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Overview

Nicola Gasparini is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular concentration in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Materials Chemistry. There is also work related to Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their main research topics include:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Gasparini has published extensively in several journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Energy Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells (2020) in Nature Energy
  • The Bulk Heterojunction in Organic Photovoltaic, Photodetector, and Photocatalytic Applications (2020) in Advanced Materials
  • Side Chain Redistribution as a Strategy to Boost Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance and Stability (2020) in Advanced Materials
  • Concurrent cationic and anionic perovskite defect passivation enables 27.4% perovskite/silicon tandems with suppression of halide segregation (2021) in Joule
  • Chiral materials and mechanisms for circularly polarized light-emitting diodes (2024) in Nature Photonics

Frequent co-authors of Gasparini include:

  • Martin Heeney
  • Iain McCulloch
  • Francesco Furlan
  • Zhuoran Qiao
  • Davide Nodari

Best Publications

  • High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

    Sarah Holliday;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Andrew Wadsworth;Derya Baran

  • Managing grains and interfaces via ligand anchoring enables 22.3%-efficiency inverted perovskite solar cells

    Xiaopeng Zheng;Yi Hou;Chunxiong Bao;Jun Yin

  • 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

  • Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

    Andrew Wadsworth;Maximilian Moser;Adam Marks;Mark S. Little

  • Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

    Derya Baran;Derya Baran;T. Kirchartz;T. Kirchartz;Scot Wheeler;Stoichko D. Dimitrov

  • The role of the third component in ternary organic solar cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Alberto Salleo;Iain McCulloch;Iain McCulloch;Derya Baran

  • Designing ternary blend bulk heterojunction solar cells with reduced carrier recombination and a fill factor of 77

    Nicola Gasparini;Xuechen Jiao;Thomas Heumueller;Derya Baran

  • The Bulk Heterojunction in Organic Photovoltaic, Photodetector, and Photocatalytic Applications.

    Andrew Wadsworth;Zeinab Hamid;Jan Kosco;Nicola Gasparini

  • Side Chain Redistribution as a Strategy to Boost Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance and Stability

    Maximilian Moser;Tania Cecilia Hidalgo;Jokubas Surgailis;Johannes Gladisch

  • Controlling Blend Morphology for Ultrahigh Current Density in Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Xin Song;Nicola Gasparini;Long Ye;Huifeng Yao

  • Chiral materials and mechanisms for circularly polarized light-emitting diodes

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  • Quantum Dots Supply Bulk- and Surface-Passivation Agents for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

    Xiaopeng Zheng;Joel Troughton;Nicola Gasparini;Yuanbao Lin

  • Burn-in Free Nonfullerene-Based Organic Solar Cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Michael Salvador;Michael Salvador;Sebastian Strohm;Thomas Heumueller

  • Organic Electrochemical Transistors: An Emerging Technology for Biosensing

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  • High-performance ternary organic solar cells with thick active layer exceeding 11% efficiency

    Nicola Gasparini;Luca Lucera;Michael Salvador;Michael Salvador;Mario Prosa

  • Concurrent cationic and anionic perovskite defect passivation enables 27.4% perovskite/silicon tandems with suppression of halide segregation

    Furkan Halis Isikgor;Francesco Furlan;Jiang Liu;Esma Ugur

  • Robust nonfullerene solar cells approaching unity external quantum efficiency enabled by suppression of geminate recombination

    Derya Baran;Nicola Gasparini;Nicola Gasparini;Andrew Wadsworth;Ching Hong Tan

  • P3HT: non-fullerene acceptor based large area, semi-transparent PV modules with power conversion efficiencies of 5%, processed by industrially scalable methods

    S. Strohm;F. Machui;S. Langner;P. Kubis

  • Exploiting Ternary Blends for Improved Photostability in High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Sri Harish Kumar Paleti;Jules Bertrandie;Guilong Cai

  • Polaron Delocalization in Donor‐Acceptor Polymers and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance

    Maximilian Moser;Achilleas Savva;Karl Thorley;Bryan D. Paulsen

  • The Physics of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient and Stable Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Nicola Gasparini;Nicola Gasparini;Andrew Wadsworth;Maximilian Moser;Derya Baran

  • Effects of Alkyl Terminal Chains on Morphology, Charge Generation, Transport, and Recombination Mechanisms in Solution-Processed Small Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Jie Min;Yuriy N. Luponosov;Nicola Gasparini;Moses Richter

  • Progress in Poly (3-Hexylthiophene) Organic Solar Cells and the Influence of Its Molecular Weight on Device Performance

    Andrew Wadsworth;Zeinab Hamid;Matthew Bidwell;Raja Ashraf

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Derya Baran
Derya Baran King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Christoph J. Brabec
Christoph J. Brabec University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Tayebeh Ameri
Tayebeh Ameri University of Edinburgh
Michael Salvador
Michael Salvador King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Erdmann Spiecker
Erdmann Spiecker University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Apostolos Avgeropoulos
Apostolos Avgeropoulos University of Ioannina
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Yi Hou
Yi Hou National University of Singapore

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