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British chemist and academic
James Robert Durrant
CBE
FRS
[5] FRSC
FLSW is a British
photochemist . He is a professor of photochemistry at
Imperial College London and Sêr Cymru Solar Professor at
Swansea University .
[6]
[7] He serves as director of the centre for
plastic electronics (CPE).
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Education
Durrant was educated at
Gresham's School in Norfolk, the
University of Cambridge and
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 .
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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 .
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[11]
[12] Durrant has authored over 400 publications,
[3]
[9]
[8]
[13] focusing on the charge carrier kinetics which determine materials and device function.
Durrant teaches
physical chemistry at
Imperial College London and is involved in the
SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) at
Swansea University .
Honours and awards
Durrant was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the
2022 Birthday Honours for services to photochemistry and solar energy research.
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References
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"James Durrant-Biography" . royalsociety.org . London: Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018 .
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"RSC Harrison-Meldola Prize Previous Winners" . rsc.org .
Royal Society of Chemistry . Retrieved 9 December 2018 .
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James Durrant publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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b 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 .
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c 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
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"James Robert Durrant Imperial College London" . Archived from
the original on 26 August 2017.
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"Professor James Robert Durrant Swansea University" . Archived from
the original on 26 August 2017.
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James Durrant publications from
Europe PubMed Central
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James Durrant publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ 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 .
S2CID
136757172 .
^ 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 .
PMID
20063869 .
^ 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 .
PMID
12517161 .
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"Publications – Professor James Durrant" . Imperial College London. Archived from
the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017 .
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"No. 63714" .
The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 2022. p. B9.
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"Hughes Medal" . Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018 .
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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" (PDF) . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C . 121 (38): 20976–20985.
doi :
10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b05893 .
hdl :
10044/1/54266 .
ISSN
1932-7447 .
^ Wales, The Learned Society of.
"James Durrant" . The Learned Society of Wales . Retrieved 29 August 2023 .
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