S. David Tilley

12.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

S. David Tilley is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, S. David Tilley has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 53 papers in Materials Chemistry and 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in S. David Tilley's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (45 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (33 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers). S. David Tilley is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (45 papers), Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (33 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (22 papers). S. David Tilley collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, South Korea and United States. S. David Tilley's co-authors include Michaël Grätzel, Matthew T. Mayer, Maurin Cornuz, Marcel Schreier, Kevin Sivula, Jingshan Luo, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hong Jin Fan, Jeong‐Hyeok Im and Nam‐Gyu Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

S. David Tilley

82 papers receiving 10.6k 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.

Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth-abundant catalysts

2014 2.3k citations S. David Tilley, Michaël Grätzel et al. profile →
Light‐Induced Water Splitting with Hematite: Improved Nanostructure and Iridium Oxide Catalysis

2010 901 citations S. David Tilley, Maurin Cornuz et al. profile →
Strategies for enhancing the photocurrent, photovoltage, and stability of photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting

2019 614 citations Wooseok Yang, Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. David Tilley Switzerland	42	8.3k	6.1k	4.0k	632	559	83	10.7k
Alexander J. Cowan United Kingdom	46	6.4k 0.8×	4.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	327 0.5×	510 0.9×	102	8.0k
Thomas W. Hamann United States	48	8.2k 1.0×	5.6k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	471 0.7×	654 1.2×	110	9.9k
Michael G. Walter United States	23	8.2k 1.0×	6.2k 1.0×	5.0k 1.2×	883 1.4×	967 1.7×	55	11.1k
Qixi Mi China	27	8.1k 1.0×	6.4k 1.0×	6.3k 1.6×	982 1.6×	932 1.7×	52	11.5k
Hongxian Han China	46	12.0k 1.4×	9.7k 1.6×	4.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	440 0.8×	95	13.8k
Harun Tüysüz Germany	50	5.4k 0.6×	4.5k 0.7×	4.1k 1.0×	857 1.4×	975 1.7×	154	8.9k
Tengfeng Xie China	66	10.3k 1.2×	9.4k 1.5×	5.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	143 0.3×	265	13.4k
Frank E. Osterloh United States	51	9.1k 1.1×	9.1k 1.5×	4.2k 1.0×	1.7k 2.7×	238 0.4×	154	12.4k
James R. McKone United States	25	13.7k 1.6×	7.4k 1.2×	8.5k 2.1×	1.3k 2.1×	1.7k 3.0×	49	16.0k
Yidong Hou China	58	10.9k 1.3×	9.6k 1.6×	4.3k 1.1×	1.3k 2.0×	189 0.3×	165	13.0k

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Wang, Zhenbin, et al.. (2025). Nanowire morphology control in Sb metal-derived antimony selenide photocathodes for solar water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(12). 8416–8424. 2 indexed citations

Blacque, Olivier, et al.. (2024). Immobilised Ruthenium Complexes for the Electrooxidation of 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(19). e202304181–e202304181. 3 indexed citations

Tan, Jeiwan, et al.. (2023). Molecular ink-derived chalcogenide thin films: Solution-phase mechanisms and solar energy conversion applications. Materials Today Energy. 34. 101288–101288. 15 indexed citations

Sévery, Laurent, Thomas Moehl, Bernhard Spingler, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalytic Ammonia Oxidation with a Tailored Molecular Catalyst Heterogenized via Surface Host–Guest Complexation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(1). 430–436. 19 indexed citations

Creazzo, Fabrizio, Thomas Moehl, Rowena Crockett, et al.. (2023). Solution phase treatments of Sb₂Se₃ heterojunction photocathodes for improved water splitting performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(15). 8277–8284. 15 indexed citations

Siol, Sebastian, et al.. (2022). Electrochemical ruthenium-catalysed C–H activation in water through heterogenization of a molecular catalyst. Catalysis Science & Technology. 12(5). 1512–1519. 6 indexed citations

Niu, Wenzhe, Thomas Moehl, Xi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Crystal orientation-dependent etching and trapping in thermally-oxidised Cu₂O photocathodes for water splitting. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(5). 2002–2010. 39 indexed citations

Sévery, Laurent, Jacek Szczerbiński, Gabriele Tocci, et al.. (2021). Immobilization of molecular catalysts on electrode surfaces using host–guest interactions. Nature Chemistry. 13(6). 523–529. 72 indexed citations

Oppelt, Kerstin, et al.. (2021). Flexible to rigid: IR spectroscopic investigation of a rhenium-tricarbonyl-complex at a buried interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(7). 4311–4316. 3 indexed citations

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Gouda, Laxman, Laurent Sévery, Thomas Moehl, et al.. (2021). Tuning the selectivity of biomass oxidation over oxygen evolution on NiO–OH electrodes. Green Chemistry. 23(20). 8061–8068. 41 indexed citations

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Probst, Benjamin, Laurent Sévery, Ricardo Fernández‐Terán, et al.. (2020). Mechanistic insights into photocatalysis and over two days of stable H₂ generation in electrocatalysis by a molecular cobalt catalyst immobilized on TiO₂. Catalysis Science & Technology. 10(8). 2549–2560. 11 indexed citations

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Siol, Sebastian, Noémie Ott, Michael Stiefel, et al.. (2019). A combinatorial guide to phase formation and surface passivation of tungsten titanium oxide prepared by thermal oxidation. Acta Materialia. 186. 95–104. 10 indexed citations

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Wick‐Joliat, René, Tiziana Musso, Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar, et al.. (2019). Stable and tunable phosphonic acid dipole layer for band edge engineering of photoelectrochemical and photovoltaic heterojunction devices. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(6). 1901–1909. 52 indexed citations

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Moehl, Thomas, Wei Cui, René Wick‐Joliat, & S. David Tilley. (2019). Resistance-based analysis of limiting interfaces in multilayer water splitting photocathodes by impedance spectroscopy. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 3(8). 2067–2075. 22 indexed citations

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Yang, Wooseok, Rajiv Ramanujam Prabhakar, Jeiwan Tan, S. David Tilley, & Jooho Moon. (2019). Strategies for enhancing the photocurrent, photovoltage, and stability of photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting. Chemical Society Reviews. 48(19). 4979–5015. 614 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cui, Wei, Wenzhe Niu, René Wick‐Joliat, Thomas Moehl, & S. David Tilley. (2018). Operando deconvolution of photovoltaic and electrocatalytic performance in ALD TiO ₂ protected water splitting photocathodes. Chemical Science. 9(28). 6062–6067. 25 indexed citations

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Sévery, Laurent, Sebastian Siol, & S. David Tilley. (2018). Design of Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts Stabilized by Ultrathin Inorganic Overlayers—Is Active Site Protection Necessary?. Inorganics. 6(4). 105–105. 7 indexed citations

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Tilley, S. David, Stephan Lany, & Roel van de Krol. (2018). Advances in photoelectrochemical water splitting : theory, experiment and systems analysis. 11 indexed citations

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Prabhakar, Rajiv Ramanujam, Wilman Septina, Sebastian Siol, et al.. (2017). Photocorrosion-resistant Sb ₂ Se ₃ photocathodes with earth abundant MoS _x hydrogen evolution catalyst. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 5(44). 23139–23145. 90 indexed citations

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Pendlebury, Stephanie R., Xiuli Wang, Florian Le Formal, et al.. (2014). Ultrafast Charge Carrier Recombination and Trapping in Hematite Photoanodes under Applied Bias. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(28). 9854–9857. 244 indexed citations

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