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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields intersecting engineering and materials science, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, polymers and plastics, and materials chemistry. The work also touches on biomedical engineering and bioengineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas within organic electronics and photovoltaics, conducting polymers and their applications, perovskite materials and applications, organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) research, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, advanced memory and neural computing, as well as luminescence and fluorescent materials.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Energy Materials, and Materials Horizons. These venues reflect a strong concentration in materials science and applied engineering research communities.

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen has collaborated often with several researchers, including Guillermo C. Bazan, Sangmin Chae, Nora Schopp, Akchheta Karki, and Ahra Yi, with collaboration counts ranging from 16 to 26 joint works.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Thuc-Quyen Nguyen include:

  • The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells, 2021, Nature
  • Electrolyte-gated transistors for enhanced performance bioelectronics, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • The Path to 20% Power Conversion Efficiencies in Nonfullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
  • The role of bulk and interfacial morphology in charge generation, recombination, and extraction in non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • What We have Learnt from PM6:Y6, 2023, Advanced Materials

In recognition of their work, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Efficient tandem polymer solar cells fabricated by all-solution processing.

    Jin Young Kim;Jin Young Kim;Kwanghee Lee;Kwanghee Lee;Nelson E. Coates;Nelson E. Coates;Daniel Moses;Daniel Moses

  • Small Molecule Solution-Processed Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells†

    Bright Walker;Chunki Kim;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • Controlling Interchain Interactions in Conjugated Polymers: The Effects of Chain Morphology on Exciton-Exciton Annihilation and Aggregation in MEH-PPV Films

    Thuc-Quyen Nguyen;Ignacio B. Martini;Jei Liu;Benjamin J. Schwartz

  • Nanoscale Phase Separation and High Photovoltaic Efficiency in Solution-Processed, Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

    Bright Walker;Arnold B. Tamayo;Xuan-Dung Dang;Peter Zalar

  • Exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors

    Oleksandr V. Mikhnenko;Paul W. M. Blom;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • Conjugated polymer aggregates in solution: Control of interchain interactions

    Thuc-Quyen Nguyen;Vinh Doan;Benjamin J. Schwartz

  • Control of energy transfer in oriented conjugated polymer-mesoporous silica composites

    Thuc-Quyen Nguyen;Junjun Wu;Vinh Doan;Benjamin J. Schwartz

  • Charge carrier recombination in organic solar cells

    Christopher M. Proctor;Martijn Kuik;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • Non-basic high-performance molecules for solution-processed organic solar cells.

    Thomas S. van der Poll;John A. Love;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen;Guillermo C. Bazan

  • Improved Light Harvesting and Improved Efficiency by Insertion of an Optical Spacer (ZnO) in Solution-Processed Small-Molecule Solar Cells

    Aung Ko Ko Kyaw;Dong Hwan Wang;David Wynands;Jie Zhang

  • High‐Mobility Field‐Effect Transistors Fabricated with Macroscopic Aligned Semiconducting Polymers

    Hsin-Rong Tseng;Hung Phan;Chan Luo;Ming Wang

  • High-efficiency polymer solar cells enhanced by solvent treatment.

    Huiqiong Zhou;Yuan Zhang;Jason Seifter;Samuel D. Collins

  • Improved performance of polymer bulk heterojunction solar cells through the reduction of phase separation via solvent additives.

    Corey V. Hoven;Xuan-Dung Dang;Robert C. Coffin;Jeff Peet

  • Polymer Homo‐Tandem Solar Cells with Best Efficiency of 11.3%

    Huiqiong Zhou;Yuan Zhang;Cheng-Kang Mai;Samuel D. Collins

  • A Low Band Gap, Solution Processable Oligothiophene with a Diketopyrrolopyrrole Core for Use in Organic Solar Cells

    Arnold B. Tamayo;Bright Walker;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • A High-Performance Solution-Processed Organic Photodetector for Near-Infrared Sensing.

    Jianfei Huang;Jaewon Lee;Joachim Vollbrecht;Viktor V. Brus

  • Small is Powerful: Recent Progress in Solution‐Processed Small Molecule Solar Cells

    Samuel D. Collins;Niva A. Ran;Michael C. Heiber;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • Recent Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes in Optoelectronic Devices

    Corey V. Hoven;Andres Garcia;Guillermo C. Bazan;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells.

    Alexander J. Gillett;Alberto Privitera;Rishat Dilmurat;Akchheta Karki

  • Electrolyte-gated transistors for enhanced performance bioelectronics

    Fabrizio Torricelli;Demetra Z. Adrahtas;Zhenan Bao;Magnus Berggren

  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for DNA detection by nanoparticle assembly onto smooth metal films.

    Gary Braun;Seung Joon Lee;Mark Dante;Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

  • A low band gap, solution processable oligothiophene with a dialkylated diketopyrrolopyrrole chromophore for use in bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Arnold Bernarte Tamayo;Xuan-Dang Dang;Bright Walker;Junghwa Seo

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillermo C. Bazan
Guillermo C. Bazan National University of Singapore
Bright Walker
Bright Walker Kyung Hee University
Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin J. Schwartz
Benjamin J. Schwartz University of California, Los Angeles
Harald Ade
Harald Ade North Carolina State University
Jung Hwa Seo
Jung Hwa Seo University of Seoul
Andrés J. García
Andrés J. García Georgia Institute of Technology
Colin Nuckolls
Colin Nuckolls Columbia University
Lei Ying
Lei Ying South China University of Technology
Fred Wudl
Fred Wudl University of California, Santa Barbara

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