Elena Willinger

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Elena Willinger is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Willinger has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Elena Willinger's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers). Elena Willinger is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (12 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (10 papers) and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers). Elena Willinger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Elena Willinger's co-authors include Peter Strasser, Marc‐Georg Willinger, Detre Teschner, Hong Nhan Nong, Robert Schlögl, Tobias Reier, Hyung‐Suk Oh, Christoph R. Müller, Cyriac Massué and Valeri Petkov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Elena Willinger

35 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Electrochemical Catalyst–Support Effects and Their Stabilizing Role for IrO_x Nanoparticle Catalysts during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction

2016 551 citations Hyung‐Suk Oh, Hong Nhan Nong et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Engineering the Cu/Mo2CTx (MXene) interface to drive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

2021 239 citations Hui Zhou, Zixuan Chen et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elena Willinger Germany	21	2.3k	1.7k	1.3k	510	311	35	3.0k
Nigel Becknell United States	14	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	574 1.1×	266 0.9×	17	2.9k
Heng‐Liang Wu Taiwan	25	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	891 0.7×	456 0.9×	176 0.6×	69	2.6k
Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza United States	22	3.7k 1.6×	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.3×	508 1.0×	719 2.3×	37	4.4k
Zhirong Zhang China	26	1.7k 0.8×	947 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	379 0.7×	269 0.9×	64	2.5k
Chenlu Xie United States	13	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	702 1.4×	137 0.4×	18	3.0k
Anders B. Laursen Denmark	23	4.1k 1.8×	2.2k 1.3×	2.7k 2.2×	477 0.9×	305 1.0×	37	5.0k
Beomgyun Jeong South Korea	26	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	507 1.0×	240 0.8×	64	2.2k
Barr Halevi United States	21	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	830 0.7×	306 0.6×	218 0.7×	31	2.4k
Rik V. Mom Netherlands	21	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	906 0.7×	325 0.6×	641 2.1×	44	2.5k
Ted H. Yu United States	22	2.4k 1.1×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	225 0.4×	384 1.2×	36	3.4k

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Spillane, Liam, et al.. (2025). Revealing the morphology of nano-ettringite in cement paste: A TEM study on the influence of polycarboxylate ether superplasticizers. Cement and Concrete Research. 193. 107853–107853. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Zixuan, Muhammad Zubair, Alexander V. Yakimov, et al.. (2023). Nature of GaO_x Shells Grown on Silica by Atomic Layer Deposition. Chemistry of Materials. 35(18). 7475–7490. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Yi‐Hsuan, Elena Willinger, Jodie A. Yuwono, et al.. (2022). Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox‐Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(8). 6 indexed citations

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Wu, Yi‐Hsuan, Elena Willinger, Jodie A. Yuwono, et al.. (2022). Altering Oxygen Binding by Redox‐Inactive Metal Substitution to Control Catalytic Activity: Oxygen Reduction on Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles as a Model System**. Angewandte Chemie. 135(8). 2 indexed citations

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Bork, Alexander H., et al.. (2021). Peering into buried interfaces with X-rays and electrons to unveil MgCO ₃ formation during CO ₂ capture in molten salt-promoted MgO. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(26). 35 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hui, Zixuan Chen, Erwin Lam, et al.. (2021). Engineering the Cu/Mo2CTx (MXene) interface to drive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nature Catalysis. 4(10). 860–871. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Teschner, Detre, Elena Willinger, Amandine Guiet, et al.. (2021). In Situ Formed “Sn_1–_XIn_X@In_1–_YSn_YO_Z” Core@Shell Nanoparticles as Electrocatalysts for CO₂ Reduction to Formate. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(41). 44 indexed citations

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Kaushik, Monu, Zhuoran Wang, Deni Mance, et al.. (2021). Uncovering selective and active Ga surface sites in gallia–alumina mixed-oxide propane dehydrogenation catalysts by dynamic nuclear polarization surface enhanced NMR spectroscopy. Chemical Science. 12(46). 15273–15283. 19 indexed citations

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Kaushik, Monu, César Leroy, Zixuan Chen, et al.. (2021). Atomic-Scale Structure and Its Impact on Chemical Properties of Aluminum Oxide Layers Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition on Silica. Chemistry of Materials. 33(9). 3335–3348. 27 indexed citations

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Cao, Jing, Ali Rinaldi, Milivoj Plodinec, et al.. (2020). In situ observation of oscillatory redox dynamics of copper. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3554–3554. 99 indexed citations

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Zwiener, Leon, Travis E. Jones, Frank Girgsdies, et al.. (2019). Synthesis and Characterization of Ag‐Delafossites AgBO₂ (B: Al, Ga, In) from a Rapid Hydrothermal Process. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2019(18). 2333–2345. 9 indexed citations

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Wiedemann, Dennis, Lukáš Palatinus, Elena Willinger, et al.. (2018). At the Gates: The Tantalum-Rich Phase Hf₃Ta₂O₁₁ and its Commensurately Modulated Structure. Inorganic Chemistry. 57(22). 14435–14442. 9 indexed citations

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Willinger, Elena, Andrey Tarasov, Raoul Blume, et al.. (2017). Characterization of the Platinum–Carbon Interface for Electrochemical Applications. ACS Catalysis. 7(7). 4395–4407. 37 indexed citations

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Chen, Zupeng, Aleksandr Savateev, Sergey Pronkin, et al.. (2017). “The Easier the Better” Preparation of Efficient Photocatalysts—Metastable Poly(heptazine imide) Salts. Advanced Materials. 29(32). 297 indexed citations

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Willinger, Elena, Cyriac Massué, Robert Schlögl, & Marc‐Georg Willinger. (2017). Identifying Key Structural Features of IrO_x Water Splitting Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34). 12093–12101. 221 indexed citations

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Oh, Hyung‐Suk, Hong Nhan Nong, Tobias Reier, et al.. (2016). Electrochemical Catalyst–Support Effects and Their Stabilizing Role for IrO_x Nanoparticle Catalysts during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(38). 12552–12563. 551 indexed citations breakdown →

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Willinger, Elena, Youngmi Yi, Andrey Tarasov, et al.. (2016). Atomic‐Scale Insight on the Increased Stability of Tungsten‐Modified Platinum/Carbon Fuel Cell Catalysts. ChemCatChem. 8(8). 1575–1582. 2 indexed citations

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Nong, Hong Nhan, Hyung‐Suk Oh, Tobias Reier, et al.. (2015). Oxide‐Supported IrNiO_x Core–Shell Particles as Efficient, Cost‐Effective, and Stable Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie. 127(10). 3018–3022. 43 indexed citations

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Nong, Hong Nhan, Hyung‐Suk Oh, Tobias Reier, et al.. (2015). Oxide‐Supported IrNiO_x Core–Shell Particles as Efficient, Cost‐Effective, and Stable Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(10). 2975–2979. 422 indexed citations

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Nong, Hong Nhan, Lin Gan, Elena Willinger, Detre Teschner, & Peter Strasser. (2014). IrOx core-shell nanocatalysts for cost- and energy-efficient electrochemical water splitting. Chemical Science. 5(8). 2955–2963. 292 indexed citations

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