Mark Nikolka

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Mark Nikolka is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Nikolka has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 25 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mark Nikolka's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (25 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers). Mark Nikolka is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (31 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (25 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (9 papers). Mark Nikolka collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and United States. Mark Nikolka's co-authors include Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch, Alberto Salleo, Guillaume Schweicher, Aditya Sadhanala, S. Fratini, Michael Hurhangee, Katharina Broch, Iyad Nasrallah and Deepak Venkateshvaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Mark Nikolka

34 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers

2014 901 citations Deepak Venkateshvaran, Mark Nikolka et al. Nature profile →
Charge transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers and molecular semiconductors

2020 662 citations S. Fratini, Mark Nikolka et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Nikolka United Kingdom	25	4.0k	2.9k	1.1k	781	310	34	4.5k
Jeremy Smith United States	38	5.6k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	816 1.0×	294 0.9×	55	6.1k
Alexander L. Ayzner United States	26	3.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	760 1.0×	220 0.7×	54	4.0k
Renee Kroon Sweden	32	2.9k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	755 1.0×	202 0.7×	68	3.8k
Gaurav Giri United States	25	4.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.5×	373 1.2×	56	4.9k
Zhuping Fei United Kingdom	42	5.2k 1.3×	4.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	735 0.9×	263 0.8×	117	5.8k
Donato Spoltore Germany	35	3.7k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	943 0.9×	419 0.5×	184 0.6×	61	4.1k
Dae Sung Chung South Korea	38	4.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	648 0.8×	217 0.7×	158	4.6k
David Hanifi United States	23	3.0k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	907 0.8×	644 0.8×	188 0.6×	28	3.9k
Steve Tierney United Kingdom	17	3.6k 0.9×	2.7k 0.9×	686 0.6×	395 0.5×	229 0.7×	23	4.0k
Philip C. Y. Chow Hong Kong	32	6.1k 1.5×	4.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	552 0.7×	171 0.6×	66	6.7k

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Wang, Mingcong, Guang‐Jie Xia, Chen Yang, et al.. (2025). An Amorphous Donor‐Acceptor Conjugated Polymer with Both High Charge Carrier Mobility and Luminescence Quantum Efficiency. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(15). e202421199–e202421199. 4 indexed citations

Nikolka, Mark, et al.. (2024). Unlocking net-zero in semiconductor manufacturing. 1(8). 487–488. 4 indexed citations

Simatos, Dimitrios, Mark Nikolka, Jérôme Charmet, et al.. (2024). Electrolyte‐gated organic field‐effect transistors with high operational stability and lifetime in practical electrolytes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(6). 13 indexed citations

Kraft, Ulrike, Mark Nikolka, Ging‐Ji Nathan Wang, et al.. (2023). Low-voltage polymer transistors on hydrophobic dielectrics and surfaces. Journal of Physics Materials. 6(2). 25001–25001. 6 indexed citations

Simatos, Dimitrios, Leszek J. Spalek, Ulrike Kraft, et al.. (2021). The effect of the dielectric end groups on the positive bias stress stability of N2200 organic field effect transistors. APL Materials. 9(4). 41113–41113. 13 indexed citations

Fratini, S., Mark Nikolka, Alberto Salleo, Guillaume Schweicher, & Henning Sirringhaus. (2020). Charge transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers and molecular semiconductors. Nature Materials. 19(5). 491–502. 662 indexed citations breakdown →

Xiao, Mingfei, Aditya Sadhanala, Mojtaba Abdi‐Jalebi, et al.. (2020). Linking Glass‐Transition Behavior to Photophysical and Charge Transport Properties of High‐Mobility Conjugated Polymers. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(7). 33 indexed citations

Nikolka, Mark, Katharina Broch, John Armitage, et al.. (2019). High-mobility, trap-free charge transport in conjugated polymer diodes. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2122–2122. 119 indexed citations

Thomas, Tudor H., David J. Harkin, Alexander J. Gillett, et al.. (2019). Short contacts between chains enhancing luminescence quantum yields and carrier mobilities in conjugated copolymers. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2614–2614. 84 indexed citations

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Chen, Hu, Andrew Wadsworth, Chun Ma, et al.. (2019). The Effect of Ring Expansion in Thienobenzo[b]indacenodithiophene Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(47). 18806–18813. 60 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yu, Ging‐Ji Nathan Wang, Jiheong Kang, et al.. (2019). An Intrinsically Stretchable High‐Performance Polymer Semiconductor with Low Crystallinity. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(46). 160 indexed citations

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Onwubiko, Ada, Wan Yue, Cameron Jellett, et al.. (2018). Fused electron deficient semiconducting polymers for air stable electron transport. Nature Communications. 9(1). 416–416. 161 indexed citations

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Pecunia, Vincenzo, Mark Nikolka, Antony Sou, et al.. (2017). Trap Healing for High‐Performance Low‐Voltage Polymer Transistors and Solution‐Based Analog Amplifiers on Foil. Advanced Materials. 29(23). 38 indexed citations

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Nikolka, Mark, Michael Hurhangee, Aditya Sadhanala, et al.. (2017). Correlation of Disorder and Charge Transport in a Range of Indacenodithiophene‐Based Semiconducting Polymers. Advanced Electronic Materials. 4(10). 35 indexed citations

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Chen, Hu, Michael Hurhangee, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2017). Dithiopheneindenofluorene (TIF) Semiconducting Polymers with Very High Mobility in Field‐Effect Transistors. Advanced Materials. 29(36). 95 indexed citations

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Nikolka, Mark, Iyad Nasrallah, Bradley D. Rose, et al.. (2016). High operational and environmental stability of high-mobility conjugated polymer field-effect transistors through the use of molecular additives. Nature Materials. 16(3). 356–362. 382 indexed citations

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Illig, Steffen, Alexander S. Eggeman, Alessandro Troisi, et al.. (2016). Reducing dynamic disorder in small-molecule organic semiconductors by suppressing large-amplitude thermal motions. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10736–10736. 165 indexed citations

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Knall, Astrid‐Caroline, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2016). Naphthacenodithiophene Based Polymers—New Members of the Acenodithiophene Family Exhibiting High Mobility and Power Conversion Efficiency. Advanced Functional Materials. 26(38). 6961–6969. 20 indexed citations

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Kang, Keehoon, Shun Watanabe, Katharina Broch, et al.. (2016). 2D coherent charge transport in highly ordered conducting polymers doped by solid state diffusion. Nature Materials. 15(8). 896–902. 380 indexed citations

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Venkateshvaran, Deepak, Mark Nikolka, Aditya Sadhanala, et al.. (2014). Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers. Nature. 515(7527). 384–388. 901 indexed citations breakdown →

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