Nicholas Ballard

3.5k total citations
102 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Ballard is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Ballard has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Organic Chemistry, 36 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 35 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Ballard's work include Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (60 papers), Polymer composites and self-healing (24 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (16 papers). Nicholas Ballard is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (60 papers), Polymer composites and self-healing (24 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (16 papers). Nicholas Ballard collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. Nicholas Ballard's co-authors include José M. Asúa, Stefan A. F. Bon, Bernd Reck, Sil Nevejans, José R. Leiza, Yunhua Chen, Shaghayegh Hamzehlou, Haritz Sardón, Radmila Tomovská and José I. Miranda and has published in prestigious journals such as Progress in Polymer Science, Macromolecules and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Ballard

97 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Ballard Spain 29 1.6k 1.1k 992 544 503 102 2.8k
Xiang Zheng Kong China 32 922 0.6× 753 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 395 0.7× 397 0.8× 160 2.7k
Pingwei Liu China 33 603 0.4× 578 0.5× 1.4k 1.4× 565 1.0× 418 0.8× 108 2.8k
Peter A. Lovell United Kingdom 26 1.9k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 770 0.8× 498 0.9× 447 0.9× 81 3.0k
Qinmin Pan Canada 22 805 0.5× 718 0.6× 441 0.4× 518 1.0× 324 0.6× 114 2.1k
C. Graillat France 28 1.2k 0.7× 684 0.6× 543 0.5× 369 0.7× 508 1.0× 76 2.1k
Seiichi Kawahara Japan 30 616 0.4× 2.1k 1.9× 548 0.6× 306 0.6× 771 1.5× 212 3.1k
Marı́a J. Barandiaran Spain 23 910 0.6× 534 0.5× 344 0.3× 256 0.5× 343 0.7× 65 1.4k
Nino Grizzuti Italy 31 451 0.3× 1.4k 1.3× 650 0.7× 421 0.8× 589 1.2× 123 2.9k
Weijian Xu China 28 587 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 608 1.1× 365 0.7× 113 3.3k

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All Works

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Hamzehlou, Shaghayegh, Nicholas Ballard, & José M. Asúa. (2025). Toward control of molar mass distribution and polymer architecture in seeded emulsion polymerization reactors. Chemical Engineering Journal. 526. 171571–171571.
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Pirnat, Klemen, Uroš Javornik, Nerea Casado, et al.. (2025). Exploration of the High‐Capacity Tetrahydroxybenzene Materials for Organic Batteries. ChemElectroChem. 12(5).
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Recent Advances in Combining Waterborne Acrylic Dispersions with Biopolymers. Polymers. 17(8). 1027–1027. 5 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Reinforcement learning for the optimization and online control of emulsion polymerization reactors: Particle morphology. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 187. 108739–108739. 7 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Polymer chemistry informed neural networks (PCINNs) for data-driven modelling of polymerization processes. Polymer Chemistry. 15(44). 4580–4590. 7 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Physical Crosslinking of Aqueous Polymer Dispersions: A Perspective. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. 42(2). 2 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2023). Film formation of structured latexes with hydroplasticizable domains. Reactive and Functional Polymers. 191. 105684–105684. 6 indexed citations
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Willocq, Bertrand, et al.. (2023). Film formation of high poly(vinyl chloride) content latex particles. Progress in Organic Coatings. 183. 107783–107783. 6 indexed citations
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Mitchell, Timothy J., Benjamin A. Seitzman, Nicholas Ballard, et al.. (2020). Human Brain Functional Network Organization Is Disrupted After Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy. Brain Connectivity. 10(1). 29–38. 21 indexed citations
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Simula, Alexandre, et al.. (2019). Renewable Terpene Derivative as a Biosourced Elastomeric Building Block in the Design of Functional Acrylic Copolymers. Biomacromolecules. 20(6). 2241–2251. 44 indexed citations
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Simula, Alexandre, Fernando Ruipérez, Nicholas Ballard, et al.. (2018). Why can Dispolreg 007 control the nitroxide mediated polymerization of methacrylates?. Polymer Chemistry. 10(1). 106–113. 20 indexed citations
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Agirre, Amaia, Nicholas Ballard, Steven van Es, et al.. (2018). Insights into the Network Structure of Cross-Linked Polymers Synthesized via Miniemulsion Nitroxide-Mediated Radical Polymerization. Macromolecules. 51(23). 9740–9748. 20 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2017). Shedding light on the different behavior of ionic and nonionic surfactants in emulsion polymerization: from atomistic simulations to experimental observations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(47). 31692–31705. 9 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas, et al.. (2016). Adsorption and desorption behavior of ionic and nonionic surfactants on polymer surfaces. Soft Matter. 12(48). 9692–9704. 41 indexed citations
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Akhmatskaya, Elena, et al.. (2015). Relative frequencies of constrained events in stochastic processes: An analytical approach. Physical Review E. 92(4). 43306–43306. 2 indexed citations
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Ballard, Nicholas & Stefan A. F. Bon. (2015). Equilibrium orientations of non-spherical and chemically anisotropic particles at liquid–liquid interfaces and the effect on emulsion stability. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 448. 533–544. 40 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunhua, Nicholas Ballard, & Stefan A. F. Bon. (2013). Moldable high internal phase emulsion hydrogel objects from non-covalently crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) nanogel dispersions. Chemical Communications. 49(15). 1524–1524. 67 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunhua, Nicholas Ballard, Florence Gayet, & Stefan A. F. Bon. (2011). High internal phase emulsion gels (HIPE-gels) from polymer dispersions reinforced with quadruple hydrogen bond functionality. Chemical Communications. 48(8). 1117–1119. 60 indexed citations

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