Blackburn is an NREL senior scientist, manager of the Materials Physics group, and a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff. He has led Thrusts for several multi-institution centers, including NREL’s BES Solar Photochemistry Core Program, the CHOISE EFRC ‘Center for Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy,’ and NREL’s EERE Hydrogen Sorption Center of Excellence.
Research
Blackburn’s research expertise is in materials synthesis and characterization and plays a key role in the development of both intercalation materials and molecular films for neuronal and synaptic emulation.
Publications
- Wheeler LM, Moore DT, Ihly R, Stanton NJ, Miller EM, Tenent RC, Blackburn JL, Neale NR. Switchable photovoltaic windows enabled by reversible photothermal complex dissociation from methylammonium lead iodide. Nat Commun. 2017 Nov 23;8(1):1722. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01842-4
- Hao J, Lu H, Mao L, Chen X, Beard MC, Blackburn JL. Direct Detection of Circularly Polarized Light Using Chiral Copper Chloride-Carbon Nanotube Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 2021 Apr 27;15(4):7608-7617. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.1c01134
- Hao J, Kim Y, Habisreutinger S, Harvey S, Miller E, Foradori S, Arnold M, Song Z, Yan Y, Luther J, Blackburn J. Low-energy room-temperature optical switching in mixed-dimensionality nanoscale perovskite heterojunctions. Science Advances. 2021 April 30; 7(18):-. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf1959
- Ferguson A, Reid O, Nanayakkara S, Ihly R, Blackburn J. Efficiency of Charge-Transfer Doping in Organic Semiconductors Probed with Quantitative Microwave and Direct-Current Conductance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2018 November 20; 9(23):6864-6870. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03074
- Avery A, Zhou B, Lee J, Lee E, Miller E, Ihly R, Wesenberg D, Mistry K, Guillot S, Zink B, Kim Y, Blackburn J, Ferguson A. Tailored semiconducting carbon nanotube networks with enhanced thermoelectric properties. Nature Energy. 2016; 1(4):-. doi: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.33