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Rubén D. Costa is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and has a significant research footprint in the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their work also spans several related subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Molecular Biology, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's research covers various topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Conducting polymers and applications

Rubén D. Costa has contributed articles to multiple publication venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • Advanced Materials

Some recent papers provide insight into the research directions pursued, among them:

  • "Recent Advances in Solid-State Lighting Devices Using Transition Metal Complexes Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emission Mechanism" (2020) published in Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Meeting High Stability and Efficiency in Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes Based on SiO2/ZrO2 Coated CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals" (2020) published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Advances and Challenges in White Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells" (2020) published in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "White-emitting Protein-Metal Nanocluster Phosphors for Highly Performing Biohybrid Light-Emitting Diodes" (2020) published in Nano Letters
  • "Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors" (2020) published in Nature Communications

The scientist often collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including:

  • Elisa Fresta
  • Julio Fernández-Cestau
  • Luca M. Cavinato
  • Davide Bonifazi
  • Sylvain Gaillard

Best Publications

  • Luminescent ionic transition-metal complexes for light-emitting electrochemical cells.

    Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink;Filippo Monti

  • Archetype Cationic Iridium Complexes and Their Use in Solid-State Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

    Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink;Stefan Graber

  • Beyond traditional light-emitting electrochemical cells – a review of new device designs and emitters

    Elisa Fresta;Elisa Fresta;Rubén D. Costa;Rubén D. Costa

  • Stable Single-Layer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell Using 4,7-Diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline-bis(2-phenylpyridine)iridium(III) Hexafluorophosphate

    Henk J. Bolink;Luca Cappelli;Eugenio Coronado;Michael Grätzel

  • Long-Living Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells : Control through Supramolecular Interactions

    Henk J. Bolink;Eugenio Coronado;Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí

  • Copper(I) complexes for sustainable light-emitting electrochemical cells

    Rubén D. Costa;Daniel Tordera;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink

  • Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells Based on Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoparticles

    Meltem F. Aygüler;Michael D. Weber;Bianka M. D. Puscher;Dana D. Medina

  • Near-Quantitative Internal Quantum Efficiency in a Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell

    Henk J. Bolink;Eugenio Coronado;Rubén D. Costa;Nora Lardiés

  • Origin of the large spectral shift in electroluminescence in a blue light emitting cationic iridium(III) complex

    Henk J. Bolink;Luca Cappelli;Stephanie Cheylan;Eugenio Coronado

  • Simple, fast, bright, and stable light sources.

    Daniel Tordera;Sebastian Meier;Sebastian Meier;Martijn Lenes;Rubén D. Costa

  • Efficient and Long‐Living Light‐Emitting Electrochemical Cells

    Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink;Stefan Graber

  • A supramolecularly-caged ionic iridium(III) complex yielding bright and very stable solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells

    Stefan Graber;Kevin Doyle;Markus Neuburger;Catherine E. Housecroft

  • Efficient deep-red light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a perylenediimide-iridium-complex dyad

    Rubén D. Costa;Francisco J. Céspedes-Guirao;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink

  • Intramolecular pi-stacking in a phenylpyrazole-based iridium complex and its use in light-emitting electrochemical cells.

    Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink;Stefan Graber

  • Designing NHC-Copper(I) Dipyridylamine Complexes for Blue Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

    Margaux Elie;Fabien Sguerra;Florent Di Meo;Michael D. Weber

  • Near-UV to red-emitting charged bis-cyclometallated iridium(III) complexes for light-emitting electrochemical cells.

    Florian Kessler;Rubén D Costa;Rubén D Costa;Davide Di Censo;Rosario Scopelliti

  • Polypyridyl ligands as a versatile platform for solid-state light-emitting devices.

    Babak Pashaei;Soheila Karimi;Hashem Shahroosvand;Parisa Abbasi

  • Photophysical properties of charged cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes: a joint theoretical and experimental study.

    Rubén D. Costa;Filippo Monti;Gianluca Accorsi;Andrea Barbieri

  • Two are not always better than one: ligand optimisation for long-living light-emitting electrochemical cells.

    Rubén D. Costa;Enrique Ortí;Henk J. Bolink;Stefan Graber

  • Origin of a counterintuitive yellow light-emitting electrochemical cell based on a blue-emitting heteroleptic copper(i) complex.

    Michael D. Weber;Claudio Garino;Giorgio Volpi;Enrico Casamassa

  • Magnetic structure of the large-spin Mn10 and Mn19 complexes: a theoretical complement to an experimental milestone.

    Eliseo Ruiz;Thomas Cauchy;Joan Cano;Ruben Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Enrique Ortí
Enrique Ortí University of Valencia
Henk J. Bolink
Henk J. Bolink University of Valencia
Tomás Torres
Tomás Torres Autonomous University of Madrid
Edwin C. Constable
Edwin C. Constable University of Basel
Catherine E. Housecroft
Catherine E. Housecroft University of Basel
Sylvain Gaillard
Sylvain Gaillard Université de Caen Normandie
Jean-Luc Renaud
Jean-Luc Renaud Université de Caen Normandie
Markus Neuburger
Markus Neuburger University of Basel
Eugenio Coronado
Eugenio Coronado University of Valencia

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