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Jenny Nelson publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jenny Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 451 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Jenny Nelson D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jenny Nelson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 127 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Jenny Nelson is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and materials science, with significant subfields in electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and pollution.

The main topics of Jenny Nelson's work include:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Energy & Environmental Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Some of the most recent papers published by Jenny Nelson are:

  • Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology (2022, Nature Materials)
  • A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells (2021, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Recent Progress and Challenges toward Highly Stable Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Energetic Control of Redox-Active Polymers toward Safe Organic Bioelectronic Materials (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 1) (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)

Jenny Nelson has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably Mohammed Azzouzi, Flurin Eisner, Philip Sandwell, Piers R. F. Barnes, and Jun Yan.

In recognition of contributions to science, Jenny Nelson was named a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The physics of solar cells

    Jenny Nelson

  • Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

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  • A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells

    Youngkyoo Kim;Steffan Cook;Sachetan M. Tuladhar;Stelios A. Choulis

  • Future cost and performance of water electrolysis: An expert elicitation study

    O Schmidt;A Gambhir;IL Staffell;A Hawkes

  • Morphology evolution via self-organization and lateral and vertical diffusion in polymer:fullerene solar cell blends.

    Mariano Campoy-Quiles;Toby Ferenczi;Tiziano Agostinelli;Pablo G. Etchegoin

  • Reversible Hydration of CH3NH3PbI3 in Films, Single Crystals, and Solar Cells

    Aurélien M. A. Leguy;Yinghong Hu;Mariano Campoy-Quiles;M. Isabel Alonso

  • Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

    J. Abadie;B. P. Abbott

  • Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

    Derya Baran;Derya Baran;Derya Baran;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Raja Shahid Ashraf;David A. Hanifi;Maged Abdelsamie

  • Device annealing effect in organic solar cells with blends of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and soluble fullerene

    Youngkyoo Kim;Stelios A. Choulis;Jenny Nelson;Donal D. C. Bradley

  • Degradation of organic solar cells due to air exposure

    Kenji Kawano;Roberto Pacios;Dmitry Poplavskyy;Jenny Nelson

  • Evidence for ion migration in hybrid perovskite solar cells with minimal hysteresis

    Philip Calado;Andrew M. Telford;Daniel Bryant;Xiaoe Li

  • Charge carrier formation in polythiophene/fullerene blend films studied by transient absorption spectroscopy.

    Hideo Ohkita;Steffan Cook;Yeni Astuti;Warren Duffy

  • Continuous-time random-walk model of electron transport in nanocrystalline TiO 2 electrodes

    Jenny Nelson

  • Factors Limiting Device Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics

    René A. J. Janssen;Jenny Nelson

  • Organic photovoltaic films

    Jenny Nelson

  • The dynamics of methylammonium ions in hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite solar cells

    Aurelien M A Leguy;Jarvist Moore Frost;Andrew P McMahon;Victoria Garcia Sakai

  • An Alkylated Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Nonfullerene Acceptor with High Crystallinity Exhibiting Single Junction Solar Cell Efficiencies Greater than 13% with Low Voltage Losses

    Zhuping Fei;Flurin D. Eisner;Xuechen Jiao;Mohammed Azzouzi

  • Quantifying Losses in Open-Circuit Voltage in Solution-Processable Solar Cells

    Jizhong Yao;Thomas Kirchartz;Thomas Kirchartz;Michelle S. Vezie;Mark A. Faist

  • Hybrid Polymer/Zinc Oxide Photovoltaic Devices with Vertically Oriented ZnO Nanorods and an Amphiphilic Molecular Interface Layer

    Punniamoorthy Ravirajan;Ana M. Peiro;Mohammed K. Nazeeruddin;Michael Graetzel

  • Influence of blend microstructure on bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic performance

    Christoph J. Brabec;Martin Heeney;Iain McCulloch;Jenny Nelson

  • Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Solution-Processed Silver Nanowire Electrodes

    Dong-Seok Leem;Angharad Edwards;Mark Faist;Jenny Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

John Yelton
John Yelton University of Florida
Paul Avery
Paul Avery University of Florida
Marina Artuso
Marina Artuso Syracuse University
K. Kinoshita
K. Kinoshita University of Cincinnati
E. H. Thorndike
E. H. Thorndike University of Rochester
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Mp Kelly
Mp Kelly Life Lab
A. J.R. Weinstein
A. J.R. Weinstein California Institute of Technology

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