Christian Appel

768 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 574 citations indexed

About

Christian Appel is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Appel has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 574 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 6 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christian Appel's work include Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (4 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (4 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (4 papers). Christian Appel is often cited by papers focused on Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (4 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (4 papers) and Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (4 papers). Christian Appel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. Christian Appel's co-authors include Thomas Soczka‐Guth, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Bernd Stühn, Björn Kuttich, Manuel Guizar‐Sicairos, Marianne Liebi, Annette Andrieu‐Brunsen, Mirko Holler, Lorenz Gubler and Félix N. Büchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Christian Appel

23 papers receiving 560 citations

Hit Papers

Advanced mathematical methods of SOC and SOH estimation f... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300
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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. Advanced mathematical methods of SOC and SOH estimation for lithium-ion batteries
    2012 353 citations Christian Appel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Appel Switzerland 11 381 349 94 72 53 24 574
Jie Lu China 16 482 1.3× 215 0.6× 74 0.8× 94 1.3× 168 3.2× 33 672
Hanxiao Wang China 12 304 0.8× 167 0.5× 49 0.5× 282 3.9× 77 1.5× 38 583
Guodong Chen China 16 580 1.5× 87 0.2× 99 1.1× 117 1.6× 32 0.6× 63 741
Zihao Wang China 15 503 1.3× 245 0.7× 45 0.5× 52 0.7× 20 0.4× 48 602
Somayeh Asadi Iran 12 212 0.6× 136 0.4× 22 0.2× 51 0.7× 19 0.4× 37 518
Guangmin Li China 13 163 0.4× 62 0.2× 48 0.5× 193 2.7× 86 1.6× 37 496
Sichen Li China 13 321 0.8× 123 0.4× 95 1.0× 96 1.3× 53 1.0× 49 586
Cuili Chen China 12 298 0.8× 85 0.2× 30 0.3× 90 1.3× 37 0.7× 26 461

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Appel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Appel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Appel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christian Appel. Christian Appel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Klein, Antoine, Nataliia Mozhzhukhina, Shizhao Xiong, et al.. (2025). Resolving the Sodiation Process in Hard Carbon Anodes with Nanostructure Specific X‐Ray Imaging. Advanced Science. 12(34). e08635–e08635. 3 indexed citations
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Appel, Christian, Timon Lazaridis, Christian Prehal, et al.. (2024). Operando Scanning Small-/Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells: Investigation of Catalyst Layer Saturation and Membrane Hydration– Capabilities and Challenges. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(20). 25938–25952. 4 indexed citations
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Menzel, Andreas, Nicole G. Sommer, Annelie‐Martina Weinberg, et al.. (2024). Physical exercise impacts bone remodeling around bio-resorbable magnesium implants. Acta Biomaterialia. 193. 623–631. 2 indexed citations
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Appel, Christian, et al.. (2024). X-ray tensor tomography for small-grained polycrystals with strong texture. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 57(4). 986–1000. 2 indexed citations
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Weber, Carl Cesar, Salvatore De Angelis, Christian Appel, et al.. (2024). Microporous transport layers facilitating low iridium loadings in polymer electrolyte water electrolysis. EES Catalysis. 2(2). 585–602. 25 indexed citations
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Avaro, Jonathan, Marianne Liebi, Joachim Kohlbrecher, et al.. (2024). Iron-carbohydrate complexes treating iron anaemia: Understanding the nano-structure and interactions with proteins through orthogonal characterisation. Journal of Controlled Release. 368. 566–579. 8 indexed citations
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Scagnoli, Valerio, Mirko Holler, Manuel Guizar‐Sicairos, et al.. (2024). X-ray linear dichroic tomography of crystallographic and topological defects. Nature. 636(8042). 354–360. 5 indexed citations
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Gao, Zirui, Christian Appel, Mirko Holler, et al.. (2024). Dynamic sparse x-ray nanotomography reveals ionomer hydration mechanism in polymer electrolyte fuel-cell catalyst. Science Advances. 10(41). eadp3346–eadp3346. 4 indexed citations
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Appel, Christian, Dmitry Karpov, Michel Mermoux, et al.. (2023). Decoupling the Contributions of Different Instability Mechanisms to the PEMFC Performance Decay of Non-noble Metal O2-Reduction Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(14). 7845–7858. 34 indexed citations
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Prehal, Christian, Justus S. Diercks, Christian Appel, et al.. (2023). Quantification of PEFC Catalyst Layer Saturation via In Silico, Ex Situ, and In Situ Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(22). 26538–26553. 10 indexed citations
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Casanova, Elisa A., Melanie Generali, Yvonne Neldner, et al.. (2023). SAXS imaging reveals optimized osseointegration properties of bioengineered oriented 3D-PLGA/aCaP scaffolds in a critical size bone defect model. Biomaterials. 294. 121989–121989. 17 indexed citations
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Tsolaki, Elena, Robert Zboray, Jonathan Avaro, et al.. (2023). Multiscale multimodal characterization and simulation of structural alterations in failed bioprosthetic heart valves. Acta Biomaterialia. 169. 138–154. 13 indexed citations
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Scoppola, Ernesto, et al.. (2022). Characterization of lipid bilayers adsorbed to functionalized air/water interfaces. Nanoscale. 14(40). 15048–15059. 15 indexed citations
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Holler, Mirko, Christian Appel, Nicholas Phillips, et al.. (2022). Environmental control for X-ray nanotomography. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 29(5). 1223–1231. 7 indexed citations
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Appel, Christian, Björn Kuttich, Tobias Kraus, & Bernd Stühn. (2021). In situ investigation of temperature induced agglomeration in non-polar magnetic nanoparticle dispersions by small angle X-ray scattering. Nanoscale. 13(14). 6916–6920. 10 indexed citations
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Avaro, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). 3D Binary Mesocrystals from Anisotropic Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(2). e202112461–e202112461. 14 indexed citations
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Kuttich, Björn, et al.. (2020). X-ray scattering study on the crystalline and semi-crystalline structure of water/PEG mixtures in their eutectic phase diagram. Soft Matter. 16(45). 10260–10267. 13 indexed citations
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Appel, Christian, et al.. (2019). Structural Properties and Magnetic Ordering in 2D Polymer Nanocomposites: Existence of Long Magnetic Dipolar Chains in Zero Field. Langmuir. 35(37). 12180–12191. 5 indexed citations
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Picco, Agustı́n S., Martin Kraska, Haiko Didzoleit, et al.. (2014). On the supramacromolecular structure of core–shell amphiphilic macromolecules derived from hyperbranched polyethyleneimine. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 436. 243–250. 8 indexed citations

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