Sara Bals

32.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
568 papers, 24.9k citations indexed

About

Sara Bals is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Bals has authored 568 papers receiving a total of 24.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 334 papers in Materials Chemistry, 161 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 128 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Sara Bals's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (93 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (91 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (89 papers). Sara Bals is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (93 papers), Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties (91 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (89 papers). Sara Bals collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Spain and Netherlands. Sara Bals's co-authors include Luis M. Liz‐Marzán, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Thomas Altantzis, Bart Goris, Sandra Van Aert, Eva Bladt, Kees Joost Batenburg, Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, Celso de Mello Donegá and Lakshminarayana Polavarapu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sara Bals

553 papers receiving 24.6k 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.

Dopant-induced electron localization drives CO2 reduction to C2 hydrocarbons

2018 1.0k citations Sara Bals, Johan Hofkens et al. profile →
Highly Luminescent Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with Tunable Composition and Thickness by Ultrasonication

2016 660 citations Sara Bals et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
The ASTRA Toolbox: A platform for advanced algorithm development in electron tomography

2015 660 citations Thomas Altantzis, Sara Bals et al. profile →
Highly Emissive Divalent-Ion-Doped Colloidal CsPb_1–xM_xBr₃ Perovskite Nanocrystals through Cation Exchange

2017 651 citations Ward van der Stam, Jaco J. Geuchies et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
High-Yield Seeded Growth of Monodisperse Pentatwinned Gold Nanoparticles through Thermally Induced Seed Twinning

2016 379 citations Naomi Winckelmans, Thomas Altantzis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Micelle-directed chiral seeded growth on anisotropic gold nanocrystals

2020 329 citations Guillermo González‐Rubio, Jesús Mosquera et al. Science profile →
Size of cerium dioxide support nanocrystals dictates reactivity of highly dispersed palladium catalysts

2023 204 citations Nathalie Claes, Sara Bals et al. Science profile →
Halide-guided active site exposure in bismuth electrocatalysts for selective CO2 conversion into formic acid

2023 189 citations Sara Bals, Thomas Altantzis et al. profile →
Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis

2023 186 citations Matteo Monai, Kellie Jenkinson et al. Science profile →
An Atomically Dispersed Mn-Photocatalyst for Generating Hydrogen Peroxide from Seawater via the Water Oxidation Reaction (WOR)

2023 157 citations Noopur Jain, Sandra Van Aert et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Bioinspired chiral inorganic nanomaterials

2023 153 citations Andrés Guerrero‐Martínez, Sara Bals et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Bals

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Bals. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Bals based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara Bals. Sara Bals is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Dual injection in a CO2 microwave plasma: Exploring post-plasma quenching with CH4 and comparison with DRM 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), E. G. F. de Morais, Sara Bals, Annemie Bogaerts	1
2	Bottom-Up Fabrication of BN-Doped Graphene Electrodes from Thiol-Terminated Borazine Molecules Working in Solar Cells 2025 ·ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·(unknown), Sanchari Chowdhury, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Paromita Kundu, (unknown), Sara Bals, (unknown), Davide Bonifazi, Rubén D. Costa, Petra Rudolf	4
3	Generating a Stable Higher-Symmetry CsPbI₃ Perovskite Phase in Ambient Conditions: Unveiling the Stabilization Mechanism 2025 ·ACS Nano ·Rafikul Ali Saha, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tom Braeckevelt, (unknown), Eduardo Solano, (unknown), Maria Isabel Pintor‐Monroy, (unknown), Bart Goderis, Juan Rubio‐Zuazo, Jan Genoe, Carlo Meneghini, Julian A. Steele, Sara Bals, Véronique Van Speybroeck, Johan Hofkens, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers	1
4	Cs3Bi2Br9 nanoparticles decorated C3N4 nanotubes composite photocatalyst for highly selective oxidation of benzylic alcohol 2024 ·Journal of Colloid and Interface Science ·Yang Ding, Chunhua Wang, Sateesh Bandaru, Lang Pei, Runtian Zheng, Yun Hau Ng, Daniel Arenas Esteban, Sara Bals, Jiasong Zhong, Johan Hofkens, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Lihua Chen, Bao‐Lian Su	21
5	Single Crystal and Pentatwinned Gold Nanorods Result in Chiral Nanocrystals with Reverse Handedness 2024 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Bing Ni, (unknown), Mikhail Mychinko, (unknown), Sara Bals, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán	21
6	High quality graphene TEM supports for high-resolution transmission electron microscopy 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Adrián Pedrazo‐Tardajos, Nathalie Claes, (unknown), Sara Bals	1
7	Plasma-catalytic ammonia synthesis: Packed catalysts act as plasma modifiers 2023 ·Catalysis Today ·(unknown), Yury Gorbanev, Radu‐George Ciocarlan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sara Bals, Pegie Cool, Annemie Bogaerts	38
8	Direct Operando Visualization of Metal Support Interactions Induced by Hydrogen Spillover During CO₂ Hydrogenation 2023 ·Advanced Materials ·Kellie Jenkinson, María Chiara Spadaro, Viktoria Golovanova, Teresa Andreu, J.R. Morante, Jordi Arbiol, Sara Bals	16
9	High-Throughput Characterization of Single-Quantum-Dot Emission Spectra and Spectral Diffusion by Multiparticle Spectroscopy 2023 ·ACS Photonics ·(unknown), (unknown), Sander J. W. Vonk, Jaco J. Geuchies, Wiebke Albrecht, Sara Bals, Arjan J. Houtepen, Freddy T. Rabouw	7
10	Restructuring of titanium oxide overlayers over nickel nanoparticles during catalysis breakdown → 2023 ·Science ·Matteo Monai, Kellie Jenkinson, Angela E. M. Melcherts, Jaap N. Louwen, (unknown), Sandra Van Aert, Thomas Altantzis, Charlotte Vogt, Ward van der Stam, Tomáš Duchoň, Břetislav Šmíd, Esther Groeneveld, Peter H. Berben, Sara Bals, Bert M. Weckhuysen	186
11	Tuning the Growth of Chiral Gold Nanoparticles Through Rational Design of a Chiral Molecular Inducer 2023 ·Nano Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Mikhail Mychinko, (unknown), (unknown), Alejandro Criado, Sara Bals, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán, Jesús Mosquera	22
12	Self-Assembled Ligand-Capped Plasmonic Au Nanoparticle Films in the Kretschmann Configuration for Sensing of Volatile Organic Compounds 2022 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·Rituraj Borah, (unknown), (unknown), Max L. Tietze, Rob Ameloot, Dmitry N. Chigrin, Sara Bals, Silvia Lenaerts, Sammy W. Verbruggen	20
13	Use of Nanoscale Carbon Layers on Ag-Based Gas Diffusion Electrodes to Promote CO Production 2022 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel Arenas Esteban, Radu‐George Ciocarlan, Pegie Cool, Kitty Baert, Tom Hauffman, Nick Daems, Sara Bals, Tom Breugelmans	4
14	Catalytic upcycling of PVC waste-derived phthalate esters into safe, hydrogenated plasticizers 2021 ·Green Chemistry ·(unknown), (unknown), Noopur Jain, Carlos Márquez, Sara Bals, Martin Schlummer, Dirk De Vos	25
15	Creation of Exclusive Artificial Cluster Defects by Selective Metal Removal in the (Zn, Zr) Mixed-Metal UiO-66 2021 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xiao Feng, Himanshu Sekhar Jena, Chidharth Krishnaraj, Daniel Arenas Esteban, Karen Leus, Guangbo Wang, Jiamin Sun, Martina Rüscher, Janis Timoshenko, Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Sara Bals, Pascal Van Der Voort	99
16	Cyan Emission in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Cs₂CdCl₄:Sb³⁺Ruddlesden–Popper Phase Nanoplatelets 2021 ·ACS Nano ·Federico Locardi, (unknown), A. Martinelli, Onur Erdem, (unknown), Sara Bals, Zeger Hens	53
17	Layer-by-Layer-Stabilized Plasmonic Gold-Silver Nanoparticles on TiO2: Towards Stable Solar Active Photocatalysts 2021 ·Nanomaterials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rituraj Borah, Daniel Arenas Esteban, Silvia Lenaerts, Sara Bals, Sammy W. Verbruggen	9
18	Micelle-directed chiral seeded growth on anisotropic gold nanocrystals breakdown → 2020 ·Science ·Guillermo González‐Rubio, Jesús Mosquera, Vished Kumar, Adrián Pedrazo‐Tardajos, Pablo Burriel Llombart, Diego M. Solís, Iván Lobato, Eva G. Noya, Andrés Guerrero‐Martínez, J. M. Taboada, F. Obelleiro, Luis G. MacDowell, Sara Bals, Luis M. Liz‐Marzán	329
19	Locating and Controlling the Zn Content in In(Zn)P Quantum Dots 2019 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Nicholas Kirkwood, Annick De Backer, Thomas Altantzis, Naomi Winckelmans, Alessandro Longo, Felipe V. Antolinez, Freddy T. Rabouw, Luca De Trizio, Jaco J. Geuchies, (unknown), Nicolas Renaud, Sara Bals, Liberato Manna, Arjan J. Houtepen	53
20	Atomic resolution electron tomography 2016 ·MRS Bulletin ·Sara Bals, Bart Goris, Annick De Backer, Sandra Van Aert, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo	22

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