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Tõnu Pullerits

Tõnu Pullerits

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
21944
World Ranking
3616
National Ranking
43

Tõnu Pullerits 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 Tõnu Pullerits sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 292 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tõnu Pullerits 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 Tõnu Pullerits sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tõnu Pullerits is a researcher affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Polymers and Plastics.

Their research topics include Perovskite Materials and Applications, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, Conducting Polymers and Applications, and Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics.

Frequently collaborating with other scholars, some of their notable coauthors are Kaibo Zheng, Weihua Lin, Jie Meng, Peng Song, and Junsheng Chen.

Tõnu Pullerits has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent publications in arXiv (Cornell University), The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Nature Communications, The Cambridge Structural Database, and Advanced Functional Materials.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Mixed halide perovskites for spectrally stable and high-efficiency blue light-emitting diodes, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Ultrafast charge transfer dynamics in 2D covalent organic frameworks/Re-complex hybrid photocatalyst, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Stable CsPb1-xZnxI3 Colloidal Quantum Dots with Ultralow Density of Trap States for High-Performance Solar Cells, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Manipulating crystallization dynamics through chelating molecules for bright perovskite emitters, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Advancing Tin Halide Perovskites: Strategies toward the ASnX3 Paradigm for Efficient and Durable Optoelectronics, 2020, ACS Energy Letters

Best Publications

  • Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cell Materials Rationalized: Ultrafast Charge Generation, High and Microsecond-Long Balanced Mobilities, and Slow Recombination

    Carlito S. Ponseca;Tom J. Savenije;Mohamed Abdellah;Mohamed Abdellah;Kaibo Zheng

  • Photosynthetic light-harvesting: Reconciling dynamics and structure of purple bacterial LH2 reveals function of photosynthetic unit

    V. Sundstrom;T. Pullerits;R. Van Grondelle

  • Lead-Free, Air-Stable All-Inorganic Cesium Bismuth Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals

    Bin Yang;Bin Yang;Junsheng Chen;Junsheng Chen;Feng Hong;Feng Hong;Xin Mao;Xin Mao

  • Thermally Activated Exciton Dissociation and Recombination Control the Carrier Dynamics in Organometal Halide Perovskite

    Tom J. Savenije;Carlito S. Ponseca;Lucas Kunneman;Mohamed Abdellah

  • 14.7% Efficiency Organic Photovoltaic Cells Enabled by Active Materials with a Large Electrostatic Potential Difference

    Huifeng Yao;Yong Cui;Deping Qian;Carlito S. Ponseca

  • Mixed halide perovskites for spectrally stable and high-efficiency blue light-emitting diodes.

    Max Karlsson;Ziyue Yi;Ziyue Yi;Sebastian Reichert;Xiyu Luo;Xiyu Luo

  • Origin of long-lived coherences in light-harvesting complexes.

    Niklas Christensson;Harald F. Kauffmann;Harald F. Kauffmann;Tõnu Pullerits;Tomáš Mančal

  • Lead-Free Silver-Bismuth Halide Double Perovskite Nanocrystals.

    Bin Yang;Bin Yang;Junsheng Chen;Junsheng Chen;Songqiu Yang;Feng Hong;Feng Hong

  • Mechanistic insights into perovskite photoluminescence enhancement: light curing with oxygen can boost yield thousandfold

    Yuxi Tian;Maximilian Peter;Eva Unger;Mohamed Abdellah

  • Tailoring Organic Cation of 2D Air-Stable Organometal Halide Perovskites for Highly Efficient Planar Solar Cells

    Yani Chen;Yong-Hui Sun;Jiajun Peng;Wei Zhang

  • Exciton Delocalization Length in the B850 Antenna of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

    Tõnu Pullerits;and Mirianas Chachisvilis;Villy Sundström

  • The electronic states of polyfluorene copolymers with alternating donor-acceptor units.

    Kim G. Jespersen;Wichard J. D. Beenken;Yuri Zaushitsyn;Arkady Yartsev

  • Excited state and charge photogeneration dynamics in conjugated polymers

    Ivan G. Scheblykin;Arkady Yartsev;Tonu Pullerits;Vidmantas Gulbinas

  • Ultrasensitive and Fast All‐Inorganic Perovskite‐Based Photodetector via Fast Carrier Diffusion

    Bin Yang;Bin Yang;Fengying Zhang;Junsheng Chen;Junsheng Chen;Songqiu Yang

  • Cation-Dependent Hot Carrier Cooling in Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals.

    Junsheng Chen;Maria E. Messing;Kaibo Zheng;Kaibo Zheng;Tonu Pullerits

  • Spectroscopic units in conjugated polymers: a quantum chemically founded concept?

    Wichard J. D. Beenken;Tonu Pullerits

  • Exciton Binding Energy and the Nature of Emissive States in Organometal Halide Perovskites.

    Kaibo Zheng;Qiushi Zhu;Mohamed Abdellah;Mohamed Abdellah;Maria E. Messing

  • Exciton–vibrational coupling in the dynamics and spectroscopy of Frenkel excitons in molecular aggregates

    M. Schröter;S.D. Ivanov;J. Schulze;S.P. Polyutov;S.P. Polyutov

  • Insights into charge carrier dynamics in organo-metal halide perovskites: from neat films to solar cells

    Jiajun Peng;Yani Chen;Kaibo Zheng;Kaibo Zheng;Tõnu Pullerits

  • Electron-vibrational coupling in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex of Prosthecochloris aestuarii determined by temperature dependent absorption and fluorescence line narrowing measurements

    M. Wendling;T. Pullerits;M.A. Przyjalgowski;S.I.E. Vulto

  • Theoretical Characterization of the PC60BM:PDDTT Model for an Organic Solar Cell

    Yuanzuo Li;Yuanzuo Li;Tönu Pullerits;Meiyu Zhao;Meiyu Zhao;Mengtao Sun

  • Excitons in Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria: Wavelike Motion or Incoherent Hopping?

    Mirianas Chachisvilis;Oliver Kühn;Tõnu Pullerits;Villy Sundström

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaibo Zheng
Kaibo Zheng Technical University of Denmark
Villy Sundström
Villy Sundström Lund University
Pavel Chábera
Pavel Chábera Lund University
Arkady Yartsev
Arkady Yartsev Lund University
Tomáš Polívka
Tomáš Polívka University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Ivan G. Scheblykin
Ivan G. Scheblykin Lund University
Mengtao Sun
Mengtao Sun University of Science and Technology Beijing
Richard J. Cogdell
Richard J. Cogdell University of Glasgow
Ke-Li Han
Ke-Li Han Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Jianjun Tian
Jianjun Tian University of Science and Technology Beijing

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