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10090
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11037
National Ranking
319

Overview

Scott E. Watkins is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields within engineering and environmental science, with particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering as well as industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as green IT and sustainability, recycling and waste management techniques, and organic electronics and photovoltaics. This interdisciplinary approach reflects a focus on developing sustainable technologies and processes relevant to contemporary environmental challenges.

Watkins has contributed to research published in prominent scientific venues, including Nature Materials. One recent paper of note is titled "Sustainability considerations for organic electronic products," published in 2023 in Nature Materials. This publication has attracted academic attention, as indicated by its citation count.

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include:

  • Iain McCulloch
  • Michael L. Chabinyc
  • Christoph J. Brabec
  • Christian B. Nielsen

The research topics manifested in Watkins' work can be outlined as:

  • Green IT and Sustainability
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics

Watkins' expertise is situated predominantly in the engineering sphere, specifically:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Their engagement with environmental science is reflected in research dedicated to impacts on sustainability and practices within recycling and waste management. The combination of these fields indicates a research agenda that connects technological development with environmental considerations, particularly in the context of organic electronic materials.

Best Publications

  • Toward Large Scale Roll‐to‐Roll Production of Fully Printed Perovskite Solar Cells

    Kyeongil Hwang;Kyeongil Hwang;Yen-Sook Jung;Yen-Sook Jung;Youn-Jung Heo;Youn-Jung Heo;Fiona H. Scholes

  • 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

  • Size-dependent valence and conduction band-edge energies of semiconductor nanocrystals.

    Jacek Jaroslaw Jasieniak;Marco Califano;Scott Edward Watkins

  • Indacenodithiophene Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance, Air-Stable Transistors

    Weimin Zhang;Jeremy Smith;Scott E Watkins;Roman Gysel

  • Triplet energy back transfer in conjugated polymers with pendant phosphorescent iridium complexes.

    Nicholas R. Evans;Lekshmi Sudha Devi;Chris S. K. Mak;Scott E. Watkins

  • 3D printer based slot-die coater as a lab-to-fab translation tool for solution-processed solar cells

    Doojin Vak;Kyeongil Hwang;Kyeongil Hwang;Andrew Faulks;Yen Sook Jung;Yen Sook Jung

  • 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

  • Systematic improvement in charge carrier mobility of air stable triarylamine copolymers.

    Weimin Zhang;Jeremy Smith;Rick Hamilton;Martin Heeney

  • Solution-processed sintered nanocrystal solar cells via layer-by-layer assembly.

    Jacek Jaroslaw Jasieniak;Brandon I MacDonald;Brandon I MacDonald;Scott Edward Watkins;Paul C Mulvaney

  • 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

  • Tailored donor-acceptor polymers with an A-D1-A-D2 structure: controlling intermolecular interactions to enable enhanced polymer photovoltaic devices.

    Tianshi Qin;Wojciech Zajaczkowski;Wojciech Pisula;Martin Baumgarten

  • Organic solar cells using a high-molecular-weight benzodithiophene-benzothiadiazole copolymer with an efficiency of 9.4%.

    Jegadesan Subbiah;Balaji Purushothaman;Ming Chen;Tianshi Qin

  • Low band gap selenophene–diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers exhibiting high and balanced ambipolar performance in bottom-gate transistors

    Munazza Shahid;Thomas McCarthy-Ward;John Labram;Stephan Rossbauer

  • Polyfluorenes without monoalkylfluorene defects.

    Sung Yong Cho;Andrew C Grimsdale;David J Jones;Scott E Watkins

  • Determination of energy level alignment at interfaces of hybrid and organic solar cells under ambient environment

    Robert J. Davis;Matthew T. Lloyd;Summer R. Ferreira;Matthew J. Bruzek

  • An inter-laboratory stability study of roll-to-roll coated flexible polymer solar modules

    Suren Gevorgyan;Andrew James Medford;Eva Bundgaard;Subarna B. Sapkota

  • Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Sintered CdSexTe1–x Nanocrystal Solar Cells

    Brandon I MacDonald;Brandon I MacDonald;Alessandro Martucci;Sergey Rubanov;Scott Edward Watkins

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

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

  • Performance, morphology and photophysics of high open-circuit voltage, low band gap all-polymer solar cells

    Kedar D. Deshmukh;Tianshi Qin;Joseph K. Gallaher;Amelia Chi Ying Liu

  • Organic photovoltaic modules fabricated by an industrial gravure printing proofer

    Junliang Yang;Junliang Yang;Junliang Yang;Doojin Vak;Noel Clark;Jegadesan Subbiah

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Thomas D. Anthopoulos University of Manchester
Andrew B. Holmes
Andrew B. Holmes University of Melbourne
Iain McCulloch
Iain McCulloch University of Oxford
Martin Heeney
Martin Heeney Imperial College London
Raja Shahid Ashraf
Raja Shahid Ashraf Government College University, Lahore
Udo Bach
Udo Bach Monash University
David J. Jones
David J. Jones University of Melbourne
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Bob C. Schroeder
Bob C. Schroeder University College London
Doojin Vak
Doojin Vak Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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