Lucas V. Besteiro

7.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
90 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Lucas V. Besteiro is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas V. Besteiro has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 42 papers in Materials Chemistry and 36 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Lucas V. Besteiro's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (41 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (31 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (23 papers). Lucas V. Besteiro is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (41 papers), Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (31 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (23 papers). Lucas V. Besteiro collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Lucas V. Besteiro's co-authors include Alexander O. Govorov, Zhiming Wang, Gregory V. Hartland, Jason Valentine, Xiang‐Tian Kong, Wei Li, Zachary Coppens, Wenyi Wang, Peng Yu and Gary P. Wiederrecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Lucas V. Besteiro

87 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Circularly polarized light detection with hot electrons in chiral plasmonic metamaterials

2015 657 citations Lucas V. Besteiro, Alexander O. Govorov et al. profile →
Broadband Metamaterial Absorbers

2018 525 citations Lucas V. Besteiro, Jiang Wu et al. Advanced Optical Materials profile →
Applications of Plasmon-Enhanced Nanocatalysis to Organic Transformations

2019 424 citations Alexandra Gellé, Tony Jin et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas V. Besteiro United States	39	3.5k	3.0k	2.3k	1.5k	1.3k	90	6.5k
Min Hu China	37	2.8k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	794 0.5×	1.6k 1.2×	210	6.1k
Peng Yu China	34	1.5k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	76	4.3k
Christoph Langhammer Sweden	45	3.7k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	3.5k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	2.6k 2.0×	151	8.2k
Zheyu Fang China	48	4.8k 1.4×	6.3k 2.1×	5.1k 2.2×	3.2k 2.1×	4.2k 3.2×	170	12.1k
Weiguo Chu China	37	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.6×	996 0.4×	831 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	149	5.3k
Nathaniel K. Grady United States	20	4.8k 1.4×	1.4k 0.5×	3.4k 1.5×	429 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	25	6.3k
Peng He China	44	1.8k 0.5×	5.6k 1.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	2.7k 2.0×	190	8.1k
Song Han China	42	2.4k 0.7×	4.7k 1.6×	3.5k 1.5×	492 0.3×	5.0k 3.8×	209	9.1k
Jie Li China	45	3.4k 1.0×	1.9k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	505 0.3×	3.8k 2.9×	346	7.8k
Erjun Liang China	41	1.9k 0.5×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	404 0.3×	2.3k 1.7×	292	6.1k

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Santiago, Eva Yazmin, Stéphanie Lau‐Truong, Gaëlle Blond, et al.. (2025). Faceted 3D Supercrystals for Plasmonic Photocatalysis: Design, Reactivity, and Operando Studies. Small Structures. 6(12).

Santiago, Eva Yazmin, et al.. (2025). Light-to-matter chirality transfer in plasmonics. Materials Horizons. 12(14). 4940–4969. 1 indexed citations

Sousa‐Castillo, Ana, et al.. (2024). Bifunctional Au@UiO‐67‐bpy‐Cu Plasmonic Nanostructures for the Solar‐Driven CO₂ Reduction to Methanol (Adv. Energy Mater. 45/2024). Advanced Energy Materials. 14(45).

Besteiro, Lucas V., Artur Movsesyan, Audrey Moores, et al.. (2024). Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticle Solutions by Circularly Polarized Light. ACS Nano. 18(41). 28279–28291. 17 indexed citations

Carbó‐Argibay, Enrique, Zhiming M. Wang, Alexander O. Govorov, et al.. (2024). Unveiling multimodal hot carrier excitation in plasmonic bimetallic Au@Ag nanostars for photochemistry and SERS sensing. Nano Research. 17(12). 10355–10362. 7 indexed citations

Lee, Seunghoon, Chenghao Fan, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the Chirality Transfer from Circularly Polarized Light to Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie. 136(11). 5 indexed citations

Movsesyan, Artur, Lucas V. Besteiro, Eva Yazmin Santiago, et al.. (2023). Creating Chiral Plasmonic Nanostructures Using Chiral Light in a Solution and on a Substrate: The Near‐Field and Hot‐Electron Routes. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(18). 23 indexed citations

Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, V. Bahamondes, Lucas V. Besteiro, et al.. (2023). Universal imprinting of chirality with chiral light by employing plasmonic metastructures. Applied Physics Reviews. 10(3). 12 indexed citations

Movsesyan, Artur, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Sven Burger, et al.. (2022). Plasmonic Nanocrystals with Complex Shapes for Photocatalysis and Growth: Contrasting Anisotropic Hot‐Electron Generation with the Photothermal Effect. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(10). 32 indexed citations

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Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, Eva Yazmin Santiago, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2022). Chiral Bioinspired Plasmonics: A Paradigm Shift for Optical Activity and Photochemistry. ACS Photonics. 9(7). 2219–2236. 51 indexed citations

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Ávalos‐Ovando, Óscar, Lucas V. Besteiro, Artur Movsesyan, et al.. (2021). Chiral Photomelting of DNA-Nanocrystal Assemblies Utilizing Plasmonic Photoheating. Nano Letters. 21(17). 7298–7308. 26 indexed citations

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Cortés, Emiliano, Lucas V. Besteiro, Alessandro Alabastri, et al.. (2020). Challenges in Plasmonic Catalysis. ACS Nano. 14(12). 16202–16219. 278 indexed citations

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Marin, Riccardo, José Lifante, Lucas V. Besteiro, et al.. (2020). Plasmonic Copper Sulfide Nanoparticles Enable Dark Contrast in Optical Coherence Tomography. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 9(5). e1901627–e1901627. 27 indexed citations

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Galeotti, Gianluca, F. De Marchi, Ehsan Hamzehpoor, et al.. (2020). Synthesis of mesoscale ordered two-dimensional π-conjugated polymers with semiconducting properties. Nature Materials. 19(8). 874–880. 208 indexed citations

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Dong, Junliang, Riccardo Piccoli, Lucas V. Besteiro, et al.. (2020). Terahertz three-dimensional monitoring of nanoparticle-assisted laser tissue soldering. Biomedical Optics Express. 11(4). 2254–2254. 17 indexed citations

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Tong, Xin, Wenhao Wang, Jingyin Xu, et al.. (2020). Manipulating the Optoelectronic Properties of Quasi-type II CuInS₂/CdS Core/Shell Quantum Dots for Photoelectrochemical Cell Applications. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(32). 36277–36286. 34 indexed citations

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Proppe, Andrew H., Oleksandr Voznyy, Ryan D. Pensack, et al.. (2019). Spectrally Resolved Ultrafast Exciton Transfer in Mixed Perovskite Quantum Wells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(3). 419–426. 82 indexed citations

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Gellé, Alexandra, Tony Jin, Luis de la Garza, et al.. (2019). Applications of Plasmon-Enhanced Nanocatalysis to Organic Transformations. Chemical Reviews. 120(2). 986–1041. 424 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dong, Junliang, Riccardo Piccoli, Andrew Bruhács, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the photothermal conversion efficiency of plasmonic nanoparticles by means of terahertz radiation. APL Photonics. 4(12). 31 indexed citations

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Galeotti, Gianluca, F. De Marchi, Lucas V. Besteiro, et al.. (2019). Surface-mediated assembly, polymerization and degradation of thiophene-based monomers. Chemical Science. 10(19). 5167–5175. 32 indexed citations

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