Hugo Bronstein

10.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
117 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Hugo Bronstein is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugo Bronstein has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 58 papers in Polymers and Plastics and 45 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hugo Bronstein's work include Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (78 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (58 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (37 papers). Hugo Bronstein is often cited by papers focused on Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (78 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (58 papers) and Perovskite Materials and Applications (37 papers). Hugo Bronstein collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Sudan. Hugo Bronstein's co-authors include Iain McCulloch, Bob C. Schroeder, Christian B. Nielsen, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Robert G. Palgrave, Martin Heeney, David O. Scanlon, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Will Travis and Emily Glover and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Hugo Bronstein

114 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

On the application of the tolerance factor to inorganic a... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2016 2011 2020 2018 2013 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. On the application of the tolerance factor to inorganic and hybrid halide perovskites: a revised system
    2016 896 citations Will Travis, Emily Glover et al. Chemical Science profile →
  2. Thieno[3,2-b]thiophene−Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Containing Polymers for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Organic Photovoltaic Devices
    2011 826 citations Hugo Bronstein, Thomas D. Anthopoulos et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors
    2020 586 citations Hugo Bronstein, Christian B. Nielsen et al. Nature Reviews Chemistry profile →
  4. Recent Progress in High‐Mobility Organic Transistors: A Reality Check
    2018 530 citations Kealan J. Fallon, Bob C. Schroeder et al. profile →
  5. Molecular origin of high field-effect mobility in an indacenodithiophene–benzothiadiazole copolymer
    2013 493 citations Hugo Bronstein, Thomas D. Anthopoulos et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hugo Bronstein United Kingdom 43 7.1k 4.5k 2.9k 982 766 117 8.7k
Hans‐Joachim Egelhaaf Germany 53 8.0k 1.1× 5.1k 1.1× 3.0k 1.0× 923 0.9× 901 1.2× 175 9.8k
Zengqi Xie China 59 10.4k 1.5× 7.4k 1.6× 4.2k 1.4× 1.2k 1.2× 670 0.9× 238 12.3k
Yen‐Ju Cheng Taiwan 48 8.4k 1.2× 6.9k 1.5× 2.4k 0.8× 1.6k 1.6× 749 1.0× 137 10.3k
Emil List Germany 49 8.5k 1.2× 4.4k 1.0× 4.8k 1.6× 1.2k 1.3× 1.4k 1.9× 291 11.1k
Christian B. Nielsen United Kingdom 54 8.8k 1.2× 7.4k 1.6× 2.3k 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.7× 142 11.1k
Ellen Moons Sweden 36 5.0k 0.7× 3.0k 0.7× 2.5k 0.9× 931 0.9× 812 1.1× 114 6.9k
Alejandro L. Briseño United States 46 6.2k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 3.0k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 1.7k 2.2× 133 8.5k
Zhiyuan Xie China 59 11.0k 1.6× 7.1k 1.6× 4.7k 1.6× 1.4k 1.4× 811 1.1× 391 13.0k
Bright Walker South Korea 40 7.6k 1.1× 5.4k 1.2× 2.5k 0.9× 865 0.9× 637 0.8× 120 8.5k
Tsuyoshi Michinobu Japan 46 4.4k 0.6× 2.6k 0.6× 2.9k 1.0× 1.9k 2.0× 1.0k 1.3× 228 7.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Grüne, Jeannine, Ashish Sharma, Simon Dowland, et al.. (2026). High-spin state dynamics and quintet-mediated emission in intramolecular singlet fission. Nature Communications. 17(1). 777–777.
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Murto, Petri, Rituparno Chowdhury, Yutong Han, et al.. (2025). Intrinsic intermolecular photoinduced charge separation in organic radical semiconductors. Nature Materials. 25(1). 100–106.
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Bronstein, Hugo, et al.. (2024). Classification and quantitative characterisation of the excited states of π-conjugated diradicals. Faraday Discussions. 254(0). 107–129. 9 indexed citations
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Alvertis, Antonios M., Rituparno Chowdhury, Petri Murto, et al.. (2024). Decoupling excitons from high-frequency vibrations in organic molecules. Nature. 629(8011). 355–362. 54 indexed citations
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Cho, Hwan‐Hee, Daniel G. Congrave, Alexander J. Gillett, et al.. (2024). Suppression of Dexter transfer by covalent encapsulation for efficient matrix-free narrowband deep blue hyperfluorescent OLEDs. Nature Materials. 23(4). 519–526. 68 indexed citations
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Fallon, Kealan J., Daniel T. W. Toolan, Peter Budden, et al.. (2023). Aza-Cibalackrot: Turning on Singlet Fission Through Crystal Engineering. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(19). 10712–10720. 7 indexed citations
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Sharma, Anirudh, Jules Bertrandie, Diego Rosas Villalva, et al.. (2023). Reducing non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells using molecular encapsulation. Materials Chemistry Frontiers. 7(4). 735–744. 1 indexed citations
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Royakkers, Jeroen, et al.. (2022). Effects of Molecular Encapsulation on the Photophysical and Charge Transport Properties of a Naphthalene Diimide Bithiophene Copolymer. Chemistry of Materials. 34(18). 8324–8335. 7 indexed citations
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Murto, Petri & Hugo Bronstein. (2022). Electro-optical π-radicals: design advances, applications and future perspectives. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(19). 7368–7403. 61 indexed citations
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Fallon, Kealan J., et al.. (2022). Synthesis of asymmetric indolonaphthyridines with enhanced excited state charge-transfer character. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(29). 10742–10747. 10 indexed citations
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Fallon, Kealan J., Daniel T. W. Toolan, Weixuan Zeng, et al.. (2022). Quantitative Singlet Fission in Solution-Processable Dithienohexatrienes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(51). 23516–23521. 10 indexed citations
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Royakkers, Jeroen, Kunping Guo, Daniel T. W. Toolan, et al.. (2021). Molecular Encapsulation of Naphthalene Diimide (NDI) Based π‐Conjugated Polymers: A Tool for Understanding Photoluminescence. Angewandte Chemie. 133(47). 25209–25216. 2 indexed citations
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Fallon, Kealan J., Nilushi Wijeyasinghe, Anastasia Leventis, et al.. (2021). Tyrian purple: an ancient natural dye for cross-conjugated n-type charge transport. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(12). 4200–4205. 3 indexed citations
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Bronstein, Hugo, Christian B. Nielsen, Bob C. Schroeder, & Iain McCulloch. (2020). The role of chemical design in the performance of organic semiconductors. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 4(2). 66–77. 586 indexed citations breakdown →
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Congrave, Daniel G., Bluebell H. Drummond, Patrick J. Conaghan, et al.. (2019). A Simple Molecular Design Strategy for Delayed Fluorescence toward 1000 nm. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(46). 18390–18394. 165 indexed citations
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Jayaprakash, Rahul, Thomas P. Lyons, Luis Á. Martínez-Martínez, et al.. (2019). Manipulating molecules with strong coupling: harvesting triplet excitons in organic exciton microcavities. Chemical Science. 11(2). 343–354. 123 indexed citations
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Royakkers, Jeroen, Alessandro Minotto, Daniel G. Congrave, et al.. (2019). Doubly Encapsulated Perylene Diimides: Effect of Molecular Encapsulation on Photophysical Properties. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(1). 207–214. 27 indexed citations
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Barłóg, Maciej, Xianhe Zhang, Da Seul Yang, et al.. (2019). Indacenodithiazole-Ladder-Type Bridged Di(thiophene)-Difluoro-Benzothiadiazole-Conjugated Copolymers as Ambipolar Organic Field-Effect Transistors. Chemistry of Materials. 31(22). 9488–9496. 29 indexed citations
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Leventis, Anastasia, Jeroen Royakkers, Mérina K. Corpinot, et al.. (2018). Highly Luminescent Encapsulated Narrow Bandgap Polymers Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(5). 1622–1626. 80 indexed citations
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Travis, Will, Emily Glover, Hugo Bronstein, David O. Scanlon, & Robert G. Palgrave. (2016). On the application of the tolerance factor to inorganic and hybrid halide perovskites: a revised system. Chemical Science. 7(7). 4548–4556. 896 indexed citations breakdown →

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