Rolf Erni

19.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
263 papers, 13.4k citations indexed

About

Rolf Erni is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Erni has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 13.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Materials Chemistry, 104 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 47 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rolf Erni's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (45 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (42 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (29 papers). Rolf Erni is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (45 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (42 papers) and Semiconductor materials and devices (29 papers). Rolf Erni collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Rolf Erni's co-authors include Marta D. Rossell, Alex Zettl, Nasim Alem, Will Gannett, C. Kisielowski, Michael F. Crommie, Jannik C. Meyer, Zonghoon Lee, Kris Erickson and Maksym V. Kovalenko and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Erni

253 papers receiving 13.0k 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.

Determination of the Local Chemical Structure of Graphene Oxide and Reduced Graphene Oxide

2010 1.2k citations Rolf Erni et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Graphene at the Edge: Stability and Dynamics

2009 1.0k citations Rolf Erni, Marta D. Rossell et al. profile →
Direct Imaging of Lattice Atoms and Topological Defects in Graphene Membranes

2008 930 citations Rolf Erni, Marta D. Rossell et al. profile →
Controlling the nucleation and growth kinetics of lead halide perovskite quantum dots

2022 289 citations Rolf Erni, Maksym V. Kovalenko et al. profile →
Ultra-narrow room-temperature emission from single CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots

2022 167 citations Marta D. Rossell, Rolf Erni et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Rolf Erni	8.7k	4.9k	2.5k	2.2k	1.8k	263	13.4k
Matthew F. Chisholm	9.8k 1.1×	5.1k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	3.1k 1.4×	1.5k 0.9×	211	14.0k
Quentin M. Ramasse	6.9k 0.8×	3.1k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	333	10.2k
Andrey Chuvilin	9.2k 1.1×	3.5k 0.7×	3.0k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	315	13.7k
Jian‐Min Zuo	7.3k 0.8×	4.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	436	14.4k
Marta D. Rossell	8.5k 1.0×	4.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	4.2k 1.9×	1.8k 1.0×	175	12.7k
Florian Banhart	12.4k 1.4×	4.2k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.0×	181	15.4k
Peter Ercius	5.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	224	9.8k
Jamie H. Warner	15.4k 1.8×	8.6k 1.7×	3.5k 1.4×	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	385	19.8k
Angus I. Kirkland	6.1k 0.7×	3.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	283	10.1k
Juan Carlos Idrobo	15.1k 1.7×	8.8k 1.8×	3.6k 1.4×	2.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	220	20.6k

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Eliasson, Henrik, Y. Chiang, Thaylan Pinheiro Araújo, et al.. (2025). Tracking Dynamics of Supported Indium Oxide Catalysts in CO₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol by In Situ TEM. Advanced Materials. 37(20). e2419859–e2419859. 2 indexed citations

Zou, Tangsheng, Y. Chiang, Mikhail Agrachev, et al.. (2025). Descriptors of InZrO _x vs ZnZrO _x Catalysts for CO ₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(26). 6 indexed citations

Li, Shangkun, Zeyi Zhang, Walker R. Marks, et al.. (2024). {Co4O4} Cubanes in a conducting polymer matrix as bio-inspired molecular oxygen evolution catalysts. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8432–8432. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Yonggui, Wenchao Wan, Rolf Erni, Long Pan, & Greta R. Patzke. (2024). Operando Spectroscopic Monitoring of Metal Chalcogenides for Overall Water Splitting: New Views of Active Species and Sites. Angewandte Chemie. 136(24). 1 indexed citations

Eliasson, Henrik & Rolf Erni. (2024). Localization and segmentation of atomic columns in supported nanoparticles for fast scanning transmission electron microscopy. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 168–168. 5 indexed citations

Eliasson, Henrik, Ivan Surin, Xiansheng Li, et al.. (2024). Exploring Structural Dynamics of Small Pt Nanoparticles on Ceria. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations

Jaydev, Shibashish D., et al.. (2023). Consumer Grade Polyethylene Recycling via Hydrogenolysis on Ultrafine Supported Ruthenium Nanoparticles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(11). e202317526–e202317526. 24 indexed citations

Yang, Qingxin, Ivan Surin, Henrik Eliasson, et al.. (2023). Lattice-Stabilized Chromium Atoms on Ceria for N₂O Synthesis. ACS Catalysis. 13(24). 15977–15990. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Yonggui, Wenchao Wan, Nanchen Dongfang, et al.. (2022). Optimized NiFe-Based Coordination Polymer Catalysts: Sulfur-Tuning and Operando Monitoring of Water Oxidation. ACS Nano. 16(9). 15318–15327. 39 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yonggui, Nanchen Dongfang, Carlos A. Triana, et al.. (2022). Dynamics and control of active sites in hierarchically nanostructured cobalt phosphide/chalcogenide-based electrocatalysts for water splitting. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(2). 727–739. 174 indexed citations

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Rossell, Marta D., et al.. (2021). High conductivity InAlN/GaN multi-channel two-dimensional electron gases. Semiconductor Science and Technology. 36(5). 55020–55020. 8 indexed citations

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Ritter, C., et al.. (2021). Reversible Phase Transformations in Novel Ce‐Substituted Perovskite Oxide Composites for Solar Thermochemical Redox Splitting of CO₂. Advanced Energy Materials. 11(16). 24 indexed citations

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Tien, Nguyen Duc, Anjani K. Maurya, Giuseppino Fortunato, et al.. (2020). Responsive Nanofibers with Embedded Hierarchical Lipid Self-Assemblies. Langmuir. 36(40). 11787–11797. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yonggui, Wenchao Wan, Yi Chen, et al.. (2020). Understanding and Optimizing Ultra‐Thin Coordination Polymer Derivatives with High Oxygen Evolution Performance. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(37). 35 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Seth, Joe Croteau, Marta D. Rossell, et al.. (2020). Coarsening- and creep resistance of precipitation-strengthened Al–Mg–Zr alloys processed by selective laser melting. Acta Materialia. 188. 192–202. 126 indexed citations

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Hu, Huifang, Menglong Liu, Ying Kong, et al.. (2020). Activation Matters: Hysteresis Effects during Electrochemical Looping of Colloidal Ag Nanowire Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 10(15). 8503–8514. 26 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, Laura Piveteau, Kostiantyn V. Kravchyk, et al.. (2019). Zeolite-Templated Carbon as the Cathode for a High Energy Density Dual-Ion Battery. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(19). 17686–17696. 35 indexed citations

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Li, Jingguo, Wenchao Wan, Carlos A. Triana, et al.. (2019). Dynamic Role of Cluster Cocatalysts on Molecular Photoanodes for Water Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(32). 12839–12848. 34 indexed citations

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Alizadeh, Parvin, et al.. (2016). Investigation of dielectric properties and microstructure of sintered 13·2Li 2 O − 67·6SiO 2 − 14.49Al 2 O 3 − 3·3TiO 2 − 0.4BaO − 0.97ZnO glass-ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 37(2). 631–639. 26 indexed citations

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