De Nyago Tafen

2.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

De Nyago Tafen is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Ceramics and Composites. According to data from OpenAlex, De Nyago Tafen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Materials Chemistry, 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 8 papers in Ceramics and Composites. Recurrent topics in De Nyago Tafen's work include Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (9 papers), Glass properties and applications (8 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (7 papers). De Nyago Tafen is often cited by papers focused on Phase-change materials and chalcogenides (9 papers), Glass properties and applications (8 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (7 papers). De Nyago Tafen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Canada. De Nyago Tafen's co-authors include James P. Lewis, Nianqiang Wu, A. Manivannan, Jin Wang, Zhanglian Hong, Mingjia Zhi, Ming Li, D. A. Drabold, Jian‐Guo Zheng and Stephen S. Leonard and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

De Nyago Tafen

29 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Origin of Photocatalytic Activity of Nitrogen-Doped TiO₂ Nanobelts

2009 1.1k citations Jin Wang, De Nyago Tafen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Shape-Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Single-Crystalline Anatase TiO₂ (101) Nanobelts

2010 668 citations Nianqiang Wu, De Nyago Tafen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
De Nyago Tafen United States	18	2.0k	1.8k	702	252	165	31	2.6k
C. Merschjann Germany	21	2.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	322 1.3×	70 0.4×	43	2.7k
N. Lakshminarasimhan India	24	1.3k 0.7×	861 0.5×	783 1.1×	498 2.0×	96 0.6×	62	1.9k
Zhonghua Deng China	31	2.1k 1.1×	690 0.4×	1.4k 2.0×	286 1.1×	162 1.0×	78	2.6k
Guoping Dong China	19	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	263 1.0×	473 2.9×	33	2.8k
Chunqiang Zhuang China	27	1.8k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	855 1.2×	175 0.7×	29 0.2×	72	2.6k
Zhuguang Liu China	21	2.3k 1.2×	670 0.4×	1.4k 2.0×	334 1.3×	205 1.2×	46	2.6k
Wang Guo China	31	2.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 1.9×	229 0.9×	429 2.6×	111	3.0k
Waldir Avansi Brazil	32	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	341 1.4×	52 0.3×	69	2.6k
William D. Chemelewski United States	17	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	303 1.2×	25 0.2×	17	2.7k
Chang Sung Lim South Korea	25	1.6k 0.8×	315 0.2×	953 1.4×	244 1.0×	145 0.9×	85	1.8k

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Tafen, De Nyago, Hari P. Paudel, David J. Senor, Andrew M. Casella, & Yuhua Duan. (2024). First principles density functional theory study of tritium species adsorption on Ni(111) surface and diffusion in nickel-sublayer for tritium storage. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(1). 481–489.

Tafen, De Nyago, Barbara Kutchko, & Mehrdad Massoudi. (2023). On the Flow of CO2-Saturated Water in a Cement Fracture. Geosciences. 13(10). 312–312.

Marin, Chris M., Eric J. Popczun, Thuy‐Duong Nguyen‐Phan, et al.. (2020). Designing perovskite catalysts for controlled active-site exsolution in the microwave dry reforming of methane. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 284. 119711–119711. 48 indexed citations

Popczun, Eric J., De Nyago Tafen, Sittichai Natesakhawat, et al.. (2020). Temperature tunability in Sr_1−xCa_xFeO_3−δ for reversible oxygen storage: a computational and experimental study. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 8(5). 2602–2612. 34 indexed citations

Tafen, De Nyago, Dominic Alfonso, Jonathan W. Lekse, et al.. (2019). A framework for optimizing oxygen vacancy formation in doped perovskites. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 126. 168–177. 20 indexed citations

Kauffman, Douglas R., Dominic Alfonso, De Nyago Tafen, et al.. (2018). Selective Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂ into CO at Small, Thiol-Capped Au/Cu Nanoparticles. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(49). 27991–28000. 48 indexed citations

Alfonso, Dominic, De Nyago Tafen, & Douglas R. Kauffman. (2018). First-Principles Modeling in Heterogeneous Electrocatalysis. Catalysts. 8(10). 424–424. 30 indexed citations

Kauffman, Douglas R., Dominic Alfonso, De Nyago Tafen, et al.. (2016). Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution with an Atomically Precise Nickel Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 6(2). 1225–1234. 114 indexed citations

Tafen, De Nyago & Oleg V. Prezhdo. (2015). Size and Temperature Dependence of Electron Transfer between CdSe Quantum Dots and a TiO₂ Nanobelt. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 119(10). 5639–5647. 22 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago, Run Long, & Oleg V. Prezhdo. (2014). Dimensionality of Nanoscale TiO₂ Determines the Mechanism of Photoinduced Electron Injection from a CdSe Nanoparticle. Nano Letters. 14(4). 1790–1796. 34 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago & Michael C. Gao. (2013). Oxygen Atom Adsorption on and Diffusion into Nb(110) and Nb(100) from First Principles. JOM. 65(11). 1473–1481. 12 indexed citations

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Biswas, Parthapratim, et al.. (2009). Materials modeling by design: applications to amorphous solids. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 21(8). 84207–84207. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Jin, De Nyago Tafen, James P. Lewis, et al.. (2009). Origin of Photocatalytic Activity of Nitrogen-Doped TiO₂ Nanobelts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(34). 12290–12297. 1132 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tafen, De Nyago & James P. Lewis. (2009). Structure, stability, and electronic properties of thinTiO2nanowires. Physical Review B. 80(1). 23 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago, et al.. (2009). Competing stoichiometric phases and the intermediate phase in Ge_xSe_1−x glasses. physica status solidi (b). 246(8). 1849–1853. 17 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago, Jin Wang, Nianqiang Wu, & James P. Lewis. (2009). Visible light photocatalytic activity in nitrogen-doped TiO2 nanobelts. Applied Physics Letters. 94(9). 78 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago, et al.. (2007). An intermediate phase in Ge_xSe_1−xglasses: experiment and simulation. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 19(45). 455206–455206. 24 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago, D. A. Drabold, & M. Mitkova. (2005). Direct ab initio simulation of silver ion dynamics in chalcogenide glasses. physica status solidi (b). 242(7). 8 indexed citations

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Biswas, Parthapratim, De Nyago Tafen, Raymond Atta‐Fynn, & D. A. Drabold. (2004). The inclusion of experimental information in first principles modelling of materials. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 16(44). S5173–S5182. 17 indexed citations

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Tafen, De Nyago & D. A. Drabold. (2003). Realistic models of binary glasses from models of tetrahedral amorphous semiconductors. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 68(16). 28 indexed citations

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