Rodney D. L. Smith

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Rodney D. L. Smith is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrochemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rodney D. L. Smith has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 20 papers in Electrochemistry and 18 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rodney D. L. Smith's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (21 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Rodney D. L. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (21 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (20 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (8 papers). Rodney D. L. Smith collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Rodney D. L. Smith's co-authors include Curtis P. Berlinguette, Simon Trudel, Mathieu S. Prévot, Zhipan Zhang, Holger Dau, Diego González‐Flores, Petko Chernev, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Chiara Pasquini and Paul Kubella and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rodney D. L. Smith

49 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Photochemical Route for Accessing Amorphous Metal Oxide Materials for Water Oxidation Catalysis

2013 1.4k citations Rodney D. L. Smith et al. profile →
Water Oxidation Catalysis: Electrocatalytic Response to Metal Stoichiometry in Amorphous Metal Oxide Films Containing Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel

2013 851 citations Rodney D. L. Smith et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Basal-Plane Pores Activate Monolayer MoS₂ for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction 2025 ·ACS Catalysis ·Holly M. Fruehwald, (unknown), (unknown), H. Lebius, C. Grygiel, (unknown), Jani Kotakoski, Marika Schleberger, Rodney D. L. Smith	4
2	Rapid nucleation of ZnO on MoS₂ and WS₂ using an atmospheric-pressure spatial atomic layer deposition system 2025 ·2D Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Farman Ullah, (unknown), (unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith, A. Lorke, Marika Schleberger, Kevin P. Musselman	1
3	Interplay between element-specific distortions and electrocatalytic oxygen evolution for cobalt–iron hydroxides 2024 ·Chemical Science ·Elif Pınar Alsaç, (unknown), (unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith	7
4	Revealing Real Active Sites in Intricate Grain Boundaries Assemblies on Electroreduction of CO₂ to C₂₊ Products 2024 ·Advanced Energy Materials ·Lei Wang, Xue Yao, Holly M. Fruehwald, Dmitry Akhmetzyanov, (unknown), Ning Chen, Rodney D. L. Smith, Chandra Veer Singh, (unknown), Yimin A. Wu	3
5	Local pH Gradients Alter Product Selectivity of Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction on La‐Cr‐Co Perovskites 2024 ·ChemCatChem ·(unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith	1
6	Stabilized Cuδ+-OH species on in situ reconstructed Cu nanoparticles for CO2-to-C2H4 conversion in neutral media 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Lei Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Yi Xiao, Linke Huang, Xiyang Wang, Holly M. Fruehwald, Dmitry Akhmetzyanov, (unknown), Zuolong Chen, Ning Chen, Brant Billinghurst, Rodney D. L. Smith, Chandra Veer Singh, Zhongchao Tan, Yimin A. Wu	35
7	Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of the Reaction between Al-Si Coatings and Steel 2023 ·ACS Omega ·(unknown), Kyle J. Daun, Rodney D. L. Smith	3
8	Spontaneous Reactivity of La₂CuO₄ toward CO₂ Diagnosed Using Variable Temperature Raman Spectroscopy 2023 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·Nataraju Bodappa, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith	2
9	Mechanistic insights into lepidocrocite conversion to hematite from variable temperature Raman microscopy 2021 ·Journal of Physics Energy ·Yutong Liu, (unknown), Nataraju Bodappa, Rodney D. L. Smith	9
10	Operando tracking of oxidation-state changes by coupling electrochemistry with time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy demonstrated for water oxidation by a cobalt-based catalyst film 2021 ·Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry ·Chiara Pasquini, Si Liu, Petko Chernev, Diego González‐Flores, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Paul Kubella, Shan Jiang, Stefan Loos, Katharina Klingan, В. Сиколенко, Stefan Mebs, Michael Haumann, Paul Beyer, Luca D’Amario, Rodney D. L. Smith, Ivelina Zaharieva, Holger Dau	24
11	Exploring the Limits of Self-Repair in Cobalt Oxide Films for Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation 2020 ·ACS Catalysis ·Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Stefan Loos, Petko Chernev, Chiara Pasquini, Ivelina Zaharieva, Diego González‐Flores, Paul Kubella, Katharina Klingan, Rodney D. L. Smith, Holger Dau	29
12	Structural and functional role of anions in electrochemical water oxidation probed by arsenate incorporation into cobalt-oxide materials 2019 ·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Javier Villalobos, Diego González‐Flores, Katharina Klingan, Petko Chernev, Paul Kubella, (unknown), Chiara Pasquini, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Rodney D. L. Smith, Mavis L. Montero, Holger Dau	20
13	Trapping a Photoelectron behind a Repulsive Coulomb Barrier in Solution 2019 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kostyantyn Pichugin, Ariel A. Petruk, Anna Klinkova, Rodney D. L. Smith, W. Scott Hopkins, Germán Sciaini	2
14	Evidence of Variations in Atomic Distribution in Disordered Mixed Metal Hydroxides 2019 ·MRS Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith	4
15	Electrochemically Induced Phase Changes in La₂CuO₄ During Cathodic Electrocatalysis 2019 ·ChemElectroChem ·(unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith	15
16	Geometric distortions in nickel (oxy)hydroxide electrocatalysts by redox inactive iron ions 2018 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Rodney D. L. Smith, Chiara Pasquini, Stefan Loos, Petko Chernev, Katharina Klingan, Paul Kubella, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Diego González‐Flores, Holger Dau	102
17	Nickel-iron catalysts for electrochemical water oxidation – redox synergism investigated by in situ X-ray spectroscopy with millisecond time resolution 2018 ·Sustainable Energy & Fuels ·Diego González‐Flores, Katharina Klingan, Petko Chernev, Stefan Loos, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Chiara Pasquini, Paul Kubella, Ivelina Zaharieva, Rodney D. L. Smith, Holger Dau	73
18	Spectroscopic identification of active sites for the oxygen evolution reaction on iron-cobalt oxides 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Rodney D. L. Smith, Chiara Pasquini, Stefan Loos, Petko Chernev, Katharina Klingan, Paul Kubella, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, Diego González‐Flores, Holger Dau	179
19	Diffusible Weld Hydrogen 2001 ·Materials Testing ·Rodney D. L. Smith, David K. Benson, J. Roland Pitts, D.L. Olson, T. R. Wildeman	0
20	<title>Measurement Of Electron Irradiation Damage To Thinned Fairchild And Texas Instruments Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs)</title> 1979 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rodney D. L. Smith, E. A. Beaver, (unknown)	2

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