Brian A. Collins

6.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
66 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Brian A. Collins is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian A. Collins has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 36 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 19 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Brian A. Collins's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (37 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (34 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (14 papers). Brian A. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (37 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (34 papers) and Thin-Film Transistor Technologies (14 papers). Brian A. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and Germany. Brian A. Collins's co-authors include Harald Ade, Eliot Gann, John R. Tumbleston, Christopher R. McNeill, Zhe Li, Hongping Yan, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Xenofon Strakosas, George G. Malliaras and Christopher J. Tassone and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Brian A. Collins

65 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Structural control of mixed ionic and electronic transport in conducting polymers

2016 754 citations Brian A. Collins, Dean M. DeLongchamp et al. profile →
Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells

2018 623 citations Long Ye, Huawei Hu et al. Nature Materials profile →
Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC₇₁BM Solar Cells

2012 588 citations Brian A. Collins, Zhe Li et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
The influence of molecular orientation on organic bulk heterojunction solar cells

2014 444 citations John R. Tumbleston, Brian A. Collins et al. profile →
Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

2012 417 citations Eliot Gann, Brian A. Collins et al. profile →
The Importance of Fullerene Percolation in the Mixed Regions of Polymer–Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

2012 406 citations Brian A. Collins, John R. Tumbleston et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Brian A. Collins	5.0k	4.3k	904	742	445	66	6.0k
Maxim Shkunov	5.1k 1.0×	3.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	923 1.2×	613 1.4×	107	6.0k
Xuechen Jiao	6.0k 1.2×	4.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	462 0.6×	352 0.8×	116	6.5k
B. K. Crone	3.5k 0.7×	1.5k 0.3×	739 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	420 0.9×	41	4.0k
Lucimara S. Roman	3.8k 0.7×	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	426 1.0×	151	4.8k
Lionel Hirsch	3.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	514 0.7×	402 0.9×	152	4.8k
Ian G. Hill	9.1k 1.8×	3.2k 0.7×	3.4k 3.8×	748 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	122	10.0k
Bin Hu	6.9k 1.4×	2.7k 0.6×	4.1k 4.5×	664 0.9×	812 1.8×	248	8.0k
Jingsong Huang	8.4k 1.7×	6.2k 1.5×	1.9k 2.1×	1.3k 1.7×	682 1.5×	126	9.4k
Tae Whan Kim	7.0k 1.4×	2.3k 0.5×	5.7k 6.3×	635 0.9×	708 1.6×	160	8.5k
Shun‐Wei Liu	3.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.3×	1.9k 2.1×	399 0.5×	170 0.4×	183	4.2k

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Tokmoldin, Nurlan, et al.. (2025). When the Triplet State Doesn’t Matter: Insights into Its Impact on V_OC. ACS Energy Letters. 10(5). 2419–2427. 1 indexed citations

Collins, Brian A., et al.. (2025). Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering in Polymer Materials. Annual Review of Materials Research. 55(1). 1–35. 1 indexed citations

Tokmoldin, Nurlan, et al.. (2024). Key factors behind the superior performance of polymer-based NFA blends. Materials Horizons. 11(21). 5304–5312. 2 indexed citations

McAfee, Terry, et al.. (2024). Local Chemical Enhancement and Gating of Organic Coordinated Ionic‐Electronic Transport. Advanced Materials. 37(5). e2406281–e2406281. 2 indexed citations

Collins, Brian A., et al.. (2023). Green Additive Limits Runaway Crystallinity in PM6:Y6 Organic Solar Cells but Causes Field-Independent Geminate Recombination. ACS Energy Letters. 8(11). 4643–4649. 4 indexed citations

Tokmoldin, Nurlan, Bowen Sun, Floriana Moruzzi, et al.. (2023). Elucidating How Low Energy Offset Matters to Performance of Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Solar Cells. ACS Energy Letters. 8(6). 2552–2560. 17 indexed citations

Sun, Bowen, Nurlan Tokmoldin, Catherine S. P. De Castro, et al.. (2023). Toward More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: A Detailed Study of Loss Pathway and Its Impact on Overall Device Performance in Low‐Offset Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(26). 27 indexed citations

Lv, Jie, Tongle Xu, Thomas Ferron, et al.. (2022). High Sensitivity of Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Morphology and Performance to a Processing Additive. Small. 18(23). e2202411–e2202411. 24 indexed citations

Fritsch, Tobias, Jona Kurpiers, Steffen Roland, et al.. (2022). On the Interplay between CT and Singlet Exciton Emission in Organic Solar Cells with Small Driving Force and Its Impact on Voltage Loss. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(31). 20 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaobo, Chao Zhao, Hongbo Wu, et al.. (2022). Electrical edge effect induced photocurrent overestimation in low-light organic photovoltaics. Joule. 6(8). 1904–1917. 10 indexed citations

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Hosseini, Seyed Mehrdad, Thomas Ferron, Terry McAfee, et al.. (2021). Evidence That Sharp Interfaces Suppress Recombination in Thick Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(47). 56394–56403. 6 indexed citations

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Al‐Ghamdi, Saleh, et al.. (2021). Pressure-assisted thermal sterilization of avocado puree in high barrier polymeric packaging. LWT. 155. 112960–112960. 8 indexed citations

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Gann, Eliot, Thomas Crofts, Glenn Holland, et al.. (2021). A NIST facility for resonant soft x-ray scattering measuring nano-scale soft matter structure at NSLS-II. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 33(16). 164001–164001. 15 indexed citations

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McAfee, Terry, et al.. (2019). Label-free measurement of core-shell Pluronic F127 Micelle nanostructure determined using in-situ Resonant Soft x-ray Scattering. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Ye, Long, Huawei Hu, Masoud Ghasemi, et al.. (2018). Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells. Nature Materials. 17(3). 253–260. 623 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ye, Long, Brian A. Collins, Xuechen Jiao, et al.. (2018). Miscibility–Function Relations in Organic Solar Cells: Significance of Optimal Miscibility in Relation to Percolation. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(28). 255 indexed citations

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Collins, Brian A., Yong S. Chu, Liang He, D. Haskel, & F. Tsui. (2015). Structural and chemical ordering of Heusler CoxMnyGez epitaxial films on Ge (111): Quantitative study using traditional and anomalous x-ray diffraction techniques. Physical Review B. 92(22). 9 indexed citations

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Collins, Brian A., Zhe Li, John R. Tumbleston, et al.. (2012). Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC₇₁BM Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 3(1). 65–74. 588 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sleaford, B., Brian A. Collins, B.B. Ebbinghaus, et al.. (2010). NUCLEAR MATERIAL ATTRACTIVENESS: AN ASSESSMENT OF MATERIAL FROM PHWR'S IN A CLOSED THORIUM FUEL CYCLE. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Muduli, P. K., et al.. (2009). Study of magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal using the quadratic magnetooptical effect in epitaxial Co_xMn_yGe_z(111) films. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(29). 296005–296005. 13 indexed citations

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