Lorenzo Zani

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Zani is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Zani has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 31 papers in Organic Chemistry and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Zani's work include TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (37 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (30 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (14 papers). Lorenzo Zani is often cited by papers focused on TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells (37 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (30 papers) and Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (14 papers). Lorenzo Zani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United Kingdom. Lorenzo Zani's co-authors include Carsten Bolm, Jacques Le Paih, Julien Legros, Alessandro Mordini, Gianna Reginato, Massimo Calamante, Alessio Dessì, Ingo Schiffers, Toni Rantanen and Adalgisa Sinicropi and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Zani

92 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Iron-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lorenzo Zani Italy	28	2.9k	1.2k	763	631	472	92	4.4k
Wei Meng China	35	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	855 1.1×	359 0.6×	535 1.1×	155	4.1k
Xin Cui China	35	2.9k 1.0×	770 0.6×	497 0.7×	320 0.5×	414 0.9×	109	4.0k
Dongwook Kim South Korea	42	2.6k 0.9×	2.5k 2.1×	2.0k 2.7×	275 0.4×	513 1.1×	184	5.5k
Werner Oberhauser Italy	39	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	974 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	873 1.8×	160	4.5k
Qun Chen China	36	1.8k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	2.2k 2.9×	1.2k 1.9×	695 1.5×	271	5.0k
Sujing Wang China	32	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	430 0.7×	366 0.8×	67	3.5k
Yong Zhang China	41	2.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.9×	1.6k 2.1×	331 0.5×	471 1.0×	219	5.2k
Feng Chen China	31	2.8k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	805 1.1×	510 0.8×	446 0.9×	119	4.3k
Rui Shang China	47	7.5k 2.5×	1.5k 1.3×	585 0.8×	362 0.6×	1.1k 2.2×	112	9.2k
Claudia Graiff Italy	30	2.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	607 0.8×	277 0.4×	172 0.4×	198	3.3k

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Parisi, Maria Laura, et al.. (2025). A combined ML and DFT strategy for the prediction of dye candidates for indoor DSSCs. npj Computational Materials. 11(1). 3 indexed citations

Bottaro, Gregorio, Lidia Armelao, Adalgisa Sinicropi, et al.. (2025). Improved light harvesting via energy transfer within a benzothiadiazole-based antenna–sensitizer dyad for dye-sensitized solar cells. Chemical Communications. 61(61). 11441–11444. 1 indexed citations

Carlotti, Marco, Daniele Franchi, Gianna Reginato, et al.. (2025). Investigation of Symmetric and Nonsymmetric Dithienothiophene-dioxide Derivatives as Fluorescent Emitters for Luminescent Solar Concentrators. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(8). 5317–5333. 1 indexed citations

Sangiorgi, Nicola, Andrea Barbieri, Massimo Calamante, et al.. (2024). Synthesis, characterization and application of quinoxaline-based organic dyes as anodic sensitizers in photoelectrochemical cells. Dyes and Pigments. 232. 112455–112455. 2 indexed citations

Franchi, Daniele, Alessio Dessì, Lorenzo Zani, et al.. (2023). Recent Advances in Organic Dyes for Application in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells under Indoor Lighting Conditions. Materials. 16(23). 7338–7338. 10 indexed citations

Franchi, Daniele, Massimo Calamante, Lorenzo Zani, et al.. (2023). Exploring Different Designs in Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine-Based Dyes to Enhance Divergent Optical Properties in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Processes. 11(5). 1542–1542. 8 indexed citations

Cecconi, Bianca, Matteo Monai, Lorenzo Zani, et al.. (2023). Enhanced Long‐Term Stability of a Photosensitizer with a Hydroxamic Acid Anchor in Dye‐Sensitized Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 26(45). 6 indexed citations

Kim, Jin, et al.. (2023). Hybrid-hybrid turning of micro-SiCp/AA2124 composites: A comparative study of laser-and-ultrasonic vibration-assisted machining. Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 86. 109–125. 32 indexed citations

Castriotta, Luigi Angelo, Luigi Vesce, Alessio Dessì, et al.. (2022). Stable Methylammonium‐Free p‐i‐n Perovskite Solar Cells and Mini‐Modules with Phenothiazine Dimers as Hole‐Transporting Materials. Energy & environment materials. 6(6). 10 indexed citations

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Goti, Giulio, Massimo Calamante, Alessio Dessì, et al.. (2021). Donor‐Acceptor‐Donor Thienopyrazine‐Based Dyes as NIR‐Emitting AIEgens. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2021(18). 2655–2664. 15 indexed citations

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Sinicropi, Adalgisa, Mariangela Di Donato, Maria Letizia Taddei, et al.. (2021). Luminescent solar concentrators with outstanding optical properties by employment of D–A–D quinoxaline fluorophores. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 9(43). 15608–15621. 27 indexed citations

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Franchi, Daniele, Massimo Calamante, Alessandro Mordini, et al.. (2020). Synthesis and Characterization of New Organic Dyes Containing the Indigo Core. Molecules. 25(15). 3377–3377. 14 indexed citations

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Gombac, Valentina, Adalgisa Sinicropi, Gianna Reginato, et al.. (2020). Tuning the Properties of Benzothiadiazole Dyes for Efficient Visible Light-Driven Photocatalytic H₂ Production under Different Conditions. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(9). 8912–8928. 26 indexed citations

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Dessì, Alessio, Adalgisa Sinicropi, Riccardo Basosi, et al.. (2019). New Blue Donor–Acceptor Pechmann Dyes: Synthesis, Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Computational Studies. ACS Omega. 4(4). 7614–7627. 12 indexed citations

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Reginato, Gianna, Lorenzo Zani, Massimo Calamante, Alessandro Mordini, & Alessio Dessì. (2019). Dye‐Sensitized Heterogeneous Photocatalysts for Green Redox Reactions. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2020(11-12). 899–917. 45 indexed citations

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Skaltsas, Theodosis, Massimo Calamante, Alessio Dessì, et al.. (2019). Combining Dithienosilole-Based Organic Dyes with a Brookite/Platinum Photocatalyst toward Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Production. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(8). 5600–5612. 33 indexed citations

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Zani, Lorenzo, Alessio Dessì, Daniele Franchi, et al.. (2019). Transition metal-catalyzed cross-coupling methodologies for the engineering of small molecules with applications in organic electronics and photovoltaics. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 392. 177–236. 42 indexed citations

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Franchi, Daniele, Adalgisa Sinicropi, Mariangela Di Donato, et al.. (2018). Tailoring the Optical Properties of Organic D‐π‐A Photosensitizers: Effect of Sulfur Introduction in the Acceptor Group. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2019(4). 812–825. 4 indexed citations

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Franchi, Daniele, Alessandro Mordini, Gianna Reginato, et al.. (2018). Green/Yellow‐Emitting Conjugated Heterocyclic Fluorophores for Luminescent Solar Concentrators. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2018(20-21). 2657–2666. 33 indexed citations

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Franchi, Daniele, Massimo Calamante, Gianna Reginato, et al.. (2014). A comparison of carboxypyridine isomers as sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells: assessment of device efficiency and stability. Tetrahedron. 70(36). 6285–6295. 25 indexed citations

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