Sarah Holliday

6.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
25 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Sarah Holliday is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Holliday has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 16 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sarah Holliday's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (19 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (12 papers). Sarah Holliday is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (19 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (16 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (12 papers). Sarah Holliday collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and United States. Sarah Holliday's co-authors include Iain McCulloch, Christian B. Nielsen, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Samuel J. Cryer, Hung‐Yang Chen, James R. Durrant, Andrew Wadsworth, Derya Baran, Christoph J. Brabec and Nicola Gasparini and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Holliday

25 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells

2015 1.1k citations Christian B. Nielsen, Sarah Holliday et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

2016 1.1k citations Sarah Holliday, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. Nature Communications profile →
Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells

2016 937 citations Derya Baran, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. Nature Materials profile →
Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages

2016 461 citations Derya Baran, Thomas Kirchartz et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics

2014 443 citations Sarah Holliday, Raja Shahid Ashraf et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Holliday United Kingdom	18	5.1k	4.3k	679	526	317	25	5.5k
Tianyue Zheng United States	19	3.2k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	717 1.1×	305 0.6×	193 0.6×	32	3.7k
Deping Qian China	28	7.5k 1.5×	6.3k 1.5×	710 1.0×	405 0.8×	445 1.4×	38	7.8k
Chenkai Sun China	34	5.5k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	651 1.0×	303 0.6×	291 0.9×	86	6.0k
Wenkai Zhong China	39	7.7k 1.5×	6.3k 1.5×	717 1.1×	286 0.5×	378 1.2×	126	8.0k
Mattias Svensson Sweden	30	3.5k 0.7×	2.9k 0.7×	833 1.2×	528 1.0×	252 0.8×	48	3.9k
Xiaopeng Xu China	47	7.8k 1.5×	7.1k 1.6×	704 1.0×	486 0.9×	388 1.2×	160	8.3k
Ling‐Wei Xue China	30	7.8k 1.5×	6.9k 1.6×	646 1.0×	652 1.2×	456 1.4×	150	8.4k
Runnan Yu China	35	6.9k 1.3×	5.8k 1.3×	927 1.4×	361 0.7×	317 1.0×	87	7.2k
Xichang Bao China	44	5.5k 1.1×	4.5k 1.0×	949 1.4×	250 0.5×	302 1.0×	234	6.0k

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Xu, R., Sarah Holliday, Stephanie D. Mdaki, et al.. (2025). Universal Nanopore Sensor for Amplification-Free and Label-Free Detection of Molecular Biomarkers. ACS Sensors. 10(8). 5772–5780. 1 indexed citations

Hamid, Zeinab, Andrew Wadsworth, Sarah Holliday, et al.. (2020). Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T‐2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(8). 28 indexed citations

Pace, Natalie A., Nadezhda V. Korovina, Sarah Holliday, et al.. (2019). Slow charge transfer from pentacene triplet states at the Marcus optimum. Nature Chemistry. 12(1). 63–70. 38 indexed citations

Tan, Ching‐Hong, J.A. Gorman, Andrew Wadsworth, et al.. (2018). Barbiturate end-capped non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells: tuning acceptor energetics to suppress geminate recombination losses. Chemical Communications. 54(24). 2966–2969. 31 indexed citations

Holliday, Sarah. (2018). Synthesis and Characterisation of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Photovoltaics. Springer theses. 3 indexed citations

Modjinou, Mawufemo, Jie Ji, Weiqi Yuan, et al.. (2018). Performance comparison of encapsulated PCM PV/T, microchannel heat pipe PV/T and conventional PV/T systems. Energy. 166. 1249–1266. 103 indexed citations

Steier, Ludmilla & Sarah Holliday. (2018). A bright outlook on organic photoelectrochemical cells for water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 6(44). 21809–21826. 58 indexed citations

Tan, Ching‐Hong, Andrew Wadsworth, Nicola Gasparini, et al.. (2018). Excitation Wavelength-Dependent Internal Quantum Efficiencies in a P3HT/Nonfullerene Acceptor Solar Cell. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 123(10). 5826–5832. 6 indexed citations

Holliday, Sarah, Yilin Li, & Christine K. Luscombe. (2017). Recent advances in high performance donor-acceptor polymers for organic photovoltaics. Progress in Polymer Science. 70. 34–51. 231 indexed citations

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Holliday, Sarah & Christine K. Luscombe. (2017). Low Boiling Point Solvent Additives for Improved Photooxidative Stability in Organic Photovoltaics. Advanced Electronic Materials. 4(10). 31 indexed citations

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Cha, Hyojung, Scot Wheeler, Sarah Holliday, et al.. (2017). Influence of Blend Morphology and Energetics on Charge Separation and Recombination Dynamics in Organic Solar Cells Incorporating a Nonfullerene Acceptor. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(3). 92 indexed citations

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Baran, Derya, Thomas Kirchartz, Scot Wheeler, et al.. (2016). Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages. Energy & Environmental Science. 9(12). 3783–3793. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baran, Derya, Raja Shahid Ashraf, David Hanifi, et al.. (2016). Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with highly efficient and stable small molecule acceptor ternary solar cells. Nature Materials. 16(3). 363–369. 937 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holliday, Sarah, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Andrew Wadsworth, et al.. (2016). High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11585–11585. 1074 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rochford, Luke A., Alexandra J. Ramadan, Sarah Holliday, T. S. Jones, & Christian B. Nielsen. (2016). The effect of fluorination on the surface structure of truxenones. RSC Advances. 6(71). 67315–67318. 1 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Christian B., Sarah Holliday, Hung‐Yang Chen, Samuel J. Cryer, & Iain McCulloch. (2015). Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells. Accounts of Chemical Research. 48(11). 2803–2812. 1092 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holliday, Sarah, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Christian B. Nielsen, et al.. (2014). A Rhodanine Flanked Nonfullerene Acceptor for Solution-Processed Organic Photovoltaics. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(2). 898–904. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ashraf, Raja Shahid, Iain Meager, Mark Nikolka, et al.. (2014). Chalcogenophene Comonomer Comparison in Small Band Gap Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymers for High-Performing Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Solar Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(3). 1314–1321. 376 indexed citations

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Holliday, Sarah, Jenny E. Donaghey, & Iain McCulloch. (2013). Advances in Charge Carrier Mobilities of Semiconducting Polymers Used in Organic Transistors. Chemistry of Materials. 26(1). 647–663. 377 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Christian B., Eszter Vörösházi, Sarah Holliday, et al.. (2012). Efficient truxenone-based acceptors for organic photovoltaics. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 1(1). 73–76. 45 indexed citations

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