Thangavel Sakthivel

4.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
71 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Thangavel Sakthivel is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thangavel Sakthivel has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 35 papers in Materials Chemistry and 34 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thangavel Sakthivel's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (41 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (13 papers). Thangavel Sakthivel is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (41 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers) and Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors (13 papers). Thangavel Sakthivel collaborates with scholars based in India, China and South Korea. Thangavel Sakthivel's co-authors include Gunasekaran Venugopal, Zhengfei Dai, Yaoda Liu, Nivea Raghavan, Sang‐Jae Kim, Xiaoyong Huang, Karthikeyan Krishnamoorthy, Shengwu Guo, Hang Liu and Ya Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thangavel Sakthivel

70 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Synergizing Hydrogen Spillover and Deprotonation by the I... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 2023 2024 2024 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Synergizing Hydrogen Spillover and Deprotonation by the Internal Polarization Field in a MoS2/NiPS3 Vertical Heterostructure for Boosted Water Electrolysis
    2022 222 citations Yaoda Liu, Thangavel Sakthivel et al. profile →
  2. Enhancing the d/p‐Band Center Proximity with Amorphous‐Crystalline Interface Coupling for Boosted pH‐Robust Water Electrolysis
    2023 214 citations Yaoda Liu, Thangavel Sakthivel et al. profile →
  3. Metastabilizing the Ruthenium Clusters by Interfacial Oxygen Vacancies for Boosted Water Splitting Electrocatalysis
    2024 146 citations Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu et al. profile →
  4. Intensifying the Supported Ruthenium Metallic Bond to Boost the Interfacial Hydrogen Spillover Toward pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis
    2024 94 citations Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thangavel Sakthivel India 36 2.2k 2.0k 1.7k 567 555 71 3.8k
Yifan Zhang China 39 2.5k 1.1× 2.3k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 607 1.1× 387 0.7× 113 4.3k
Zhen Su China 35 1.7k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 310 0.5× 662 1.2× 85 3.8k
Simelys Hernández Italy 40 3.4k 1.5× 2.5k 1.2× 1.7k 1.0× 437 0.8× 428 0.8× 96 4.7k
Xiao Yan China 28 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 627 1.1× 282 0.5× 87 3.5k
Előd Gyenge Canada 38 2.7k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 2.5k 1.5× 508 0.9× 518 0.9× 121 4.0k
Kugalur Shanmugam Ranjith South Korea 34 1.7k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 714 1.3× 456 0.8× 111 3.5k
Kamel Eid Qatar 44 2.9k 1.3× 2.5k 1.3× 2.3k 1.4× 692 1.2× 692 1.2× 120 4.7k
A.A. Yadav India 41 2.3k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 908 1.6× 334 0.6× 75 4.0k
Baodong Mao China 42 3.2k 1.4× 3.6k 1.8× 2.3k 1.4× 673 1.2× 429 0.8× 114 5.2k

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All Works

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Liu, Yaoda, Lei Li, Xuning Li, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric tacticity navigates the localized metal spin state for sustainable alkaline/sea water oxidation. Science Advances. 11(22). eads0861–eads0861. 18 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel & Ji Woong Chang. (2025). Enhanced carrier transport in Wurtzite-Sphalerite phase Engineered CdS integrated with CoBOx for High-Performance photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 151. 357–364. 1 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, et al.. (2025). Non-spontaneous synthetic pathways for anisotropic metal chalcogenides with phase junctions and stacking faults for enhanced photo electrochemical performance. Applied Surface Science. 698. 163026–163026. 1 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, et al.. (2024). Advancements in piezoelectric membrane technology: Fundamentals and future outlook. Separation and Purification Technology. 342. 127021–127021. 10 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, et al.. (2024). Rapid self-reconstruction of nickel in amorphous nickel borate nanosheets for efficient oxygen evolution in alkaline seawater splitting. FlatChem. 49. 100804–100804. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Ya, Yaoda Liu, Lei Li, et al.. (2024). Intensifying the Supported Ruthenium Metallic Bond to Boost the Interfacial Hydrogen Spillover Toward pH‐Universal Hydrogen Evolution Catalysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(28). 94 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Yaoda, Li Wang, Na Li, et al.. (2024). Janus electronic state of supported iridium nanoclusters for sustainable alkaline water electrolysis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2851–2851. 94 indexed citations
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Zhai, Wenfang, Ya Chen, Yaoda Liu, et al.. (2023). Bimetal‐Incorporated Black Phosphorene with Surface Electron Deficiency for Efficient Anti‐Reconstruction Water Electrolysis. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(25). 40 indexed citations
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Liang, Tingting, Yaoda Liu, Ya Chen, et al.. (2021). Interface and M3+/M2+ Valence Dual‐Engineering on Nickel Cobalt Sulfoselenide/Black Phosphorus Heterostructure for Efficient Water Splitting Electrocatalysis. Energy & environment materials. 6(2). 40 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, Parthiban Pazhamalai, Karthikeyan Krishnamoorthy, et al.. (2021). Ferroelectric-semiconductor BaTiO3–Ag2O nanohybrid as an efficient piezo-photocatalytic material. Chemosphere. 292. 133398–133398. 27 indexed citations
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Zhai, Wenfang, Thangavel Sakthivel, Fuyi Chen, et al.. (2021). Amorphous materials for elementary-gas-involved electrocatalysis: an overview. Nanoscale. 13(47). 19783–19811. 33 indexed citations
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Durairaj, Arulappan, Daniel Kobina Sam, Thangavel Sakthivel, et al.. (2021). Synthesis of bi-functional Ni/Co phosphate nanocomposites for Peroxymonosulphate activation and supercapacitor electrode. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 9(6). 106426–106426. 15 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, et al.. (2019). Enhanced Photocatalytic Degradation Activity of 2-D Graphitic Carbon Nitride-SnO2 Nanohybrids. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 19(6). 3576–3582. 7 indexed citations
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Rose, Aleena, et al.. (2018). Electrochemical analysis of Graphene Oxide/Polyaniline/Polyvinyl alcohol composite nanofibers for supercapacitor applications. Applied Surface Science. 449. 551–557. 94 indexed citations
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Sakthivel, Thangavel, et al.. (2018). Study of structural and electrochemical properties of La2SrV2O9 perovskites prepared using ball-milling. Applied Surface Science. 449. 468–473. 10 indexed citations
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Vinesh, Vasudevan, et al.. (2017). Enhanced Photocatalytic Properties of Nanostructured WO3 Semiconductor-Photocatalyst Prepared via Hydrothermal Method. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 18(5). 3320–3328. 18 indexed citations
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Gopalakrishnan, Arthi, K. Rajasekar, Thangavel Sakthivel, Gunasekaran Venugopal, & Sang‐Jae Kim. (2015). Removal of heavy metal ions from pharma-effluents using graphene-oxide nanosorbents and study of their adsorption kinetics. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 30. 14–19. 149 indexed citations
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Chandran, Hrisheekesh Thachoth, et al.. (2014). Study on inorganic oxidants assisted sonocatalytic degradation of Resazurin dye in presence of β-SnWO4 nanoparticles. Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. 27. 212–219. 19 indexed citations

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