Peter Strasser

77.3k total citations · 44 hit papers
500 papers, 66.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Strasser is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Strasser has authored 500 papers receiving a total of 66.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 367 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 302 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 134 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Peter Strasser's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (326 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (161 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (145 papers). Peter Strasser is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (326 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (161 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (145 papers). Peter Strasser collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Peter Strasser's co-authors include Tobias Reier, Mehtap Oezaslan, Fabio Dionigi, Ana Sofía Varela, Wen Ju, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Marc Heggen, Manuel Gliech, Shirlaine Koh and Detre Teschner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter Strasser

488 papers receiving 65.6k citations

Hit Papers

Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2010 2012 2010 2014 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Lattice-strain control of the activity in dealloyed core–shell fuel cell catalysts
    2010 2.6k citations Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  2. Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER) on Ru, Ir, and Pt Catalysts: A Comparative Study of Nanoparticles and Bulk Materials
    2012 2.3k citations Tobias Reier, Peter Strasser et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  3. The Mechanism of Water Oxidation: From Electrolysis via Homogeneous to Biological Catalysis
    2010 1.6k citations Tobias Reier, Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  4. Particle Size Effects in the Catalytic Electroreduction of CO2 on Cu Nanoparticles
    2014 1.3k citations Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Peter Strasser et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Compositional segregation in shaped Pt alloy nanoparticles and their structural behaviour during electrocatalysis
    2013 1.1k citations Chunhua Cui, Lin Gan et al. profile →
  6. Highly selective plasma-activated copper catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene
    2016 1.1k citations Ana Sofía Varela, Peter Strasser et al. Nature Communications profile →
  7. Understanding activity and selectivity of metal-nitrogen-doped carbon catalysts for electrochemical reduction of CO2
    2017 1.1k citations Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger et al. Nature Communications profile →
  8. Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Acidic Environments – Reaction Mechanisms and Catalysts
    2016 1.1k citations Tobias Reier, Hong Nhan Nong et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  9. Oxygen Evolution Reaction Dynamics, Faradaic Charge Efficiency, and the Active Metal Redox States of Ni–Fe Oxide Water Splitting Electrocatalysts
    2016 1.0k citations Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Tobias Reier et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. Electrolysis of low-grade and saline surface water
    2020 964 citations Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  11. Direct Electrolytic Splitting of Seawater: Opportunities and Challenges
    2019 955 citations Malte Klingenhof, Peter Strasser et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
  12. In-situ structure and catalytic mechanism of NiFe and CoFe layered double hydroxides during oxygen evolution
    2020 920 citations Ilya Sinev, Thomas Merzdorf et al. Nature Communications profile →
  13. NiFe‐Based (Oxy)hydroxide Catalysts for Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Non‐Acidic Electrolytes
    2016 877 citations Peter Strasser et al. Advanced Energy Materials profile →
  14. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction: A Classification Problem
    2017 825 citations Alexander Bagger, Wen Ju et al. profile →
  15. Reversible amorphization and the catalytically active state of crystalline Co3O4 during oxygen evolution
    2015 778 citations Detre Teschner, Manuel Gliech et al. Nature Communications profile →
  16. Nanostructured electrocatalysts with tunable activity and selectivity
    2016 761 citations Ana Sofía Varela, Stefanie Kühl et al. profile →
  17. The Stability Challenges of Oxygen Evolving Catalysts: Towards a Common Fundamental Understanding and Mitigation of Catalyst Degradation
    2016 736 citations Camillo Spöri, Arman Bonakdarpour et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  18. Design Criteria, Operating Conditions, and Nickel–Iron Hydroxide Catalyst Materials for Selective Seawater Electrolysis
    2016 705 citations Tobias Reier, Manuel Gliech et al. profile →
  19. Electrocatalysis on Bimetallic Surfaces:  Modifying Catalytic Reactivity for Oxygen Reduction by Voltammetric Surface Dealloying
    2007 694 citations Peter Strasser et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  20. Activity–Selectivity Trends in the Electrochemical Production of Hydrogen Peroxide over Single-Site Metal–Nitrogen–Carbon Catalysts
    2019 682 citations Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  21. Key role of chemistry versus bias in electrocatalytic oxygen evolution
    2020 676 citations Hong Nhan Nong, Lorenz J. Falling et al. profile →
  22. Molecular Insight in Structure and Activity of Highly Efficient, Low-Ir Ir–Ni Oxide Catalysts for Electrochemical Water Splitting (OER)
    2015 641 citations Tobias Reier, Serhiy Cherevko et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Mesoporous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon for the Electrocatalytic Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide
    2012 640 citations Peter Strasser et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  24. Exceptional Size-Dependent Activity Enhancement in the Electroreduction of CO2 over Au Nanoparticles
    2014 636 citations Peter Strasser, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  25. Unification of Catalytic Water Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reactions: Amorphous Beat Crystalline Cobalt Iron Oxides
    2014 618 citations Peter Strasser et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  26. Tracking Catalyst Redox States and Reaction Dynamics in Ni–Fe Oxyhydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysts: The Role of Catalyst Support and Electrolyte pH
    2017 613 citations Jorge Ferreira de Araújo, Henrike Schmies et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  27. A comparative perspective of electrochemical and photochemical approaches for catalytic H2O2 production
    2020 584 citations Peter Strasser et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
  28. A unique oxygen ligand environment facilitates water oxidation in hole-doped IrNiOx core–shell electrocatalysts
    2018 579 citations Hong Nhan Nong, Tobias Reier et al. profile →
  29. Ionomer distribution control in porous carbon-supported catalyst layers for high-power and low Pt-loaded proton exchange membrane fuel cells
    2019 570 citations Henrike Schmies, Hong Nhan Nong et al. profile →
  30. A Highly Ordered Meso@Microporous Carbon-Supported Sulfur@Smaller Sulfur Core–Shell Structured Cathode for Li–S Batteries
    2014 556 citations Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  31. Electrochemical Catalyst–Support Effects and Their Stabilizing Role for IrOx Nanoparticle Catalysts during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
    2016 551 citations Hong Nhan Nong, Tobias Reier et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  32. Metal‐Doped Nitrogenated Carbon as an Efficient Catalyst for Direct CO2 Electroreduction to CO and Hydrocarbons
    2015 551 citations Ana Sofía Varela, Wen Ju et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  33. Unified structural motifs of the catalytically active state of Co(oxyhydr)oxides during the electrochemical oxygen evolution reaction
    2018 518 citations Travis E. Jones, Detre Teschner et al. profile →
  34. Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal oxygen electroreduction catalysts
    2015 510 citations Arne Thomas, Tobias Reier et al. Nature Communications profile →
  35. High loading of single atomic iron sites in Fe–NC oxygen reduction catalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells
    2022 491 citations Frédéric Jaouen, Peter Strasser et al. profile →
  36. Efficient Electrochemical Hydrogen Peroxide Production from Molecular Oxygen on Nitrogen-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts
    2018 452 citations Wen Ju, Stefanie Kühl et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  37. Reversible magnesium and aluminium ions insertion in cation-deficient anatase TiO2
    2017 417 citations Toshinari Koketsu, Jiwei Ma et al. profile →
  38. Efficient direct seawater electrolysers using selective alkaline NiFe-LDH as OER catalyst in asymmetric electrolyte feeds
    2020 370 citations Trung Ngo Thanh, Malte Klingenhof et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  39. P-block single-metal-site tin/nitrogen-doped carbon fuel cell cathode catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction
    2020 369 citations Fang Luo, Detre Teschner et al. profile →
  40. Morphology and mechanism of highly selective Cu(II) oxide nanosheet catalysts for carbon dioxide electroreduction
    2021 310 citations Xingli Wang, Malte Klingenhof et al. Nature Communications profile →
  41. Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts
    2021 309 citations Wen Ju, Sven Brückner et al. profile →
  42. Iridium single atoms incorporated in Co3O4 efficiently catalyze the oxygen evolution in acidic conditions
    2022 288 citations Yiming Zhu, Jiaao Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →
  43. Facilitating alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction on the hetero-interfaced Ru/RuO2 through Pt single atoms doping
    2024 260 citations Yiming Zhu, Malte Klingenhof et al. Nature Communications profile →
  44. Active Surface Area and Intrinsic Catalytic Oxygen Evolution Reactivity of NiFe LDH at Reactive Electrode Potentials Using Capacitances
    2023 171 citations Malte Klingenhof, Peter Strasser et al. ACS Catalysis profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Strasser Germany 130 56.7k 40.7k 20.3k 10.2k 9.2k 500 66.4k
Yang Shao‐Horn United States 126 37.3k 0.7× 53.3k 1.3× 21.9k 1.1× 7.8k 0.8× 3.8k 0.4× 479 71.4k
Dong Su United States 126 29.2k 0.5× 34.9k 0.9× 22.4k 1.1× 3.2k 0.3× 4.7k 0.5× 615 56.9k
Zhichuan J. Xu Singapore 104 23.7k 0.4× 23.5k 0.6× 14.6k 0.7× 4.6k 0.5× 2.3k 0.3× 326 42.8k
Hao Ming Chen Taiwan 79 24.9k 0.4× 15.9k 0.4× 12.1k 0.6× 3.7k 0.4× 3.9k 0.4× 208 31.5k
Hailiang Wang United States 86 26.7k 0.5× 31.9k 0.8× 19.3k 1.0× 3.2k 0.3× 4.6k 0.5× 301 49.6k
Qinghua Zhang China 116 22.3k 0.4× 23.5k 0.6× 20.6k 1.0× 2.7k 0.3× 3.5k 0.4× 533 45.1k
Tierui Zhang China 124 40.4k 0.7× 21.5k 0.5× 33.4k 1.6× 1.8k 0.2× 6.0k 0.6× 434 53.9k
Minhua Shao Hong Kong 88 23.2k 0.4× 18.8k 0.5× 10.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.3× 5.6k 0.6× 426 32.2k
Shouheng Sun United States 135 25.9k 0.5× 17.5k 0.4× 33.3k 1.6× 3.4k 0.3× 4.6k 0.5× 350 64.2k
Héctor D. Abruña United States 113 15.3k 0.3× 31.7k 0.8× 15.5k 0.8× 7.2k 0.7× 1.9k 0.2× 573 47.3k

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Araújo, Jorge Ferreira de, Jan Rossmeisl, Hanqing Yin, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical CO 2 Valorization Pathways and Processes toward C 2 to C 6 Products: Acetylene, Propylene, Butadiene, and Benzene. ACS Energy Letters. 10(5). 2532–2542. 4 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yiming, Jiaao Wang, G. Weiser, et al.. (2025). Ru Single Atoms and Sulfur Anions Dual‐Doped NiFe Layered Double Hydroxides for High‐Current‐Density Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(23). 27 indexed citations
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Klingenhof, Malte, Sören Selve, C. Günther, et al.. (2024). All Platinum-Group-Metal-Free Alkaline Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers Using Direct Hydrothermal Catalyst Deposition on Raney Ni Substrate. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 7(16). 6856–6861. 7 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yiming, Malte Klingenhof, Chenlong Gao, et al.. (2024). Facilitating alkaline hydrogen evolution reaction on the hetero-interfaced Ru/RuO2 through Pt single atoms doping. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1447–1447. 260 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brückner, Sven, Daniel K. Whelligan, Liang Liang, et al.. (2023). Design of NiNC single atom catalyst layers and AEM electrolyzers for stable and efficient CO2-to-CO electrolysis: Correlating ionomer and cell performance. Electrochimica Acta. 461. 142613–142613. 10 indexed citations
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Ju, Wen, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical carbonyl reduction on single-site M–N–C catalysts. Communications Chemistry. 6(1). 212–212. 10 indexed citations
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Hornberger, Elisabeth, Malte Klingenhof, Shlomi Polani, et al.. (2022). On the electrocatalytical oxygen reduction reaction activity and stability of quaternary RhMo-doped PtNi/C octahedral nanocrystals. Chemical Science. 13(32). 9295–9304. 23 indexed citations
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Cao, Xuecheng, Chaohui Wei, Xiangjun Zheng, et al.. (2022). Ru clusters anchored on Magnéli phase Ti4O7 nanofibers enables flexible and highly efficient Li–O2 batteries. Energy storage materials. 50. 355–364. 50 indexed citations
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Feng, Quanchen, Xingli Wang, Malte Klingenhof, Marc Heggen, & Peter Strasser. (2022). Low‐Pt NiNC‐Supported PtNi Nanoalloy Oxygen Reduction Reaction Electrocatalysts—In Situ Tracking of the Atomic Alloying Process. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(36). e202203728–e202203728. 44 indexed citations
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Spöri, Camillo, Lorenz J. Falling, Matthias Kroschel, et al.. (2021). Molecular Analysis of the Unusual Stability of an IrNbOx Catalyst for the Electrochemical Water Oxidation to Molecular Oxygen (OER). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(3). 3748–3761. 27 indexed citations
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Möller, Tim, Fabian Scholten, Trung Ngo Thanh, et al.. (2020). Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction on CuOx Nanocubes: Tracking the Evolution of Chemical State, Geometric Structure, and Catalytic Selectivity using Operando Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(41). 17974–17983. 170 indexed citations
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Reeves, Kyle G., Toshinari Koketsu, Jiwei Ma, et al.. (2020). Multivalent Mg2+-, Zn2+-, and Ca2+-Ion Intercalation Chemistry in a Disordered Layered Structure. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 3(9). 9143–9150. 17 indexed citations
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Spöri, Camillo, Pascal Briois, Hong Nhan Nong, et al.. (2019). Experimental Activity Descriptors for Iridium-Based Catalysts for the Electrochemical Oxygen Evolution Reaction (OER). ACS Catalysis. 9(8). 6653–6663. 182 indexed citations
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Merzdorf, Thomas, Stefanie Kühl, Antonia Herzog, & Peter Strasser. (2019). Online Carbon Corrosion Analysis of a Novel, Alloyed PtTi/C in PEM Fuel Cells Using a Non-Dispersive-Infrared System. ECS Transactions. 92(8). 547–552. 2 indexed citations
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Koketsu, Toshinari, Jiwei Ma, Benjamin J. Morgan, et al.. (2019). Exploiting cationic vacancies for increased energy densities in dual-ion batteries. Energy storage materials. 25. 154–163. 19 indexed citations
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Kim, Cheonghee, Tim Möller, Johannes Schmidt, Arne Thomas, & Peter Strasser. (2018). Suppression of Competing Reaction Channels by Pb Adatom Decoration of Catalytically Active Cu Surfaces During CO2 Electroreduction. ACS Catalysis. 9(2). 1482–1488. 56 indexed citations
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Strasser, Peter, et al.. (2018). Electrochemical processes on solid shaped nanoparticles with defined facets. Chemical Society Reviews. 47(3). 715–735. 129 indexed citations
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Möller, Tim, Wen Ju, Alexander Bagger, et al.. (2018). Efficient CO2 to CO electrolysis on solid Ni–N–C catalysts at industrial current densities. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(2). 640–647. 418 indexed citations
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Beermann, Vera, Martin Gocyla, Stefanie Kühl, et al.. (2017). Tuning the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Stability of Shape-Controlled Pt–Ni Nanoparticles by Thermal Annealing − Elucidating the Surface Atomic Structural and Compositional Changes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(46). 16536–16547. 149 indexed citations
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Rudi, Stefan, Detre Teschner, Vera Beermann, et al.. (2017). pH-Induced versus Oxygen-Induced Surface Enrichment and Segregation Effects in Pt–Ni Alloy Nanoparticle Fuel Cell Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 7(9). 6376–6384. 48 indexed citations

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