James Robert Durrant

James Durrant
FRS
James Durrant
James Durrant at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born James Robert Durrant
Nationality British
Citizenship UK
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Solar energy
Photochemistry[1]
Institutions Imperial College London
Swansea University
Thesis Transient absorption spectroscopy of photosystem two (1991)
Doctoral advisor George Porter
Jim Barber[2]
Website imperial.ac.uk/people/j.durrant

James Robert Durrant FRS[3] is a professor of Photochemistry in the faculty of Natural Sciences, department of Chemistry at Imperial College London and Sêr Cymru Solar Professor in the College of Engineering at Swansea University.[4][5] He is the Director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics (CPE).[1][6][7]

Education

Durrant was educated at Imperial College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research on photosystem II using spectroscopy supervised by George Porter and Jim Barber.[2]

Career and research

Durrant's research focuses on a range of photochemical applications including solar cells, solar fuel production and photocatalysis, nanomaterials and plastic electronics[8][9][10] and has authored over 400 publications,[1][7][6][11] in 2015 he was named as a highly cited researcher by Thomson Reuters ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year, according to the Web of Science.[12]

Durrant is also involved in teaching photochemistry at Imperial College London.

    Awards and honours

    References

    1. 1 2 3 James Robert Durrant publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
    2. 1 2 Durrant, James Robert (1991). Transient absorption spectroscopy of photosystem two. spiral.imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/11455. OCLC 855696059. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.573962.
    3. 1 2 3 Anon (2017). "Professor James Durrant FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
      “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
    4. ↑ "James Robert Durrant Imperial College London". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
    5. ↑ "Professor James Robert Durrant Swansea University". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
    6. 1 2 James Robert Durrant publications from Europe PubMed Central
    7. 1 2 James Robert Durrant publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
    8. ↑ Kim, Youngkyoo; Cook, Steffan; Tuladhar, Sachetan M.; Choulis, Stelios A.; Nelson, Jenny; Durrant, James R.; Bradley, Donal D. C.; Giles, Mark; McCulloch, Iain (2006). "A strong regioregularity effect in self-organizing conjugated polymer films and high-efficiency polythiophene:fullerene solar cells". Nature Materials. 5 (3): 197–203. Bibcode:2006NatMa...5..197K. doi:10.1038/nmat1574.
    9. ↑ Clarke, Tracey M.; Durrant, James R. (2010). "Charge Photogeneration in Organic Solar Cells". Chemical Reviews. 110 (11): 6736–6767. doi:10.1021/cr900271s. ISSN 0009-2665.
    10. ↑ Palomares, Emilio; Clifford, John N.; Haque, Saif A.; Lutz, Thierry; Durrant, James R. (2003). "Control of Charge Recombination Dynamics in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by the Use of Conformally Deposited Metal Oxide Blocking Layers". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125 (2): 475–482. doi:10.1021/ja027945w. ISSN 0002-7863.
    11. ↑ "Publications – Professor James Durrant". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
    12. ↑ "CPE Researchers are in the Top 1% for Citations". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
    13. ↑ "Hughes Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
    14. ↑ Wade, Jessica; Wood, Sebastian; Collado-Fregoso, Elisa; Heeney, Martin; Durrant, James; Kim, Ji-Seon (2017). "Impact of Fullerene Intercalation on Structural and Thermal Properties of Organic Photovoltaic Blends". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121 (38): 20976–20985. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b05893. ISSN 1932-7447.
    15. 1 2 "James Durrant-Biography". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018.

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