Muralee Murugesu

15.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
255 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Muralee Murugesu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Muralee Murugesu has authored 255 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 203 papers in Materials Chemistry, 190 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 73 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Muralee Murugesu's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (185 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (165 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (31 papers). Muralee Murugesu is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (185 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (165 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (31 papers). Muralee Murugesu collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Muralee Murugesu's co-authors include Ilia Korobkov, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, Po‐Heng Lin, Fatemah Habib, Liviu F. Chibotaru, Liviu Ungur, Katie L. M. Harriman, George Christou, Jennifer J. Le Roy and T.J. Burchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Muralee Murugesu

247 papers receiving 13.6k 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.

A Polynuclear Lanthanide Single‐Molecule Magnet with a Record Anisotropic Barrier

2009 552 citations Liviu Ungur, Muralee Murugesu et al. profile →
Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior for an Antiferromagnetically Superexchange-Coupled Dinuclear Dysprosium(III) Complex

2011 535 citations Ilia Korobkov, Liviu Ungur et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
The rise of 3-d single-ion magnets in molecular magnetism: towards materials from molecules?

2015 528 citations Katie L. M. Harriman, Muralee Murugesu et al. Chemical Science profile →
Dinuclear Dysprosium(III) Single‐Molecule Magnets with a Large Anisotropic Barrier

2008 501 citations Muralee Murugesu et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muralee Murugesu Canada	58	11.3k	11.1k	4.8k	2.3k	1.6k	255	13.7k
Gopalan Rajaraman India	59	8.0k 0.7×	8.4k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	351	10.9k
Nicholas F. Chilton United Kingdom	55	11.2k 1.0×	12.2k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	187	13.8k
Jinkui Tang China	72	15.6k 1.4×	16.2k 1.5×	6.4k 1.3×	3.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	319	17.8k
Yan‐Cong Chen China	49	10.5k 0.9×	11.2k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	660 0.4×	149	12.3k
Euan K. Brechin United Kingdom	72	12.8k 1.1×	15.0k 1.3×	8.4k 1.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	392	17.1k
Liviu Ungur Belgium	63	14.8k 1.3×	15.3k 1.4×	4.2k 0.9×	3.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	128	16.6k
Yanhua Lan Germany	51	7.5k 0.7×	7.8k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	781 0.5×	156	9.0k
Olivier Roubeau Spain	56	7.1k 0.6×	8.3k 0.7×	5.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	269	12.1k
Lorenzo Sorace Italy	55	7.2k 0.6×	8.4k 0.8×	3.4k 0.7×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	250	11.1k
Richard A. Layfield United Kingdom	36	7.4k 0.7×	7.8k 0.7×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	120	9.6k

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Castañeda, Raúl, et al.. (2025). Diplatinum Single‐Molecular Photocatalyst Capable of Driving Hydrogen Production from Water via Singlet‐to‐Triplet Transitions. Angewandte Chemie. 137(10). 1 indexed citations

Sen, Asmita, Patrick W. Smith, Dumitru‐Claudiu Sergentu, et al.. (2025). An Ytterbium-Pyrazine Square [(C ₅ H ₄ Me) ₂ Yb ^III (pyz ^•– )] ₄ Formed by Reversible Electron Transfer and Concomitant Self-Assembly. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(29). 14753–14758.

Heinrich, Martin, Diana Václavková, Katie L. M. Harriman, et al.. (2024). Orientation‐Driven Large Magnetic Hysteresis of Er(III) Cyclooctatetraenide‐Based Single‐Ion Magnets Adsorbed on Ag(100). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(8). 2400115–2400115. 2 indexed citations

Gálico, Diogo A., et al.. (2024). Ligand Effects on the Emission Characteristics of Molecular Eu(II) Luminescence Thermometers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(49). 34118–34129. 10 indexed citations

Gálico, Diogo A., et al.. (2023). Lanthanide molecular cluster-aggregates as the next generation of optical materials. Chemical Science. 14(22). 5827–5841. 43 indexed citations

Bispo‐Jr, Airton G., et al.. (2023). Improving the performance of β-diketonate-based Dy^III single-molecule magnets displaying luminescence thermometry. Chemical Communications. 59(56). 8723–8726. 15 indexed citations

Gálico, Diogo A. & Muralee Murugesu. (2022). Controlling the Energy‐Transfer Processes in a Nanosized Molecular Upconverter to Tap into Luminescence Thermometry Application. Angewandte Chemie. 134(29). 3 indexed citations

Gálico, Diogo A., et al.. (2022). Phonon-assisted molecular upconversion in a holmium(iii)-based molecular cluster-aggregate. Nanoscale. 14(27). 9675–9680. 22 indexed citations

Kitos, Alexandros A., et al.. (2022). New members of radical bridged Ln₂metallocene single-molecule magnets based on the unsubstituted 1,2,4,5-tetrazine ligand. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(1). 259–266. 21 indexed citations

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Kitos, Alexandros A., Diogo A. Gálico, Raúl Castañeda, et al.. (2021). Probing optical and magnetic properties via subtle stereoelectronic effects in mononuclear Dy^III-complexes. Chemical Communications. 57(63). 7818–7821. 21 indexed citations

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Murillo, Jesse, Katie L. M. Harriman, Joshua Wright, et al.. (2021). Actinide arene-metalates: ion pairing effects on the electronic structure of unsupported uranium–arenide sandwich complexes. Chemical Science. 12(40). 13360–13372. 17 indexed citations

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Brunet, Gabriel, et al.. (2020). A Barrel‐Shaped Metal–Organic Blue‐Box Analogue with Photo‐/Redox‐Switchable Behavior. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(69). 16455–16462. 16 indexed citations

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Kitos, Alexandros A., Diogo A. Gálico, Raúl Castañeda, et al.. (2020). Stark Sublevel-Based Thermometry with Tb(III) and Dy(III) Complexes Cosensitized via the 2-Amidinopyridine Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(15). 11061–11070. 37 indexed citations

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Kitos, Alexandros A., et al.. (2020). A chelate like no other: exploring the synthesis, coordination chemistry and applications of imidoyl amidine frameworks. Materials Advances. 1(8). 2688–2706. 12 indexed citations

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Errulat, Dylan, Bulat Gabidullin, Akseli Mansikkamäki, & Muralee Murugesu. (2020). Two heads are better than one: improving magnetic relaxation in the dysprosium metallocene upon dimerization by use of an exceptionally weakly-coordinating anion. Chemical Communications. 56(44). 5937–5940. 27 indexed citations

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Errulat, Dylan, Riccardo Marin, Diogo A. Gálico, et al.. (2019). A Luminescent Thermometer Exhibiting Slow Relaxation of the Magnetization: Toward Self-Monitored Building Blocks for Next-Generation Optomagnetic Devices. ACS Central Science. 5(7). 1187–1198. 135 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yixin, Katie L. M. Harriman, Gabriel Brunet, et al.. (2018). Reversible Redox, Spin Crossover, and Superexchange Coupling in 3d Transition‐Metal Complexes of Bis‐azinyl Analogues of 2,2′:6′,2′′‐Terpyridine. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2018(10). 1212–1223. 8 indexed citations

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Witkowski, Tomasz G., et al.. (2018). 2,3,5,6-Tetra(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)pyrazine: A Thermally Stable Nitrogen-Rich Energetic Material. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(2). 589–593. 52 indexed citations

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Brunet, Gabriel, et al.. (2017). Strong ferromagnetic exchange coupling in a {NiII4} cluster mediated through an air-stable tetrazine-based radical anion. Chemical Communications. 53(62). 8660–8663. 39 indexed citations

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Brunet, Gabriel, Damir A. Safin, Koen Robeyns, et al.. (2017). Confinement effects of a crystalline sponge on ferrocene and ferrocene carboxaldehyde. Chemical Communications. 53(41). 5645–5648. 23 indexed citations

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