Sebastian Günther

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Sebastian Günther is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Surfaces, Coatings and Films. According to data from OpenAlex, Sebastian Günther has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Materials Chemistry, 68 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 32 papers in Surfaces, Coatings and Films. Recurrent topics in Sebastian Günther's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (33 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (32 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (32 papers). Sebastian Günther is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (33 papers), Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (32 papers) and Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (32 papers). Sebastian Günther collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and United States. Sebastian Günther's co-authors include J. Wintterlin, М. Кискинова, Bin Wang, Marie‐Laure Bocquet, R. Imbihl, Luca Gregoratti, R. Jürgen Behm, Andrei Kolmakov, E. Kopatzki and Thomas Greber and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sebastian Günther

131 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Scanning tunneling microscopy of graphene on Ru(0001)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sebastian Günther Germany	37	3.3k	1.9k	1.5k	693	566	134	4.7k
Jun Yoshinobu Japan	34	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	644 0.9×	274 0.5×	209	4.4k
Alessandro Baraldi Italy	41	4.8k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.2×	746 1.1×	631 1.1×	199	6.1k
J. N. Andersen Sweden	40	3.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	835 0.6×	573 0.8×	590 1.0×	97	4.3k
Tetsuya Aruga Japan	37	2.4k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	326 0.5×	470 0.8×	189	4.6k
Lutz Hammer Germany	34	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	756 0.5×	419 0.6×	326 0.6×	131	3.7k
Georg Held United Kingdom	37	2.5k 0.8×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	259 0.5×	172	4.6k
A. Morgante Italy	39	3.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.8×	614 0.9×	427 0.8×	183	5.6k
F. M. Leibsle United Kingdom	37	1.7k 0.5×	2.2k 1.2×	912 0.6×	540 0.8×	338 0.6×	94	3.5k
L. Vattuone Italy	34	2.2k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	742 0.5×	465 0.7×	239 0.4×	136	3.5k
P. Jakob Germany	33	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	555 0.8×	174 0.3×	98	3.7k

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Kratky, Tim, Jürgen Kraus, Peter Leidinger, et al.. (2025). Making Use of Si Contaminants during Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene on Cu: Synthesis of a Stable Material with the Textbook-like Band Structure of Free-Standing Graphene. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(28). 40937–40950.

Kratky, Tim, Peter Leidinger, Patrick Zeller, et al.. (2024). The fate of graphene on copper: Intercalation / de-intercalation processes and the role of silicon. Carbon. 226. 119172–119172. 2 indexed citations

Richter, Lars, Peter Leidinger, Sebastian Günther, et al.. (2024). Expanding the range of graphene energy transfer with multilayer graphene. Nanoscale. 16(28). 13464–13470. 3 indexed citations

Oswald, Stefan, Tim Kratky, László Szentmiklósi, et al.. (2024). Effect of washing on nickel-rich NCMs: methodology to quantify the lithium/proton-exchange kinetics, the inserted protons, and the structural changes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(37). 25140–25164. 8 indexed citations

Poonam, Poonam, Cristiana Cesari, Rachit Khare, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic Insights into ZIF-8 Encapsulation of Atom-Precise Pt(M) Carbonyl Clusters. Chemistry of Materials. 35(14). 5475–5486. 7 indexed citations

Leidinger, Peter, Tim Kratky, & Sebastian Günther. (2023). Extending the Predictive Growth Kinetics for the CVD Synthesis of Graphene on Copper to the Low-Pressure Regime. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(17). 8136–8147.

Kratky, Tim, et al.. (2023). Exceptional ultrafast nonlinear optical response of functionalized silicon nanosheets. Nanoscale. 15(41). 16636–16649. 8 indexed citations

Günther, Sebastian, Tim Kratky, Jürgen Kraus, et al.. (2023). Versatile procedure for the correction of non-isochromatism in XPEEM spectroscopic imaging. Ultramicroscopy. 250. 113756–113756. 4 indexed citations

Leidinger, Peter, Mirco Panighel, Ignacio J. Villar‐García, et al.. (2022). Probing dynamic covalent chemistry in a 2D boroxine framework by in situ near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Nanoscale. 15(3). 1068–1075. 8 indexed citations

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Eder, Moritz, Monika Blum, Tim Kratky, et al.. (2022). Tuning Strong Metal–Support Interaction Kinetics on Pt-Loaded TiO₂(110) by Choosing the Pressure: A Combined Ultrahigh Vacuum/Near-Ambient Pressure XPS Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(38). 16127–16139. 27 indexed citations

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Leidinger, Peter & Sebastian Günther. (2021). Insight into the Thermodynamics of Graphene Growth on Copper. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(23). 12663–12671. 7 indexed citations

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Kratky, Tim, et al.. (2021). Silicon Nanosheets versus Graphene Nanosheets: A Comparison of Their Nonlinear Optical Response. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(2). 815–821. 14 indexed citations

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Leidinger, Peter, Jürgen Kraus, Tim Kratky, et al.. (2021). Toward the perfect membrane material for environmental x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 54(23). 234001–234001. 9 indexed citations

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Leidinger, Peter, Jürgen Kraus, & Sebastian Günther. (2021). Predicting Graphene Growth on Cu: Universal Kinetic Growth Model and Its Experimental Verification. ACS Nano. 15(7). 12201–12212. 6 indexed citations

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Kratky, Tim, et al.. (2021). From phosphine-stabilised towards naked Au₈ clusters through ZIF-8 encapsulation. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 6(11). 876–882. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Xinzhou, Tim Kratky, & Sebastian Günther. (2021). Revisiting the Formation of the (√67 × √67)R12.2° Bilayer Oxide on Ni₃Al(111) by In Situ STM—Surprises Regarding Oxygen Volume Diffusion. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(19). 10349–10361. 1 indexed citations

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Günther, Sebastian, Patrick Zeller, Bernhard Böller, & J. Wintterlin. (2021). Method for the Manual Analysis of Moiré Structures in STM images. ChemPhysChem. 22(9). 870–884. 6 indexed citations

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Ma, Xinzhou, Tim Kratky, & Sebastian Günther. (2019). Observation of a novel double layer surface oxide phase on Ni₃Al(111) at low temperature. Nanoscale Advances. 1(11). 4501–4512. 6 indexed citations

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Heinz, Werner R., Tim Kratky, Markus Drees, et al.. (2019). Mixed precious-group metal–organic frameworks: a case study of the HKUST-1 analogue [Ru_xRh_3−x(BTC)₂]. Dalton Transactions. 48(32). 12031–12039. 35 indexed citations

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Wyrwich, Regina, Travis E. Jones, Sebastian Günther, et al.. (2018). LEED-I(V) Structure Analysis of the (7 × √3)rect SO₄ Phase on Ag(111): Precursor to the Active Species of the Ag-Catalyzed Ethylene Epoxidation. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(47). 26998–27004. 15 indexed citations

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