Morgan L. Thomas

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Morgan L. Thomas is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Catalysis and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Morgan L. Thomas has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 14 papers in Catalysis and 9 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Morgan L. Thomas's work include Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (24 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (18 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (12 papers). Morgan L. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (24 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (18 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (12 papers). Morgan L. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and Canada. Morgan L. Thomas's co-authors include Masayoshi Watanabe, Kaoru Dokko, Kazuhide Ueno, Shiguo Zhang, Tomohiro Yasuda, Yosuke Ugata, Hye Ryung Byon, Daiki Watanabe, Azusa Nakanishi and Seiji Tsuzuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Morgan L. Thomas

35 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Application of Ionic Liquids to Energy Storage and Conversion Materials and Devices

2017 1.3k citations Masayoshi Watanabe, Morgan L. Thomas et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morgan L. Thomas Japan	22	1.9k	1.0k	597	460	325	36	2.8k
Toshihiko Mandai Japan	35	3.1k 1.6×	1.3k 1.2×	750 1.3×	835 1.8×	445 1.4×	92	4.0k
Sangsik Jeong Germany	37	2.9k 1.5×	991 1.0×	860 1.4×	639 1.4×	695 2.1×	64	3.7k
Laure Timperman France	27	1.5k 0.8×	703 0.7×	260 0.4×	412 0.9×	559 1.7×	41	2.1k
Mega Kar Australia	30	1.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	228 0.4×	767 1.7×	446 1.4×	60	3.3k
Sébastien Fantini France	18	1.8k 0.9×	419 0.4×	425 0.7×	505 1.1×	615 1.9×	39	2.3k
Cristina Iojoiu France	28	2.0k 1.0×	359 0.3×	475 0.8×	413 0.9×	236 0.7×	99	2.5k
Zishan Wu United States	28	2.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	271 0.5×	1.3k 2.9×	331 1.0×	43	4.8k
Zhengxi Zhang China	33	2.1k 1.1×	579 0.6×	569 1.0×	486 1.1×	842 2.6×	99	2.7k
Tomohiro Yasuda Japan	21	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.9×	214 0.4×	596 1.3×	381 1.2×	35	3.3k
V. R. Koch United States	27	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	584 1.0×	334 0.7×	273 0.8×	49	2.5k

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Thomas, Morgan L., et al.. (2025). Symmetrical-branched pyrrolidinium ionic plastic crystal electrolytes: Synthesis and sodium-ion battery potential. Electrochimica Acta. 534. 146549–146549.

Thomas, Morgan L., et al.. (2025). Effect of cation side-chain structure on the physicochemical properties of pyrrolidinium-based electrolytes upon mixing with sodium salt. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 26(1). 2466417–2466417. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, Morgan L., et al.. (2024). Boosting the Ionic Conductivity of Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Plastic Crystals by LLZO Fillers. ACS Omega. 9(20). 22203–22212. 20 indexed citations

Hatakeyama‐Sato, Kan, et al.. (2024). Efficient Exploration of Highly Conductive Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Plastic Crystals Using Materials Informatics. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 6(8). 5866–5878. 6 indexed citations

Thomas, Morgan L., Kan Hatakeyama‐Sato, Shinkoh Nanbu, & Masahiro Yoshizawa‐Fujita. (2023). Organic ionic plastic crystals: flexible solid electrolytes for lithium secondary batteries. Energy Advances. 2(6). 748–764. 31 indexed citations

Gokhale, Jyoti S., et al.. (2022). Hydrothermal processing of waste pine wood into industrially useful products. Journal of the Indian Chemical Society. 99(9). 100647–100647. 5 indexed citations

Hoque, Mahfuzul, Muhammed Shah Miran, Morgan L. Thomas, et al.. (2019). Rheological and Ionic Transport Properties of Nanocomposite Electrolytes Based on Protic Ionic Liquids and Silica Nanoparticles. Langmuir. 36(1). 148–158. 11 indexed citations

Dokko, Kaoru, Shoshi Terada, Kei Hashimoto, et al.. (2019). Solvate Ionic Liquid Electrolytes for Mg Batteries. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2019-02(6). 533–533. 2 indexed citations

Nakanishi, Azusa, Kazuhide Ueno, Daiki Watanabe, et al.. (2019). Sulfolane-Based Highly Concentrated Electrolytes of Lithium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide: Ionic Transport, Li-Ion Coordination, and Li–S Battery Performance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(23). 14229–14238. 190 indexed citations

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Hayashi, Eri, et al.. (2019). Application of Protic Ionic Liquids to CO₂ Separation in a Sulfonated Polyimide-Derived Ion Gel Membrane. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 1(6). 1579–1589. 25 indexed citations

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Dokko, Kaoru, Daiki Watanabe, Yosuke Ugata, et al.. (2018). Direct Evidence for Li Ion Hopping Conduction in Highly Concentrated Sulfolane-Based Liquid Electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 122(47). 10736–10745. 237 indexed citations

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Nakanishi, Azusa, Morgan L. Thomas, Y. Kobayashi, et al.. (2018). Electrolyte Composition in Li/O₂ Batteries with LiI Redox Mediators: Solvation Effects on Redox Potentials and Implications for Redox Shuttling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(3). 1522–1534. 61 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Masayoshi, Morgan L. Thomas, Shiguo Zhang, et al.. (2017). Application of Ionic Liquids to Energy Storage and Conversion Materials and Devices. Chemical Reviews. 117(10). 7190–7239. 1346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tatara, Ryoichi, David G. Kwabi, Thomas P. Batcho, et al.. (2017). Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Highly Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions of Lithium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide/Dimethyl Sulfoxide. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(17). 9162–9172. 81 indexed citations

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Hoque, Mahfuzul, Shiguo Zhang, Morgan L. Thomas, et al.. (2017). Simple combination of a protic salt and an iron halide: precursor for a Fe, N and S co-doped catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline and acidic media. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(3). 1138–1149. 32 indexed citations

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Thomas, Morgan L., Yoshiki Oda, Ryoichi Tatara, et al.. (2016). Suppression of Water Absorption by Molecular Design of Ionic Liquid Electrolyte for Li–Air Battery. Advanced Energy Materials. 7(3). 29 indexed citations

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Pérez, Eduardo, Morgan L. Thomas, Paul A. Hamley, et al.. (2016). Selective aerobic oxidation of para-xylene in sub- and supercritical water. Part 3: effects of geometry and mixing in laboratory scale continuous reactors. RSC Advances. 6(14). 11289–11294. 6 indexed citations

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Thomas, Morgan L., Ian S. Butler, & Janusz A. Koziński. (2015). In situ synchrotron‐based X‐ray powder diffraction and micro‐Raman study of biomass and residue model compounds at hydrothermal conditions. Energy Science & Engineering. 3(3). 189–195. 3 indexed citations

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Wong, Raymond A., Morgan L. Thomas, Arghya Dutta, et al.. (2014). A structured three-dimensional polymer electrolyte with enlarged active reaction zone for Li–O2 batteries. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 7127–7127. 62 indexed citations

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Calahoo, Courtney, Mirela M. Barsan, Morgan L. Thomas, Janusz A. Koziński, & Ian S. Butler. (2011). Hydrothermal Raman microscopy studies of manganese carbonyls. Vibrational Spectroscopy. 3 indexed citations

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