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D-Index
45
Citations
6694
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16532
National Ranking
4108

Svetlana Kilina publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Svetlana Kilina sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 168 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Svetlana Kilina D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Svetlana Kilina sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Svetlana Kilina is affiliated with North Dakota State University in the United States and specializes in materials science and engineering. Their scholarly output spans multiple domains within these fields, with particular emphasis on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. The research also intersects with organic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The scientist's work covers specific topics including luminescence and fluorescent materials, organic light-emitting diodes research, quantum dots synthesis and properties, photochemistry and electron transfer studies, carbon nanotubes in composites, chalcogenide semiconductor thin films, and fullerene chemistry and applications.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Svetlana Kilina include:

  • Controlling Defect-State Photophysics in Covalently Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (2020), published in Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Lysosome Targeting Bis-terpyridine Ruthenium(II) Complexes: Photophysical Properties and In Vitro Photodynamic Therapy (2020), ACS Applied Bio Materials
  • Surface-Induced Deprotonation of Thiol Ligands Impacts the Optical Response of CdS Quantum Dots (2021), Chemistry of Materials
  • Synthesis, Photophysics, and Reverse Saturable Absorption of trans-Bis-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes (C^N^C)Ir(R-tpy)+ (tpy = 2,2':6',2"-Terpyridine) with Broadband Excited-State Absorption (2020), Inorganic Chemistry
  • Hot carrier relaxation dynamics in non-stoichiometric CdSe quantum dots: computational insights (2023), Journal of Materials Chemistry A

Frequent co-authors of Kilina's research include Dmitri S. Kilin, Wenfang Sun, Sergei Tretiak, Levi Lystrom, and Brendan J. Gifford.

Publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Dalton Transactions

Svetlana Kilina's work connects heavily with interdisciplinary applications involving nanomaterials, photophysics, and quantum dot technologies. The research contributes to developing understanding and technologies in luminescent materials and semiconductor thin films.

The scientist was awarded the status of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Third and fourth optical transitions in semiconducting carbon nanotubes.

    Paulo T. Araujo;Stephen K. Doorn;Svetlana Kilina;Sergei Tretiak

  • Effect of surface ligands on optical and electronic spectra of semiconductor nanoclusters.

    Svetlana Kilina;Sergei Ivanov;Sergei Tretiak

  • Breaking the Phonon Bottleneck in PbSe and CdSe Quantum Dots: Time-Domain Density Functional Theory of Charge Carrier Relaxation

    Svetlana V. Kilina;Dmitri S. Kilin;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Quantum Zeno effect rationalizes the phonon bottleneck in semiconductor quantum dots.

    Svetlana V. Kilina;Amanda J. Neukirch;Bradley F. Habenicht;Dmitri S. Kilin

  • Light-Driven and Phonon-Assisted Dynamics in Organic and Semiconductor Nanostructures

    Svetlana Kilina;Dmitri Kilin;Sergei Tretiak

  • Surface ligands increase photoexcitation relaxation rates in CdSe quantum dots.

    Svetlana Kilina;Kirill A. Velizhanin;Sergei A. Ivanov;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Passivating ligand and solvent contributions to the electronic properties of semiconductor nanocrystals

    Sean A. Fischer;Angela M. Crotty;Svetlana V. Kilina;Sergei A. Ivanov

  • Surface Chemistry of Semiconducting Quantum Dots: Theoretical Perspectives

    Svetlana V. Kilina;Patrick K. Tamukong;Dmitri S. Kilin

  • Ab Initio Time-Domain Study of Phonon-Assisted Relaxation of Charge Carriers in a PbSe Quantum Dot

    Svetlana V. Kilina;Colleen F. Craig;Dmitri S. Kilin;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Scanning tunneling microscopy of DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes.

    Dzmitry A. Yarotski;Svetlana V. Kilina;A. Alec Talin;Sergei Tretiak

  • Increasing the triplet lifetime and extending the ground-state absorption of biscyclometalated Ir(III) complexes for reverse saturable absorption and photodynamic therapy applications

    Chengzhe Wang;Levi Lystrom;Huimin Yin;Marc Hetu

  • Ultrafast vibrationally-induced dephasing of electronic excitations in PbSe quantum dots.

    Hideyuki Kamisaka;Svetlana V. Kilina;Koichi Yamashita;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Generation of Multiple Excitons in PbSe and CdSe Quantum Dots by Direct Photoexcitation: First-Principles Calculations on Small PbSe and CdSe Clusters

    Christine M. Isborn;Svetlana V. Kilina;Xiaosong Li;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Ab Initio Study of Temperature and Pressure Dependence of Energy and Phonon-Induced Dephasing of Electronic Excitations in CdSe and PbSe Quantum Dots†

    Hideyuki Kamisaka;Svetlana V. Kilina;Koichi Yamashita;Oleg V. Prezhdo

  • Narrow-band single-photon emission through selective aryl functionalization of zigzag carbon nanotubes

    Avishek Saha;Brendan J. Gifford;Brendan J. Gifford;Xiaowei He;Geyou Ao

  • Low-Temperature Single Carbon Nanotube Spectroscopy of sp3 Quantum Defects.

    Xiaowei He;Brendan J. Gifford;Nicolai F. Hartmann;Rachelle Ihly

  • Electronic Structure of Ligated CdSe Clusters: Dependence on DFT Methodology

    Victor V. Albert;Sergei A. Ivanov;Sergei Tretiak;Svetlana V. Kilina

  • Brightening of the Lowest Exciton in Carbon Nanotubes via Chemical Functionalization

    Svetlana Kilina;Jessica Ramirez;Sergei Tretiak

  • Effects of Extended π-Conjugation in Phenanthroline (N∧N) and Phenylpyridine (C∧N) Ligands on the Photophysics and Reverse Saturable Absorption of Cationic Heteroleptic Iridium(III) Complexes

    Yuhao Li;Naveen Dandu;Rui Liu;Zhongjing Li

  • Controlling Defect-State Photophysics in Covalently Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    Brendan J. Gifford;Svetlana Kilina;Han Htoon;Stephen K. Doorn

  • Determination of exciton-phonon coupling elements in single-walled carbon nanotubes by Raman overtone analysis.

    Andrew P. Shreve;Erik H. Haroz;Sergei M. Bachilo;R. Bruce Weisman

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergei Tretiak
Sergei Tretiak Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oleg V. Prezhdo
Oleg V. Prezhdo University of Southern California
Stephen K. Doorn
Stephen K. Doorn Los Alamos National Laboratory
Han Htoon
Han Htoon Los Alamos National Laboratory
Alexander V. Balatsky
Alexander V. Balatsky University of Connecticut
Erik K. Hobbie
Erik K. Hobbie North Dakota State University
Xiaolin Zhu
Xiaolin Zhu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ming Zheng
Ming Zheng National Institute of Standards and Technology
A. Alec Talin
A. Alec Talin Sandia National Laboratories
Clemens Burda
Clemens Burda Case Western Reserve University

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