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Materials Science

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48
Citations
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10725
National Ranking
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Chemistry

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Raja Shahid Ashraf 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 Raja Shahid Ashraf sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 92 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Raja Shahid Ashraf 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 Raja Shahid Ashraf sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Raja Shahid Ashraf is affiliated with Government College University, Lahore in Pakistan. Their research spans multiple domains primarily within engineering and materials science, with notable contributions in electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, organic chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

Their published work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Ashraf are:

  • Influence of Side Chains on the n-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance (2021), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Impact of Acceptor Quadrupole Moment on Charge Generation and Recombination in Blends of IDT-Based Non-Fullerene Acceptors with PCE10 as Donor Polymer (2021), Advanced Energy Materials
  • In situ grown oxygen-vacancy-rich copper oxide nanosheets on a copper foam electrode afford the selective oxidation of alcohols to value-added chemicals (2022), Communications Chemistry
  • Systematic Assessment of Visible-Light-Driven Microspherical V2O5 Photocatalyst for the Removal of Hazardous Organosulfur Compounds from Diesel (2021), Nanomaterials
  • Crystalline and porous CoSe dendrimeric architectures for efficient oxygen evolution reaction (2022), Fuel

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ashraf include Muhammad Altaf, Munazza Shahid, Zeeshan Abid, Manzar Sohail, and Sughra Gulzar, with collaboration counts ranging from 9 to 21 published works.

Their scholarly output is published in various venues, with multiple publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Advanced Energy Materials, and Fuel.

Additionally, Ashraf has contributed to academic literature through book publication. One example is the book Membrane Based Methods for Dye Containing Wastewater, published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

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

  • 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

  • Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Polymers for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Photovoltaic Devices

    Hugo Bronstein;Zhuoying Chen;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Weimin Zhang

  • High‐Performance Ambipolar Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene Copolymer Field‐Effect Transistors with Balanced Hole and Electron Mobilities

    Zhuoying Chen;Mi Jung Lee;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Yun Gu

  • 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

  • A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

    Sarah Holliday;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Christian Bergenstof Nielsen;Mindaugas Kirkus

  • Molecular packing of high-mobility diketo pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer semiconductors with branched alkyl side chains

    Xinran Zhang;Lee J. Richter;Dean M. DeLongchamp;R. Joseph Kline

  • Chalcogenophene comonomer comparison in small band gap diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymers for high-performing field-effect transistors and organic solar cells.

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Iain Meager;Mark Nikolka;Mindaugas Kirkus

  • Exploring the origin of high optical absorption in conjugated polymers

    Michelle S. Vezie;Sheridan Few;Iain Meager;Galatia Pieridou

  • Photocurrent Enhancement from Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymer Solar Cells through Alkyl-Chain Branching Point Manipulation

    Iain Meager;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Sonya Mollinger;Bob C. Schroeder

  • Design of Semiconducting Indacenodithiophene Polymers for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells

    Iain McCulloch;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Laure Biniek;Hugo Bronstein

  • Competition between the charge transfer state and the singlet states of donor or acceptor limiting the efficiency in polymer:fullerene solar cells.

    Mark A. Faist;Thomas Kirchartz;Wei Gong;Raja Shahid Ashraf

  • A new thiophene substituted isoindigo based copolymer for high performance ambipolar transistors

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Auke Jisk Kronemeijer;David Ian James;Henning Sirringhaus

  • Effect of Fluorination on the Properties of a Donor–Acceptor Copolymer for Use in Photovoltaic Cells and Transistors

    Hugo Bronstein;Jarvist M. Frost;Afshin Hadipour;Youngju Kim

  • Indacenodithiophene-co-benzothiadiazole Copolymers for High Performance Solar Cells or Transistors via Alkyl Chain Optimization

    Hugo Bronstein;Dong Seok Leem;Richard Hamilton;Paul Woebkenberg

  • Silaindacenodithiophene-Based Low Band Gap Polymers - The Effect of Fluorine Substitution on Device Performances and Film Morphologies

    Bob C. Schroeder;Zhenggang Huang;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Jeremy Smith

  • Thienopyrazine-Based Low-Bandgap Poly(heteroaryleneethynylene)s for Photovoltaic Devices

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Munazzaa Shahid;Elisabeth Klemm;Maher Al-Ibrahim

  • The Influence of Polymer Purification on Photovoltaic Device Performance of a Series of Indacenodithiophene Donor Polymers

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Bob C. Schroeder;Hugo A. Bronstein;Zhenggang Huang

  • Silaindacenodithiophene semiconducting polymers for efficient solar cells and high mobility ambipolar transistors

    Raja Shahid Ashraf;Zhuoying Chen;Dong Seok Leem;Hugo Bronstein

  • A thieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene isoindigo building block for additive- and annealing-free high-performance polymer solar cells.

    Wan Yue;Raja Shahid Ashraf;Christian B. Nielsen;Elisa Collado‐Fregoso

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
Bob C. Schroeder
Bob C. Schroeder University College London
Hugo Bronstein
Hugo Bronstein University of Cambridge
Christian B. Nielsen
Christian B. Nielsen Queen Mary University of London
Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney Imperial College London
Scott E. Watkins
Scott E. Watkins Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Derya Baran
Derya Baran King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jenny Nelson
Jenny Nelson Imperial College London

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