个人简介

Hugo Bronstein is a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry who works on the synthesis of conjugated polymers and small molecules for organic electronics. His group is multidisciplinary and currently consists of 1 postdoc, 5 PhD students and 2 MRes students. Research within his group includes the synthesis of novel conjugated materials for organic solar cells, light emitting diodes, transistors and other novel applications. He was worked at UCL since 2013. Before this, he was an Imperial College Junior Research Fellow working with Professor Iain McCulloch and Professor James Durrant.

研究领域

Organic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Conjugated polymers Planar aromatic small molecules Organic Solar Cells Organic Light Emitting Diodes Organic Field Effect Tansistors Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites Sustainable synthesis of conjugated materials Singlet Fission, Up-Conversion, Reverse Intersystem Crossing

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Hayes, S. C., Pieridou, G., Vezie, M., Few, S., Bronstein, H., Meager, I., . . . Nelson, J. (2016). Effect of molecular weight on the vibronic structure of a diketopyrrolopyrrole polymer. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF INTERFACES AND NANOMATERIALS XV, 9923. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. doi:10.1117/12.2238123 Bronstein, H., & King, F. D. (2016). Energetic tuning in spirocyclic conjugated polymers. Polymers, 8 (1). doi:10.3390/polym8010009 Vezie, M. S., Few, S., Meager, I., Pieridou, G., Dorling, B., Ashraf, R. S., . . . Nelson, J. (2016). Exploring the origin of high optical absorption in conjugated polymers. NATURE MATERIALS, 15 (7), 746-+. doi:10.1038/NMAT4645 Travis, W., Knapp, C. E., Savory, C. N., Ganose, A. M., Kafourou, P., Song, X., . . . Palgrave, R. G. (2016). Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Coordination Complexes as Tunable Optical Response Materials. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, 55 (7), 3393-3400. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02749 Fallon, K. J., Wijeyasinghe, N., Manley, E. F., Dimitrov, S. D., Yousaf, S. A., Ashraf, R. S., . . . Bronstein, H. (2016). Indolo-naphthyridine-6,13-dione thiophene building block for conjugated polymer electronics: Molecular origin of ultrahigh n-type mobility. Chemistry of Materials, 28 (22), 8366-8378. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b03671 Travis, W., Glover, E. N. K., Bronstein, H., Scanlon, D. O., & Palgrave, R. G. (2016). On the application of the tolerance factor to inorganic and hybrid halide perovskites: a revised system. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 7 (7), 4548-4556. doi:10.1039/c5sc04845a Hu, Y., Goodeal, N., Chen, Y., Ganose, A. M., Palgrave, R. G., Bronstein, H., & Blunt, M. O. (2016). Probing the chemical structure of monolayer covalent-organic frameworks grown via Schiff-base condensation reactions. CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, 52 (64), 9941-9944. doi:10.1039/c6cc03895f Dimitrov, S. D., Schroeder, B. C., Nielsen, C. B., Bronstein, H., Fei, Z., McCulloch, I., . . . Durrant, J. R. (2016). Singlet Exciton Lifetimes in Conjugated Polymer Films for Organic Solar Cells. POLYMERS, 8 (1), ARTN 14. doi:10.3390/polym8010014 Savory, C. N., Palgrave, R. G., Bronstein, H., & Scanlon, D. O. (2016). Spatial Electron-hole Separation in a One Dimensional Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Lead Iodide. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 6, ARTN 20626. doi:10.1038/srep20626 Fallon, K. J., Dimitrov, S., Durrant, J., Bronstein, H., & Clarke, T. M. (2016). Transient absorption spectroscopy of ultra-low band gap polymers for organic electronic applications. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY OF INTERFACES AND NANOMATERIALS XV, 9923. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. doi:10.1117/12.2237629 Fallon, K. J., Wijeyasinghe, N., Yaacobi-Gross, N., Ashraf, R. S., Freeman, D. M. E., Palgrave, R. G., . . . Bronstein, H. (2015). A Nature-Inspired Conjugated Polymer for High Performance Transistors and Solar Cells. MACROMOLECULES, 48 (15), 5148-5154. doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00542 Andernach, R. E., Rossbauer, S., Ashraf, R. S., Faber, H., Anthopoulos, T. D., McCulloch, I., . . . Bronstein, H. A. (2015). Conjugated Polymer-Porphyrin Complexes for Organic Electronics. CHEMPHYSCHEM, 16 (6), 1223-1230. doi:10.1002/cphc.201402759 Andernach, R. E., Rossbauer, S., Ashraf, R. S., Faber, H., Anthopoulos, T. D., McCulloch, I., . . . Bronstein, H. A. (2015). Conjugated polymer-porphyrin complexes for organic electronics. ChemPhysChem, 16 (6), 1223-1230. doi:10.1002/cphc.201402759 Freeman, D. M. E., Tregnago, G., Rodriguez, S. A., Fallon, K. J., Cacialli, F., & Bronstein, H. (2015). Deep-red electrophosphorescence from a platinum(II)–porphyrin complex copolymerised with polyfluorene for efficient energy transfer and triplet harvesting. Journal of Organic Semiconductors, 3 (1), 1-7. doi:10.1080/21606099.2015.1047473 Freeman, D. M. E., Minotto, A., Duffy, W., Fallon, K. J., McCulloch, I., Cacialli, F., & Bronstein, H. (2015). Highly red-shifted NIR emission from a novel anthracene conjugated polymer backbone containing Pt(II) porphyrins. POLYMER CHEMISTRY, 7 (3), 722-730. doi:10.1039/c5py01473e Bronstein, H. A., Falon, K., Yaacobi-Gross, N., Ashraf, R. S., McCulloch, I., & Anthopoulos, T. D. (2015). Novel nature-inspired conjugated polymers for high performance transistors and solar cells. ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS XIV; AND ORGANIC SENSORS AND BIOELECTRONICS VIII, 9568. SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. doi:10.1117/12.2187844 Wade, J., Wood, S., Beatrup, D., Hurhangee, M., Bronstein, H., McCulloch, I., . . . Kim, J. -. S. (2015). Operational electrochemical stability of thiophene-thiazole copolymers probed by resonant Raman spectroscopy. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 142 (24), ARTN 244904. doi:10.1063/1.4923197 Baran, D., Vezie, M. S., Gasparini, N., Deledalle, F., Yao, J., Schroeder, B. C., . . . Brabec, C. J. (2015). Role of Polymer Fractionation in Energetic Losses and Charge Carrier Lifetimes of Polymer: Fullerene Solar Cells. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119 (34), 19668-19673. doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b05709 Bhachu, D. S., Scanlon, D. O., Saban, E. J., Bronstein, H., Parkin, I. P., Carmalt, C. J., & Palgrave, R. G. (2015). Scalable route to CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin films by aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, 3 (17), 9071-9073. doi:10.1039/c4ta05522e Andemach, R., Utzat, H., Dimitrov, S. D., McCulloch, I., Heeney, M., Durrant, J. R., & Bronstein, H. (2015). Synthesis and Exciton Dynamics of Triplet Sensitized Conjugated Polymers. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 137 (32), 10383-10390. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b06223 Marshall, J., Schroeder, B. C., Bronstein, H., Meager, I., Rossbauer, S., Yaacobi-Gross, N., . . . Heeney, M. (2014). Benzocarborano[2,1- b:3,4- b ′]dithiophene containing conjugated polymers: Synthesis, characterization, and optoelectronic properties. Macromolecules, 47 (1), 89-96. doi:10.1021/ma402273w Rumer, J. W., Schroeder, B. C., Nielsen, C. B., Ashraf, R. S., Beatrup, D., Bronstein, H., . . . McCulloch, I. (2014). Bis-lactam-based donor polymers for organic solar cells: Evolution by design. Thin Solid Films, 560, 82-85. doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2013.10.089 Soon, Y. W., Shoaee, S., Ashraf, R. S., Bronstein, H., Schroeder, B. C., Zhang, W., . . . Durrant, J. R. (2014). Material crystallinity as a determinant of triplet dynamics and oxygen quenching in donor polymers for organic photovoltaic devices. Advanced Functional Materials, 24 (10), 1474-1482. doi:10.1002/adfm.201302612 Wong, H. C., Li, Z., Tan, C. H., Zhong, H., Huang, Z., Bronstein, H., . . . Durrant, J. R. (2014). Morphological stability and performance of polymer-fullerene solar cells under thermal stress: the impact of photoinduced PC60BM oligomerization. ACS Nano, 8 (2), 1297-1308. doi:10.1021/nn404687s Huang, Z., Fregoso, E. C., Dimitrov, S., Tuladhar, P. S., Soon, Y. W., Bronstein, H., . . . Durrant, J. R. (2014). Optimisation of diketopyrrolopyrrole:fullerene solar cell performance through control of polymer molecular weight and thermal annealing. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2 (45), 19282-19289. doi:10.1039/c4ta03589e