. (2009). Amino acid directed mirror symmetry breaking and chiral amplification of ethylenediammonium sulfate crystals. Chemical Communications. 1337–1337. 26 indexed citations

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Shabani, Arghavan, et al.. (2006). DNA immobilization onto electrochemically functionalized Si(100) surfaces. Talanta. 70(3). 615–623. 31 indexed citations

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Xing, Liyan, Ulrich Ziener, Todd C. Sutherland, & Louis A. Cuccia. (2005). Hydrogen bond directed synthesis of pyridazine and naphthyridine containing macrocycles. Chemical Communications. 5751–5751. 55 indexed citations

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Cuccia, Louis A., et al.. (2004). Imaging the Selective Binding of Synapsin to Anionic Membrane Domains. ChemBioChem. 5(11). 1489–1494. 16 indexed citations

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Petitjean, Anne, Louis A. Cuccia, Jean‐Maríe Lehn, Hélène Nierengarten, & Marc Schmutz. (2002). Cation-Promoted Hierarchical Formation of Supramolecular Assemblies of Self-Organized Helical Molecular Components. Angewandte Chemie. 114(7). 1243–1246. 25 indexed citations

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Cuccia, Louis A., et al.. (2000). Spanning or Looping? The Order and Conformation of Bipolar Phospholipids in Lipid Membranes Using 2H NMR Spectroscopy. Chemistry - A European Journal. 6(23). 4379–4384. 22 indexed citations

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