Prof Christian Nielsen
Professor of Materials Chemistry
Head of Department of Chemistry
School of Physical and Chemical Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
organic electronics, organic bioelectronics, semiconducting polymers
Interests
Our main research focus is centred around the design and synthesis of new semiconducting materials for organic electronic and bioelectronic applications with the aim of elucidating important structure-property relations and providing new tailored materials to advance the understanding and performance of organic electronic and bioelectronic devices such as organic solar cells, field-effect transistors and biosensors.Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Experimental and Applied Physics2025
Impact of donor modification on azaisoindigo-based polymers for n- and p-type organic electrochemical transistorsGunturkun D Meli D Thorley KJ Kuhn M Herzig EM Rivnay J Nielsen CB
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc)
08-10-2025
Azaisoindigo and Triphenylamine-Based Donor-Acceptor-Donor (D-A-D) Type Conjugated Small Molecule: Design, Photophysical Properties, and Organic Field-Effect Transistors.Isci R Gunturkun D Faraji S Nielsen CB Ozturk T
Org Lett
10-09-2025
Why P3HT Outperforms More Polar Analogues in OECTsCavassin P Castillo TCH Marcial-Hernandez R Gilhooly-Finn P Réhault J Inal S Nielsen CB Banerji N
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
08-09-2025
Molecular engineering, synthesis, and atomistic structure–property relationship of indoloquinoxaline-capped small donors for efficient organic solar cellsJaved M Akram W Ali Z Shahzad N Shahid M Chotana GA Khan JI Min J et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc)
18-08-2025
Mapping the Structure-Function Landscape of Semiconducting PolymersMakki H Burke C Nielsen C Troisi A
Materials Horizons, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc)
14-05-2025
Strategic Direct Printing for High‐Performance and Uniform Organic Thin‐Film Transistor ArraysRyu G Jo Y Kim S Nielsen CB Kim W Jung S
Advanced Materials Technologies, Wiley
16-04-2025
The Design of Intrinsically Conductive Metal-Organic Frameworks for Thermoelectric MaterialsMcvea M Nielsen C Fenwick O Szilagyi P
Small Science, Wiley
27-01-2025
Strategic Design, Synthesis, and Computational Characterization of Hole Transport Materials for Lead-Free Perovskite Solar CellsAbid Z Akram W Marcial-Hernandez R Gunturkun D Shahid M Altaf M Min J Khan JI et al.
Acs Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, American Chemical Society (Acs)
09-01-2025
2024
Cation‐Dependent Mixed Ionic‐Electronic Transport in a Perylenediimide Small‐Molecule SemiconductorYu S Wu H-Y Lemaur V Kousseff C Beljonne D Fabiano S Nielsen C
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Wiley, e202410626-e202410626.
23-07-2024
High Mobility Amorphous Polymer‐Based 3D Stacked Pseudo Logic Circuits through Precision PrintingKim W Ryu G Nam Y Choi H Wang M Kwon J Nielsen CB Kang K et al.
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley
01-05-2024
Conformational Analysis of Conjugated Organic Materials: What Are My Heteroatoms Really Doing?Thorley KJ Nielsen CB
Chempluschem, e202300773-e202300773.
10-04-2024
Versatile and recyclable double-network PVA/cellulose hydrogels for strain sensors and triboelectric nanogenerators under harsh conditionsWang Y Zhang Y Ren P Yu S Cui P Nielsen CB Abrahams I Briscoe J et al.
Nano Energy, Elsevier, 109599-109599.
01-04-2024
Single-Component Electroactive Polymer Architectures for Non-Enzymatic Glucose Sensing.Kousseff CJ Wustoni S Silva RKS Lifer A Savva A Frey GL Inal S Nielsen CB
Advanced Science, Wiley Open Access, e2308281-e2308281.
23-03-2024
Side chain engineering in indacenodithiophene- co -benzothiadiazole and its impact on mixed ionic–electronic transport propertiesHolzer I Lemaur V Wang M Wu H-Y Zhang L Marcial-Hernandez R Gilhooly-Finn P Cavassin P et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc)
12-02-2024
2023
Quantum modelling of multi-directional fused-ring electron acceptors for organic photovoltaicsAbid Z Ali L Shahid M Nielsen CB Altaf M Min J Ashraf RS
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Elsevier, 111837-111837.
13-12-2023
Peculiar transient behaviors of organic electrochemical transistors governed by ion injection directionalityKim JH Halaksa R Jo I-Y Ahn H Gilhooly-Finn PA Lee I Park S Nielsen CB et al.
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1)
28-11-2023
Quinoxaline derivatives as attractive electron-transporting materialsAbid Z Ali L Gulzar S Wahad F Ashraf RS Nielsen CB
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, Beilstein Institut vol. 19 (1), 1694-1712.
09-11-2023
Interplay between Side Chain Density and Polymer Alignment: Two Competing Strategies for Enhancing the Thermoelectric Performance of P3HT AnaloguesGilhooly-Finn PA Jacobs IE Bardagot O Zaffar Y Lemaire A Guchait S Zhang L Freeley M et al.
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs)
26-10-2023
From Molecular to Nanoscale Control of Organic Semiconductors for Biosensing ApplicationsNielsen CB
2023 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC). vol. 00, 541-542.
25-10-2023
Sustainability Consolidated Ln3+(Ce3+-Pr3+-Nd3+):SnOJaffri SB Ahmad KS Abrahams I Kousseff CJ Nielsen CB Ibrahim SM
Advanced Sustainable Systems vol. 7 (9)
01-09-2023
Technology Development of High-Performance Printed Organic Thin-Film TransistorsKim W Kang K Nielsen CB Jung S
2023 IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference (IFETC). vol. 00, 01-03.
16-08-2023
Sustainability considerations for organic electronic productsMcCulloch I Chabinyc M Brabec C Nielsen CB Watkins SE
Nature Materials, Nature Research
19-06-2023
The Influence of Regiochemistry on the Performance of Organic Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conductors.Halaksa R Kim JH Thorley KJ Gilhooly-Finn PA Ahn H Savva A Yoon M-H Nielsen CB
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, e202304390-e202304390.
19-05-2023
The Influence of Regiochemistry on the Performance of Organic Mixed Ionic and Electronic ConductorsHalaksa R Kim JH Thorley K Gilhooly-Finn P Ahn H Savva A Yoon M-H Nielsen C
Angewandte Chemie
19-05-2023
Rare earth (Sm/Eu/Tm) doped ZrOJaffri SB Ahmad KS Abrahams I Kousseff CJ Nielsen CB Almutairi BO
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Elsevier
27-04-2023
Aqueous processing of organic semiconductors enabled by stable nanoparticles with built-in surfactants.Marcial-Hernandez R Giacalone S Neal WG Lee C-S Gilhooly-Finn PA Mastroianni G Meli D Wu R et al.
Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry
17-03-2023
Highly Efficient Mixed Conduction in a Fused Oligomer n-Type Organic Semiconductor Enabled by Three-Dimensional Transport Pathways.Duan J Zhu G Chen J Zhang C Zhu X Liao H Li Z Hu H et al.
Advanced Materials, Wiley, e2300252-e2300252.
14-03-2023
n-Type semiconductors for organic electrochemical transistor applicationsYu S Kousseff CJ Nielsen CB
Synthetic Metals vol. 293
01-03-2023
2022
Structural Dynamics of Polymer:Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cell Blends: A Neutron Spectroscopy PerspectiveZbiri M Gilhooly-Finn PA Fouquet P Nielsen CB Guilbert AAY
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society
18-08-2022
Role of oxygen within end group substituents on film morphology and charge carrier transport in thiophene/phenylene small-molecule semiconductorsWaliszewski W Parr ZS Michalska A Halaksa R Zajaczkowska H Sleczkowski P Neophytou M Luszczynska B et al.
Organic Electronics, Elsevier vol. 109
10-08-2022
Critical analysis of self-doping and water-soluble n-type organic semiconductors: structures and mechanismsCowen LM Gilhooly-Finn PA Giovannitti A LeCroy G Demetriou H Neal W Dong Y Westwood M et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
24-05-2022
Resolving the backbone tilt of crystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene) with resonant tender X-ray diffraction.Freychet G Chantler P Huang Y Tan WL Zhernenkov M Nayak N Kumar A Gilhooly-Finn PA et al.
Materials Horizons, Royal Society of Chemistry
05-04-2022
Drastic Enhancement of X-ray Scattering Contrast between Amorphous and Crystalline Phases of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) at the Sulfur K-EdgeFreychet G Huang Y Tan WL Gilhooly-Finn PA Nielsen CB Sirringhaus H McNeill CR
Acs Materials Letters, 764-769.
25-03-2022
From p- to n-Type Mixed Conduction in Isoindigo-Based Polymers through Molecular Design.Parr ZS Borges-González J Rashid RB Thorley KJ Meli D Paulsen BD Strzalka J Rivnay J et al.
Adv Mater, e2107829-e2107829.
24-01-2022
Role of Oxygen within End Group Substituents on Film Morphology and Charge Carrier Transport in Thiophene/Phenylene Small-Molecule SemiconductorsWaliszewski W Parr Z Michalska A Halaksa R Zajaczkowska H Sleczkowski P Neophytou M Luszczynska B et al.
In Ssrn Electronic Journal
01-01-2022
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 WavesDuncan DA Blowey PJ Lee T-L Allegretti F Nielsen CB Rochford LA
Acs Omega
08-12-2021
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 WavesDuncan DA Blowey PJ Lee T-L Allegretti F Nielsen CB Rochford LA
Acs Omega
08-12-2021
Aldol Polymerization to Construct Half-Fused Semiconducting PolymersGuo Y Yang X Wang L Duan J Zhou Y Nielsen CB Yu Y Yang J et al.
Macromolecules
01-11-2021
Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conduction in Small-Molecule Semiconductors.Kousseff CJ Halaksa R Parr ZS Nielsen CB
Chemical Reviews, American Chemical Society
07-09-2021
High-Efficiency Ion-Exchange Doping of Conducting Polymers.Jacobs IE Lin Y Huang Y Ren X Simatos D Chen C Tjhe D Statz M et al.
Adv Mater, e2102988-e2102988.
21-08-2021
Controlling morphology, adhesion, and electrochromic behavior of PEDOT films through molecular design and processingKousseff CJ Taifakou FE Neal WG Palma M Nielsen CB
Journal of Polymer Science
12-08-2021
Quantitative insights into the phase behaviour and miscibility of a photovoltaic active layer from the perspective of neutron spectroscopyZbiri M Finn PA Nielsen CB Guilbert AAY
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
28-07-2021
Multi length scale porosity as a playground for organic thermoelectric applicationsWeinbach Q Nielsen CB Biniek L
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
26-07-2021
Thermoelectric Materials: Current Status and Future ChallengesFinn PA Asker C Wan K Bilotti E Fenwick O Nielsen CB
Frontiers in Electronic Materials vol. 1, 677845-677845.
20-07-2021
Effect of substituting non-polar chains with polar chains on the structural dynamics of small organic molecule and polymer semiconductorsGuilbert AAY Parr ZS Kreouzis T Woods DJ Sprick RS Abrahams I Nielsen CB Zbiri M
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
15-03-2021
Solution processed donor-acceptor, poly(3-hexylthiophene): phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester diodes for low voltage alpha particle detectionTaifakou FE Ali M Borowiec J Liu X Finn P Nielsen C Timis C NOONEY T et al.
Acs Applied Materials and Interfaces, American Chemical Society
01-02-2021
Effect of substituting non-polar chains with polar chains on the structural dynamics of small organic molecule and polymer semiconductorsGuilbert AAY Parr ZS Kreouzis T Woods DJ Sprick RS Abrahams I Nielsen CB Zbiri M
In Arxiv
21-01-2021
2020
Effect of polar side chains on neutral and p-doped polythiopheneFinn P Jacobs IE Armitage J Wu R Paulsen B Freeley M Palma M Rivnay J et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
19-10-2020
Conjugated molecules for colourimetric and fluorimetric sensing of sodium and potassiumParr ZS Nielsen CB
Materials Chemistry Frontiers
25-06-2020
Semiconducting Small Molecules as Active Materials for p-Type Accumulation Mode Organic Electrochemical TransistorsParr ZS Rashid RB Paulsen BD Poggi B Tan E Freeley M Palma M Abrahams I et al.
Advanced Electronic Materials
15-05-2020
The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductorsBronstein H Nielsen CB Schroeder BC McCulloch I
Nature Reviews Chemistry, Nature Research (Part of Springer Nature)
03-01-2020
2019
Mapping Micro-Structural Dynamics up to the nanosecond of the Conjugated Polymer P3HT in the Solid StateGuilbert AAY Zbiri M Finn PA Jenart M Fouquet P Cristiglio V Frick B Nelson J et al.
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society
30-09-2019
Glycolated Thiophene-Tetrafluorophenylene Copolymers for Bioelectronic Applications: Synthesis by Direct Heteroarylation PolymerisationParr ZS Halaksa R Finn PA Rashid RB Kovalenko A Weiter M Rivnay J Krajčovič J et al.
Chempluschem
11-07-2019
Conjugated polymers for n- and p-type charge transportParr ZS Guo Z Nielsen CB
In Conjugated Polymers Perspective Theory and New Materials 325-428.
27-03-2019
Investigation of the thermoelectric response in conducting polymers doped by solid-state diffusionKang K Schott S Venkateshvaran D Broch K Schweicher G Harkin D Jellett C Nielsen CB et al.
Materials Today Physics vol. 8, 112-122.
01-03-2019
Organic semiconductors for biological sensingBORGES GONZALEZ J KOUSSEFF CJ NIELSEN CB
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry
08-01-2019
2018
Mixed conduction and doping processes in organic semiconductorsNielsen C
ACS meeting. vol. 256
19-08-2018
Performance Improvements in Conjugated Polymer Devices by Removal of Water-Induced Traps.Nikolka M Schweicher G Armitage J Nasrallah I Jellett C Guo Z Hurhangee M Sadhanala A et al.
Adv Mater, e1801874-e1801874.
18-07-2018
Redox-Stability of Alkoxy-BDT Copolymers and their Use for Organic Bioelectronic DevicesGiovannitti A Thorley KJ Nielsen CB Li J Donahue MJ Malliaras GG Rivnay J Mcculloch I
Advanced Functional Materials
21-02-2018
2017
Tuning the effective spin-orbit coupling in molecular semiconductors.Schott S McNellis ER Nielsen CB Chen H-Y Watanabe S Tanaka H McCulloch I Takimiya K et al.
Nat Commun vol. 8, 15200-15200.
11-05-2017
High mobility, hole transport materials for highly efficient PEDOT:PSS replacement in inverted perovskite solar cellsNeophytou M Griffiths J Fraser J Kirkus M Chen H Nielsen CB McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 5 (20), 4940-4945.
24-04-2017
Synthesis of Hetero-bifunctional, End-Capped Oligo-EDOT Derivatives.Spicer CD Booth MA Mawad D Armgarth A Nielsen CB Stevens MM
Chem vol. 2 (1), 125-138.
12-01-2017
Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with crosslinked PCBM interlayersQiu W Bastos JP Dasgupta S Merckx T Cardinaletti I Jenart MVC Nielsen CB Gehlhaar R et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 5 (6), 2466-2472.
09-01-2017
2016
Erratum: N-type organic electrochemical transistors with stability in waterGiovannitti A Nielsen CB Sbircea D-T Inal S Donahue M Niazi MR Hanifi DA Amassian A et al.
Nature Communications, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1)
15-12-2016
Charge generation in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic systems (Conference Presentation)Vezie MS Dimitrov SD Schroeder BC Nielsen CB McCulloch I Campoy-Quiles M Durrant JR Nelson J
SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics., 99420z-99420z-1-99420z-99420z-1.
07-11-2016
Controlling the mode of operation of organic transistors through side-chain engineering.Giovannitti A Sbircea D-T Inal S Nielsen CB Bandiello E Hanifi DA Sessolo M Malliaras GG et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A vol. 113 (43), 12017-12022.
10-10-2016
N-type organic electrochemical transistors with stability in water.Giovannitti A Nielsen CB Sbircea DT Inal S Donahue M Niazi MR Hanifi DA Amassian A et al.
Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group: Nature Communications vol. 7
07-10-2016
Epitaxial Templating of C60 with a Molecular Monolayer.Rochford LA Jones TS Nielsen CB
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, American Chemical Society vol. 7 (17), 3487-3490.
19-08-2016
Naphthacenodithiophene Based Polymers—New Members of the Acenodithiophene Family Exhibiting High Mobility and Power Conversion EfficiencyKnall AC Ashraf RS Nikolka M Nielsen CB Purushothaman B Sadhanala A Hurhangee M Broch K et al.
Advanced Functional Materials vol. 26 (38), 6961-6969.
18-08-2016
Molecular Design of Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors.Nielsen CB Giovannitti A Sbircea D-T Bandiello E Niazi MR Hanifi DA Sessolo M Amassian A et al.
J Am Chem Soc vol. 138 (32), 10252-10259.
22-07-2016
The effect of fluorination on the surface structure of truxenonesRochford LA Ramadan AJ Holliday S Jones TS Nielsen CB
Rsc Advances, The Royal Society of Chemistry vol. 6 (71), 67315-67318.
08-07-2016
Secondary kinetic deuterium isotope effects. The CC cleavage of labeled tetramethylethylenediamine radical cations-Who gets to keep the electron?Nielsen CB Hammerum S
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry
27-06-2016
High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor.Holliday S Ashraf RS Wadsworth A Baran D Yousaf SA Nielsen CB Tan CH Dimitrov SD et al.
Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group: Nature Communications vol. 7, 11585-11585.
09-06-2016
New Insights into the Molecular Dynamics of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction: A Time-of-Flight Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Study.Guilbert AA Zbiri M Jenart MV Nielsen CB Nelson J
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, American Chemical Society vol. 7 (12), 2252-2257.
19-05-2016
Organic Photovoltaics: More than Ever, an Interdisciplinary FieldBiniek L Nielsen CB
Polymers, Mdpi vol. 8 (3)
02-03-2016
Singlet Exciton Lifetimes in Conjugated Polymer Films for Organic Solar CellsDimitrov SD Schroeder BC Nielsen CB Bronstein H Fei Z McCulloch I Heeney M Durrant JR
Polymers, Mdpi vol. 8 (1)
13-01-2016
Organic/inorganic epitaxy: commensurate epitaxial growth of truxenone on Cu (111)Ramadan AJ Nielsen CB Holliday S Jones TS McCulloch I Rochford LA
Rsc Advances, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 6 (21), 17125-17128.
01-01-2016
Azaisoindigo conjugated polymers for high performance n-type and ambipolar thin film transistor applicationsYue W Nikolka M Xiao M Sadhanala A Nielsen CB White AJP Chen H-Y Onwubiko A et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 4 (41), 9704-9710.
01-01-2016
2015
Sodium and Potassium Ion Selective Conjugated Polymers for Optical Ion Detection in Solution and Solid StateGiovannitti A Nielsen CB Rivnay J Kirkus M Harkin DJ White AJP Sirringhaus H Malliaras GG et al.
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 26 (4), 514-523.
16-12-2015
Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar CellsNielsen CB Holliday S Chen H-Y Cryer SJ McCulloch I
Accounts of Chemical Research, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 48 (11), 2803-2812.
27-10-2015
Effects of alkyl chain positioning on conjugated polymer microstructure and field-effect mobilitiesSchroeder BC Nielsen CB Westacott P Smith J Rossbauer S Anthopoulos TD Stingelin N McCulloch I
Mrs Communications, Springer Nature vol. 5 (3), 435-440.
01-09-2015
Dithienosilolothiophene: A New Polyfused Donor for Organic ElectronicsSchroeder BC Kirkus M Nielsen CB Ashraf RS McCulloch I
Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 48 (16), 5557-5562.
13-08-2015
A Thieno[3,2‐b][1]benzothiophene Isoindigo Building Block for Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free High‐Performance Polymer Solar CellsYue W Ashraf RS Nielsen CB Collado-Fregoso E Niazi MR Yousaf SA Kirkus M Chen H-Y et al.
Advanced Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (32), 4702-4707.
14-07-2015
Effect of Fluorination of 2,1,3-BenzothiadiazoleNielsen CB White AJP McCulloch I
The Journal of Organic Chemistry, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 80 (10), 5045-5048.
01-05-2015
Dual Function Additives: A Small Molecule Crosslinker for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability in Organic Solar CellsRumer JW Ashraf RS Eisenmenger ND Huang Z Meager I Nielsen CB Schroeder BC Chabinyc ML et al.
Advanced Energy Materials, Wiley vol. 5 (9)
11-02-2015
Chalcogenophene Comonomer Comparison in Small Band Gap Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers for High-Performing Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Solar CellsAshraf RS Meager I Nikolka M Kirkus M Planells M Schroeder BC Holliday S Hurhangee M et al.
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 137 (3), 1314-1321.
14-01-2015
A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic PhotovoltaicsHolliday S Ashraf RS Nielsen CB Kirkus M Röhr JA Tan C-H Collado-Fregoso E Knall A-C et al.
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 137 (2), 898-904.
12-01-2015
An electron beam evaporated TiO 2 layer for high efficiency planar perovskite solar cells on flexible polyethylene terephthalate substratesQiu W Paetzold UW Gehlhaar R Smirnov V Boyen H-G Tait JG Conings B Zhang W et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 3 (45), 22824-22829.
01-01-2015
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%Nielsen CB Ashraf RS Treat ND Schroeder BC Donaghey JE White AJP Stingelin N McCulloch I
Advanced Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (5), 948-953.
15-12-2014
Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Flanked Isoindigo Polymers for High Performance Ambipolar OFET ApplicationsMeager I Nikolka M Schroeder BC Nielsen CB Planells M Bronstein H Rumer JW James DI et al.
Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 24 (45), 7109-7115.
10-09-2014
Bis-lactam-based donor polymers for organic solar cells: Evolution by designRumer JW Schroeder BC Nielsen CB Ashraf RS Beatrup D Bronstein H Cryer SJ Donaghey JE et al.
Thin Solid Films, Elsevier vol. 560, 82-85.
01-06-2014
Benzotrithiophene Copolymers: Influence of Molecular Packing and Energy Levels on Charge Carrier MobilitySchroeder BC Rossbauer S Kline RJ Biniek L Watkins SE Anthopoulos TD McCulloch I Nielsen CB
Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 47 (9), 2883-2890.
15-04-2014
Towards optimisation of photocurrent from fullerene excitons in organic solar cellsDimitrov SD Huang Z Deledalle F Nielsen CB Schroeder BC Ashraf RS Shoaee S McCulloch I et al.
Energy & Environmental Science, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 7 (3), 1037-1043.
01-01-2014
Power conversion efficiency enhancement in diketopyrrolopyrrole based solar cells through polymer fractionationMeager I Ashraf RS Nielsen CB Donaghey JE Huang Z Bronstein H Durrant JR McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 2 (40), 8593-8598.
01-01-2014
Electron-deficient truxenone derivatives and their use in organic photovoltaicsNielsen CB Voroshazi E Holliday S Cnops K Cheyns D McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 2 (31), 12348-12354.
01-01-2014
2013
Recent advances in transistor performance of polythiophenesNielsen CB McCulloch I
Progress in Polymer Science, Elsevier vol. 38 (12), 2053-2069.
01-12-2013
Post-Polymerization Ketalization for Improved Organic Photovoltaic MaterialsNielsen CB Ashraf RS Rossbauer S Anthopoulos T McCulloch I
Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 46 (19), 7727-7732.
20-09-2013
Correction to “Improved Field-Effect Transistor Performance of a Benzotrithiophene Polymer through Ketal Cleavage in the Solid State”Nielsen CB Sohn E-H Cho D-J Schroeder BC Smith J Lee M Anthopoulos TD Song K et al.
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 5 (7), 2783-2783.
26-03-2013
Influence of crystallinity and energetics on charge separation in polymer-inorganic nanocomposite films for solar cells.Bansal N Reynolds LX MacLachlan A Lutz T Ashraf RS Zhang W Nielsen CB McCulloch I et al.
Sci Rep vol. 3, 1531-1531.
25-03-2013
Improved Field-Effect Transistor Performance of a Benzotrithiophene Polymer through Ketal Cleavage in the Solid StateNielsen CB Sohn E-H Cho D-J Schroeder BC Smith J Lee M Anthopoulos TD Song K et al.
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 5 (5), 1806-1810.
19-02-2013
Fused Dithienogermolodithiophene Low Band Gap Polymers for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells without Processing AdditivesZhong H Li Z Deledalle F Fregoso EC Shahid M Fei Z Nielsen CB Yaacobi-Gross N et al.
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 135 (6), 2040-2043.
01-02-2013
New Fused Bis-Thienobenzothienothiophene Copolymers and Their Use in Organic Solar Cells and TransistorsBiniek L Schroeder BC Donaghey JE Yaacobi-Gross N Ashraf RS Soon YW Nielsen CB Durrant JR et al.
Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 46 (3), 727-735.
31-01-2013
Effect of Fluorination on the Properties of a Donor–Acceptor Copolymer for Use in Photovoltaic Cells and TransistorsBronstein H Frost JM Hadipour A Kim Y Nielsen CB Ashraf RS Rand BP Watkins S et al.
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 25 (3), 277-285.
29-01-2013
Efficient truxenone-based acceptors for organic photovoltaicsNielsen CB Voroshazi E Holliday S Cnops K Rand BP McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 1 (1), 73-76.
01-01-2013
Alkyl side-chain branching point effects in thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione copolymersRumer JW Hor CKL Meager I Yau CP Huang Z Nielsen CB Watkins SE Bronstein H et al.
Journal of Organic Semiconductors, Taylor & Francis vol. 1 (1), 30-35.
01-01-2013
2012
Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic DevicesBakulin AA Dimitrov SD Rao A Chow PCY Nielsen CB Schroeder BC McCulloch I Bakker HJ et al.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 4 (1), 209-215.
26-12-2012
On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene BlendsDimitrov SD Bakulin AA Nielsen CB Schroeder BC Du J Bronstein H McCulloch I Friend RH et al.
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 134 (44), 18189-18192.
29-10-2012
Recent Advances in the Development of Semiconducting DPP‐Containing Polymers for Transistor ApplicationsNielsen CB Turbiez M McCulloch I
Advanced Materials, Wiley vol. 25 (13), 1859-1880.
25-09-2012
Design of Semiconducting Indacenodithiophene Polymers for High Performance Transistors and Solar CellsMcCulloch I Ashraf RS Biniek L Bronstein H Combe C Donaghey JE James DI Nielsen CB et al.
Accounts of Chemical Research, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 45 (5), 714-722.
26-01-2012
A Systematic Approach to the Design Optimization of Light‐Absorbing Indenofluorene Polymers for Organic PhotovoltaicsKirkpatrick J Nielsen CB Zhang W Bronstein H Ashraf RS Heeney M McCulloch I
Advanced Energy Materials, Wiley vol. 2 (2), 260-265.
09-01-2012
Synthesis of novel thieno[3,2- b ]thienobis(silolothiophene) based low bandgap polymers for organic photovoltaicsSchroeder BC Ashraf RS Thomas S White AJP Biniek L Nielsen CB Zhang W Huang Z et al.
Chemical Communications, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 48 (62), 7699-7701.
01-01-2012
Random benzotrithiophene-based donor–acceptor copolymers for efficient organic photovoltaic devicesNielsen CB Ashraf RS Schroeder BC D’Angelo P Watkins SE Song K Anthopoulos TD McCulloch I
Chemical Communications, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 48 (47), 5832-5834.
01-01-2012
Recent advances in high mobility donor–acceptor semiconducting polymersBiniek L Schroeder BC Nielsen CB McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 22 (30), 14803-14813.
01-01-2012
2011
Efficient Charge Photogeneration by the Dissociation of PC70BM Excitons in Polymer/Fullerene Solar CellsDimitrov SD Nielsen CB Shoaee S Tuladhar PS Du J McCulloch I Durrant JR
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 3 (1), 140-144.
22-12-2011
Benzotrithiophene Co-polymers with High Charge Carrier Mobilities in Field-Effect TransistorsSchroeder BC Nielsen CB Kim YJ Smith J Huang Z Durrant J Watkins SE Song K et al.
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 23 (17), 4025-4031.
16-08-2011
Benzotrithiophene - A Planar, Electron-Rich Building Block for Organic SemiconductorsNielsen CB Fraser JM Schroeder BC Du J White AJP Zhang W McCulloch I
Organic Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 13 (9), 2414-2417.
05-04-2011
Influence of the Alkyl Mantle on the Self-Assembly of Phenylene−Thienylene-Based OligomersMavrinskiy A Nielsen CB Reynolds JR Müllen K Pisula W
Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 23 (7), 1939-1945.
01-03-2011
Pyrroloindacenodithiophene containing polymers for organic field effect transistors and organic photovoltaicsDonaghey JE Ashraf RS Kim Y Huang ZG Nielsen CB Zhang W Schroeder B Grenier CRG et al.
Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 21 (46), 18744-18752.
01-01-2011
A benzotrithiophene-based low band gap polymer for polymer solar cells with high open-circuit voltageNielsen CB Schroeder BC Hadipour A Rand BP Watkins SE McCulloch I
Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (Rsc) vol. 21 (44), 17642-17645.
01-01-2011
2009
Influence of side chain symmetry on the performance of poly(2,5-dialkoxy-p-phenylenevinylene): fullerene blend solar cellsTuladhar SM Sims M Choulis SA Nielsen CB George WN Steinke JHG Bradley DDC Nelson J
Organic Electronics, Elsevier vol. 10 (4), 562-567.
01-07-2009
Influence of alkyl chain length on charge transport in symmetrically substituted poly(2,5-dialkoxy-p-phenylenevinylene) polymersTuladhar SM Sims M Kirkpatrick J Maher RC Chatten AJ Bradley DDC Nelson J Etchegoin PG et al.
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 79 (3)
08-01-2009
2008
Discrete Photopatternable π-Conjugated Oligomers for Electrochromic DevicesNielsen CB Angerhofer A Abboud KA Reynolds JR
Journal of The American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 130 (30), 9734-9746.
01-07-2008
2007
Correlation between microstructure and charge transport in poly(2,5-dimethoxy-p-phenylenevinylene) thin filmsSims M Tuladhar SM Nelson J Maher RC Campoy-Quiles M Choulis SA Mairy M Bradley DDC et al.
Physical Review B, American Physical Society (Aps) vol. 76 (19)
15-11-2007
2005
Structure−Property Relations of Regiosymmetrical 3,4-Dioxy-Functionalized PolythiophenesNielsen CB Bjørnholm T
Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 38 (25), 10379-10387.
09-11-2005
2004
New Regiosymmetrical Dioxopyrrolo- and Dihydropyrrolo-Functionalized PolythiophenesNielsen CB Bjørnholm T
Organic Letters, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 6 (19), 3381-3384.
20-08-2004
Macroscopic Alignment of Graphene Stacks by Langmuir−Blodgett Deposition of Amphiphilic HexabenzocoronenesLaursen BW Nørgaard K Reitzel N Simonsen JB Nielsen CB Als-Nielsen J Bjørnholm T Sølling TI et al.
Langmuir, American Chemical Society (Acs) vol. 20 (10), 4139-4146.
09-04-2004
Mapping the Structure-Function Landscape of Semiconducting PolymersMakki H Burke C Nielsen CB Troisi A
In Chemrxiv
Disclosing the structure and dynamics of naphthalene-diimide based organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors at the molecular scalesSeveri M Yu S Abrahams I Nielsen C Fazzi D
In Chemrxiv
Peculiar Transient Behaviors of Organic Electrochemical Transistors Governed by Ion Injection DirectionalityYoon M-H Kim JH Halaksa R Jo I-Y Ahn H Finn P Lee I Park S et al.
In Research Square
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Experimental and Applied PhysicsIRSIP fellowship - Hasan YaqoobChristian Nielsen
£1,750 Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
15-09-2025 - 14-03-2026
Deliberate imperfection: topological design of defects within grapheneChristian Nielsen
£75,566 Leverhulme Trust
02-09-2024 - 01-09-2028
Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials - EPSRC CASE conversionChristian Nielsen and Andrew Livingston
£62,500 Cambridge Display Technology Limited
01-10-2023 - 31-03-2027
Organic semiconductors with ion-selective propertiesChristian Nielsen
£3,800 Henry Royce Institute
16-06-2025 - 20-09-2025
Split-site scholarship: Deepak Kumar INCN-2024-171Christian Nielsen
£4,800 Foreign & Commonwealth Office - GOV UK
16-09-2024 - 15-09-2025
Bioelectronic Sensors: From Synthesis to DeviceChristian Nielsen and Dilara Gunturkun
£3,285 RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry
01-08-2024 - 31-07-2025
Making organic solar cell materials processable from water (Blair Hirst)Christian Nielsen
£3,203 RSC The Royal Society of Chemistry
01-07-2024 - 31-08-2024
Non-Fullerene Acceptors: Scholarship Mr Zeeshan AbidChristian Nielsen
£1,750 HEC Pakistan Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
03-01-2022 - 02-12-2022
FET Open 2020: Mixed Ionic and electronic Transport In Conjugated polymers for bioelectronicsChristian Nielsen
£268,744 EU Commission - Horizon 2020
01-02-2021 - 31-07-2025
Implantable organic bio-electronics for long-term stable neural recording and stimulationChristian Nielsen and Jorge Borges Gonzalez
£9,560 MRC Medical Research Council
01-04-2019 - 30-06-2022
Additive-Stabilized Polymer Electronics ManufacturingChristian Nielsen
£223,856 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-07-2018 - 31-12-2021
Organic Bioelectronic Sensors for Epilepsy DiagnosisChristian Nielsen
£99,924 AMS Academy of Medical Sciences
01-09-2017 - 29-02-2020
A new materials platform for organic bioelectronic sensorsChristian Nielsen
£15,000 Royal Society
15-08-2017 - 14-08-2018
Centre for Advanced MaterialsWilliam Gillin and Christian Nielsen
£157,625 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
01-12-2016 - 30-11-2022
Research Group
PhD Students
- Levon Abelian
Uv Harvesting Charge Blocking Layers For Perovskite Solar Cells - Paul Clark
Novel, Bench-Stable Chiral Pre-Catalysts For Improved Palladium-Catalysed Reactions - Jian Guan
The Research Proposal Will Be Prepared in Due Course. - Dilara Güntürkün
Bioelectronic Sensors: From Synthesis to Device - Katherine Lyon
Synthesis of Chiral Molecules For Charge Transport - Molly McVea
Thermoelectric Metal-Organic Frameworks: Design, Synthesis and Assessment - Rebecca Peake
2D Conductive Polymers For Quantum Electronic Devices - Leila Pooriakia
Chem Project - Roberto Servin Quintero
Microwave-Enabled Catalytic Conversion of Plastic Waste to Value-Added Products - Victoria Williams
Synthesis of Sequence-Defined Pi-Conjugated Materials For Organic Electronics - Chang You
Printed Hybrid Thermoelectric Generators
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