Denis Bernsmeier

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Denis Bernsmeier is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Denis Bernsmeier has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Denis Bernsmeier's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers). Denis Bernsmeier is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (20 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (9 papers). Denis Bernsmeier collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. Denis Bernsmeier's co-authors include Peter Strasser, Ralph Kraehnert, Yanyan Sun, Sören Dresp, Henrike Schmies, Wen Ju, Shuang Li, Xingli Wang, Benjamin Paul and Holger Dau and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Denis Bernsmeier

29 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Activity–Selectivity Trends in the Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide over Single-Site Metal–Nitrogen–Carbon Catalysts
    2019 682 citations Yanyan Sun, Luca Silvioli et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH
    2017 613 citations Mikaela Görlin, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Molecular Oxygen on Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts
    2018 452 citations Yanyan Sun, Ilya Sinev et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Denis Bernsmeier Germany 19 2.2k 1.7k 775 486 261 29 2.6k
Brian McElhenny United States 13 3.1k 1.4× 2.7k 1.5× 660 0.9× 415 0.9× 188 0.7× 16 3.5k
Young‐Jin Ko South Korea 22 1.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 582 0.8× 226 0.5× 131 0.5× 53 2.0k
Haifeng Lin China 28 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.6k 2.0× 173 0.4× 210 0.8× 85 2.8k
Arumugam Sivanantham South Korea 24 3.0k 1.4× 2.7k 1.5× 784 1.0× 509 1.0× 710 2.7× 44 3.6k
Jan‐Philipp Grote Germany 16 2.9k 1.4× 2.4k 1.4× 899 1.2× 639 1.3× 171 0.7× 17 3.4k
Yun Kuang China 27 2.5k 1.2× 1.8k 1.1× 753 1.0× 345 0.7× 292 1.1× 42 2.9k
Sören Dresp Germany 13 4.6k 2.1× 3.9k 2.2× 1.0k 1.3× 961 2.0× 296 1.1× 15 5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Denis Bernsmeier

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bernsmeier, Denis, Rik V. Mom, Patrick Zeller, et al.. (2024). Iridium Oxide Coordinatively Unsaturated Active Sites Govern the Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Water. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(19). 13 indexed citations
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Bernsmeier, Denis, et al.. (2023). Gas Flow Sputtering of Pt/C Films and their Performance in Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ChemPhysChem. 24(14). e202200650–e202200650. 3 indexed citations
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Ye, Mengyang, Muhammad Hamid Raza, Aleks Arinchtein, et al.. (2021). Mesoporous WCx Films with NiO‐Protected Surface: Highly Active Electrocatalysts for the Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ChemSusChem. 14(21). 4708–4717. 6 indexed citations
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Klingenhof, Malte, Philipp Hauke, Sven Brückner, et al.. (2020). Modular Design of Highly Active Unitized Reversible Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts. ACS Energy Letters. 6(1). 177–183. 33 indexed citations
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Pflüger, Mika, Juan‐Jesús Velasco‐Vélez, Mario Sahre, et al.. (2020). Assessing Optical and Electrical Properties of Highly Active IrOx Catalysts for the Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry. ACS Catalysis. 10(23). 14210–14223. 22 indexed citations
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Velasco‐Vélez, Juan‐Jesús, Lorenz J. Falling, Denis Bernsmeier, et al.. (2020). A comparative study of electrochemical cells for in situ x-ray spectroscopies in the soft and tender x-ray range. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(12). 124003–124003. 50 indexed citations
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Maleki, Mahboubeh, Gumaa A. El‐Nagar, Denis Bernsmeier, Jonathan Schneider, & Christina Roth. (2020). Fabrication of an efficient vanadium redox flow battery electrode using a free-standing carbon-loaded electrospun nanofibrous composite. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 11153–11153. 28 indexed citations
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Bernsmeier, Denis, et al.. (2020). Colloidal bimetallic platinum–ruthenium nanoparticles in ordered mesoporous carbon films as highly active electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(7). 2057–2068. 14 indexed citations
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Sun, Yanyan, Luca Silvioli, Nastaran Ranjbar Sahraie, et al.. (2019). Activity–Selectivity Trends in the Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide over Single-Site Metal–Nitrogen–Carbon Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(31). 12372–12381. 682 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Yanyan, Ilya Sinev, Wen Ju, et al.. (2018). Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Molecular Oxygen on Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 8(4). 2844–2856. 452 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Yanyan, Shuang Li, Zarko P. Jovanov, et al.. (2018). Structure, Activity, and Faradaic Efficiency of Nitrogen‐Doped Porous Carbon Catalysts for Direct Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production. ChemSusChem. 11(19). 3388–3395. 175 indexed citations
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Bernsmeier, Denis, Michael Bernicke, Roman Schmack, et al.. (2018). Outstanding hydrogen evolution performance of supported Pt nanoparticles: Incorporation of preformed colloids into mesoporous carbon films. Journal of Catalysis. 369. 181–189. 42 indexed citations
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Siemensmeyer, K., et al.. (2017). Nanocasting of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Films with Ordered Mesoporosity. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 5(3). 7 indexed citations
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Görlin, Mikaela, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Henrike Schmies, et al.. (2017). Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(5). 2070–2082. 613 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bernsmeier, Denis, Michael Bernicke, Erik Ortel, et al.. (2016). Nafion‐Free Carbon‐Supported Electrocatalysts with Superior Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Performance by Soft Templating. ChemElectroChem. 4(1). 221–229. 11 indexed citations
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Fetyan, Abdulmonem, Igor Derr, Joachim Langner, et al.. (2015). Electrospun Carbon Nanofibers as Alternative Electrode Materials for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries. ChemElectroChem. 2(12). 2055–2060. 67 indexed citations
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Bernsmeier, Denis, Jörg Polte, Erik Ortel, et al.. (2014). Antireflective Coatings with Adjustable Refractive Index and Porosity Synthesized by Micelle-Templated Deposition of MgF2 Sol Particles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 6(22). 19559–19565. 33 indexed citations
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Ortel, Erik, Denis Bernsmeier, Jörg Polte, et al.. (2013). Micelle-Templated Oxides and Carbonates of Zinc, Cobalt, and Aluminum and a Generalized Strategy for Their Synthesis. Chemistry of Materials. 25(14). 2749–2758. 50 indexed citations
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Ortel, Erik, Jörg Polte, Denis Bernsmeier, et al.. (2012). Micelle‐Templated Mesoporous Films of Magnesium Carbonate and Magnesium Oxide. Advanced Materials. 24(23). 3115–3119. 45 indexed citations

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