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202
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World Ranking
272
National Ranking
181

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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199
Citations
157322
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212
Citations
175345
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23
National Ranking
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  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2020 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Edward H. Sargent is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant number of publications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their main research themes include Perovskite Materials and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Ionic Liquids properties and applications, and Advanced Battery Technologies Research.

Recent notable publications include the following:

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges, 2021, Science
  • Accelerated discovery of CO2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning, 2020, Nature
  • CO 2 electrolysis to multicarbon products at activities greater than 1 A cm −2, 2020, Science
  • Enhanced Nitrate-to-Ammonia Activity on Copper-Nickel Alloys via Tuning of Intermediate Adsorption, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells, 2020, Nature Energy

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • David Sinton
  • Bin Chen
  • Sjoerd Hoogland
  • F. Pelayo García de Arquer
  • Rui Kai Miao

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • ACS Energy Letters
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts

Their work has been recognized through several awards, including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize from the Canada Council in 2020, fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada in 2014, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009, and membership in The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Low trap-state density and long carrier diffusion in organolead trihalide perovskite single crystals

    Dong Shi;Valerio Adinolfi;Riccardo Comin;Mingjian Yuan

  • Perovskite light-emitting diodes with external quantum efficiency exceeding 20 per cent

    Kebin Lin;Jun Xing;Li Na Quan;F. Pelayo García de Arquer

  • What would it take for renewably powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes

    Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Phil De Luna;Christopher Hahn;Christopher Hahn;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Drew Higgins;Shaffiq A. Jaffer

  • Homogeneously dispersed, multimetal oxygen-evolving catalysts

    Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Xueli Zheng;Xueli Zheng;Oleksandr Voznyy;Riccardo Comin

  • Efficient and stable solution-processed planar perovskite solar cells via contact passivation.

    Hairen Tan;Ankit Jain;Oleksandr Voznyy;Xinzheng Lan

  • Solution-processed PbS quantum dot infrared photodetectors and photovoltaics

    Steven A. McDonald;Gerasimos Konstantatos;Shiguo Zhang;Paul W. Cyr

  • CO2 electroreduction to ethylene via hydroxide-mediated copper catalysis at an abrupt interface

    Cao-Thang Dinh;Thomas Burdyny;Golam Kibria;Ali Seifitokaldani

  • Perovskite energy funnels for efficient light-emitting diodes

    Mingjian Yuan;Li Na Quan;Li Na Quan;Riccardo Comin;Grant Walters

  • Ultrasensitive solution-cast quantum dot photodetectors

    Gerasimos Konstantatos;Ian Howard;Armin Fischer;Sjoerd Hoogland

  • Efficient and stable emission of warm-white light from lead-free halide double perovskites

    Jiajun Luo;Xiaoming Wang;Shunran Li;Jing Liu

  • Challenges for commercializing perovskite solar cells.

    Yaoguang Rong;Yue Hu;Anyi Mei;Anyi Mei;Hairen Tan;Hairen Tan

  • Enhanced electrocatalytic CO2 reduction via field-induced reagent concentration

    Min Liu;Yuanjie Pang;Bo Zhang;Bo Zhang;Phil De Luna

  • Colloidal-quantum-dot photovoltaics using atomic-ligand passivation

    Jiang Tang;Kyle W. Kemp;Sjoerd H. Hoogland;Kwangseob Jeong

  • Perovskite photonic sources

    Brandon R. Sutherland;Edward H. Sargent

  • Semiconductor quantum dots: Technological progress and future challenges

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Dmitri V. Talapin;Victor I. Klimov;Yasuhiko Arakawa

  • What Should We Make with CO2 and How Can We Make It

    Oleksandr S. Bushuyev;Phil De Luna;Cao Thang Dinh;Ling Tao

  • Nanostructured materials for photon detection

    Gerasimos Konstantatos;Edward H. Sargent

  • Solution-processed semiconductors for next-generation photodetectors

    F. Pelayo García de Arquer;Ardalan Armin;Paul Meredith;Paul Meredith;Edward H. Sargent

  • Hybrid passivated colloidal quantum dot solids

    Alexander H. Ip;Susanna M. Thon;Sjoerd Hoogland;Oleksandr Voznyy

  • Ligand-Stabilized Reduced-Dimensionality Perovskites

    Li Na Quan;Li Na Quan;Mingjian Yuan;Riccardo Comin;Oleksandr Voznyy

  • Accelerated discovery of CO 2 electrocatalysts using active machine learning

    Miao Zhong;Miao Zhong;Kevin Tran;Yimeng Min;Chuanhao Wang

  • Colloidal quantum dot solar cells

    Edward H. Sargent

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleksandr Voznyy
Oleksandr Voznyy University of Toronto
Shana O. Kelley
Shana O. Kelley Northwestern University
Sjoerd Hoogland
Sjoerd Hoogland University of Toronto
Larissa Levina
Larissa Levina University of Toronto
F. Pelayo García de Arquer
F. Pelayo García de Arquer ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences
Cao-Thang Dinh
Cao-Thang Dinh Queen's University
Makhsud I. Saidaminov
Makhsud I. Saidaminov University of Victoria
Grant Walters
Grant Walters University of Toronto
David Sinton
David Sinton University of Toronto
Zheng-Hong Lu
Zheng-Hong Lu University of Toronto

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