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Olga V. Boltalina is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Additional subfields include Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The research topics frequently addressed in their work encompass:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Graphene research and applications

Olga V. Boltalina has published extensively in several scientific venues. Key publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (8 publications)
  • Journal of Fluorine Chemistry (2 publications)
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Among their recent papers are:

  • Impact of p-type doping on charge transport in blade-coated small-molecule:polymer blend transistors, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Trifluoromethylated Phenanthroline Ligands Reduce Excited-State Distortion in Homoleptic Copper(I) Complexes, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Triplet Excitons in Pentacene Are Intrinsically Difficult to Dissociate via Charge Transfer, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • C60CF2 based organic field-effect transistors with enhanced air-stability, 2020, Organic Electronics
  • Molecular insights into photostability of fluorinated organic photovoltaic blends: role of fullerene electron affinity and donor-acceptor miscibility, 2020, Sustainable Energy & Fuels

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Steven H. Strauss (16 co-authored publications)
  • Nicholas J. DeWeerd (7 co-authored publications)
  • Brian J. Reeves (5 co-authored publications)
  • Marc Zeplichal (5 co-authored publications)
  • Joshua Gies (5 co-authored publications)

Best Publications

  • C60F18, a Flattened Fullerene: Alias a Hexa-Substituted Benzene

    Ivan S. Neretin;Konstantin A. Lyssenko;Mikhail Yu. Antipin;Yuri L. Slovokhotov

  • An Optimal Driving Force for Converting Excitons into Free Carriers in Excitonic Solar Cells

    David C. Coffey;Bryon W. Larson;Alexander W. Hains;James B. Whitaker

  • Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and DFT Study of C60(CF3)n Frontier Orbitals (n = 2−18): The Link between Double Bonds in Pentagons and Reduction Potentials

    Alexey A. Popov;Ivan E. Kareev;Natalia B. Shustova;Evgeny B. Stukalin

  • Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Insoluble Small-HOMO−LUMO-Gap Hollow Higher Fullerenes. NMR and DFT Structure Elucidation of C2-(C74-D3h)(CF3)12, Cs-(C76-Td(2))(CF3)12, C2-(C78-D3h(5))(CF3)12, Cs-(C80-C2v(5))(CF3)12, and C2-(C82-C2(5))(CF3)12

    Natalia B. Shustova;Igor V. Kuvychko;Robert D. Bolskar;Konrad Seppelt

  • Synthesis, structure, and 19F NMR spectra of 1,3,7,10,14,17,23,28,31,40-C60(CF3)10.

    Ivan E. Kareev;Igor V. Kuvychko;Sergey F. Lebedkin;Susie M. Miller

  • Preparation and characterisation of C60F18

    Olga V. Boltalina;Vitaly Yu. Markov;Roger Taylor;Martin P. Waugh

  • Preparation of C60F36 and C70F36/38/40

    Olga V. Boltalina;Andrei Ya Borschevskii;Lev. N. Sidorov;Joan M. Street

  • Gibbs energies of gas-phase electron transfer reactions involving the larger fullerene anions

    Olga V. Boltalina;Ekaterina V. Dashkova;Lev N. Sidorov

  • Two Isomers of C60F48: An Indented Fullerene

    Sergei I. Troyanov;Pavel A. Troshin;Olga V. Boltalina;Ilya N. Ioffe

  • Ionization Energy of Fullerenes

    Olga V. Boltalina;Ilya N. Ioffe;Lev N. Sidorov;and Gotthard Seifert

  • Electron Affinity of Phenyl–C61–Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM)

    Bryon W. Larson;James B. Whitaker;Xue Bin Wang;Alexey A. Popov

  • Electronic Structures and Chemical Bonding of Fluorinated Fullerenes Studied by NEXAFS, UPS, and Vacuum-UV Absorption Spectroscopies

    Ryuichi Mitsumoto;Tohru Araki;Eisuke Ito;Yukio Ouchi

  • Synthesis and X-ray or NMR/DFT structure elucidation of twenty-one new trifluoromethyl derivatives of soluble cage isomers of C76, C78, C84, and C90.

    Ivan E. Kareev;Alexey A. Popov;Igor V. Kuvychko;Natalia B. Shustova

  • Isolation of C60(CF3)n (n = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10) with high compositional purity

    Alexey A. Goryunkov;Alexey A. Goryunkov;Igor V. Kuvychko;Ilya N. Ioffe;Donald L. Dick

  • Radical trifluoromethylation of Sc3N@C80.

    Natalia B. Shustova;Alexey A. Popov;Mary A. Mackey;Curtis E. Coumbe

  • Trifluoromethylated Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Synthesis and Characterization of Y@C82(CF3)5

    Ivan E. Kareev;Sergey F. Lebedkin;Vyacheslav P. Bubnov;Eduard B. Yagubskii

  • Tuning the driving force for exciton dissociation in single-walled carbon nanotube heterojunctions

    Rachelle Ihly;Kevin S. Mistry;Kevin S. Mistry;Andrew J. Ferguson;Tyler T. Clikeman;Tyler T. Clikeman

  • The Remarkable Stable Emerald Green C60F15[CBr(CO2Et)2]3: The First [60]Fullerene That Is also the First [18]Trannulene

    Xian-Wen Wei;Adam D. Darwish;Olga V. Boltalina;Peter B. Hitchcock

  • Synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical characterization, and DFT study of seventeen C70(CF3)n derivatives (n=2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12).

    Alexey A. Popov;Alexey A. Popov;Ivan E. Kareev;Natalia B. Shustova;Sergey F. Lebedkin

  • Perfluoroalkylfullerenes

    Unknown

  • Electron Affinity of Phenyl−C 61 −Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM)

    Bryon W. Larson;James B. Whitaker;Xue-Bin Wang;Alexey A. Popov

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven H. Strauss
Steven H. Strauss Colorado State University
Alexey A. Popov
Alexey A. Popov Leibniz Association
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor University of Brighton
Garry Rumbles
Garry Rumbles National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oren P. Anderson
Oren P. Anderson Colorado State University
Yu-Sheng Chen
Yu-Sheng Chen Nankai University
Pavel A. Troshin
Pavel A. Troshin Russian Academy of Sciences
Xue-Bin Wang
Xue-Bin Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Konrad Seppelt
Konrad Seppelt Freie Universität Berlin
Nikos Kopidakis
Nikos Kopidakis National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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