Publications: Dr Christian Nielsen

Yu S, Wu H-Y, Lemaur V, Kousseff C, Beljonne D, Fabiano S, Nielsen C ( 2024 ) . Cation‐Dependent Mixed Ionic‐Electronic Transport in a Perylenediimide Small‐Molecule Semiconductor . Angewandte Chemie International Editione202410626 - e202410626 .

Kim W, Ryu G, Nam Y, Choi H, Wang M, Kwon J, Nielsen CB, Kang K et al. ( 2024 ) . High Mobility Amorphous Polymer‐Based 3D Stacked Pseudo Logic Circuits through Precision Printing . Advanced Functional Materials

Thorley KJ, Nielsen CB ( 2024 ) . Conformational Analysis of Conjugated Organic Materials: What Are My Heteroatoms Really Doing? . Chempluscheme202300773 - e202300773 .

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Ren P, Yu S, Cui P, Nielsen CB, Abrahams I, Briscoe J et al. ( 2024 ) . Versatile and recyclable double-network PVA/cellulose hydrogels for strain sensors and triboelectric nanogenerators under harsh conditions . Nano Energy109599 - 109599 .

Kousseff CJ, Wustoni S, Silva RKS, Lifer A, Savva A, Frey GL, Inal S, Nielsen CB ( 2024 ) . Single-Component Electroactive Polymer Architectures for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing . Advanced Sciencee2308281 - e2308281 .

Holzer I, Lemaur V, Wang M, Wu H-Y, Zhang L, Marcial-Hernandez R, Gilhooly-Finn P, Cavassin P et al. ( 2024 ) . Side chain engineering in indacenodithiophene- co -benzothiadiazole and its impact on mixed ionic–electronic transport properties . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Abid Z, Ali L, Shahid M, Nielsen CB, Altaf M, Min J, Ashraf RS ( 2023 ) . Quantum modelling of multi-directional fused-ring electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics . Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids111837 - 111837 .

Kim JH, Halaksa R, Jo I-Y, Ahn H, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Lee I, Park S, Nielsen CB et al. ( 2023 ) . Peculiar transient behaviors of organic electrochemical transistors governed by ion injection directionality . Nature Communications vol. 14 , ( 1 )

Abid Z, Ali L, Gulzar S, Wahad F, Ashraf RS, Nielsen CB ( 2023 ) . Quinoxaline derivatives as attractive electron-transporting materials . Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry vol. 19 , ( 1 ) 1694 - 1712 .

Gilhooly-Finn PA, Jacobs IE, Bardagot O, Zaffar Y, Lemaire A, Guchait S, Zhang L, Freeley M et al. ( 2023 ) . Interplay between Side Chain Density and Polymer Alignment: Two Competing Strategies for Enhancing the Thermoelectric Performance of P3HT Analogues . Chemistry of Materials

Nielsen CB ( 2023 ) . From Molecular to Nanoscale Control of Organic Semiconductors for Biosensing Applications . Conference: 2023 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC) vol. 00 , 541 - 542 .

Jaffri SB, Ahmad KS, Abrahams I, Kousseff CJ, Nielsen CB, Ibrahim SM ( 2023 ) . Sustainability Consolidated Ln³⁺(Ce³⁺-Pr³⁺-Nd³⁺):SnO<inf>2</inf> System for Variegated Electrochemical and Photovoltaic Applications . Advanced Sustainable Systems vol. 7 , ( 9 )

Kim W, Kang K, Nielsen CB, Jung S ( 2023 ) . Technology Development of High-Performance Printed Organic Thin-Film Transistors . Conference: 2023 IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC) vol. 00 , 01 - 03 .

McCulloch I, Chabinyc M, Brabec C, Nielsen CB, Watkins SE ( 2023 ) . Sustainability considerations for organic electronic products . Nature Materials

Halaksa R, Kim JH, Thorley K, Gilhooly-Finn P, Ahn H, Savva A, Yoon M-H, Nielsen C ( 2023 ) . The Influence of Regiochemistry on the Performance of Organic Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conductors . Angewandte Chemie

Halaksa R, Kim JH, Thorley KJ, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Ahn H, Savva A, Yoon M-H, Nielsen CB ( 2023 ) . The Influence of Regiochemistry on the Performance of Organic Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conductors . Angew Chem Int Ed Engle202304390 - e202304390 .

Jaffri SB, Ahmad KS, Abrahams I, Kousseff CJ, Nielsen CB, Almutairi BO ( 2023 ) . Rare earth (Sm/Eu/Tm) doped ZrO<inf>2</inf> driven electro-catalysis, energy storage, and scaffolding in high-performance perovskite solar cells . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Marcial-Hernandez R, Giacalone S, Neal WG, Lee C-S, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Mastroianni G, Meli D, Wu R et al. ( 2023 ) . Aqueous processing of organic semiconductors enabled by stable nanoparticles with built-in surfactants . Nanoscale

Duan J, Zhu G, Chen J, Zhang C, Zhu X, Liao H, Li Z, Hu H et al. ( 2023 ) . Highly Efficient Mixed Conduction in a Fused Oligomer n-Type Organic Semiconductor Enabled by Three-Dimensional Transport Pathways . Advanced Materialse2300252 - e2300252 .

Yu S, Kousseff CJ, Nielsen CB ( 2023 ) . n-Type semiconductors for organic electrochemical transistor applications . Synthetic Metals vol. 293 ,

Zbiri M, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Fouquet P, Nielsen CB, Guilbert AAY ( 2022 ) . Structural Dynamics of Polymer:Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cell Blends: A Neutron Spectroscopy Perspective . Chemistry of Materials

Waliszewski W, Parr ZS, Michalska A, Halaksa R, Zajaczkowska H, Sleczkowski P, Neophytou M, Luszczynska B et al. ( 2022 ) . Role of oxygen within end group substituents on film morphology and charge carrier transport in thiophene/phenylene small-molecule semiconductors . Organic Electronics vol. 109 ,

Cowen LM, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Giovannitti A, LeCroy G, Demetriou H, Neal W, Dong Y, Westwood M et al. ( 2022 ) . Critical analysis of self-doping and water-soluble n-type organic semiconductors: structures and mechanisms . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Freychet G, Chantler P, Huang Y, Tan WL, Zhernenkov M, Nayak N, Kumar A, Gilhooly-Finn PA et al. ( 2022 ) . Resolving the backbone tilt of crystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene) with resonant tender X-ray diffraction . Materials Horizons

Freychet G, Huang Y, Tan WL, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Nielsen CB, Sirringhaus H, McNeill CR ( 2022 ) . Drastic Enhancement of X-ray Scattering Contrast between Amorphous and Crystalline Phases of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) at the Sulfur K-Edge . ACS Materials Letters764 - 769 .

Parr ZS, Borges-González J, Rashid RB, Thorley KJ, Meli D, Paulsen BD, Strzalka J, Rivnay J et al. ( 2022 ) . From p- to n-Type Mixed Conduction in Isoindigo-Based Polymers through Molecular Design . Adv Matere2107829 - e2107829 .

Duncan DA, Blowey PJ, Lee T-L, Allegretti F, Nielsen CB, Rochford LA ( 2021 ) . Quantitative Insights into the Adsorption Structure of Diindeno[1,2-a;1 ',2 '-c]fluorene-5,10,15-trione (Truxenone) on a Cu(111) Surface Using X-ray Standing Waves . ACS OMEGA

Duncan DA, Blowey PJ, Lee T-L, Allegretti F, Nielsen CB, Rochford LA ( 2021 ) . Quantitative Insights into the Adsorption Structure of Diindeno[1,2‑a;1′,2′‑c]fluorene-5,10,15-trione (Truxenone) on a Cu(111) Surface Using X‑ray Standing Waves . ACS Omega

Guo Y, Yang X, Wang L, Duan J, Zhou Y, Nielsen CB, Yu Y, Yang J et al. ( 2021 ) . Aldol Polymerization to Construct Half-Fused Semiconducting Polymers . Macromolecules

Kousseff CJ, Halaksa R, Parr ZS, Nielsen CB ( 2021 ) . Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conduction in Small-Molecule Semiconductors . Chemical Reviews

Jacobs IE, Lin Y, Huang Y, Ren X, Simatos D, Chen C, Tjhe D, Statz M et al. ( 2021 ) . High-Efficiency Ion-Exchange Doping of Conducting Polymers . Adv Matere2102988 - e2102988 .

Kousseff CJ, Taifakou FE, Neal WG, Palma M, Nielsen CB ( 2021 ) . Controlling morphology, adhesion, and electrochromic behavior of PEDOT films through molecular design and processing . Journal of Polymer Science

Zbiri M, Finn PA, Nielsen CB, Guilbert AAY ( 2021 ) . Quantitative insights into the phase behaviour and miscibility of a photovoltaic active layer from the perspective of neutron spectroscopy . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Weinbach Q, Nielsen CB, Biniek L ( 2021 ) . Multi length scale porosity as a playground for organic thermoelectric applications . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Finn PA, Asker C, Wan K, Bilotti E, Fenwick O, Nielsen CB ( 2021 ) . Thermoelectric Materials: Current Status and Future Challenges . Frontiers in Electronic Materials vol. 1 , 677845 - 677845 .

Guilbert AAY, Parr ZS, Kreouzis T, Woods DJ, Sprick RS, Abrahams I, Nielsen CB, Zbiri M ( 2021 ) . Effect of substituting non-polar chains with polar chains on the structural dynamics of small organic molecule and polymer semiconductors . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Taifakou FE, Ali M, Borowiec J, Liu X, Finn P, Nielsen C, Timis C, NOONEY T et al. ( 2021 ) . Solution processed donor-acceptor, poly(3-hexylthiophene): phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester diodes for low voltage alpha particle detection . ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Finn P, Jacobs IE, Armitage J, Wu R, Paulsen B, Freeley M, Palma M, Rivnay J et al. ( 2020 ) . Effect of polar side chains on neutral and p-doped polythiophene . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Parr ZS, Nielsen CB ( 2020 ) . Conjugated molecules for colourimetric and fluorimetric sensing of sodium and potassium . Materials Chemistry Frontiers

Parr ZS, Rashid RB, Paulsen BD, Poggi B, Tan E, Freeley M, Palma M, Abrahams I et al. ( 2020 ) . Semiconducting Small Molecules as Active Materials for p-Type Accumulation Mode Organic Electrochemical Transistors . Advanced Electronic Materials

Bronstein H, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, McCulloch I ( 2020 ) . The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors . Nature Reviews Chemistry

Guilbert AAY, Zbiri M, Finn PA, Jenart M, Fouquet P, Cristiglio V, Frick B, Nelson J et al. ( 2019 ) . Mapping Micro-Structural Dynamics up to the nanosecond of the Conjugated Polymer P3HT in the Solid State . Chemistry of Materials

Parr ZS, Halaksa R, Finn PA, Rashid RB, Kovalenko A, Weiter M, Rivnay J, Krajčovič J et al. ( 2019 ) . Glycolated Thiophene-Tetrafluorophenylene Copolymers for Bioelectronic Applications: Synthesis by Direct Heteroarylation Polymerisation . ChemPlusChem

Parr ZS, Guo Z, Nielsen CB ( 2019 ) . Conjugated polymers for n- and p-type charge transport . Conjugated Polymers: Perspective, Theory, and New Materials ,

Kang K, Schott S, Venkateshvaran D, Broch K, Schweicher G, Harkin D, Jellett C, Nielsen CB et al. ( 2019 ) . Investigation of the thermoelectric response in conducting polymers doped by solid-state diffusion . Materials Today Physics vol. 8 , 112 - 122 .

BORGES GONZALEZ J, KOUSSEFF CJ, NIELSEN CB ( 2019 ) . Organic semiconductors for biological sensing . Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Nielsen C ( 2018 ) . Mixed conduction and doping processes in organic semiconductors . ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY . Conference: ACS meeting vol. 256 ,

Nikolka M, Schweicher G, Armitage J, Nasrallah I, Jellett C, Guo Z, Hurhangee M, Sadhanala A et al. ( 2018 ) . Performance Improvements in Conjugated Polymer Devices by Removal of Water-Induced Traps . Adv Matere1801874 - e1801874 .

Giovannitti A, Thorley KJ, Nielsen CB, Li J, Donahue MJ, Malliaras GG, Rivnay J, Mcculloch I ( 2018 ) . Redox-Stability of Alkoxy-BDT Copolymers and their Use for Organic Bioelectronic Devices . Advanced Functional Materials

Schott S, McNellis ER, Nielsen CB, Chen H-Y, Watanabe S, Tanaka H, McCulloch I, Takimiya K et al. ( 2017 ) . Tuning the effective spin-orbit coupling in molecular semiconductors . Nat Commun vol. 8 , 15200 - 15200 .

Neophytou M, Griffiths J, Fraser J, Kirkus M, Chen H, Nielsen CB, McCulloch I ( 2017 ) . High mobility, hole transport materials for highly efficient PEDOT:PSS replacement in inverted perovskite solar cells . JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C vol. 5 , ( 20 ) 4940 - 4945 .

Spicer CD, Booth MA, Mawad D, Armgarth A, Nielsen CB, Stevens MM ( 2017 ) . Synthesis of Hetero-bifunctional, End-Capped Oligo-EDOT Derivatives . Chem vol. 2 , ( 1 ) 125 - 138 .

Qiu W, Bastos JP, Dasgupta S, Merckx T, Cardinaletti I, Jenart MVC, Nielsen CB, Gehlhaar R et al. ( 2017 ) . Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with crosslinked PCBM interlayers . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 , ( 6 ) 2466 - 2472 .

Giovannitti A, Nielsen CB, Sbircea D-T, Inal S, Donahue M, Niazi MR, Hanifi DA, Amassian A et al. ( 2016 ) . Erratum: N-type organic electrochemical transistors with stability in water . Nature Communications vol. 7 , ( 1 )

Vezie MS, Dimitrov SD, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, McCulloch I, Campoy-Quiles M, Durrant JR, Nelson J ( 2016 ) . Charge generation in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic systems (Conference Presentation) . Proceedings of SPIE . Conference: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics99420z-99420z-1 - 99420z-99420z-1 .

Giovannitti A, Sbircea D-T, Inal S, Nielsen CB, Bandiello E, Hanifi DA, Sessolo M, Malliaras GG et al. ( 2016 ) . Controlling the mode of operation of organic transistors through side-chain engineering . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A vol. 113 , ( 43 ) 12017 - 12022 .

Giovannitti A, Nielsen CB, Sbircea DT, Inal S, Donahue M, Niazi MR, Hanifi DA, Amassian A et al. ( 2016 ) . N-type organic electrochemical transistors with stability in water . Nature Communications vol. 7 , Article 13066 ,

Rochford LA, Jones TS, Nielsen CB ( 2016 ) . Epitaxial Templating of C60 with a Molecular Monolayer . Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 7 , ( 17 ) 3487 - 3490 .

Knall AC, Ashraf RS, Nikolka M, Nielsen CB, Purushothaman B, Sadhanala A, Hurhangee M, Broch K et al. ( 2016 ) . Naphthacenodithiophene Based Polymers—New Members of the Acenodithiophene Family Exhibiting High Mobility and Power Conversion Efficiency . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 26 , ( 38 ) 6961 - 6969 .

Nielsen CB, Giovannitti A, Sbircea D-T, Bandiello E, Niazi MR, Hanifi DA, Sessolo M, Amassian A et al. ( 2016 ) . Molecular Design of Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors . J Am Chem Soc vol. 138 , ( 32 ) 10252 - 10259 .

Rochford LA, Ramadan AJ, Holliday S, Jones TS, Nielsen CB ( 2016 ) . The effect of fluorination on the surface structure of truxenones . RSC Advances vol. 6 , ( 71 ) 67315 - 67318 .

Nielsen CB, Hammerum S ( 2016 ) . Secondary kinetic deuterium isotope effects. The CC cleavage of labeled tetramethylethylenediamine radical cations-Who gets to keep the electron? . International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Holliday S, Ashraf RS, Wadsworth A, Baran D, Yousaf SA, Nielsen CB, Tan CH, Dimitrov SD et al. ( 2016 ) . High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor . Nature Communications vol. 7 , 11585 - 11585 .

Guilbert AA, Zbiri M, Jenart MV, Nielsen CB, Nelson J ( 2016 ) . New Insights into the Molecular Dynamics of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction: A Time-of-Flight Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Study . Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 7 , ( 12 ) 2252 - 2257 .

Biniek L, Nielsen CB ( 2016 ) . Organic Photovoltaics: More than Ever, an Interdisciplinary Field . Polymers vol. 8 , ( 3 )

Dimitrov SD, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Bronstein H, Fei Z, McCulloch I, Heeney M, Durrant JR ( 2016 ) . Singlet Exciton Lifetimes in Conjugated Polymer Films for Organic Solar Cells . Polymers vol. 8 , ( 1 )

Yue W, Nikolka M, Xiao M, Sadhanala A, Nielsen CB, White AJP, Chen H-Y, Onwubiko A et al. ( 2016 ) . Azaisoindigo conjugated polymers for high performance n-type and ambipolar thin film transistor applications . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 4 , ( 41 ) 9704 - 9710 .

Ramadan AJ, Nielsen CB, Holliday S, Jones TS, McCulloch I, Rochford LA ( 2016 ) . Organic/inorganic epitaxy: commensurate epitaxial growth of truxenone on Cu (111) . RSC Advances vol. 6 , ( 21 ) 17125 - 17128 .

Giovannitti A, Nielsen CB, Rivnay J, Kirkus M, Harkin DJ, White AJP, Sirringhaus H, Malliaras GG et al. ( 2015 ) . Sodium and Potassium Ion Selective Conjugated Polymers for Optical Ion Detection in Solution and Solid State . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 26 , ( 4 ) 514 - 523 .

Nielsen CB, Holliday S, Chen H-Y, Cryer SJ, McCulloch I ( 2015 ) . Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells . Accounts of Chemical Research vol. 48 , ( 11 ) 2803 - 2812 .

Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Westacott P, Smith J, Rossbauer S, Anthopoulos TD, Stingelin N, McCulloch I ( 2015 ) . Effects of alkyl chain positioning on conjugated polymer microstructure and field-effect mobilities . MRS Communications vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 435 - 440 .

Schroeder BC, Kirkus M, Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, McCulloch I ( 2015 ) . Dithienosilolothiophene: A New Polyfused Donor for Organic Electronics . Macromolecules vol. 48 , ( 16 ) 5557 - 5562 .

Yue W, Ashraf RS, Nielsen CB, Collado-Fregoso E, Niazi MR, Yousaf SA, Kirkus M, Chen H-Y et al. ( 2015 ) . A Thieno[3,2‐b][1]benzothiophene Isoindigo Building Block for Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free High‐Performance Polymer Solar Cells . Advanced Materials vol. 27 , ( 32 ) 4702 - 4707 .

Nielsen CB, White AJP, McCulloch I ( 2015 ) . Effect of Fluorination of 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole . The Journal of Organic Chemistry vol. 80 , ( 10 ) 5045 - 5048 .

Rumer JW, Ashraf RS, Eisenmenger ND, Huang Z, Meager I, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Chabinyc ML et al. ( 2015 ) . Dual Function Additives: A Small Molecule Crosslinker for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability in Organic Solar Cells . Advanced Energy Materials vol. 5 , ( 9 )

Ashraf RS, Meager I, Nikolka M, Kirkus M, Planells M, Schroeder BC, Holliday S, Hurhangee M et al. ( 2015 ) . Chalcogenophene Comonomer Comparison in Small Band Gap Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers for High-Performing Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Solar Cells . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 137 , ( 3 ) 1314 - 1321 .

Holliday S, Ashraf RS, Nielsen CB, Kirkus M, Röhr JA, Tan C-H, Collado-Fregoso E, Knall A-C et al. ( 2015 ) . A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 137 , ( 2 ) 898 - 904 .

Qiu W, Paetzold UW, Gehlhaar R, Smirnov V, Boyen H-G, Tait JG, Conings B, Zhang W et al. ( 2015 ) . An electron beam evaporated TiO 2 layer for high efficiency planar perovskite solar cells on flexible polyethylene terephthalate substrates . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 3 , ( 45 ) 22824 - 22829 .

Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, Treat ND, Schroeder BC, Donaghey JE, White AJP, Stingelin N, McCulloch I ( 2014 ) . 2,1,3‐Benzothiadiazole‐5,6‐Dicarboxylic Imide – A Versatile Building Block for Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free Processing of Organic Solar Cells with Efficiencies Exceeding 8% . Advanced Materials vol. 27 , ( 5 ) 948 - 953 .

Meager I, Nikolka M, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Planells M, Bronstein H, Rumer JW, James DI et al. ( 2014 ) . Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Flanked Isoindigo Polymers for High Performance Ambipolar OFET Applications . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 24 , ( 45 ) 7109 - 7115 .

Rumer JW, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, Beatrup D, Bronstein H, Cryer SJ, Donaghey JE et al. ( 2014 ) . Bis-lactam-based donor polymers for organic solar cells: Evolution by design . Thin Solid Films vol. 560 , 82 - 85 .

Schroeder BC, Rossbauer S, Kline RJ, Biniek L, Watkins SE, Anthopoulos TD, McCulloch I, Nielsen CB ( 2014 ) . Benzotrithiophene Copolymers: Influence of Molecular Packing and Energy Levels on Charge Carrier Mobility . Macromolecules vol. 47 , ( 9 ) 2883 - 2890 .

Nielsen CB, Voroshazi E, Holliday S, Cnops K, Cheyns D, McCulloch I ( 2014 ) . Electron-deficient truxenone derivatives and their use in organic photovoltaics . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 2 , ( 31 ) 12348 - 12354 .

Meager I, Ashraf RS, Nielsen CB, Donaghey JE, Huang Z, Bronstein H, Durrant JR, McCulloch I ( 2014 ) . Power conversion efficiency enhancement in diketopyrrolopyrrole based solar cells through polymer fractionation . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 2 , ( 40 ) 8593 - 8598 .

Dimitrov SD, Huang Z, Deledalle F, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Ashraf RS, Shoaee S, McCulloch I et al. ( 2014 ) . Towards optimisation of photocurrent from fullerene excitons in organic solar cells . Energy & Environmental Science vol. 7 , ( 3 ) 1037 - 1043 .

Nielsen CB, McCulloch I ( 2013 ) . Recent advances in transistor performance of polythiophenes . Progress in Polymer Science vol. 38 , ( 12 ) 2053 - 2069 .

Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, Rossbauer S, Anthopoulos T, McCulloch I ( 2013 ) . Post-Polymerization Ketalization for Improved Organic Photovoltaic Materials . Macromolecules vol. 46 , ( 19 ) 7727 - 7732 .

Rumer JW, Hor CKL, Meager I, Yau CP, Huang Z, Nielsen CB, Watkins SE, Bronstein H et al. ( 2013 ) . Alkyl side-chain branching point effects in thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione copolymers . Journal of Organic Semiconductors vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 30 - 35 .

Nielsen CB, Sohn E-H, Cho D-J, Schroeder BC, Smith J, Lee M, Anthopoulos TD, Song K et al. ( 2013 ) . Correction to “Improved Field-Effect Transistor Performance of a Benzotrithiophene Polymer through Ketal Cleavage in the Solid State” . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces vol. 5 , ( 7 ) 2783 - 2783 .

Bansal N, Reynolds LX, MacLachlan A, Lutz T, Ashraf RS, Zhang W, Nielsen CB, McCulloch I et al. ( 2013 ) . Influence of crystallinity and energetics on charge separation in polymer-inorganic nanocomposite films for solar cells . Sci Rep vol. 3 , 1531 - 1531 .

Nielsen CB, Sohn E-H, Cho D-J, Schroeder BC, Smith J, Lee M, Anthopoulos TD, Song K et al. ( 2013 ) . Improved Field-Effect Transistor Performance of a Benzotrithiophene Polymer through Ketal Cleavage in the Solid State . ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces vol. 5 , ( 5 ) 1806 - 1810 .

Zhong H, Li Z, Deledalle F, Fregoso EC, Shahid M, Fei Z, Nielsen CB, Yaacobi-Gross N et al. ( 2013 ) . Fused Dithienogermolodithiophene Low Band Gap Polymers for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells without Processing Additives . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 135 , ( 6 ) 2040 - 2043 .

Biniek L, Schroeder BC, Donaghey JE, Yaacobi-Gross N, Ashraf RS, Soon YW, Nielsen CB, Durrant JR et al. ( 2013 ) . New Fused Bis-Thienobenzothienothiophene Copolymers and Their Use in Organic Solar Cells and Transistors . Macromolecules vol. 46 , ( 3 ) 727 - 735 .

Bronstein H, Frost JM, Hadipour A, Kim Y, Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, Rand BP, Watkins S et al. ( 2013 ) . Effect of Fluorination on the Properties of a Donor–Acceptor Copolymer for Use in Photovoltaic Cells and Transistors . Chemistry of Materials vol. 25 , ( 3 ) 277 - 285 .

Nielsen CB, Voroshazi E, Holliday S, Cnops K, Rand BP, McCulloch I ( 2013 ) . Efficient truxenone-based acceptors for organic photovoltaics . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 73 - 76 .

Bakulin AA, Dimitrov SD, Rao A, Chow PCY, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, McCulloch I, Bakker HJ et al. ( 2012 ) . Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 4 , ( 1 ) 209 - 215 .

Dimitrov SD, Bakulin AA, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Du J, Bronstein H, McCulloch I, Friend RH et al. ( 2012 ) . On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 134 , ( 44 ) 18189 - 18192 .

Nielsen CB, Turbiez M, McCulloch I ( 2012 ) . Recent Advances in the Development of Semiconducting DPP‐Containing Polymers for Transistor Applications . Advanced Materials vol. 25 , ( 13 ) 1859 - 1880 .

Schroeder BC, Ashraf RS, Thomas S, White AJP, Biniek L, Nielsen CB, Zhang W, Huang Z et al. ( 2012 ) . Synthesis of novel thieno[3,2- b ]thienobis(silolothiophene) based low bandgap polymers for organic photovoltaics . Chemical Communications vol. 48 , ( 62 ) 7699 - 7701 .

Nielsen CB, Ashraf RS, Schroeder BC, D’Angelo P, Watkins SE, Song K, Anthopoulos TD, McCulloch I ( 2012 ) . Random benzotrithiophene-based donor–acceptor copolymers for efficient organic photovoltaic devices . Chemical Communications vol. 48 , ( 47 ) 5832 - 5834 .

McCulloch I, Ashraf RS, Biniek L, Bronstein H, Combe C, Donaghey JE, James DI, Nielsen CB et al. ( 2012 ) . Design of Semiconducting Indacenodithiophene Polymers for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells . Accounts of Chemical Research vol. 45 , ( 5 ) 714 - 722 .

Kirkpatrick J, Nielsen CB, Zhang W, Bronstein H, Ashraf RS, Heeney M, McCulloch I ( 2012 ) . A Systematic Approach to the Design Optimization of Light‐Absorbing Indenofluorene Polymers for Organic Photovoltaics . Advanced Energy Materials vol. 2 , ( 2 ) 260 - 265 .

Biniek L, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, McCulloch I ( 2012 ) . Recent advances in high mobility donor–acceptor semiconducting polymers . Journal of Materials Chemistry vol. 22 , ( 30 ) 14803 - 14813 .

Dimitrov SD, Nielsen CB, Shoaee S, Tuladhar PS, Du J, McCulloch I, Durrant JR ( 2011 ) . Efficient Charge Photogeneration by the Dissociation of PC70BM Excitons in Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cells . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 3 , ( 1 ) 140 - 144 .

Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Kim YJ, Smith J, Huang Z, Durrant J, Watkins SE, Song K et al. ( 2011 ) . Benzotrithiophene Co-polymers with High Charge Carrier Mobilities in Field-Effect Transistors . Chemistry of Materials vol. 23 , ( 17 ) 4025 - 4031 .

Nielsen CB, Fraser JM, Schroeder BC, Du J, White AJP, Zhang W, McCulloch I ( 2011 ) . Benzotrithiophene - A Planar, Electron-Rich Building Block for Organic Semiconductors . Organic Letters vol. 13 , ( 9 ) 2414 - 2417 .

Mavrinskiy A, Nielsen CB, Reynolds JR, Müllen K, Pisula W ( 2011 ) . Influence of the Alkyl Mantle on the Self-Assembly of Phenylene−Thienylene-Based Oligomers . Chemistry of Materials vol. 23 , ( 7 ) 1939 - 1945 .

Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Hadipour A, Rand BP, Watkins SE, McCulloch I ( 2011 ) . A benzotrithiophene-based low band gap polymer for polymer solar cells with high open-circuit voltage . Journal of Materials Chemistry vol. 21 , ( 44 ) 17642 - 17645 .

Donaghey JE, Ashraf RS, Kim Y, Huang ZG, Nielsen CB, Zhang W, Schroeder B, Grenier CRG et al. ( 2011 ) . Pyrroloindacenodithiophene containing polymers for organic field effect transistors and organic photovoltaics . Journal of Materials Chemistry vol. 21 , ( 46 ) 18744 - 18752 .

Tuladhar SM, Sims M, Choulis SA, Nielsen CB, George WN, Steinke JHG, Bradley DDC, Nelson J ( 2009 ) . Influence of side chain symmetry on the performance of poly(2,5-dialkoxy-p-phenylenevinylene): fullerene blend solar cells . Organic Electronics vol. 10 , ( 4 ) 562 - 567 .

Tuladhar SM, Sims M, Kirkpatrick J, Maher RC, Chatten AJ, Bradley DDC, Nelson J, Etchegoin PG et al. ( 2009 ) . Influence of alkyl chain length on charge transport in symmetrically substituted poly(2,5-dialkoxy-p-phenylenevinylene) polymers . Physical Review B vol. 79 , ( 3 )

Nielsen CB, Angerhofer A, Abboud KA, Reynolds JR ( 2008 ) . Discrete Photopatternable π-Conjugated Oligomers for Electrochromic Devices . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 130 , ( 30 ) 9734 - 9746 .

Sims M, Tuladhar SM, Nelson J, Maher RC, Campoy-Quiles M, Choulis SA, Mairy M, Bradley DDC et al. ( 2007 ) . Correlation between microstructure and charge transport in poly(2,5-dimethoxy-p-phenylenevinylene) thin films . Physical Review B vol. 76 , ( 19 )

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