Christopher D. Windle

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Christopher D. Windle is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher D. Windle has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christopher D. Windle's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (5 papers). Christopher D. Windle is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (5 papers). Christopher D. Windle collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and France. Christopher D. Windle's co-authors include Robin N. Perutz, Erwin Reisner, Timothy E. Rosser, Adrian C. Whitwood, Vincent Artero, Ahmed M. El‐Zohry, Murielle Chavarot‐Kerlidou, Liisa J. Antila, Leif Hammarström and Mohamed Abdellah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Christopher D. Windle

21 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Methane oxidation to ethanol by a molecular junction photocatalyst

2025 33 citations Jijia Xie, Cong Fu et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher D. Windle United Kingdom	17	1.3k	806	312	262	211	21	1.6k
Thibaut Stoll France	11	1.2k 0.9×	613 0.8×	362 1.2×	97 0.4×	248 1.2×	11	1.4k
Nicolas Kaeffer Germany	20	1.3k 1.0×	514 0.6×	463 1.5×	99 0.4×	258 1.2×	28	1.6k
Akinobu Nakada Japan	18	1.2k 0.9×	872 1.1×	359 1.2×	157 0.6×	229 1.1×	51	1.4k
Yasuomi Yamazaki Japan	18	1.4k 1.1×	786 1.0×	204 0.7×	474 1.8×	345 1.6×	39	1.7k
Steven J. Konezny United States	18	796 0.6×	592 0.7×	469 1.5×	85 0.3×	147 0.7×	29	1.4k
Ryo Kuriki Japan	19	2.5k 2.0×	2.0k 2.4×	663 2.1×	279 1.1×	251 1.2×	23	2.7k
Ye Lu China	19	599 0.5×	903 1.1×	185 0.6×	96 0.4×	292 1.4×	48	1.4k
Yu Nabetani Japan	21	771 0.6×	841 1.0×	396 1.3×	96 0.4×	116 0.5×	57	1.3k
Ryosuke Harada Japan	16	368 0.3×	518 0.6×	220 0.7×	153 0.6×	266 1.3×	27	947
Nicolas Queyriaux France	14	853 0.7×	228 0.3×	337 1.1×	66 0.3×	155 0.7×	25	1.0k

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Xie, Jijia, Cong Fu, Matthew G. Quesne, et al.. (2025). Methane oxidation to ethanol by a molecular junction photocatalyst. Nature. 639(8054). 368–374. 33 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kervella, Yann, Christopher D. Windle, Julien Massin, et al.. (2023). Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production by a Cobalt Tetrapyridyl Catalyst Using Push–Pull Dye‐Sensitized NiO Photocathodes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(12). 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuze, Ruoyu Xu, Liwei Chen, et al.. (2020). Hierarchical ZnO@Hybrid Carbon Core–Shell Nanowire Array on a Graphene Fiber Microelectrode for Ultrasensitive Detection of 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(7). 8547–8554. 24 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., Lunqiao Xiong, Michael Sachs, et al.. (2020). Covalent grafting of molecular catalysts on C₃N_xH_y as robust, efficient and well-defined photocatalysts for solar fuel synthesis. Chemical Science. 11(32). 8425–8432. 17 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jinfeng, Ruoyu Xu, Le Jiao, et al.. (2019). A 3D-graphene fiber electrode embedded with nitrogen-rich-carbon-coated ZIF-67 for the ultrasensitive detection of adrenaline. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(35). 5291–5295. 32 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jinfeng, Xiaoteng Ding, Liwei Chen, et al.. (2019). Ultra-small dispersed Cu_xO nanoparticles on graphene fibers for miniaturized electrochemical sensor applications. RSC Advances. 9(48). 28207–28212. 7 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., Hiromu Kumagai, Masanobu Higashi, et al.. (2019). Earth-Abundant Molecular Z-Scheme Photoelectrochemical Cell for Overall Water-Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(24). 9593–9602. 102 indexed citations

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Kong, Dan, Xiaoyu Han, Jijia Xie, et al.. (2019). Tunable Covalent Triazine-Based Frameworks (CTF-0) for Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen and Oxygen Generation from Water Splitting. ACS Catalysis. 9(9). 7697–7707. 155 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., Julien Massin, Murielle Chavarot‐Kerlidou, & Vincent Artero. (2018). A protocol for quantifying hydrogen evolution by dye-sensitized molecular photocathodes and its implementation for evaluating a new covalent architecture based on an optimized dye-catalyst dyad. Dalton Transactions. 47(31). 10509–10516. 16 indexed citations

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Kaeffer, Nicolas, Christopher D. Windle, Romain Brisse, et al.. (2018). Insights into the mechanism and aging of a noble-metal free H₂-evolving dye-sensitized photocathode. Chemical Science. 9(32). 6721–6738. 35 indexed citations

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Queyriaux, Nicolas, Christopher D. Windle, Souvik Roy, et al.. (2017). A noble metal-free photocatalytic system based on a novel cobalt tetrapyridyl catalyst for hydrogen production in fully aqueous medium. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(3). 553–557. 38 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D.. (2017). Electrocatalysis: Reduced ring makes catalyst sing. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 1(8). 5 indexed citations

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Rosser, Timothy E., Christopher D. Windle, & Erwin Reisner. (2016). Electrocatalytic and Solar‐Driven CO₂ Reduction to CO with a Molecular Manganese Catalyst Immobilized on Mesoporous TiO₂. Angewandte Chemie. 128(26). 7514–7518. 31 indexed citations

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Rosser, Timothy E., Christopher D. Windle, & Erwin Reisner. (2016). Electrocatalytic and Solar‐Driven CO₂ Reduction to CO with a Molecular Manganese Catalyst Immobilized on Mesoporous TiO₂. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(26). 7388–7392. 142 indexed citations

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Abdellah, Mohamed, Ahmed M. El‐Zohry, Liisa J. Antila, et al.. (2016). Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy Reveals a Mechanism with TiO₂ as a Reversible Electron Acceptor in a TiO₂–Re Catalyst System for CO₂ Photoreduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(3). 1226–1232. 140 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D. & Erwin Reisner. (2015). Heterogenised Molecular Catalysts for the Reduction of CO2 to Fuels. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 69(7-8). 435–435. 43 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., Ernest Pastor, Anna Reynal, et al.. (2015). Improving the Photocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ to CO through Immobilisation of a Molecular Re Catalyst on TiO₂. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(9). 3746–3754. 141 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., Michael W. George, Robin N. Perutz, et al.. (2015). Comparison of rhenium–porphyrin dyads for CO₂photoreduction: photocatalytic studies and charge separation dynamics studied by time-resolved IR spectroscopy. Chemical Science. 6(12). 6847–6864. 81 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D. & Robin N. Perutz. (2012). Advances in molecular photocatalytic and electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 256(21-22). 2562–2570. 412 indexed citations

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Windle, Christopher D., et al.. (2012). CO2 photoreduction with long-wavelength light: dyads and monomers of zinc porphyrin and rhenium bipyridine. Chemical Communications. 48(66). 8189–8189. 78 indexed citations

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