Nigel Becknell

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Nigel Becknell is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Becknell has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 11 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Nigel Becknell's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (6 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers). Nigel Becknell is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (10 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (6 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (5 papers). Nigel Becknell collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Nigel Becknell's co-authors include Peidong Yang, Yi Yu, Dohyung Kim, Nikolay Kornienko, Jinghua Guo, Joaquin Resasco, Chenlu Xie, Jens K. Nørskov, Ethan J. Crumlin and Karen Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Becknell

17 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

Electrochemical Activation of CO₂ through Atomic Ordering Transformations of AuCu Nanoparticles

2017 612 citations Dohyung Kim, Chenlu Xie et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nigel Becknell United States	14	2.3k	1.3k	1.3k	574	266	17	2.9k
Zhengcui Wu China	28	2.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	405 0.7×	316 1.2×	60	3.1k
Ilya Sinev Germany	20	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 2.1×	364 1.4×	48	3.1k
Menggai Jiao China	27	2.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	360 0.6×	172 0.6×	75	3.2k
Tianwei He China	36	3.3k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	2.4k 1.9×	749 1.3×	232 0.9×	109	4.3k
Zhirong Zhang China	26	1.7k 0.7×	947 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	379 0.7×	269 1.0×	64	2.5k
Anders B. Laursen Denmark	23	4.1k 1.8×	2.2k 1.7×	2.7k 2.1×	477 0.8×	305 1.1×	37	5.0k
Tulai Sun China	23	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	364 0.6×	146 0.5×	83	2.4k
Gregory S. Hutchings United States	18	3.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	1.5k 2.6×	300 1.1×	28	4.3k
Jingjie Ge China	24	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	506 0.9×	375 1.4×	49	2.9k
Ruperto G. Mariano United States	9	1.4k 0.6×	718 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	356 0.6×	266 1.0×	10	2.1k

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Zhang, Yong, Emily V. Carino, Nathan Hahn, et al.. (2023). Understanding the Surprising Ionic Conductivity Maximum in Zn(TFSI)₂ Water/Acetonitrile Mixture Electrolytes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(50). 11393–11399. 3 indexed citations

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Gong, Shuyan, Mingze Sun, Nigel Becknell, et al.. (2022). Bulk‐like Pt(100)‐oriented Ultrathin Surface: Combining the Merits of Single Crystals and Nanoparticles to Boost Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie. 135(4). 4 indexed citations

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Gong, Shuyan, Mingze Sun, Nigel Becknell, et al.. (2022). Bulk‐like Pt(100)‐oriented Ultrathin Surface: Combining the Merits of Single Crystals and Nanoparticles to Boost Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(4). e202214516–e202214516. 16 indexed citations

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Becknell, Nigel, Pietro Papa Lopes, Toru Hatsukade, et al.. (2021). Employing the Dynamics of the Electrochemical Interface in Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Battery Cathodes. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(35). 56 indexed citations

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Lopes, Pietro Papa, Dongguo Li, Haifeng Lv, et al.. (2020). Eliminating dissolution of platinum-based electrocatalysts at the atomic scale. Nature Materials. 19(11). 1207–1214. 174 indexed citations

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Kim, Dohyung, Chenlu Xie, Nigel Becknell, et al.. (2017). Electrochemical Activation of CO₂ through Atomic Ordering Transformations of AuCu Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(24). 8329–8336. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Becknell, Nigel, Yoonkook Son, Dohyung Kim, et al.. (2017). Control of Architecture in Rhombic Dodecahedral Pt–Ni Nanoframe Electrocatalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(34). 11678–11681. 168 indexed citations

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Niu, Zhiqiang, Fan Cui, Yi Yu, et al.. (2017). Ultrathin Epitaxial Cu@Au Core–Shell Nanowires for Stable Transparent Conductors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(21). 7348–7354. 137 indexed citations

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Zheng, Xueli, Phil De Luna, F. Pelayo Garcı́a de Arquer, et al.. (2017). Sulfur-Modulated Tin Sites Enable Highly Selective Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to Formate. Joule. 1(4). 794–805. 447 indexed citations

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Kim, Dohyung, Nigel Becknell, Yi Yu, & Peidong Yang. (2017). Room-Temperature Dynamics of Vanishing Copper Nanoparticles Supported on Silica. Nano Letters. 17(4). 2732–2737. 30 indexed citations

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Niu, Zhiqiang, Nigel Becknell, Yi Yu, et al.. (2016). Anisotropic phase segregation and migration of Pt in nanocrystals en route to nanoframe catalysts. Nature Materials. 15(11). 1188–1194. 259 indexed citations

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Resasco, Joaquin, Hao Zhang, Nikolay Kornienko, et al.. (2016). TiO₂/BiVO₄ Nanowire Heterostructure Photoanodes Based on Type II Band Alignment. ACS Central Science. 2(2). 80–88. 282 indexed citations

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Xie, Chenlu, Xuefei Feng, Nigel Becknell, et al.. (2016). Revealing the Size-Dependent d–d Excitations of Cobalt Nanoparticles Using Soft X-ray Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(2). 319–325. 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yingbo, Seung-Yul Lee, Nigel Becknell, Omar M. Yaghi, & C. Austen Angell. (2016). Nanoporous Transparent MOF Glasses with Accessible Internal Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(34). 10818–10821. 98 indexed citations

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Kornienko, Nikolay, Joaquin Resasco, Nigel Becknell, et al.. (2015). Operando Spectroscopic Analysis of an Amorphous Cobalt Sulfide Hydrogen Evolution Electrocatalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(23). 7448–7455. 362 indexed citations

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Becknell, Nigel, Cindy Y. Zheng, Chen Chen, Yi Yu, & Peidong Yang. (2015). Synthesis of PtCo3 polyhedral nanoparticles and evolution to Pt3Co nanoframes. Surface Science. 648. 328–332. 39 indexed citations

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Becknell, Nigel, Yijin Kang, Chen Chen, et al.. (2015). Atomic Structure of Pt₃Ni Nanoframe Electrocatalysts by in Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(50). 15817–15824. 200 indexed citations

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