Leonardo Spanu

1.3k total citations
27 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Leonardo Spanu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Spanu has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Materials Chemistry, 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Spanu's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (5 papers). Leonardo Spanu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (6 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (6 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (5 papers). Leonardo Spanu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and India. Leonardo Spanu's co-authors include Giulia Galli, Sandro Sorella, Brandon Harrison, Ding Pan, Dimitri A. Sverjensky, François Gygi, Federico Becca, Davide Donadio, Giulia Galli and Detlef Hohl and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Spanu

27 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonardo Spanu United States 18 414 368 205 151 121 27 1.0k
Mónica Jiménez‐Ruiz France 23 952 2.3× 353 1.0× 122 0.6× 294 1.9× 172 1.4× 105 1.8k
Katsutoshi Aoki Japan 22 819 2.0× 378 1.0× 479 2.3× 321 2.1× 66 0.5× 82 1.4k
G. Ferlat France 22 558 1.3× 261 0.7× 327 1.6× 59 0.4× 128 1.1× 32 1.2k
Robert A. Mayanovic United States 20 425 1.0× 221 0.6× 368 1.8× 41 0.3× 173 1.4× 87 1.3k
M. W. Schaefer United States 18 195 0.5× 170 0.5× 259 1.3× 93 0.6× 100 0.8× 53 1.2k
Magali Benoit France 26 914 2.2× 579 1.6× 495 2.4× 132 0.9× 207 1.7× 62 2.2k
Sophia E. Hayes United States 25 742 1.8× 275 0.7× 62 0.3× 66 0.4× 258 2.1× 83 1.8k
M.-L. Saboungi United States 20 765 1.8× 408 1.1× 158 0.8× 86 0.6× 93 0.8× 31 1.3k
Roberta Poloni France 20 901 2.2× 119 0.3× 180 0.9× 68 0.5× 164 1.4× 47 1.6k
Anthony C. Hess United States 22 631 1.5× 407 1.1× 85 0.4× 67 0.4× 37 0.3× 32 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leonardo Spanu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leonardo Spanu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leonardo Spanu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leonardo Spanu. Leonardo Spanu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Xiao, Xiaodong Gao, Pingfeng Yu, et al.. (2022). Rapid Simulation of Decade-Scale Charcoal Aging in Soil: Changes in Physicochemical Properties and Their Environmental Implications. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(1). 128–138. 26 indexed citations
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Fornaciari, Julie C., Darinka Primc, Kenta Kawashima, et al.. (2020). A Perspective on the Electrochemical Oxidation of Methane to Methanol in Membrane Electrode Assemblies. ACS Energy Letters. 5(9). 2954–2963. 51 indexed citations
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Mammen, Nisha, Leonardo Spanu, Eric C. Tyo, et al.. (2019). Using first principles calculations to interpret XANES experiments: extracting the size-dependence of the ( p  , T ) phase diagram of sub-nanometer Cu clusters in an O 2 environment. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 31(14). 144002–144002. 8 indexed citations
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Agrawal, Ravi, Prasad Phatak, & Leonardo Spanu. (2018). Effect of phase and size on surface sites in cobalt nanoparticles. Catalysis Today. 312. 174–180. 26 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2017). Impact of Carbonyl Formation on Cobalt Ripening over Titania Surface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(29). 15880–15887. 3 indexed citations
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Mammen, Nisha, Leonardo Spanu, Eric C. Tyo, et al.. (2017). Reversing Size‐Dependent Trends in the Oxidation of Copper Clusters through Support Effects. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2018(1). 16–22. 23 indexed citations
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Jansen, A. P. J., Ravi Agrawal, & Leonardo Spanu. (2016). Thermodynamics and kinetics of carbon deposits on cobalt: a combined density functional theory and kinetic Monte Carlo study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 18(41). 28515–28523. 12 indexed citations
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Ma, Xiufang, Alexander Genest, Leonardo Spanu, & Notker Rösch. (2015). Structures and vibrational frequencies of CO adsorbed on transition metals from calculations using the vdW-DF2 functional. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1069. 147–154. 17 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2014). Electronic Structure of Aqueous Sulfuric Acid from First-Principles Simulations with Hybrid Functionals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 5(15). 2562–2567. 24 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2012). Solvation Properties of Microhydrated Sulfate Anion Clusters: Insights from abInitio Calculations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 116(31). 9460–9466. 22 indexed citations
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Sorella, Sandro, Michele Casula, Leonardo Spanu, & Andrea Dal Corso. (2011). Ab initiocalculations for theβ-tin diamond transition in silicon: Comparing theories with experiments. Physical Review B. 83(7). 30 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2011). Entropy of Liquid Water from Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(48). 14190–14195. 44 indexed citations
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Donadio, Davide, Leonardo Spanu, Ivan Duchemin, François Gygi, & Giulia Galli. (2010). Ab initioinvestigation of the melting line of nitrogen at high pressure. Physical Review B. 82(2). 27 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, Sandro Sorella, & Giulia Galli. (2009). Nature and Strength of Interlayer Binding in Graphite. Physical Review Letters. 103(19). 196401–196401. 219 indexed citations
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Sterpone, Fabio, et al.. (2008). Dissecting the Hydrogen Bond: A Quantum Monte Carlo Approach. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 4(9). 1428–1434. 35 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2008). Magnetism and superconductivity in thet−t′−Jmodel. Physical Review B. 77(2). 48 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, Federico Becca, & Sandro Sorella. (2006). Theoretical constraints for the magnetic-dimer transition in two-dimensional spin models. Physical Review B. 73(13). 11 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo, et al.. (2006). Finite compressibility in the low-doping region of the two-dimensionalt−Jmodel. Physical Review B. 74(16). 34 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo & Alberto Parola. (2005). Weakly frustrated two-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnets: Thermodynamic properties from a nonperturbative approach. Physical Review B. 72(17). 9 indexed citations
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Spanu, Leonardo & Alberto Parola. (2004). Magnetoelastic Instability in Molecular Antiferromagnetic Rings. Physical Review Letters. 92(19). 197202–197202. 17 indexed citations

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