Nicole Leifer

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Nicole Leifer is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Leifer has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 10 papers in Automotive Engineering and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nicole Leifer's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Nicole Leifer is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (29 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (26 papers) and Advanced Battery Technologies Research (10 papers). Nicole Leifer collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Nicole Leifer's co-authors include Doron Aurbach, S. Francis Amalraj, David S. Jacob, Gil Goobes, Doron Aurbach, Boris Markovsky, Steve Greenbaum, Judith Grinblat, M. Talianker and Doron Aurbach and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Leifer

37 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

A review of advanced and practical lithium battery materials 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2018 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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. A review of advanced and practical lithium battery materials
    2011 929 citations S. Francis Amalraj, Nicole Leifer et al. profile →
  2. Pushing the limit of layered transition metal oxide cathodes for high-energy density rechargeable Li ion batteries
    2018 383 citations Un‐Hyuck Kim, Dayoung Jun et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Peers

Nicole Leifer
Nina V. Kosova Russia
Zhenming Xu China
Qingfeng Zhang China
Dongniu Wang Canada
Farheen N. Sayed India
He Sun China
Yanning Song United States
Oleksandr Dolotko Germany
Bin Tang China
Nina V. Kosova Russia
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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicole Leifer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicole Leifer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicole Leifer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicole Leifer 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 Nicole Leifer. Nicole Leifer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Akella, Sri Harsha, Roman R. Kapaev, Sankalpita Chakrabarty, et al.. (2025). Covalency modulation in Co-free high entropy cathodes for enhanced stability and performance in sodium-ion batteries. Materials Today. 89. 12–25.
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Leifer, Nicole, Doron Aurbach, & Steve Greenbaum. (2024). NMR studies of lithium and sodium battery electrolytes. Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. 142-143. 1–54. 9 indexed citations
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Kapaev, Roman R., Nicole Leifer, Alagar Raja Kottaichamy, et al.. (2024). Formation of H 2 O 2 in Near‐Neutral Zn‐air Batteries Enables Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(5). e202418792–e202418792. 7 indexed citations
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Kapaev, Roman R., Nicole Leifer, Alagar Raja Kottaichamy, et al.. (2024). Formation of H2O2 in Near‐Neutral Zn‐air Batteries Enables Efficient Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 137(5). 2 indexed citations
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Amalraj, S. Francis, Arup Chakraborty, Nicole Leifer, et al.. (2021). Boron doped Ni-rich LiNi0.85Co0.10Mn0.05O2 cathode materials studied by structural analysis, solid state NMR, computational modeling, and electrochemical performance. Energy storage materials. 42. 594–607. 68 indexed citations
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Saha, Arka, Rosy Rosy, Sandipan Maiti, et al.. (2021). Improved Cycling Stability of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 Cathode Material via Variable Temperature Atomic Surface Reduction with Diethyl Zinc. Small. 18(7). e2104625–e2104625. 21 indexed citations
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Shpigel, Netanel, Fyodor Malchik, Mikhael D. Levi, et al.. (2020). New aqueous energy storage devices comprising graphite cathodes, MXene anodes and concentrated sulfuric acid solutions. Energy storage materials. 32. 1–10. 41 indexed citations
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Leifer, Nicole, Tirupathi Rao Penki, Judith Grinblat, et al.. (2020). Linking structure to performance of Li1.2Mn0.54Ni0.13Co0.13O2 (Li and Mn rich NMC) cathode materials synthesized by different methods. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(16). 9098–9109. 33 indexed citations
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Kim, Un‐Hyuck, Dayoung Jun, Payam Kaghazchi, et al.. (2018). Pushing the limit of layered transition metal oxide cathodes for high-energy density rechargeable Li ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(5). 1271–1279. 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leifer, Nicole, et al.. (2018). NMR-Detected Dynamics of Sodium Co-Intercalation with Diglyme Solvent Molecules in Graphite Anodes Linked to Prolonged Cycling. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(37). 21172–21184. 29 indexed citations
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Leifer, Nicole, Florian Schipper, Evan M. Erickson, et al.. (2017). Studies of Spinel-to-Layered Structural Transformations in LiMn2O4 Electrodes Charged to High Voltages. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(17). 9120–9130. 28 indexed citations
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Pieczonka, Nicholas P. W., Valentina Borgel, Baruch Ziv, et al.. (2015). Lithium Polyacrylate (LiPAA) as an Advanced Binder and a Passivating Agent for High‐Voltage Li‐Ion Batteries. Advanced Energy Materials. 5(23). 229 indexed citations
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Leifer, Nicole, Marshall C. Smart, G. K. Surya Prakash, et al.. (2011). 13C Solid State NMR Suggests Unusual Breakdown Products in SEI Formation on Lithium Ion Electrodes. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 158(5). A471–A480. 53 indexed citations
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Leifer, Nicole, Malachi Noked, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, & Doron Aurbach. (2010). A straightforward and reliable method for the characterization of carbon nanotube dispersions. Carbon. 49(3). 1042–1047. 5 indexed citations
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Haik, Ortal, Nicole Leifer, Ella Zinigrad, et al.. (2010). On the Surface Chemistry of LiMO[sub 2] Cathode Materials (M=[MnNi] and [MnNiCo]): Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and Calorimetric Studies. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 157(10). A1099–A1099. 85 indexed citations
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Leifer, Nicole, Vancliff Johnson, Hong Gan, et al.. (2009). Solid-State NMR Studies of Chemically Lithiated CF[sub x]. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 157(2). A148–A148. 25 indexed citations
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West, William, Jay Whitacre, Nicole Leifer, et al.. (2007). Reversible Intercalation of Fluoride-Anion Receptor Complexes in Graphite. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 154(10). A929–A929. 52 indexed citations
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Cohn, Corey A., Steffen Mueller, Eckard Wimmer, et al.. (2006). Pyrite-induced hydroxyl radical formation and its effect on nucleic acids. Geochemical Transactions. 7(1). 3–3. 129 indexed citations
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Meyer, Benjamin, et al.. (2005). High Field Multinuclear NMR Investigation of the SEI Layer in Lithium Rechargeable Batteries. Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters. 8(3). A145–A145. 137 indexed citations

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