2026 David L. Officer: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	59	7377	7133	229	228	240	12414
Chemistry	59	10132	9165	241	231	248	12499

Overview

David L. Officer is affiliated with the University of Wollongong in Australia and has an extensive research portfolio focused on engineering and materials science. Their work spans several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics covered in their research include:

Conducting polymers and applications
Advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials
Supercapacitor materials and fabrication
Organic electronics and photovoltaics
Neuroscience and neural engineering
Electrocatalysts for energy conversion
Porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry

David L. Officer has contributed to prominent scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Chemistry of Materials
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Polymers
Advanced Energy Materials

They have collaborated with several researchers multiple times, including:

Paweł Wagner
Klaudia Wagner
Damia Mawad
Antonio Lauto
Gordon G. Wallace

Among their recent published papers are:

"Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting," 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
"Highly ordered mesoporous carbon/iron porphyrin nanoreactor for the electrochemical reduction of CO₂," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
"A Phosphonated Poly(ethylenedioxythiophene) Derivative with Low Oxidation Potential for Energy-Efficient Bioelectronic Devices," 2021, Chemistry of Materials
"Amphiphilic Zinc Porphyrin Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Hybrids: Efficient Formation and Excited State Charge Transfer Studies," 2021, Small
"Enhancing oxidation resistance of carbon fibre reinforced phenolic composites by ZrO2 nanoparticles through out-of-autoclave vacuum infusion," 2024, Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing

Best Publications

Porphyrins as light harvesters in the dye-sensitised TiO2 solar cell

Wayne M. Campbell;Anthony K. Burrell;David L. Officer;Kenneth W. Jolley

980
Citations
Highly Efficient Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Wayne M. Campbell;Kenneth W. Jolley;Pawel Wagner;Klaudia Wagner

929
Citations
Efficient light harvesting by using green Zn-porphyrin-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 films.

Qing Wang;Wayne M. Campbell;Edia E. Bonfantani;Kenneth W. Jolley

537
Citations
Synthetic routes to multiporphyrin arrays.

Anthony K. Burrell;David L. Officer;Paul G. Plieger;David C. W. Reid

507
Citations
Application of metalloporphyrins in nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells for conversion of sunlight into electricity.

Md. K. Nazeeruddin;† R. Humphry-Baker;David L. Officer;Wayne M. Campbell

353
Citations
A Single Component Conducting Polymer Hydrogel as a Scaffold for Tissue Engineering

Damia Mawad;Elise Stewart;David L. Officer;Tony Romeo

321
Citations
Covalently linked biocompatible graphene/polycaprolactone composites for tissue engineering

Sepidar Sayyar;Eoin Murray;Brianna C. Thompson;Sanjeev Gambhir

282
Citations
Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces

Dorna Esrafilzadeh;Dorna Esrafilzadeh;Ali Zavabeti;Ali Zavabeti;Rouhollah Jalili;Paul Atkin

272
Citations
Electrochemical synthesis of polypyrrole in ionic liquids

Jennifer M. Pringle;John Efthimiadis;Patrick C. Howlett;Jim Efthimiadis

257
Citations
Porphyrins for dye-sensitised solar cells: new insights into efficiency-determining electron transfer steps

Matthew J. Griffith;Kenji Sunahara;Kenji Sunahara;Pawel Wagner;Klaudia Wagner

251
Citations
Steric Modification of a Cobalt Phthalocyanine/Graphene Catalyst To Give Enhanced and Stable Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to CO

Jaecheol Choi;Pawel W Wagner;Sanjeev Gambhir;Rouhollah Jalili

244
Citations
Zn-Zn porphyrin dimer-sensitized solar cells: toward 3-D light harvesting.

Attila J. Mozer;Matthew J. Griffith;George Tsekouras;Pawel W Wagner

223
Citations
Processable conducting graphene/chitosan hydrogels for tissue engineering

Sepidar Sayyar;Eoin Murray;Eoin Murray;Brianna Thompson;Brianna Thompson;Johnson Chung

221
Citations
The influence of the monomer and the ionic liquid on the electrochemical preparation of polythiophene

Jennifer Mary Pringle;Maria Forsyth;Douglas Robert Macfarlane;K Wagner;K Wagner

177
Citations
Synthesis and characterization of a multicomponent rhenium(I) complex for application as an OLED dopant.

Natasha J. Lundin;Allan G. Blackman;Keith C. Gordon;David L. Officer

176
Citations
Carbon nanotube/graphene nanocomposite as efficient counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

Josef Velten;Attila J Mozer;Dan Li;David Officer

172
Citations
Energy efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2 to CO using a three-dimensional porphyrin/graphene hydrogel

Jaecheol Choi;Jeonghun Kim;Pawel W Wagner;Sanjeev Gambhir

160
Citations
Advanced Wearable Thermocells for Body Heat Harvesting

Yuqing Liu;Yuqing Liu;Shuai Zhang;Yuetong Zhou;Mark Buckingham

153
Citations
Conjugated polymers : New materials for photovoltaics

G. G. Wallace;P. C. Dastoor;D. L. Officer;C. O. Too

136
Citations
Zn-porphyrin-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 heterojunction photovoltaic cells.

Lukas Schmidt-Mende;Wayne M. Campbell;Qing Wang;Kenneth W. Jolley

132
Citations
A multiswitchable poly(terthiophene) bearing a spiropyran functionality: understanding photo- and electrochemical control.

Klaudia Wagner;Robert Byrne;Michele Zanoni;Sanjeev Gambhir

131
Citations