Publications

20. Alexander J. Sneyd, David Beljonne, and Akshay Rao
A New Frontier in Exciton Transport: Transient Delocalization
Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13, 6820 (2023)
19. Scott T. Keene, Joonatan E. M. Laulainen, Raj Pandya, Maximilian Moser, Christoph Schnedermann, Paul A. Midgley, Iain McCulloch, Akshay Rao, and George G. Malliaras
Hole-limited electrochemical doping in conjugated polymers
Nature Materials, in press (2023)
Media coverage
Phys.org, ScienMag
18. Pascal Kaienburg, Helen Bristow, Anna Jungbluth, Irfan Habib, Iain McCulloch, David Beljonne, and Moritz Riede
Vacuum-Deposited Donors for Low-Voltage-Loss Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells
ACS Applied Material Interfaces 15, 31684 (2023)
17. Iain McCulloch, Michael Chabinyc, Christoph Brabec, Christian Bech Nielsen, and Scott Edward Watkins
Sustainability considerations for organic electronic products
Nature Materials, in press (2023)
16. Youcheng Zhang, Amita Ummadisingu, Ravichandran Shivanna, Dionisius Hardjo Lukito Tjhe, Hio-Ieng Un, Mingfei Xiao, Richard H. Friend, Satyaprasad P. Senanayak, Henning Sirringhaus
Direct Observation of Contact Reaction Induced Ion Migration and its Effect on Non-Ideal Charge Transport in Lead Triiodide Perovskite Field-Effect Transistors
Nano Micro Small, in press (2023)
15. Floriana Moruzzi, Weimin Zhang, Balaji Purushothaman, Soranyel Gonzalez-Carrero, Catherine M. Aitchison, Benjamin Willner, Fabien Ceugniet, Yuanbao Lin, Jan Kosco, Hu Chen, Junfu Tian, Maryam Alsufyani, Joshua S. Gibson, Ed Rattner, Yasmine Baghdadi, Salvador Eslava, Marios Neophytou, James R. Durrant, Ludmilla Steier, and Iain McCulloch
Solution-processable polymers of intrinsic microporosity for gas-phase carbon dioxide photoreduction
Nature Communications 14, 3443 (2023)
14. Mingfei Xiao, Xinglong Ren, Kangyu Ji, Sein Chung, Xiaoyu Shi, Jie Han, Zefan Yao, Xudong Tao, Szymon J. Zelewski, Mark Nikolka, Youcheng Zhang, Zhilong Zhang, Zichen Wang, Nathan Jay, Ian Jacobs, Weijing Wu, Han Yu, Yarjan Abdul Samad, Samuel D. Stranks, Boseok Kang, Kilwon Cho, Jin Xie, He Yan, Shangshang Chen, and Henning Sirringhaus
Achieving ideal transistor characteristics in conjugated polymer semiconductors
Science Advances 9, eadg8659 (2023)
13. Peter A. Banks, Gabriele D'Avino, Guillaume Schweicher, Jeff Armstrong, Christian Ruzié, Jong Won Chung, Jeong-Il Park, Chizuru Sawabe, Toshihiro Okamoto, Jun Takeya, Henning Sirringhaus, Michael T. Ruggiero
Untangling the Fundamental Electronic Origins of Non-Local Electron–Phonon Coupling in Organic Semiconductors
Advanced Functional Materials, in press (2023)
12. Catherine M. Aitchison, Soranyel Gonzalez-Carrero, Shilin Yao, Max Benkert, Zhiyuan Ding, Neil P. Young, Benjamin Willner, Floriana Moruzzi, Yuanbao Lin, Junfu Tian, Peter D. Nellist, James R. Durrant, Iain McCulloch
Templated 2D Polymer Heterojunctions for Improved Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production
Advanced Materials, in press (2023)
11. Nicholas Turetta, Wojciech Danowski, Luca Cusin, Pietro Antonio Livio, Rawad Hallani, Iain McCulloch, and Paolo Samorì
A photo-responsive organic electrochemical transistor
Journal of Materials Chemistry 11, 7982 (2023)
10. Tyler J. Quill, Garrett LeCroy, David M. Halat, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Adam Marks, Lorena S. Grundy, Iain McCulloch, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Nitash P. Balsara, Alexander Giovannitti, Alberto Salleo, and Christopher J. Takacs
An ordered, self-assembled nanocomposite with efficient electronic and ionic transport
Nature Materials 22, 362 (2023)
9. Yansheng Zhang, Malgorzata Nguyen, Christoph Schnedermann, Scott T. Keene, Ian Jacobs, Akshay Rao, Henning Sirringhaus
Transmission-based charge modulation microscopy on conjugated polymer blend field-effect transistors
The Journal of Chemical Physics 158, 034201 (2023)
8. Jeannine Gr\"{u}ne, Giacomo Londi, Alexander J. Gillett, Basil St\"{a}hly, Sebastian Lulei, Maria Kotova, Yoann Olivier, Vladimir Dyakonov, Andreas Sperlich
Triplet Excitons and Associated Efficiency-Limiting Pathways in Organic Solar Cell Blends Based on (Non-) Halogenated PBDB-T and Y-Series
Advanced Functional Materials 33, 2212640 (2023)
7. Hu Chen, Sang Young Jeong, Junfu Tian, Yadong Zhang, Dipti R. Naphade, Maryam Alsufyani, Weimin Zhang, Sophie Griggs, Hanlin Hu, Stephen Barlow, Han Young Woo, Seth R Marder, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Iain McCulloch, and Yuanbao Lin
A 19% efficient and stable organic photovoltaic device enabled by a guest nonfullerene acceptor with fibril-like morphology
Energy Environmental Science 16, 1062 (2023)
6. Sophie Griggs, Adam Marks, Dilara Meli, Gonzague Rebetez, Olivier Bardagot, Bryan D. Paulsen, Hu Chen, Karrie Weaver, Mohamad I. Nugraha, Emily A. Schafer, Joshua Tropp, Catherine M. Aitchison, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Natalie Banerji, Jonathan Rivnay, and Iain McCulloch
The effect of residual palladium on the performance of organic electrochemical transistors
Nature Communications 13, 7964 (2022)
5. Sophia L. Bidinger, Scott T. Keene, Sanggil Han, Kevin W. Plaxco, George G. Malliaras, and Tawfique Hasan
Pulsed transistor operation enables miniaturization of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors
Science Advances 8, eadd4111 (2022)
4. Xihu Wu, Shuai Chen, Maximilian Moser, Akshay Moudgil, Sophie Griggs, Adam Marks, Ting Li, Iain McCulloch, Wei Lin Leong
High Performing Solid-State Organic Electrochemical Transistors Enabled by Glycolated Polythiophene and Ion-Gel Electrolyte with a Wide Operation Temperature Range from −50 to 110 °C
Advanced Functional Materials 33, 2209354 (2022)
3. Arjun Ashoka, Nicolas Gauriot, Aswathy V. Girija, Nipun Sawhney, Alexander J. Sneyd, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jooyoung Sung, Christoph Schnedermann, and Akshay Rao
Direct observation of ultrafast singlet exciton fission in three dimensions
Nature Communications 13, 5963 (2022)
2. Yuanbao Lin, Yadong Zhang, Junxiang Zhang, Mantas Marcinskas, Tadas Malinauskas, Artiom Magomedov, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Dimitris Kaltsas, Dipti R. Naphade, George T. Harrison, Abdulrahman El-Labban, Stephen Barlow, Stefaan De Wolf, Ergang Wang, Iain McCulloch, Leonidas Tsetseris, Vytautas Getautis, Seth R. Marder, and Thomas D. Anthopoulos
18.9% Efficient Organic Solar Cells Based on n-Doped Bulk-Heterojunction and Halogen-Substituted Self-Assembled Monolayers as Hole Extracting Interlayers
Advanced Energy Materials 12, 2202503 (2022)
1. Iuliana P. Maria*, Sophie Griggs, Reem B. Rashid, Bryan D. Paulsen, Jokubas Surgailis, Karl Thorley, Vianna N. Le, George T. Harrison, Craig Combe, Rawad Hallani, Alexander Giovannitti, Alexandra F. Paterson, Sahika Inal, Jonathan Rivnay, and Iain McCulloch
Enhancing the Backbone Coplanarity of n-Type Copolymers for Higher Electron Mobility and Stability in Organic Electrochemical Transistors
Chemistry of Materials 34, 8593 (2022)

Background Publications

15. A.J. Sneyd, T. Fukui, D. Paleček, S. Prodhan, I. Wagner, Y. Zhang, J. Sung, S.M. Collins, T.J.A. Slater, Z. Andaji-Garmaroudi, L.R. MacFarlane, J.D. Garcia-Hernandez, L. Wang, G.R. Whittell, J.M. Hodgkiss, K. Chen, D. Beljonne, I. Manners, R.H. Friend, A. Rao
Efficient energy transport in an organic semiconductor mediated by transient exciton delocalization
Science Advances 7, abh4232 (2021)
14. A.J. Merryweather, C. Schnedermann, Q. Jacquet, C.P. Grey, and A. Rao
Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics in batteries
Nature 594, 522 (2021)
Media coverage
Cambridge University, Independent, iNews
13. X. Hua, A.S. Eggeman, E. Castillo-Martínez, R. Robert, H.S. Geddes, Z. Lu, C.J. Pickard, W. Meng, K.M. Wiaderek, N. Pereira, G.G. Amatucci, P.A. Midgley, K.W. Chapman, U. Steiner, A.L. Goodwin, and C.P. Grey
Revisiting metal fluorides as lithium-ion battery cathodes
Nature Materials 20, 841 (2021)
12. S. Fratini, M. Nikolka, A. Salleo, G. Schweicher, and H. Sirringhaus
Charge transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers and molecular semiconductors
Nature Materials 19, 491 (2020)
Media coverage
Phys.org
11. J. Kosco, M. Bidwell, H. Cha, T. Martin, C.T. Howells, M. Sachs, D.H. Anjum, S. Gonzalez Lopez, L. Zou, A. Wadsworth, W. Zhang, L. Zhang, J. Tellam, R. Sougrat, F. Laquai, D.M. DeLongchamp, J.R. Durrant, and I. McCulloch
Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles
Nature Materials 19, 559 (2020)
Media coverage
Phys.org
10. J. Sung, C. Schnedermann, L. Ni, A. Sadhanala, R.Y.S. Chen, C. Cho, L. Priest, J.M. Lim, H.-K. Kim, B. Monserrat, P. Kukura, and A. Rao
Long-range ballistic propagation of carriers in methylammonium lead iodide perovskite thin films
Nature Physics 16, 171 (2020)
Media coverage
Phys.org, PV Magazine
9. G. Schweicher, G. D'Avino, M.T. Ruggiero, D.J. Harkin, K. Broch, D. Venkateshvaran, G. Liu, A. Richard, C. Ruzié, J. Armstrong, A.R. Kennedy, K. Shankland, K. Takimiya, Y.H. Geerts, J.A. Zeitler, S. Fratini, and H. Sirringhaus
Chasing the “killer” phonon mode for the rational design of low-disorder, high-mobility molecular semiconductors
Advanced Materials 31, 1902407 (2019)
8. S. Schott, U. Chopra, V. Lemaur, A. Melnyk, Y. Olivier, R. Di Pietro, I. Romanov, R.L. Carey, X. Jiao, C. Jellett, M. Little, A. Marks, C.R. McNeill, I. McCulloch, E.R. McNellis, D. Andrienko, D. Beljonne, J. Sinova, and H. Sirringhaus
Polaron spin dynamics in high-mobility polymeric semiconductors
Nature Physics 15, 814 (2019)
7. M. Berggren and G.G. Malliaras
How conducting polymer electrodes operate
Science 364, 223 (2019)
6. B. Zhao, S. Bai, V. Kim, R. Lamboll, R. Shivanna, F. Auras, J.M. Richter, L. Yang, L. Dai, M. Alsari, X.-J. She, L. Liang, J. Zhang, S. Lilliu, P. Gao, H.J. Snaith, J. Wang, N.C. Greenham, R.H. Friend, and D. Di
High-efficiency perovskite–polymer bulk heterostructure light-emitting diodes
Nature Photonics 12, 783 (2018)
Media coverage
Cambridge University, Phys.org
5. J. Rogers, G.G. Malliaras, and T. Someya
Biomedical devices go wild
Science Advances 4, eaav1889 (2018)
4. K.J. Griffith, K.M. Wiaderek, G. Cibin, L.E. Marbella, and C.P. Grey
Niobium tungsten oxides for high-rate lithium-ion energy storage
Nature 559, 556 (2018)
Media coverage
Cambridge University, The Guardian, Phys.org
3. X.-H. Jin, M.B. Price, J.R. Finnegan, C.E. Boott, J.M. Richter, A. Rao, S.M. Menke, R.H. Friend, G.R. Whittell, and I. Manners
Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth
Science 360, 897 (2018)
2. J. Rivnay, S. Inal, A. Salleo, R.M. Owens, M. Berggren, and G.G. Malliaras
Organic electrochemical transistors
Nature Reviews Materials 3, 17086 (2018)
1. S. Fratini, S. Ciuchi, D. Mayou, G. Trambly de Laissardière, and A. Troisi
A map of high-mobility molecular semiconductors
Nature Materials 16, 998 (2017)