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Gregory C. Welch

Gregory C. Welch

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Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
15438
World Ranking
14629
National Ranking
401

Overview

Gregory C. Welch is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Organic Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and their applications, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organic light-emitting diodes research, perovskite materials and applications, and luminescence and fluorescent materials.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Roadmap on energy harvesting materials," 2023, Journal of Physics Materials
  • "Perylene diimide based non-fullerene acceptors: top performers and an emerging class featuring N-annulation," 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • "Solution processed red organic light-emitting-diodes using an N-annulated perylene diimide fluorophore," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • "High open-circuit voltage roll-to-roll compatible processed organic photovoltaics," 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • "Improved performance of solution processed OLEDs using N-annulated perylene diimide emitters with bulky side-chains," 2020, Materials Advances

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's publications include Benjamin S. Gelfand, Clément Cabanetos, Pablo Simón Marqués, Magali Allain, and Philippe Blanchard.

Publication venues where the scientist has contributed multiple works include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (19 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C (11 publications)
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (7 publications)
  • Materials Chemistry Frontiers (4 publications)
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces (4 publications)

Best Publications

  • Reversible, Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation

    Gregory C. Welch;Ronan R. San Juan;Jason D. Masuda;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Solution-processed small-molecule solar cells with 6.7% efficiency

    Yanming Sun;Gregory C. Welch;Wei Lin Leong;Christopher J. Takacs

  • Facile heterolytic cleavage of dihydrogen by phosphines and boranes.

    Gregory C Welch;Douglas W Stephan

  • Metal‐Free Catalytic Hydrogenation

    Preston A. Chase;Gregory C. Welch;Titel Jurca;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Design and synthesis of molecular donors for solution-processed high-efficiency organic solar cells.

    Jessica E. Coughlin;Zachary B. Henson;Gregory C. Welch;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • Reactivity of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs”: Three-Component Reactions of Phosphines, a Borane, and Olefins

    Jenny S. J. McCahill;Gregory C. Welch;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Recent advances of non-fullerene, small molecular acceptors for solution processed bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Ala'a F. Eftaiha;Jon-Paul Sun;Ian G. Hill;Gregory C. Welch

  • Solar Cell Efficiency, Self-Assembly, and Dipole–Dipole Interactions of Isomorphic Narrow-Band-Gap Molecules

    Christopher J. Takacs;Yanming Sun;Gregory C. Welch;Louis A. Perez

  • Metal-Free Catalytic Hydrogenation of Polar Substrates by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

    Douglas W. Stephan;Sharonna Greenberg;Todd W. Graham;Preston Chase

  • Lewis Acid Adducts of Narrow Band Gap Conjugated Polymers

    Gregory C. Welch;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • Tuning Lewis acidity using the reactivity of “frustrated Lewis pairs”: facile formation of phosphine-boranes and cationic phosphonium-boranes

    Gregory C. Welch;Lourdes Cabrera;Preston A. Chase;Emily Hollink

  • Regioregular Pyridal[2,1,3]thiadiazole π-Conjugated Copolymers

    Lei Ying;Ben B.Y. Hsu;Hongmei Zhan;Hongmei Zhan;Gregory C. Welch

  • Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Solar Cell Performance of N-Annulated Perylene Diimide Non-Fullerene Acceptors

    Arthur D. Hendsbee;Jon Paul Sun;Wai Kit Law;He Henry Yan

  • Pyridalthiadiazole-based narrow band gap chromophores.

    Zachary B. Henson;Gregory C. Welch;Thomas van der Poll;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • A modular molecular framework for utility in small-molecule solution-processed organic photovoltaic devices

    Gregory C. Welch;Louis A. Perez;Corey V. Hoven;Yuan Zhang

  • A New Chelating Anilido-Imine Donor Related to β-Diketiminato Ligands for Stabilization of Organoyttrium Cations

    Paul G. Hayes;Gregory C. Welch;David J. H. Emslie;Cassandra L. Noack

  • Photoinduced charge generation in a molecular bulk heterojunction material.

    Loren G Kaake;Jacek Jaroslaw Jasieniak;Ronald C Bakus;Gregory C Welch

  • Band gap control in conjugated oligomers via Lewis acids.

    Gregory C. Welch;Robert Coffin;Jeff Peet;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • Key components to the recent performance increases of solution processed non-fullerene small molecule acceptors

    Seth M. McAfee;Jessica M. Topple;Ian G. Hill;Gregory C. Welch

  • Improvement of interfacial contacts for new small-molecule bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaics.

    Andres Garcia;Gregory C. Welch;Erin L. Ratcliff;David S. Ginley;David S. Ginley;David S. Ginley

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Douglas W. Stephan
Douglas W. Stephan University of Toronto
Ian G. Hill
Ian G. Hill Dalhousie University
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen University of California, Santa Barbara
Dana C. Olson
Dana C. Olson DNV (USA)
Edward J. Kramer
Edward J. Kramer University of California, Santa Barbara
Chad Risko
Chad Risko University of Kentucky
Yanming Sun
Yanming Sun Beihang University
Yingping Zou
Yingping Zou Central South University

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