James R. Durrant

80.4k citations

585 papers · 69.3k indexed · 28 hit papers · h-index 145

Impact in

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment top 0.01%
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
Polymers and Plastics top 0.01%
- Conducting polymers and applications

Papers in

Polymers and Plastics 220
- Conducting polymers and applications 205
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 246
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques 182
- TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells 124

Co-authors: Jenny Nelson David R. Klug Brian C. O’Regan Saif A. Haque Tracey M. Clarke Emilio Palomares Donal D. C. Bradley Yasuhiro Tachibana
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (53 papers)Advanced Functional Materials (32 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (27 papers)Chemical Communications (27 papers)Advanced Materials (25 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Spain

In The Last Decade

James R. Durrant

581 papers receiving 68.5k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Unravelling the effects of active site density and energetics on the water oxidation activity of iridium oxides 2024 · 99 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Catalysis
2022 Nature Energy
2022 Nature Reviews Materials
2021 Nature Reviews Materials
2020 Nature Materials
2019 Nature Energy
2017 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2016 Nature Communications
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Energy & Environmental Science
2016 Nature Materials
2014 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2012 Nature Photonics
2011 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2011 Chemistry of Materials
2011 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2010 Chemical Reviews
2009 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2008 Applied Physics Letters
2008 Journal of the American Chemical Society
2006 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
2006 Nature Materials
2006 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
2005 Applied Physics Letters
2002 Journal of the American Chemical Society
1999 The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
1996 The Journal of Physical Chemistry

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All Works

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1	Breaking Crystallinity for Optimal Dark Current: Nonfullerene Acceptor Dilution as a Strategy for High‐Performance Organic Photodetectors Advanced Optical Materials ·Chiara Labanti, Ying Sun, Joel Luke, Yifan Dong, Song Yi Park, Yi‐Chun Chin, Tianhao Lan, Emily J. Yang, Lei Zhang, Soranyel González‐Carrero, James R. Durrant, Ji‐Seon Kim	2025	1
2	Illuminating the Origins of Ferroelectric‐Induced Photocurrent and Hole Lifetime Enhancement in BaTiO₃ Photoanodes Advanced Functional Materials ·Chloe Forrester, Adriana Augurio, Charlie Henderson, Ji‐Seon Kim, James R. Durrant, Joe Briscoe	2025	0
3	Photoaccumulation of Long‐Lived Reactive Electrons in a Microporous Ti(IV) Oxocluster‐Based Metal–Organic Framework for Light and Dark Photocatalysis Advanced Materials ·Shilin Yao, Katrin Heinzerling, Sam A. J. Hillman, Filip Podjaski, Tianhao He, Alberto García‐Baldoví, Yasmine Baghdadi, Khaled Dassouki, Hermenegildo García, Salvador Eslava, Nathalie Steunou, Soranyel González‐Carrero, Sergio Navalón, Georges Mouchaham, Christian Serre, James R. Durrant	2025	0
4	Octupole moment driven free charge generation in partially chlorinated subphthalocyanine for planar heterojunction organic photodetectors Nature Communications ·Aniket Rana, Song Yi Park, Chiara Labanti, Feifei Fang, Sungyoung Yun, Yifan Dong, Emily J. Yang, Davide Nodari, Nicola Gasparini, Jeong‐Il Park, Jisoo Shin, Daiki Minami, Kyung‐Bae Park, Ji‐Seon Kim, James R. Durrant	2024	8
5	Unravelling the effects of active site density and energetics on the water oxidation activity of iridium oxides Nature Catalysis ·Caiwu Liang, Reshma R. Rao, Katrine L. Svane, Joseph H. L. Hadden, Benjamin Moss, Søren B. Scott, Michael Sachs, James Murawski, Adrian Frandsen, D. Jason Riley, Mary P. Ryan, Jan Rossmeisl, James R. Durrant, Ifan E. L. Stephens Hit paper breakdown →	2024	99
6	Transient absorption spectroscopy reveals that slow bimolecular recombination in SrTiO₃ underpins its efficient photocatalytic performance Chemical Communications ·Anna A. Wilson, Lucy J. F. Hart, Thomas P. Shalvey, Michael Sachs, Weidong Xu, Benjamin Moss, Eva Mazzolini, Asim Mumtaz, James R. Durrant	2023	5
7	Impact of Interface Energetic Alignment and Mobile Ions on Charge Carrier Accumulation and Extraction in p‐i‐n Perovskite Solar Cells Advanced Energy Materials ·Weidong Xu, Lucy J. F. Hart, Benjamin Moss, Pietro Caprioglio, Thomas J. Macdonald, Francesco Furlan, Julianna Panidi, Robert D. J. Oliver, Richard A. Pacalaj, Martin Heeney, Nicola Gasparini, Henry J. Snaith, Piers R. F. Barnes, James R. Durrant	2023	37
8	Machine Learning for Ultra High Throughput Screening of Organic Solar Cells: Solving the Needle in the Haystack Problem Advanced Energy Materials ·Markus Hußner, Richard A. Pacalaj, Gerhard Olaf Müller‐Dieckert, Chao Liu, Zhisheng Zhou, Nahdia Majeed, Steve Greedy, Iván Ramírez, Ning Li, Seyed Mehrdad Hosseini, Christian Uhrich, Christoph J. Brabec, James R. Durrant, Carsten Deibel, Roderick C. I. MacKenzie	2023	16
9	Overcoming Nanoscale Inhomogeneities in Thin-Film Perovskites via Exceptional Post-annealing Grain Growth for Enhanced Photodetection Nano Letters ·Tian Du, Filipe Richheimer, Kyle Frohna, Nicola Gasparini, Lokeshwari Mohan, Ganghong Min, Weidong Xu, Thomas J. Macdonald, Haozhen Yuan, Sinclair R. Ratnasingham, Saif A. Haque, Fernando A. Castro, James R. Durrant, Samuel D. Stranks, Sebastian Wood, Martyn A. McLachlan, Joe Briscoe	2022	19
10	Water oxidation kinetics of nanoporous BiVO ₄ photoanodes functionalised with nickel/iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts Chemical Science ·Laia Francàs, Shababa Selim, Sacha Corby, Dongho Lee, Camilo A. Mesa, Ernest Pastor, Kyoung‐Shin Choi, James R. Durrant	2021	48
11	Rational Design of Donor–Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constants The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Aiswarya Abhisek Mohapatra, Yifan Dong, Boregowda Puttaraju, Ashutosh Mohanty, Aditya Sadhanala, Xuechen Jiao, Awadhesh Narayan, Christopher R. McNeill, James R. Durrant, Satish Patil	2021	12
12	Redox-State Kinetics in Water-Oxidation IrO _x Electrocatalysts Measured by Operando Spectroelectrochemistry ACS Catalysis ·Carlota Bozal‐Ginesta, Reshma R. Rao, Camilo A. Mesa, Xinyi Liu, Sam A. J. Hillman, Ifan E. L. Stephens, James R. Durrant	2021	41
13	Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO ₃ for water oxidation Chemical Science ·Sacha Corby, Laia Francàs, Andreas Kafizas, James R. Durrant	2020	175
14	Orientation dependent molecular electrostatics drives efficient charge generation in homojunction organic solar cells Nature Communications ·Yifan Dong, Vasileios C. Nikolis, Felix Talnack, Yi‐Chun Chin, Johannes Benduhn, Giacomo Londi, Jonas Kublitski, Xijia Zheng, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Donato Spoltore, Luca Muccioli, Jing Li, Xavier Blase, David Beljonne, Ji‐Seon Kim, Artem A. Bakulin, Gabriele D’Avino, James R. Durrant, Koen Vandewal	2020	87
15	Light-intensity and thickness dependent efficiency of planar perovskite solar cells: charge recombinationversusextraction Journal of Materials Chemistry C ·Tian Du, Weidong Xu, Shengda Xu, Sinclair R. Ratnasingham, Chieh‐Ting Lin, Jinhyun Kim, Joe Briscoe, Martyn A. McLachlan, James R. Durrant	2020	125
16	From fullerene acceptors to non-fullerene acceptors: prospects and challenges in the stability of organic solar cells Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Emily M. Speller, Andrew J. Clarke, Joel Luke, Harrison Ka Hin Lee, James R. Durrant, Ning Li, Tao Wang, Him Cheng Wong, Ji‐Seon Kim, Wing Chung Tsoi, Zhe Li	2019	181
17	Artificial photosynthesis – concluding remarks Faraday Discussions ·Carlota Bozal‐Ginesta, James R. Durrant	2019	15
18	Charge Separation in Intermixed Polymer:PC₇₀BM Photovoltaic Blends: Correlating Structural and Photophysical Length Scales as a Function of Blend Composition The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Hendrik Utzat, Stoichko Dimitrov, Scot Wheeler, Elisa Collado‐Fregoso, Pabitra Shakya Tuladhar, Bob C. Schroeder, Iain McCulloch, James R. Durrant	2017	21
19	Light and oxygen induced degradation limits the operational stability of methylammonium lead triiodide perovskite solar cells Energy & Environmental Science ·Daniel Bryant, Nicholas Aristidou, Sebastian Pont, Irene Sánchez‐Molina, Thana Chotchunangatchaval, Scot Wheeler, James R. Durrant, Saif A. Haque Hit paper breakdown →	2016	873
20	Charge recombination in polymer/fullerene photovoltaic devices Ktisis at Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus University of Technology) ·Stelios A. Choulis, Jenny Nelson, James R. Durrant	2013	14

About James R. Durrant

James R. Durrant is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrochemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 585 papers that have together received 69.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (216 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (205 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (182 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (136 papers), TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (124 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (87 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (53 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (51 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (31.1k citations), Polymers and Plastics (23.9k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (39.3k citations), Materials Chemistry (31.0k citations) and Electrochemistry (3.0k citations). James R. Durrant has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Jenny Nelson, David R. Klug, Brian C. O’Regan, Saif A. Haque, Tracey M. Clarke, Emilio Palomares, Donal D. C. Bradley, Yasuhiro Tachibana, Michaël Grätzel and Iain McCulloch. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Chemical Communications and Advanced Materials.

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