Nicholas Rolston

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Rolston is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Rolston has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 36 papers in Materials Chemistry and 33 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Rolston's work include Perovskite Materials and Applications (57 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (33 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (21 papers). Nicholas Rolston is often cited by papers focused on Perovskite Materials and Applications (57 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (33 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (21 papers). Nicholas Rolston collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Nicholas Rolston's co-authors include Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Michael D. McGehee, Kevin A. Bush, Adam D. Printz, Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Rongrong Cheacharoen, Aryeh Gold‐Parker, Michael F. Toney, Brian L. Watson and Duncan Harwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Rolston

66 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Engineering Stress in Perovskite Solar Cells to Improve Stability

2018 410 citations Nicholas Rolston, Kevin A. Bush et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Rolston United States	26	2.8k	1.5k	1.4k	155	81	69	3.0k
Zhanhao Hu China	23	2.2k 0.8×	983 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	149 1.0×	51 0.6×	37	2.4k
Zhongbin Wu China	34	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	872 0.6×	181 1.2×	134 1.7×	97	3.4k
Ke Xiao China	27	3.9k 1.4×	2.0k 1.3×	1.8k 1.3×	121 0.8×	136 1.7×	63	4.3k
Tom Aernouts Belgium	36	3.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	447 2.9×	103 1.3×	104	4.3k
Andreas Distler Germany	18	2.1k 0.8×	421 0.3×	1.5k 1.1×	183 1.2×	43 0.5×	53	2.4k
Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli United States	33	3.3k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.2×	165 1.1×	173 2.1×	67	3.5k
Yiming Bai China	25	1.7k 0.6×	761 0.5×	870 0.6×	147 0.9×	163 2.0×	103	2.0k
Mihaela Gǐrtan France	26	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	549 0.4×	266 1.7×	193 2.4×	75	1.9k
Harrison Ka Hin Lee United Kingdom	25	2.2k 0.8×	682 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	170 1.1×	75 0.9×	47	2.4k

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Nie, Wanyi, et al.. (2025). Hole-transport layer-dependent degradation mechanisms in perovskite solar modules.

Sun, Jiaonan, et al.. (2024). Mechanical and Ionic Characterization for Organic Semiconductor‐Incorporated Perovskites for Stable 2D/3D Heterostructure Perovskite Solar Cells. Small. 20(51). e2406928–e2406928. 3 indexed citations

Chan, Candace K., et al.. (2024). Surface Reduction of Li2CO3 on LLZTO Solid-State Electrolyte via Scalable Open-Air Plasma Treatment. Batteries. 10(7). 249–249. 6 indexed citations

Li, Muzhi, et al.. (2024). Use of carbon electrodes to reduce mobile ion concentration and improve reliability of metal halide perovskite photovoltaics. Energy Materials. 4(5). 4 indexed citations

Guo, Boyu, et al.. (2024). Why Perovskite Thermal Stress is Unaffected by Thin Contact Layers. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(33). 8 indexed citations

Giuri, Antonella, et al.. (2024). Scalable and Quench-Free Processing of Metal Halide Perovskites in Ambient Conditions. Energies. 17(6). 1455–1455. 2 indexed citations

Rolston, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Designing metal halide perovskite solar modules for thermomechanical reliability. Communications Materials. 5(1). 9 indexed citations

Li, Muzhi, S. Johnson, Lidón Gil‐Escrig, et al.. (2023). Strategies to improve the mechanical robustness of metal halide perovskite solar cells. Energy Advances. 3(1). 273–280. 17 indexed citations

Rolston, Nicholas, et al.. (2023). Quantifying and Reducing Ion Migration in Metal Halide Perovskites through Control of Mobile Ions. Molecules. 28(13). 5026–5026. 12 indexed citations

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Giuri, Antonella, Nicholas Rolston, Silvia Colella, et al.. (2021). Robust, High-Performing Maize–Perovskite-Based Solar Cells with Improved Stability. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 4(10). 11194–11203. 13 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jinbao, Yichuan Ding, Guochen Jiang, et al.. (2021). Low-temperature sprayed SnO_x nanocomposite films with enhanced hole blocking for efficient large area perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(37). 21332–21339. 7 indexed citations

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Zhao, Oliver, Yichuan Ding, Ziyi Pan, et al.. (2020). Open-Air Plasma-Deposited Multilayer Thin-Film Moisture Barriers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(23). 26405–26412. 22 indexed citations

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Rolston, Nicholas, et al.. (2019). Crystallization kinetics of rapid spray plasma processed multiple cation perovskites in open air. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(1). 169–176. 17 indexed citations

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Scheideler, William J., Nicholas Rolston, Oliver Zhao, Jinbao Zhang, & Reinhold H. Dauskardt. (2019). Rapid Aqueous Spray Fabrication of Robust NiO_x: A Simple and Scalable Platform for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(19). 66 indexed citations

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Hilt, Florian, et al.. (2018). Rapid route to efficient, scalable, and robust perovskite photovoltaics in air. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(8). 2102–2113. 53 indexed citations

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Rolston, Nicholas, Adam D. Printz, Jared Tracy, et al.. (2017). Effect of Cation Composition on the Mechanical Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(9). 158 indexed citations

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Cheacharoen, Rongrong, Nicholas Rolston, Duncan Harwood, et al.. (2017). Design and understanding of encapsulated perovskite solar cells to withstand temperature cycling. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(1). 144–150. 364 indexed citations

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Rolston, Nicholas, Adam D. Printz, Florian Hilt, et al.. (2017). Improved stability and efficiency of perovskite solar cells with submicron flexible barrier films deposited in air. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(44). 22975–22983. 40 indexed citations

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Watson, Brian L., Nicholas Rolston, Adam D. Printz, & Reinhold H. Dauskardt. (2017). Scaffold-reinforced perovskite compound solar cells. Energy & Environmental Science. 10(12). 2500–2508. 85 indexed citations

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Rolston, Nicholas, Brian L. Watson, Colin D. Bailie, et al.. (2016). Mechanical integrity of solution-processed perovskite solar cells. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 9. 353–358. 180 indexed citations

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