Peter B. O’Mara

797 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 683 citations indexed

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Peter B. O’Mara is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter B. O’Mara has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 683 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter B. O’Mara's work include Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (4 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (4 papers). Peter B. O’Mara is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (4 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (4 papers) and Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence (4 papers). Peter B. O’Mara collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and Canada. Peter B. O’Mara's co-authors include J. Justin Gooding, Richard D. Tilley, Tânia M. Benedetti, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Soshan Cheong, Patrick Wilde, Corina Andronescu, Xin Tan, Hassan A. Tahini and Sean C. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Langmuir and ACS Catalysis.

In The Last Decade

Peter B. O’Mara

11 papers receiving 670 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.

A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation

2022 279 citations Agus R. Poerwoprajitno, Lucy Gloag et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter B. O’Mara Australia	8	509	331	238	197	87	12	683
Ya-Wei Zhou China	11	718 1.4×	316 1.0×	291 1.2×	233 1.2×	105 1.2×	14	822
Haiping Pan China	9	359 0.7×	258 0.8×	381 1.6×	103 0.5×	72 0.8×	15	599
Javier Monzó United Kingdom	7	256 0.5×	131 0.4×	145 0.6×	93 0.5×	91 1.0×	7	410
Carlos Busó‐Rogero Spain	15	503 1.0×	282 0.9×	292 1.2×	64 0.3×	216 2.5×	20	611
Jamie A. Trindell United States	10	262 0.5×	210 0.6×	121 0.5×	106 0.5×	55 0.6×	16	420
Bu‐Seo Choi South Korea	6	470 0.9×	443 1.3×	283 1.2×	47 0.2×	86 1.0×	6	753
Tian‐Wen Jiang China	13	426 0.8×	253 0.8×	123 0.5×	213 1.1×	54 0.6×	25	575
Genevieve P. S. Lau Switzerland	8	227 0.4×	84 0.3×	115 0.5×	186 0.9×	47 0.5×	8	416
Zhen Wei China	10	186 0.4×	213 0.6×	143 0.6×	194 1.0×	29 0.3×	20	499
Tintula Kottakkat Germany	10	307 0.6×	123 0.4×	185 0.8×	124 0.6×	49 0.6×	12	385

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Stapleton, Fiona, et al.. (2025). Hydrophobic Silicon Quantum Dots for Potential Imaging of Tear Film Lipid Layer. Nanomaterials. 15(7). 552–552.

Somerville, Samuel V., Peter B. O’Mara, Tânia M. Benedetti, et al.. (2023). Nanoconfinement Allows a Less Active Cascade Catalyst to Produce More C₂₊ Products in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(1). 289–299. 11 indexed citations

Stapleton, Fiona, Mark Willcox, Peter B. O’Mara, et al.. (2022). Feasibility of Silicon Quantum Dots as a Biomarker for the Bioimaging of Tear Film. Nanomaterials. 12(12). 1965–1965. 7 indexed citations

Poerwoprajitno, Agus R., Lucy Gloag, John Watt, et al.. (2022). A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation. Nature Catalysis. 5(3). 231–237. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

Wilde, Patrick, Peter B. O’Mara, João R. C. Junqueira, et al.. (2021). Is Cu instability during the CO₂ reduction reaction governed by the applied potential or the local CO concentration?. Chemical Science. 12(11). 4028–4033. 69 indexed citations

Benedetti, Tânia M., Jiaxin Lian, Soshan Cheong, et al.. (2021). Role of the Secondary Metal in Ordered and Disordered Pt–M Intermetallic Nanoparticles: An Example of Pt₃Sn Nanocubes for the Electrocatalytic Methanol Oxidation. ACS Catalysis. 11(4). 2235–2243. 62 indexed citations

Junqueira, João R. C., Peter B. O’Mara, Patrick Wilde, et al.. (2021). Combining Nanoconfinement in Ag Core/Porous Cu Shell Nanoparticles with Gas Diffusion Electrodes for Improved Electrocatalytic Carbon Dioxide Reduction. ChemElectroChem. 8(24). 4848–4853. 31 indexed citations

O’Mara, Peter B., Patrick Wilde, Tânia M. Benedetti, et al.. (2019). Cascade Reactions in Nanozymes: Spatially Separated Active Sites inside Ag-Core–Porous-Cu-Shell Nanoparticles for Multistep Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Higher Organic Molecules. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(36). 14093–14097. 187 indexed citations

McVey, Benjamin F. P., Dirk König, Xiaoyu Cheng, et al.. (2018). Synthesis, optical properties and theoretical modelling of discrete emitting states in doped silicon nanocrystals for bioimaging. Nanoscale. 10(33). 15600–15607. 13 indexed citations

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McVey, Benjamin F. P., Peter B. O’Mara, Angélique Faramus, et al.. (2017). Role of Surface Capping Molecule Polarity on the Optical Properties of Solution Synthesized Germanium Nanocrystals. Langmuir. 33(35). 8790–8798. 5 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xiaoyu, Benjamin F. P. McVey, Peter B. O’Mara, et al.. (2017). Colloidal silicon quantum dots: from preparation to the modification of self-assembled monolayers for bioimaging and sensing applications. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10078. 100780O–100780O. 5 indexed citations

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Cheng, Xiaoyu, Benjamin F. P. McVey, Peter B. O’Mara, et al.. (2017). Protease sensing using nontoxic silicon quantum dots. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 22(8). 1–1. 14 indexed citations

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