Peter Ercius

13.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
224 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Peter Ercius is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Structural Biology and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Ercius has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Materials Chemistry, 73 papers in Structural Biology and 63 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Peter Ercius's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (73 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (57 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (22 papers). Peter Ercius is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (73 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (57 papers) and Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (22 papers). Peter Ercius collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Peter Ercius's co-authors include Jianwei Miao, Alex Zettl, A. Paul Alivisatos, Colin Ophus, Jungwon Park, Kwanpyo Kim, Jong Min Yuk, Michael F. Crommie, Jeong Yong Lee and Haimei Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Ercius

220 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

High-Resolution EM of Colloidal Nanocrystal Growth Using Graphene Liquid Cells

2012 911 citations Jungwon Park, Peter Ercius et al. Science profile →
Facet development during platinum nanocube growth

2014 428 citations Peter Ercius, Hans Elmlund et al. Science profile →
Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of a metallic glass

2020 288 citations Jihan Zhou, Andreas K. Schmid et al. profile →
Three-dimensional atomic structure and local chemical order of medium- and high-entropy nanoalloys

2023 116 citations Jihan Zhou, Peter Ercius et al. profile →
Atomic dynamics of electrified solid–liquid interfaces in liquid-cell TEM

2024 96 citations Karen C. Bustillo, Peter Ercius et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Ercius United States	50	5.4k	2.6k	2.2k	1.7k	1.7k	224	9.8k
Angus I. Kirkland United Kingdom	55	6.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	283	10.1k
Andrew R. Lupini United States	52	5.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	827 0.5×	2.3k 1.4×	209	9.2k
Colin Ophus United States	45	4.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	704 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	292	7.8k
Rolf Erni Switzerland	52	8.7k 1.6×	4.9k 1.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	263	13.4k
Sandra Van Aert Belgium	43	4.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	610 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	166	7.2k
Johan Verbeeck Belgium	55	6.5k 1.2×	4.7k 1.8×	1.9k 0.9×	824 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	337	13.0k
Jian‐Min Zuo United States	64	7.3k 1.3×	4.3k 1.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	436	14.4k
Quentin M. Ramasse United Kingdom	54	6.9k 1.3×	3.1k 1.2×	982 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	912 0.5×	333	10.2k
Paul A. Midgley United Kingdom	69	8.6k 1.6×	3.4k 1.3×	3.6k 1.6×	2.2k 1.3×	3.1k 1.9×	356	17.3k
C. Colliex France	56	8.4k 1.6×	2.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	855 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	220	12.6k

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Kang, Sungsu, Joodeok Kim, Sungin Kim, et al.. (2025). Time-resolved Brownian tomography of single nanocrystals in liquid during oxidative etching. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1158–1158. 5 indexed citations

Kumar, Ram, Erik Zuidema, Ambarish Kulkarni, et al.. (2024). Reversible Intrapore Redox Cycling of Platinum in Platinum-Ion-Exchanged HZSM-5 Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 14(7). 4999–5005. 1 indexed citations

Welborn, Samuel S., Chris Harris, Stephanie M. Ribet, et al.. (2024). Streaming Large-Scale Microscopy Data to a Supercomputing Facility. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 31(1). 4 indexed citations

Wu, Zong‐Yen, et al.. (2023). Statistical 3D morphology characterization of vaterite microspheres produced by engineered Escherichia coli. Biomaterials Advances. 156. 213711–213711. 1 indexed citations

Susarla, Sandhya, Cong Su, Philipp Pelz, et al.. (2023). Imaging the electron charge density in monolayer MoS2 at the Ångstrom scale. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4363–4363. 15 indexed citations

Brouwer, Lucas, Tengming Shen, A.R. Hafalia, et al.. (2022). Stabilization and control of persistent current magnets using variable inductance. Superconductor Science and Technology. 35(4). 45011–45011. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Hongrui, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Rui Chen, et al.. (2022). A room temperature polar magnetic metal. Physical Review Materials. 6(4). 36 indexed citations

Wi, Dae Han, Tae-Gu Lee, Yongmin Kwon, et al.. (2022). Direct strain correlations at the single-atom level in three-dimensional core-shell interface structures. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5957–5957. 31 indexed citations

Kim, Sungin, Sungsu Kang, Cyril F. Reboul, et al.. (2021). Correlating 3D Surface Atomic Structure and Catalytic Activities of Pt Nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 21(2). 1175–1183. 28 indexed citations

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Ben‐Moshe, Assaf, Alexander Müller, Anas Abu-Odeh, et al.. (2021). The chain of chirality transfer in tellurium nanocrystals. Science. 372(6543). 729–733. 120 indexed citations

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Zheng, X. R., Jing Tang, Alessandro Gallo, et al.. (2021). Origin of enhanced water oxidation activity in an iridium single atom anchored on NiFe oxyhydroxide catalyst. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 105 indexed citations

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Fan, Zhanxi, Michel Bosman, Zhiqi Huang, et al.. (2020). Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc gold nanorods. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3293–3293. 120 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jihan, Yongsoo Yang, Peter Ercius, & Jianwei Miao. (2020). Atomic electron tomography in three and four dimensions. MRS Bulletin. 45(4). 290–297. 31 indexed citations

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Ercius, Peter, Jordan A. Hachtel, & Robert F. Klie. (2020). Chemical and bonding analysis of liquids using liquid cell electron microscopy. MRS Bulletin. 45(9). 761–768. 8 indexed citations

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Zeng, Zhiyuan, Pallab Barai, Seung‐Yong Lee, et al.. (2020). Electrode roughness dependent electrodeposition of sodium at the nanoscale. Nano Energy. 72. 104721–104721. 72 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiwoong, Jahyun Koo, Seulwoo Kim, et al.. (2019). Amorphous-Phase-Mediated Crystallization of Ni Nanocrystals Revealed by High-Resolution Liquid-Phase Electron Microscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(2). 763–768. 87 indexed citations

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Wang, Shih‐Ting, Yiyang Lin, Michael H. Nielsen, et al.. (2019). Shape-controlled synthesis and in situ characterisation of anisotropic Au nanomaterials using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy. Nanoscale. 11(36). 16801–16809. 11 indexed citations

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Yasin, Fehmi Sami, Tyler R. Harvey, Jordan Chess, et al.. (2018). Probing Light Atoms at Subnanometer Resolution: Realization of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope Holography. Nano Letters. 18(11). 7118–7123. 21 indexed citations

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Miao, Jianwei, Peter Ercius, & Simon J. L. Billinge. (2016). Atomic electron tomography: 3D structures without crystals. Science. 353(6306). 214 indexed citations

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Hovden, Robert, Peter Ercius, Yi Jiang, et al.. (2014). Breaking the Crowther limit: Combining depth-sectioning and tilt tomography for high-resolution, wide-field 3D reconstructions. Ultramicroscopy. 140. 26–31. 33 indexed citations

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