Luca Catalano

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Luca Catalano is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Catalano has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Materials Chemistry, 20 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luca Catalano's work include Crystallography and molecular interactions (19 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (15 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (6 papers). Luca Catalano is often cited by papers focused on Crystallography and molecular interactions (19 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (15 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (6 papers). Luca Catalano collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Arab Emirates. Luca Catalano's co-authors include Pancě Naumov, Durga Prasad Karothu, Ejaz Ahmed, Jad Mahmoud Halabi, Rachid Rezgui, Marco Saccone, Liang Li, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Patrick Commins and Giancarlo Terraneo and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Luca Catalano

44 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals

2020 341 citations Pancě Naumov, Durga Prasad Karothu et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Catalano United States	25	1.4k	760	533	516	330	48	2.2k
Scott M. Dyar United States	26	1.1k 0.8×	399 0.5×	546 1.0×	766 1.5×	195 0.6×	33	2.0k
Shotaro Hayashi Japan	26	1.4k 1.0×	389 0.5×	877 1.6×	751 1.5×	250 0.8×	108	2.4k
Miroslav Medveď Slovakia	27	1.5k 1.1×	304 0.4×	582 1.1×	515 1.0×	542 1.6×	100	2.5k
Nobuo Tajima Japan	26	1.3k 0.9×	495 0.7×	1.1k 2.1×	347 0.7×	358 1.1×	134	2.3k
Juan Aragó Spain	31	1.1k 0.8×	309 0.4×	902 1.7×	1.1k 2.2×	306 0.9×	106	2.7k
Durga Prasad Karothu United Arab Emirates	34	2.6k 1.9×	1.3k 1.7×	996 1.9×	787 1.5×	586 1.8×	78	3.9k
Takashi Takeda Japan	31	2.0k 1.4×	426 0.6×	1.2k 2.2×	678 1.3×	998 3.0×	194	3.5k
Kuo‐Chun Tang Taiwan	19	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.6×	948 1.8×	737 1.4×	344 1.0×	34	3.1k
Begoña Milián‐Medina Spain	29	2.0k 1.5×	681 0.9×	892 1.7×	1.6k 3.2×	322 1.0×	54	3.2k
Josh Vura‐Weis United States	27	777 0.6×	404 0.5×	345 0.6×	707 1.4×	206 0.6×	52	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Catalano

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Catalano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Catalano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Catalano 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 Luca Catalano. Luca Catalano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Hoshina, Hiromichi, et al.. (2025). Solving the cellulose I polymorphic structural riddle: disorder in hydrogen bond networks activates diagnostic terahertz dynamics. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(30). 15328–15337.

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Catalano, Luca, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Interplay of Lattice Dynamics and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors: Progress Toward Rational Phonon Engineering. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(26). e202507566–e202507566. 1 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Interplay of Lattice Dynamics and Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors: Progress Toward Rational Phonon Engineering. Angewandte Chemie. 137(26). 1 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, et al.. (2024). Terahertz Spectroscopy Unambiguously Determines the Orientation of Guest Water Molecules in a Structurally Elusive Metal–Organic Framework. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(20). 5549–5555. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Haofan, Chao Li, Tao Liu, et al.. (2023). Packing-induced selectivity switching in molecular nanoparticle photocatalysts for hydrogen and hydrogen peroxide production. Nature Nanotechnology. 18(3). 307–315. 97 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, Guillaume Schweicher, Jie Liu, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic View on the Order–Disorder Phase Transition in Amphidynamic Crystals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(6). 1570–1577. 14 indexed citations

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Karothu, Durga Prasad, Rodrigo Cezar de Campos Ferreira, Ghada Dushaq, et al.. (2022). Exceptionally high work density of a ferroelectric dynamic organic crystal around room temperature. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2823–2823. 43 indexed citations

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Spackman, Peter R., Marc A. Little, Luca Catalano, et al.. (2022). Targeted design of porous materials without strong, directional interactions. Chemical Communications. 58(95). 13254–13257. 3 indexed citations

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Karothu, Durga Prasad, Ghada Dushaq, Ejaz Ahmed, et al.. (2021). Mechanically robust amino acid crystals as fiber-optic transducers and wide bandpass filters for optical communication in the near-infrared. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1326–1326. 91 indexed citations

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Annadhasan, Mari, Durga Prasad Karothu, Luca Catalano, et al.. (2020). Micromanipulation of Mechanically Compliant Organic Single‐Crystal Optical Microwaveguides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(33). 13821–13830. 161 indexed citations

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Naumov, Pancě, Durga Prasad Karothu, Ejaz Ahmed, et al.. (2020). The Rise of the Dynamic Crystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(31). 13256–13272. 341 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schramm, Stefan, Durga Prasad Karothu, Patrick Commins, et al.. (2019). Thermochemiluminescent peroxide crystals. Nature Communications. 10(1). 997–997. 17 indexed citations

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Pizzi, Andrea, Luca Catalano, Nicola Demitri, et al.. (2019). Halogen bonding as a key interaction in the self‐assembly of iodinated diphenylalanine peptides. Peptide Science. 112(1). 14 indexed citations

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Raj, Gijo, Yoshihiro Kikkawa, Luca Catalano, et al.. (2019). Supramolecular Organization of Model Polycyclic Aromatic Molecules: Comparison of 2D and 3D Assemblies. ChemNanoMat. 6(1). 68–72. 4 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, Patrick Commins, Stefan Schramm, et al.. (2019). A filled organic crystal as a hybrid large-bandwidth optical waveguide. Chemical Communications. 55(34). 4921–4924. 35 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, Ghada Dushaq, Gijo Raj, et al.. (2019). Structure–Mechanical Relationships in Polymorphs of an Organic Semiconductor (C4-NT3N). Crystal Growth & Design. 20(2). 884–891. 17 indexed citations

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Szell, Patrick M. J., Antti Siiskonen, Luca Catalano, et al.. (2018). Halogen-bond driven self-assembly of triangular macrocycles. New Journal of Chemistry. 42(13). 10467–10471. 22 indexed citations

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Vioglio, Paolo Cerreia, Luca Catalano, Vera Vasylyeva, et al.. (2016). Natural Abundance ¹⁵N and ¹³C Solid‐State NMR Chemical Shifts: High Sensitivity Probes of the Halogen Bond Geometry. Chemistry - A European Journal. 22(47). 16819–16828. 37 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, Gabriella Cavallo, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Giuseppe Resnati, & Giancarlo Terraneo. (2016). Halogen Bonding in Hypervalent Iodine Compounds. Topics in current chemistry. 373. 289–309. 51 indexed citations

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Catalano, Luca, Salvador Pérez‐Estrada, Giancarlo Terraneo, et al.. (2015). Dynamic Characterization of Crystalline Supramolecular Rotors Assembled through Halogen Bonding. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(49). 15386–15389. 84 indexed citations

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