Alexander Urban

7.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
54 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander Urban is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Urban has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 22 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexander Urban's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (11 papers). Alexander Urban is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (25 papers) and Machine Learning in Materials Science (11 papers). Alexander Urban collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Alexander Urban's co-authors include Gerbrand Ceder, Jinhyuk Lee, Dong‐Hwa Seo, Nongnuch Artrith, Rahul Malik, ShinYoung Kang, Xin Li, Dong Su, Geoffroy Hautier and Aziz Abdellahi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Urban

52 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The structural and chemical origin of the oxygen redox activity in layered and cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials

2016 1.3k citations Dong‐Hwa Seo, Jinhyuk Lee et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
Unlocking the Potential of Cation-Disordered Oxides for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

2014 1.0k citations Jinhyuk Lee, Alexander Urban et al. profile →
Computational understanding of Li-ion batteries

2016 543 citations Alexander Urban, Dong‐Hwa Seo et al. npj Computational Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Urban United States	28	4.8k	2.0k	1.2k	1.1k	807	54	6.2k
P. Alex Greaney United States	25	3.0k 0.6×	906 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	535 0.5×	186 0.2×	68	3.9k
Andrew J. Morris United Kingdom	32	2.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	720 0.6×	467 0.4×	274 0.3×	90	3.7k
Zhi Deng United States	22	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	192 0.2×	729 0.6×	253 0.3×	28	4.0k
Zi‐Zhong Zhu China	35	2.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	428 0.4×	618 0.8×	144	4.6k
Li Sheng China	45	2.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	884 0.8×	354 0.4×	288	7.7k
Arnaud Demortière France	34	3.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	1.6k 1.3×	697 0.6×	259 0.3×	87	5.2k
Zhufeng Hou China	41	3.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.6×	959 0.8×	107 0.1×	405 0.5×	147	6.1k
Michel Rosso France	34	3.9k 0.8×	864 0.4×	265 0.2×	2.1k 1.9×	214 0.3×	90	5.2k
Michael Kocher United States	5	1.4k 0.3×	2.6k 1.3×	281 0.2×	169 0.1×	276 0.3×	7	3.5k
Jianguo Yu United States	24	1.2k 0.2×	1.3k 0.7×	423 0.4×	215 0.2×	307 0.4×	79	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Urban

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Wang, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Fast and Selective Leaching of Pyrrhotite in the Presence of Pentlandite. ACS Sustainable Resource Management. 2(11). 2283–2291.

Torres, José Antonio Garrido, et al.. (2024). Discovering melting temperature prediction models of inorganic solids by combining supervised and unsupervised learning. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 160(20). 4 indexed citations

West, Alan C., et al.. (2024). Mechanism of the Layered-to-Spinel Phase Transformation in Li_0.5NiO₂. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(23). 10784–10794. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Haoyue, Matthew R. Carbone, Chuntian Cao, et al.. (2023). Simulated sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy database of lithium thiophosphate solid electrolytes. Scientific Data. 10(1). 349–349. 19 indexed citations

Yang, Tairan, et al.. (2023). Integrated Combinatorial Synthesis, Characterization, and Test Platform for Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(5). 50538–50538. 4 indexed citations

Artrith, Nongnuch, José Antonio Garrido Torres, Alexander Urban, & Mark S. Hybertsen. (2022). Data-driven approach to parameterize SCAN+U for an accurate description of 3d transition metal oxide thermochemistry. Physical Review Materials. 6(3). 14 indexed citations

Li, Xiang, Xin‐Hao Li, Benjamin Chen, et al.. (2022). Stacking‐Fault Enhanced Oxygen Redox in Li₂MnO₃. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(18). 28 indexed citations

Li, Xin‐Hao, Qian Wang, Haoyue Guo, Nongnuch Artrith, & Alexander Urban. (2022). Understanding the Onset of Surface Degradation in LiNiO₂ Cathodes. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 5(5). 5730–5741. 23 indexed citations

Gossage, Zachary T., et al.. (2022). Highly Sensitive Detection and Mapping of Incipient and Steady-State Oxygen Evolution from Operating Li-Ion Battery Cathodes via Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(8). 86501–86501. 14 indexed citations

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Guo, Haoyue, Qian Wang, Alexander Urban, & Nongnuch Artrith. (2022). Artificial Intelligence-Aided Mapping of the Structure–Composition–Conductivity Relationships of Glass–Ceramic Lithium Thiophosphate Electrolytes. Chemistry of Materials. 34(15). 6702–6712. 26 indexed citations

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Torres, José Antonio Garrido, et al.. (2021). Augmenting zero-Kelvin quantum mechanics with machine learning for the prediction of chemical reactions at high temperatures. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7012–7012. 13 indexed citations

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Morawietz, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Strategies for the construction of machine-learning potentials for accurate and efficient atomic-scale simulations. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 2(3). 31001–31001. 70 indexed citations

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Cambaz, Musa Ali, Alexander Urban, Syed Atif Pervez, et al.. (2020). Understanding the Origin of Higher Capacity for Ni-Based Disordered Rock-Salt Cathodes. Chemistry of Materials. 32(8). 3447–3461. 21 indexed citations

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Ji, Huiwen, Jinpeng Wu, Zijian Cai, et al.. (2020). Ultrahigh power and energy density in partially ordered lithium-ion cathode materials. Nature Energy. 5(3). 213–221. 229 indexed citations

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Qu, Jianzhou & Alexander Urban. (2020). Potential and pH Dependence of the Buried Interface of Membrane-Coated Electrocatalysts. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(46). 52125–52135.

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Das, Hena, Alexander Urban, Wenxuan Huang, & Gerbrand Ceder. (2017). First-Principles Simulation of the (Li–Ni–Vacancy)O Phase Diagram and Its Relevance for the Surface Phases in Ni-Rich Li-Ion Cathode Materials. Chemistry of Materials. 29(18). 7840–7851. 107 indexed citations

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Huang, Wenxuan, Alexander Urban, Ziqin Rong, et al.. (2017). Construction of ground-state preserving sparse lattice models for predictive materials simulations. npj Computational Materials. 3(1). 19 indexed citations

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Seo, Dong‐Hwa, Jinhyuk Lee, Alexander Urban, et al.. (2016). The structural and chemical origin of the oxygen redox activity in layered and cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials. Nature Chemistry. 8(7). 692–697. 1265 indexed citations breakdown →

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Urban, Alexander, Dong‐Hwa Seo, & Gerbrand Ceder. (2016). Computational understanding of Li-ion batteries. npj Computational Materials. 2(1). 543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Katsiev, Khabibulakh, Matthias Batzill, Ulrike Diebold, Alexander Urban, & Bernd Meyer. (2007). Growth of One-Dimensional Pd Nanowires on the Terraces of a ReducedSnO2(101)Surface. Physical Review Letters. 98(18). 186102–186102. 16 indexed citations

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