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Ryan C. Chiechi is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on engineering and materials science, with notable contributions to electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, polymers and plastics, biomedical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their work encompasses several research topics that include:

  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Conducting Polymers and Applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Nanowire Synthesis and Applications

Chiechi has published extensively in journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, and Chemical Physics Reviews. Among the frequent publication venues are:

  • Advanced Materials
  • University of Groningen Research Database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology)
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Macromolecules

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "N-type organic thermoelectrics: demonstration of ZT > 0.3", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Amphipathic Side Chain of a Conjugated Polymer Optimizes Dopant Location toward Efficient N-Type Organic Thermoelectrics", 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics", 2021, Chemical Physics Reviews
  • "Adaptive Biosensing and Neuromorphic Classification Based on an Ambipolar Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductor", 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Thiol-free self-assembled oligoethylene glycols enable robust air-stable molecular electronics", 2020, Nature Materials

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Xinkai Qiu
  • Gang Ye
  • L. Jan Anton Koster
  • Jian Liu
  • Yuru Liu

Best Publications

  • Eutectic Gallium-Indium (EGaIn) : A Liquid Metal Alloy for the Formation of Stable Structures in Microchannels at Room Temperature

    Michael D. Dickey;Ryan C. Chiechi;Ryan J. Larsen;Emily A. Weiss

  • Eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn): a moldable liquid metal for electrical characterization of self-assembled monolayers.

    Ryan C. Chiechi;Emily A. Weiss;Michael D. Dickey;George M. Whitesides

  • Enhancing Molecular n-Type Doping of Donor-Acceptor Copolymers by Tailoring Side Chains.

    Jian Liu;Li Qiu;Riccardo Alessandri;Xinkai Qiu

  • Electrical Resistance of Ag-TS-S(CH2)(n-1)CH3//Ga2O3/EGaln Tunneling Junctions

    Ludovico Cademartiri;Martin M. Thuo;Christian A. Nijhuis;William F. Reus

  • Influence of Defects on the Electrical Characteristics of Mercury-Drop Junctions: Self-Assembled Monolayers of n-Alkanethiolates on Rough and Smooth Silver

    Emily A. Weiss;Ryan C. Chiechi;George K. Kaufman;Jennah K. Kriebel

  • Strategy for Enhancing the Dielectric Constant of Organic Semiconductors Without Sacrificing Charge Carrier Mobility and Solubility

    Solmaz Torabi;Fatemeh Jahani;Ineke Van Severen;Catherine Kanimozhi

  • Evidence for quantum interference in SAMs of arylethynylene thiolates in tunneling junctions with eutectic Ga-In (EGaIn) top-contacts.

    Davide Fracasso;Hennie Valkenier;Jan C Hummelen;Gemma C Solomon

  • N-Type Organic Thermoelectrics of Donor-Acceptor Copolymers: Improved Power Factor by Molecular Tailoring of the Density of States.

    Jian Liu;Gang Ye;Bas van der Zee;Jingjin Dong

  • N-type organic thermoelectrics : Demonstration of ZT > 0.3

    Jian Liu;Bas van der Zee;Riccardo Alessandri;Selim Sami

  • Efficient Blue‐Light‐Emitting Electroluminescent Devices with a Robust Fluorophore: 7,8,10‐Triphenylfluoranthene

    Ryan C. Chiechi;Ricky J. Tseng;Filippo Marchioni;Yang Yang

  • Overcoming Coulomb Interaction Improves Free-Charge Generation and Thermoelectric Properties for n-Doped Conjugated Polymers

    Jian Liu;Yongqiang Shi;Jingjin Dong;Mohamad I. Nugraha

  • Eutectic Gallium–Indium (EGaIn): A Moldable Liquid Metal for Electrical Characterization of Self‐Assembled Monolayers

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  • Formation of high-quality self-assembled monolayers of conjugated dithiols on gold: base matters.

    Hennie Valkenier;Everardus H. Huisman;Paul A. van Hal;Dagobert de Leeuw

  • Amphipathic Side Chain of a Conjugated Polymer Optimizes Dopant Location toward Efficient N-Type Organic Thermoelectrics.

    Jian Liu;Gang Ye;Hinderikus G. O. Potgieser;Marten Koopmans

  • Adaptive Biosensing and Neuromorphic Classification Based on an Ambipolar Organic Mixed Ionic–Electronic Conductor

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  • Fullerene derivatives with increased dielectric constants

    Fatemeh Jahani;Solmaz Torabi;Ryan C Chiechi;L Jan Anton Koster

  • The Effects of Embedded Dipoles in Aromatic Self-Assembled Monolayers

    Tarek Abu-Husein;Swen Schuster;David A. Egger;Martin Kind

  • Enhancing doping efficiency by improving host-dopant miscibility for fullerene-based n-type thermoelectrics

    Li Qiu;Jian Liu;Riccardo Alessandri;Xinkai Qiu

  • High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors and Neuromorphic Devices Comprising Naphthalenediimide‐Dialkoxybithiazole Copolymers Bearing Glycol Ether Pendant Groups

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  • Fabrication of Arrays of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanotubes by Shadow Evaporation

    Michael D. Dickey;Emily A. Weiss;Elizabeth J. Smythe;Ryan C. Chiechi

  • Charge transport through molecular ensembles: Recent progress in molecular electronics

    Yuru Liu;Saurabh Soni;Xinkai Qiu;Ryan Chiechi

  • Modern plastic solar cells : materials, mechanisms and modeling

    Ryan C. Chiechi;Remco W.A. Havenith;Jan C. Hummelen;L. Jan Anton Koster

  • A versatile synthetic route to dehydrobenzoannulenes via in situ generation of reactive alkynes

    Michael L. Bell;Ryan C. Chiechi;Charles A. Johnson;David B. Kimball

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan C. Hummelen
Jan C. Hummelen University of Groningen
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Remco W. A. Havenith
Remco W. A. Havenith University of Groningen
Giuseppe Portale
Giuseppe Portale University of Groningen
Andreas Herrmann
Andreas Herrmann RWTH Aachen University
Michael Zharnikov
Michael Zharnikov Heidelberg University
Emily A. Weiss
Emily A. Weiss Northwestern University
Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi University of Groningen
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara
Petra Rudolf
Petra Rudolf University of Groningen

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