Katherine E. Ayers

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

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Katherine E. Ayers is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine E. Ayers has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 64 papers in Energy Engineering and Power Technology and 43 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Katherine E. Ayers's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (73 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (64 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers). Katherine E. Ayers is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (73 papers), Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (64 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (42 papers). Katherine E. Ayers collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Katherine E. Ayers's co-authors include Nemanja Danilovic, Christopher Capuano, Everett B. Anderson, Andrew R Motz, Chulsung Bae, Luke T. Dalton, Marcelo Carmo, Cy Fujimoto, Feng‐Yuan Zhang and Yu Seung Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Katherine E. Ayers

89 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Dynamic surface self-reconstruction is the key of highly active perovskite nano-electrocatalysts for water splitting

2017 887 citations Emiliana Fabbri, Maarten Nachtegaal et al. Nature Materials profile →
Durability of anion exchange membrane water electrolyzers

2021 428 citations Andrew R Motz, Feng‐Yuan Zhang et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine E. Ayers United States	39	5.0k	3.8k	2.2k	1.3k	580	97	6.1k
Aldo Saul Gago Germany	36	3.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	488 0.8×	85	4.0k
K.C. Neyerlin United States	42	6.0k 1.2×	5.9k 1.5×	256 0.1×	1.7k 1.3×	429 0.7×	105	7.1k
Sivakumar Pasupathi South Africa	33	2.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	564 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	225 0.4×	96	3.1k
Svein Sunde Norway	34	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	354 0.2×	1.4k 1.0×	145 0.3×	129	3.6k
Reidar Tunold Norway	33	2.3k 0.5×	1.9k 0.5×	419 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	247 0.4×	86	3.6k
Shuiyun Shen China	38	3.6k 0.7×	3.2k 0.8×	222 0.1×	1.4k 1.1×	345 0.6×	160	4.6k
Mohamed Mamlouk United Kingdom	40	3.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	262 0.1×	938 0.7×	260 0.4×	99	3.9k
Frode Seland Norway	30	2.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.4×	337 0.2×	832 0.6×	163 0.3×	96	2.7k
Alessandro Stassi Italy	30	1.9k 0.4×	1.6k 0.4×	326 0.1×	622 0.5×	281 0.5×	66	2.3k
EunAe Cho South Korea	36	2.3k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	198 0.1×	1.1k 0.9×	225 0.4×	86	3.2k

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Ouimet, Ryan J., Leonard J. Bonville, Katherine E. Ayers, et al.. (2025). Innovative duo-recombination layer design for effective hydrogen crossover mitigation in advanced MEAs for PEM water electrolyzers. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 114. 534–544. 2 indexed citations

Ayers, Katherine E. & Olga A. Marina. (2024). State of the art in low-temperature and high-temperature electrolysis. MRS Bulletin. 49(12). 1226–1234. 7 indexed citations

Ding, Lei, Kui Li, Weitian Wang, et al.. (2024). Amorphous Iridium Oxide-Integrated Anode Electrodes with Ultrahigh Material Utilization for Hydrogen Production at Industrial Current Densities. Nano-Micro Letters. 16(1). 203–203. 15 indexed citations

Wang, Weitian, Lei Ding, Zhiqiang Xie, et al.. (2023). 3D structured liquid/gas diffusion layers with flow enhanced microchannels for proton exchange membrane electrolyzers. Energy Conversion and Management. 296. 117665–117665. 18 indexed citations

Bliznakov, Stoyan, Ryan J. Ouimet, Christopher Capuano, et al.. (2023). (Invited) Innovative Membrane Electrode Assemblies for the Next Generation Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-01(36). 1992–1992.

Esposito, Daniel V., et al.. (2023). (Invited) Proton Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers Based on Sub-Micron Thick Membranes. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-01(36). 2028–2028.

Ding, Lei, Zhiqiang Xie, Shule Yu, et al.. (2023). Electrochemically Grown Ultrathin Platinum Nanosheet Electrodes with Ultralow Loadings for Energy-Saving and Industrial-Level Hydrogen Evolution. Nano-Micro Letters. 15(1). 144–144. 26 indexed citations

Ouimet, Ryan J., et al.. (2022). The Role of Electrocatalysts in the Development of Gigawatt-Scale PEM Electrolyzers. ACS Catalysis. 12(10). 6159–6171. 96 indexed citations

Krivina, Raina A., Grace Lindquist, Min Yang, et al.. (2022). Three-Electrode Study of Electrochemical Ionomer Degradation Relevant to Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolyzers. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(16). 18261–18274. 62 indexed citations

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Ouimet, Ryan J., Leonard J. Bonville, Katherine E. Ayers, et al.. (2022). Degradation Mechanisms in Advanced MEAs for PEM Water Electrolyzers Fabricated by Reactive Spray Deposition Technology. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(5). 54536–54536. 40 indexed citations

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Tao, Meng, et al.. (2022). Review—Engineering Challenges in Green Hydrogen Production Systems. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(5). 54503–54503. 43 indexed citations

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Lindquist, Grace, Sebastian Z. Oener, Raina A. Krivina, et al.. (2021). Performance and Durability of Pure-Water-Fed Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers Using Baseline Materials and Operation. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(44). 51917–51924. 120 indexed citations

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Satjaritanun, Pongsarun, Devashish Kulkarni, Sirivatch Shimpalee, et al.. (2020). Observation of Preferential Pathways for Oxygen Removal through Porous Transport Layers of Polymer Electrolyte Water Electrolyzers. iScience. 23(12). 101783–101783. 78 indexed citations

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King, Laurie A., McKenzie A. Hubert, Christopher Capuano, et al.. (2019). A non-precious metal hydrogen catalyst in a commercial polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyser. Nature Nanotechnology. 14(11). 1071–1074. 304 indexed citations

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Luc, Wesley, et al.. (2018). Computation and assessment of solar electrolyzer field performance: comparing coupling strategies. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 3(2). 422–430. 17 indexed citations

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Fabbri, Emiliana, Maarten Nachtegaal, Tobias Binninger, et al.. (2017). Dynamic surface self-reconstruction is the key of highly active perovskite nano-electrocatalysts for water splitting. Nature Materials. 16(9). 925–931. 887 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pivovar, Bryan S., et al.. (2016). Preface—JES Focus Issue on Electrolysis for Increased Renewable Energy Penetration. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 163(11). Y19–Y19. 4 indexed citations

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Wang, Jia X., Yu Zhang, Christopher Capuano, & Katherine E. Ayers. (2015). Ultralow charge-transfer resistance with ultralow Pt loading for hydrogen evolution and oxidation using Ru@Pt core-shell nanocatalysts. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 12220–12220. 49 indexed citations

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Dedigama, Ishanka, Panagiota Angeli, Katherine E. Ayers, et al.. (2014). In situ diagnostic techniques for characterisation of polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysers – Flow visualisation and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 39(9). 4468–4482. 172 indexed citations

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Ayers, Katherine E., et al.. (2013). Combinatorial Search for Improved Metal Oxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts in Acidic Electrolytes. ACS Combinatorial Science. 15(2). 82–89. 52 indexed citations

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