Beatriz Roldán Cuenya

35.5k total citations · 24 hit papers
283 papers, 29.8k citations indexed

About

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 29.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 153 papers in Materials Chemistry and 117 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Beatriz Roldán Cuenya's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (112 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (97 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (94 papers). Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (112 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (97 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (94 papers). Beatriz Roldán Cuenya collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Spain. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya's co-authors include Peter Strasser, Hemma Mistry, Janis Timoshenko, Farzad Behafarid, Hyo Sang Jeon, Dunfeng Gao, Fabian Scholten, Rosa M. Arán‐Ais, Luis K. Ono and Arno Bergmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya

272 papers receiving 29.4k citations

Hit Papers

Particle Size Effects in the Catalytic Electroreduction o... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2014 2019 2016 2017 2010 400 800 1.2k
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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. Particle Size Effects in the Catalytic Electroreduction of CO2 on Cu Nanoparticles
    2014 1.3k citations Hemma Mistry, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Rational catalyst and electrolyte design for CO2 electroreduction towards multicarbon products
    2019 1.2k citations Dunfeng Gao, Hyo Sang Jeon et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  3. Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene
    2016 1.1k citations Hemma Mistry, Ioannis Zegkinoglou et al. Nature Communications profile →
  4. Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2
    2017 1.1k citations Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Synthesis and catalytic properties of metal nanoparticles: Size, shape, support, composition, and oxidation state effects
    2010 933 citations Beatriz Roldán Cuenya profile →
  6. In-situ structure and catalytic mechanism of NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides during oxygen evolution
    2020 920 citations Ilya Sinev, Sebastian Kunze et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Nanostructured electrocatalysts with tunable activity and selectivity
    2016 761 citations Hemma Mistry, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. profile →
  8. Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
    2020 676 citations Arno Bergmann, Rik V. Mom et al. profile →
  9. Exceptional Size-Dependent Activity Enhancement in the Electroreduction of CO2 over Au Nanoparticles
    2014 636 citations Hemma Mistry, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. In Situ/Operando Electrocatalyst Characterization by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
    2020 625 citations Janis Timoshenko, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya profile →
  11. The role of in situ generated morphological motifs and Cu(i) species in C2+ product selectivity during CO2 pulsed electroreduction
    2020 608 citations Fabian Scholten, Sebastian Kunze et al. profile →
  12. Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia with Copper‐Supported Rhodium Cluster and Single‐Atom Catalysts
    2022 482 citations Janis Timoshenko, Martina Rüscher et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  13. Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Molecular Oxygen on Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts
    2018 452 citations Arno Bergmann, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  14. Transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical CO2reduction: from atoms and molecules to nanostructured materials
    2020 402 citations Federico Franco, Clara Rettenmaier et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  15. Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C–C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu2O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy
    2021 370 citations Chao Zhan, Clara Rettenmaier et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  16. Steering the structure and selectivity of CO2 electroreduction catalysts by potential pulses
    2022 332 citations Janis Timoshenko, Arno Bergmann et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  17. Size effects and active state formation of cobalt oxide nanoparticles during the oxygen evolution reaction
    2022 313 citations Felix T. Haase, Arno Bergmann et al. profile →
  18. Atomic-scale surface restructuring of copper electrodes under CO2 electroreduction conditions
    2023 193 citations Antonia Herzog, Arno Bergmann et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  19. Electrocatalytic Nitrate and Nitrite Reduction toward Ammonia Using Cu2O Nanocubes: Active Species and Reaction Mechanisms
    2024 189 citations Federico Franco, Janis Timoshenko et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  20. Elucidating electrochemical nitrate and nitrite reduction over atomically-dispersed transition metal sites
    2023 175 citations Eamonn Murphy, Yuanchao Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →
  21. Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene and ethanol
    2024 125 citations Chao Zhan, Clara Rettenmaier et al. profile →
  22. Operando Raman spectroscopy uncovers hydroxide and CO species enhance ethanol selectivity during pulsed CO2 electroreduction
    2024 97 citations Antonia Herzog, Mauricio López Luna et al. Nature Communications profile →
  23. Revealing catalyst restructuring and composition during nitrate electroreduction through correlated operando microscopy and spectroscopy
    2025 43 citations Aram Yoon, Federico Franco et al. profile →
  24. Structure Sensitivity and Catalyst Restructuring for CO2 Electro-reduction on Copper
    2025 29 citations Zisheng Zhang, Markus Heyde et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Beatriz Roldán Cuenya Germany 86 21.2k 13.5k 11.6k 9.2k 2.8k 283 29.8k
Jun Luo China 102 23.5k 1.1× 16.2k 1.2× 8.1k 0.7× 14.4k 1.6× 1.6k 0.6× 404 34.1k
Frank Abild‐Pedersen United States 76 22.3k 1.1× 23.8k 1.8× 15.2k 1.3× 9.0k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 197 37.7k
Manos Mavrikakis United States 87 19.9k 0.9× 23.1k 1.7× 10.7k 0.9× 11.4k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 320 36.8k
Martin Muhler Germany 89 13.8k 0.7× 20.0k 1.5× 9.7k 0.8× 10.5k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 626 33.3k
Núria López Spain 86 12.1k 0.6× 17.2k 1.3× 8.2k 0.7× 4.9k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 352 26.3k
Federico Calle‐Vallejo Spain 62 19.2k 0.9× 8.5k 0.6× 6.8k 0.6× 9.3k 1.0× 3.5k 1.2× 151 22.0k
Jakob Kibsgaard Denmark 53 23.1k 1.1× 12.0k 0.9× 5.3k 0.5× 14.5k 1.6× 3.0k 1.1× 99 28.6k
Yao Zheng Australia 101 42.9k 2.0× 17.3k 1.3× 9.2k 0.8× 28.1k 3.0× 5.0k 1.8× 278 50.3k
Yafei Li China 83 15.9k 0.8× 16.4k 1.2× 3.6k 0.3× 12.4k 1.4× 1.4k 0.5× 291 28.7k
Liang Chen China 81 11.5k 0.5× 11.2k 0.8× 4.2k 0.4× 10.8k 1.2× 1.7k 0.6× 400 23.6k

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All Works

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Ortega, Eduardo, Daniel Cruz, Jie Zhu, et al.. (2025). Structure and Reactivity of Cu 2 O Nanocubes in Ethanol Dehydrogenation. ACS Catalysis. 15(21). 18333–18347.
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Wei, Jie, Zisheng Zhang, Wei Yu, et al.. (2025). Role of Surface Hydroxyls in Atomic-Scale Copper Restructuring during CO Electroreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(49). 45178–45188.
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Usoltsev, Oleg, F. Palacio, Janis Timoshenko, et al.. (2025). NiFe and NiCo core-shell nanoparticles supported on graphene as efficient catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 130. 313–323. 1 indexed citations
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Tănase, Liviu C., Maurício J. Prieto, Aarti Tiwari, et al.. (2025). Morphological and chemical state effects in pulsed CO2 electroreduction on Cu(100) unveiled by correlated spectro-microscopy. Nature Catalysis. 8(9). 881–890. 2 indexed citations
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Rüscher, Martina, Joonbaek Jang, Andrea Martini, et al.. (2025). Laboratory‐Based Time‐Resolved In Situ X‐Ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Tracking Transformations of Working Electrocatalysts. Chemistry - Methods. 5(10).
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Luna, Mauricio López, Fengli Yang, Aram Yoon, et al.. (2024). Revealing the Intrinsic Restructuring of Bi2O3 Nanoparticles into Bi Nanosheets during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(9). 11552–11560. 19 indexed citations
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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
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Murphy, Eamonn, Yuanchao Liu, Ivana Matanović, et al.. (2023). Elucidating electrochemical nitrate and nitrite reduction over atomically-dispersed transition metal sites. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4554–4554. 175 indexed citations breakdown →
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Davis, Earl M., Arno Bergmann, Chao Zhan, H. Kuhlenbeck, & Beatriz Roldán Cuenya. (2023). Comparative study of Co3O4(111), CoFe2O4(111), and Fe3O4(111) thin film electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4791–4791. 51 indexed citations
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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
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Bergmann, Arno, et al.. (2023). Insights into the electronic structure of Fe–Ni thin-film catalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction using operando resonant photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(15). 8066–8080. 9 indexed citations
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Lee, Si Woo, Fernando Buendía, Jian‐Qiang Zhong, et al.. (2023). Interaction of Gallium with a Copper Surface: Surface Alloying and Formation of Ordered Structures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(42). 20700–20709. 6 indexed citations
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Navarro, Juan J., Mowpriya Das, Sergio Tosoni, et al.. (2022). Covalent Adsorption of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on a Copper Oxide Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(36). 16267–16271. 37 indexed citations
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Zhong, Jian‐Qiang, Shamil Shaikhutdinov, & Beatriz Roldán Cuenya. (2021). Structural Evolution of Ga–Cu Model Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation Reactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(2). 1361–1367. 23 indexed citations
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Saddeler, Sascha, Georg Bendt, Soma Salamon, et al.. (2021). Influence of the cobalt content in cobalt iron oxides on the electrocatalytic OER activity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9(45). 25381–25390. 64 indexed citations
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Zegkinoglou, Ioannis, Zhongkang Han, Juan J. Navarro, et al.. (2021). Crystallographic Orientation Dependence of Surface Segregation and Alloying on PdCu Catalysts for CO2 Hydrogenation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(10). 2570–2575. 11 indexed citations
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Grosse, Philipp, Aram Yoon, Clara Rettenmaier, et al.. (2021). Dynamic transformation of cubic copper catalysts during CO2 electroreduction and its impact on catalytic selectivity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6736–6736. 176 indexed citations
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Franco, Federico, Clara Rettenmaier, Hyo Sang Jeon, & Beatriz Roldán Cuenya. (2020). Transition metal-based catalysts for the electrochemical CO2reduction: from atoms and molecules to nanostructured materials. Chemical Society Reviews. 49(19). 6884–6946. 402 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grosse, Philipp, Dunfeng Gao, Fabian Scholten, et al.. (2018). Dynamic Changes in the Structure, Chemical State and Catalytic Selectivity of Cu Nanocubes during CO2 Electroreduction: Size and Support Effects. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(21). 6192–6197. 374 indexed citations

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