Who owns the IP
The organizations most actively patenting around this compound, ranked by referenced patent volume.
| # | Assignee | Patents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kyocera Document Solutions Inc | 622 |
| 2 | Xerox Corp | 289 |
| 3 | Eastman Kodak Co | 147 |
| 4 | Carestream Health Inc | 112 |
| 5 | Fujifilm Corp | 103 |
| 6 | Konica Minolta Inc | 83 |
| 7 | Applied Biosystems Inc | 72 |
| 8 | Sony Corp | 48 |
| 9 | BASF SE | 46 |
| 10 | Becton Dickinson and Co | 46 |
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Patent classifications ranked by volume reveal the technical domains with the most active filing.
| # | Code | Area | Patents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C09B | 935 | |
| 2 | G01N | Investigating / analysing materials | 897 |
| 3 | G02B | 753 | |
| 4 | H10K | Organic semiconductors / OLEDs | 635 |
| 5 | G03G | 577 |
| 6 | A61K | Medicinal preparations | 561 |
| 7 | C07D | Heterocyclic compounds | 543 |
| 8 | Y02E | Climate change mitigation: energy | 530 |
| 9 | G03F | 526 | |
| 10 | C09K | Materials for misc. applications | 466 |
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Patents ranked by forward citations reveal the foundational inventions the field continues to build on.
| Title | Year | Assignee | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silylated compositions, and deuterated hydroxyl squaraine compositions and processes | 1986 | Xerox Corp | 58 |
| Photoconductive imaging members with unsymmetrical squaraine compounds containing an hydroxyl group | 1986 | Xerox Corp | 45 |
| Squaraine based dyes and process for preparation thereof | 2002 | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research CSIR | 34 |
| Electrophotographic elements containing unsymmetrical squaraines | 1986 | Xerox Corp | 29 |
| Process for synthesizing squaraine compositions | 1985 | Xerox Corp | 26 |
Where research is gaining momentum
Research themes ranked by publication activity show where scientific interest is accelerating around this compound.
| # | Research topic | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications | 1 |
| 2 | Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics | 1 |
| 3 | Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry | 1 |
| 4 | Protein Interaction Studies and Fluorescence Analysis | 1 |
Who's driving the science
The most-published authors working with this compound, alongside their primary affiliations.
| # | Author | Affiliation | Papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bradley D. Smith | University of Notre Dame | 23 |
| 2 | Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology | 10 |
| 3 | Danaboyina Ramaiah | National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology | 8 |
| 4 | Easwaran Arunkumar | University of Notre Dame | 7 |
| 5 | Shiguo Sun | Northwest A&F University | 7 |
| 6 | Claudia Barolo | University of Turin | 6 |
| 7 | Lucinda V. Reis | University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro | 6 |
| 8 | Nadia Barbero | University of Turin | 6 |
| 9 | Priyanka Balyan | Kyushu Institute of Technology | 3 |
| 10 | Yongqian Xu | Northwest A&F University | 6 |
Research leaders
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The most-cited papers anchoring the scientific record for this compound.
| Title | Year | Cited by | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Far-red to near infrared analyte-responsive fluorescent probes based on organic fluorophore platforms for fluorescence imaging | 2012 | 1819 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
| Recent Development of Chemosensors Based on Cyanine Platforms | 2016 | 1069 | Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques |
| A Ratiometric CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystal pH Sensor | 2006 | 505 | Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques |
| Squaraines as Fluoro−Chromogenic Probes for Thiol-Containing Compounds and Their Application to the Detection of Biorelevant Thiols | 2004 | 328 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
| Squaraine-Derived Rotaxanes: Sterically Protected Fluorescent Near-IR Dyes | 2005 | 296 | Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection |
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