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Bob C. Schroeder is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, with notable focus areas including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The primary topics of Schroeder's work include:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications

Schroeder has published frequently in specific academic venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Faraday Discussions
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Schroeder are:

  • The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors, 2020, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Fully stretchable active-matrix organic light-emitting electrochemical cell array, 2020, Nature Communications
  • High Responsivity Circular Polarized Light Detectors based on Quasi Two-Dimensional Chiral Perovskite Films, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Tacky Elastomers to Enable Tear-Resistant and Autonomous Self-Healing Semiconductor Composites, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Roadmap on energy harvesting materials, 2023, Journal of Physics Materials

Frequently collaborating with other researchers, Schroeder's co-authors include:

  • Oliver Fenwick
  • Lewis Cowen
  • Christopher N. Savory
  • David O. Scanlon
  • Harsh Bhatia

Best Publications

  • Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors

    Jin Young Oh;Simon Rondeau-Gagné;Simon Rondeau-Gagné;Yu-Cheng Chiu;Yu-Cheng Chiu;Alex Chortos

  • Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect

    Jie Xu;Sihong Wang;Ging Ji Nathan Wang;Chenxin Zhu

  • The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors

    Hugo Bronstein;Christian B. Nielsen;Bob C. Schroeder;Iain McCulloch;Iain McCulloch

  • A stretchable and biodegradable strain and pressure sensor for orthopaedic application

    Clementine M. Boutry;Yukitoshi Kaizawa;Bob C. Schroeder;Alex Chortos

  • High‐Performance Ambipolar Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Copolymer Field‐Effect Transistors with Balanced Hole and Electron Mobilities

    Zhuoying Chen;Mi Jung Lee;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Yun Gu

  • Recent Progress in High-Mobility Organic Transistors: A Reality Check.

    Alexandra F. Paterson;Saumya Singh;Kealan J. Fallon;Thomas Hodsden

  • Molecular packing of high-mobility diketo pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer semiconductors with branched alkyl side chains

    Xinran Zhang;Lee J. Richter;Dean M. DeLongchamp;R. Joseph Kline

  • Chalcogenophene comonomer comparison in small band gap diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymers for high-performing field-effect transistors and organic solar cells.

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Iain Meager;Mark Nikolka;Mindaugas Kirkus

  • Photocurrent Enhancement from Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymer Solar Cells through Alkyl-Chain Branching Point Manipulation

    Iain Meager;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Sonya Mollinger;Bob C. Schroeder

  • Design of Semiconducting Indacenodithiophene Polymers for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells

    Iain McCulloch;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Laure Biniek;Hugo Bronstein

  • Roll-to-Roll printed large-area all-polymer solar cells with 5{\%} efficiency based on a low crystallinity conjugated polymer blend

    Xiaodan Gu;Xiaodan Gu;Yan Zhou;Kevin Gu;Tadanori Kurosawa

  • On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends

    Stoichko D. Dimitrov;Artem A. Bakulin;Christian B. Nielsen;Bob C. Schroeder

  • Silaindacenodithiophene-Based Low Band Gap Polymers - The Effect of Fluorine Substitution on Device Performances and Film Morphologies

    Bob C. Schroeder;Zhenggang Huang;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Jeremy Smith

  • Enhanced control of self-doping in halide perovskites for improved thermoelectric performance

    Tianjun Liu;Xiaoming Zhao;Jianwei Li;Zilu Liu

  • Inducing Elasticity through Oligo‐Siloxane Crosslinks for Intrinsically Stretchable Semiconducting Polymers

    Ging-Ji Nathan Wang;Leo Shaw;Jie Xu;Tadanori Kurosawa

  • Fully stretchable active-matrix organic light-emitting electrochemical cell array

    Jia Liu;Jiechen Wang;Zhitao Zhang;Francisco Molina-Lopez

  • Recent advances in high mobility donor-acceptor semiconducting polymers

    Laure Biniek;Bob C. Schroeder;Christian B. Nielsen;Iain McCulloch

  • Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices

    Artem A. Bakulin;Artem A. Bakulin;Stoichko D. Dimitrov;Akshay Rao;Philip C. Y. Chow

  • Review—Organic Materials for Thermoelectric Energy Generation

    Lewis M. Cowen;Jonathan Atoyo;Matthew J. Carnie;Derya Baran

  • The Influence of Polymer Purification on Photovoltaic Device Performance of a Series of Indacenodithiophene Donor Polymers

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Bob C. Schroeder;Hugo A. Bronstein;Zhenggang Huang

  • Silaindacenodithiophene semiconducting polymers for efficient solar cells and high mobility ambipolar transistors

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Zhuoying Chen;Dong Seok Leem;Hugo Bronstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Christian B. Nielsen
Christian B. Nielsen Queen Mary University of London
Raja Shahid Ashraf
Raja Shahid Ashraf Government College University, Lahore
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
Hugo Bronstein
Hugo Bronstein University of Cambridge
Xiaodan Gu
Xiaodan Gu University of Southern Mississippi
Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney Imperial College London
Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Scott E. Watkins
Scott E. Watkins Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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