Lionel Vayssières

13.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
82 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Lionel Vayssières is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Lionel Vayssières has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Materials Chemistry, 43 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 17 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Lionel Vayssières's work include Iron oxide chemistry and applications (28 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (26 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (25 papers). Lionel Vayssières is often cited by papers focused on Iron oxide chemistry and applications (28 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (26 papers) and ZnO doping and properties (25 papers). Lionel Vayssières collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Lionel Vayssières's co-authors include Anders Hagfeldt, Sten‐Eric Lindquist, Yasuhiro Tachibana, James R. Durrant, Karin Keis, Michael Gräetzel, Jinzhan Su, Jinghua Guo, Xiao Wei Sun and Hui Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Lionel Vayssières

80 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

Growth of Arrayed Nanorods and Nanowires of ZnO from Aque... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2003 2012 2001 2001 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Growth of Arrayed Nanorods and Nanowires of ZnO from Aqueous Solutions
    2003 2.4k citations Lionel Vayssières profile →
  2. Artificial photosynthesis for solar water-splitting
    2012 1.8k citations Yasuhiro Tachibana, Lionel Vayssières et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  3. Three-Dimensional Array of Highly Oriented Crystalline ZnO Microtubes
    2001 812 citations Lionel Vayssières, Anders Hagfeldt et al. profile →
  4. Purpose-Built Anisotropic Metal Oxide Material:  3D Highly Oriented Microrod Array of ZnO
    2001 804 citations Lionel Vayssières, Anders Hagfeldt et al. profile →
  5. Hydrothermally grown oriented ZnO nanorod arrays for gas sensing applications
    2006 609 citations Lionel Vayssières et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lionel Vayssières China 38 8.3k 5.2k 4.8k 2.1k 1.4k 82 11.4k
Davide Barreca Italy 52 7.4k 0.9× 4.1k 0.8× 4.7k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 338 11.0k
Sten‐Eric Lindquist Sweden 42 6.7k 0.8× 6.3k 1.2× 4.9k 1.0× 2.0k 1.0× 653 0.5× 64 11.5k
Young Soo Kang South Korea 45 4.9k 0.6× 3.5k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 289 9.0k
Alberto Gasparotto Italy 47 5.4k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 927 0.7× 246 7.8k
Chiara Maccato Italy 46 5.4k 0.6× 3.6k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 910 0.4× 816 0.6× 240 8.0k
Avner Rothschild Israel 47 4.3k 0.5× 4.6k 0.9× 4.7k 1.0× 880 0.4× 2.3k 1.6× 108 9.2k
Tao Yu China 54 6.1k 0.7× 4.4k 0.8× 4.4k 0.9× 2.0k 0.9× 788 0.6× 254 10.0k
Alex B. F. Martinson United States 51 5.7k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 3.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 832 0.6× 162 8.3k
Scott C. Warren United States 33 4.9k 0.6× 3.3k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 669 0.5× 58 6.9k
Frank E. Osterloh United States 51 9.1k 1.1× 9.1k 1.7× 4.2k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 654 0.5× 154 12.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Su, Jinzhan, et al.. (2025). Catalysis Fundamental and Applied Research Advances for Green Ammonia Synthesis and Recovery. Energy & Fuels. 39(23). 10721–10743. 1 indexed citations
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Arul, K. Thanigai, et al.. (2024). Energy storage chemistry: Atomic and electronic fundamental understanding insights for high-performance supercapacitors. Applied Physics Reviews. 11(3). 8 indexed citations
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Yu, Shanshan, Jian Wang, Kai Zhang, et al.. (2023). Ion Migration as a New Paradigm to Boost Self‐Driven Perovskite Narrowband Photodetectors. Advanced Optical Materials. 11(16). 16 indexed citations
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Rodríguez‐Gutiérrez, Ingrid, André L. M. Freitas, Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Costa, et al.. (2022). On the Effect of Thermal Processing on Sn Diffusion and Efficiency Enhancement in Hematite/FTO Photoanodes. ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. 11(4). 43001–43001. 10 indexed citations
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Chen, Yubin, Wenyu Zheng, Sebastián Murcia‐López, et al.. (2021). Light management in photoelectrochemical water splitting – from materials to device engineering. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(11). 3726–3748. 40 indexed citations
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Frey, Krisztina, Miklós Németh, Dongyu Liu, et al.. (2021). Redox-inactive metal single-site molecular complexes: a new generation of electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution?. Catalysis Science & Technology. 11(19). 6411–6424. 9 indexed citations
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Souza, João Batista, Flávio L. Souza, Lionel Vayssières, & Oomman K. Varghese. (2021). On the relevance of understanding and controlling the locations of dopants in hematite photoanodes for low-cost water splitting. Applied Physics Letters. 119(20). 17 indexed citations
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Su, Jinzhan, et al.. (2019). Something new under the sun for ultra low-cost single-junction PhotoAnodes for highly efficient photocatalytic water splitting. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. 201. 110083–110083. 5 indexed citations
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Su, Jinzhan & Lionel Vayssières. (2016). A Place in the Sun for Artificial Photosynthesis?. ACS Energy Letters. 1(1). 121–135. 172 indexed citations
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Kronawitter, Coleman X., Ioannis Zegkinoglou, Shaohua Shen, et al.. (2013). On the orbital anisotropy in hematite nanorod-based photoanodes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(32). 13483–13483. 18 indexed citations
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Tachibana, Yasuhiro, Lionel Vayssières, & James R. Durrant. (2012). Artificial photosynthesis for solar water-splitting. Nature Photonics. 6(8). 511–518. 1824 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vayssières, Lionel. (2007). An aqueous solution approach to advanced metal oxide arrays on substrates. Applied Physics A. 89(1). 1–8. 42 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel. (2006). Solar Hydrogen and Nanotechnology. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 6340. 65 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel, Jinghua Guo, & Joseph Nordgren. (2006). 3D highly oriented nanoparticulate and microparticulate array of metal oxide \nmaterials. eScholarship (California Digital Library).
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Vayssières, Lionel. (2005). On the thermodynamic stability of metal oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solutions. International Journal of Nanotechnology. 2(4). 411–411. 27 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel & Michael Gräetzel. (2004). Highly Ordered SnO2 Nanorod Arrays from Controlled Aqueous Growth. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(28). 3666–3670. 252 indexed citations
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Guo, J.-H., Lionel Vayssières, Clas Persson, Rajeev Ahuja, & Börje Johansson. (2002). Polarization-dependent soft-x-ray absorption of highly oriented ZnO microrod arrays. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 14(28). 6969–6974. 73 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel, et al.. (2000). Purpose-built metal oxide nanomaterials. The emergence of a new generation of smart materials. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 72(1-2). 47–52. 84 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel. (1999). Electrochromic Properties of bis(phthalocyaninato)lutetium(III) Sensitized Nanostructured Anatase TiO[sub 2] Thin Films. Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters. 2(12). 648–648. 7 indexed citations
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Vayssières, Lionel, Corinne Chanéac, E. Tronc, & Jean Pierre Jolivet. (1998). Size Tailoring of Magnetite Particles Formed by Aqueous Precipitation: An Example of Thermodynamic Stability of Nanometric Oxide Particles. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 205(2). 205–212. 316 indexed citations

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