Felix Donat

4.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
74 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Felix Donat is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Felix Donat has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 45 papers in Materials Chemistry and 37 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Felix Donat's work include Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes (51 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (23 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers). Felix Donat is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Looping and Thermochemical Processes (51 papers), Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies (23 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (23 papers). Felix Donat collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, China and United Kingdom. Felix Donat's co-authors include Christoph R. Müller, Qasim Imtiaz, Edward J. Anthony, Agnieszka Kierzkowska, Fanxing Li, Xing Zhu, Alexander H. Bork, Matthew T. Dunstan, Clare P. Grey and Andaç Armutlulu and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Felix Donat

70 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chemical looping beyond combustion – a perspective

2020 421 citations Xing Zhu, Qasim Imtiaz et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
CO₂ Capture at Medium to High Temperature Using Solid Oxide-Based Sorbents: Fundamental Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Recent Advances

2021 323 citations Matthew T. Dunstan, Felix Donat et al. Chemical Reviews 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 →
Gold Recovery from E‐Waste by Food‐Waste Amyloid Aerogels

2024 65 citations Mohammad Peydayesh, Felix Donat et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Single-site iron-anchored amyloid hydrogels as catalytic platforms for alcohol detoxification

2024 50 citations Jiaqi Su, Pengjie Wang et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Felix Donat Switzerland	30	2.0k	1.6k	1.6k	1.1k	413	74	3.2k
Yafei Guo China	33	1.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	935 0.6×	659 0.6×	311 0.8×	89	3.1k
J.L. Pinilla Spain	36	1.0k 0.5×	982 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	279 0.7×	100	3.2k
Yong Tae Kim South Korea	31	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	288 0.7×	97	3.2k
Jie Chang China	21	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	436 0.4×	202 0.5×	53	2.9k
V. А. Yakovlev Russia	32	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	526 0.5×	278 0.7×	167	3.7k
J.F. Cambra Spain	35	1.6k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	2.0k 1.9×	296 0.7×	90	3.4k
Farhad Rahmani Iran	32	608 0.3×	714 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	413 1.0×	63	2.4k
Tomohisa Miyazawa Japan	32	2.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.9×	211 0.5×	67	3.9k
Carla Eponina Hori Brazil	30	811 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	290 0.7×	96	2.9k
Weijie Cai China	36	666 0.3×	769 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.7×	562 1.4×	108	3.2k

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All Works

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Donat, Felix, et al.. (2025). Lipid mesophases-nanoconfined water rules crystal symmetry during in-meso crystallization. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 700(Pt 1). 138403–138403.

Donat, Felix, J. Steele, Simon M. Fairclough, et al.. (2025). In situ studies of oxygen transport mechanisms in Ag/SrFeO _{3− δ} materials for chemical looping catalysis. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(38). 32271–32289. 1 indexed citations

Peydayesh, Mohammad, Zhao Lu, Christophe Zeder, et al.. (2025). Lithium recovery by protein nanofibril-inorganic hybrids. Chemical Engineering Journal. 520. 165981–165981. 1 indexed citations

Krödel, Maximilian, et al.. (2025). Experimental and numerical investigation of the morphological changes of a natural limestone-based CO2 sorbent over repeated carbonation-calcination cycles. Carbon Capture Science & Technology. 16. 100486–100486. 1 indexed citations

Donat, Felix, et al.. (2025). Controlling selectivity in the chemical looping oxidative dehydrogenation of propane through interface engineering. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5247–5247. 4 indexed citations

Su, Jiaqi, Pengjie Wang, Wei Zhou, et al.. (2024). Single-site iron-anchored amyloid hydrogels as catalytic platforms for alcohol detoxification. Nature Nanotechnology. 19(8). 1168–1177. 50 indexed citations breakdown →

Peydayesh, Mohammad, Alan Kovačević, Felix Donat, et al.. (2024). Sustainable Smart Packaging from Protein Nanofibrils. Advanced Materials. 37(22). e2414658–e2414658. 10 indexed citations

Peydayesh, Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Gold Recovery from E‐Waste by Food‐Waste Amyloid Aerogels. Advanced Materials. 36(19). e2310642–e2310642. 65 indexed citations breakdown →

Saqline, Syed, Felix Donat, Mingwu Tan, et al.. (2024). An investigation of the structural and electronic origins of enhanced chemical looping air separation performance of B-site substituted SrFe_1−xCo_xO_3−δ perovskites. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(30). 20511–20521. 2 indexed citations

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Wu, Yi‐Hsuan, Paula M. Abdala, Camelia N. Borca, et al.. (2024). Probing Surface Transformations of Lanthanum Nickelate Electrocatalysts during Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(17). 11887–11896. 37 indexed citations

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Donat, Felix, et al.. (2024). Material Engineering Solutions toward Selective Redox Catalysts for Chemical-Looping-Based Olefin Production Schemes: A Review. Energy & Fuels. 38(18). 17326–17342. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian, et al.. (2023). One-step synthesis of CaO/CuO composite pellets for enhanced CO2 capture performance in a combined Ca/Cu looping process via a facile gel-casting technique. Separation and Purification Technology. 328. 125057–125057. 23 indexed citations

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Krödel, Maximilian, Agnieszka Kierzkowska, Alexander V. Yakimov, et al.. (2023). Structure of Na Species in Promoted CaO‐Based Sorbents and Their Effect on the Rate and Extent of the CO₂ Uptake. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(40). 15 indexed citations

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Peydayesh, Mohammad, Felix Donat, Tonghui Jin, et al.. (2023). Amine‐Functionalized Amyloid Aerogels for CO₂ Capture. ChemSusChem. 16(23). e202300767–e202300767. 19 indexed citations

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Donat, Felix, et al.. (2023). On the Importance of Benchmarking the Gas‐Phase Pyrolysis Reaction in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. ChemCatChem. 15(9). 7 indexed citations

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Bork, Alexander H., et al.. (2023). Activation in the rate of oxygen release of Sr_0.8Ca_0.2FeO_3−δ through removal of secondary surface species with thermal treatment in a CO₂-free atmosphere. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(12). 6530–6542. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, Jian, Lunbo Duan, Felix Donat, & Christoph R. Müller. (2021). Assessment of the Effect of Process Conditions and Material Characteristics of Alkali Metal Salt Promoted MgO-Based Sorbents on Their CO ₂ Capture Performance. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(19). 6659–6672. 47 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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Dunstan, Matthew T., Felix Donat, Alexander H. Bork, Clare P. Grey, & Christoph R. Müller. (2021). CO₂ Capture at Medium to High Temperature Using Solid Oxide-Based Sorbents: Fundamental Aspects, Mechanistic Insights, and Recent Advances. Chemical Reviews. 121(20). 12681–12745. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhu, Xing, Qasim Imtiaz, Felix Donat, Christoph R. Müller, & Fanxing Li. (2020). Chemical looping beyond combustion – a perspective. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(3). 772–804. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

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