Roland Widmer

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Roland Widmer is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Widmer has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Materials Chemistry, 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 31 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Roland Widmer's work include Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (27 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (22 papers) and Quasicrystal Structures and Properties (17 papers). Roland Widmer is often cited by papers focused on Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (27 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (22 papers) and Quasicrystal Structures and Properties (17 papers). Roland Widmer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Roland Widmer's co-authors include Maksym V. Kovalenko, Oliver Gröning, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, H. W. Lehmann, Marc Walter, Román Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Carlo A. Pignedoli and Samuel Stolz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Roland Widmer

81 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Rationalizing and Controlling the Surface Structure and Electronic Passivation of Cesium Lead Halide Nanocrystals

2018 377 citations Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Roland Widmer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roland Widmer Switzerland	28	1.9k	1.7k	768	676	290	84	3.1k
Hideyuki Nakano Japan	29	2.0k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	673 0.9×	401 0.6×	384 1.3×	96	3.0k
V. K. Adamchuk Russia	29	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.6×	372 0.6×	389 1.3×	116	3.2k
Eng Soon Tok Singapore	31	2.2k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	905 1.2×	674 1.0×	585 2.0×	152	3.7k
L. Petaccia Italy	32	3.1k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.9×	674 1.0×	422 1.5×	156	4.1k
Tod A. Pascal United States	35	1.3k 0.7×	2.7k 1.6×	668 0.9×	747 1.1×	259 0.9×	90	4.8k
Tong Wei China	30	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	454 0.6×	321 0.5×	545 1.9×	154	2.7k
Ivan Verzhbitskiy Singapore	26	3.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.1×	594 0.8×	676 1.0×	516 1.8×	57	3.6k
R. Kesavamoorthy India	27	1.6k 0.8×	865 0.5×	554 0.7×	579 0.9×	455 1.6×	116	2.4k
Simon D. Elliott Ireland	33	2.9k 1.5×	2.2k 1.3×	404 0.5×	248 0.4×	442 1.5×	94	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Widmer

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Bisti, F., J. Minář, V. A. Rogalev, et al.. (2025). Evidence of spin and charge density waves in Chromium electronic bands. Communications Materials. 6(1). 70–70.

Zhang, Huanyu, Roland Widmer, Faruk Okur, et al.. (2025). Dual-Layer Li Metal All-Solid-State Battery Based on an Argyrodite-type Li ₆ PS ₅ Cl Catholyte and a Garnet-type Li ₇ La ₃ Zr ₂ O ₁₂ Separator. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 8(21). 15900–15910.

Krieger, Jonas A., M. Yao, Iñigo Robredo, et al.. (2024). Controllable orbital angular momentum monopoles in chiral topological semimetals. Nature Physics. 20(12). 1912–1918. 8 indexed citations

Merino‐Díez, Néstor, et al.. (2024). Asymmetric Molecular Adsorption and Regioselective Bond Cleavage on Chiral PdGa Crystals. Advanced Science. 11(16). e2309081–e2309081. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaoye, Marco Di Giovannantonio, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2023). Sterically Selective [3 + 3] Cycloaromatization in the On-Surface Synthesis of Nanographenes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 128–135. 5 indexed citations

Stolz, Samuel, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Oliver Gröning, & Roland Widmer. (2022). On-surface Synthesis: What Happens Behind the Scenes?. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 76(3). 203–203. 5 indexed citations

Stolz, Samuel, Michael Bauer, Carlo A. Pignedoli, et al.. (2021). Asymmetric azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition on chiral metal surfaces. Communications Chemistry. 4(1). 51–51. 9 indexed citations

Stolz, Samuel, Marco Di Giovannantonio, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2021). Asymmetric Elimination Reaction on Chiral Metal Surfaces. Advanced Materials. 34(2). e2104481–e2104481. 15 indexed citations

Stolz, Samuel, Marco Di Giovannantonio, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2020). Reversible Dehalogenation in On‐Surface Aryl–Aryl Coupling. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(33). 14106–14110. 26 indexed citations

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Stolz, Samuel, Marco Di Giovannantonio, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2020). Reversible Dehalogenation in On‐Surface Aryl–Aryl Coupling. Angewandte Chemie. 132(33). 14210–14214. 4 indexed citations

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Stolz, Samuel, Oliver Gröning, Jan Prinz, Harald Brune, & Roland Widmer. (2020). Molecular motor crossing the frontier of classical to quantum tunneling motion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(26). 14838–14842. 27 indexed citations

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Stolz, Samuel, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Jan Prinz, et al.. (2020). Near‐Enantiopure Trimerization of 9‐Ethynylphenanthrene on a Chiral Metal Surface. Angewandte Chemie. 132(41). 18336–18340. 2 indexed citations

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Stolz, Samuel, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Jan Prinz, et al.. (2020). Near‐Enantiopure Trimerization of 9‐Ethynylphenanthrene on a Chiral Metal Surface. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(41). 18179–18183. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Shutao, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, A. Nicolas Filippin, et al.. (2019). Overcoming the High-Voltage Limitations of Li-Ion Batteries Using a Titanium Nitride Current Collector. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2(2). 974–978. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Shiyong, Qiang Sun, Oliver Gröning, et al.. (2019). On-surface synthesis and characterization of individual polyacetylene chains. Nature Chemistry. 11(10). 924–930. 79 indexed citations

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Hou, Yuhui, Rolf Erni, Roland Widmer, et al.. (2019). Synthesis and Characterization of Degradation‐Resistant Cu@CuPd Nanowire Catalysts for the Efficient Production of Formate and CO from CO₂. ChemElectroChem. 6(12). 3189–3198. 21 indexed citations

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Dubey, Romain, Marcel Aebli, Roland Widmer, et al.. (2019). Zeolite-Templated Carbon as a Stable, High Power Magnesium-Ion Cathode Material. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(43). 39902–39909. 24 indexed citations

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Walter, Marc, et al.. (2018). Polypyrenes as High‐Performance Cathode Materials for Aluminum Batteries. Advanced Materials. 30(15). e1705644–e1705644. 205 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaoye, Thomas Dienel, Marco Di Giovannantonio, et al.. (2017). Heteroatom-Doped Perihexacene from a Double Helicene Precursor: On-Surface Synthesis and Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(13). 4671–4674. 71 indexed citations

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Giovannantonio, Marco Di, Okan Deniz, José I. Urgel, et al.. (2017). On-Surface Growth Dynamics of Graphene Nanoribbons: The Role of Halogen Functionalization. ACS Nano. 12(1). 74–81. 135 indexed citations

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