Piotr Zelenay

29.4k total citations · 14 hit papers
196 papers, 22.1k citations indexed

About

Piotr Zelenay is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Piotr Zelenay has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 22.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 148 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 59 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Piotr Zelenay's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (143 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (130 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (56 papers). Piotr Zelenay is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (143 papers), Fuel Cells and Related Materials (130 papers) and Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (56 papers). Piotr Zelenay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and China. Piotr Zelenay's co-authors include Karren L. More, Christina Johnston, Gang Wu, Gang Wu, Hoon T Chung, Rajesh Bashyam, Edward F. Holby, David A. Cullen, S. Gottesfeld and Jonghan Won and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Piotr Zelenay

189 papers receiving 21.8k 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.

High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Derived from Polyaniline, Iron, and Cobalt

2011 3.6k citations Karren L. More, Christina Johnston et al. profile →
A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells

2006 1.9k citations Piotr Zelenay et al. profile →
Direct atomic-level insight into the active sites of a high-performance PGM-free ORR catalyst

2017 1.4k citations Hoon T Chung, David A. Cullen et al. profile →
Recent advances in non-precious metal catalysis for oxygen-reduction reaction in polymer electrolyte fuelcells

2010 1.4k citations Hoon T Chung, Christina Johnston et al. profile →
Nanostructured Nonprecious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2013 998 citations Gang Wu, Piotr Zelenay profile →
Anion exchange membrane fuel cells: Current status and remaining challenges

2017 787 citations Piotr Zelenay et al. Journal of Power Sources profile →
Active and stable carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composite electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction

2013 759 citations Hoon T Chung, Jonghan Won et al. Nature Communications profile →
Recent advances in direct methanol fuel cells at Los Alamos National Laboratory

2000 632 citations Piotr Zelenay et al. Journal of Power Sources profile →
Experimental Observation of Redox-Induced Fe–N Switching Behavior as a Determinant Role for Oxygen Reduction Activity

2015 574 citations Hasnain Hafiz, Gang Wu et al. ACS Nano profile →
Synthesis–structure–performance correlation for polyaniline–Me–C non-precious metal cathode catalysts for oxygen reduction in fuel cells

2011 542 citations Christina Johnston, Nathan H. Mack et al. profile →
High-performance fuel cell cathodes exclusively containing atomically dispersed iron active sites

2019 537 citations Hanguang Zhang, Hoon T Chung et al. profile →
PGM‐Free Cathode Catalysts for PEM Fuel Cells: A Mini‐Review on Stability Challenges

2019 485 citations Gang Wu, Piotr Zelenay et al. profile →
Nitrogen-Doped Graphene-Rich Catalysts Derived from Heteroatom Polymers for Oxygen Reduction in Nonaqueous Lithium–O₂ Battery Cathodes

2012 458 citations Gang Wu, Nathan H. Mack et al. ACS Nano profile →
Progress in the Development of Fe‐Based PGM‐Free Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

2019 423 citations Ulises Martinez, Edward F. Holby et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Roles of Carbon Corrosion and Ligation in Fe–N–C Electrocatalysts and Their Implications for Sabatier Behavior 2025 ·ACS Catalysis ·(unknown), Piotr Zelenay, Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Edward F. Holby	0
2	Design of active sites for amine-functionalized direct air capture materials using integrated high-throughput calculations and machine learning 2025 ·Communications Chemistry ·(unknown), Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, (unknown), Piotr Zelenay, Edward F. Holby	1
3	Tailoring Mg-MOF-74 for trace CO₂ capture by morphological tuning and piperazine functionalization 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·Qiao Liu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kate Huihsuan Chen, B. Stein, Xiaojing Wang, Piotr Zelenay, (unknown), Jacob S. Spendelow	0
4	Modeling oxygen reduction activity loss mechanisms in atomically dispersed Fe–N–C electrocatalysts 2024 ·Current Opinion in Electrochemistry ·(unknown), Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Piotr Zelenay, Edward F. Holby	5
5	Aerogel-derived nickel-iron oxide catalysts for oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media 2024 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Luigi Osmieri, Haoran Yu, Raphaël P. Hermann, Melissa E. Kreider, Harry M. Meyer, A. Jeremy Kropf, Jae Park, Shaun M Alia, David A. Cullen, Deborah J. Myers, Piotr Zelenay	19
6	Machine learning-guided design of direct methanol fuel cells with a platinum group metal-free cathode 2024 ·Journal of Power Sources ·Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Carmelo Lo Vecchio, David Sebastián, Xiang Lyu, Plamen Atanassov, Piotr Zelenay, Vincenzo Baglio, Alexey Serov	3
7	(Keynote) Electrochemical Conversion of Atmospheric CO₂ to Value-Added Products 2024 ·ECS Meeting Abstracts ·Youngdon Ko, (unknown), Luigi Osmieri, Hanguang Zhang, Piotr Zelenay	0
8	Computational screening of transition metal-nitrogen-carbon materials as electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction 2024 ·Electrochimica Acta ·(unknown), Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Edward F. Holby, Piotr Zelenay, Ivana Matanović	1
9	Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis: The Future of Green Hydrogen 2023 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Qihao Li, (unknown), Cheyenne R. Peltier, (unknown), Yao Yang, Mi‐Ju Kim, Zixiao Shi, Mihail R. Krumov, (unknown), Gabriel G. Rodríguez-Calero, (unknown), Seung‐Ho Yu, Paul F. Mutolo, Li Xiao, Lin Zhuang, David A. Muller, Geoffrey W. Coates, Piotr Zelenay, Héctor D. Abruña	67
10	Atomic-scale modeling of C/N kinetic stability descriptors for PGM-free electrocatalysts at finite temperatures 2023 ·Applied Catalysis B: Environmental ·Hasnain Hafiz, Piotr Zelenay, Edward F. Holby	6
11	Iron redox behavior and oxygen reduction activity of Fe-N-C electrocatalysts in different electrolytes 2023 ·Electrochimica Acta ·Xiaoping Wang, Magali Ferrandon, Jae Hyung Park, Jingjing Shen, A. Jeremy Kropf, Hanguang Zhang, Piotr Zelenay, Deborah J. Myers	17
12	Detection Technologies for Reactive Oxygen Species: Fluorescence and Electrochemical Methods and Their Applications 2021 ·Biosensors ·(unknown), (unknown), Ana C. Alba‐Rubio, Piotr Zelenay, Dong‐Shik Kim	100
13	Communication—On the Lack of Correlation between the Voltammetric Redox Couple and ORR Activity of Fe-N-C Catalysts 2020 ·Journal of The Electrochemical Society ·Mark C. Elvington, Hoon T Chung, Ling Lin, Xi Yin, P. Ganesan, Piotr Zelenay, Héctor Colón-Mercado	8
14	Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction 2019 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·Joseph H. Dumont, Ulises Martinez, Kateryna Artyushkova, (unknown), Andrew M. Dattelbaum, Piotr Zelenay, Aditya D. Mohite, Plamen Atanassov, Gautam Gupta	71
15	High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Derived from Polyaniline, Iron, and Cobalt 2013 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Piotr Zelenay	2
16	A carbon-nanotube-supported graphene-rich non-precious metal oxygen reduction catalyst with enhanced performance durability 2013 ·Chemical Communications ·Gang Wu, Karren L. More, Ping Xu, Hsing‐Lin Wang, Magali Ferrandon, A. Jeremy Kropf, Deborah J. Myers, Shuguo Ma, Christina Johnston, Piotr Zelenay	188
17	Active and stable carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composite electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction breakdown → 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Hoon T Chung, Jonghan Won, Piotr Zelenay	759
18	Metropolis Monte Carlo Search for Non-Precious Metal Catalyst Active Site Candidates 2013 ·ECS Transactions ·Edward F. Holby, Gang Wu, Piotr Zelenay, Christopher D. Taylor	9
19	Nitrogen-Doped Graphene-Rich Catalysts Derived from Heteroatom Polymers for Oxygen Reduction in Nonaqueous Lithium–O₂ Battery Cathodes breakdown → 2012 ·ACS Nano ·Gang Wu, Nathan H. Mack, Wei Gao, Shuguo Ma, Rui‐Qin Zhong, Jiantao Han, Jon K. Baldwin, Piotr Zelenay	458
20	Aqueous-based synthesis of ruthenium–selenium catalyst for oxygen reduction reaction 2008 ·Faraday Discussions ·Cyril Delacôte, Arman Bonakdarpour, Christina Johnston, Piotr Zelenay, Andrzej Więckowski	37

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