Colin P. O’Brien

7.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
35 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Colin P. O’Brien is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin P. O’Brien has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Colin P. O’Brien's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (30 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (13 papers). Colin P. O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (30 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Ionic liquids properties and applications (13 papers). Colin P. O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Ireland. Colin P. O’Brien's co-authors include Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton, Christine M. Gabardo, Jonathan P. Edwards, Yi Xu, Rui Kai Miao, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Jianan Erick Huang, Jun Li and Shijie Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Colin P. O’Brien

33 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly

2019 491 citations Christine M. Gabardo, Colin P. O’Brien et al. Joule profile →
Designing anion exchange membranes for CO2 electrolysers

2021 363 citations Danielle A. Salvatore, Christine M. Gabardo et al. Nature Energy profile →
Self-Cleaning CO₂ Reduction Systems: Unsteady Electrochemical Forcing Enables Stability

2021 290 citations Yi Xu, Jonathan P. Edwards et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers

2022 226 citations Adnan Ozden, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer et al. Nature Sustainability profile →
Efficient electrosynthesis of n-propanol from carbon monoxide using a Ag–Ru–Cu catalyst

2022 225 citations Xue Wang, Pengfei Ou et al. Nature Energy profile →
Conversion of CO2 to multicarbon products in strong acid by controlling the catalyst microenvironment

2023 205 citations Yong Zhao, Long Hao et al. Nature Synthesis profile →
CO₂ Electrolyzers

2024 151 citations Colin P. O’Brien, Rui Kai Miao et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin P. O’Brien

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin P. O’Brien

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Voltage distribution within carbon dioxide reduction electrolysers 2025 ·Nature Sustainability ·(unknown), Rui Kai Miao, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, Mohammad Zargartalebi, Colin P. O’Brien, Roham Dorakhan, Tartela Alkayyali, Geonhui Lee, Mengyang Fan, Jehad Abed, Feng Li, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	0
2	Scaled CO Electroreduction to Alcohols 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Panagiotis Papangelakis, Colin P. O’Brien, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, Shijie Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Sungjin Park, Yurou Celine Xiao, Roham Dorakhan, (unknown), Jinhong Wu, Christine M. Gabardo, Ning Wang, Rui Kai Miao, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	5
3	Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis 2024 ·Nature Sustainability ·Xue Wang, (unknown), Jason Tam, Jane Y. Howe, Colin P. O’Brien, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Rui Kai Miao, Yuan Liu, Adnan Ozden, Ke Xie, Jinhong Wu, (unknown), Edward H. Sargent	24
4	Scaling CO₂ Electrolyzer Cell Area from Bench to Pilot 2024 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, Jonathan P. Edwards, Shijie Liu, Christine M. Gabardo, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	19
5	Carbon‐Efficient CO₂ Electrolysis to Ethylene with Nanoporous Hydrophobic Copper 2024 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Panagiotis Papangelakis, Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, Colin P. O’Brien, (unknown), Roham Dorakhan, Christine M. Gabardo, (unknown), (unknown), Zahra Azimi Dijvejin, Amin Morteza Najarian, Sungjin Park, Heejong Shin, Rui Kai Miao, Alexander H. Ip, Kevin Golovin, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	7
6	Conversion of CO2 to multicarbon products in strong acid by controlling the catalyst microenvironment breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Synthesis ·Yong Zhao, Long Hao, Adnan Ozden, Shijie Liu, Rui Kai Miao, Pengfei Ou, Tartela Alkayyali, Shuzhen Zhang, Jing Ning, Yongxiang Liang, Yi Xu, Mengyang Fan, Yuanjun Chen, Jianan Erick Huang, Ke Xie, Jinqiang Zhang, Colin P. O’Brien, Fengwang Li, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	205
7	Wandoo A – A Life Extension Case Study Implementing Reliability Methodologies 2023 ·Offshore Technology Conference ·(unknown), (unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, (unknown), (unknown)	0
8	Early Warning for the Electrolyzer: Monitoring CO₂ Reduction via In‐Line Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy 2023 ·ChemSusChem ·(unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ali Shayesteh Zeraati, (unknown), Alexander H. Ip, (unknown), Christine M. Gabardo, David Sinton	12
9	A silver–copper oxide catalyst for acetate electrosynthesis from carbon monoxide 2023 ·Nature Synthesis ·Roham Dorakhan, Ivan Grigioni, Byoung‐Hoon Lee, Pengfei Ou, Jehad Abed, Colin P. O’Brien, Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Milivoj Plodinec, Rui Kai Miao, Erfan Shirzadi, Joshua Wicks, Sungjin Park, Geonhui Lee, Jinqiang Zhang, David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent	49
10	Scale-Dependent Techno-Economic Analysis of CO₂ Capture and Electroreduction to Ethylene 2023 ·ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), Jonathan P. Edwards, Christine M. Gabardo, Colin P. O’Brien, Joshua Wicks, (unknown), Armin Sedighian Rasouli, (unknown), Jehad Abed, (unknown), Yurou Celine Xiao, Amitava Sarkar, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Moritz W. Schreiber, David Sinton, Heather L. MacLean, Edward H. Sargent	22
11	Pilot-Scale CO₂ Electrolysis Enables a Semi-empirical Electrolyzer Model 2023 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Jonathan P. Edwards, (unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, Christine M. Gabardo, Shijie Liu, Joshua Wicks, (unknown), Jehad Abed, Yurou Celine Xiao, (unknown), Armin Sedighian Rasouli, Amitava Sarkar, Shaffiq A. Jaffer, Heather L. MacLean, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	53
12	Bipolar membrane electrolyzers enable high single-pass CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Ke Xie, Rui Kai Miao, Adnan Ozden, Shijie Liu, Zhu Chen, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Jianan Erick Huang, Qiucheng Xu, Christine M. Gabardo, Geonhui Lee, Jonathan P. Edwards, Colin P. O’Brien, Shannon W. Boettcher, David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent	183
13	A microchanneled solid electrolyte for carbon-efficient CO2 electrolysis 2022 ·Joule ·Yi Xu, Rui Kai Miao, Jonathan P. Edwards, Shijie Liu, Colin P. O’Brien, Christine M. Gabardo, Mengyang Fan, Jianan Erick Huang, (unknown), Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	98
14	Concentrated Ethanol Electrosynthesis from CO₂ via a Porous Hydrophobic Adlayer 2022 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Adnan Ozden, Rui Kai Miao, Colin P. O’Brien, Yi Xu, Christine M. Gabardo, Xue Wang, Nana Zhao, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	22
15	Designing anion exchange membranes for CO2 electrolysers breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Energy ·Danielle A. Salvatore, Christine M. Gabardo, (unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, Steven Holdcroft, Peter N. Pintauro, Bamdad Bahar, Michael A. Hickner, Chulsung Bae, David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent, Curtis P. Berlinguette	363
16	Low coordination number copper catalysts for electrochemical CO2 methanation in a membrane electrode assembly 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Yi Xu, Fengwang Li, Aoni Xu, Jonathan P. Edwards, Sung‐Fu Hung, Christine M. Gabardo, Colin P. O’Brien, Shijie Liu, Xue Wang, Yuhang Li, Joshua Wicks, Rui Kai Miao, Yuan Liu, Jun Li, Jianan Erick Huang, Jehad Abed, Yuhang Wang, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	169
17	Single Pass CO₂ Conversion Exceeding 85% in the Electrosynthesis of Multicarbon Products via Local CO₂ Regeneration 2021 ·ACS Energy Letters ·Colin P. O’Brien, Rui Kai Miao, Shijie Liu, Yi Xu, Geonhui Lee, (unknown), Jianan Erick Huang, Ke Xie, Koen Bertens, Christine M. Gabardo, Jonathan P. Edwards, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	256
18	Electroosmotic flow steers neutral products and enables concentrated ethanol electroproduction from CO2 2021 ·Joule ·Rui Kai Miao, Yi Xu, Adnan Ozden, (unknown), Colin P. O’Brien, Christine M. Gabardo, Geonhui Lee, Jonathan P. Edwards, Jianan Erick Huang, Mengyang Fan, Xue Wang, Shijie Liu, Yushan Yan, Edward H. Sargent, David Sinton	68
19	Continuous Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction to Concentrated Multi-carbon Products Using a Membrane Electrode Assembly breakdown → 2019 ·Joule ·Christine M. Gabardo, Colin P. O’Brien, Jonathan P. Edwards, Christopher McCallum, Yi Xu, Cao‐Thang Dinh, Jun Li, Edward H. Sargent, (unknown)	491
20	Glycosidation–Anomerisation Reactions of 6,1‐Anhydroglucopyranuronic Acid and Anomerisation of β‐D‐Glucopyranosiduronic Acids Promoted by SnCl₄ 2006 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Colin P. O’Brien, Monika Poláková, (unknown), Manuela Tosin, Paul V. Murphy	42

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