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2022

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Ullrich Scherf is affiliated with the University of Wuppertal in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, and Organic Chemistry.

The scientist has focused on topics related to conducting polymers and their applications, strong light-matter interactions, organic electronics and photovoltaics, plasmonic and surface plasmon research, luminescence and fluorescent materials, organic light-emitting diodes research, and quantum and electron transport phenomena.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Michael Förster, Darius Urbonas, Thilo Stöferle, Rainer F. Mahrt, and Anton V. Zasedatelev.

Scherf's recent publications cover a range of topics and venues, such as:

  • "Boosting Oxygen Reduction of Single Iron Active Sites via Geometric and Electronic Engineering: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dual Coordination" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Single-photon nonlinearity at room temperature" (2021, Nature)
  • "Conjugated Polymers: Where We Come From, Where We Stand, and Where We Might Go" (2022, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics)
  • "Tunable exciton-polariton condensation in a two-dimensional Lieb lattice at room temperature" (2021, Communications Physics)
  • "An Organic Borate Salt with Superior p-Doping Capability for Organic Semiconductors" (2020, Advanced Science)

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Macromolecules, Advanced Electronic Materials, Molecules, and Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Notably, Scherf has contributed to arXiv with eight publications, and to Macromolecules with five.

Best Publications

  • Semiconducting Polyfluorenes—Towards Reliable Structure–Property Relationships

    Ullrich Scherf;Emil J. W. List

  • Organic semiconductors for solution-processable field-effect transistors (OFETs).

    Sybille Allard;Michael Forster;Benjamin Souharce;Heiko Thiem

  • "Organic Light-Emitting Devices: Synthesis, Properties and Applications"

    Klaus Müllen;Ullrich Scherf

  • Solution-processed ambipolar organic field-effect transistors and inverters.

    E.J. Meijer;E.J. Meijer;D.M. de Leeuw;S. Setayesh;E. van Veenendaal

  • Organic Photovoltaics: Materials, Device Physics, and Manufacturing Technologies

    Christoph J. Brabec;Ullrich Scherf;Vladimir Dyakonov

  • Boosting Oxygen Reduction of Single Iron Active Sites via Geometric and Electronic Engineering: Nitrogen and Phosphorus Dual Coordination

    Kai Yuan;Kai Yuan;Dirk Lützenkirchen-Hecht;Longbin Li;Ling Shuai

  • Effect of Molecular Weight and Annealing of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)s on the Performance of Organic Field-Effect Transistors

    Achmad Zen;J. Pflaum;S. Hirschmann;W. Zhuang

  • Room-temperature Bose–Einstein condensation of cavity exciton–polaritons in a polymer

    Johannes D. Plumhof;Thilo Stöferle;Lijian Mai;Ullrich Scherf

  • The Effect of Keto Defect Sites on the Emission Properties of Polyfluorene-Type Materials

    E.J.W. List;R. Guentner;P. Scanducci de Freitas;U. Scherf

  • Improved high-efficiency organic solar cells via incorporation of a conjugated polyelectrolyte interlayer.

    Jung Hwa Seo;Andrea Gutacker;Yanming Sun;Hongbin Wu

  • EXCITON DIFFUSION AND DISSOCIATION IN CONJUGATED POLYMER/FULLERENE BLENDS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

    A. Haugeneder;M. Neges;C. Kallinger;W. Spirkl

  • Blue Polarized Electroluminescence from a Liquid Crystalline Polyfluorene

    Martin Grell;Wolfgang Knoll;Donald Lupo;Andreas Meisel

  • Polyarylenes and poly(arylenevinylenes), 7. A soluble ladder polymer via bridging of functionalized poly(p‐phenylene)‐precursors

    Ullrich Scherf;Klaus Müllen

  • Influence of the molecular weight of poly(3-hexylthiophene) on the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells

    Pavel Schilinsky;Udom Asawapirom;Ullrich Scherf;and Markus Biele

  • Novel approaches to polymer blends based on polymer nanoparticles.

    Thomas Kietzke;Dieter Neher;Katharina Landfester;Rivelino Montenegro

  • AGGREGATE FLUORESCENCE IN CONJUGATED POLYMERS

    U. Lemmer;S. Heun;R.F. Mahrt;Ullrich Scherf

  • Effect of Molecular Weight on the Structure and Crystallinity of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Achmad Zen;Marina Saphiannikova;Dieter Neher;Jörg Grenzer

  • Improving the Performance of Polyfluorene-Based Organic Light-Emitting Diodes via End-Capping

    T. Miteva;A. Meisel;Wolfgang Knoll;H. G. Nothofer

  • Semiconducting Polymer Nanospheres in Aqueous Dispersion Prepared by a Miniemulsion Process

    Katharina Landfester;Rivelino Montenegro;Ullrich Scherf;Roland GüNTNER

  • Ladder-type materials

    Ullrich Scherf

Frequent Co-Authors

Günther Leising
Günther Leising Graz University of Technology
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Dieter Neher
Dieter Neher University of Potsdam
Emil J. W. List
Emil J. W. List Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hugh D. Burrows
Hugh D. Burrows University of Coimbra
Andrew P. Monkman
Andrew P. Monkman Durham University
Jochen Feldmann
Jochen Feldmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Uli Lemmer
Uli Lemmer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Rainer F. Mahrt
Rainer F. Mahrt IBM (United States)
Heinz Bässler
Heinz Bässler Philipp University of Marburg

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