Antonio Politano

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
205 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Antonio Politano is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Politano has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Materials Chemistry, 109 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 66 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Antonio Politano's work include Graphene research and applications (81 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (66 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (44 papers). Antonio Politano is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (81 papers), 2D Materials and Applications (66 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (44 papers). Antonio Politano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Taiwan and China. Antonio Politano's co-authors include G. Chiarello, V. Formoso, Miriam S. Vitiello, Leonardo Viti, A. Cupolillo, C. S. Lue, Danil W. Boukhvalov, Daniel Farı́as, W. Knap and Dominique Coquillat and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Politano

197 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Photothermal Membrane Distillation for Seawater Desalination

2016 486 citations Antonio Politano, A. Cupolillo et al. Advanced Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Antonio Politano Italy	43	4.1k	2.4k	2.3k	1.6k	968	205	6.5k
Nasim Alem United States	35	5.1k 1.2×	563 0.2×	1.9k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	837 0.9×	138	6.3k
Nunzio Motta Australia	45	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	3.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	237	7.0k
Zhimin Song China	18	7.4k 1.8×	2.0k 0.8×	3.4k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	915 0.9×	52	8.8k
Peter J. Klar Germany	42	3.7k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.6×	852 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	315	7.4k
Marco Bernardi United States	34	4.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	3.0k 1.3×	987 0.6×	899 0.9×	88	6.4k
Knut Deppert Sweden	52	5.8k 1.4×	4.3k 1.8×	6.9k 2.9×	8.7k 5.4×	1.1k 1.1×	189	12.1k
Clas Persson Sweden	50	6.7k 1.6×	1.9k 0.8×	5.8k 2.5×	470 0.3×	1.3k 1.4×	247	9.2k
Jintao Bai China	46	2.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	4.8k 2.1×	990 0.6×	2.8k 2.9×	397	8.5k
D. Christofilos Greece	29	1.9k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	742 0.3×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.9×	126	4.5k
Jean‐Jacques Delaunay Japan	36	2.3k 0.6×	600 0.2×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	165	4.4k

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Stefano, S. De, O. Durante, Aniello Pelella, et al.. (2025). Ultrathin SnS ₂ Field‐Effect Transistors Exhibiting Temperature‐Enhanced Memory Performance. Advanced Electronic Materials. 11(18).

Bukhvalov, Danil, Gianluca D’Olimpio, Bekir Gürbulak, et al.. (2025). Self‐Assembled Gallium Sulfide (GaS) Heterostructures Enabling Efficient Water Splitting and Selective Ammonia Sensing. Advanced Functional Materials. 35(47).

D’Olimpio, Gianluca, Yanxue Zhang, Silvia Nappini, et al.. (2024). Insights into the Stability and Surface Termination of Topological Semimetal NbAs₂. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 11(10).

Mazzola, Federico, Barun Ghosh, Jun Fujii, et al.. (2023). Discovery of a Magnetic Dirac System with a Large Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect. Nano Letters. 23(3). 902–907. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Kaixuan, Zhen Hu, Libo Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ultrasensitive Self‐Driven Terahertz Photodetectors Based on Low‐Energy Type‐II Dirac Fermions and Related Van der Waals Heterojunctions (Small 1/2023). Small. 19(1).

Hu, Zhen, Libo Zhang, Atasi Chakraborty, et al.. (2023). Terahertz Nonlinear Hall Rectifiers Based on Spin‐Polarized Topological Electronic States in 1T‐CoTe₂ (Adv. Mater. 10/2023). Advanced Materials. 35(10). 2 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Atasi, Jun Fujii, Chia‐Nung Kuo, et al.. (2023). Observation of highly anisotropic bulk dispersion and spin-polarized topological surface states in CoTe2. Physical review. B.. 107(8). 9 indexed citations

Boukhvalov, Danil W., Gianluca D’Olimpio, Federico Mazzola, et al.. (2023). Unveiling the Catalytic Potential of Topological Nodal-Line Semimetal AuSn₄ for Hydrogen Evolution and CO₂ Reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(12). 3069–3076. 10 indexed citations

Ghosh, B., et al.. (2022). Collective plasmonic modes in the chiral multifold fermionic material CoSi. Physical review. B.. 105(16). 2 indexed citations

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Bondino, Federica, S. Duman, Silvia Nappini, et al.. (2022). Improving the Efficiency of Gallium Telluride for Photocatalysis, Electrocatalysis, and Chemical Sensing through Defects Engineering and Interfacing with its Native Oxide. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(41). 22 indexed citations

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Pogna, Eva A. A., Leonardo Viti, Antonio Politano, et al.. (2021). Mapping propagation of collective modes in Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te2.2Se0.8 topological insulators by near-field terahertz nanoscopy. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6672–6672. 59 indexed citations

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Zhang, Libo, Zhiqingzi Chen, Kaixuan Zhang, et al.. (2021). High-frequency rectifiers based on type-II Dirac fermions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1584–1584. 60 indexed citations

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D’Olimpio, Gianluca, Silvia Nappini, Mykhailo Vorokhta, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Electrocatalytic Activity in GaSe and InSe Nanosheets: The Role of Surface Oxides. Advanced Functional Materials. 30(43). 53 indexed citations

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Gao, Junfeng, A. Cupolillo, Silvia Nappini, et al.. (2019). Surface Reconstruction, Oxidation Mechanism, and Stability of Cd₃As₂. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(26). 23 indexed citations

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Anemone, Gloria, Manuela Garnica, Marilena Isabella Zappia, et al.. (2019). Experimental determination of surface thermal expansion and electron–phonon coupling constant of 1T-PtTe ₂. 2D Materials. 7(2). 25007–25007. 30 indexed citations

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Boukhvalov, Danil W., Raju Edla, A. Cupolillo, et al.. (2019). Surface Instability and Chemical Reactivity of ZrSiS and ZrSiSe Nodal‐Line Semimetals. Advanced Functional Materials. 29(18). 6 indexed citations

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Vitiello, Miriam S., et al.. (2018). Plasmonics with two-dimensional semiconductors: from basic research to technological applications. Nanoscale. 10(19). 8938–8946. 82 indexed citations

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Politano, Antonio, Davide Campi, Mattia Cattelan, et al.. (2017). Indium selenide: an insight into electronic band structure and surface excitations. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 3445–3445. 69 indexed citations

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Nicotra, Giuseppe, Antonio Massimiliano Mio, A. Cupolillo, et al.. (2015). STEM and EELS Investigation on Black Phosphorus at Atomic Resolution. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 21(S3). 427–428. 4 indexed citations

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Politano, Antonio, V. Formoso, & G. Chiarello. (2013). Collective Electronic Excitations in Thin Ag Films on Ni(111). Plasmonics. 8(4). 1683–1690. 7 indexed citations

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