Ana Sofía Varela

10.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
39 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Ana Sofía Varela is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ana Sofía Varela has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 20 papers in Catalysis and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ana Sofía Varela's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (34 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers). Ana Sofía Varela is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (34 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (20 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (17 papers). Ana Sofía Varela collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Mexico and Denmark. Ana Sofía Varela's co-authors include Peter Strasser, Wen Ju, Jan Rossmeisl, Alexander Bagger, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Hemma Mistry, Tobias Reier, Ilya Sinev, Stefanie Kühl and Julian Steinberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Ana Sofía Varela

39 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene

2016 1.1k citations Hemma Mistry, Ana Sofía Varela et al. Nature Communications profile →
Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2

2017 1.1k citations Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger et al. Nature Communications profile →
Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: A Classification Problem

2017 825 citations Alexander Bagger, Wen Ju et al. ChemPhysChem profile →
Nanostructured electrocatalysts with tunable activity and selectivity

2016 761 citations Hemma Mistry, Ana Sofía Varela et al. profile →
The importance of surface morphology in controlling the selectivity of polycrystalline copper for CO2 electroreduction

2011 610 citations Wei Tang, Andrew A. Peterson et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →
Metal‐Doped Nitrogenated Carbon as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct CO₂ Electroreduction to CO and Hydrocarbons

2015 551 citations Ana Sofía Varela, Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ana Sofía Varela Germany	30	8.7k	4.8k	2.9k	2.6k	1.1k	39	9.2k
Dunfeng Gao China	42	9.0k 1.0×	5.4k 1.1×	3.5k 1.2×	2.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	91	10.1k
Kendra P. Kuhl United States	18	7.3k 0.8×	4.6k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	25	7.7k
Klaas Jan P. Schouten Netherlands	20	5.9k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	879 0.8×	29	6.3k
Ali Seifitokaldani Canada	28	6.3k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	63	7.3k
Stefanie Kühl Germany	32	5.1k 0.6×	3.7k 0.8×	4.0k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	865 0.8×	53	7.9k
Ruud Kortlever Netherlands	23	5.9k 0.7×	3.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	58	6.3k
Hyo Sang Jeon South Korea	35	5.3k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	630 0.6×	71	6.1k
Ilya Sinev Germany	29	6.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	3.4k 1.3×	455 0.4×	45	7.2k
Hemma Mistry United States	21	4.9k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.6×	507 0.5×	24	5.8k
Søren B. Scott Denmark	17	5.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.7×	699 0.7×	33	5.8k

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Varela, Ana Sofía. (2023). Gold Extracted from Wastewater as an Efficient MOF‐Supported Electrocatalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(12). e202217395–e202217395. 13 indexed citations

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Möller, Tim, Fabian Scholten, Trung Ngo Thanh, et al.. (2020). Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction on CuO_x Nanocubes: Tracking the Evolution of Chemical State, Geometric Structure, and Catalytic Selectivity using Operando Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(41). 17974–17983. 170 indexed citations

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Möller, Tim, Fabian Scholten, Trung Ngo Thanh, et al.. (2020). Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction on CuO_x Nanocubes: Tracking the Evolution of Chemical State, Geometric Structure, and Catalytic Selectivity using Operando Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie. 132(41). 18130–18139. 56 indexed citations

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Varela, Ana Sofía. (2020). The importance of pH in controlling the selectivity of the electrochemical CO2 reduction. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 26. 100371–100371. 91 indexed citations

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Bagger, Alexander, Wen Ju, Ana Sofía Varela, Peter Strasser, & Jan Rossmeisl. (2019). Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: Classifying Cu Facets. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 7894–7899. 232 indexed citations

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Ju, Wen, Alexander Bagger, Xingli Wang, et al.. (2019). Unraveling Mechanistic Reaction Pathways of the Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Fe–N–C Single-Site Catalysts. ACS Energy Letters. 4(7). 1663–1671. 167 indexed citations

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger, et al.. (2019). Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ on Metal-Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 9(8). 7270–7284. 336 indexed citations

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Durán–Álvarez, Juan C., et al.. (2019). Degradation and mineralization of oxytetracycline in pure and tap water under visible light irradiation using bismuth oxyiodides and the effect of depositing Au nanoparticles. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 388. 112163–112163. 31 indexed citations

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Möller, Tim, Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger, et al.. (2018). Efficient CO₂ to CO electrolysis on solid Ni–N–C catalysts at industrial current densities. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(2). 640–647. 418 indexed citations

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Matthias Kroschel, Nathaniel Leonard, et al.. (2018). pH Effects on the Selectivity of the Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction on Graphene-Embedded Fe–N–C Motifs: Bridging Concepts between Molecular Homogeneous and Solid-State Heterogeneous Catalysis. ACS Energy Letters. 3(4). 812–817. 198 indexed citations

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Leonard, Nathaniel, Wen Ju, Ilya Sinev, et al.. (2018). The chemical identity, state and structure of catalytically active centers during the electrochemical CO₂ reduction on porous Fe–nitrogen–carbon (Fe–N–C) materials. Chemical Science. 9(22). 5064–5073. 138 indexed citations

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Wen Ju, & Peter Strasser. (2018). Molecular Nitrogen–Carbon Catalysts, Solid Metal Organic Framework Catalysts, and Solid Metal/Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon (MNC) Catalysts for the Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(30). 211 indexed citations

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Wen Ju, & Peter Strasser. (2018). Molecular Nitrogen–Carbon Catalysts, Solid Metal Organic Framework Catalysts, and Solid Metal/Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon (MNC) Catalysts for the Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(30). 46 indexed citations

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Bagger, Alexander, Wen Ju, Ana Sofía Varela, Peter Strasser, & Jan Rossmeisl. (2017). Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction: A Classification Problem. ChemPhysChem. 18(22). 3266–3273. 825 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ju, Wen, Alexander Bagger, Guang‐Ping Hao, et al.. (2017). Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2. Nature Communications. 8(1). 944–944. 1076 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mistry, Hemma, Ana Sofía Varela, Cecile S. Bonifacio, et al.. (2016). Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12123–12123. 1085 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie, Julian Steinberg, et al.. (2015). Metal‐Doped Nitrogenated Carbon as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct CO₂ Electroreduction to CO and Hydrocarbons. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(37). 10758–10762. 551 indexed citations breakdown →

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Varela, Ana Sofía, Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie, Julian Steinberg, et al.. (2015). Metal‐Doped Nitrogenated Carbon as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct CO₂ Electroreduction to CO and Hydrocarbons. Angewandte Chemie. 127(37). 10908–10912. 99 indexed citations

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Bandarenka, Aliaksandr S., Ana Sofía Varela, Federico Calle‐Vallejo, et al.. (2012). Design of an Active Site towards Optimal Electrocatalysis: Overlayers, Surface Alloys and Near‐Surface Alloys of Cu/Pt(111). Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(47). 11845–11848. 96 indexed citations

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Tang, Wei, Andrew A. Peterson, Ana Sofía Varela, et al.. (2011). The importance of surface morphology in controlling the selectivity of polycrystalline copper for CO2 electroreduction. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(1). 76–81. 610 indexed citations breakdown →

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