Christopher Penschke

2.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher Penschke is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Penschke has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Materials Chemistry, 10 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Christopher Penschke's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (6 papers). Christopher Penschke is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (9 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers) and Covalent Organic Framework Applications (6 papers). Christopher Penschke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Japan. Christopher Penschke's co-authors include Joachim Paier, Joachim Sauer, Peter Saalfrank, Jabor Rabeah, Arne Thomas, Jérôme Roeser, Shuang Li, Roel van de Krol, Jin Yang and Amitava Acharjya and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Penschke

24 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Oxygen Defects and Surface Chemistry of Ceria: Quantum Ch... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2021 2022 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. Oxygen Defects and Surface Chemistry of Ceria: Quantum Chemical Studies Compared to Experiment
    2013 912 citations Joachim Paier, Christopher Penschke et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  2. Protonated Imine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
    2021 345 citations Jin Yang, Amitava Acharjya et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis
    2022 203 citations Jin Yang, Samrat Ghosh et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Penschke Germany 12 1.6k 829 598 492 212 24 1.8k
Prashant Deshlahra United States 18 969 0.6× 344 0.4× 691 1.2× 284 0.6× 119 0.6× 46 1.2k
Stephen C. Purdy United States 15 1.6k 1.0× 702 0.8× 1.1k 1.9× 452 0.9× 157 0.7× 28 1.9k
Kevin Kähler Germany 20 1.3k 0.8× 345 0.4× 904 1.5× 287 0.6× 139 0.7× 23 1.6k
Muhammad Haris Mahyuddin Indonesia 21 1.1k 0.7× 252 0.3× 691 1.2× 478 1.0× 293 1.4× 66 1.4k
Felipe Polo‐Garzon United States 25 1.4k 0.9× 575 0.7× 795 1.3× 151 0.3× 195 0.9× 56 1.8k
Zan Lian China 23 984 0.6× 896 1.1× 565 0.9× 215 0.4× 582 2.7× 33 1.7k
Melike Babucci United States 19 1.0k 0.7× 240 0.3× 463 0.8× 666 1.4× 324 1.5× 30 1.4k
Xuelu Ma China 18 922 0.6× 1.2k 1.5× 882 1.5× 228 0.5× 354 1.7× 35 1.9k
Shenjun Zha China 14 1.5k 0.9× 895 1.1× 1.1k 1.9× 394 0.8× 301 1.4× 17 2.0k
Wilm Jones United Kingdom 20 1.7k 1.0× 964 1.2× 1.0k 1.7× 203 0.4× 180 0.8× 34 2.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weber, Irene T., Christopher Penschke, Angelos Michaelides, & Karina Morgenstern. (2025). Importance of Ion Size on the Dominance of Water–Ion Versus Water–Water Interactions in Au-Supported Solvatomers. Nano Letters. 25(6). 2188–2194. 2 indexed citations
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Chakraborty, Gouri, Jin Yang, Jérôme Roeser, et al.. (2025). The Effect of Pore Functionality in Multicomponent Covalent Organic Frameworks on Stable Long‐Term Photocatalytic H 2 Production. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(8). 5 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Vibrational dynamics and spectroscopy of water at porous g-C3N4 and C2N surfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(14). 11084–11093. 4 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2024). Water splitting at imine-linked covalent organic frameworks. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(32). 21821–21831. 5 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, Ji Chen, X. Torrelles, et al.. (2024). Ultracompact Electrical Double Layers at TiO2(110) Electrified Interfaces. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(49). 33443–33451. 1 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, J. O. Thomas, Angelos Michaelides, et al.. (2023). Hydration at Highly Crowded Interfaces. Physical Review Letters. 130(10). 106202–106202. 4 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2023). Band Gap Engineering in Two-Dimensional Materials by Functionalization: Methylation of Graphene and Graphene Bilayers. ACS Omega. 8(24). 22026–22041. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Jin, Samrat Ghosh, Jérôme Roeser, et al.. (2022). Constitutional isomerism of the linkages in donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks and its impact on photocatalysis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6317–6317. 203 indexed citations breakdown →
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Penschke, Christopher, et al.. (2022). Water on porous, nitrogen-containing layered carbon materials: the performance of computational model chemistries. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 24(24). 14709–14726. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Jin, Amitava Acharjya, Mengyang Ye, et al.. (2021). Protonated Imine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(36). 19797–19803. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yang, Jin, Amitava Acharjya, Mengyang Ye, et al.. (2021). Protonated Imine‐Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 133(36). 19950–19956. 24 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, Xiaoke Li, Joachim Paier, et al.. (2020). Reaction dynamics of metal/oxide catalysts: Methanol oxidation at vanadium oxide films on Rh(1 1 1) from UHV to 10−2 mbar. Journal of Catalysis. 385. 255–264. 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Ji, Christopher Penschke, Ali Alavi, & Angelos Michaelides. (2020). Small polarons and the Janus nature of TiO2(110). Physical review. B.. 101(11). 17 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher, Joachim Paier, & Joachim Sauer. (2018). Vanadium Oxide Oligomers and Ordered Monolayers Supported on CeO2(111): Structure and Stability Studied by Density Functional Theory. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(16). 9101–9110. 21 indexed citations
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Penschke, Christopher & Joachim Paier. (2017). Reduction and oxidation of Au adatoms on the CeO2(111) surface – DFT+U versus hybrid functionals. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(19). 12546–12558. 15 indexed citations
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Yang, Chengwu, Fabian Bebensee, Alexei Nefedov, et al.. (2016). Methanol adsorption on monocrystalline ceria surfaces. Journal of Catalysis. 336. 116–125. 42 indexed citations
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Paier, Joachim, Thomas Kropp, Christopher Penschke, & Joachim Sauer. (2013). Stability and migration barriers of small vanadium oxide clusters on the CeO2(111) surface studied by density functional theory. Faraday Discussions. 162. 233–233. 25 indexed citations
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Pan, Yi, Niklas Nilius, Hans‐Joachim Freund, et al.. (2013). Titration ofCe3+Ions in theCeO2(111)Surface by Au Adatoms. Physical Review Letters. 111(20). 206101–206101. 56 indexed citations
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Paier, Joachim, Christopher Penschke, & Joachim Sauer. (2013). Oxygen Defects and Surface Chemistry of Ceria: Quantum Chemical Studies Compared to Experiment. Chemical Reviews. 113(6). 3949–3985. 912 indexed citations breakdown →
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Paier, Joachim, Christopher Penschke, & Joachim Sauer. (2013). ChemInform Abstract: Oxygen Defects and Surface Chemistry of Ceria: Quantum Chemical Studies Compared to Experiment. ChemInform. 44(33). 1 indexed citations

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