Holger Dau

25.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
275 papers, 21.7k citations indexed

About

Holger Dau is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Holger Dau has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 21.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 120 papers in Molecular Biology and 71 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Holger Dau's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (119 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (110 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (65 papers). Holger Dau is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (119 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (110 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (65 papers). Holger Dau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Holger Dau's co-authors include Ivelina Zaharieva, Michael Haumann, Peter Strasser, Petko Chernev, Tobias Reier, Marcel Risch, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Katharina Klingan, Peter Liebisch and Christian Limberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Holger Dau

273 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Mechanism of Water Ox... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2016 2012 2015 2017 500 1000 1.5k
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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. The Mechanism of Water Oxidation: From Electrolysis via Homogeneous to Biological Catalysis
    2010 1.6k citations Holger Dau, Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  2. Oxygen Evolution Reaction Dynamics, Faradaic Charge Efficiency, and the Active Metal Redox States of Ni–Fe Oxide Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
    2016 1.0k citations Mikaela Görlin, Petko Chernev et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. A Janus cobalt-based catalytic material for electro-splitting of water
    2012 784 citations Jonathan Heidkamp, Holger Dau et al. profile →
  4. Reversible amorphization and the catalytically active state of crystalline Co3O4 during oxygen evolution
    2015 778 citations Petko Chernev, Manuel Gliech et al. Nature Communications profile →
  5. Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH
    2017 613 citations Mikaela Görlin, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Unified structural motifs of the catalytically active state of Co(oxyhydr)oxides during the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction
    2018 518 citations Petko Chernev, Manuel Gliech et al. profile →
  7. Morphology and mechanism of highly selective Cu(II) oxide nanosheet catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction
    2021 310 citations Xingli Wang, Katharina Klingan et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Holger Dau 14.8k 9.0k 5.7k 5.4k 4.4k 275 21.7k
Gary W. Brudvig 14.6k 1.0× 5.1k 0.6× 9.7k 1.7× 11.3k 2.1× 3.1k 0.7× 468 31.5k
Wolfgang Lubitz 12.8k 0.9× 4.4k 0.5× 6.5k 1.1× 9.9k 1.8× 914 0.2× 477 26.2k
G. Charles Dismukes 7.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.3× 4.0k 0.7× 6.1k 1.1× 1.6k 0.4× 213 14.4k
Fräser A. Armstrong 11.2k 0.8× 9.6k 1.1× 3.5k 0.6× 4.6k 0.8× 5.3k 1.2× 338 23.9k
Devens Gust 4.8k 0.3× 7.8k 0.9× 14.8k 2.6× 5.6k 1.0× 1.3k 0.3× 329 25.5k
Ana L. Moore 4.7k 0.3× 6.7k 0.7× 12.8k 2.2× 4.7k 0.9× 1.2k 0.3× 255 21.1k
Tetsuro Majima 13.1k 0.9× 6.2k 0.7× 15.4k 2.7× 3.9k 0.7× 692 0.2× 549 25.5k
Vittal K. Yachandra 4.5k 0.3× 2.0k 0.2× 3.8k 0.7× 5.4k 1.0× 1.2k 0.3× 139 11.9k
James R. Durrant 31.1k 2.1× 39.3k 4.4× 31.0k 5.4× 2.5k 0.5× 3.0k 0.7× 585 69.3k
Marye Anne Fox 8.4k 0.6× 5.3k 0.6× 10.2k 1.8× 1.6k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 342 19.6k

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All Works

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Wang, Xingli, Johannes Schmidt, Liang Liang, et al.. (2025). Synthesis, Molecular Structure, and Water Electrolysis Performance of TiO2-Supported Raney-IrOx Nanoparticles for the Acidic Oxygen Evolution Reaction. ACS Catalysis. 15(7). 5435–5446. 7 indexed citations
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Mondal, Indranil, J. Niklas Hausmann, Stefan Mebs, et al.. (2024). The (In)Stability of Heterostructures During the Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Energy Materials. 14(33). 17 indexed citations
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Chen, Ziliang, Stefan Mebs, Indranil Mondal, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen‐Induced Disproportionation of Samarium‐Cobalt Intermetallics Enabling Promoted Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity and Durability in Alkaline Media. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(38). 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Shiqi, Linlin Yang, Sharona Horta, et al.. (2024). Active site switching on high entropy phosphides as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts for rechargeable/robust Zn–air battery. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(19). 7193–7208. 59 indexed citations
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Viola, Stefania, Stefano Santabarbara, Dennis J. Nürnberg, et al.. (2022). Impact of energy limitations on function and resilience in long-wavelength Photosystem II. eLife. 11. 23 indexed citations
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Garay, Erika, Adam H. Clark, Maarten Nachtegaal, et al.. (2022). Tryptophan regulatesDrosophilazinc stores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(16). 24 indexed citations
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Pasquini, Chiara, Si Liu, Petko Chernev, et al.. (2021). Operando tracking of oxidation-state changes by coupling electrochemistry with time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy demonstrated for water oxidation by a cobalt-based catalyst film. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 413(21). 5395–5408. 24 indexed citations
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Wang, Xingli, Katharina Klingan, Malte Klingenhof, et al.. (2021). Morphology and mechanism of highly selective Cu(II) oxide nanosheet catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction. Nature Communications. 12(1). 794–794. 310 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Yueqing, Petko Chernev, Katharina Klingan, et al.. (2020). Tuning cobalt eg occupation of Co-NCNT by manipulation of crystallinity facilitates more efficient oxygen evolution and reduction. Journal of Catalysis. 383. 221–229. 15 indexed citations
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Mousazade, Younes, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Robabeh Bagheri, et al.. (2020). A synthetic manganese–calcium cluster similar to the catalyst of Photosystem II: challenges for biomimetic water oxidation. Dalton Transactions. 49(17). 5597–5605. 14 indexed citations
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Dau, Holger & Chiara Pasquini. (2019). Modelling the (Essential) Role of Proton Transport by Electrolyte Bases for Electrochemical Water Oxidation at Near-Neutral pH. Inorganics. 7(2). 20–20. 17 indexed citations
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Villalobos, Javier, Diego González‐Flores, Katharina Klingan, et al.. (2019). Structural and functional role of anions in electrochemical water oxidation probed by arsenate incorporation into cobalt-oxide materials. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(23). 12485–12493. 20 indexed citations
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Görlin, Mikaela, Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Henrike Schmies, et al.. (2017). Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(5). 2070–2082. 613 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bommer, Martin, Leighton Coates, Holger Dau, Athina Zouni, & Holger Dobbek. (2017). Protein crystallization and initial neutron diffraction studies of the photosystem II subunit PsbO. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 73(9). 525–531. 5 indexed citations
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González‐Flores, Diego, Ivelina Zaharieva, Katharina Klingan, et al.. (2015). Heterogeneous Water Oxidation: Surface Activity versus Amorphization Activation in Cobalt Phosphate Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie. 127(8). 2502–2506. 47 indexed citations
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Haumann, Michael, et al.. (2012). Alternating electron and proton transfer steps in photosynthetic water oxidation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(40). 16035–16040. 166 indexed citations
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Haumann, Michael, Peter Liebisch, Claudia Müller, et al.. (2005). Photosynthetic O 2 Formation Tracked by Time-Resolved X-ray Experiments. Science. 310(5750). 1019–1021. 358 indexed citations
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Haumann, Michael, Thorsten Buhrke, Peter Liebisch, et al.. (2003). Hydrogen-Induced Structural Changes at the Nickel Site of the Regulatory [NiFe] Hydrogenase from Ralstonia eutropha Detected by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Biochemistry. 42(37). 11004–11015. 31 indexed citations

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