Publications: Dr Stoichko Dimitrov

Chen K, Miao H, Dimitrov S, Palma M ( 2025 ) . Mixed‐Dimensional 0D‐DNA‐2D Heterostructures Beyond van der Waals: A DNA‐Templated Strategy for Optoelectronic Tunability . Advanced Functional Materials

Liu Y, Li X, Abelian L, Lau CH, Min Z, Hao Y, Dimitrov S ( 2025 ) . Room-Temperature Perovskite Phase Transition of CsPbI3 for PV Manufacturing on Flexible Substrates . ACS Omega vol. 10 , ( 7 ) 7102 - 7111 .

Zhang Y, He Q, Tian G, Li X, Zeng C, Ren P, Abrahams I, Bilotti E et al. ( 2025 ) . Balancing PEDOT:PSS conductivity for optimal power output of p-n junction based ZnO piezoelectric nanogenerator . Journal of Alloys and Compounds vol. 1010 , 177086 - 177086 .

Li X, Nasti G, Dreessen C, Dagar J, Meitzner R, Amoroso D, Maffettone PL, Kirchartz T et al. ( 2025 ) . Printing of tin perovskite solar cells via controlled crystallization . Sustainable Energy & Fuels vol. 9 , ( 8 ) 2063 - 2071 .

Li X, Dimitrov SD ( 2024 ) . Scaling Up Perovskite Solar Cell Fabrication: Antisolvent‐Controlled Crystallization of Printed Perovskite Semiconductor . Solar RRL vol. 8 , ( 16 )

Machreki M, Tyuliev G, Žigon D, Guo Q, Chouki T, Sobrido ABJ, Dimitrov S, Emin S ( 2024 ) . Photoelectrochemical activation of peroxymonosulfate using Sn-doped α-Fe2O3 thin film for degradation of anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical drug . Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry vol. 446 ,

Maho A, Kim DK, Wade J, Bryan E, Henrard L, Olivier Y, Dimitrov SD, Cloots R et al. ( 2024 ) . Towards photoelectrochromic modulation of NIR absorption in plasmonic ITO using pentacene films . Journal of Materials Chemistry C vol. 12 , ( 45 ) 18308 - 18319 .

Dimitrov S . Optimising the crystallization of lead-free Sn perovskite solar cells for slot-die coated devices . Conference: Proceedings of the MATSUS Spring 2024 Conference

Dimitrov S, Li X . Scaling up slot-die coated perovskite solar cells by implementing in-situ optical analysis of the printing process . Conference: Proceedings of the International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics

Marin-Beloqui JM, Congrave DG, Toolan DTW, Montanaro S, Guo J, Wright IA, Clarke TM, Bronstein H et al. ( 2023 ) . Generating Long-Lived Triplet Excited States in Narrow Bandgap Conjugated Polymers . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 145 , ( 6 ) 3507 - 3514 .

Guo Q, Zhao Q, Crespo-Otero R, Di Tommaso D, Tang J, Dimitrov SD, Titirici MM, Li X et al. ( 2023 ) . Single-Atom Iridium on Hematite Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting: Catalyst or Spectator? . Journal of the American Chemical Society

Ye Q, Xu X, Paghi A, Bamford T, Horrocks BR, Houlton A, Barillaro G, Dimitrov S et al. ( 2021 ) . Solution-Processable Carbon Nanotube Nanohybrids for Multiplexed Photoresponsive Devices . Advanced Functional Materials

Hernández FJ, Fei Z, Osborne C, Crespo-Otero R, Heeney M, Dimitrov SD ( 2021 ) . Triplet Generation Dynamics in Si- and Ge-Bridged Conjugated Copolymers . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter

Hou B, Kim BS, Lee HKH, Cho Y, Giraud P, Liu M, Zhang J, Davies ML et al. ( 2020 ) . Multiphoton Absorption Stimulated Metal Chalcogenide Quantum Dot Solar Cells under Ambient and Concentrated Irradiance . Advanced Functional Materials

Daboczi M, Kim J, Lee J, Kang H, Hamilton I, Lin C, Dimitrov SD, McLachlan MA et al. ( 2020 ) . Towards Efficient Integrated Perovskite/Organic Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells: Interfacial Energetic Requirement to Reduce Charge Carrier Recombination Losses . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 30 , ( 25 )

Luo H, Dimitrov SD, Daboczi M, Kim J-S, Guo Q, Fang Y, Stoeckel M-A, Samorì P et al. ( 2020 ) . Nitrogen-doped Carbon Dots/TiO2 Nanoparticle Composites for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation . ACS Applied Nano Materials Article acsanm.9b02412 ,

Péan EV, De Castro CS, Dimitrov S, De Rossi F, Meroni S, Baker J, Watson T, Davies ML ( 2020 ) . Investigating the Superoxide Formation and Stability in Mesoporous Carbon Perovskite Solar Cells with an Aminovaleric Acid Additive . Advanced Functional Materials

Péan EV, Dimitrov S, De Castro CS, Davies ML ( 2020 ) . Interpreting time-resolved photoluminescence of perovskite materials . Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics vol. 22 , ( 48 ) 28345 - 28358 .

Luo H, Liu Y, Dimitrov SD, Steier L, Guo S, Li X, Feng J, Xie F et al. ( 2020 ) . Pt single-atoms supported on nitrogen-doped carbon dots for highly efficient photocatalytic hydrogen generation . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 8 , ( 29 ) 14690 - 14696 .

Luo H, Papaioannou N, Salvadori E, Roessler MM, Ploenes G, van Eck ERH, Tanase LC, Feng J et al. ( 2019 ) . Cover Feature: Manipulating the Optical Properties of Carbon Dots by Fine‐Tuning their Structural Features (ChemSusChem 19/2019) . ChemSusChem vol. 12 , ( 19 ) 4335 - 4335 .

Luo H, Papaioannou N, Salvadori E, Roessler M, Ploenes G, van Eck ERH, Tanase L, Feng J et al. ( 2019 ) . Manipulating the optical properties of carbon dots via fine tuning their structural features . ChemSusChem

Speller EM, Clarke AJ, Aristidou N, Wyatt MF, Francàs L, Fish G, Cha H, Lee HKH et al. ( 2019 ) . Toward improved environmental stability of polymer: Fullerene and polymer:Nonfullerene organic solar cells: A common energetic origin of light- A nd oxygen-induced degradation . ACS Energy Letters vol. 4 , ( 4 ) 846 - 852 .

Dimitrov SD, Azzouzi M, Wu J, Yao J, Dong Y, Tuladhar PS, Schroeder BC, Bittner ER et al. ( 2019 ) . Spectroscopic Investigation of the Effect of Microstructure and Energetic Offset on the Nature of Interfacial Charge Transfer States in Polymer: Fullerene Blends . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 141 , ( 11 ) 4634 - 4643 .

Luke J, Speller EM, Wadsworth A, Wyatt MF, Dimitrov S, Lee HKH, Li Z, Tsoi WC et al. ( 2019 ) . Twist and Degrade—Impact of Molecular Structure on the Photostability of Nonfullerene Acceptors and Their Photovoltaic Blends . Advanced Energy Materials vol. 9 , ( 15 )

Tan C-H, Wadsworth A, Gasparini N, Wheeler S, Holliday S, Ashraf RS, Dimitrov SD, Baran D et al. ( 2018 ) . Excitation Wavelength-Dependent Internal Quantum Efficiencies in a P3HT/Nonfullerene Acceptor Solar Cell . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 123 , ( 10 ) 5826 - 5832 .

Sachs M, Sprick RS, Pearce D, Hillman SAJ, Monti A, Guilbert AAY, Brownbill NJ, Dimitrov S et al. ( 2018 ) . Understanding structure-activity relationships in linear polymer photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution . Nature Communications vol. 9 , ( 1 )

Kim J, Godin R, Dimitrov SD, Du T, Bryant D, McLachlan MA, Durrant JR ( 2018 ) . Excitation Density Dependent Photoluminescence Quenching and Charge Transfer Efficiencies in Hybrid Perovskite/Organic Semiconductor Bilayers . Advanced Energy Materials vol. 8 , ( 35 )

Cha H, Wheeler S, Holliday S, Dimitrov SD, Wadsworth A, Lee HH, Baran D, McCulloch I et al. ( 2017 ) . Influence of Blend Morphology and Energetics on Charge Separation and Recombination Dynamics in Organic Solar Cells Incorporating a Nonfullerene Acceptor . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 28 , ( 3 )

Keiderling C, Dimitrov S, Durrant JR ( 2017 ) . Exciton and Charge Generation in PC 60 BM Thin Films . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 121 , ( 27 ) 14470 - 14475 .

Utzat H, Dimitrov SD, Wheeler S, Collado-Fregoso E, Tuladhar PS, Schroeder BC, McCulloch I, Durrant JR ( 2017 ) . Charge Separation in Intermixed Polymer:PC<inf>70</inf>BM Photovoltaic Blends: Correlating Structural and Photophysical Length Scales as a Function of Blend Composition . Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 121 , ( 18 ) 9790 - 9801 .

Collado‐Fregoso E, Deledalle F, Utzat H, Tuladhar PS, Dimitrov SD, Gillett A, Tan C, Zhang W et al. ( 2016 ) . Photophysical Study of DPPTT‐T/PC70BM Blends and Solar Devices as a Function of Fullerene Loading: An Insight into EQE Limitations of DPP‐Based Polymers . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 27 , ( 6 )

Baran D, Kirchartz T, Wheeler S, Dimitrov S, Abdelsamie M, Gorman J, Ashraf RS, Holliday S et al. ( 2016 ) . Reduced voltage losses yield 10% efficient fullerene free organic solar cells with >1 V open circuit voltages . Energy and Environmental Science vol. 9 , ( 12 ) 3783 - 3793 .

Vezie MS, Dimitrov SD, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, McCulloch I, Campoy-Quiles M, Durrant JR, Nelson J ( 2016 ) . Charge generation in polymer:fullerene photovoltaic systems (Conference Presentation) . Proceedings of SPIE . Conference: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics99420z-99420z-1 - 99420z-99420z-1 .

Fallon KJ, Wijeyasinghe N, Manley EF, Dimitrov SD, Yousaf SA, Ashraf RS, Duffy W, Guilbert AAY et al. ( 2016 ) . Indolo-naphthyridine-6,13-dione Thiophene Building Block for Conjugated Polymer Electronics: Molecular Origin of Ultrahigh n‑Type Mobility . Chemistry of Materials vol. 28 , ( 22 ) 8366 - 8378 .

Fallon KJ, Dimitrov S, Durrant J, Bronstein H, Clarke TM ( 2016 ) . Transient absorption spectroscopy of ultra-low band gap polymers for organic electronic applications . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Physical Chemistry of Interfaces and Nanomaterials XV vol. 9923 ,

Casey A, Dimitrov SD, Shakya-Tuladhar P, Fei Z, Nguyen M, Han Y, Anthopoulos TD, Durrant JR et al. ( 2016 ) . Effect of Systematically Tuning Conjugated Donor Polymer Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital Levels via Cyano Substitution on Organic Photovoltaic Device Performance . Chemistry of Materials vol. 28 , ( 14 ) 5110 - 5120 .

Holliday S, Ashraf RS, Wadsworth A, Baran D, Yousaf SA, Nielsen CB, Tan CH, Dimitrov SD et al. ( 2016 ) . High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor . Nature Communications vol. 7 , 11585 - 11585 .

Berndl S, Dimitrov SD, Menacher F, Fiebig T, Wagenknecht H ( 2016 ) . Thiazole Orange Dimers in DNA: Fluorescent Base Substitutions with Hybridization Readout . Chemistry - A European Journal vol. 22 , ( 7 ) 2386 - 2395 .

Dimitrov SD, Schroeder BC, Nielsen CB, Bronstein H, Fei Z, McCulloch I, Heeney M, Durrant JR ( 2016 ) . Singlet Exciton Lifetimes in Conjugated Polymer Films for Organic Solar Cells . Polymers vol. 8 , ( 1 )

Andernach R, Utzat H, Dimitrov SD, McCulloch I, Heeney M, Durrant JR, Bronstein H ( 2015 ) . Synthesis and Exciton Dynamics of Triplet Sensitized Conjugated Polymers . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 137 , ( 32 ) 10383 - 10390 .

Dimitrov SD, Wheeler S, Niedzialek D, Schroeder BC, Utzat H, Frost JM, Yao J, Gillett A et al. ( 2015 ) . Polaron pair mediated triplet generation in polymer/fullerene blends . Nature Communications vol. 6 , ( 1 )

O'Mahony FTF, Lee YH, Jellett C, Dmitrov S, Bryant DTJ, Durrant JR, O'Regan BC, Graetzel M et al. ( 2015 ) . Improved environmental stability of organic lead trihalide perovskite-based photoactive-layers in the presence of mesoporous TiO 2 . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 3 , ( 14 ) 7219 - 7223 .

Law C, Miseikis L, Dimitrov S, Shakya‐Tuladhar P, Li X, Barnes PRF, Durrant J, O'Regan BC ( 2014 ) . Performance and Stability of Lead Perovskite/TiO2, Polymer/PCBM, and Dye Sensitized Solar Cells at Light Intensities up to 70 Suns . Advanced Materials vol. 26 , ( 36 ) 6268 - 6273 .

Shivanna R, Shoaee S, Dimitrov S, Kandappa SK, Rajaram S, Durrant JR, Narayan KS ( 2014 ) . Charge generation and transport in efficient organic bulk heterojunction solar cells with a perylene acceptor . Energy & Environmental Science vol. 7 , ( 1 ) 435 - 441 .

Huang Z, Fregoso EC, Dimitrov S, Tuladhar PS, Soon YW, Bronstein H, Meager I, Zhang W et al. ( 2014 ) . Optimisation of diketopyrrolopyrrole:fullerene solar cell performance through control of polymer molecular weight and thermal annealing . Journal of Materials Chemistry A vol. 2 , ( 45 ) 19282 - 19289 .

Dimitrov SD, Huang Z, Deledalle F, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Ashraf RS, Shoaee S, McCulloch I et al. ( 2014 ) . Towards optimisation of photocurrent from fullerene excitons in organic solar cells . Energy & Environmental Science vol. 7 , ( 3 ) 1037 - 1043 .

Cappel UB, Dowland SA, Reynolds LX, Dimitrov S, Haque SA ( 2013 ) . Charge Generation Dynamics in CdS:P3HT Blends for Hybrid Solar Cells . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 4 , ( 24 ) 4253 - 4257 .

Juozapavicius M, Kaucikas M, Dimitrov SD, Barnes PRF, van Thor JJ, O’Regan BC ( 2013 ) . Evidence for “Slow” Electron Injection in Commercially Relevant Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by vis–NIR and IR Pump–Probe Spectroscopy . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 117 , ( 48 ) 25317 - 25324 .

Bronstein H, Hurhangee M, Fregoso EC, Beatrup D, Soon YW, Huang Z, Hadipour A, Tuladhar PS et al. ( 2013 ) . Isostructural, Deeper Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital Analogues of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for High-Open Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells . Chemistry of Materials vol. 25 , ( 21 ) 4239 - 4249 .

Dimitrov SD, Durrant JR ( 2013 ) . Materials Design Considerations for Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells . Chemistry of Materials vol. 26 , ( 1 ) 616 - 630 .

Bronstein H, Collado‐Fregoso E, Hadipour A, Soon YW, Huang Z, Dimitrov SD, Ashraf RS, Rand BP et al. ( 2013 ) . Thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene‐diketopyrrolopyrrole Containing Polymers for Inverted Solar Cells Devices with High Short Circuit Currents . Advanced Functional Materials vol. 23 , ( 45 ) 5647 - 5654 .

Bakulin AA, Dimitrov SD, Rao A, Chow PCY, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, McCulloch I, Bakker HJ et al. ( 2012 ) . Charge-Transfer State Dynamics Following Hole and Electron Transfer in Organic Photovoltaic Devices . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 4 , ( 1 ) 209 - 215 .

Dimitrov SD, Bakulin AA, Nielsen CB, Schroeder BC, Du J, Bronstein H, McCulloch I, Friend RH et al. ( 2012 ) . On the Energetic Dependence of Charge Separation in Low-Band-Gap Polymer/Fullerene Blends . Journal of the American Chemical Society vol. 134 , ( 44 ) 18189 - 18192 .

Dimitrov SD, Nielsen CB, Shoaee S, Tuladhar PS, Du J, McCulloch I, Durrant JR ( 2011 ) . Efficient Charge Photogeneration by the Dissociation of PC70BM Excitons in Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cells . The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters vol. 3 , ( 1 ) 140 - 144 .

Dimitrov SD, Dooley CJ, Trifonov AA, Fiebig T ( 2009 ) . Femtosecond Probing of Optical Phonon Dynamics in Quantum-Confined CdTe Nanocrystals . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 113 , ( 10 ) 4198 - 4201 .

Dooley CJ, Dimitrov SD, Fiebig T ( 2008 ) . Ultrafast Electron Transfer Dynamics in CdSe/CdTe Donor−Acceptor Nanorods . The Journal of Physical Chemistry C vol. 112 , ( 32 ) 12074 - 12076 .