OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Macromolecules is 52. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ordered Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Graphene Fluoride for Significantly Enhancing Thermal Conductivities of Liquid Crystalline Polyimide Composite Films	159
Plastic Pollution: A Material Problem?	147
Closed-Loop Recyclable Fully Bio-Based Epoxy Vitrimers from Ferulic Acid-Derived Hyperbranched Epoxy Resin	142
Liquid Crystalline Polyimide Films with High Intrinsic Thermal Conductivities and Robust Toughness	141
Solid-State Chemical Transformations to Enhance Gas Capture in Benzoxazine-Linked Conjugated Microporous Polymers	118
Neighboring Group Participation and Internal Catalysis Effects on Exchangeable Covalent Bonds: Application to the Thriving Field of Vitrimer Chemistry	111
Stable Co-Continuous PLA/PBAT Blends Compatibilized by Interfacial Stereocomplex Crystallites: Toward Full Biodegradable Polymer Blends with Simultaneously Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Crystalli	110
Antiviral Polymers: Past Approaches and Future Possibilities	105
Hydrogen-Bond Association-Mediated Dynamics and Viscoelastic Properties of Tough Supramolecular Hydrogels	97
Modification of Hydrophobic Hydrogels into a Strongly Adhesive and Tough Hydrogel by Electrostatic Interaction	91
Importance of Broad Temperature Windows and Multiple Rheological Approaches for Probing Viscoelasticity and Entropic Elasticity in Vitrimers	91
Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate to Continuously Reprocessable Vitrimers through Reactive Extrusion	90
Material Properties of Functional Polyethylenes from Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Ethylene–Polar Monomer Copolymerization	85
Optimizing Morphology to Trade Off Charge Transport and Mechanical Properties of Stretchable Conjugated Polymer Films	82
Polymer Adhesion: Seeking New Solutions for an Old Problem	79
Fast Reprocessing of Acetal Covalent Adaptable Networks with High Performance Enabled by Neighboring Group Participation	79
Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation across a Broad Range of Charge Densities	78
A Lewis Pair as Organocatalyst for One-Pot Synthesis of Block Copolymers from a Mixture of Epoxide, Anhydride, and CO₂	77
Biosourced Acetal and Diels–Alder Adduct Concurrent Polyurethane Covalent Adaptable Network	77
Arresting Elevated-Temperature Creep and Achieving Full Cross-Link Density Recovery in Reprocessable Polymer Networks and Network Composites via Nitroxide-Mediated Dynamic Chemistry	76
Unentangled Vitrimer Melts: Interplay between Chain Relaxation and Cross-link Exchange Controls Linear Rheology	75
Processable, Ion-Conducting Hydrogel for Flexible Electronic Devices with Self-Healing Capability	74
Highly Stretchable, Recyclable, and Fast Room Temperature Self-Healable Biobased Elastomers Using Polycondensation	72
Dienes Polymerization: Where We Are and What Lies Ahead	72
High-Efficiency Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Chiral Luminescent Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Aggregation-Induced Emission Properties	67

Tough and Thermally Recyclable Semiaromatic Polyesters by Ring-Opening Polymerization of Benzo-thia-caprolactones	66
Formaldehyde-Free Synthesis of Fully Bio-Based Multifunctional Bisbenzoxazine Resins from Natural Renewable Starting Materials	66
Frank–Kasper Phases in Block Polymers	65
Effect of Solvent Quality on the Phase Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Complexes	64
Anionic Polymerization of Terpene Monomers: New Options for Bio-Based Thermoplastic Elastomers	64
REACTER: A Heuristic Method for Reactive Molecular Dynamics	64
Ion Correlations and Their Impact on Transport in Polymer-Based Electrolytes	63
Nonlinear Shear Rheology of Entangled Polymer Rings	62
Catalyst-Free Epoxy Vitrimers Based on Transesterification Internally Activated by an α–CF₃ Group	61
Triethylborane-Assisted Synthesis of Random and Block Poly(ester-carbonate)s through One-Pot Terpolymerization of Epoxides, CO₂, and Cyclic Anhydrides	60
Copper(II) Chloride/Tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine-Catalyzed Depolymerization of Poly(n-butyl methacrylate)	59
Current Challenges and Perspectives of Polymer Electrolyte Membranes	58
The Crucial Role in Controlling the Dynamic Properties of Polyester-Based Epoxy Vitrimers: The Density of Exchangeable Ester Bonds (υ)	58
All-Organic Polymer Dielectrics Containing Sulfonyl Dipolar Groups and π–π Stacking Interaction in Side-Chain Architectures	58
Skin-Inspired Healable Conductive Elastomers with Exceptional Strain-Adaptive Stiffening and Damage Tolerance	58
Advances and New Opportunities in the Rheology of Physically and Chemically Reversible Polymers	58
Critical Strains Determine the Tensile Deformation Mechanism in Semicrystalline Polymers	57
Mechanical and Structural Consequences of Associative Dynamic Cross-Linking in Acrylic Diblock Copolymers	57
Highly Stretchable and Reconfigurable Ionogels with Unprecedented Thermoplasticity and Ultrafast Self-Healability Enabled by Gradient-Responsive Networks	57
A “Polymer to Polymer” Chemical Recycling of PLA Plastics by the “DE–RE Polymerization” Strategy	56
Sustainable, Malleable, and Recyclable Castor Oil-Derived Poly(urethane urea) Networks with Tunable Mechanical Properties and Shape Memory Performance Based on Dynamic Piperazine–Urea Bonds	56
Two Chirality Transfer Channels Assist Handedness Inversion and Amplification of Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Chiral Helical Polyacetylene Thin Films	56
Mechanically Robust Skin-like Poly(urethane-urea) Elastomers Cross-Linked with Hydrogen-Bond Arrays and Their Application as High-Performance Ultrastretchable Conductors	56
Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance of Donor–Acceptor-Type Polymers Based on a Thiophene-Contained Polycyclic Aromatic Unit	56
Transcarbamoylation in Polyurethanes: Underestimated Exchange Reactions?	55
Crown Ether- and Benzoxazine-Linked Porous Organic Polymers Displaying Enhanced Metal Ion and CO₂ Capture through Solid-State Chemical Transformation	55
Tapered Multiblock Copolymers Based on Farnesene and Styrene: Impact of Biobased Polydiene Architectures on Material Properties	53
Enhanced Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties of Poly(vinylidene fluoride) through Annealing Oriented Crystallites under High Pressure	52
Cross-Linking Effect on Segmental Dynamics of Well-Defined Epoxy Resins	52
Depolymerization of P(PDMS₁₁MA) Bottlebrushes via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization with Activator Regeneration	52