Erik Lægsgaard

24.6k citations

238 papers · 19.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 76

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.1%
- Surface and Thin Film Phenomena
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
Catalysis top 0.5%

Papers in

Structural Biology 11
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 166
- Surface and Thin Film Phenomena 105
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies 70
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications 27

Co-authors: Flemming Besenbacher I. Stensgaard Bjørk Hammer Jens K. Nørskov Jeppe V. Lauritsen Stefan Wendt Renald Schaub J. Matthiesen
Journals: Physical Review Letters (41 papers)Surface Science (32 papers)Physical review. B, Condensed matter (17 papers)ACS Nano (10 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (9 papers)
Partner nations: Denmark United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Erik Lægsgaard

238 papers receiving 19.3k citations

Hit Papers

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The Role of Interstitial Sites in the Ti 3d Defect State in the Band Gap of Titania 2008 · 799 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2008 Science
2007 Nature Nanotechnology
2005 Surface Science

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1	Three-dimensional hydrogen bonding between Landers and planar molecules facilitated by electrostatic interactions with Ni adatoms Chemical Communications ·Miao Yu, Dimiter N. Kolev, Chong Chen, Nataliya Kalashnyk, Wei Xu, Régis Barattin, Samuthira Nagarajan, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Mohamed Hliwa, André Gourdon, Flemming Besenbacher, Xavier Bouju, Trolle R. Linderoth	2018	4
2	Water clustering on nanostructured iron oxide films Nature Communications ·Lindsay R. Merte, Ralf Bechstein, Guowen Peng, S Kytzia, Carrie A. Farberow, Helene Zeuthen, Jan Knudsen, Erik Lægsgaard, Stefan Wendt, Manos Mavrikakis, Flemming Besenbacher	2014	69
3	Adsorption of the organic salt TAB(HCl)4 on Cu(111) studied using STM and XPS Chemical Communications ·Federico Masini, Y. Wang, Zheshen Li, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher, Trolle R. Linderoth	2013	7
4	Direct Evidence for Ethanol Dissociation on RutileTiO2(110) Physical Review Letters ·Jonas Ø. Hansen, Peipei Huo, Umberto Martinez, Estephanía Lira, Yinying Wei, R. Streber, Erik Lægsgaard, Bjørk Hammer, Stefan Wendt, Flemming Besenbacher	2011	58
5	Dissociative and molecular oxygen chemisorption channels on reduced rutile TiO2(110): An STM and TPD study Surface Science ·Estephanía Lira, Jonas Ø. Hansen, Peipei Huo, Ralf Bechstein, Patrick Galliker, Erik Lægsgaard, Bjørk Hammer, Stefan Wendt, Flemming Besenbacher	2010	134
6	Supramolecular Porous Network Formed by Molecular Recognition between Chemically Modified Nucleobases Guanine and Cytosine Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Wei Xu, Jianguo Wang, Mikkel F. Jacobsen, Manuela Mura, Miao Yu, Ross E. A. Kelly, Qiangqiang Meng, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Trolle R. Linderoth, Jørgen Kjems, Lev Kantorovich, Kurt V. Gothelf, Flemming Besenbacher	2010	43
7	Formation and Diffusion of Water Dimers on RutileTiO2(110) Physical Review Letters ·J. Matthiesen, Jonas Ø. Hansen, Stefan Wendt, Estephanía Lira, Renald Schaub, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher, Bjørk Hammer	2009	91
8	Correlating STM contrast and atomic-scale structure by chemical modification: Vacancy dislocation loops on FeO/Pt(111) Surface Science ·Lindsay R. Merte, Jan Knudsen, Lars C. Grabow, Ronnie T. Vang, Erik Lægsgaard, Manos Mavrikakis, Flemming Besenbacher	2008	51
9	Restructuring of Cobalt Nanoparticles Induced by Formation and Diffusion of Monodisperse Metal-Sulfur Complexes Physical Review Letters ·Jakob Kibsgaard, Karina Morgenstern, Erik Lægsgaard, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Flemming Besenbacher	2008	27
10	Surface Synthesis of 2D Branched Polymer Nanostructures Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Sigrid Weigelt, Carsten Busse, Christian Bombis, Martin M. Knudsen, Kurt V. Gothelf, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher, Trolle R. Linderoth	2008	149
11	Size-dependent structure of MoS2 nanocrystals Nature Nanotechnology ·Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Jakob Kibsgaard, Stig Helveg, Henrik Topsøe, Bjerne S. Clausen, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher Hit paper breakdown →	2007	618
12	Covalent Interlinking of an Aldehyde and an Amine on a Au(111) Surface in Ultrahigh Vacuum Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Sigrid Weigelt, Carsten Busse, Christian Bombis, Martin M. Knudsen, Kurt V. Gothelf, Thomas Strunskus, Christof Wöll, M. Dahlbom, Bjørk Hammer, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher, Trolle R. Linderoth	2007	183
13	Bridging the pressure gap in model systems for heterogeneous catalysis with high-pressure scanning tunneling microscopy Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Ronnie T. Vang, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher	2007	33
14	Chiral Ordering and Conformational Dynamics for a Class of Oligo-phenylene-ethynylenes on Au(111) The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Carsten Busse, Sigrid Weigelt, L. Petersen, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher, Trolle R. Linderoth, Rudiyanto, Charles Rabot, Kurt V. Gothelf	2007	30
15	Guanine Quartet Networks Stabilized by Cooperative Hydrogen Bonds Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Roberto Otero, Maya Schöck, L. M. Molina, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Bjørk Hammer, Flemming Besenbacher	2005	269
16	Lock-and-key effect in the surface diffusion of large organic molecules probed by STM Nature Materials ·Roberto Otero, Jun-Cheng Dong, F. Sato, Sérgio B. Legoas, Peter Thostrup, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Douglas S. Galvão, Flemming Besenbacher	2004	106
17	Long Jumps in the Surface Diffusion of Large Molecules Physical Review Letters ·M. Schunack, Trolle R. Linderoth, Federico Rosei, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Flemming Besenbacher	2002	171
18	Brownian Motion of 2D Vacancy Islands by Adatom Terrace Diffusion Physical Review Letters ·Karina Morgenstern, Erik Lægsgaard, Flemming Besenbacher	2001	25
19	Bridging the Pressure Gap in Surface Science at the Atomic Level:H/Cu(110) Physical Review Letters ·Lars Österlund, P. B. Rasmussen, Peter Thostrup, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, Flemming Besenbacher	2001	84
20	A Chiral Metal Surface Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·M. Schunack, Erik Lægsgaard, I. Stensgaard, I. Johannsen, Flemming Besenbacher	2001	74

About Erik Lægsgaard

Erik Lægsgaard is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Radiation, having authored 238 papers that have together received 19.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (105 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (77 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (70 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (69 papers), nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions (37 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (29 papers), Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (27 papers) and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (7.8k citations), Catalysis (1.7k citations), Materials Chemistry (11.0k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (3.7k citations) and Structural Biology (286 citations). Erik Lægsgaard has collaborated with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Flemming Besenbacher, I. Stensgaard, Bjørk Hammer, Jens K. Nørskov, Jeppe V. Lauritsen, Stefan Wendt, Renald Schaub, J. Matthiesen, Stig Helveg and Karsten W. Jacobsen. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Surface Science, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, ACS Nano and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

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