Federico Dattila

3.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
21 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Federico Dattila is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Catalysis and Electrochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Dattila has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 15 papers in Catalysis and 7 papers in Electrochemistry. Recurrent topics in Federico Dattila's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (19 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (14 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers). Federico Dattila is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (19 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (14 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers). Federico Dattila collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Netherlands and Switzerland. Federico Dattila's co-authors include Núria López, Marc T. M. Koper, Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas, Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Clara Rettenmaier, Arno Bergmann, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Chao Zhan, Antonio J. Martín and Javier Pérez‐Ramírez and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Federico Dattila

19 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silve... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2021 2022 2021 2024 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silver electrodes without metal cations in solution
    2021 770 citations Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Federico Dattila et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  2. Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C–C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu2O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy
    2021 370 citations Chao Zhan, Federico Dattila et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  3. Water electrolysis
    2022 312 citations Arthur J. Shih, Mariana C. O. Monteiro et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →
  4. The Role of Cation Acidity on the Competition between Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction on Gold Electrodes
    2021 298 citations Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Federico Dattila et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction
    2024 141 citations Jan Vávra, Federico Dattila et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
  6. Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene and ethanol
    2024 125 citations Chao Zhan, Federico Dattila et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers

Federico Dattila
Isis Ledezma‐Yanez Netherlands
Giulia Marcandalli Netherlands
Clara Rettenmaier Germany
Yin-Jia Zhang United States
Da Hye Won South Korea
Albert K. Engstfeld Germany
Felix T. Haase Germany
Antonia Herzog Germany
Manuel J. Kolb Spain
Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas Spain
Isis Ledezma‐Yanez Netherlands
Federico Dattila
Citations per year, relative to Federico Dattila Federico Dattila (= 1×) peers Isis Ledezma‐Yanez

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Dattila

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Federico Dattila. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Federico Dattila based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Federico Dattila. Federico Dattila is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dattila, Federico & Núria López. (2025). The Potential of Cations for Carbon Dioxide Electroreduction. ChemCatChem. 17(20).
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Dattila, Federico. (2025). Binding and release in balance. Nature Energy. 10(10). 1189–1190.
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Lian, Zan, Federico Dattila, & Núria López. (2024). Stability and lifetime of diffusion-trapped oxygen in oxide-derived copper CO2 reduction electrocatalysts. Nature Catalysis. 7(4). 401–411. 61 indexed citations
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Zhan, Chao, Federico Dattila, Clara Rettenmaier, et al.. (2024). Key intermediates and Cu active sites for CO2 electroreduction to ethylene and ethanol. Nature Energy. 9(12). 1485–1496. 125 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dattila, Federico, et al.. (2024). Descriptors for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Imidazolium-Based Electrolytes. ACS Catalysis. 14(21). 16166–16174. 4 indexed citations
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Vávra, Jan, Federico Dattila, Attila Kormányos, et al.. (2024). Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction. Nature Catalysis. 7(1). 89–97. 141 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ye, Chunmiao, Federico Dattila, Xiaoting Chen, Núria López, & Marc T. M. Koper. (2023). Influence of Cations on HCOOH and CO Formation during CO2 Reduction on a PdMLPt(111) Electrode. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(36). 19601–19610. 47 indexed citations
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Shih, Arthur J., Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Federico Dattila, et al.. (2022). Water electrolysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 2(1). 312 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dattila, Federico, Mariana C. O. Monteiro, Marc T. M. Koper, & Núria López. (2022). Reply to: On the role of metal cations in CO2 electrocatalytic reduction. Nature Catalysis. 5(11). 979–981. 14 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yansong, Antonio J. Martín, Federico Dattila, et al.. (2022). Long-chain hydrocarbons by CO2 electroreduction using polarized nickel catalysts. Nature Catalysis. 5(6). 545–554. 213 indexed citations
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Pablo‐García, Sergio, Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas, Federico Dattila, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic Routes toward C3-C4 products in Copper-Catalysed CO2 Electroreduction. 1 indexed citations
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Dattila, Federico, et al.. (2022). Modeling Operando Electrochemical CO2 Reduction. Chemical Reviews. 122(12). 11085–11130. 108 indexed citations
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Pablo‐García, Sergio, Florentine L. P. Veenstra, Louisa Rui Lin Ting, et al.. (2022). Mechanistic routes toward C3 products in copper-catalysed CO2 electroreduction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(2). 409–417. 50 indexed citations
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Phan, Thanh Hai, Karla Banjac, Fernando P. Cometto, et al.. (2021). Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO 2 Electroreduction. Nano Letters. 21(5). 2059–2065. 73 indexed citations
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Ahmet, Ibbi Y., Federico Dattila, Robert Wendt, et al.. (2021). Determining Structure‐Activity Relationships in Oxide Derived CuSn Catalysts During CO 2 Electroreduction Using X‐Ray Spectroscopy. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(5). 62 indexed citations
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Zhan, Chao, Federico Dattila, Clara Rettenmaier, et al.. (2021). Revealing the CO Coverage-Driven C–C Coupling Mechanism for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Cu2O Nanocubes via Operando Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis. 11(13). 7694–7701. 370 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pavesi, Davide, Federico Dattila, Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas, et al.. (2021). Modulation of the selectivity of CO2 to CO electroreduction in palladium rich Palladium-Indium nanoparticles. Journal of Catalysis. 402. 229–237. 16 indexed citations
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Monteiro, Mariana C. O., Federico Dattila, Núria López, & Marc T. M. Koper. (2021). The Role of Cation Acidity on the Competition between Hydrogen Evolution and CO2 Reduction on Gold Electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(4). 1589–1602. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dattila, Federico, Rodrigo Garcı́a-Muelas, & Núria López. (2020). Active and Selective Ensembles in Oxide-Derived Copper Catalysts for CO2 Reduction. ACS Energy Letters. 5(10). 3176–3184. 113 indexed citations
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Garcı́a-Muelas, Rodrigo, Federico Dattila, Tatsuya Shinagawa, et al.. (2018). Origin of the Selective Electroreduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formate by Chalcogen Modified Copper. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9(24). 7153–7159. 73 indexed citations

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