Alexis T. Bell

83.5k total citations · 23 hit papers
748 papers, 64.3k citations indexed

About

Alexis T. Bell is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexis T. Bell has authored 748 papers receiving a total of 64.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 396 papers in Materials Chemistry, 312 papers in Catalysis and 205 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alexis T. Bell's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (260 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (216 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (160 papers). Alexis T. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (260 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (216 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (160 papers). Alexis T. Bell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Alexis T. Bell's co-authors include Martin Head‐Gordon, Mary W. Louie, Enrique Iglesia, Boon Siang Yeo, Ezra L. Clark, Doros N. Theodorou, Kaidong Chen, Adam Z. Weber, T. Don Tilley and Ian A. Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alexis T. Bell

735 papers receiving 63.0k citations

Hit Papers

An Investigation of Thin-... 1974 2026 1991 2008 2013 2015 2003 2011 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. An Investigation of Thin-Film Ni–Fe Oxide Catalysts for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen
    2013 2.5k citations Mary W. Louie, Alexis T. Bell Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Identification of Highly Active Fe Sites in (Ni,Fe)OOH for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
    2015 2.3k citations Mary W. Louie, Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. The Impact of Nanoscience on Heterogeneous Catalysis
    2003 2.2k citations Alexis T. Bell Science profile →
  4. Enhanced Activity of Gold-Supported Cobalt Oxide for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen
    2011 1.3k citations Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Theoretical Investigation of the Activity of Cobalt Oxides for the Electrochemical Oxidation of Water
    2013 1.2k citations Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Effects of Fe Electrolyte Impurities on Ni(OH)2/NiOOH Structure and Oxygen Evolution Activity
    2015 987 citations Mary W. Louie, Alexis T. Bell et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →
  7. Promoter Effects of Alkali Metal Cations on the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
    2017 929 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. Hydrolysis of Electrolyte Cations Enhances the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 over Ag and Cu
    2016 838 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. Efficient methods for finding transition states in chemical reactions: Comparison of improved dimer method and partitioned rational function optimization method
    2005 798 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. profile →
  10. Mechanism of CO2 Reduction at Copper Surfaces: Pathways to C2 Products
    2018 790 citations Alexis T. Bell, Martin Head‐Gordon et al. profile →
  11. In Situ Raman Study of Nickel Oxide and Gold-Supported Nickel Oxide Catalysts for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen
    2012 717 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C profile →
  12. Understanding cation effects in electrochemical CO2 reduction
    2019 659 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. profile →
  13. Identification of Possible Pathways for C–C Bond Formation during Electrochemical Reduction of CO2: New Theoretical Insights from an Improved Electrochemical Model
    2016 599 citations Alexis T. Bell, Martin Head‐Gordon et al. profile →
  14. Techniques and Applications of Plasma Chemistry
    1974 597 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. profile →
  15. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction over Compressively Strained CuAg Surface Alloys with Enhanced Multi-Carbon Oxygenate Selectivity
    2017 595 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Structure and Catalytic Properties of Supported Vanadium Oxides: Support Effects on Oxidative Dehydrogenation Reactions
    1999 560 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. Journal of Catalysis profile →
  17. Unravelling the Origin of Intermolecular Interactions Using Absolutely Localized Molecular Orbitals
    2007 507 citations Alexis T. Bell, Martin Head‐Gordon et al. profile →
  18. Laser Raman spectroscopy of supported vanadium oxide catalysts
    1990 400 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. profile →
  19. Etherification and reductive etherification of 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural: 5-(alkoxymethyl)furfurals and 2,5-bis(alkoxymethyl)furans as potential bio-diesel candidates
    2012 362 citations Alexis T. Bell et al. profile →
  20. Tailored catalyst microenvironments for CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products on copper using bilayer ionomer coatings
    2021 351 citations Justin C. Bui, Ahmet Kusoglu et al. profile →
  21. Catalytic deconstruction of waste polyethylene with ethylene to form propylene
    2022 279 citations Jake X. Shi, Ji Yang et al. Science profile →
  22. Highly selective and productive reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products via in situ CO management using segmented tandem electrodes
    2022 219 citations Tianyu Zhang, Justin C. Bui et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  23. Multi-scale physics of bipolar membranes in electrochemical processes
    2024 79 citations Justin C. Bui, Eric W. Lees et al. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexis T. Bell United States 122 32.5k 25.3k 24.7k 15.3k 11.4k 748 64.3k
Robert Schlögl Germany 128 49.3k 1.5× 27.3k 1.1× 26.3k 1.1× 18.6k 1.2× 7.1k 0.6× 1.1k 74.8k
Xinhe Bao China 138 44.3k 1.4× 20.5k 0.8× 30.6k 1.2× 22.4k 1.5× 10.7k 0.9× 1.0k 75.0k
Sheng Dai United States 142 42.0k 1.3× 17.3k 0.7× 16.4k 0.7× 26.1k 1.7× 15.0k 1.3× 1.1k 85.2k
Jun Li China 106 40.2k 1.2× 13.0k 0.5× 27.9k 1.1× 12.8k 0.8× 10.9k 1.0× 1.0k 64.5k
Gábor A. Somorjai United States 131 44.2k 1.4× 13.7k 0.5× 17.5k 0.7× 16.2k 1.1× 5.3k 0.5× 890 73.3k
Hannes Jónsson Iceland 59 40.1k 1.2× 12.8k 0.5× 21.6k 0.9× 21.7k 1.4× 3.6k 0.3× 248 65.6k
Jingguang G. Chen United States 106 26.0k 0.8× 20.6k 0.8× 25.7k 1.0× 11.2k 0.7× 3.1k 0.3× 474 48.4k
Graeme Henkelman United States 82 44.2k 1.4× 12.4k 0.5× 16.9k 0.7× 25.4k 1.7× 4.6k 0.4× 356 68.7k
Qiang Xü Japan 147 45.0k 1.4× 13.2k 0.5× 25.0k 1.0× 24.1k 1.6× 29.8k 2.6× 649 79.2k
Dingsheng Wang China 152 41.0k 1.3× 12.8k 0.5× 53.8k 2.2× 29.6k 1.9× 6.3k 0.6× 807 79.3k

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All Works

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Zhang, Yanfei, Linying Wang, Mingbin Gao, et al.. (2025). Identification of Highly Active Co–O–Zn Sites in Silanol Nests for n -Butane Cascade Dehydrogenation to 1,3-Butadiene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(45). 42110–42122.
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Bui, Justin C., Kaiwen Wang, Ahmet Kusoglu, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric Bipolar Membrane for High Current Density Electrodialysis Operation with Exceptional Stability. ACS Energy Letters. 9(11). 5596–5605. 13 indexed citations
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Shi, Jake X., et al.. (2024). Polyolefin waste to light olefins with ethylene and base-metal heterogeneous catalysts. Science. 385(6715). 1322–1327. 59 indexed citations
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Watkins, Nicholas B., Jonas C. Peters, John M. Gregoire, et al.. (2024). Resin 3D printing enables accessible electrochemical cell design. Chem Catalysis. 4(12). 101120–101120. 2 indexed citations
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Bui, Justin C., Eric W. Lees, Daniela H. Marin, et al.. (2024). Multi-scale physics of bipolar membranes in electrochemical processes. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1(1). 45–60. 79 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Mengran, Eric W. Lees, Wen Ju, et al.. (2024). Local ionic transport enables selective PGM-free bipolar membrane electrode assembly. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8222–8222. 10 indexed citations
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Bui, Justin C., Aditya Limaye, L. M. Pant, et al.. (2023). Coupling covariance matrix adaptation with continuum modeling for determination of kinetic parameters associated with electrochemical CO2 reduction. Joule. 7(6). 1289–1307. 29 indexed citations
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King, Alex J., Justin C. Bui, Alexis T. Bell, & Adam Z. Weber. (2022). Establishing the Role of Operating Potential and Mass Transfer in Multicarbon Product Generation for Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction Cells Using a Cu Catalyst. ACS Energy Letters. 7(8). 2694–2700. 19 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tianyu, Justin C. Bui, Zhengyuan Li, et al.. (2022). Highly selective and productive reduction of carbon dioxide to multicarbon products via in situ CO management using segmented tandem electrodes. Nature Catalysis. 5(3). 202–211. 219 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lü, Peng, Supriya Ghosh, Matheus Dorneles de Mello, et al.. (2021). Few‐Unit‐Cell MFI Zeolite Synthesized using a Simple Di‐quaternary Ammonium Structure‐Directing Agent. Angewandte Chemie. 133(35). 19363–19370. 9 indexed citations
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Lü, Peng, Supriya Ghosh, Matheus Dorneles de Mello, et al.. (2021). Few‐Unit‐Cell MFI Zeolite Synthesized using a Simple Di‐quaternary Ammonium Structure‐Directing Agent. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(35). 19214–19221. 29 indexed citations
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Mynsbrugge, Jeroen Van der, Martin Head‐Gordon, & Alexis T. Bell. (2020). Computational modeling predicts the stability of both Pd + and Pd 2+ ion-exchanged into H-CHA. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(4). 2161–2174. 29 indexed citations
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Yang, Chi‐Ta, Amber Janda, Alexis T. Bell, & Li‐Chiang Lin. (2018). Atomistic Investigations of the Effects of Si/Al Ratio and Al Distribution on the Adsorption Selectivity of n-Alkanes in Brønsted-Acid Zeolites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(17). 9397–9410. 41 indexed citations
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Louie, Mary W. & Alexis T. Bell. (2013). An Investigation of Thin-Film Ni–Fe Oxide Catalysts for the Electrochemical Evolution of Oxygen. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(33). 12329–12337. 2461 indexed citations breakdown →
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Marin, Bóris, et al.. (2007). Optimisation of the Influence of Boron on the Properties of Steel. 17(6). 875–84. 1 indexed citations
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Rhodes, Michael & Alexis T. Bell. (2005). The effects of zirconia morphology on methanol synthesis from CO and H2 over Cu/ZrO2 catalysts: Part I -- Steady-State Studies. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 3 indexed citations
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Hightower, Joe W., et al.. (1996). 11th International congress on catalysis - 40th anniversary. Part A and B. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 33(3). 185–185. 1 indexed citations
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Ranhotra, G. S., Alexis T. Bell, & Jeffrey A. Reimer. (1987). Catalysis over molybdenum carbides and nitrides. II. Studies of CO hydrogenation and C/sub 2/H/sub 6/ hydrogenolysis. Journal of Catalysis.
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Dictor, Ronald A. & Alexis T. Bell. (1986). A comparison of the activity, selectivity and kinetics of several iron-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. Preprints - American Chemical Society. Division of Petroleum Chemistry. 31(1). 126–132. 2 indexed citations
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Bell, Alexis T.. (1968). Medical Factors and Road Accidents. BMJ. 2(5596). 53.2–53. 2 indexed citations

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