Timothy M. Swager

58.2k total citations · 15 hit papers
679 papers, 49.8k citations indexed

About

Timothy M. Swager is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy M. Swager has authored 679 papers receiving a total of 49.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 315 papers in Materials Chemistry, 251 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 216 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Timothy M. Swager's work include Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (154 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (153 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (121 papers). Timothy M. Swager is often cited by papers focused on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (154 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (153 papers) and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (121 papers). Timothy M. Swager collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Timothy M. Swager's co-authors include Samuel W. Thomas, D. Tyler McQuade, Guy D. Joly, Anthony E. Pullen, Jye‐Shane Yang, Sophie F. Liu, Jan M. Schnorr, Jinsang Kim, Robert G. Griffin and Mircea Dincă and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Timothy M. Swager

652 papers receiving 48.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Conjugated Polymer-Based Chemical Sensors

2000 3.3k citations Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Fluorescent Porous Polymer Films as TNT Chemosensors: Electronic and Structural Effects

1998 1.0k citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
The Molecular Wire Approach to Sensory Signal Amplification

1998 1.0k citations Timothy M. Swager profile →
Cu₃(hexaiminotriphenylene)₂: An Electrically Conductive 2D Metal–Organic Framework for Chemiresistive Sensing

2015 916 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Carbon Nanotube Chemical Sensors

2018 857 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Chemiresistive Sensor Arrays from Conductive 2D Metal–Organic Frameworks

2015 723 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Porous Shape Persistent Fluorescent Polymer Films: An Approach to TNT Sensory Materials

1998 680 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Sensitivity gains in chemosensing by lasing action in organic polymers

2005 671 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Fluorescent Chemosensors Based on Energy Migration in Conjugated Polymers: The Molecular Wire Approach to Increased Sensitivity

1995 589 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Emerging Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

2010 550 citations Jan M. Schnorr, Timothy M. Swager profile →
Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence and Aggregation Induced Emission with Through-Space Charge Transfer

2017 497 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

2013 474 citations Thach V. Can, Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
Discrete Intensity Jumps and Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in the Spectroscopy of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules

1997 439 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →
A transferable model for singlet-fission kinetics

2014 399 citations Timothy M. Swager et al. profile →

Peers

Timothy M. Swager

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He Tian China

Frank Würthner Germany

Katsuhiko Ariga Japan

Daoben Zhu China

Zhen Li China

Yunqi Liu China

David N. Reinhoudt Netherlands

Michael R. Wasielewski United States

Guillermo C. Bazan United States

Yuliang Li China

He Tian China

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Swager, Timothy M., et al.. (2025). Pentiptycene ether sulfone macromonomers for the synthesis of polymers of intrinsic microporosity. Polymer. 328. 128390–128390.

Lee, Tae Hoon, et al.. (2025). Enhancing acid–gas separations using free volume manipulation for microporous poly(arylene ether)s. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(8). 5707–5722. 2 indexed citations

Rodriguez, Katherine Mizrahi, et al.. (2024). Elucidating the role of micropore-generating backbone motifs and amine functionality on H2S, CO2, CH4 and N2 sorption. Journal of Membrane Science. 696. 122465–122465. 16 indexed citations

Han, Seok Hee, et al.. (2024). Chemi-Impeditive Sensing Platform Based on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(46). 31486–31496. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Michelle, et al.. (2024). Optical Detection of Interleukin-6 Using Liquid Janus Emulsions Using Hyperthermophilic Affinity Proteins. ACS Omega. 9(35). 37076–37085.

Guo, Sheng, et al.. (2023). A Microporous Poly(Arylene Ether) Platform for Membrane‐Based Gas Separation**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(8). e202315611–e202315611. 11 indexed citations

Concellón, Alberto & Timothy M. Swager. (2023). Detection of Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) by Interrupted Energy Transfer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(47). e202309928–e202309928. 19 indexed citations

Gao, Haining, Kosuke Yoshinaga, Katherine Steinberg, Timothy M. Swager, & Betar M. Gallant. (2023). Cascade Defluorination of Perfluoroalkylated Catholytes Unlocks High Lithium Primary Battery Capacities. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(32). 11 indexed citations

Dunlap, John H., Shao‐Xiong Lennon Luo, José Antonio Garrido Torres, et al.. (2023). Continuous flow synthesis of pyridinium salts accelerated by multi-objective Bayesian optimization with active learning. Chemical Science. 14(30). 8061–8069. 30 indexed citations

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Luo, Shao‐Xiong Lennon, et al.. (2022). Cyclodextrin-Functionalized Polypyrrole Particles for the Extraction of Aromatics from Water. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(40). 45904–45909. 5 indexed citations

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Bryerton, Eric, et al.. (2022). Amplified Overhauser DNP with Selective Deuteration: Attenuation of Double-Quantum Cross-Relaxation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(1). 95–100. 12 indexed citations

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Swager, Timothy M., et al.. (2021). An Organic Chemist’s Guide to N -Nitrosamines: Their Structure, Reactivity, and Role as Contaminants. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(3). 2037–2057. 140 indexed citations

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Wang, Pan, Ru‐Qiang Lu, Arthur France‐Lanord, et al.. (2020). Cyclobutene based macrocycles. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 4(12). 3529–3538. 4 indexed citations

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Soetbeer, Janne, Peter Gast, Joseph J. Walish, et al.. (2018). Conformation of bis-nitroxide polarizing agents by multi-frequency EPR spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(39). 25506–25517. 28 indexed citations

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Can, Thach V., Ralph T. Weber, Joseph J. Walish, Timothy M. Swager, & Robert G. Griffin. (2017). Frequency‐Swept Integrated Solid Effect. Angewandte Chemie. 129(24). 6848–6852. 6 indexed citations

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Nitti, Andrea, Gabriele Bianchi, Riccardo Pó, Timothy M. Swager, & Dario Pasini. (2017). Domino Direct Arylation and Cross-Aldol for Rapid Construction of Extended Polycyclic π-Scaffolds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(26). 8788–8791. 52 indexed citations

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Nagelberg, Sara, Lauren D. Zarzar, Natalie J. Nicolas, et al.. (2017). Reconfigurable and responsive droplet-based compound micro-lenses. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14673–14673. 134 indexed citations

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Can, Thach V., Joseph J. Walish, Timothy M. Swager, & Robert G. Griffin. (2015). Time domain DNP with the NOVEL sequence. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 143(5). 54201–54201. 66 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Eilaf, Stephen W. Morton, Paula T. Hammond, & Timothy M. Swager. (2013). Fluorescent Multiblock Ï-Conjugated Polymer Nanoparticles for In Vivo Tumor Targeting. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 80 indexed citations

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Zwaag, Daan van der, Yossi Weizmann, Jan M. Schnorr, Joseph J. Walish, & Timothy M. Swager. (2013). Sensory Arrays of Covalently Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Explosive Detection. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 103 indexed citations

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