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Villy Sundström

Villy Sundström

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Chemistry
Sweden
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
105
Citations
34567
World Ranking
1027
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Villy Sundström is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden, with a research focus spanning chemistry and engineering disciplines. Their work particularly engages with subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and materials chemistry.

Their recent publications demonstrate an applied and interdisciplinary approach, often intersecting chemistry and energy materials. Notable papers include:

  • Photophysics and Photochemistry of Iron Carbene Complexes for Solar Energy Conversion and Photocatalysis, 2020, Catalysts
  • Photofunctionality of iron(III) N-heterocyclic carbenes and related d transition metal complexes, 2020, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Ultrafast laser spectroscopy uncovers mechanisms of light energy conversion in photosynthesis and sustainable energy materials, 2022, Chemical Physics Reviews
  • Investigating ultrafast carrier dynamics in perovskite solar cells with an extended π-conjugated polymeric diketopyrrolopyrrole layer for hole transportation, 2020, RSC Advances
  • Publisher's Note: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering Study of Ultrafast Photoinduced Structural Dynamics in Solvated Co(terpy)2, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Their collaborations frequently involve co-authors such as Pavel Chábera, Kenneth Wärnmark, Petter Persson, Linnea Lindh, and Nils W. Rosemann.

Villy Sundström predominantly publishes their research in venues including ECS Meeting Abstracts, Catalysts, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Chemical Physics Reviews, and RSC Advances.

The scientist's research addresses multiple core topics relevant to chemical and material sciences, namely:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry

This range of topics reflects a focus on energy conversion, catalysis, and advanced materials chemistry with applications in sustainable energy technologies and organic-inorganic hybrid systems.

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

  • Energy transfer and trapping in photosynthesis

    Rienk van Grondelle;Jan P. Dekker;Tomas Gillbro;Villy Sundstrom

  • Ultrafast dynamics of carotenoid excited States-from solution to natural and artificial systems.

    Tomas Polivka;Villy Sundström

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

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

  • Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Pigment−Protein Complexes: Toward Understanding How and Why

    Tõnu Pullerits and;Villy Sundström

  • Photoinduced Ultrafast Dye-to-Semiconductor Electron Injection from Nonthermalized and Thermalized Donor States.

    Gábor Benkö;Jani Kallioinen;‡ Jouko E. I. Korppi-Tommola;and Arkady P. Yartsev

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

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

  • Influence of solvent mixing on the morphology and performance of solar cells based on polyfluorene copolymer/fullerene blends

    Fengling Zhang;Kim G. Jespersen;Cecilia Björström;Mattias Svensson

  • Modified phthalocyanines for efficient near-IR sensitization of nanostructured TiO(2) electrode.

    Jianjun He;Gábor Benkö;Ferenc Korodi;Tomás Polívka

  • Biomimetic and microbial approaches to solar fuel generation.

    Ann Magnuson;Magnus Anderlund;Olof Johansson;Peter Lindblad

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

    Yuxi Tian;Maximilian Peter;Eva Unger;Mohamed Abdellah

  • A low-spin Fe( iii ) complex with 100-ps ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoluminescence

    Pavel Chabera;Yizhu Liu;Om Prakash;Erling Thyrhaug

  • Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime.

    Kasper Skov Kjær;Nidhi Kaul;Om Prakash;Pavel Chábera

  • Exciton Delocalization Length in the B850 Antenna of Rhodobacter sphaeroides

    Tõnu Pullerits;and Mirianas Chachisvilis;Villy Sundström

  • Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Solar Energy Conversion

    Carlito S. Ponseca;Pavel Chábera;Jens Uhlig;Petter Persson

  • Photoluminescence quenching at a polythiophene/C-60 heterojunction

    M. Theander;Arkady Yartsev;Donatas Zigmantas;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

  • Intrinsic femtosecond charge generation dynamics in single crystal CH3NH3PbI3

    David A. Valverde-Chávez;Carlito S. Ponseca;Constantinos C. Stoumpos;Arkady Yartsev

  • Direct observation of the (forbidden) S1 state in carotenoids.

    Tomáš Polívka;Jennifer L. Herek;Donatas Zigmantas;Hans-Erik Åkerlund

Frequent Co-Authors

Arkady Yartsev
Arkady Yartsev Lund University
Tomáš Polívka
Tomáš Polívka University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Tõnu Pullerits
Tõnu Pullerits Lund University
Pavel Chábera
Pavel Chábera Lund University
Olle Inganäs
Olle Inganäs Linköping University
Petter Persson
Petter Persson Lund University
Licheng Sun
Licheng Sun Royal Institute of Technology
Mats Andersson
Mats Andersson Flinders University
Reiner Lomoth
Reiner Lomoth Uppsala University
Stenbjörn Styring
Stenbjörn Styring Uppsala University

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