Sergio Brovelli

12.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
159 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Sergio Brovelli is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Brovelli has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Materials Chemistry, 112 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Sergio Brovelli's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (69 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (60 papers) and Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (36 papers). Sergio Brovelli is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (69 papers), Perovskite Materials and Applications (60 papers) and Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (36 papers). Sergio Brovelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and United Kingdom. Sergio Brovelli's co-authors include Francesco Meinardi, Victor I. Klimov, Liberato Manna, Ranjani Viswanatha, Francesco Bruni, Valerio Pinchetti, Francesco Carulli, Wan Ki Bae, S. A. Crooker and Roberto Simonutti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Brovelli

156 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

Spectroscopic and Device ... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2016 2014 2018 2015 2021 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. Spectroscopic and Device Aspects of Nanocrystal Quantum Dots
    2016 818 citations Sergio Brovelli et al. profile →
  2. Large-area luminescent solar concentrators based on ‘Stokes-shift-engineered’ nanocrystals in a mass-polymerized PMMA matrix
    2014 571 citations Francesco Meinardi, Monica Lorenzon et al. profile →
  3. Colloidal Synthesis of Double Perovskite Cs2AgInCl6 and Mn-Doped Cs2AgInCl6 Nanocrystals
    2018 483 citations Federico Locardi, Matilde Cirignano et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum dots
    2015 470 citations Francesco Meinardi, Francesco Carulli et al. profile →
  5. Suppression of temperature quenching in perovskite nanocrystals for efficient and thermally stable light-emitting diodes
    2021 408 citations Francesco Carulli, Sergio Brovelli et al. profile →
  6. Luminescent solar concentrators for building-integrated photovoltaics
    2017 355 citations Francesco Meinardi, Francesco Bruni et al. profile →
  7. Highly efficient luminescent solar concentrators based on earth-abundant indirect-bandgap silicon quantum dots
    2017 335 citations Francesco Meinardi, Francesco Carulli et al. profile →
  8. Efficient, fast and reabsorption-free perovskite nanocrystal-based sensitized plastic scintillators
    2020 319 citations Marina Gandini, C. Gotti et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sergio Brovelli 8.8k 8.0k 1.5k 1.2k 713 159 10.6k
Francesco Meinardi 7.2k 0.8× 5.5k 0.7× 982 0.7× 1.5k 1.3× 677 0.9× 188 9.2k
Kasper Moth‐Poulsen 5.1k 0.6× 4.2k 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 802 0.7× 836 1.2× 202 8.8k
Ian A. Howard 5.0k 0.6× 6.6k 0.8× 917 0.6× 332 0.3× 601 0.8× 149 8.9k
Alexander Mikhailovsky 7.4k 0.8× 5.7k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 187 0.2× 1.4k 2.0× 102 10.1k
Luca Beverina 3.9k 0.4× 3.0k 0.4× 504 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.5× 169 6.8k
Michael Zharnikov 6.9k 0.8× 9.9k 1.2× 3.1k 2.1× 255 0.2× 1.2k 1.6× 398 13.7k
Laurens D. A. Siebbeles 7.3k 0.8× 8.5k 1.1× 2.3k 1.5× 1.0k 0.9× 1.6k 2.3× 246 13.4k
Kaifeng Wu 11.4k 1.3× 9.0k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 471 0.4× 1.3k 1.9× 218 14.2k
Matthew Y. Sfeir 7.6k 0.9× 6.5k 0.8× 2.8k 1.9× 839 0.7× 2.1k 2.9× 147 12.2k
Akshay Rao 3.5k 0.4× 5.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 501 0.4× 392 0.5× 150 7.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Brovelli

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhu, Dongxu, Zheming Liu, René Bès, et al.. (2025). Unveiling the Role of ZnCl2 in Enhancing the Photoluminescence Efficiency of Amino-As-Based InAs@ZnSe Quantum Dots. ACS Nano. 19(39). 34807–34818.
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Zaffalon, Matteo L., Zhanzhao Li, Francesco Bruni, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast Superradiant Scintillation from Isolated Weakly Confined Perovskite Nanocrystals. Advanced Materials. 37(18). e2500846–e2500846. 9 indexed citations
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Stergiou, Anastasios, D. Ricci, Matteo L. Zaffalon, et al.. (2024). Perovskite‐Like Liquid‐Crystalline Materials Based on Polyfluorinated Imidazolium Cations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(37). e202408570–e202408570. 2 indexed citations
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Carulli, Francesco, et al.. (2023). Silica-Encapsulated Perovskite Nanocrystals for X-ray-Activated Singlet Oxygen Production and Radiotherapy Application. ACS Energy Letters. 8(4). 1795–1802. 27 indexed citations
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Erroi, Andrea, Matteo L. Zaffalon, I.M. Frank, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast and Radiation-Hard Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocomposite Scintillators. ACS Energy Letters. 8(9). 3883–3894. 38 indexed citations
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Carulli, Francesco, Francesca Cova, L. Gironi, et al.. (2022). Stokes Shift Engineered Mn:CdZnS/ZnS Nanocrystals as Reabsorption‐Free Nanoscintillators in High Loading Polymer Composites. Advanced Optical Materials. 10(13). 8 indexed citations
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Manna, Liberato, Osman M. Bakr, Sergio Brovelli, & Hongbo Li. (2022). Perovskite Semiconductor Nanocrystals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2022. 13 indexed citations
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Brizzolari, C., Sergio Brovelli, Francesco Bruni, et al.. (2021). Enhancement of the X-Arapuca photon detection device for the DUNE experiment. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations
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Carulli, Francesco, Valerio Pinchetti, Matteo L. Zaffalon, et al.. (2021). Optical and Magneto-Optical Properties of Donor-Bound Excitons in Vacancy-Engineered Colloidal Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 21(14). 6211–6219. 3 indexed citations
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Rodà, Carmelita, Mauro Fasoli, Matteo L. Zaffalon, et al.. (2021). Understanding Thermal and A‐Thermal Trapping Processes in Lead Halide Perovskites Towards Effective Radiation Detection Schemes. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(43). 38 indexed citations
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Ronchi, Alessandra, Valerio Pinchetti, Matteo L. Zaffalon, et al.. (2020). High Photon Upconversion Efficiency with Hybrid Triplet Sensitizers by Ultrafast Hole-Routing in Electronic-Doped Nanocrystals. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 51 indexed citations
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Jastrzebski, Johann T. B. H., Wiebke Albrecht, Valerio Pinchetti, et al.. (2020). Luminescent Colloidal InSb Quantum Dots from In Situ Generated Single-Source Precursor. ACS Nano. 14(10). 13146–13160. 37 indexed citations
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Rodà, Carmelita, Ahmed L. Abdelhady, Javad Shamsi, et al.. (2019). O2 as a molecular probe for nonradiative surface defects in CsPbBr3 perovskite nanostructures and single crystals. Nanoscale. 11(16). 7613–7623. 42 indexed citations
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Anand, Abhinav, Matteo L. Zaffalon, Andrea Camellini, et al.. (2019). Evidence for the Band‐Edge Exciton of CuInS2 Nanocrystals Enables Record Efficient Large‐Area Luminescent Solar Concentrators. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(4). 82 indexed citations
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Sala, Paolo Della, Alessandro Sanzone, Mauro Sassi, et al.. (2019). First demonstration of the use of very large Stokes shift cycloparaphenylenes as promising organic luminophores for transparent luminescent solar concentrators. Chemical Communications. 55(21). 3160–3163. 51 indexed citations
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Pinchetti, Valerio, Abhinav Anand, Quinten A. Akkerman, et al.. (2018). Trap-Mediated Two-Step Sensitization of Manganese Dopants in Perovskite Nanocrystals. ACS Energy Letters. 4(1). 85–93. 120 indexed citations
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González, Beatriz Santiago, Angelo Monguzzi, Mirko Prato, et al.. (2018). Bottom‐up Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of Copper Clusters into Permanent Excimer Supramolecular Nanostructures. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(24). 7051–7055. 24 indexed citations
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González, Beatriz Santiago, Angelo Monguzzi, Mirko Prato, et al.. (2018). Bottom‐up Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of Copper Clusters into Permanent Excimer Supramolecular Nanostructures. Angewandte Chemie. 130(24). 7169–7173. 6 indexed citations
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Locardi, Federico, Matilde Cirignano, Dmitry Baranov, et al.. (2018). Colloidal Synthesis of Double Perovskite Cs2AgInCl6 and Mn-Doped Cs2AgInCl6 Nanocrystals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(40). 12989–12995. 483 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lorenzon, Monica, Luca Sortino, Quinten A. Akkerman, et al.. (2017). Role of Nonradiative Defects and Environmental Oxygen on Exciton Recombination Processes in CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 17(6). 3844–3853. 107 indexed citations

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