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, Eleni Stavrinidou, Jonathan Rivnay and Michele Sessolo 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

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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 Jonathan Rivnay, Sahika Inal et al. Nature Communications 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, John R. Tumbleston 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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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	When the Triplet State Doesn’t Matter: Insights into Its Impact on V_OC 2025 ·ACS Energy Letters ·(unknown), Nurlan Tokmoldin, Atul Shukla, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian A. Collins, Dieter Neher, Safa Shoaee	1
2	Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering in Polymer Materials 2025 ·Annual Review of Materials Research ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian A. Collins	1
3	Local Chemical Enhancement and Gating of Organic Coordinated Ionic‐Electronic Transport 2024 ·Advanced Materials ·(unknown), Terry McAfee, Thomas Ferron, (unknown), Brian A. Collins	2
4	Key factors behind the superior performance of polymer-based NFA blends 2024 ·Materials Horizons ·(unknown), (unknown), Nurlan Tokmoldin, (unknown), Bowen Sun, (unknown), (unknown), Brian A. Collins, Dieter Neher, Safa Shoaee	2
5	Green Additive Limits Runaway Crystallinity in PM6:Y6 Organic Solar Cells but Causes Field-Independent Geminate Recombination 2023 ·ACS Energy Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian A. Collins	4
6	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 2023 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Bowen Sun, Nurlan Tokmoldin, (unknown), (unknown), Catherine S. P. De Castro, (unknown), (unknown), Ardalan Armin, Frédéric Laquai, Brian A. Collins, Dieter Neher, Safa Shoaee	27
7	Elucidating How Low Energy Offset Matters to Performance of Nonfullerene Acceptor-Based Solar Cells 2023 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Nurlan Tokmoldin, Bowen Sun, Floriana Moruzzi, (unknown), (unknown), Rong Wang, Brian A. Collins, Iain McCulloch, Larry Lüer, Christoph J. Brabec, Dieter Neher, Safa Shoaee	17
8	On the Interplay between CT and Singlet Exciton Emission in Organic Solar Cells with Small Driving Force and Its Impact on Voltage Loss 2022 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Tobias Fritsch, Jona Kurpiers, Steffen Roland, Nurlan Tokmoldin, Safa Shoaee, Thomas Ferron, Brian A. Collins, Silvia Janietz, Koen Vandewal, Dieter Neher	20
9	High Sensitivity of Non‐Fullerene Organic Solar Cells Morphology and Performance to a Processing Additive 2022 ·Small ·(unknown), Jie Lv, Tongle Xu, (unknown), Thomas Ferron, Terry McAfee, (unknown), Tainan Duan, Brian A. Collins	24
10	Electrical edge effect induced photocurrent overestimation in low-light organic photovoltaics 2022 ·Joule ·Xiaobo Zhou, Chao Zhao, (unknown), Hongbo Wu, Hafiz Bilal Naveed, Baojun Lin, Ke Zhou, Zaifei Ma, Brian A. Collins, Wei Ma	10
11	Evidence That Sharp Interfaces Suppress Recombination in Thick Organic Solar Cells 2021 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Thomas Ferron, (unknown), Terry McAfee, (unknown), Fei Huang, Ardalan Armin, Safa Shoaee, Brian A. Collins	6
12	Pressure-assisted thermal sterilization of avocado puree in high barrier polymeric packaging 2021 ·LWT ·Saleh Al‐Ghamdi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Brian A. Collins, Shyam S. Sablani	8
13	A NIST facility for resonant soft x-ray scattering measuring nano-scale soft matter structure at NSLS-II 2021 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·Eliot Gann, Thomas Crofts, Glenn Holland, Peter A. Beaucage, Terry McAfee, R. Joseph Kline, Brian A. Collins, Christopher R. McNeill, Daniel A. Fischer, Dean M. DeLongchamp	15
14	Label-free measurement of core-shell Pluronic F127 Micelle nanostructure determined using in-situ Resonant Soft x-ray Scattering 2019 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Terry McAfee, Isvar A. Cordova, Thomas Ferron, (unknown), Brian A. Collins	1
15	Quantitative relations between interaction parameter, miscibility and function in organic solar cells breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Materials ·Long Ye, Huawei Hu, Masoud Ghasemi, Tonghui Wang, Brian A. Collins, Joo-Hyun Kim, Kui Jiang, Joshua H. Carpenter, Hong Li, Zhengke Li, Terry McAfee, Jingbo Zhao, Xiankai Chen, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Tingxuan Ma, Jean‐Luc Brédas, He Yan, Harald Ade	623
16	Structural control of mixed ionic and electronic transport in conducting polymers breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Jonathan Rivnay, Sahika Inal, Brian A. Collins, Michele Sessolo, Eleni Stavrinidou, Xenofon Strakosas, Christopher J. Tassone, Dean M. DeLongchamp, George G. Malliaras	754
17	Origins of polarization-dependent anisotropic X-ray scattering from organic thin films 2015 ·Journal of Synchrotron Radiation ·Eliot Gann, Brian A. Collins, Maolong Tang, John R. Tumbleston, S. Mukherjee, Harald Ade	27
18	Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films 2012 ·Nature Materials ·Brian A. Collins, Justin E. Cochran, Hongping Yan, Eliot Gann, (unknown), R. Fink, Cheng Wang, Torben Schuettfort, Christopher R. McNeill, Michael L. Chabinyc, Harald Ade	272
19	NUCLEAR MATERIAL ATTRACTIVENESS: AN ASSESSMENT OF MATERIAL FROM PHWR'S IN A CLOSED THORIUM FUEL CYCLE 2010 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·B. Sleaford, Brian A. Collins, B.B. Ebbinghaus, C.G. Bathke, (unknown), Richard K. Wallace, Brian Smith, (unknown), K. S. Bradley, (unknown), Gordon D. Jarvinen, John R. Ireland, Mark W. Johnson	1
20	Study of magnetic anisotropy and magnetization reversal using the quadratic magnetooptical effect in epitaxial Co_xMn_yGe_z(111) films 2009 ·Journal of Physics Condensed Matter ·P. K. Muduli, (unknown), Liang He, Brian A. Collins, Yong S. Chu, F. Tsui	13

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