OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Macromolecules is 53. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Perspectives for Polymer Electrolytes: A View from Fundamentals of Ionic Conductivity	224
Fabrication of Bioinspired Hydrogels: Challenges and Opportunities	183
Self-Nucleation Effects on Polymer Crystallization	144
Ordered Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Graphene Fluoride for Significantly Enhancing Thermal Conductivities of Liquid Crystalline Polyimide Composite Films	136
Facile Preparation of Polyimine Vitrimers with Enhanced Creep Resistance and Thermal and Mechanical Properties via Metal Coordination	124
Liquid Crystalline Polyimide Films with High Intrinsic Thermal Conductivities and Robust Toughness	123
Triethanolamine-Mediated Covalent Adaptable Epoxy Network: Excellent Mechanical Properties, Fast Repairing, and Easy Recycling	119
Self-Healing High Strength and Thermal Conductivity of 3D Graphene/PDMS Composites by the Optimization of Multiple Molecular Interactions	119
Plastic Pollution: A Material Problem?	117
Closed-Loop Recyclable Fully Bio-Based Epoxy Vitrimers from Ferulic Acid-Derived Hyperbranched Epoxy Resin	112
Network Design to Control Polyimine Vitrimer Properties: Physical Versus Chemical Approach	112
Solid-State Chemical Transformations to Enhance Gas Capture in Benzoxazine-Linked Conjugated Microporous Polymers	109
Neighboring Group Participation and Internal Catalysis Effects on Exchangeable Covalent Bonds: Application to the Thriving Field of Vitrimer Chemistry	96
Lewis Pair Polymerization: Perspective on a Ten-Year Journey	93
Stable Co-Continuous PLA/PBAT Blends Compatibilized by Interfacial Stereocomplex Crystallites: Toward Full Biodegradable Polymer Blends with Simultaneously Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Crystalli	93
Antiviral Polymers: Past Approaches and Future Possibilities	90
Impact of Molecular Weight on the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of a High-Mobility Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymer	84
Adaptable Strategy to Fabricate Self-Healable and Reprocessable Poly(thiourethane-urethane) Elastomers via Reversible Thiol–Isocyanate Click Chemistry	80
Hydrogen-Bond Association-Mediated Dynamics and Viscoelastic Properties of Tough Supramolecular Hydrogels	77
Importance of Broad Temperature Windows and Multiple Rheological Approaches for Probing Viscoelasticity and Entropic Elasticity in Vitrimers	74
Modification of Hydrophobic Hydrogels into a Strongly Adhesive and Tough Hydrogel by Electrostatic Interaction	73
Upcycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate to Continuously Reprocessable Vitrimers through Reactive Extrusion	71
Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Driven by Near-Infrared Light with Recyclable Upconversion Nanoparticles	71
Material Properties of Functional Polyethylenes from Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Ethylene–Polar Monomer Copolymerization	71
Optimizing Morphology to Trade Off Charge Transport and Mechanical Properties of Stretchable Conjugated Polymer Films	70

Polymer Thermoelectrics: Opportunities and Challenges	70
Functionalizing Polystyrene with N-Alicyclic Piperidine-Based Cations via Friedel–Crafts Alkylation for Highly Alkali-Stable Anion-Exchange Membranes	65
Highly Stretchable, Recyclable, and Fast Room Temperature Self-Healable Biobased Elastomers Using Polycondensation	65
Crack Tip Field of a Double-Network Gel: Visualization of Covalent Bond Scission through Mechanoradical Polymerization	64
Arresting Elevated-Temperature Creep and Achieving Full Cross-Link Density Recovery in Reprocessable Polymer Networks and Network Composites via Nitroxide-Mediated Dynamic Chemistry	64
Impact of Backbone Rigidity on the Thermomechanical Properties of Semiconducting Polymers with Conjugation Break Spacers	64
Biosourced Acetal and Diels–Alder Adduct Concurrent Polyurethane Covalent Adaptable Network	64
Microscopic Understanding of the Granular Structure and the Swelling of PEDOT:PSS	63
Processable, Ion-Conducting Hydrogel for Flexible Electronic Devices with Self-Healing Capability	63
Acylsemicarbazide Moieties with Dynamic Reversibility and Multiple Hydrogen Bonding for Transparent, High Modulus, and Malleable Polymers	62
A Lewis Pair as Organocatalyst for One-Pot Synthesis of Block Copolymers from a Mixture of Epoxide, Anhydride, and CO₂	61
Polymer Adhesion: Seeking New Solutions for an Old Problem	60
Polymer Mechanochemistry and the Emergence of the Mechanophore Concept	60
Polyelectrolyte Complex Coacervation across a Broad Range of Charge Densities	60
Rheology of the Critical Transition State of an Epoxy Vitrimer	59
Dienes Polymerization: Where We Are and What Lies Ahead	59
Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Microporous Polymers for Visible-Light-Driven Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from Water	59
Unentangled Vitrimer Melts: Interplay between Chain Relaxation and Cross-link Exchange Controls Linear Rheology	59
High-Efficiency Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Chiral Luminescent Liquid Crystalline Polymers with Aggregation-Induced Emission Properties	58
Aggregation-Induced Emission-Active Chiral Helical Polymers Show Strong Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Thin Films	58
Frank–Kasper Phases in Block Polymers	57
Fast Reprocessing of Acetal Covalent Adaptable Networks with High Performance Enabled by Neighboring Group Participation	56
All-Polycarbonate Thermoplastic Elastomers Based on Triblock Copolymers Derived from Triethylborane-Mediated Sequential Copolymerization of CO₂ with Various Epoxides	55
Advances and New Opportunities in the Rheology of Physically and Chemically Reversible Polymers	54
Effects of Non-Electrostatic Intermolecular Interactions on the Phase Behavior of pH-Sensitive Polyelectrolyte Complexes	54
Surface-Initiated Photoinduced ATRP: Mechanism, Oxygen Tolerance, and Temporal Control during the Synthesis of Polymer Brushes	53
Two Polymersome Evolution Pathways in One Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) System	53
Tough and Thermally Recyclable Semiaromatic Polyesters by Ring-Opening Polymerization of Benzo-thia-caprolactones	53
Effect of Solvent Quality on the Phase Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Complexes	53