Brendan O'Connor
Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-5282
- Email: btoconno@ncsu.edu
- Office: Partners II Room 1515
- Website: http://mae.ncsu.edu/oconnor
Dr. O’Connor is interested in fabrication, characterization, and modeling of organic electronic devices. Organic semiconductors have enormous potential to transform how we interact with electronics, with wide-ranging application opportunities including low-cost solar power, biocompatible electronics, and ubiquitous integration of electronics into our surroundings (the internet of things). Current research interests in Dr. O’Connor’s group include the development of robust flexible and stretchable devices, producing devices with unique capabilities, and establishing scalable processing methods. Devices of interest include solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, and thermoelectrics.
Dr. O’Connor teaches MAE 589 Direct Energy Conversion, MAE 421 Solar Energy, MAE 412 Design of Thermal Systems, MAE 310 Heat Transfer Fundamentals, and MAE 301 Thermodynamics 1.
Publications
- Ecofriendly Printing of Silver Nanowires with Cellulose Binder for Highly Robust Flexible Electronics
- Liu, Y., Ren, P., Yang, L., O'Connor, B., Dong, J., & Zhu, Y. (2025, April 24), Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202400983
- Examining the Mechanics of Polyester Coatings to Assess the Opportunity to Replace BPA in Metal Food Packaging
- Shafe, A. A., Wang, H., Brown, C., He, H., Yin, J., Zhu, Y., & O’Connor, B. T. (2025, October 24), ACS Applied Polymer Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsapm.5c02319
- Improving Adhesion in Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Self-Assembled Monolayers
- Shafe, A. A., Raza, S., Henry, R., Liu, J., & O’Connor, B. T. (2025, March 24), ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c00490
- Discerning Thermal Transition Behavior of Conjugated Polymers through In Situ Optical Characterization of Oriented Films
- Schrickx, H. M., Moore, C., Shafe, A. A., Samadani, A., Balar, N., Vu, D., … O’Connor, B. T. (2024, November 8), Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 11. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02003
- Exceptional Alignment in a Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymer via a Previously Unobserved Liquid Crystal Mesophase
- Schrickx, H. M., Kashani, S., Buck, L., Ding, K., Rech, J. J., Flagg, L. Q., … O'Connor, B. T. (2024, April 8), Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202315183
- Flexible Self‐Powered Organic Photodetector with High Detectivity for Continuous On‐Plant Sensing
- Schrickx, H. M., Gyurek, S., Moore, C., Hernández‐Pagán, E., Doherty, C. J., Kudenov, M. W., & O'Connor, B. T. (2024), Advanced Optical Materials, 12(18). https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400005
- Glassy gels toughened by solvent
- Wang, M., Xiao, X., Siddika, S., Shamsi, M., Frey, E., Qian, W., … Dickey, M. D. (2024, June 19), Nature, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07564-0
- Strain alignment of conjugated polymers: Method, microstructure, and applications
- Schrickx, H. M., Sen, P., Balar, N., & O’Connor, B. T. (2024, July 1), Cell Reports Physical Science, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrp.2024.102076
- All Electrohydrodynamic Printed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors
- Ren, P., Song, R., Zhu, Y., O'Connor, B., & Dong, J. (2023, June 21), Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202300410
- Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells
- Charles, M., Edwards, B., Ravishankar, E., Calero, J., Henry, R., Rech, J., … Sederoff, H. (2023, February 13), Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1087707
