Publications

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Journals - peer reviewed

Stephanie Willeit, Alexander Mauz, David Gutiérrez-Armayor, Joseh Arbash, Jesús Agustín Banda-Vazquez, Sergio Marti, Pedro B. Coto, Rubén D. Costa\ Ancestral Protein-Based Lighting\ Advanced Materials, 2025,  https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202420303\

Iker Gil-Gómez de Segura, David Gómez de Segura, Marco Hasler, M Teresa Moreno, Elena Lalinde, Mattia Nieddu, Rubén D Costa, Julio Fernandez Cestau\ Half-lantern Pt (II) Complexes in Deep-red Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-4273s-v2

\ Carolina M Ibarra-Barreno, Sanchari Chowdhury, Martina Crosta, Tashfeen Zehra, Francesco Fasano, Paromita Kundu, Jenthe Verstraelen, Sara Bals, Mohammed Subrati, Davide Bonifazi, Rubén D Costa, Petra Rudolf\ Bottom-up fabrication of BN-doped graphene electrodes from thiol-terminated borazine molecules working in solar cells\ ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c23116

Ginevra Giobbio, Anaïs Montrieul, Jean‐François Lohier, Rubén D Costa, Sylvain Gaillard\ Economic and Straightforward Synthesis of Heteroleptic Silver(I) Complexes bearing NHC and Bidentate Ligands\ European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202500030

David Gutierrez-Armayor, Alicia Asin, Marta Patrian, Mattia Nieddu, Rubén D. Costa\ Glycosylated Polymers Toward Stable Protein-Based Lighting\ MacroMolecular Chemistry and Physics, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.202400429

Alba Sanz-Velasco, Marta Patrian, Mattia Nieddu, Boxuan Shen, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Mauri A Kostiainen, Rubén D Costa, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza\ Fusing fluorescent proteins and ferritin for protein cagebased lighting devices\ Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025, https://doi/org/10.1039/d4nr05261g\

Sanchari Chowdhury, Vivek Chandrakant Wakchure, El Czar Galleposo,Davide Bonifazi, Rubén D. Costa\ Cyano-Borazine Photosensitizers for Dye-SensitizedSolar Cells\ Advanced Energy &Sustainability Research, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/aesr.202400344\

David Gutiérrez-Armayor, Sara Ferrara, Mattia Nieddu, Anna Zieleniewska, Rubén D. Costa\ Fluorescent Protein PEGylation for Stable Photon Manipulation in Deep-Red Light-Emitting Devices\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202412921

Sharon Saarinen, Ramsha Khan, Marta Patrian, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Rubén D. Costa, Petr Zimcik, Veronika Novakova, Tero-Petri Ruoko, Nikiolai V. Tkachenko, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Mauri A. Kostiainen\ Elucidating the Supramolecular Interaction of Positively Supercharged Fluorescent Protein with Anionic Phthalocyanines\ Advanced Biology, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.202400308

Giobbio G., Coto P. B., Lohler J. F., Renaud J. L., Costa R.D.\ [Ag(IPr)(bpy)][PF6] brightness and darkness playing with aggregation induced phosphorescence for light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Dalton Transactions, 19.06.2024, 53,29 S. 12307-12315 9 S. / https://doi.org/10.1039/d4dt0156f

Luca M. Cavinato, Veronika Kost, Sergi Campos-Jara, Sara Ferrara, Sanchari Chowdhury, Irene M.N. Groot, Tatiana Da Ros, Rubén D. Costa\ Blue-Emitting Boron- and Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for White Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Advanced Optical Materials, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400618

Youssef Atoini, Luca M. Cavinato, Jean-Luis Schmitt, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Rubén D. Costa\ Stable and efficient rare-earth free phosphors based on an Mg(ii) metal–organic framework for hybrid light-emitting diodes\ Dalton Transactions,2024, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/dt/d4dt01690d#fn2

Stephanie Grümbel, Marco Hasler, Sara Ferrara, Marta Patrian, Jesús Agustín Banda‐Vázquez, Pedro B Coto, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Rubén D Costa\ Simple Encoded Circularly Polarized Protein Lighting\ Advanced Optical Materials,2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400106

Seigo Watanabe, Luca M. Cavinato, Vladimir Calvi, Richard von Rijn, Rubén D.Costa, Kenichi Oyaizu\ Polarizable H-Bond Concept in Aromatic Poly(thiourea)s: Unprecedented High Refractive Index, Transmittance, and Degradability at Force to Enhance Lighting Efficiency\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202404433

David Gutiérrez-Armayor, Youssef Ationi, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Cordt Zollfrank, Mattia Nieddu, Rubén D. Costa\ Simple Sol-gel Protein Stabilization towards Rainbow & White Lighting Devices\ Advanced Materials, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202311031

Sanchari Chowdhury, Mattia Nieddu, Marta Patrian, David Gutiérrez-Armayor, Luca M. Cavinato, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida-Werner, Miquel García Lleó, Simone Ligi, Rubén D. Costa\ Knocking the Stability of Solar Cells with Fluorescent Protein Donors upon Rationalizing Design, Integration, and Mechanism\ Advanced Materials Technologies, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202301968

Alba Sanz-Velasco, Olivia Amargós-Reyes, Aya Kähäri, Sophia Lipinski, Luca Cavinato, Rubén D. Costa, Mauri A. Kostiainen , Eduardo Anaya-Plaza\ Controlling Aggregation-Induced Emission by Supramolecular Interactions and Colloidal Stability in Ionic Emitters for Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Chemical Science J., 2024; https://doi/org/10.1039/d4nr05261g

Jesús Agustín Banda-Vázquez, Alexander Mauz, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Rubén D. Costa\ VARPA: In Silico Additive Screening for Protein-Based Lighting Devices\ Small Methods, Wiley Online Library,2024; https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202301038

Dr. John Bergner, Jan Borstelmann, Luca M. Cavinato, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida-Werner, Christian Walla, Heike Hinrichs, Dr. Philipp Schulze, Dr. Frank Rominger, Prof. Dr. Rubén D. Costa, Prof. Dr. Andreas Dreuw, Prof. Dr. Milan Kivala\ A Conformationally Stable π-Expanded X-Type Double Helicene Comprising Dihydropyracylene Units with Multistage Redox Behavior\ Chemistry E., 2024, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202303336

Florian Haselbeck, Maura John, Yuqi Zhang, Jonathan Pirnay, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida-Werner, Rubén D. Costa, Dominik .G Grimm\ Superior protein thermophilicity prediction with protein language model embeddings\ NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2023, lqad087; https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqad087

Santosh K. Behera, Rubén D. Costa\ Emerging hyperfluorescent emitters for solid-state lighting\ J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 13647, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TC02636A

Marta Patrian, Ahmed Shaukat, Mattia Nieddu, Jesus Agustin Banda-Vazquez, Jaakko VI Timonen, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Mauri A Kostiainen, Ruben D. Costa\ Supercharged Fluorescent Protein-Apoferritin Cocrystals for Lighting Applications\ ACS nano 2023/10/20; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c05284

Giobbio, G., Cavinato, L. M., Fresta, E., Montrieul, A., Umuhire Mahoro, G., Lohier, J.-F., Renaud, J.-L., Linares, M., Gaillard, S., Costa, R. D.,\ Design Rule Hidden from The Eye in S/N-Bridged Ancillary Ligands for Copper(I) Complexes Applied to Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2304668. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202304668

RD Costa, M Patrian, M Nieddu, JA Banda-Vázquez, D Gutierrez-Armayor, G González-Gaitano, JP Fuenzalida-Werner\ Genetically Encoded Oligomerization for Protein-Based Lighting Devices\ Advanced Materials; 33 (48)2023; 2370346, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202303993

Oliwia Matuszewska, Tommaso Battisti, Ruben R Ferreira, Nicolas Biot, Nicola Demitri, Cécile Mézière, Magali Allain, Marc Sallé, Samuel Mañas‐Valero, Eugenio Coronado, Elisa Fresta, Rubén D Costa, Davide Bonifazi\ Tweaking the optoelectronic properties of s‐doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by chemical oxidation\ Chemistry–A European Journal 2023/2/21; https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202203115

Atoini, Y., Cavinato, L. M., Fernandez-Cestau, J., Gmach, Y., Van Opdenbosch, D., Costa, R. D.,\ From Blue to White: Sustainable Luminescent Metal Organic Framework for Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Optical Mater. 2023, 11,2202643. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202202643

Sophia Lipinski, Luca M. Cavinato, Thomas Pickl, Giulia Biffi, Alexander Pöthig, Pedro B. Coto, Julio Fernández-Cestau, Rubén D. Costa\ Dual-Phosphorescent Heteroleptic Silver(I) Complex in Long-Lasting Red Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Optical Mater., 2023, 2203145, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202203145

Marco Hasler, Marta Patrian, Jesús A. Banda-Vázquez, Sara Ferrara, Andre C. Stiel, JP Fuenzalida-Werner, Rubén D. Costa\ Fully Biogenic Near-Infrared Phosphors: Phycobiliproteins and Cellulose at Force Toward Highly Efficient and Stable Bio-Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2301820, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202301820

Luca M. Cavinato, Keiko Yamaoka, Sophia Lipinski, Vladimir Calvi, Dominique Wehenkel, Richard van Rijn, Ken Albrecht, Rubén D. Costa\ Dendri-LEC Family: Establishing the Bright Future for Dendrimer Emitters in Traditional and Graphene-Based Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2302483, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202302483

Mattia Nieddu, Marta Patrian, Sara Ferrara, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Fabian Kohler, Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Mauri A. Kostiainen, Hendrik Dietz, Jesús Rubén Berenguer, and Rubén D. Costa\ Core–Shell Structured Fluorescent Protein Nanoparticles: New Paradigm Toward Zero-Thermal-Quenching in High-Power Biohybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Sci.,2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202300069

Yanyan Duan, Freddy E. Oropeza, Xueze Jin, Olivia Amargós-Reyes, Youssef Atoini, Luca M. Cavinato, Gergely Norbert Nagy, Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly, Víctor A. de la Peña O’Shea, De-Yi Wang, and Rubén D. Costa\ Holy Water: Photo-Brightening in Quasi-2D Perovskite Films under Ambient Enables Highly Performing Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 2209249, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202209249

Sara Ferrara, Juan P. Fernandéz-Blázquez, Juan Pablo Fuenzalida Werner, Rubén D. Costa\ Homopolymeric Protein Phosphors: Overpassing the Stability Frontier of Deep-Red Bio-Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300350

Luca M. Cavinato, Gonzalo Millán, Julio FernándezCestau, Elisa Fresta, Elena Lalinde, Jesús R.Berenguer, and Rubén D. Costa\ Versatile Biogenic Electrolytes for Highly Performing and Self-stable Light-emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202201975

Deborah Romito,Elisa Fresta,Luca Maria Cavinato,Hanspeter Kählig,Heinz Amenitsch,Laura Caputo,Yusheng Chen,Paolo Samorì,Jean-Christophe Charlier,Rubén Costa,Davide Bonifazi\ Supramolecular Chalcogen-Bonded Semiconducting Nanoribbons at work in Lighting Devices\ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.2022, e202202137, doi.org/10.1002/anie.202202137

Yanyan Duan, Kalyani Chordiya, Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly, Freddy E Oropeza, Víctor A de la Peña O’Shea, De‐Yi Wang, Rubén D Costa\ Rational Amphiphilic Ligand Engineering Enables Enhanced Stability and Efficiency of CsPbBr3 Nanocrystals Based Light Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Optical Mater. 2022, 2201176, doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201176

Sara Ferrara,Sara H. Mejias,Mantas Liutkus,Giacomo Renno,Francesca Stella,Irene Kociolek,Juan Pablo Fuenzalida-Werner,Claudia Barolo,Pedro B. Coto,Aitziber L. Cortajarena,Rubén D. Costa\ Designing Artificial Fluorescent Proteins: Squaraine-LmrR Biophosphors for High Performance Deep-Red Biohybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202111381

Luca M. Cavinato,Sarah Wölfl,Alexander Pöthig,Elisa Fresta,Claudio Garino,Julio Fernandez-Cestau,Claudia Barolo,Rubén D. Costa\ Multivariate Analysis Identifying [Cu(N^N)(P^P)]+ Design and Device Architecture Enables First-Class Blue and White Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Mater.. 2022, doi.org/10.1002/adma.202109228

Elisa Fresta,Gilbert U. Mahoro,Luca M. Cavinato,Jean-Francois Lohier,Jean-Luc Renaud,Sylvain Gaillard,Rubén D. Costa\ Novel Red-Emitting Copper(I) Complexes with Pyrazine and Pyrimidinyl Ancillary Ligands for White Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Optical Mater., 2022,10, 3, doi.org/10.1002/adom.202101999

Luca Cavinato, Elisa Fresta, Sara Ferrara, Rubén D. Costa\ Merging Biology and Photovoltaics: How Nature Helps Sun-Catching\ Adv. Energy Mater., 2021, 43, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202170169.

Yanyan Duan,De-Yi Wang,Rubén D. Costa\ Recent Progress on Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications of Metal Halide Perovskites@Metal Oxide\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202104634

Gilbert Umuhire Mahoro, Elisa Fresta, Margaux Elie, Davide di Nasso, Qi Zhang, Jean-François Lohier, Jean-Luc Renaud, Mathieu Linares, Reinhold Wannemacher, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Rubén D. Costa and Sylvain Gaillard\ Towards rainbow photo/electro-luminescence in copper(i) complexes with the versatile bridged bis-pyridyl ancillary ligand\ Dalton Trans., 2021, doi.org/10.1039/D1DT01689J

Yanyan Duan, Guang-Zhong Yin, De-Yi Wang, Rubén D. Costa\ In Situ Ambient Preparation of Perovskite-Poly(l-lactic acid) Phosphors for Highly Stable and Efficient Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes\ ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 21800, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c04025

Elisa Fresta, Asterios Charisiadis, Luca M Cavinato, Nadia Palandjian, Kostas Karikis, Vasilis Nikolaou, Georgios Charalambidis, Athanassios G Coutsolelos, Rubén D. Costa\ BODIPY-Pt-Porphyrins Polyads for Efficient Near-Infrared Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Adv. Photonics Research,2021, 2, 2000188, doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202000188

de la Peña O’Shea, Víctor A.;Costa, Rubén D.\ Recent Advances Towards Sustainable Materials and Processes for Energy Conversion and Storage\ Advanced Energy Materials,11/18/2021, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2021028

Gilbert Umuhire Mahoro, Elisa Fresta, Margaux Elie, Davide di Nasso, Qi Zhang, Jean-François Lohier, Jean-Luc Renaud, Mathieu Linares, Reinhold Wannemacher, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Rubén D. Costa, Sylvain Gaillard\ CCDC 2085123: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination : ([oxybis(2,1-phenylene)]bis(diphenylphosphane))-[2,2′-(propane-2,2-diyl)bis(pyridine)]-copper(i) hexafluorophosphate\ CCDC, 2021, doi.org/10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc27zr11

Pei Qibing, Costa Rubén D.\ 25 Years of Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Advanced Functional Materials., 2020, 30, 33, https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202006863

Yanyan Duan, Cintia Ezquerro, Elena Serrano, Elena Lalinde, Javier García‐Martínez, Jesús R Berenguer, Rubén D. Costa\ Meeting High Stability and Efficiency in Hybrid Light‐Emitting Diodes Based on SiO2/ZrO2 Coated CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30, 2005401, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202005401

Verónica Fernández-Luna, Juan P. Fernández-Blázquez, Miguel A. Monclús, Francisco Javier Rojo, Rafael Daza, Daniel Sanchez-deAlcazar, Aitziber L. Cortajarena and Rubén D. Costa\ Biogenic fluorescent protein–silk fibroin phosphors for high performing light-emitting diodes\ Mater. Horiz., 2020, 7, 1790, doi.org/10.1039/D0MH00503G

Elisa Fresta, Jacopo Dosso, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Davide Bonifazi, and Rubén D. Costa\ Revealing the impact of heat generation using nanographene-based light-emitting electrochemical cells\ ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 28426, htts://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c06783

Elisa Fresta, Miguel A. Monclús, Morten Bertz, Cintia Ezquerro, Jon M. Molina‐Aldareguia, Jesús R. Berenguer, Masahiro Kunimoto, Takayuki Homma, and Rubén D. Costa\ Key ionic electrolytes for highly self‐stable light‐emitting electrochemical cells based on Ir(III) complexes\ Adv. Opt. Mater 2020, 8, 1901126, doi.org/10.1002/adom.202000295

Antonio Aires, Verónica Fernández-Luna, Julio Fernández-Cestau, Rubén D. Costa, and Aitziber L. Cortajarena\ White-emitting protein-metal nanocluster phosphors for highly performing biohybrid light-emitting diodes\ Nano Lett. 2020, 20, 2710, doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00324

Anna Espasa, Martina Lang, Carmen F Aguiño, Daniel Sanchez-deAlcazar, Juan P Fernández-Blázquez, Uwe Sonnewald, Aitziber L Cortajarena, Pedro B Coto, Rubén D. Costa\ Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors\ Nature communications, 2020,11, 978, www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020.14559-8.

Gamze Sarigul, Isabel Gómez-Palos, Noemi Linares, Javier García-Martínez, Rubén D. Costa, Elena Serrano\ The use of N^ N ligands as an alternative strategy for the sol–gel synthesis of visible-light activated titanias\ Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020,8, 36, doi.org/10.1039/D0TC03073B

Alba Martínez-Muíño, Moumita Rana, Juan J Vilatela, Rubén D. Costa\ Origin of the electrocatalytic activity in carbon nanotube fiber counter-electrodes for solar-energy conversion\ Nanoscale Advances, 2020,2, 4400, doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00492H

Evgeny Senokos, Moumita Rana, Maria Vila, Julio Fernandez-Cestau, Rubén D. Costa, Rebeca Marcilla, Juan Jose Vilatela\ Transparent and flexible high-power supercapacitors based on carbon nanotube fibre aerogels\ Nanoscale Advances, 2020,12, 16980, doi.org/10.1039/D0NA00492H

Elisa Fresta, Julio Fernández-Cestau, Belén Gil, Patricia Montaño, Jesús R. Berenguer, María Teresa Moreno, Elena Lalinde and Rubén D. Costa\ Versatile homoleptic naphthyl-acetylide heteronuclear [Pt2M4(CºC-Np)8] (M = Ag, Cu) phosphors for highly efficient white and NIR hybrid light-emitting diodes\ Adv. Opt. Mater 2020, 8, 1901126,https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201901126

Elisa Fresta, Kevin Baumgärtner, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Michael Mastalerz, Rubén D. Costa\ Bright, stable, and efficient red light-emitting electrochemical cells using contorted nanographenes\ Nanoscale Horiz. 2020, 5, 473.(inside cover), www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020.14559-8

Elisa Fresta, Jacopo Dosso, Juan Cabanillas-González, Davide Bonifazi, and Rubén D. Costa\ Origin of the exclusive ternary electroluminescent behavior of BN-doped nanographenes in efficient single-component white light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2020, 30, 1906830. (inside cover), doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201906830

Javier Conesa-Egea, Javier González-Platas, Ulises R. Rodríguez-Mendoza, José Ignacio Martínez, Pilar Ocon, Vanesa Fernández-Moreira, Rubén D. Costa, Julio Fernández-Cestau, Félix Zamora, and Pilar Amo-Ochoa\ Pilar cunning defects: Emission control by structural point defects on Cu(I)I double chain Coordination Polymers\ J. Mater. Chem. C 2020, 8, 1448, doi.org/10.1039/C9TC05185F

Fresta, Elisa; Costa, Rubén D.\ Advances and Challenges in White Light‐Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2020, 30 (33), 1908176, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908176

Mahoro, Gilbert Umuhire; Fernandez‐Cestau, Julio; Renaud, Jean‐Luc; Coto, Pedro B.; Costa, Rubén D.; Gaillard, Sylvain\ Recent Advances in Solid‐State Lighting Devices Using Transition Metal Complexes Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Emission Mechanism\ Advanced Optical Materials, 2020, 8 (16), 2000260, doi.org/10.1002/adom.202000260

Cintia Ezquerro, Elisa Fresta, Elena Serrano, Elena Lalinde, Javier García-Martínez, Jesús R Berenguer, Rubén D. Costa\ White-emitting organometallo-silica nanoparticles for sun-like light-emitting diodes\ Mater. Horiz. 2019, 6, 130, doi.org/10.1039/C8MH00578H

Oliver Langmar, Ettore Fazio, Peter Schol, Gema de la Torre, Rubén D. Costa, Tomás Torres, Dirk M Guldi\ Controlling interfacial charge transfer and  fill factors in CuO-based p-DSSCs and t-DSSCs using phthalocyanines\ Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019 58, 4056, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201812397

Oliver Langmar, Ettore Fazio, Peter Schol, Gema de la Torre, Rubén D. Costa, Tomás Torres, Dirk M Guldi\ Steuerung des Grenzflächen‐Ladungstransfers und des Fill‐Factors in CuO‐basierten Grätzel‐Tandemzellen\ Angewandte Chemie, 2019 131, 4097, doi.org/10.1002/ange.201812397

Marta Viciano Chumillas; Joan Cano; Elisa Fresta; Jose M Carbonell-Vilar; Donatella Armentano; Ruben D. Costa*\ Photoluminescent Cu(I) vs Ag(I) complexes: Slowing down emission in Cu(I) complexes by pentacoordinate low-lying excited states.\ Dalton Transactions 2019, 48, 9765, doi.org/10.1039/C9DT00772E

Marta Viciano Chumillas; Joan Cano; Elisa Fresta; Jose M Carbonell-Vilar; Yianjin Yu; Donatella Armentano; Ruben D. Costa\ Deciphering the electroluminescence behavior of silver(I)-complexes in light-emitting electrochemical cells: limitations and solutions towards highly stable devices.\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1901797, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201901797

Verónica Fernández-Luna, Daniel Sánchez-de Alcázar, Aitziber L. Cortajarena, Pedro B. Coto, and Rubén D. Costa\ Deciphering limitations to meet highly stable Bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 29, 1904356, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201904356

lisa Fresta, Julio Fernández-Cestau, Rubén D. Costa\ White light-emitting electrochemical cells based on deep-red copper(I) complexes\ Adv. Opt. Mater 2019, 7, 1900830, doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900830

Ramses V. Martinez, Juan Cabanillas-Gonzalez, Anna Espasa, Jaime J. Hernandez, Santiago Casado, Ahmad Sousaraei, Jose Castro-Smirnov, David Romera, Daniel Sanchez-deAlcazar, Ruben D. Costa, Aitziber L. Cortajarena\ Engineered protein-based functional nanopatterned materials for bio-optical devices.\ Nanoscale Advances 2019, 1, 3980, doi.org/10.1039/c9na00289h

Babak Pashaei, Soheila Karimi, Hashem Shahroosvanda, Parisa Abbasi, Melanie Pilkington, Antonino Bartolotta, Elisa Fresta, Julio Fernandez-Cestau, Rubén D. Costa, Francesco Bonaccorso\ Polypyridyl ligands as a versatile platform for solid-state light-emitting devices\ Royal Society of Chemistry,2019, 48, 5033-5139 , doi.org/10.1039/C8CS00075A

Alexandra Burger, Andreas Kunzmann, Rubén D. Costa, Rubitha Srikantharajah, Wolfang Peukert, Dirk M. Guldi, and Andreas Hirsch\ Synergy of Catechol‐Functionalized Zinc Oxide Nanorods and Porphyrins in Layer‐by‐Layer Assemblies\ Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 7896, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201705327

Alexey Cherevan, Paul Gebhardt, Andreas Kunzmann, Rubén D. Costa, Dominik Eder\ Beware of doping: Ta2O5 nanotube photocatalyst using CNTs as hard templates\ ACS Applied Mater.& Interfaces 2018, 1, 1259, doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00006

Andreas Kunzmann, Silvia Valero, Ángel E. Sepúlveda, Marisa Rico-Santacruz, Elena Lalinde, Jesús R. Berenguer, Javier García-Martínez, Dirk M. Guldi,Elena Serrano, and Rubén D. Costa\ Hybrid dye-titania nanoparticles for superior low-temperature dye-sensitized solar cells\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8, 1702583, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201702583

Elisa Fresta, Giorgio Volpi, Claudio Garino, Claudia Barolo, Rubén D. Costa\ Contextualizing yellow light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a blue-emitting imidazo-pyridine emitter\ Polyhedron 2018, 140, 129, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201702583

Elisa Fresta, Giorgio Volpi, Marco Milanesio, Claudio Garino, Claudia Barolo, Rubén D. Costa\ Novel ligands and device designs towards stable light-emitting electrochemical cells based on copper (I) complexes\ Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 10469, doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01914

Michael D. Weber, Elisa Fresta, Margaux Elie, Matthias E. Miehlich, Jean-Luc Renaud, Karsten Meyer, Sylvain Gaillard, and Rubén D. Costa\ Rationalizing fabrication and design towards highly efficient and stable blue light-emitting electrochemical cells based on NHC copper(I) complexes\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 17, 1707423, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201707423

Andreas Kunzmann, Marco Gruber, Rubén Casillas, Erin T. Chernick, Rik R. Tykwinski,* Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Tuning pentacene based dye-sensitized solar cells\ Nanoscale 2018, 10, 8515, doi.org/10.1039/C8NR01502C

Carmen F Aguiño, Martina Lang, Verónica Fernández-Luna, Marlene Pröschel, Uwe Sonnewald, Pedro B Coto, Rubén D Costa\ Single-Component Biohybrid Light-Emitting Diodes Using a White-Emitting Fused Protein\ ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 15829 (invitation), doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02226

Oliver Langmar, Carolina R. Ganivet, Tobias Scharl, Gema de la Torre, Tomás Torres, Rubén D. Costa, and Dirk M. Guldi\ Modifying the Semiconductor/Electrolyte Interface in CuO p-Type Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Optimization of Iodide/Triiodide-Based Electrolytes\ ACS Applied Energy Materials 2018, 1, 6388, doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b01370

Meltem F Aygüler, Bianka MD Puscher, Yu Tong, Thomas Bein, Alexander S Urban, Rubén D. Costa, Pablo Docampo\ Light-emitting electrochemical cells based on inorganic metal halide perovskite nanocrystals\ J. Physics D: Applied Physics, 2018, 51, 334001, doi.org/10.1002/adom.202070052

Rubén D. Costa\ Bio-materials for Light Management\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2018, 28, 1802462, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201802462

Fresta, E., Fernández-Luna, V., Coto, P. B., Costa, R. D.,\ Merging Biology and Solid-State Lighting: Recent Advances in Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Biological Materials\ Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 28, 24, doi.org 10.1002/adfm.201707011

Jasmin Düring, Andreas Kunzmann, Manuela S Killian, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi, Franziska Gröhn\ Porphyrins as Multifunctional Interconnects in Networks of ZnO Nanoparticles and their Application in Dye‐Sensitized Solar Cells\ ChemPhotoChem 2018, 2, 213, doi.org/10.1002/cptc.201700107

Oliver Langmar, Carolina R Ganivet, Peter Schol, Tobias Scharl, Gema de la Torre, Tomás Torres, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M Guldi\ Improving charge injection and charge transport in CuO-based p-type DSSCs–a quick and simple precipitation method for small CuO nanoparticles\ J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 5176, doi.org/10.1039/C8TC00769A

Fernández-Luna Veronika, Coto Pedro B., Costa Rubén D.\ When Fluorescent Proteins Meet White Light-Emitting Diodes\ Angewandte Chemie, 2018, 57, 29, 8826-8836, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201711433

Charisiadis, Asterios ; Bagaki, Anthi ; Fresta, Elisa ; Weber, Katharina T. ; Charalambidis, Georgios ; Stangel, Christina ; Hatzidimitriou, Antonios G. ; Angaridis, Panagiotis A. ; Coutsolelos, Athanassios G. ; Costa, Rubén D\ Peripheral substitution of tetraphenyl porphyrins: Fine-tuning self-assembly for enhanced electroluminescence\ ChemPlusChem, 2018, Band 83 Seite 254, doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201700416

Coto, Pedro, Costa, Rubén\ New Materials and approaches for advanced Optoelectronics\ ChemPlusCem, 2018, doi.org/10.1002/cplu.201800084

Lukas Niklaus, Samira Tansaz, Haider Dakhil, Marlene Pröschel, Martina Lang, Monika Kostrzewa, Pedro B. Coto, Rainer Detsch, Uwe Sonnewald, Andreas Wierschem, Aldo R. Boccaccini Rubén D. Costa\ Micropatterned down-converting coating for white bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 27, 1601792, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201770002

Bianka M. D. Puscher, Meltem F. Aygüler, Pablo Docampo, Rubén D. Costa\ Unveiling the Dynamic Processes in Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskite Nanoparticle Thin Film Devices\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 7, 1602283, https://doi.org/ 10.1002/aenm.20160228

Markus W. Pfau, Andreas Kunzmann, Doris Segets, Wolfgang Peukert, Gordon G. Wallace, David L. Officer, Timothy Clark, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ The right nanoparticle size for the right job – designing novel ZnO electrode architectures for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells\ J. Mater. Chem A 2017, 5, 7516, doi.org/10.1039/C6TA11012F

Oliver Langmar, Davide Saccone, Anna Amat, Simona Fantacci, Guido Viscardi, Claudia Barolo, Rubén D. Costa, and Dirk M. Guldi\ Designing squaraines to control charge injection and recombination processes in NiO-based dye-sensitized solar cells\ ChemSusChem. 2017, 10, 2385, doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201700152

Michael D. Weber, Marta Viciano-Chumillas, Donatella Armentano, Joan Cano, and Rubén D. Costa\ s-Hammett parameter: A strategy to enhance both photo- and electro-luminescence features of heteroleptic copper(I) complexes\ Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 6312, doi.org/10.1039/C7DT00810D

Annkatrin Lennert, Michelle Sternberg, Karsten Meyer, Rubén D. Costa, and Dirk M. Guldi\ Iodine-pseudohalogen ionic liquid-based electrolytes for quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells\ ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 2017, 9 , 33437, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b01522

Fresta Elisa, Costa Rubén D.\ Beyond traditional light-emitting electrochemical cells – a review of new device designs and emitters\ Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 23, https:// doi.org/10.1039/C7TC00202E

Margaux Elie, Michael D. Weber, Florent Di Meo, Fabien Sguerra, Jean-Fransois Lohier, Robert B. Pansu, Jean.-Luc Renaud, Matthieu Hamel, Mathieu Linares, Ruben D. Costa, Sylvain Gaillard\ Role of the bridging group in bis‐pyridyl ligands: Enhancing both the photo‐and electroluminescent features of cationic (IPr) CuI complexes\ Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 16328, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703270

Johanes T. Margraf, Fabian Lodermeyer, Volker Strauss, Peter Haines, Johanes Walter, Wolfgang Peukert, Ruben D. Costa, Tim Clark, Dirk M. Guldi\ Using carbon nanodots as inexpensive and environmentally friendly sensitizers in mesoscopic solar cells\ Nanoscale Horiz. 2016, 1, 220, doi.org/10.1039/C6NH00010J

Lukas Zeininger, Fabian Lodermeyer, Ruben D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi, Andreas Hirsch\ Hydrogen bonding mediated orthogonal and reversible self-assembly of porphyrin sensitizers onto TiO2 nanoparticles\ Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 8842, doi.org/10.1039/C6CC03452G

Lodermeyer, F., Prato, M., Costa, R. D., Guldi, D. M.\ Facile and quick preparation of carbon nanohorn-based counter electrodes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells\ Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 14, S. 7556-7561 6 S, doi.org/10.1039/C6NR00629A

Andreas Kunzmann, Melanie Stanzel, Wolfgang M. Peukert, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Binary indium–zinc oxide photoanodes for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2016, 6, 1501075, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201501075

Michael D. Weber, Vasilis Nikolaou, Judith E. Wittmann, Anastase P. Angaridis, Giorgos Charalambidis, Christine Stangel, Axel Kahnt, Athanasis G. Coutsolelos, Rubén D. Costa\ Benefits of using BODIPY–porphyrin dyads for developing deep-red lighting sources\ Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 1602, doi.org/10.1039/C5CC06838J

Julio Fernández-Cestau, Nora Giménez, Elena Lalinde, Patricia Montaño, M. Teresa Moreno, Sergio Sánchez, Michael D. Weber, Rubén D. Costa\ Alkynyl bridged cyclometalated Ir2M2 clusters: Impact of the heterometal in the photo- and electro-luminescent properties\ Dalton Transactions 2016, 45, 3251, doi.org/10.1039/C5DT04027B

Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén D. Costa, Jenny Malig, Norbert Jux, and Dirk M. Guldi\ Benzoporphyrins: selective cosensitization in dye-sensitized solar cells\ Eur. J. Chem. 2016, 22, 7851, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201600802

Lukas Niklaus, Haider Dakhil, Monika Kostrzewa, Pedro B. Coto, Uwe Sonnewald, Andreas Wierschem, and Rubén D. Costa\ Easy and versatile coating approach for long-living white hybrid light-emitting diodes\ Materials Horizons 2016, 3, 340, doi.org/10.1039/C6MH00038J

Michael D. Weber, Claudio Garino, Giorgio Volpi, Enrico Casamassa, Marco Milanesio, Claudia Barolo. Rubén D. Costa\ Origin of a counterintuitive yellow light-emitting electrochemical cell based on a blue-emitting heteroleptic copper(I) complex\ Dalton Transactions 2016, 45, 8984, doi.org/10.1039/C6DT00970K

Margaux Elie, Fabien Sguerra, Florent Di Meo, Michael D. Weber, Ronan Marion, Adèle Grimault, Jean-François Lohier, Jean-Luc Renaud, Mathieu Linares, Matthieu Hamel, Rubén D. Costa, Sylvain Gaillard\ Designing NHC-Copper(I) dipyridylamine complexes for blue light-emitting electrochemical cells\ ACS Applied Mater.& Interfaces 2016, 8, 14678, doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b04647

Katahrina T. Weber, Kostas Karikis, Michael D. Weber, Asterios Charisiadis, Despina Charitaki, Georgios Charalambidis, Panagiotis Angaridis, Athanassios G. Coutsolelos, Rubén D. Costa\ Cunning metal core: Efficiency/stability dilemma in metallated porphyrin based light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Dalton Transactions. 2016, 45, 13284 (inside cover), doi.org/10.1039/C6DT02293F

Michael D. Weber, Judith E. Wittmann, Alexandra Burger, Baris Malcioglu, Javier Segarra-Martí, Andreas Hirsch, Pedro B. Coto, Michel Bockstedte, Rubén D. Costa\ From White to Red: Electric-field Dependent Chromaticity of Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells based on Archetypal Porphyrins\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2016, 26, 6736 (highlighted as frontspiece), doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201602252

Ute Meinhardt, Fabian Lodermeyer, Tobias A. Schaub, Andreas Kunzmann, Pavlo O. Dral, Anna Chiara Sale, Frank Hampel, Dirk M. Guldi, Ruben D. Costa, Milan Kivala\ N-Heterotriangulene chromophores with 4-pyridyl anchors for dye-sensitized solar cells\ RSC Advances, 2016,6, 67372, doi.org/10.1039/C6RA14799B

Oliver Langmar, Carolina R. Ganivet, Gema de la Torre, Tomás Torres, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Optimizing CuO p-type dye-sensitized solar cells by using a comprehensive electrochemical impedance spectroscopic study\ Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 17963, https:// doi.org/10.1039/c6nr05507a

Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén D. Costa, Rubén Casillas, Florian T. U. Kohler, Peter Wasserscheid, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi\ Carbon nanohorn-based electrolyte for dye-sensitized solar cells\ Energy Environ. Sci., 2015, 8, 241, doi.org/10.1039/C4EE02037E

Alexandra Burger, Rubén D. Costa, Volodymyr Lobaz, Wolfgang Peukert, Dirk M. Guldi, Andreas Hirsch\ Layer-by-Layer assemblies of catechol-functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles and porphyrins through electrostatic interactions\ Chem. A Eur. J., 2015, 21, 5041, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201405039

Oliver Langmar, Carolina R. Ganivet, Annkatrin Lennert, Rubén D. Costa, Gema de la Torre, Tomás Torres, Dirk M. Guldi\ Combining electron-accepting phthalocyanines and nanorod-like CuO electrodes for p-type dye-sensitized solar cell\ Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7688, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201501550

Meltem F. Aygüler, Michael D. Weber, Bianka M. D. Puscher, Dana D. Medina, Pablo Docampo, Rubén D. Costa\ Light-emitting electrochemical cells based on hybrid lead halide perovskite nanoparticles\ J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 12048, doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02959

Michael D. Weber, Matthias Adam, Rik R. Tykwinski, Rubén D. Costa\ Controlling the chromaticity of small-molecule light-emitting electrochemical cells based on TIPS-pentacene\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2015, 25, 5066, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201501326

Michael D. Weber, Lukas Niklaus, Marlene Praeschel, Pedro B. Coto, Uwe Sonnewald, Rubén D. Costa\ Bioinspired hybrid white light-emitting diodes\ Adv. Mater., 2015, 27, 5493, doi.org/10.1002/adma.201502349

Eduardo Anaya-Plaza, Maria Moreno Oliva, Andreas Kunzman, Carlos Romero-Nieto, Rubén D. Costa, Andrés de la Escosura, Dirk M. Guldi, Tomás Torres\ Quaternized pyridyloxy phthalocyanines render aqueous electron-donor carbon nanotubes as unprecedented supramolecular materials for energy conversion\ Adv. Funct. Mater., 2015, 25, 7418 (inside cover), doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201503002

Sebastian Feihl, Rubén D. Costa, Wolfgang Brenner, Rubén Casillas, Anne Browa, Norbert Jux, Dirk M. Guldi\ Integrating metalloporphycenes into p-type NiO-based dye-sensitized solar cells\ Chem. Commun., 2014, 11339, doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04523H

Fátima García, Rubén D. Costa, Juan Aragó, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Luis Sánchez\ Tuning the self-assembly of rectangular amphiphilic cruciforms\ Langmuir, 2014, 30, 5957, doi.org/10.1021/la5006117

Rubén Casilla, Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén D. Costa, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi\ Substituting TiCl4 – carbon nanohorns interfaces for dye-sensitized solar cells\ Adv. Energy Mater., 2014, 4, 1301577 (inside cover), doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201301577

Rubén D. Costa, Juan Aragó, Enrique Ortí, Ted M. Pappenfus, Kent R. Mann, Katarzyna Matczyszyn, Marek Samoc, José L. Zafra, Juan T. López Navarrete, Juan Casado\ Impact of the synergistic collaboration between oligothiophene bridges and ruthenium complexes on the optical properties of dumbbell-shaped compounds\ Chem. A Eur. J. 2013, 19, 1476, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201202456

Rubén D. Costa, Fabian Werner, Xinjiao Wang, Philipp Grönninger, Sebastian Feihl, Peter Wasserscheid, Susanne Hibler, Radim Beranek, Karsten Meyerr, Dirk M. Guldi\ Beneficial effects of liquid crystalline phases in solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2013, 3, 657, doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201200860

Rubén D. Costa, Rubén Casillas, Joan Cano\ Does the intramolecular p-interactions improve the stability of ionic, carbene-based iridium(III) complexes?\ J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 8545, doi.org/10.1021/jp401380b

Rubén D. Costa, Jenny Malig, Wolfgang Brenner, Norbert Jux, Dirk M. Guldi\ Electron accepting porphycenes on gaphene\ Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 2600, doi.org/10.1002/adma.201300231

Daniel Kiessling, Rubén D. Costa, Georgios Katsukis, Jenny Malig, Fabian Lodermeyer, Sebastian Feihl, Alexandra Roth, Leonie Wibmer, Matthias Kehrer, Michel Volland, Pawel Wagner, Gordon G. Wallace, David L. Officer, Dirk M. Guldi\ Novel nanographene / porphyrin hybrids – preparation, characterization, and application in dye-sensitized solar cells\ Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 3085, doi.org/10.1039/C3SC51026C

Rubén D. Costa, Sebastian Feihl, Axel Kahnt, Sanjeev Gambhir, David L. Officer, Gordon G. Wallace, María Isabel Lucio, María Antonia Herrero, Ester Vázquez, Zois Syrgiannis, Maurizio Prato, Dirk M. Guldi\ Carbon nanohorns as integrative materials for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells\ Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 6513, doi.org/10.1002/adma.201301527

Wolfgang Brenner, Jenny Malig, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi, Norbert Jux\ Poly-ortho-functionalizable tetraarylporphycene platform – synthesis of octacationic derivatives towards the layer-by-layer design of versatile graphene oxide photoelectrodes\ Adv. Mater. 2013, 25, 2314, doi.org/10.1002/adma.201203459

Edwin C. Constable, Markus Neuburger, Pirmin Rösel, Gabriel E. Schneider, Jennifer A. Zampese, Catherine E. Housecroft, Filippo Monti, Nicola Armaroli, Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí\ Ligand-based charge-transfer luminescence in ionic cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes bearing a pyrene-functionalized bipyridine ligand: A joint theoretical and experimental study\ Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 885, doi.org/10.1021/ic302026f

Linda Brinkhaus, Georgios Katsukis, Jenny Malig, Rubén D. Costa, Miguel Garcia-Iglesias, Purificación Vázquez, Tomás Torres, Dirk M. Guldi\ Tuning the stability of graphene surfaces by phthalocyanine-based oPPV oligomers towards photo- and redoxactive materials\ Small 2013, 9, 2348, doi.org/10.1002/smll.201202427

Hui Li, Christina Schubert, Pavlo O. Dral, Rubén D. Costa, Andrea La Rosa, Jürg Thüring, Shi-Xia Liu, Chenyi Yi, Salvatore Filippone, Nazario Martín, Silvio Decurtins, Timothy Clark, Dirk M. Guldi\ Probing charge transfer in benzodifuran-C60 dumbbell-type electron donor-acceptor conjugates – ground and excited state assays\ Chem. Phys. Chem. 2013, 14, 2910 (inside cover), doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201300378

Florian J. Kessler, Rubén D. Costa, Davide Di Censo, Rosario Scopelliti, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Michael Grätzel, and Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin, Etienne Baranoff\ Near-UV to red-emitting charged bis-cyclometallated iridium(III) complexes for light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Dalton Transactions 2012, 41, 180, doi.org/10.1039/C1DT10698H

Daniel Tordera, Sebastian Meier, Martijn Lenes, Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Wiebke Sarfert, Henk J. Bolink\ Simple, fast, bright and stable light sources\ Adv. Mater. 2012, 24, 897 (inside cover), doi.org/10.1002/adma.201104047

Nail M. Shavaleev, Filippo Monti, Rubén D. Costa, Rosario Scopelliti, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Gianluca Accorsi, Nicola Armaroli, Etienne Baranoff, Michael Grätzel, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin\ Bright blue phosphorescence from cationic bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) isocyanide complexes\ Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 8178, doi.org/10.1021/ic202297h

Sebastian Feihl, Rubén D. Costa, Stephan Pflock, Cordula Schmidt, Jörg Schönamsgruber, Susanne Backes, Andreas Hirsch, Dirk M. Guldi\ Nickel oxide nanostructured electrodes towards perylenediimide-based dye-sensitized solar cells\ RSC Advances 2012, 2, 11495, doi.org/10.1039/C2RA22206J

Costa, Rubén D.; Ortí, Enrique; Bolink, Henk J.; Monti, Filippo; Accorsi, Gianluca; Armaroli, Nicola\ Luminescent Ionic Transition-Metal Complexes for Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012, doi.org/10.1002/anie.201201471

Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Daniel Tordera, Antonio Pertegás, Henk J. Bolink, Stefan Graber, Catherine E. Housecroft, Ludmila Sachno, Markus Neuburger, Edwin C. Constable\ Stable and efficient solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a series of hydrophobic iridium complexes\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2011, 1, 282 (highlighted in Materials Views), doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201000069

Rubén D. Costa, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Stefan Graber, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a supramolecularly-caged phenanthroline-based iridium complex\ Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 3207, doi.org/10.1039/C0CC05084A

Rubén D. Costa, Filippo Monti, Gianluca Accorsi, Andrea Barbieri, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Nicola Armaroli\ Photophysical properties of charged cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes: A joint theoretical and experimental study\ Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 7229, doi.org/10.1021/ic200820t

Rubén D. Costa, Daniel Tordera, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Jonas Schönle, Stefan Graber, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable, Jennifer A. Zampese\ Copper(I) complexes for sustainable light-emitting electrochemical cells\ J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 16108, doi.org/10.1039/C1JM12607E

Javier Pitarch, M. Paz Clares, Raquel Belda, Rubén Costa, Pilar Navarro, Enrique Ortí, Conxa Soriano, and Enrique García-España\ Zn(II)-coordination and fluorescence studies of a new polyazamacrocycle incorporating 1H-pyrazole and naphthalene units\ Dalton Transactions 2010, 39, 774, doi.org/10.1039/C0DT00204F

Rubén D. Costa, Antonio Pertegás, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink\ Improving the turn-on time of light-emitting electrochemical cells without sacrificing their stability\ Chem. Mater. 2010, 22, 1288, doi.org/10.1021/cm903549u

Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Stefan Graber, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Efficient and long-living light-emitting electrochemical cell\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 1511, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201000043

Rubén D. Costa, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Stefan Graber, Markus Neuburger, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Intramolecular π-π stacking in a phenylpyrazole based iridium complex and its use in light-emitting electrochemical cells\ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 5978, doi.org/10.1021/ja1010674

Rubén D. Costa, Gustavo Fernández, Luis Sánchez, Nazario Martín, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink\ Dumbbell-shaped dinuclear iridium complexes and their application to light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Chem. A Eur. J. 2010, 16, 9855, doi.org/10.1002/chem.201000600

Henk J. Bolink, Eugenio Coronado, Rubén D. Costa, Pablo Gaviña, Enrique Ortí, Sergio Tatay (alphabetic order)\ Deep-red-emitting electrochemical cell based on heteroleptic bis-chelated Ru(II) complexes\ Inorg. Chem. 2009, 48, 3907, doi.org/10.1021/ic802433b

Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Stefan Graber, Catherine E. Housecroft, Markus Neuburger, Edwin C. Constable\ Two are not always better than one: ligand optimisation for long-living light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Chem. Commun. 2009, 2029, doi.org/10.1039/B821602A

Rubén D. Costa, Pedro M. Viruela, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí\ Lowest triplet excited states of a novel heteroleptic iridium(III) complex and their role in the emission colour\ J. Mol. Struc.: THEOCHEM 2009, 912, 21.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.theochem.2009.02.031

Rubén D. Costa, Francisco J. Céspedes-Guirao, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Johannes Gierschner, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Angela Sastre-Santos\ Efficient deep-red light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a perylenediimide-iridium-complex dyad\ Chem. Commun. 2009, 3886, doi.org/10.1039/B905367K

Rubén D. Costa, Francisco J. Céspedes-Guirao, Henk J. Bolink, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Angela Sastre-Santos, Enrique Ortí, Johannes Gierschner\ A deep red-emitting perylenediimide-iridium-complex dyad: following the photophysical deactivation pathways\ J. Phys. Chem. C 2009, 113, 19292, doi.org/10.1021/jp904760s

Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink, Stefan Graber, Silvia Schaffner, Markus Neuburger, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Archetype cationic iridium complexes and their use in solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009, 19, 3456, doi.org/10.1002/adfm.200900911

J José Lorenzo Rodríguez-Redondo, Rubén D. Costa, Angela Sastre-Santos, Fernando Fernández-Lázaro, Enrique Ortí and Henk J. Bolink\ Red light emitting electrochemical cell using a polypyridyl iridium (III) polymer\ Dalton Transactions 2009, 9787, doi.org/10.1039/B910105E

Henk J. Bolink, Eugenio Coronado, Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Michele Sessolo, Stefan Graber, Kevin Doyle, Markus Neuburger,Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable (alphabetic order, inside cover)\ Long-living light-emitting electrochemical cells – control through supramolecular interactions\ Adv. Mater. 2008, 20, 3910, doi.org/10.1002/adma.200801322

Henk J. Bolink, Eugenio Coronado, Rubén D. Costa, Nora Lardiés, Enrique Ortí (alphabetic order)\ Near-quantitative internal quantum efficiency in a light-emitting electrochemical cell\ Inorg. Chem. 2008, 47, 9149,https://doi.org/10.1021/ic801587n

Henk. J. Bolink, Eva Barea, Rubén D. Costa, Eugenio Coronado, Sundarraj Sudhakar, Changgua Zhen and Alan Sellinger (alphabetic order)\ Efficient blue emitting organic light emitting diodes based on fluorescent solution processable cyclic phosphazenes\ Organic Electronics 2008, 9, 155, doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2007.10.005

Eliseo Ruiz, Thomas Cauchy, Joan Cano, Rubén Costa, Javier Tercero, Santiago Álvarez\ Magnetic structure of the large-Spin Mn10 and Mn19 complexes: A theoretical complement to an experimental milestone\ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 7420, doi.org/10.1021/ja800092s

Felipe Reviriego, Pilar Navarro, Enrique García-España, M. Teresa Albelda, Juan C. Frías, Antonio Domènech, Maria J. R. Yunta, Rubén Costa, and Enrique Ortí\ Diazatetraester 1H-Pyrazole Crowns as fluorescent chemosensors for AMPH, METH, MDMA (Ecstasy), and dopamine\ Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 5099, doi.org/10.1021/ol801732t

Stefan Graber, Kevin Doyle, Markus Neuburger, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable, Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, and Henk J. Bolink\ A supramolecularly-caged ionic iridium(III) complex yielding bright and very stable solid-state light-emitting electrochemical cells\ J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 14944, doi.org/10.1021/ja805900e

Henk J. Bolink, Luca Cappelli, Silvia Cheylan, Eugenio Coronado, Rubén D. Costa, Nora Lardiés, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, Enrique Ortí (alphabetic order)\ Origin and implications of the large spectral shift in electroluminescence observed in a blue light-emitting cationic iridium (III) complex\ J. Mat. Chem. 2007, 17, 5032, doi.org/10.1039/B713745A

Joan Cano, Rubén Costa, Santiago Alvarez, Eliseo Ruiz\ Theoretical study of the magnetics properties of a Mn12 single- molecule magnet with a loop structure: the role of the next-nearest neighbor interactions\ J. Chem. Theo. Comp. 2007, 3, 782, doi.org/10.1021/ct700013g

Henk J. Bolink, Luca Cappelli, Eugenio Coronado, Michael Grätzel, Enrique Ortí, Rubén D. Costa, Pedro M. Viruela, Md. K. Nazeeruddin (alphabetic order) Stable single-layer light-emitting electrochemical cell using 4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline-bis(2-phenylpyridine)iridium(III) hexafluorophosphate

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 14786, doi.org/10.1021/ja066416f

Reviews, Books and Bookchapters

Sara Ferrara, Rubén D. Costa\ Nanosized phosphors for white light-emitting diodesN\ Sustainable Naomaterials for Energy Application; IOP Publishing 2023/9/1 chapter 9-1-1-39

Stefano Nejrotti, Giacomo Renno, Maksym Bokan, Sara Ferrara, García González Liher, Horst Lechner, Andrea Fin, Nadia Barbero, Gustav Oberdofer, Pedro B Coto, López Cortajarena Aitziber, Rubén D Costa, Claudia Barolo\ Towards stable red-emitting artificial fluorescent proteins for sustainable bio-hybrid WLEDs\ Book: Italian Photochemistry Meeting; 2023; Page 58

Elisa Fresta, Rubén D. Costa\ Applying Ionic Transition Metal Complexes to Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells\ Springer Handbook of Inorganic Photochemistry, 2022

Elisa Fresta and Rubén D. Costa\ Applications on Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells (LEECs)\ Springer Handbook of Inorganic Photochemistry – Prof. E. Zysman-Colman, 2020 (in press).

Jean-Luc Renaud, Sylvain Gaillard, Gilbert Umuhire Mahoro, Rubén D. Costa, Julio Fernandez-Cestau, Pedro Coto\ Recent advances in solid-state lighting devices using transition metal complexes exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescent emission mechanism\ Adv. Opt. Mater. 2020, 8, 2000260

Rubén D. Costa\ El elemento Curio (Invited for the Special Issue Int. Year of the Periodic Table)\ An. Quím., 2019, 115, 158.

Maria Bidikoudi, Alfonso Monreal, Rubén D. Costa\ Carbon Nanotubes for solar energy conversion\ Carbon Based Nanomaterials for Advanced Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversions – Prof. Etacheri (Wiley-VCH), 2019 (Chapter 9,\ Carbon Nanotubes in hybrid photovoltaics: Dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, p. 201-239.

Alfonso Monreal, Juan J. Vilatela, Rubén D. Costa\ CNT fibres as dual counter-electrode/current-collector in highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells\ Carbon 2019, 141, 488, doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2018.09.090

Maria Bidikoudi, Elisa Fresta, Rubén D. Costa\ White-emitting perovskite based lighting devices\ Chem. Commun. 2018, 54, 8150.

Rubén D. Costa\ Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells: concepts, advances and challenges\ Springer www.springer.com/de/book/9783319586120

Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Implementation of single-walled carbon nanohorns into solar cell schemes\ Adv. Energy Mater. 2017, 24, 1601883 (invitation)

Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Single-walled carbon nanohorns based dye-sensitized solar cell\ ECS J. Solid State Sci. Tech. 2017, 6, M3140-M3147 (invitation)

Michael D. Weber, Rubén D. Costa\ Designing the third generation of light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Module in Chemistry, Molecular Sciences and Chemical Engineering of Elsevier, 2016, DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-409547-2.11444-1 (invitation)

Rubén D. Costa, Fabian Lodermeyer, Rubén Casilla, Dirk M. Guldi\ Recent advances of multifunctional nanocarbons used in dye-sensitized solar cells\ Energy Environ. Sci. 2014, 7, 1281.

Rubén D. Costa, Dirk M. Guldi\ Carbon nanomaterials as integrative components in dye-sensitized solar cells\ Nanocarbon-Inorganic Hybrids – Prof. Eder & Prof. Schlögl (Wiley-VCH), 2014, 475.

Dirk M. Guldi, Rubén D. Costa\ Nanocarbon hybrids: The paradigm of nanoscale self-ordering / self-assembling by means of charge transfer / doping interactions\ J. Phys. Chem. Letters 2013, 4, 1489.

Rubén D. Costa\ Design of novel iridium complexes to obtain stable and efficient light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Molecules at Work – Self-assembly, Nanomaterials, Molecular Machinery – Prof. Pignataro (Wiley-VCH) 2012, 339.

Rubén D. Costa, Enrique Ortí, Henk J. Bolink\ Recent advances in light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Pure and Applied Chemistry 2011, 83, 2115.

Article in journal without peer review

Rubén D. Costa\ Quantum dots, fluorescent proteins vie for supremacy\ Photonics 2017, July, 42. (submitted by invitation), www.photonics.com/a62068/Quantum_Dots_Fluorescent_Proteins_Vie_for

Lukas Niklaus, Michael Weber, Marlene Pröschel, Pedro B. Coto, Uwe Sonnewald, Rubén D. Costa\ White hybrid light-emitting diodes: A plausible solution for commercialization and health issues\ LED Professional 2016, May, 3 (submitted by invitation), www.led-professional.com/resources-1/articles/white-hybrid-light-emitting-diodes-a-plausible-solution-for-commercialization-and-health-issues-by-the-institute-for-theoretical-physics-the-departement-of-biology-and-the-departement-of-chemistry-and-pharmacy

Lukas Niklaus, Katharina Weber, Uwe Sonnewald, Rubén D. Costa\ A perspective of bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes based on rubber-like down-converting coatings\ LED Professional 2016, December, (in press, submitted by invitation), www.led-professional.com/resources-1/articles/the-perspective-of-bio-hybrid-white-light-emitting-diodes-based-on-rubber-like-down-converting-coatings

Lukas Niklaus, Katharina Weber, Uwe Sonnewald, Rubén D. Costa\ Erste Schritte zum Bio-Display: LED-Hinterleuchtung und Farbfilter aus Proteinen\ Elektroniknet Displays 2016, November, 10 (submitted by invitation), www.elektroniknet.de/elektronik/optoelektronik/led-hinterleuchtung-und-farbfilter-aus-proteinen-135879.html

Lukas Niklaus, Michael Weber, Marlene Pröschel, Pedro B. Coto, Uwe Sonnewald, Rubén D. Costa\ Impulse aus den Forschungsfeld hybrider Weißlicht LEDs: Nicht mehr weit bis zur kommerziellen Anwendung\ Elektronik 2015, 25, 21 (submitted by invitation), www.elektroniknet.de/elektronik/optoelektronik/erstmals-fluoreszenzproteine-fuer-led-beschichtung-eingesetzt-122790.html

Proceedings

Elisa Fresta and Rubén D. Costa\ Recent advances in sustainable white light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Proceedings Volume 11365, Organic Electronics and Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices II; 2020, 1136504

Elena Serrano, Angel Sepulveda, Elena Lalinde, Jesus Berenguer, Ruben Costa, Javier Garcia Martinez\ Hybrid titania-based multilayered photoelectrode for superior low temperature dye-sensitized solar cells\ ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 2018, 256, 1155

Rubén D. Costa, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Stefan Graber, Markus Neuburger, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Long-Living emitting electrochemical cells based on supramolecular p-p interactions\ Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2010, 1197-D04-32

Rubén D. Costa, A. Pertegás, D. Tordera, M. Lenes, H. J. Bolink, E. Ortí, S. Graber, M. Neuburger, C. E. Housecroft, E. C. Constable\ Stable and efficient light emitting electrochemical cells\ Nanotech Conference & Expo 2010, 2, 49

Rubén D. Costa, Henk J. Bolink, Enrique Ortí, Michele Sessolo, Stefan Graber, Kevin Doyle, Markus Neuburger, Catherine E. Housecroft, Edwin C. Constable\ Single molecule solid state light emitting electrochemical cells with lifetimes superior to 3000 hours\ Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 2009, 1114-G12-19

\ Henk J. Bolink, Eugenio Coronado, Rubén D. Costa, Nora Lardiés, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, Enrique Ortí\ Unexpected large spectral shift from blue to green region in a light-emitting electrochemical cells\ Proc. SPIE 2008, 6999, 69992L-1.

Bolink Henk J., Costa Rubén D., Orti Enrique, Sessolo Michele\ Single molecule solid state light emitting electrochemical cells with lifetimes superior to 3000 hours\ MRS Fall Meeting 2008, doi.org/10.1557/PROC-1114-G12-19

Henk Bolink, Luca Cappelli, Eugenio Coronado, Ruben D. Costa, Michael Grätzel, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, Enrique Ortí, Pedro M. Viruela\ Improved stability of solid state light emitting electrochemical cells consisting of ruthenium and iridium complexes\ Ma