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  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Samson A. Jenekhe is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields such as Engineering and Materials Science, with a particular emphasis on subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, prominently:

  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Recent scholarly contributions include papers published between 2020 and 2022 in peer-reviewed venues, notably:

  • "A high-conductivity n-type polymeric ink for printed electronics" (2021), Nature Communications
  • "Influence of Molecular Weight on the Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance of Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymers" (2021), Advanced Materials
  • "Ground-state electron transfer in all-polymer donor-acceptor heterojunctions" (2020), Nature Materials
  • "On the Origin of Seebeck Coefficient Inversion in Highly Doped Conducting Polymers" (2022), Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Hierarchical Materials from High Information Content Macromolecular Building Blocks: Construction, Dynamic Interventions, and Prediction" (2022), Chemical Reviews

Samson A. Jenekhe frequently publishes in venues such as Macromolecules, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Duyen K. Tran
  • Nagesh B. Kolhe
  • Sarah M. West
  • Chi-Yuan Yang
  • Simone Fabiano

Throughout their career, Jenekhe has contributed extensively to the study and application of polymers, organic electronics, and related materials engineering, integrating interdisciplinary approaches across their specialized fields.

They were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Electron Transport Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

    Abhishek P. Kulkarni;Christopher J. Tonzola;and Amit Babel;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Excimers and Exciplexes of Conjugated Polymers

    Samson A. Jenekhe;John A. Osaheni

  • Self-Assembly of Ordered Microporous Materials from Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

    Samson A. Jenekhe;X. Linda Chen

  • New Conjugated Polymers with Donor−Acceptor Architectures: Synthesis and Photophysics of Carbazole−Quinoline and Phenothiazine−Quinoline Copolymers and Oligomers Exhibiting Large Intramolecular Charge Transfer

    Samson A. Jenekhe;Liangde Lu;Maksudul M. Alam

  • Self-Assembled Aggregates of Rod-Coil Block Copolymers and Their Solubilization and Encapsulation of Fullerenes

    Samson A. Jenekhe;X. Linda Chen

  • Aggregation of ZnO Nanocrystallites for High Conversion Efficiency in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells

    Qifeng Zhang;Tammy P. Chou;Bryan Russo;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • One-Dimensional Nanostructures of π-Conjugated Molecular Systems: Assembly, Properties, and Applications from Photovoltaics, Sensors, and Nanophotonics to Nanoelectronics†

    Felix Sunjoo Kim;Guoqiang Ren;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • High Electron Mobility in Ladder Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

    Amit Babel;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Conjugated donor-acceptor copolymer semiconductors with large intramolecular charge transfer : Synthesis, optical properties, electrochemistry, and field effect carrier mobility of thienopyrazine-based copolymers

    Yan Zhu;Richard D. Champion;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Perylenediimide nanowires and their use in fabricating field-effect transistors and complementary inverters.

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld;Colin Reese;Jessica M. Hancock

  • 7.7% Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells.

    Ye-Jin Hwang;Brett A. E. Courtright;Amy S. Ferreira;Sarah H. Tolbert

  • Introducing organic nanowire transistors

    Alejandro L. Briseno;Stefan C.B. Mannsfeld;Samson A. Jenekhe;Zhenan Bao

  • Conjugated Aromatic Polyimines. 2. Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of New Aromatic Polyazomethines.

    Chen-Jen Yang;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Nanofibers of Conjugated Polymers Prepared by Electrospinning with a Two‐Capillary Spinneret

    Dan Li;Amit Babel;Samson A. Jenekhe;Younan Xia

  • All-polymer solar cells with 3.3% efficiency based on naphthalene diimide-selenophene copolymer acceptor.

    Taeshik Earmme;Ye-Jin Hwang;Nishit M. Murari;Selvam Subramaniyan

  • Electrochemical Properties and Electronic Structures of Conjugated Polyquinolines and Polyanthrazolines

    Ashwini K. Agrawal;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Electroluminescence of Multicomponent Conjugated Polymers. 1. Roles of Polymer/Polymer Interfaces in Emission Enhancement and Voltage-Tunable Multicolor Emission in Semiconducting Polymer/Polymer Heterojunctions

    Xuejun Zhang;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • High-mobility ambipolar transistors and high-gain inverters from a donor-acceptor copolymer semiconductor.

    Felix Sunjoo Kim;Xugang Guo;Mark D. Watson;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Highly efficient solar cells based on poly(3-butylthiophene) nanowires.

    Hao Xin;Felix Sunjoo Kim;Samson A. Jenekhe

  • Efficient photovoltaic cells from semiconducting polymer heterojunctions

    Samson A. Jenekhe;Shujian Yi

  • n-Type Semiconducting Naphthalene Diimide-Perylene Diimide Copolymers: Controlling Crystallinity, Blend Morphology, and Compatibility Toward High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells

    Ye-Jin Hwang;Taeshik Earmme;Brett A. E. Courtright;Frank N. Eberle

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Sunjoo Kim
Felix Sunjoo Kim Chung-Ang University
Wen-Chang Chen
Wen-Chang Chen National Taiwan University
Hao Xin
Hao Xin University of Arizona
Younan Xia
Younan Xia Johns Hopkins University
David S. Ginger
David S. Ginger University of Washington
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno University of Massachusetts Amherst
Xugang Guo
Xugang Guo Southern University of Science and Technology
Guozhong Cao
Guozhong Cao University of Washington
Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao Stanford University
Sarah H. Tolbert
Sarah H. Tolbert University of California, Los Angeles

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