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Materials Science

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111
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53543
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676
National Ranking
9

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109
Citations
51556
World Ranking
832
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2015 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 2011 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

René A. J. Janssen is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, focusing notably on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics. Additional research interests include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics in Janssen's work encompass:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Janssen has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

  • Advanced Energy Materials (15 publications)
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials (9 publications)
  • Solar RRL (9 publications)
  • Advanced Materials (8 publications)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database (7 publications)

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Enhancement-Mode PEDOT:PSS Organic Electrochemical Transistors Using Molecular De-Doping," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 1)," 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Ultralow dark current in near-infrared perovskite photodiodes by reducing charge injection and interfacial charge generation," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 3)," 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Halide homogenization for low energy loss in 2-eV-bandgap perovskites and increased efficiency in all-perovskite triple-junction solar cells," 2023, Nature Energy

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Martijn M. Wienk
  • Kunal Datta
  • Junke Wang
  • Bas T. van Gorkom
  • Junyu Li

Janssen has been recognized with the Spinoza Prize awarded by the Dutch Research Council in 2015 and was inducted into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Two-dimensional charge transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymers

    Henning Sirringhaus;P. J. Brown;R. H. Friend;M. M. Nielsen

  • Nanoscale Morphology of High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells

    Xiaoniu Yang;Joachim Loos;Sjoerd C. Veenstra;Wiljan J. H. Verhees

  • Efficient Methano[70]fullerene/MDMO‐PPV Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells

    Martijn M. Wienk;Martijn M. Wienk;Jan M. Kroon;Wiljan J. H. Verhees;Joop Knol

  • Materials interface engineering for solution-processed photovoltaics

    Michael Graetzel;René A. J. Janssen;David B. Mitzi;Edward H. Sargent

  • Hybrid zinc oxide conjugated polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells.

    Wje Waldo Beek;MM Martijn Wienk;M Martijn Kemerink;XN Xiaoniu Yang

  • Narrow-bandgap diketo-pyrrolo-pyrrole polymer solar cells : the effect of processing on the performance

    MM Martijn Wienk;Mgr Mathieu Turbiez;J Jan Gilot;Raj René Janssen

  • 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

  • The Energy of Charge‐Transfer States in Electron Donor–Acceptor Blends: Insight into the Energy Losses in Organic Solar Cells

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  • Poly(diketopyrrolopyrrole−terthiophene) for Ambipolar Logic and Photovoltaics

    JC Johan Bijleveld;AP Arjan Zoombelt;Sgj Simon Mathijssen;MM Martijn Wienk

  • Compositional and Electric Field Dependence of the Dissociation of Charge Transfer Excitons in Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer/Fullerene Blends

    Dirk Veldman;Özlem İpek;Stefan C. J. Meskers;Jörgen Sweelssen

  • Relating the morphology of poly(p-phenylene vinylene)/methanofullerene blends to solar-cell performance

    van Jkj Jeroen Duren;XN Xiaoniu Yang;J Joachim Loos;Cwt Bulle-Lieuwma

  • Factors Limiting Device Efficiency in Organic Photovoltaics

    René A. J. Janssen;Jenny Nelson

  • The effect of three-dimensional morphology on the efficiency of hybrid polymer solar cells

    Stefan D. Oosterhout;Martijn M. Wienk;Svetlana S. van Bavel;Ralf Thiedmann

  • Circularly polarised electroluminescence from a polymer light-emitting diode

    Emiel Peeters;Marwijn P. T. Christiaans;René A. J. Janssen;Herman F. M. Schoo

  • Microscopic understanding of the anisotropic conductivity of PEDOT:PSS thin films

    A.M. Nardes;M. Kemerink;R.A.J. Janssen;J.J.A.M. Bastiaansen

  • The Importance of Moisture in Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Film Fabrication

    Giles E. Eperon;Severin N. Habisreutinger;Tomas Leijtens;Bardo J. Bruijnaers

  • Efficient Tandem and Triple-Junction Polymer Solar Cells

    W Weiwei Li;A Alice Furlan;KH Koen Hendriks;MM Martijn Wienk

  • Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymers for Organic Solar Cells.

    Wei Wei Li;KH Koen Hendriks;MM Martijn Wienk;Raj René Janssen

  • High-Molecular-Weight Regular Alternating Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based Terpolymers for Efficient Organic Solar Cells†

    KH Koen Hendriks;Ghl Heintges;Veronique Veronique Gevaerts;MM Martijn Wienk

  • Deep Absorbing Porphyrin Small Molecule for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Very Low Energy Losses

    Ke Gao;Lisheng Li;Tianqi Lai;Liangang Xiao

  • Supramolecular p -- n-Heterojunctions by Co-Self-Organization of Oligo(p-phenylene Vinylene) and Perylene Bisimide Dyes

    Frank Würthner;Zhijian Chen;Freek J M Hoeben;Peter Osswald

Frequent Co-Authors

MM Martijn Wienk
MM Martijn Wienk Eindhoven University of Technology
Jan C. Hummelen
Jan C. Hummelen University of Groningen
Martijn Kemerink
Martijn Kemerink Heidelberg University
Weiwei Li
Weiwei Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dago M. de Leeuw
Dago M. de Leeuw Holst Centre (Netherlands)
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning Eindhoven University of Technology
Gerwin H. Gelinck
Gerwin H. Gelinck Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Peter Bäuerle
Peter Bäuerle University of Ulm
E. W. Meijer
E. W. Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology
David Beljonne
David Beljonne University of Mons

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