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2025
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Netherlands
2022

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93
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17

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91
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Jan C. Hummelen is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. The scientist's work also covers subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Hummelen's main topics of investigation include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Fullerene Chemistry and Applications, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, and the Thermal Properties of Materials.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Hummelen include:

  • N-type organic thermoelectrics: demonstration of ZT > 0.3, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Thiol-free self-assembled oligoethylene glycols enable robust air-stable molecular electronics, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Electrical Conductivity of Doped Organic Semiconductors Limited by Carrier-Carrier Interactions, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Fully direct written organic micro-thermoelectric generators embedded in a plastic foil, 2020, Nano Energy
  • Reaching a Double-Digit Dielectric Constant with Fullerene Derivatives, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

These papers appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Materials
  • Nano Energy

Collaborators frequently working with Hummelen are:

  • Li Qiu
  • L. Jan Anton Koster
  • Ryan C. Chiechi
  • Jingjin Dong
  • Sylvia Rousseva

Best Publications

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

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

  • Plastic Solar Cells

    C. J. Brabec;N. S. Sariciftci;J. C. Hummelen

  • 2.5% efficient organic plastic solar cells

    Sean E. Shaheen;Christoph J. Brabec;N. Serdar Sariciftci;Franz Padinger

  • Origin of the Open Circuit Voltage of Plastic Solar Cells

    C. J. Brabec;A. Cravino;D. Meissner;N. S. Sariciftci

  • Preparation and Characterization of Fulleroid and Methanofullerene Derivatives

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

  • Efficient Methano[70]fullerene/MDMO‐PPV Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells

    Martijn M. Wienk;Martijn M. Wienk;Jan M. Kroon;Wiljan J. H. Verhees;Joop Knol

  • Photocurrent generation in polymer-fullerene bulk heterojunctions.

    V.D. Mihailetchi;L.J.A. Koster;J.C. Hummelen;P.W.M. Blom

  • Solution-processed ambipolar organic field-effect transistors and inverters.

    E.J. Meijer;E.J. Meijer;D.M. de Leeuw;S. Setayesh;E. van Veenendaal

  • Cathode dependence of the open-circuit voltage of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

    V. D. Mihailetchi;P. W. M. Blom;J. C. Hummelen;M. T. Rispens

  • Broadband dye-sensitized upconversion of near-infrared light

    Wenqiang Zou;Cindy Visser;Jeremio A. Maduro;Maxim S. Pshenichnikov

  • Influence of nanomorphology on the photovoltaic action of polymer–fullerene composites

    D. Chirvase;J. Parisi;J.C. Hummelen;V. Dyakonov

  • High-performance polymer solar cells of an alternating polyfluorene copolymer and a fullerene derivative

    Mattias Svensson;Fengling Zhang;Sjoerd C. Veenstra;Wiljan J. H. Verhees

  • Small Bandgap Polymers for Organic Solar Cells (Polymer Material Development in the Last 5 Years)

    Renee Kroon;Martijn Lenes;Jan C. Hummelen;Paul W.M. Blom

  • Tracing photoinduced electron transfer process in conjugated polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunctions in real time

    Christoph J Brabec;Gerald Zerza;Giulio Cerullo;Sandro De Silvestri

  • Relating the morphology of poly(p-phenylene vinylene)/methanofullerene blends to solar-cell performance

    van Jkj Jeroen Duren;XN Xiaoniu Yang;J Joachim Loos;Cwt Bulle-Lieuwma

  • Electron transport in a methanofullerene

    VD Mihailetchi;van Jkj Jeroen Duren;Pwm Paul Blom;JC Jan Hummelen

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

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

  • Fullerene bisadducts for enhanced open-circuit voltages and efficiencies in polymer solar cells

    Martijn Lenes;Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer;Floris B. Kooistra;Sjoerd C. Veenstra

  • A low-bandgap semiconducting polymer for photovoltaic devices and infrared emitting diodes

    CJ Brabec;C Winder;NS Sariciftci;JC Jan Hummelen

  • Effect of Temperature and Illumination on the Electrical Characteristics of Polymer-Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

    I. Riedel;J. Parisi;V. Dyakonov;L. Lutsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
René A. J. Janssen
René A. J. Janssen Eindhoven University of Technology
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara
Hans Wynberg
Hans Wynberg University of Groningen
Vladimir Dyakonov
Vladimir Dyakonov University of Würzburg
Paul W. M. Blom
Paul W. M. Blom Max Planck Society
Ryan C. Chiechi
Ryan C. Chiechi North Carolina State University
Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi University of Groningen
Dago M. de Leeuw
Dago M. de Leeuw Holst Centre (Netherlands)

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