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Fernando B. Dias is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research principally focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions to materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their work notably intersects subfields such as organic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and polymers and plastics.

The scientist's research topics encompass various aspects of crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) research. Additional topics include luminescence and fluorescent materials, organic electronics and photovoltaics, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, and magnetism in coordination complexes.

Frequent publication venues for Fernando B. Dias include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Chemical Science
  • Dalton Transactions
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Achieving 21% External Quantum Efficiency for Nondoped Solution-Processed Sky-Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs by Means of Multi-(Donor/Acceptor) Emitter with Through-Space/-Bond Charge Transfer, 2020, Advanced Science
  • Asymmetrical-Dendronized TADF Emitters for Efficient Non-doped Solution-Processed OLEDs by Eliminating Degenerate Excited States and Creating Solely Thermal Equilibrium Routes, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Extended ligand conjugation and dinuclearity as a route to efficient platinum-based near-infrared (NIR) triplet emitters and solution-processed NIR-OLEDs, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Exceptionally fast radiative decay of a dinuclear platinum complex through thermally activated delayed fluorescence, 2021, Chemical Science
  • The role of dinuclearity in promoting thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in cyclometallated, NII-coordinated platinum(ii) complexes, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Fernando B. Dias collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Piotr Pander
  • J. A. Gareth Williams
  • Amit Sil
  • Valery N. Kozhevnikov
  • Rebecca J. Salthouse

Their body of work largely contributes to the understanding and development of organic light-emitting devices and related materials, with a special focus on thermally activated delayed fluorescence and platinum-based complexes. The combination of research in both fundamental crystallography and applied optoelectronic materials defines the scientist's multifaceted approach to materials science and engineering.

Best Publications

  • Triplet harvesting with 100% efficiency by way of thermally activated delayed fluorescence in charge transfer OLED emitters.

    Fernando B. Dias;Konstantinos N. Bourdakos;Vygintas Jankus;Kathryn C. Moss

  • Photophysics of thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules

    Fernando B Dias;Thomas J Penfold;Andrew P Monkman

  • The Role of Local Triplet Excited States and D-A Relative Orientation in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Photophysics and Devices.

    Fernando B. Dias;Jose Santos;Jose Santos;David R. Graves;Przemyslaw Data;Przemyslaw Data

  • Deep Blue Exciplex Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes with Enhanced Efficiency; P‐type or E‐type Triplet Conversion to Singlet Excitons?

    Vygintas Jankus;Chien-Jung Chiang;Fernando Dias;Andrew P. Monkman

  • The theory of thermally activated delayed fluorescence for organic light emitting diodes

    T. J. Penfold;F. B. Dias;A. P. Monkman

  • Rational Design of TADF Polymers Using a Donor–Acceptor Monomer with Enhanced TADF Efficiency Induced by the Energy Alignment of Charge Transfer and Local Triplet Excited States

    Roberto S. Nobuyasu;Zhongjie Ren;Zhongjie Ren;Gareth C. Griffiths;Andrei S. Batsanov

  • Regio- and conformational isomerization critical to design of efficient thermally-activated delayed fluorescence emitters.

    Marc K. Etherington;Flavio Franchello;Jamie Gibson;Thomas Northey

  • Highly Efficient TADF OLEDs: How the Emitter–Host Interaction Controls Both the Excited State Species and Electrical Properties of the Devices to Achieve Near 100% Triplet Harvesting and High Efficiency

    Vygintas Jankus;Przemyslaw Data;Przemyslaw Data;David Graves;Callum McGuinness

  • The interplay of thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room temperature organic phosphorescence in sterically-constrained donor–acceptor charge-transfer molecules

    Jonathan S. Ward;Roberto S. Nobuyasu;Andrei S. Batsanov;Przemyslaw Data

  • Engineering the singlet–triplet energy splitting in a TADF molecule

    Paloma L. Santos;Jonathan S. Ward;Przemyslaw Data;Andrei S. Batsanov

  • Achieving 21% External Quantum Efficiency for Nondoped Solution-Processed Sky-Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence OLEDs by Means of Multi-(Donor/Acceptor) Emitter with Through-Space/-Bond Charge Transfer.

    Xujun Zheng;Xujun Zheng;Rongjuan Huang;Cheng Zhong;Guohua Xie

  • Intramolecular Charge Transfer Controls Switching Between Room Temperature Phosphorescence and Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence.

    Chengjian Chen;Chengjian Chen;Ronjguan Huang;Andrei Batsanov;Piotr Pander

  • Tuning the intramolecular charge transfer emission from deep blue to green in ambipolar systems based on dibenzothiophene S,S-dioxide by manipulation of conjugation and strength of the electron donor units.

    Kathryn C. Moss;Konstantinos N. Bourdakos;Vandana Bhalla;Vandana Bhalla;Kiran T. Kamtekar

  • Photophysical Investigation of the Thermally Activated Delayed Emission from Films of m-MTDATA:PBD Exciplex

    David Graves;Vygintas Jankus;Fernando B. Dias;Andrew Monkman

  • Intramolecular Charge Transfer Assisted by Conformational Changes in the Excited State of Fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide Co-oligomers

    Fernando B. Dias;Sam Pollock;Gordon Hedley;Lars-Olof Pålsson

  • Pendant Homopolymer and Copolymers as Solution-Processable Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Zhongjie Ren;Roberto S. Nobuyasu;Fernando B. Dias;Andrew P. Monkman

  • Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene)β-Phase Formation in Dilute Solution

    Fernando B. Dias;Jorge Morgado;Antonio L. Macanita;Fernando P. da Costa

  • The Influence of Alkyl-Chain Length on Beta-Phase Formation in Polyfluorenes

    Daniel W. Bright;Fernando B. Dias;Frank Galbrecht;Ulli Scherf

  • Investigation of the Mechanisms Giving Rise to TADF in Exciplex States

    Paloma Lays dos Santos;Fernando B. Dias;Andrew P. Monkman

  • Exploiting a Dual‐Fluorescence Process in Fluorene–Dibenzothiophene‐S,S‐dioxideCo‐Polymers to Give Efficient Single Polymer LEDs with Broadened Emission

    Simon M. King;Irene I. Perepichka;Irene I. Perepichka;Igor F. Perepichka;Igor F. Perepichka;Fernando B. Dias

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Monkman
Andrew P. Monkman Durham University
Martin R. Bryce
Martin R. Bryce Durham University
Andrei S. Batsanov
Andrei S. Batsanov Durham University
Thomas J. Penfold
Thomas J. Penfold Newcastle University
Hugh D. Burrows
Hugh D. Burrows University of Coimbra
Mark A. Fox
Mark A. Fox University of Zurich
João C. Lima
João C. Lima Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mário N. Berberan-Santos
Mário N. Berberan-Santos Instituto Superior Técnico
J. A. Gareth Williams
J. A. Gareth Williams Durham University
Peter J. Skabara
Peter J. Skabara University of Glasgow

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