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  1. Life cycle assessment of perovskite solar cell manufacturing: effects of scale and process control

    Article • Sustainable Energy & Fuels, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  2. Reducing the environmental impact of large-scale photovoltaic systems through technological progress and effective management

    Article • RSC Sustainability, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  3. Optimizing the Performance of NMC 622 Battery Half Coin Cells by Using Amphiphilic Aqueous Binders to Modulate the Percolation of Carbon Black

    Article • ECS Meeting Abstracts, November 2024, The Electrochemical Society

    Dr Abarasi Hart, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  4. Dynamics of perovskite synthesis in alcohol

    Article • February 2024, Fundacio Scito

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  5. Using Ag nanoparticles in the electron transport layer of perovskite solar cells to improve efficiency

    Article • Solar Energy, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  6. Corrigendum to ‘Deciphering perovskite decomposition in a humid atmosphere with TOF-GISANS’ [Energy Rep. 8 (Suppl. 11) (2022) 22–33]

    Article • Energy Reports, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  7. In-situ characterization of metal halide perovskite formation in environmentally friendly solvents using in situ wide and small angle X-ray scattering

    Article • July 2023, Fundacio Scito

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  8. Deciphering perovskite decomposition in a humid atmosphere with TOF-GISANS

    Article • Energy Reports, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  9. An introduction to perovskites for solar cells and their characterisation

    Article • Energy Reports, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  10. Exploring the possibility to provide black start services by using vehicle-to-grid

    Article • Energy Reports, November 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  11. Functionalized BODIPYs as Tailor‐Made and Universal Interlayers for Efficient and Stable Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, June 2022, Wiley

    Dr Panagiotis Argitis, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  12. The importance of lead iodide stoichiometry when preparing perovskite solar cells

    Article • April 2022, Fundacio Scito

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  13. Zinc chloride as a performance-enhancing additive for MAPbI3 solar cells produced in air.

    Article • April 2022, Fundacio Scito

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  14. Low-Cost, High-Sensitivity Detection of Waterborne Al3+ Cations and F− Anions via the Fluorescence Response of a Morin Derivative Dye

    Article • May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  15. Machine learning approach for electric vehicle availability forecast to provide vehicle-to-home services

    Article • Energy Reports, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  16. Influence of Additives on the In Situ Crystallization Dynamics of Methyl Ammonium Lead Halide Perovskites

    Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, February 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  17. Controlling PbI2 Stoichiometry during Synthesis to Improve the Performance of Perovskite Photovoltaics

    Article • Chemistry of Materials, January 2021, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  18. Adhesion of Grafted-to Polyelectrolyte Brushes Functionalized with Calix[4]resorcinarene and Deposited as a Monolayer

    Article • Langmuir, November 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  19. Interchain Spacing and Screening Length Modification of PSS Backbone Chains in Zwitterion-Doped Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene):Polystyrene Sulfonate

    Article • Journal of Surface Investigation X-ray Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques, October 2020, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  20. Improved Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cells by the Incorporation of a Block Copolymer Interfacial Layer

    Article • Advanced Materials Interfaces, August 2020, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  21. Perovskite Crystallization Dynamics during Spin-Casting: An In Situ Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering Study

    Article • ACS Applied Energy Materials, June 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  22. The electricity demand of an EV providing power via vehicle-to-home and its potential impact on the grid with different electricity price tariffs

    Article • Energy Reports, May 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  23. Profile retrieval of a buried periodic structure using spin echo grazing incidence neutron scattering

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar, Rana Ashkar

  24. Low cost, high sensitivity detection of waterborne Al3+ cations and F- anions via the fluorescence response and of a morin derivative dye

    Article • Analytica Chimica Acta, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  25. In−situ monitoring Poly(3-hexylthiophene) nanowire formation and shape evolution in solution via small angle neutron scattering

    Article • Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, November 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  26. Interfacial width and phase equilibrium in polymer-fullerene thin-films

    Article • Communications Physics, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  27. Adaptive and sensitive fibre-optic fluorimetric transducer for air- and water-borne analytes

    Article • Talanta, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  28. Enhancement of Dunaliella salina growth by using wavelength shifting dyes

    Article • Environmental Biology of Fishes, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  29. Determination of the Thin-Film Structure of Zwitterion-Doped Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(styrenesulfonate): A Neutron Reflectivity Study

    Article • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, March 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  30. Does 1,8-diiodooctane affect the aggregation state of PC71BM in solution?

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  31. Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices Based On N-Type GaAs and Polymer Composites

    Article • June 2018, Avestia Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  32. Stoichiometry-dependent local instability in MAPbI3perovskite materials and devices

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, January 2018, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  33. Understanding the gas adsorption kinetics of Langmuir-Schaefer porphyrin films using two comparative sensing systems

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  34. Quantitative Analysis of the Molecular Dynamics of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2017, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  35. An X-ray scattering and electron microscopy study of methylammonium bismuth perovskites for solar cell applications

    Article • Journal of Materials Research, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  36. Monitoring the Formation of a CH3NH3PbI3-xClxPerovskite during Thermal Annealing Using X-Ray Scattering

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  37. Improved efficiency in organic solar cells via conjugated polyelectrolyte additive in the hole transporting layer

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  38. Controlling surface adsorption to enhance the selectivity of porphyrin based gas sensors

    Article • Applied Surface Science, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  39. Minimising microbubble size through oscillation frequency control

    Article • Chemical Engineering Research and Design, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  40. Physical mechanisms responsible for the water-induced degradation of PC61BM P3HT photovoltaic thin films

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, September 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  41. Organic photovoltaic devices with enhanced efficiency processed from non-halogenated binary solvent blends

    Article • Organic Electronics, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  42. Vertical stratification and its impact on device performance in a polycarbazole based copolymer solar cells

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Prof. David George Lidzey, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  43. Improving the selectivity of a free base tetraphenylporphyrin based gas sensor for NO2 and carboxylic acid vapors

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  44. A proto-type sensor for volatile organic compounds based on magnesium porphyrin molecular films

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  45. Real time laser interference microscopy for bar-spread polystyrene/poly(methyl methacrylate) blends

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  46. Using Neutron Spin Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering to Investigate Organic Solar Cell Materials

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, January 2014, MyJove Corporation

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  47. Using Neutron Spin Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering to Investigate Organic Solar Cell Materials

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, January 2014, MyJove Corporation

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  48. Efficient planar heterojunction mixed-halide perovskite solar cells deposited via spray-deposition

    Article • Energy & Environmental Science, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. David George Lidzey, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  49. Morphology Development in Amorphous Polymer:Fullerene Photovoltaic Blend Films During Solution Casting

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  50. Polymer Solar Cells: Fabricating High Performance, Donor–Acceptor Copolymer Solar Cells by Spray‐Coating in Air (Adv. Energy Mater. 4/2013)

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, April 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  51. Direct observation of morphological development during the spin-coating of polystyrene-poly(methyl methacrylate) polymer blends

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, March 2013, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  52. A neutron spin echo resolved grazing incidence scattering study of crystallites in organic photovoltaic thin films

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, February 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  53. Fabricating High Performance, Donor–Acceptor Copolymer Solar Cells by Spray‐Coating in Air

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  54. Competition between substrate-mediated π-π stacking and surface-mediated Tg depression in ultrathin conjugated polymer films

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  55. Solar Cells: Correlating Structure with Function in Thermally Annealed PCDTBT:PC70BM Photovoltaic Blends (Adv. Funct. Mater. 7/2012)

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, April 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  56. Correlating Structure with Function in Thermally Annealed PCDTBT:PC70BM Photovoltaic Blends

    Article • Advanced Functional Materials, February 2012, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  57. Macroscopic expansion of tetraphenylporphyrin Langmuir layers stimulated by protonation

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  58. Nanoscale Phase Separation of P3HT PCBM Thick Films As Measured by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

    Article • Macromolecules, August 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  59. InSitu Imaging and Height Reconstruction of Phase Separation Processes in Polymer Blends during Spin Coating

    Article • ACS Nano, May 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  60. The Nanoscale Morphology of a PCDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blend

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  61. A Phase Diagram of the P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaic System: Implications for Device Processing and Performance

    Article • Macromolecules, April 2011, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  62. Tuning free base tetraphenylporphyrins as optical sensing elements for volatile organic analytes

    Article • Journal of Materials Chemistry, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  63. Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Using Porphyrin Derivatives

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2010, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  64. Depletion of PCBM at the Cathode Interface in P3HT/PCBM Thin Films as Quantified via Neutron Reflectivity Measurements

    Article • Advanced Materials, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  65. A solution concentration dependent transition from self-stratification to lateral phase separation in spin-cast PS:d-PMMA thin films

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  66. The development of nanoscale morphology in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic blends during solvent casting

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  67. Macroscopic manifestation of a vapour-induced molecular switching phenomenon

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  68. Alkylamine Sensing Using Langmuir−Blodgett Films ofn-Alkyl-N-phenylamide-Substituted Zinc Porphyrins

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, September 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  69. Langmuir–Schaefer films of five different free base tetraphenylporphyrins for optical-based gas sensing of NO2

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  70. Experimental and simulational study of the operation conditions for a high transmission mass filter

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, May 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  71. Modeling the Kinetics of Gas Adsorption in Multilayer Porphyrin Films

    Article • Langmuir, February 2007, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  72. Characterisation of the reaction of free-base porphyrin to nitrogen dioxide

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  73. Investigation of Free Base, Mg, Sn, and Zn Substituted Porphyrin LB Films as Gas Sensors for Organic Analytes

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, August 2006, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  74. Understanding the interactions of porphryin LB films with NO2

    Article • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  75. Optical changes induced in Zn porphyrin solutions and LB films by exposure to amines

    Article • Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, July 2006, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  76. Construction and Application of a UHV Compatible Cluster Deposition System

    Article • Journal of Nanoparticle Research, June 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  77. Morphological differences between Bi, Ag and Sb nano-particles and how they affect the percolation of current through nano-particle networks

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik D, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  78. Templated-assembly of conducting antimony cluster wires

    Article • Nanotechnology, August 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  79. Hole confinement and dynamics in δ-doped Ge quantum dots

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  80. Templated cluster assembly for production of metallic nanowires in passivated silicon V-grooves

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  81. Templated cluster assembly for production of metallic nanowires in passivated silicon V-grooves

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  82. Formation of Electrically Conducting Mesoscale Wires Through Self-Assembly of Atomic Clusters

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, March 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  83. Formation of nanowires at the percolation threshold in rectangular 2D systems

    Article • July 2003, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  84. Electrical measurements of nanoscale bismuth cluster films

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik D, June 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  85. Formation of electrically conducting mesoscale wires through self-assembly of atomic clusters

    Article • April 2003, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  86. The effect of strain field seeding on the epitaxial growth of Ge islands on Si(001)

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, March 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  87. Strain Seeding of Ge Quantum Dots Grown on Si (001)

    Article • physica status solidi (b), March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  88. Structural, Compositional and Optical Properties of Self-Organised Ge Quantum Dots

    Article • physica status solidi (b), March 2001, Wiley

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  89. Three-dimensional compositional analysis of quantum dots

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, February 2001, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  90. Studies of Compositional Variations in Germanium Quantum Dots Grown on Silicon

    Article • MRS Proceedings, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  91. Erbium photoluminescence in sol-gel-derived titanium dioxide films

    Article • April 1999, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  92. Electron diffraction and Raman studies of the effect of substrate misorientation on ordering in the AlGaInP system

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  93. Assembly of Bismuth Clusters into Nanowires Using Etched V-Grooves as Templates

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  94. Measurement of the conductivity exponent in random percolating networks of nanoscale bismuth clusters

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar