Björn Åkermark

15.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
283 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

Björn Åkermark is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Björn Åkermark has authored 283 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Organic Chemistry, 88 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 87 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Björn Åkermark's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (79 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (61 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (49 papers). Björn Åkermark is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (79 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (61 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (49 papers). Björn Åkermark collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, China and Denmark. Björn Åkermark's co-authors include Licheng Sun, Markus D. Kärkäs, Eric V. Johnston, Leif Hammarström, Oscar Verho, Stenbjörn Styring, Sascha Ott, Per‐Ola Norrby, Torbjörn Åkermark and Reiner Lomoth and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Björn Åkermark

279 papers receiving 13.2k 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.

Artificial Photosynthesis: Molecular Systems for Catalytic Water Oxidation

2014 1.2k citations Markus D. Kärkäs, Oscar Verho et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Björn Åkermark Sweden	61	6.7k	4.7k	4.0k	3.6k	2.5k	283	13.5k
Leif Hammarström Sweden	68	6.4k 1.0×	7.1k 1.5×	2.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	249	14.1k
James M. Mayer United States	75	7.7k 1.2×	6.6k 1.4×	8.5k 2.1×	8.9k 2.5×	2.6k 1.0×	320	20.8k
Randolph P. Thummel United States	55	2.4k 0.4×	4.5k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	235	11.9k
Antoni Llobet Spain	61	8.4k 1.3×	5.1k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	4.4k 1.2×	3.2k 1.3×	266	14.4k
Carol Creutz United States	53	3.0k 0.4×	3.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	2.7k 1.1×	117	10.5k
Djamaladdin G. Musaev United States	71	4.2k 0.6×	6.9k 1.5×	8.6k 2.1×	6.3k 1.7×	1.5k 0.6×	327	17.5k
Thomas B. Rauchfuss United States	70	11.5k 1.7×	4.7k 1.0×	7.2k 1.8×	7.9k 2.2×	3.3k 1.3×	408	21.0k
John H. Enemark United States	46	4.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	3.8k 1.1×	836 0.3×	256	9.6k
Joseph H. Reibenspies United States	62	3.4k 0.5×	3.1k 0.7×	6.2k 1.5×	5.1k 1.4×	934 0.4×	405	13.8k
Roger Guilard France	51	1.4k 0.2×	9.9k 2.1×	3.6k 0.9×	4.4k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	515	14.1k

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Sun, Jun, Tsz Tin Yu, Matthew Lee, et al.. (2024). Soluble metal porphyrins - Zero-valent zinc system for effective reductive defluorination of branched per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). Water Research. 258. 121803–121803. 5 indexed citations

Morallón, Emilia, Diego Cazorla‐Amorós, Fei Ye, et al.. (2024). Co-complexes on modified graphite surface for steady green hydrogen production from water at neutral pH. Frontiers in Chemistry. 12. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Tsz Tin, Jun Sun, Matthew Lee, et al.. (2023). Fast reductive defluorination of branched perfluorooctane sulfonic acids by cobalt phthalocyanine: electrochemical studies and mechanistic insights. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 10(1). 216–227. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Jun, et al.. (2023). Effective PFAS degradation by electrochemical oxidation methods-recent progress and requirement. Chemosphere. 321. 138109–138109. 68 indexed citations

Das, Biswanath, Guoqi Li, Jonas Ståhle, et al.. (2023). Bifunctional and regenerable molecular electrode for water electrolysis at neutral pH. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(25). 13331–13340. 11 indexed citations

Das, Biswanath, Lin Li, Fei Ye, et al.. (2022). Cobalt Electrocatalyst on Fluorine Doped Carbon Cloth – a Robust and Partially Regenerable Anode for Water Oxidation. ChemCatChem. 14(18). 10 indexed citations

Li, Lin, Biswanath Das, Andrey Shatskiy, et al.. (2022). Ruthenium containing molecular electrocatalyst on glassy carbon for electrochemical water splitting. Dalton Transactions. 51(20). 7957–7965. 10 indexed citations

Sun, Jun, Matthew Lee, Adele M. Jones, et al.. (2022). Efficient Reductive Defluorination of Branched PFOS by Metal–Porphyrin Complexes. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(12). 7830–7839. 18 indexed citations

Das, Biswanath, et al.. (2021). The Impact of Ligand Carboxylates on Electrocatalyzed Water Oxidation. Accounts of Chemical Research. 54(17). 3326–3337. 58 indexed citations

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Sun, Jun, Matthew Lee, Denis M. O’Carroll, et al.. (2021). Removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water by ceric(iv) ammonium nitrate. RSC Advances. 11(29). 17642–17645. 4 indexed citations

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Shirini, Farhad, et al.. (2018). Palladium Nanoparticles Immobilized on an Aminopropyl‐functionalized Silica‐Magnetite Composite as a Recyclable Catalyst for Suzuki‐Miyaura Reactions. ChemistrySelect. 3(27). 7970–7975. 7 indexed citations

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Arafa, Wael A. A., Markus D. Kärkäs, Bao‐Lin Lee, et al.. (2014). Dinuclear manganese complexes for water oxidation: evaluation of electronic effects and catalytic activity. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(24). 11950–11950. 66 indexed citations

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Privalov, Timofei, Björn Åkermark, & Licheng Sun. (2011). The OO Bonding in Water Oxidation: the Electronic Structure Portrayal of a Concerted Oxygen Atom–Proton Transfer Pathway. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(30). 8313–8317. 39 indexed citations

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Xu, Yunhua, Lele Duan, Torbjörn Åkermark, et al.. (2011). Synthesis and Catalytic Water Oxidation Activities of Ruthenium Complexes Containing Neutral Ligands. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(34). 9520–9528. 31 indexed citations

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Gao, Weiming, Junliang Sun, Torbjörn Åkermark, et al.. (2010). Attachment of a Hydrogen‐Bonding Carboxylate Side Chain to an [FeFe]‐Hydrogenase Model Complex: Influence on the Catalytic Mechanism. Chemistry - A European Journal. 16(8). 2537–2546. 41 indexed citations

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Gao, Yan, Torbjörn Åkermark, Jianhui Liu, Licheng Sun, & Björn Åkermark. (2009). Nucleophilic Attack of Hydroxide on a Mn ^V Oxo Complex: A Model of the O−O Bond Formation in the Oxygen Evolving Complex of Photosystem II. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(25). 8726–8727. 223 indexed citations

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Kritikos, M., et al.. (2006). Water as a hydrogen bonding bridge between a phenol and imidazole. A simple model for water binding in enzymes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1757(12). 1592–1596. 9 indexed citations

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Shi, Furong, et al.. (2005). Synthesis and characterization of two novel high valent dinuclear complexes with a triphenolate ligand bearing functional groups. Chinese Chemical Letters. 16(1). 89–92.

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Wang, Fujun, Mei Wang, Xiaoyang Liu, et al.. (2005). Spectroscopic and crystallographic evidence for the N-protonated FeIFeI azadithiolate complex related to the active site of Fe-only hydrogenases. Chemical Communications. 3221–3221. 44 indexed citations

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Hammarström, Leif, Licheng Sun, Björn Åkermark, & Stenbjörn Styring. (2001). A biomimetic approach to artificial photosynthesis: Ru(II)–polypyridine photo-sensitisers linked to tyrosine and manganese electron donors. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 57(11). 2145–2160. 31 indexed citations

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