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74
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Ji-Seon Kim 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 Ji-Seon Kim sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 229 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ji-Seon Kim 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 Ji-Seon Kim sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ji-Seon Kim is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields of study including Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their work primarily focuses on topics such as Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques.

Ji-Seon Kim has coauthored numerous papers together with frequent collaborators, including Joel Luke, James R. Durrant, Mátyás Dabóczi, Yi-Chun Chin, and Chiara Labanti.

The scientist's recent publications include the following notable papers:

  • Exceptionally low charge trapping enables highly efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Recent Progress and Challenges toward Highly Stable Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • Reactivity Differences Enable ROS for Selective Ablation of Bacteria, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots/TiO2 Nanoparticle Composites for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • Molecular orientation-dependent energetic shifts in solution-processed non-fullerene acceptors and their impact on organic photovoltaic performance, 2023, Nature Communications

Ji-Seon Kim has published extensively in frequent venues such as Advanced Functional Materials, The Cambridge Structural Database, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials.

Best Publications

  • Effect of interchain interactions on the absorption and emission of poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Peter J. Brown;D. Steve Thomas;Anna Köhler;Joanne S. Wilson

  • Molecular-scale interface engineering for polymer light-emitting diodes

    Peter K. H. Ho;Ji-Seon Kim;Jeremy H. Burroughes;Heinrich Becker

  • Indium-tin oxide treatments for single- and double-layer polymeric light-emitting diodes: The relation between the anode physical, chemical, and morphological properties and the device performance

    J. S. Kim;M. Granström;R. H. Friend;N. Johansson

  • Built-in field electroabsorption spectroscopy of polymer light-emitting diodes incorporating a doped poly(3,4-ethylene dioxythiophene) hole injection layer

    T. M. Brown;J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Electroluminescence emission pattern of organic light-emitting diodes: Implications for device efficiency calculations

    Ji-Seon Kim;Peter K. H. Ho;Neil C. Greenham;Richard H. Friend

  • The nature of in-plane skeleton Raman modes of P3HT and their correlation to the degree of molecular order in P3HT:PCBM blend thin films.

    Wing C. Tsoi;Wing C. Tsoi;David T. James;Jong Soo Kim;Patrick G. Nicholson

  • Spin-cast thin semiconducting polymer interlayer for improving device efficiency of polymer light-emitting diodes

    Ji-Seon Kim;Richard H. Friend;Ilaria Grizzi;Jeremy H. Burroughes

  • Effects of packing structure on the optoelectronic and charge transport properties in poly(9,9-di-n-octylfluorene-alt-benzothiadiazole).

    Carrie L Donley;Jana Zaumseil;Jens W Andreasen;Martin M Nielsen

  • Barrier‐Free Electron–Hole Capture in Polymer Blend Heterojunction Light‐Emitting Diodes

    A.C. Morteani;A.S. Dhoot;J.-S. Kim;C. Silva

  • Efficient Top‐Gate, Ambipolar, Light‐Emitting Field‐Effect Transistors Based on a Green‐Light‐Emitting Polyfluorene

    Jana Zaumseil;Carrie L. Donley;Ji-Seon Kim;Richard H. Friend

  • Controlling Electrical Properties of Conjugated Polymers via a Solution-Based p-Type Doping†

    Keng-Hoong Yim;Gregory L. Whiting;Craig E. Murphy;Jonathan J. M. Halls

  • Towards reliable charge-mobility benchmark measurements for organic semiconductors

    James C. Blakesley;Fernando A. Castro;William Kylberg;George F.A. Dibb

  • Effect of Crystallization on the Electronic Energy Levels and Thin Film Morphology of P3HT:PCBM Blends

    Wing C. Tsoi;Wing C. Tsoi;Steve J. Spencer;Li Yang;Amy M. Ballantyne

  • Improved operational stability of polyfluorene-based organic light-emitting diodes with plasma-treated indium–tin–oxide anodes

    J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Phase Separation in Polyfluorene-Based Conjugated Polymer Blends: Lateral and Vertical Analysis of Blend Spin-Cast Thin Films

    Ji-Seon Kim;Peter K. H. Ho;Craig E. Murphy;Richard H. Friend

  • Kelvin probe and ultraviolet photoemission measurements of indium tin oxide work function: a comparison

    J.S. Kim;B. Lagel;E. Moons;N. Johansson

  • Influence of Backbone Fluorination in Regioregular Poly(3-alkyl-4-fluoro)thiophenes

    Zhuping Fei;Pierre Boufflet;Sebastian Wood;Jessica Wade

  • An efficient, "burn in" free organic solar cell employing a nonfullerene electron acceptor

    Hyojung Cha;Jiaying Wu;Andrew Wadsworth;Jade Nagitta

  • Exceptionally low charge trapping enables highly efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Jiaying Wu;Jinho Lee;Yi-Chun Chin;Huifeng Yao

  • Recent Progress and Challenges toward Highly Stable Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Yiwen Wang;Jinho Lee;Jinho Lee;Xueyan Hou;Chiara Labanti

  • Surface energy and polarity of treated indium–tin–oxide anodes for polymer light-emitting diodes studied by contact-angle measurements

    J. S. Kim;R. H. Friend;F. Cacialli

  • Uniaxial alignment of liquid-crystalline conjugated polymers by nanoconfinement.

    Zijian Zheng;Keng Hoong Yim;Mohammad S.M. Saifullah;Mark E. Welland

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard H. Friend
Richard H. Friend University of Cambridge
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Franco Cacialli
Franco Cacialli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney Imperial College London
Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson Imperial College London
Kwanghee Lee
Kwanghee Lee Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
Martyn A. McLachlan
Martyn A. McLachlan Imperial College London
Myoung Hoon Song
Myoung Hoon Song Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

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