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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Tolman Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Fred Wudl is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Materials Science, focusing extensively on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Organic Chemistry.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Graphene research and applications

Fred Wudl has contributed to various scientific journals and databases. Frequent publication venues involve:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Nature Synthesis
  • Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Their recent papers include:

  • Chemical synthesis and materials discovery, 2022, Nature Synthesis
  • Fluoro-alkyl substituted isothianaphthene bisimides as stable n-type semiconductors, 2020, Materials Chemistry Frontiers
  • A Toast to Maurizio Prato, 2023, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • CCDC 2098658: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2022, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • There is a hole in my bucky: perspective on a maverick, 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Collaborations have involved frequent co-authors such as Ram Seshadri, Ali Mohebbi, Cedric Munoz, Anthony K. Cheetham, and Xiaolong Chen.

Fred Wudl has received several awards including the Tolman Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2005, was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1989.

Best Publications

  • Polymer photovoltaic cells : enhanced efficiencies via a network of internal donor-acceptor heterojunctions

    G. Yu;J. Gao;J. C. Hummelen;F. Wudl

  • Photoinduced electron transfer from a conducting polymer to buckminsterfullerene.

    N. S. Sariciftci;L. Smilowitz;A. J. Heeger;F. Wudl

  • A Thermally Re-mendable Cross-Linked Polymeric Material

    Xiangxu Chen;Matheus A. Dam;Kanji Ono;Ajit Mal

  • Tetrathiafulvalenes, oligoacenenes, and their buckminsterfullerene derivatives: the brick and mortar of organic electronics.

    Michael Bendikov;Fred Wudl;Dmitrii F. Perepichka

  • Preparation and Characterization of Fulleroid and Methanofullerene Derivatives

    Jan C. Hummelen;Brian W. Knight;F. LePeq;Fred Wudl

  • Semiconducting polymer‐buckminsterfullerene heterojunctions: Diodes, photodiodes, and photovoltaic cells

    N. S. Sariciftci;David Braun;C. Zhang;V. I. Srdanov

  • Organic molecular soft ferromagnetism in a fullerene c60.

    Pierre-Marc Allemand;Kishan C. Khemani;Andrew Koch;Fred Wudl

  • Optical properties of conducting polymers

    A. O. Patil;A. J. Heeger;Fred Wudl

  • Inhibition of the HIV-1 protease by fullerene derivatives: model building studies and experimental verification

    Simon H. Friedman;Dianne L. DeCamp;Rint P. Sijbesma;Gordana Srdanov

  • Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Mang M. Ling;Shuhong Liu

  • Highly sensitive biological and chemical sensors based on reversible fluorescence quenching in a conjugated polymer

    Liaohai Chen;Duncan W. McBranch;Hsing Lin Wang;Roger Helgeson

  • Light-Emitting Polythiophenes†

    Igor F. Perepichka;Igor F. Perepichka;Dmitrii F. Perepichka;Hong Meng;Fred Wudl

  • The world of smart healable materials

    Erin B. Murphy;Fred Wudl

  • The Higher Fullerenes: Isolation and Characterization of C76, C84, C90, C94, and C70O, an Oxide of D5h-C70

    François Diederich;Roland Ettl;Yves Rubin;Robert L. Whetten

  • New Thermally Remendable Highly Cross-Linked Polymeric Materials

    Xiangxu Chen;Fred Wudl;Ajit K. Mal;Hongbin Shen

  • Charge storage in doped poly(thiophene): Optical and electrochemical studies

    T.-C. Chung;J. H. Kaufman;A. J. Heeger;F. Wudl

  • Two different fullerenes have the same cyclic voltammetry

    P. M. Allemand;A. Koch;Fred Wudl;Y. Rubin

  • Oligoacenes: Theoretical Prediction of Open-Shell Singlet Diradical Ground States

    Michael Bendikov;Hieu M. Duong;Kyle Starkey;K. N. Houk

  • The chemical properties of buckminsterfullerene (C60) and the birth and infancy of fulleroids

    Fred Wudl

  • Isolation of the heterofullerene C59N as its dimer (C59N)2

    Jan C. Hummelen;Brian Knight;James Pavlovich;Rosario González

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan C. Hummelen
Jan C. Hummelen University of Groningen
Michael L. Chabinyc
Michael L. Chabinyc University of California, Santa Barbara
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Ram Seshadri
Ram Seshadri University of California, Santa Barbara
Dmitrii F. Perepichka
Dmitrii F. Perepichka McGill University
Toshiyasu Suzuki
Toshiyasu Suzuki National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato University of Trieste
Guang Wu
Guang Wu University of California, Santa Barbara

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