Michael F. Toney

79.9k total citations · 38 hit papers
703 papers, 67.1k citations indexed

About

Michael F. Toney is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael F. Toney has authored 703 papers receiving a total of 67.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 445 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 233 papers in Materials Chemistry and 186 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Michael F. Toney's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (218 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (161 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (94 papers). Michael F. Toney is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (218 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (161 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (94 papers). Michael F. Toney collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Michael F. Toney's co-authors include Zhenan Bao, Michael D. McGehee, R. Joseph Kline, Alberto Salleo, Jonathan Rivnay, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Johanna Nelson Weker, Aryeh Gold‐Parker, Iain McCulloch and Martin Heeney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Michael F. Toney

687 papers receiving 66.2k citations

Hit Papers

Pathways for prac... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2019 2010 2006 2013 2017 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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  1. Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries
    2019 2.8k citations Zhenan Bao, Venkat R. Subramanian et al. profile →
  2. Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–shell fuel cell catalysts
    2010 2.6k citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  3. Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility
    2006 1.9k citations Michael D. McGehee, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  4. A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers
    2013 1.8k citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  5. A highly stretchable, transparent, and conductive polymer
    2017 1.2k citations Chenxin Zhu, Hongping Yan et al. profile →
  6. Quantitative Determination of Organic Semiconductor Microstructure from the Molecular to Device Scale
    2012 1.2k citations Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  7. Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method
    2014 1.2k citations Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Michael F. Toney et al. Nature Communications profile →
  8. High K/sub u/ materials approach to 100 Gbits/in/sup 2/
    2000 1.1k citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  9. Tuning charge transport in solution-sheared organic semiconductors using lattice strain
    2011 963 citations Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  10. Dependence of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Film Morphology and Field-Effect Mobility on Molecular Weight
    2005 943 citations Michael D. McGehee, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  11. Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Interactions with Aqueous Solutions and Microbial Organisms
    1998 902 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  12. Band Gap Tuning via Lattice Contraction and Octahedral Tilting in Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics
    2017 711 citations Rohit Prasanna, Aryeh Gold‐Parker et al. profile →
  13. Highly oriented crystals at the buried interface in polythiophene thin-film transistors
    2006 691 citations Michael D. McGehee, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  14. High-Capacity Micrometer-Sized Li2S Particles as Cathode Materials for Advanced Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Batteries
    2012 644 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  15. Siloxane-Terminated Solubilizing Side Chains: Bringing Conjugated Polymer Backbones Closer and Boosting Hole Mobilities in Thin-Film Transistors
    2011 636 citations Michael F. Toney, Zhenan Bao et al. profile →
  16. Interdiffusion of PCBM and P3HT Reveals Miscibility in a Photovoltaically Active Blend
    2010 558 citations Michael F. Toney et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  17. Voltage-dependent ordering of water molecules at an electrode–electrolyte interface
    1994 546 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  18. Crystalline Ultrasmooth Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkylsilanes for Organic Field-Effect Transistors
    2009 535 citations Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  19. Effects of Thermal Annealing Upon the Morphology of Polymer–Fullerene Blends
    2010 535 citations Michael F. Toney, Zhenan Bao et al. profile →
  20. Dynamics of pore formation during laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
    2019 502 citations Kevin H. Stone, Christopher J. Tassone et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Full open-framework batteries for stationary energy storage
    2014 463 citations Michael F. Toney et al. Nature Communications profile →
  22. In Operando X-ray Diffraction and Transmission X-ray Microscopy of Lithium Sulfur Batteries
    2012 459 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  23. Side-Chain Tunability of Furan-Containing Low-Band-Gap Polymers Provides Control of Structural Order in Efficient Solar Cells
    2011 454 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  24. Direct Observation of Structural Evolution of Metal Chalcogenide in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation
    2018 449 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  25. Solvent Additives: Key Morphology‐Directing Agents for Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells
    2018 439 citations Michael F. Toney et al. Advanced Materials profile →
  26. Mechanism of Tin Oxidation and Stabilization by Lead Substitution in Tin Halide Perovskites
    2017 434 citations Rohit Prasanna, Aryeh Gold‐Parker et al. profile →
  27. High-performance sodium–organic battery by realizing four-sodium storage in disodium rhodizonate
    2017 420 citations Michael F. Toney, Zhenan Bao et al. profile →
  28. Engineering Stress in Perovskite Solar Cells to Improve Stability
    2018 410 citations Kevin A. Bush, Aryeh Gold‐Parker et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  29. The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer–Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
    2012 406 citations Michael F. Toney, Michael D. McGehee et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  30. Compositional and orientational control in metal halide perovskites of reduced dimensionality
    2018 406 citations Aryeh Gold‐Parker, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  31. Large modulation of carrier transport by grain-boundary molecular packing and microstructure in organic thin films
    2009 404 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  32. The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers
    2018 395 citations Xiaodan Gu, Kevin L. Gu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  33. Metal–oxygen decoordination stabilizes anion redox in Li-rich oxides
    2019 376 citations Christopher J. Takacs, Kevin H. Stone et al. profile →
  34. A map of the inorganic ternary metal nitrides
    2019 345 citations Elisabetta Arca, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  35. Surface regulation enables high stability of single-crystal lithium-ion cathodes at high voltage
    2020 334 citations Chuntian Cao, Michael F. Toney et al. Nature Communications profile →
  36. Crystallization in one-step solution deposition of perovskite films: Upward or downward?
    2021 287 citations Leah L. Kelly, Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  37. Effect of Al2O3 Coating on Stabilizing LiNi0.4Mn0.4Co0.2O2 Cathodes
    2015 202 citations Michael F. Toney et al. profile →
  38. Revealing the Sodium Storage Mechanisms in Hard Carbon Pores
    2023 167 citations Liang Zhang, Michael F. Toney et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael F. Toney United States 127 48.6k 23.1k 20.0k 9.1k 9.1k 703 67.1k
Yongsheng Chen China 133 40.0k 0.8× 25.9k 1.1× 29.1k 1.5× 2.8k 0.3× 19.8k 2.2× 781 74.5k
Chun‐Sing Lee Hong Kong 131 42.3k 0.9× 10.7k 0.5× 40.7k 2.0× 3.3k 0.4× 8.6k 0.9× 1.2k 70.2k
Jonathan N. Coleman Ireland 109 28.2k 0.6× 12.7k 0.5× 54.9k 2.8× 5.4k 0.6× 10.3k 1.1× 409 74.0k
Zhongfan Liu China 130 26.5k 0.5× 4.9k 0.2× 38.0k 1.9× 5.3k 0.6× 12.3k 1.4× 941 59.6k
Zexiang Shen Singapore 114 32.0k 0.7× 4.4k 0.2× 28.4k 1.4× 6.4k 0.7× 19.3k 2.1× 710 55.9k
James M. Tour United States 150 49.1k 1.0× 12.0k 0.5× 52.4k 2.6× 11.4k 1.3× 17.8k 2.0× 802 102.2k
Wei Chen China 113 26.6k 0.5× 4.9k 0.2× 31.5k 1.6× 4.6k 0.5× 8.8k 1.0× 1.1k 56.3k
Richard D. Piner United States 58 26.7k 0.6× 9.7k 0.4× 49.9k 2.5× 4.9k 0.5× 14.2k 1.6× 91 69.5k
Mark C. Hersam United States 111 24.1k 0.5× 5.6k 0.2× 35.5k 1.8× 6.2k 0.7× 5.0k 0.5× 654 52.7k
Kian Ping Loh Singapore 127 34.3k 0.7× 4.5k 0.2× 47.3k 2.4× 9.9k 1.1× 10.7k 1.2× 704 73.8k

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All Works

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Blevins, W. T., Davis R. Conklin, Gregory F. Pach, et al.. (2025). Identifying the Role of the TMA/H2O Atomic Layer Deposition Process on NMC811 Electrochemical Performance. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(12). 8117–8129.
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Schneider, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Langmuir‐Type Build‐Up of Self‐Generated Interlayers in Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(3).
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Menezes, Rafael Natal Lima de, Liang Zhang, Daniel Olds, et al.. (2025). Microstructure‐Dependent Sodium Storage Mechanisms in Hard Carbon Anodes. Small. 21(30). e2505561–e2505561. 5 indexed citations
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Galluzzo, Michael D., Hans‐Georg Steinrück, Christopher J. Takacs, et al.. (2024). Probing transference and field-induced polymer velocity in block copolymer electrolytes. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(1). 101766–101766. 3 indexed citations
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Seidler, Gerald T., et al.. (2023). Colloidal, Room-Temperature Growth of Metal Oxide Shells on InP Quantum Dots. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(17). 6674–6687. 8 indexed citations
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Wu, Hung‐Chin, Shayla Nikzad, Chenxin Zhu, et al.. (2023). Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor thin films with multi-modal energy dissipation and high relative stretchability. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8382–8382. 36 indexed citations
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Johnson, S., Jinhui Tong, Shuai You, et al.. (2023). Improving the barrier properties of tin oxide in metal halide perovskite solar cells using ozone to enhance nucleation. Joule. 7(12). 2873–2893. 38 indexed citations
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Pollard, Travis P., Julian Mars, Ji Mun Yoo, et al.. (2023). Creating water-in-salt-like environment using coordinating anions in non-concentrated aqueous electrolytes for efficient Zn batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(5). 1982–1991. 80 indexed citations
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Chen, Bor‐Rong, Stephan Lany, Leah L. Kelly, et al.. (2022). Antimony nitride discovered by theoretical structure prediction, rapid thermal annealing, and in situ X-ray diffraction. Cell Reports Physical Science. 3(8). 100980–100980. 8 indexed citations
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Bagchi, Kushal, et al.. (2021). Surface equilibration mechanism controls the molecular packing of glassy molecular semiconductors at organic interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(42). 18 indexed citations
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Tellekamp, M. Brooks, Brenden R. Ortiz, Celeste L. Melamed, et al.. (2020). Using resonant energy X-ray diffraction to extract chemical order parameters in ternary semiconductors. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 8(13). 4350–4356. 12 indexed citations
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Beal, Rachel E., Nanna Zhou Hagström, Julien Barrier, et al.. (2019). Structural Origins of Light-Induced Phase Segregation in Organic-Inorganic Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Materials. Matter. 2(1). 207–219. 146 indexed citations
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Subramaniam, Akshay, et al.. (2019). Analysis and Simulation of One-Dimensional Transport Models for Lithium Symmetric Cells. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 166(15). A3806–A3819. 13 indexed citations
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Bagchi, Kushal, Nicholas E. Jackson, Ankit Gujral, et al.. (2018). Origin of Anisotropic Molecular Packing in Vapor-Deposited Alq3 Glasses. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 10(2). 164–170. 57 indexed citations
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Garten, Lauren M., Shyam Dwaraknath, Julian Walker, et al.. (2018). Theory‐Guided Synthesis of a Metastable Lead‐Free Piezoelectric Polymorph. Advanced Materials. 30(25). e1800559–e1800559. 8 indexed citations
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Gu, Xiaodan, Yan Zhou, Kevin L. Gu, et al.. (2017). Roll‐to‐Roll Printed Large‐Area All‐Polymer Solar Cells with 5% Efficiency Based on a Low Crystallinity Conjugated Polymer Blend. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(14). 224 indexed citations
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Hitchcock, Adam P. & Michael F. Toney. (2014). Spectromicroscopy and coherent diffraction imaging: focus on energy materials applications. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 21(5). 1019–1030. 21 indexed citations
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Murray, Conal E., E. Todd Ryan, Paul R. Besser, et al.. (2012). Understanding stress gradients in microelectronic metallization. Powder Diffraction. 27(2). 92–98. 2 indexed citations
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Gomez, Enrique D., Katherine P. Barteau, He Wang, Michael F. Toney, & Yueh‐Lin Loo. (2010). Correlating the scattered intensities of P3HT and PCBM to the current densities of polymer solar cells. Chemical Communications. 47(1). 436–438. 101 indexed citations

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