Laia Francàs

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Laia Francàs is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Laia Francàs has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Laia Francàs's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (23 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Laia Francàs is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (23 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (22 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (10 papers). Laia Francàs collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and United States. Laia Francàs's co-authors include James R. Durrant, Antoni Llobet, Andreas Kafizas, Sacha Corby, Ernest Pastor, Camilo A. Mesa, Serena Berardi, Carolina Gimbert‐Suriñach, Craig J. Richmond and Samuel Drouet and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laia Francàs

53 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Molecular artificial photosynthesis

2014 806 citations Serena Berardi, Samuel Drouet et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laia Francàs Spain	32	3.2k	2.1k	1.5k	460	442	53	4.0k
Paul G. Hoertz United States	30	3.2k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	485 1.1×	625 1.4×	39	4.5k
Murielle Chavarot‐Kerlidou France	26	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	475 1.0×	312 0.7×	62	4.1k
Dilek K. Dogutan United States	21	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.0×	2.7k 1.8×	734 1.6×	797 1.8×	38	5.4k
A.J. Esswein United States	14	3.2k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	533 1.2×	424 1.0×	15	4.4k
Aaron K. Vannucci United States	31	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	638 1.4×	337 0.8×	61	3.6k
D. Kwabena Bediako United States	28	3.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.8×	487 1.1×	1.0k 2.3×	51	4.9k
Leila Alibabaei United States	30	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	139 0.3×	308 0.7×	55	3.9k
Zijun Sun China	40	4.6k 1.4×	3.6k 1.7×	2.5k 1.7×	238 0.5×	451 1.0×	103	5.7k
V. Sara Thoi United States	26	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 1.0×	1.0k 2.2×	225 0.5×	55	3.9k
Elizabeth A. Gibson United Kingdom	32	3.4k 1.1×	2.9k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	198 0.4×	162 0.4×	81	4.6k

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Silva, Eliana S. Da, et al.. (2023). Boosting the Oxygen Evolution Activity of FeNi Oxides/Hydroxides by Molecular and Atomic Engineering. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(4). e202302251–e202302251. 3 indexed citations

Romero, Nuria, Jordi Creus, Javier Heras‐Domingo, et al.. (2023). Ru-based nanoparticles supported on carbon nanotubes for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution: structural and electronic effects. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(20). 5885–5896. 10 indexed citations

Romero, Nuria, Laia Francàs, Roger Bofill, et al.. (2023). Surface‐Functionalized Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Artificial Photosynthesis. Advanced Energy Materials. 13(21). 19 indexed citations

Mesa, Camilo A., Ernest Pastor, & Laia Francàs. (2022). UV–Vis operando spectroelectrochemistry for (photo)electrocatalysis: Principles and guidelines. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 35. 101098–101098. 25 indexed citations

Francàs, Laia, Shababa Selim, Sacha Corby, et al.. (2021). Water oxidation kinetics of nanoporous BiVO ₄ photoanodes functionalised with nickel/iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Chemical Science. 12(21). 7442–7452. 48 indexed citations

Romero, Nuria, Roger Bofill, Laia Francàs, Jordi García‐Antón, & Xavier Sala. (2021). Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution Assisted by Covalent Organic Frameworks. Catalysts. 11(6). 754–754. 22 indexed citations

Bozal‐Ginesta, Carlota, Camilo A. Mesa, Laia Francàs, et al.. (2020). Charge accumulation kinetics in multi-redox molecular catalysts immobilised on TiO ₂. Chemical Science. 12(3). 946–959. 17 indexed citations

Corby, Sacha, Laia Francàs, Andreas Kafizas, & James R. Durrant. (2020). Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO ₃ for water oxidation. Chemical Science. 11(11). 2907–2914. 175 indexed citations

Francàs, Laia, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Nature Communications. 11(1). 410–410. 1 indexed citations

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Sachs, Michael, et al.. (2019). Porous boron nitride for combined CO ₂ capture and photoreduction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 7(41). 23931–23940. 55 indexed citations

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Francàs, Laia, Sacha Corby, Shababa Selim, et al.. (2019). Spectroelectrochemical study of water oxidation on nickel and iron oxyhydroxide electrocatalysts. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5208–5208. 165 indexed citations

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Cha, Hyojung, George C. Fish, Joel Luke, et al.. (2019). Suppression of Recombination Losses in Polymer:Nonfullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells due to Aggregation Dependence of Acceptor Electron Affinity. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(27). 61 indexed citations

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Kafizas, Andreas, Laia Francàs, Carlos Sotelo-Vázquez, et al.. (2017). Optimizing the Activity of Nanoneedle Structured WO₃ Photoanodes for Solar Water Splitting: Direct Synthesis via Chemical Vapor Deposition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(11). 5983–5993. 76 indexed citations

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Kafizas, Andreas, Yimeng Ma, Ernest Pastor, et al.. (2017). Water Oxidation Kinetics of Accumulated Holes on the Surface of a TiO₂ Photoanode: A Rate Law Analysis. ACS Catalysis. 7(7). 4896–4903. 118 indexed citations

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Liu, Haijie, Marcos Gil‐Sepulcre, Laia Francàs, et al.. (2017). Mononuclear ruthenium compounds bearing N-donor and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: structure and oxidative catalysis. Dalton Transactions. 46(9). 2829–2843. 4 indexed citations

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Ma, Yimeng, Camilo A. Mesa, Ernest Pastor, et al.. (2016). Rate Law Analysis of Water Oxidation and Hole Scavenging on a BiVO₄ Photoanode. ACS Energy Letters. 1(3). 618–623. 91 indexed citations

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Berardi, Serena, Laia Francàs, Sven Neudeck, et al.. (2015). Efficient Light‐Driven Water Oxidation Catalysis by Dinuclear Ruthenium Complexes. ChemSusChem. 8(21). 3688–3696. 33 indexed citations

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Berardi, Serena, Samuel Drouet, Laia Francàs, et al.. (2014). Molecular artificial photosynthesis. Chemical Society Reviews. 43(22). 7501–7519. 806 indexed citations breakdown →

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Francàs, Laia, Xavier Sala, Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán, et al.. (2011). Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of New Tetranuclear Ru-Hbpp-Based Water-Oxidation Catalysts. Inorganic Chemistry. 50(7). 2771–2781. 53 indexed citations

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Francàs, Laia, Xavier Sala, Jordi Benet‐Buchholz, L. Escriche, & Antoni Llobet. (2009). A Ru‐Hbpp‐Based Water‐Oxidation Catalyst Anchored on Rutile TiO₂. ChemSusChem. 2(4). 321–329. 33 indexed citations

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