James Robert Durrant

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James Durrant

FRS
James Durrant
James Durrant at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
Born
James Robert Durrant
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUK
EducationGresham's School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Imperial College London (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsSolar energy
Photochemistry[3]
InstitutionsImperial College London
Swansea University
ThesisTransient absorption spectroscopy of photosystem two (1991)
Doctoral advisorGeorge Porter
Jim Barber[4]
Websiteimperial.ac.uk/people/j.durrant

James Robert Durrant FRS[5] 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.[6][7] He serves as director of the centre for plastic electronics (CPE).[3][8][9]

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.[4]

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.[10][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.

Awards and honours[]

  • 2018: Awarded Hughes Medal by the Royal Society[14]
  • 2017: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[5] for his research contributions in photochemistry of new materials for use in solar energy conversion – specifically targeting both solar cells in photovoltaic systems[15] and solar to fuel in artificial photosynthesis.[5]
  • 2016: Awarded president's award[clarification needed] for excellence in research supervision.[citation needed]
  • 2012: Awarded the Tilden Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry[1]
  • 2009: Awarded the Environment Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry[1]
  • 1994: Awarded the Meldola Medal and Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "James Durrant-Biography". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "RSC Harrison-Meldola Prize Previous Winners". rsc.org. Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c James Robert Durrant publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Jump up to: a 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. Free to read
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b 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 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  6. ^ "James Robert Durrant Imperial College London". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Professor James Robert Durrant Swansea University". Archived from the original on 26 August 2017.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b James Robert Durrant publications from Europe PubMed Central
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b James Robert Durrant publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  10. ^ 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. closed access
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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. closed access
  13. ^ "Publications – Professor James Durrant". Imperial College London. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
  14. ^ "Hughes Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  15. ^ 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.

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