Professor Heeney’s research interests span the design, synthesis and characterization ofconjugated polymers and organic semiconductor materials for a range of applications,including solar cells, photodetectors, organic (electrochemical) transistors and sensordevices. He is also active in the design of new photocatalytic materials and blends. Hisresearch is highly multidisciplinary, covering aspects of organic, polymer and materialschemistry and science, with a central goal of establishing new relationships betweenmolecular design, synthetic methodology, processing and device performance. He runs acollaborative group involving numerous colleagues from KAUST and around the world.Recent projects include the development of polymer editing methods, the optimization ofinterlayer materials and dopants to improve device performance, the design of low band gapmaterials for solar cell and photodetector applications, and the synthesis of highly stablepolymers for electrochemical devices. ​