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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

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

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • Talanta, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • Journal of Applied Phycology, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  8. 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

  9. 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

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

    Article • June 2018, Avestia Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

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

    Article • Applied Surface Science, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  18. Minimising microbubble size through oscillation frequency control

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. Macroscopic expansion of tetraphenylporphyrin Langmuir layers stimulated by protonation

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  36. 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

  37. 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

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

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, April 2011, Wiley

    Dr Ahmed Iraqi, Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

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

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

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

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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

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

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  56. Templated-assembly of conducting antimony cluster wires

    Article • Nanotechnology, August 2004, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • Journal of Luminescence, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • Microelectronic Engineering, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  59. 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

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

    Article • July 2003, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  61. Electrical measurements of nanoscale bismuth cluster films

    Article • The European Physical Journal D, June 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • April 2003, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  63. 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

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

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  66. Three-dimensional compositional analysis of quantum dots

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

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • April 1999, SPIE

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

  68. 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

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar

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

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Alan DF Dunbar