Neil D. Treat

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Neil D. Treat is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Neil D. Treat has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 35 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 14 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Neil D. Treat's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (43 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (32 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (8 papers). Neil D. Treat is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (43 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (32 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (8 papers). Neil D. Treat collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Neil D. Treat's co-authors include Michael L. Chabinyc, Craig J. Hawker, Edward J. Krämer, Natalie Stingelin, Michael F. Toney, Michael A. Brady, Gordon Smith, Martin Heeney, Thomas D. Anthopoulos and Hendrik Faber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Neil D. Treat

57 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Interdiffusion of PCBM and P3HT Reveals Miscibility in a Photovoltaically Active Blend

2010 558 citations Neil D. Treat, Michael A. Brady et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy

2021 282 citations Neil D. Treat, Robert Bain et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Neil D. Treat United States	35	3.0k	2.1k	1.0k	651	549	57	4.1k
Chang Y. Ryu United States	29	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	954 1.5×	1.0k 1.9×	77	4.2k
Shijun Jia United States	15	2.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	851 0.8×	812 1.2×	394 0.7×	23	3.7k
Eric Verploegen United States	27	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	505 0.8×	792 1.4×	47	3.9k
Hengbin Wang United States	23	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	456 0.7×	292 0.5×	43	2.7k
Juan Peng China	32	1.5k 0.5×	756 0.4×	2.3k 2.2×	1.0k 1.6×	735 1.3×	142	3.8k
Michael V. Lee Japan	21	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.8k 1.7×	243 0.4×	463 0.8×	46	3.4k
K.L. Tan Singapore	33	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	312 0.5×	672 1.2×	113	3.4k
Sreenivasa Reddy Puniredd Singapore	25	1.6k 0.5×	707 0.3×	1.0k 1.0×	351 0.5×	610 1.1×	56	2.5k
Ya‐Sen Sun Taiwan	23	1.1k 0.3×	906 0.4×	1.2k 1.1×	595 0.9×	343 0.6×	88	2.5k
Hanfu Wang China	36	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	2.1k 2.0×	305 0.5×	762 1.4×	101	3.7k

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Treat, Neil D., et al.. (2021). Global potential for harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy. Nature. 598(7882). 611–617. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

Treat, Neil D., Obadiah G. Reid, Sarah Fearn, et al.. (2018). Robust Processing of Small-Molecule:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells via Use of Nucleating Agents. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(5). 1973–1980. 2 indexed citations

Paterson, Alexandra F., Neil D. Treat, Weimin Zhang, et al.. (2016). Small Molecule/Polymer Blend Organic Transistors with Hole Mobility Exceeding 13 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹. Advanced Materials. 28(35). 7791–7798. 183 indexed citations

Brady, Michael A., Neil D. Treat, Maxwell J. Robb, et al.. (2015). Significance of miscibility in multidonor bulk heterojunction solar cells. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 54(2). 237–246. 16 indexed citations

Boufflet, Pierre, Yang Han, Zhuping Fei, et al.. (2015). Using Molecular Design to Increase Hole Transport: Backbone Fluorination in the Benchmark Material Poly(2,5‐bis(3‐alkylthiophen‐2‐yl)thieno[3,2‐b]‐thiophene (pBTTT). Advanced Functional Materials. 25(45). 7038–7048. 63 indexed citations

MacQueen, Rowan W., Joshua R. Peterson, Yuen Yap Cheng, et al.. (2014). Highly efficient photochemical upconversion in a quasi-solid organogel. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3(3). 616–622. 71 indexed citations

Yaacobi‐Gross, Nir, Neil D. Treat, Pichaya Pattanasattayavong, et al.. (2014). High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Based on the Solution‐Processable Hole Transporting Interlayer Copper Thiocyanate (CuSCN) as a Replacement for PEDOT:PSS. Advanced Energy Materials. 5(3). 154 indexed citations

Treat, Neil D., Maged Abdelsamie, Liyang Yu, et al.. (2014). Controlling the Solidification of Organic Photovoltaic Blends with Nucleating Agents. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology). 2(1). 4 indexed citations

Yau, Chin Pang, Neil D. Treat, Zhuping Fei, et al.. (2014). Investigation of Radical and Cationic Cross‐Linking in High‐Efficiency, Low Band Gap Solar Cell Polymers. Advanced Energy Materials. 5(5). 35 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Christian B., Raja Shahid Ashraf, Neil D. Treat, et al.. (2014). 2,1,3‐Benzothiadiazole‐5,6‐Dicarboxylic Imide – A Versatile Building Block for Additive‐ and Annealing‐Free Processing of Organic Solar Cells with Efficiencies Exceeding 8%. Advanced Materials. 27(5). 948–953. 86 indexed citations

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Pho, Toan V., Francesca M. Toma, Bertrand J. Tremolet de Villers, et al.. (2013). Decacyclene Triimides: Paving the Road to Universal Non‐Fullerene Acceptors for Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Energy Materials. 4(5). 57 indexed citations

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Hellmann, Christoph, Neil D. Treat, Annalisa Bruno, et al.. (2013). Controlling the Interaction of Light with Polymer Semiconductors. Advanced Materials. 25(35). 4906–4911. 49 indexed citations

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Treat, Neil D., Thomas E. Mates, Craig J. Hawker, Edward J. Krämer, & Michael L. Chabinyc. (2013). Temperature Dependence of the Diffusion Coefficient of PCBM in Poly(3-hexylthiophene). Macromolecules. 46(3). 1002–1007. 63 indexed citations

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Treat, Neil D., Alessandro Varotto, Christopher J. Takacs, et al.. (2012). Polymer-Fullerene Miscibility: A Metric for Screening New Materials for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(38). 15869–15879. 194 indexed citations

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Gupta, Nalini, Brian F. Lin, L. M. B. C. Campos, et al.. (2012). A versatile approach to high-throughput microarrays using thiol-ene chemistry. Nature Chemistry. 4(5). 424–424. 6 indexed citations

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Ku, Sung‐Yu, Christopher D. Liman, Daniel J. Burke, et al.. (2011). A Facile Synthesis of Low-Band-Gap Donor–Acceptor Copolymers Based on Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]thiophene. Macromolecules. 44(24). 9533–9538. 29 indexed citations

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Varotto, Alessandro, Neil D. Treat, Jang Jo, et al.. (2011). 1,4‐Fullerene Derivatives: Tuning the Properties of the Electron Transporting Layer in Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(22). 5166–5169. 101 indexed citations

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Wang, Mingfeng, Yanming Sun, Minghong Tong, et al.. (2011). PCBM Disperse-Red Ester with Strong Visible-Light Absorption: Implication of Molecular Design and Morphological Control for Organic Solar Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 116(1). 1313–1321. 18 indexed citations

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Gupta, Nalini, Brian F. Lin, L. M. B. C. Campos, et al.. (2009). A versatile approach to high-throughput microarrays using thiol-ene chemistry. Nature Chemistry. 2(2). 138–145. 196 indexed citations

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Boyes, Stephen G., et al.. (2006). Thermorheological properties near the glass transition of oligomeric poly(methyl methacrylate) blended with acrylic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane nanocages. Rheologica Acta. 45(6). 971–981. 18 indexed citations

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