Pascal Ruffieux

19.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
186 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Pascal Ruffieux is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Pascal Ruffieux has authored 186 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Materials Chemistry, 108 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 99 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Pascal Ruffieux's work include Graphene research and applications (134 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (102 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (91 papers). Pascal Ruffieux is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (134 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (102 papers) and Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (91 papers). Pascal Ruffieux collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and China. Pascal Ruffieux's co-authors include Román Fasel, Kläus Müllen, Xinliang Feng, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Oliver Gröning, Jinming Cai, Marco Bieri, Leopold Talirz, S. Blankenburg and Rached Jaafar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Pascal Ruffieux

181 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

2010 2.9k citations Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng et al. profile →
On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

2016 1.1k citations Pascal Ruffieux, Shiyong Wang et al. profile →
Porous graphenes: two-dimensional polymer synthesis with atomic precision

2009 570 citations Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng et al. profile →
Graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions

2014 508 citations Carlo A. Pignedoli, Pascal Ruffieux et al. profile →
Controlled synthesis of single-chirality carbon nanotubes

2014 489 citations Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel et al. profile →
Two-Dimensional Polymer Formation on Surfaces: Insight into the Roles of Precursor Mobility and Reactivity

2010 433 citations Pascal Ruffieux, Carlo A. Pignedoli et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons

2018 426 citations Shiyong Wang, Carlo A. Pignedoli et al. profile →
On‐Surface Synthesis of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

2016 404 citations Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel et al. profile →
Topological frustration induces unconventional magnetism in a nanographene

2019 291 citations Shantanu Mishra, Kristjan Eimre et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tailoring π--d$\pi {\text{--}}d$ Magnetic Interactions in Metallated Porphyrin Nanotapes 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Roberto Robles, Shayan Edalatmanesh, Qiang Sun, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, (unknown), Giovanni Bottari, Tomás Torres⊗, Nicolás Lorente	0
2	The role of precursor coverage in the synthesis and substrate transfer of graphene nanoribbons 2025 ·Nanoscale Advances ·(unknown), Oliver Braun, Kläus Müllen, Michel Calame, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Gabriela Borin Barin	1
3	Towards the Tetrabenzo-Fused Circumazulene via In-Solution and On-Surface Synthesis 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Fu‐Peng Wu, (unknown), Yubin Fu, Renxiang Liu, Lin Yang, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng	2
4	Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation 2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·Chenxiao Zhao, Qiang Huang, (unknown), Kristjan Eimre, Lin Yang, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, (unknown), Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Michal Jurı́ček, Román Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Carlo A. Pignedoli	10
5	On-Surface Synthesis of Anthracene-Fused Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons from 2,7-Dibromo-9,9′-bianthryl Reveals Unexpected Ring Rearrangements 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Xiushang Xu, (unknown), Marco Di Giovannantonio, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Pascal Ruffieux, Kläus Müllen, Román Fasel, Akimitsu Narita	4
6	Contacting individual graphene nanoribbons using carbon nanotube electrodes 2023 ·Nature Electronics ·Jian Zhang, Qian Liu, Gabriela Borin Barin, Abdalghani Daaoub, Peipei Chen, Kläus Müllen, Sara Sangtarash, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Hatef Sadeghi, Jin Zhang, Michel Calame, Mickael L. Perrin	26
7	Platinum contacts for 9-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons 2023 ·Applied Physics Letters ·Chunwei Hsu, (unknown), Gabriela Borin Barin, (unknown), Daniele Passerone, Mathieu Luisier, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Maria El Abbassi	2
8	Twisted bilayer zigzag-graphene nanoribbon junctions with tunable edge states 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Dongfei Wang, De‐Liang Bao, Qi Zheng, Chang‐Tian Wang, Shiyong Wang, Peng Fan, Shantanu Mishra, Tao Lei, Yao Xiao, Li Huang, Xinliang Feng, Kläus Müllen, Yuyang Zhang, Román Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Shixuan Du, Hong‐Jun Gao	26
9	On‐Surface Interchain Coupling and Skeletal Rearrangement of Indenofluorene Polymers 2023 ·Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics ·Qiang Chen, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Kristjan Eimre, José I. Urgel, Pascal Ruffieux, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Kläus Müllen, Román Fasel, Akimitsu Narita	3
10	Edge Contacts to Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons 2023 ·ACS Nano ·Wenhao Huang, Oliver Braun, (unknown), Gabriela Borin Barin, (unknown), Michael Stiefel, Antonis Olziersky, Kläus Müllen, Mathieu Luisier, Daniele Passerone, Pascal Ruffieux, Christian Schönenberger, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Román Fasel, Jian Zhang, Michel Calame, Mickael L. Perrin	13
11	Determining the Number of Graphene Nanoribbons in Dual-Gate Field-Effect Transistors 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Jian Zhang, Gabriela Borin Barin, Roman Furrer, Cheng‐Zhuo Du, Xiaoye Wang, Kläus Müllen, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Michel Calame, Mickael L. Perrin	6
12	The Role of Metal Adatoms in a Surface‐Assisted Cyclodehydrogenation Reaction on a Gold Surface 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Jonas Björk, Carlos Sánchez‐Sánchez, Qiang Chen, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Johanna Rosén, Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng, Akimitsu Narita, Kläus Müllen, Román Fasel	3
13	Bottom‐up Fabrication and Atomic‐Scale Characterization of Triply Linked, Laterally π‐Extended Porphyrin Nanotapes** 2021 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Qiang Sun, (unknown), Roberto Robles, Nicolás Lorente, Pascal Ruffieux, Giovanni Bottari, Tomás Torres⊗, Román Fasel	7
14	On-Surface Dehydro-Diels–Alder Reaction of Dibromo-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene 2020 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Marco Di Giovannantonio, Ashok Keerthi, José I. Urgel, Martin Baumgarten, Xinliang Feng, Pascal Ruffieux, Akimitsu Narita, Román Fasel, Kläus Müllen	14
15	Structure-dependent electrical properties of graphene nanoribbon devices with graphene electrodes 2019 ·Carbon ·Leonardo Martini, Zongping Chen, Neeraj Mishra, Gabriela Borin Barin, (unknown), Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Xinliang Feng, Akimitsu Narita, Camilla Coletti, Kläus Müllen, Andrea Candini	70
16	On-surface synthesis of polyazulene with 2,6-connectivity 2019 ·Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University) ·Qiang Sun, Ian Cheng‐Yi Hou, Kristjan Eimre, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Pascal Ruffieux, Akimitsu Narita, Román Fasel	10
17	On-Surface Synthesis of a Nonplanar Porous Nanographene 2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Kun Xu, José I. Urgel, Kristjan Eimre, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Ashok Keerthi, Hartmut Komber, Shiyong Wang, Akimitsu Narita, Reinhard Berger, Pascal Ruffieux, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Junzhi Liu, Kläus Müllen, Román Fasel, Xinliang Feng	76
18	Bottom-Up Synthesis of Heteroatom-Doped Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons 2018 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xiaoye Wang, José I. Urgel, Gabriela Borin Barin, Kristjan Eimre, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Alberto Milani, Matteo Tommasini, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Pascal Ruffieux, Xinliang Feng, Román Fasel, Kläus Müllen, Akimitsu Narita	118
19	Optical Investigation of On‐Surface Synthesized Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons 2017 ·physica status solidi (b) ·Shen Zhao, Gabriela Borin Barin, Loïc Rondin, Christophe Raynaud, Andrew Fairbrother, Tim Dumslaff, Stéphane Campidelli, Kläus Müllen, Akimitsu Narita, Christophe Voisin, Pascal Ruffieux, Román Fasel, Jean‐Sébastien Lauret	13
20	Quantum Dots in Graphene Nanoribbons 2017 ·Nano Letters ·Shiyong Wang, Neerav Kharche, Eduardo Costa Girão, Xinliang Feng, Kläus Müllen, Vincent Meunier, Román Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux	98

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