Rubén D. Costa

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
177 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Rubén D. Costa is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Rubén D. Costa has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Materials Chemistry, 101 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 39 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Rubén D. Costa's work include Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (76 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (40 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (33 papers). Rubén D. Costa is often cited by papers focused on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (76 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (40 papers) and TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (33 papers). Rubén D. Costa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Italy. Rubén D. Costa's co-authors include Enrique Ortı́, Henk J. Bolink, Elisa Fresta, Nicola Armaroli, Filippo Monti, Gianluca Accorsi, Dirk M. Guldi, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable and Stefan Graber and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Rubén D. Costa

171 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

Luminescent Ionic Transition‐Metal Complexes for Light‐Em... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 250 500 750
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.

  1. Luminescent Ionic Transition‐Metal Complexes for Light‐Emitting Electrochemical Cells
    2012 866 citations Rubén D. Costa et al. profile →

Peers

Rubén D. Costa
Yu‐Wu Zhong China
Cheuk‐Lam Ho Hong Kong
Etienne Baranoff Switzerland
Eli Zysman‐Colman United Kingdom
Paola Ceroni Italy
Guijiang Zhou China
Magali Allain France
Paul J. Low United Kingdom
Simon J. Higgins United Kingdom
Gianluca Accorsi Italy
Yu‐Wu Zhong China
Rubén D. Costa
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rubén D. Costa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rubén D. Costa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rubén D. Costa based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Rubén D. Costa. Rubén D. Costa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Moreno, M. Teresa, et al.. (2025). Half-lantern Pt( ii ) complexes in deep-red hybrid light-emitting diodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(29). 15002–15012.
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Chowdhury, Sanchari, Paromita Kundu, Sara Bals, et al.. (2025). Bottom-Up Fabrication of BN-Doped Graphene Electrodes from Thiol-Terminated Borazine Molecules Working in Solar Cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(15). 23062–23075. 4 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Sanchari, et al.. (2025). Cyano‐Borazine Photosensitizers for Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells. Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research. 6(5). 1 indexed citations
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Costa, Rubén D., et al.. (2025). Earth-abundant transition metal complexes in light-emitting electrochemical cells: successes, challenges and perspectives. Dalton Transactions. 54(9). 3573–3580. 5 indexed citations
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Shen, Boxuan, et al.. (2025). Fusing fluorescent proteins and ferritin for protein cage based lighting devices. Nanoscale. 17(17). 10793–10800.
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Zieleniewska, Anna, et al.. (2024). Fluorescent Protein PEGylation for Stable Photon Manipulation in Deep‐Red Light‐Emitting Devices. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(2). 3 indexed citations
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Khan, Ramsha, Rubén D. Costa, Petr Zimčík, et al.. (2024). Elucidating the Supramolecular Interaction of Positively Supercharged Fluorescent Protein with Anionic Phthalocyanines. Advanced Biology. 9(5). e2400308–e2400308.
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Coto, Pedro B., et al.. (2024). Simple Encoded Circularly Polarized Protein Lighting. Advanced Optical Materials. 12(18). 6 indexed citations
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Costa, Rubén D., et al.. (2024). Bacterial Hybrid Light‐Emitting Diodes. Advanced Materials. 36(47). e2402851–e2402851. 3 indexed citations
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Werner, J., Fabian Köhler, Eduardo Anaya‐Plaza, et al.. (2023). Core–Shell Structured Fluorescent Protein Nanoparticles: New Paradigm Toward Zero‐Thermal‐Quenching in High‐Power Biohybrid Light‐Emitting Diodes. Advanced Science. 10(16). e2300069–e2300069. 11 indexed citations
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Werner, J., et al.. (2023). Superior protein thermophilicity prediction with protein language model embeddings. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 5(4). lqad087–lqad087. 15 indexed citations
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Fernandéz‐Blázquez, Juan P., et al.. (2023). Homopolymeric Protein Phosphors: Overpassing the Stability Frontier of Deep‐Red Bio‐Hybrid Light‐Emitting Diodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(24). 8 indexed citations
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González‐Gaitano, Gustavo, et al.. (2023). Genetically Encoded Oligomerization for Protein‐Based Lighting Devices (Adv. Mater. 48/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(48).
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González‐Gaitano, Gustavo, et al.. (2023). Genetically Encoded Oligomerization for Protein‐Based Lighting Devices. Advanced Materials. 35(48). e2303993–e2303993. 9 indexed citations
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Aires, Antonio, et al.. (2020). White-emitting Protein-Metal Nanocluster Phosphors for Highly Performing Biohybrid Light-Emitting Diodes. Nano Letters. 20(4). 2710–2716. 43 indexed citations
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Fernandéz‐Blázquez, Juan P., et al.. (2020). Biogenic fluorescent protein–silk fibroin phosphors for high performing light-emitting diodes. Materials Horizons. 7(7). 1790–1800. 21 indexed citations
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Sousaraei, Ahmad, Maria C. Morant‐Miñana, Jaime J. Hernández, et al.. (2019). Engineered protein-based functional nanopatterned materials for bio-optical devices. Nanoscale Advances. 1(10). 3980–3991. 21 indexed citations
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Cherevan, Alexey, Paul Gebhardt, Andreas Kunzmann, Rubén D. Costa, & Dominik Eder. (2018). Beware of Doping: Ta2O5 Nanotube Photocatalyst Using CNTs as Hard Templates. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 1(3). 1259–1267. 11 indexed citations

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