Axel Knop‐Gericke

24.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
308 papers, 20.7k citations indexed

About

Axel Knop‐Gericke is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Knop‐Gericke has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 20.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Materials Chemistry, 114 papers in Catalysis and 106 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Axel Knop‐Gericke's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (165 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (88 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (85 papers). Axel Knop‐Gericke is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (165 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (88 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (85 papers). Axel Knop‐Gericke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Axel Knop‐Gericke's co-authors include Robert Schlögl, Michael Hävecker, Detre Teschner, Travis E. Jones, Raoul Blume, Rosa Arrigo, Simone Piccinin, Hendrik Bluhm, Attila Wootsch and Spyridon Zafeiratos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Axel Knop‐Gericke

305 papers receiving 20.5k citations

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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.

The Roles of Subsurface Carbon and Hydrogen in Palladium-Catalyzed Alkyne Hydrogenation

2008 839 citations Detre Teschner, Michael Hävecker et al. profile →
Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution

2020 676 citations Hong Nhan Nong, Lorenz J. Falling et al. Nature profile →
Tuning the Acid/Base Properties of Nanocarbons by Functionalization via Amination

2010 632 citations Rosa Arrigo, Michael Hävecker et al. profile →
Free-atom-like d states in single-atom alloy catalysts

2018 492 citations Travis E. Jones, Frank Girgsdies et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Axel Knop‐Gericke Germany	79	13.9k	7.7k	6.5k	5.6k	2.2k	308	20.7k
Michael Hävecker Germany	64	11.3k 0.8×	5.4k 0.7×	6.2k 1.0×	3.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	196	16.2k
Wei‐Xue Li China	66	11.4k 0.8×	6.8k 0.9×	5.2k 0.8×	4.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	280	17.1k
Qiang Fu China	69	17.0k 1.2×	6.8k 0.9×	5.2k 0.8×	7.7k 1.4×	2.8k 1.2×	425	23.2k
Detre Teschner Germany	68	10.5k 0.8×	10.9k 1.4×	5.2k 0.8×	7.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	174	19.3k
Philippe Sautet France	80	14.2k 1.0×	7.0k 0.9×	6.2k 1.0×	6.0k 1.1×	4.2k 1.9×	451	24.0k
Hans‐Peter Steinrück Germany	74	10.5k 0.8×	3.7k 0.5×	5.8k 0.9×	7.5k 1.3×	4.6k 2.0×	468	19.3k
Yasuhiro Iwasawa Japan	63	11.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.5×	5.4k 0.8×	3.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	549	17.0k
Mark A. Barteau United States	69	12.0k 0.9×	5.3k 0.7×	6.0k 0.9×	3.3k 0.6×	2.2k 1.0×	247	16.2k
C. M. Friend United States	62	11.1k 0.8×	5.5k 0.7×	3.9k 0.6×	2.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.8×	381	15.7k
Aijun Du Australia	90	21.9k 1.6×	17.7k 2.3×	4.6k 0.7×	14.2k 2.5×	1.8k 0.8×	486	33.6k

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Blume, Raoul, Kassiogé Dembélé, Maxime Boniface, et al.. (2025). Decoding technical multi-promoted ammonia synthesis catalysts. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7820–7820.

Velasco‐Vélez, Juan‐Jesús, Axel Knop‐Gericke, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Robert Schlögl, & Travis E. Jones. (2024). Pseudocapacitance Facilitates the Electrocatalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(31). 1 indexed citations

Haase, Felix T., Eduardo Ortega, Sascha Saddeler, et al.. (2024). Role of Fe decoration on the oxygen evolving state of Co₃O₄ nanocatalysts. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(5). 2046–2058. 35 indexed citations

Bernsmeier, Denis, Rik V. Mom, Patrick Zeller, et al.. (2024). Iridium Oxide Coordinatively Unsaturated Active Sites Govern the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Water. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(19). 13 indexed citations

Jiménez, Catalina, Mauricio D. Arce, Emilia A. Carbonio, et al.. (2023). Exsolution versus particle segregation on (Ni,Co)-doped and undoped SrTi0.3Fe0.7O3-δ perovskites: Differences and influence of the reduction path on the final system nanostructure. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 48(98). 38842–38853. 11 indexed citations

Mom, Rik V., Luís-Ernesto Sandoval-Díaz, Dunfeng Gao, et al.. (2023). Assessment of the Degradation Mechanisms of Cu Electrodes during the CO₂ Reduction Reaction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(25). 30052–30059. 19 indexed citations

Blume, Raoul, et al.. (2023). Structural and chemical properties of NiO_x thin films: the role of oxygen vacancies in NiOOH formation in a H₂O atmosphere. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(37). 25552–25565. 23 indexed citations

Arrigo, Rosa, Raoul Blume, Alexander I. Large, et al.. (2022). Dynamics over a Cu–graphite electrode during the gas-phase CO₂ reduction investigated by APXPS. Faraday Discussions. 236(0). 126–140. 8 indexed citations

Götsch, Thomas, Franz Schmidt, Adnan Hammud, et al.. (2022). Sr Surface Enrichment in Solid Oxide Cells – Approaching the Limits of EDX Analysis by Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Simulations. ChemCatChem. 14(19). 8 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Franz, Thomas Götsch, Frank Girgsdies, et al.. (2021). Complexions at the Electrolyte/Electrode Interface in Solid Oxide Cells. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 8(18). 10 indexed citations

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Velasco‐Vélez, Juan‐Jesús, Lorenz J. Falling, Denis Bernsmeier, et al.. (2020). A comparative study of electrochemical cells for in situ x-ray spectroscopies in the soft and tender x-ray range. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(12). 124003–124003. 50 indexed citations

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Velasco‐Vélez, Juan‐Jesús, Rik V. Mom, Luís-Ernesto Sandoval-Díaz, et al.. (2020). Revealing the Active Phase of Copper during the Electroreduction of CO₂ in Aqueous Electrolyte by Correlating In Situ X-ray Spectroscopy and In Situ Electron Microscopy. ACS Energy Letters. 5(6). 2106–2111. 109 indexed citations

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Velasco‐Vélez, Juan‐Jesús, Cheng‐Hao Chuang, Dunfeng Gao, et al.. (2020). On the Activity/Selectivity and Phase Stability of Thermally Grown Copper Oxides during the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂. ACS Catalysis. 10(19). 11510–11518. 62 indexed citations

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Nong, Hong Nhan, Lorenz J. Falling, Arno Bergmann, et al.. (2020). Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution. Nature. 587(7834). 408–413. 676 indexed citations breakdown →

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Köpfle, Norbert, Kevin Ploner, Thomas Götsch, et al.. (2020). Carbide-Modified Pd on ZrO2 as Active Phase for CO2-Reforming of Methane—A Model Phase Boundary Approach. Catalysts. 10(9). 1000–1000. 19 indexed citations

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Tesch, Marc F., Shannon A. Bonke, Travis E. Jones, et al.. (2018). Evolution of Oxygen–Metal Electron Transfer and Metal Electronic States During Manganese Oxide Catalyzed Water Oxidation Revealed with In Situ Soft X‐Ray Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(11). 3426–3432. 69 indexed citations

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Wyrwich, Regina, Travis E. Jones, Sebastian Günther, et al.. (2018). LEED-I(V) Structure Analysis of the (7 × √3)rect SO₄ Phase on Ag(111): Precursor to the Active Species of the Ag-Catalyzed Ethylene Epoxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(47). 26998–27004. 15 indexed citations

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Каичев, В. В., et al.. (2018). In SituNAP-XPS and Mass Spectrometry Study of the Oxidation of Propylene over Palladium. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(8). 4315–4323. 23 indexed citations

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Opitz, Alexander Karl, Andreas Nenning, Christoph Rameshan, et al.. (2017). Surface Chemistry of Perovskite-Type Electrodes During High Temperature CO₂ Electrolysis Investigated by Operando Photoelectron Spectroscopy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 9(41). 35847–35860. 149 indexed citations

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Opitz, Alexander Karl, Andreas Nenning, Christoph Rameshan, et al.. (2014). Enhancing Electrochemical Water‐Splitting Kinetics by Polarization‐Driven Formation of Near‐Surface Iron(0): An In Situ XPS Study on Perovskite‐Type Electrodes. Angewandte Chemie. 127(9). 2666–2670. 12 indexed citations

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