Heron Vrubel

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
41 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Heron Vrubel is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electrochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Heron Vrubel has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 20 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Electrochemistry. Recurrent topics in Heron Vrubel's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (26 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (11 papers). Heron Vrubel is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (26 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (14 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (11 papers). Heron Vrubel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Brazil and Ireland. Heron Vrubel's co-authors include Xile Hu, Stéphane Fierro, Michaël Grätzel, Hubert H. Girault, Ligang Feng, Michaël Bensimon, Carlos G. Morales‐Guio, S. David Tilley, Thomas Moehl and Véronique Amstutz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Heron Vrubel

40 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

Amorphous molybdenum sulfide films as catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen production in water

2011 1.2k citations Heron Vrubel, Xile Hu et al. Chemical Science profile →
Molybdenum Boride and Carbide Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution in both Acidic and Basic Solutions

2012 1.2k citations Heron Vrubel, Xile Hu Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Fe, Co, and Ni ions promote the catalytic activity of amorphous molybdenum sulfide films for hydrogen evolution

2012 886 citations Heron Vrubel, Xile Hu et al. Chemical Science profile →
Hydrogen evolution catalyzed by MoS3 and MoS2 particles

2012 675 citations Heron Vrubel, Xile Hu et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heron Vrubel Switzerland	27	6.0k	4.5k	2.6k	930	517	41	7.2k
Laëtitia Dubau France	46	6.7k 1.1×	5.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	250 0.5×	120	7.5k
Juan Herranz Switzerland	32	6.3k 1.1×	5.3k 1.2×	1.8k 0.7×	922 1.0×	335 0.6×	80	7.3k
Xuerong Zheng China	47	5.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	723 0.8×	530 1.0×	151	7.2k
Ningyan Cheng China	33	6.9k 1.1×	6.1k 1.4×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	403 0.8×	69	8.6k
Wei‐Fu Chen Taiwan	24	4.6k 0.8×	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	497 0.5×	513 1.0×	44	5.7k
Xiaoming Ge Singapore	34	5.5k 0.9×	5.3k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	675 0.7×	377 0.7×	72	7.3k
Niancai Cheng China	40	5.1k 0.8×	4.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	618 0.7×	285 0.6×	87	6.6k
Xiang Wang China	43	4.2k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	459 0.5×	287 0.6×	119	5.8k
Svitlana Pylypenko United States	42	5.1k 0.8×	5.3k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	660 0.7×	386 0.7×	164	7.3k
Dong Young Chung South Korea	40	5.6k 0.9×	4.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	974 1.0×	276 0.5×	85	6.8k

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Stern, Lucas‐Alexandre, et al.. (2018). Polymer-Brush-Templated Three-Dimensional Molybdenum Sulfide Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(7). 6253–6261. 30 indexed citations

Dennison, Christopher R., Heron Vrubel, Véronique Amstutz, et al.. (2015). Redox Flow Batteries, Hydrogen and Distributed Storage. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 69(12). 753–753. 23 indexed citations

Oh, Yeonji, et al.. (2014). Electrochemical reduction of CO2 in organic solvents catalyzed by MoO2. Chemical Communications. 50(29). 3878–3878. 81 indexed citations

Morales‐Guio, Carlos G., S. David Tilley, Heron Vrubel, Michaël Grätzel, & Xile Hu. (2014). Hydrogen evolution from a copper(I) oxide photocathode coated with an amorphous molybdenum sulphide catalyst. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3059–3059. 417 indexed citations

Méndez, Manuel A., Micheál D. Scanlon, Heron Vrubel, et al.. (2014). Catalysis of water oxidation in acetonitrile by iridium oxide nanoparticles. Chemical Science. 6(3). 1761–1769. 38 indexed citations

Smirnov, Evgeny, Micheál D. Scanlon, Dmitry Momotenko, et al.. (2014). Gold Metal Liquid-Like Droplets. ACS Nano. 8(9). 9471–9481. 51 indexed citations

Feng, Ligang, Heron Vrubel, Michaël Bensimon, & Xile Hu. (2014). Easily-prepared dinickel phosphide (Ni2P) nanoparticles as an efficient and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(13). 5917–5917. 382 indexed citations

Lassalle‐Kaiser, Benedikt, Heron Vrubel, Sheraz Gul, et al.. (2014). Evidence from in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for the Involvement of Terminal Disulfide in the Reduction of Protons by an Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Electrocatalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(1). 314–321. 227 indexed citations

Scanlon, Micheál D., Xiaojun Bian, Heron Vrubel, et al.. (2013). Low-cost industrially available molybdenum boride and carbide as “platinum-like” catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in biphasic liquid systems. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(8). 2847–2847. 129 indexed citations

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Vrubel, Heron, Thomas Moehl, Michaël Grätzel, & Xile Hu. (2013). Revealing and accelerating slow electron transport in amorphous molybdenum sulphide particles for hydrogen evolution reaction. Chemical Communications. 49(79). 8985–8985. 294 indexed citations

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Ge, Peiyu, Astrid J. Olaya, Micheál D. Scanlon, et al.. (2013). Photoinduced Biphasic Hydrogen Evolution: Decamethylosmocene as a Light‐Driven Electron Donor. ChemPhysChem. 14(10). 2308–2316. 32 indexed citations

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Vrubel, Heron & Xile Hu. (2012). Molybdenum Boride and Carbide Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution in both Acidic and Basic Solutions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(51). 12703–12706. 1210 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ge, Peiyu, Tanya K. Todorova, İmren Hatay Patır, et al.. (2012). Biphasic water splitting by osmocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(29). 11558–11563. 41 indexed citations

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Vrubel, Heron & Xile Hu. (2012). Molybdenum Boride and Carbide Catalyze Hydrogen Evolution in both Acidic and Basic Solutions. Angewandte Chemie. 124(51). 12875–12878. 373 indexed citations

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Patır, İmren Hatay, et al.. (2011). Hydrogen evolution at polarised liquid/liquid interfaces catalyzed by molybdenum disulfide. Energy & Environmental Science. 4(10). 4246–4246. 75 indexed citations

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Patır, İmren Hatay, Bin Su, Fei Li, et al.. (2009). Hydrogen Evolution at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(28). 5139–5142. 70 indexed citations

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Patır, İmren Hatay, Bin Su, Fei Li, et al.. (2009). Hydrogen Evolution at Liquid–Liquid Interfaces. Angewandte Chemie. 121(28). 5241–5244. 65 indexed citations

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Vrubel, Heron, et al.. (2008). Catalytic reduction of hydrazine to ammonia by a high-oxidation state molybdenum complex. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 11(9). 1040–1043. 8 indexed citations

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Nakagaki, Shirley, Alesandro Bail, Vannia Cristina dos Santos, et al.. (2008). Use of anhydrous sodium molybdate as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for soybean oil methanolysis. Applied Catalysis A General. 351(2). 267–274. 69 indexed citations

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Vrubel, Heron. (2007). Desenvolvimento da química fundamental do molibdenio na modelagem biomimética funcional de molibdoenzimas. Repositório Digital Institucional da UFPR (Universidade Federal do Paraná).

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