Samuel W. Thomas

8.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Samuel W. Thomas is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel W. Thomas has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Materials Chemistry, 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 30 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Samuel W. Thomas's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (34 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (17 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (14 papers). Samuel W. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (34 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (17 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (14 papers). Samuel W. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Samuel W. Thomas's co-authors include Timothy M. Swager, Guy D. Joly, George M. Whitesides, Scott T. Phillips, Emanuel Carrilho, Andres W. Martinez, Seth A. Sharber, Péter Müller, Zachary C. Smith and Terry E. Haas and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Samuel W. Thomas

91 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Chemical Sensors Based on Amplifying Fluorescent Conjugated Polymers

2007 3.8k citations Samuel W. Thomas et al. profile →
Simple Telemedicine for Developing Regions: Camera Phones and Paper-Based Microfluidic Devices for Real-Time, Off-Site Diagnosis

2008 1.2k citations Samuel W. Thomas, George M. Whitesides et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel W. Thomas

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Reversible mechanofluorochromism of aniline-terminated phenylene ethynylenes 2018 ·Chemical Science ·Seth A. Sharber, Kuo‐Chih Shih, (unknown), (unknown), Terry E. Haas, Mu‐Ping Nieh, Samuel W. Thomas	42
2	Tuning the Negative Photochromism of Water-Soluble Spiropyran Polymers 2018 ·Macromolecules ·Matthew Feeney, Samuel W. Thomas	62
3	Adversarial Machine Learning: A Literature Review 2018 ·Lecture notes in computer science ·Samuel W. Thomas, Nasseh Tabrizi	7
4	Correlated rotational switching in two-dimensional self-assembled molecular rotor arrays 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Natalie A. Wasio, (unknown), Zachary C. Smith, (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas, Yu‐Shan Lin, E. Charles H. Sykes	18
5	Stimuli‐Responsive Free‐Standing Layer‐By‐Layer Films 2015 ·Advanced Materials ·Xiaoran Hu, (unknown), (unknown), Cristian Staii, Samuel W. Thomas	35
6	Combining Electronic and Steric Effects for Highly Stable Unsymmetric Pentacenes 2014 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Jingjing Zhang, (unknown), Terry E. Haas, Samuel W. Thomas	23
7	CMOS Fluorometer for Oxygen Sensing 2012 ·IEEE Sensors Journal ·Jian Guo, Jingjing Zhang, Samuel W. Thomas, Sameer Sonkusale	1
8	Photochemical Disruption of Polyelectrolyte Multilayers 2012 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas	22
9	Acene-linked conjugated polymers with ratiometric fluorescent response to 1O2 2011 ·Chemical Communications ·Jingjing Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas	32
10	New Encoding Schemes with Infofuses 2011 ·Advanced Materials ·Kyeng Min Park, Choongik Kim, Samuel W. Thomas, Hyo Jae Yoon, Greg Morrison, L. Mahadevan, George M. Whitesides	4
11	Parallel scanning-optical nanoscopy with optically confined probes 2010 ·Optics Express ·(unknown), Samuel W. Thomas, Rajesh Menon	11
12	Controlling Contact Electrification with Photochromic Polymers 2010 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·S. Friedle, Samuel W. Thomas	39
13	Long‐Duration Transmission of Information with Infofuses 2010 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Choongik Kim, Samuel W. Thomas, George M. Whitesides	12
14	Infochemistry: Encoding Information as Optical Pulses Using Droplets in a Microfluidic Device 2009 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Michinao Hashimoto, Ji Feng, Roger L. York, Audrey K. Ellerbee, Greg Morrison, Samuel W. Thomas, L. Mahadevan, George M. Whitesides	25
15	Phase separation of 2D meso-scale Coulombic crystals from meso-scale polarizable “solvent” 2008 ·Soft Matter ·George K. Kaufman, Samuel W. Thomas, Meital Reches, Bryan F. Shaw, Ji Feng, George M. Whitesides	16
16	Patterns of Electrostatic Charge and Discharge in Contact Electrification 2008 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Samuel W. Thomas, S.J. Vella, George K. Kaufman, George M. Whitesides	50
17	Far-Field Generation of Localized Light Fields using Absorbance Modulation 2007 ·Physical Review Letters ·Rajesh Menon, (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas	30
18	Purification method development for chiral separation in supercritical fluid chromatography with the solubilities in supercritical fluid chromatographic mobile phases 2007 ·Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis ·Kyung H. Gahm, (unknown), Jodi Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas, David Semin, Janet Cheetham	17
19	Streamlined Approach to the Crude Compound Purification to Assay Process 2006 ·Journal of Liquid Chromatography & Related Technologies ·Samuel W. Thomas, (unknown), David Semin, Janet Cheetham, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	5
20	Rapid method development for chiral separation in drug discovery using sample pooling and supercritical fluid chromatography–mass spectrometry 2003 ·Journal of Chromatography A ·Yining Zhao, (unknown), Samuel W. Thomas, David Semin, Pat Sandra	90

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