Ryan M. Young

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
192 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Ryan M. Young is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan M. Young has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Materials Chemistry, 70 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 62 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ryan M. Young's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (59 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (45 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (44 papers). Ryan M. Young is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (59 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (45 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (44 papers). Ryan M. Young collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Ryan M. Young's co-authors include Michael R. Wasielewski, J. Fraser Stoddart, Matthew D. Krzyaniak, Yilei Wu, Brian T. Phelan, Daniel M. Neumark, George C. Schatz, Eric A. Margulies, Kristen E. Brown and Claire E. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ryan M. Young

186 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Supramolecular Explorations: Exhibiting the Extent of Extended Cationic Cyclophanes

2016 200 citations Ryan M. Young, Michael R. Wasielewski et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ryan M. Young	3.4k	2.7k	1.6k	1.6k	1.5k	192	6.9k
Nikos L. Doltsinis	2.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	845 0.6×	151	5.8k
Stefan Lochbrunner	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	2.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	178	7.6k
Fabrizia Negri	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	191	6.4k
Kenneth P. Ghiggino	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	231	6.6k
Thomas J. Penfold	4.8k 1.4×	4.6k 1.7×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	150	8.0k
Chao‐Ping Hsu	2.0k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	128	5.6k
Wai‐Ming Kwok	4.4k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	154	7.4k
Laren M. Tolbert	2.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.5×	1.0k 0.6×	2.1k 1.4×	188	6.7k
Sungnam Park	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	719 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	575 0.4×	169	5.9k
Peter Saalfrank	3.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	698 0.4×	4.3k 2.7×	722 0.5×	255	8.3k

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Chiesa, Alessandro, Yunfan Qiu, Ryan M. Young, et al.. (2025). Detecting chirality-induced spin selectivity in chromophore-linked DNA hairpins using photogenerated radical pairs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(32). e2515120122–e2515120122. 2 indexed citations

Young, Ryan M., et al.. (2024). Structure-enabled long-lived charge separation in single crystals of an asymmetric donor–acceptor perylenediimide cyclophane. Chemical Science. 15(29). 11472–11479. 2 indexed citations

Young, Ryan M., et al.. (2024). Symmetry-Breaking Charge Separation in the Solid State Using Perylenemonoimide-Based Multichromophoric Architectures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 128(25). 10474–10482. 4 indexed citations

Sangwan, Vinod K., Guoping Li, Fei Qin, et al.. (2024). Elucidating performance degradation mechanisms in non-fullerene acceptor solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(32). 21213–21229. 3 indexed citations

David, Arthur H. G., Amine Garci, Seifallah Abid, et al.. (2023). Divinylanthracene-Containing Tetracationic Organic Cyclophane with Near-Infrared Photoluminescence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(16). 9182–9190. 7 indexed citations

Garci, Amine, Seifallah Abid, Arthur H. G. David, et al.. (2023). Exciplex Emission and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Based Bischromophoric Cyclophanes and Homo[2]catenanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(33). 18391–18401. 21 indexed citations

Mao, Haochuan, et al.. (2023). Quantum Gate Operations on a Spectrally Addressable Photogenerated Molecular Electron Spin-Qubit Pair. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(11). 6585–6593. 29 indexed citations

Zhu, Weigang, Guoping Li, S. Mukherjee, et al.. (2023). Quantitative relationships between film morphology, charge carrier dynamics, and photovoltaic performance in bulk-heterojunction binary vs. ternary acceptor blends. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(3). 1234–1250. 13 indexed citations

Garci, Amine, Ryan M. Young, Masoud Kazem‐Rostami, et al.. (2022). Mechanically interlocked pyrene-based photocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 5(6). 524–533. 60 indexed citations

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Wu, Yong, Qing‐Hui Guo, Yunyan Qiu, et al.. (2022). Syntheses of three-dimensional catenanes under kinetic control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(12). e2118573119–e2118573119. 27 indexed citations

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Young, Ryan M., et al.. (2022). Photoinduced Site-Selective Functionalization of Aliphatic C–H Bonds by Pyridine N -oxide Based HAT Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 12(16). 10441–10448. 54 indexed citations

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Feng, Yuanning, Ryan M. Young, P. Brown, et al.. (2022). Alkoxy-Substituted Quadrupolar Fluorescent Dyes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(37). 16841–16854. 16 indexed citations

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Mao, Haochuan, Ryan M. Young, Matthew D. Krzyaniak, & Michael R. Wasielewski. (2021). Controlling the Dynamics of Three Electron Spin Qubits in a Donor–Acceptor–Radical Molecule Using Dielectric Environment Changes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(9). 2213–2218. 12 indexed citations

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Jiao, Yang, Luka Đorđević∞, Haochuan Mao, et al.. (2021). A Donor–Acceptor [2]Catenane for Visible Light Photocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(21). 8000–8010. 80 indexed citations

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Wu, Yilei, Marco Frasconi, Wei-Guang Liu, et al.. (2020). Electrochemical Switching of a Fluorescent Molecular Rotor Embedded within a Bistable Rotaxane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(27). 11835–11846. 55 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jiawang, Yilei Wu, Indranil Roy, et al.. (2019). Choosing sides: unusual ultrafast charge transfer pathways in an asymmetric electron-accepting cyclophane that binds an electron donor. Chemical Science. 10(15). 4282–4292. 19 indexed citations

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Bae, Youn Jue, Gyeongwon Kang, Christos D. Malliakas, et al.. (2018). Singlet Fission in 9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene Thin Films. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(45). 15140–15144. 100 indexed citations

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Gong, Xirui, Ryan M. Young, Karel J. Hartlieb, et al.. (2017). Intramolecular Energy and Electron Transfer within a Diazaperopyrenium-Based Cyclophane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(11). 4107–4116. 43 indexed citations

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Spenst, Peter, Ryan M. Young, Brian T. Phelan, et al.. (2017). Solvent-Templated Folding of Perylene Bisimide Macrocycles into Coiled Double-String Ropes with Solvent-Sensitive Optical Signatures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(5). 2014–2021. 49 indexed citations

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Dyar, Scott M., Amanda L. Smeigh, Steven D. Karlen, Ryan M. Young, & Michael R. Wasielewski. (2015). Photo-initiated multi-step electron transfer in donor–acceptor systems using a novel bi-functionalized perylene chromophore. Chemical Physics Letters. 629. 23–28. 6 indexed citations

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