Thiago Lopes

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Thiago Lopes is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thiago Lopes has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 29 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 15 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thiago Lopes's work include Fuel Cells and Related Materials (28 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers). Thiago Lopes is often cited by papers focused on Fuel Cells and Related Materials (28 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (27 papers) and Advanced battery technologies research (12 papers). Thiago Lopes collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and United States. Thiago Lopes's co-authors include Anthony Kucernak, Daniel Malko, Ermete Antolini, Ernesto R. González, Erenio Gónzalez Suárez, Edson A. Ticianelli, Valdecir Antônio Paganin, Flávio Colmati, Ernesto Rafael González and Fernando H. Garzón and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nature Communications and Journal of The Electrochemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Thiago Lopes

38 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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In situ electrochemical quantification of active sites in Fe–N/C non-precious metal catalysts

2016 454 citations Daniel Malko, Anthony Kucernak et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thiago Lopes Brazil	16	1.3k	1.1k	405	229	117	40	1.5k
Jinwhan Joo South Korea	17	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	479 1.2×	223 1.0×	94 0.8×	22	1.7k
Ruilin Cheng China	10	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	438 1.1×	269 1.2×	155 1.3×	15	2.0k
Jinqi Wu China	15	1.8k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	558 1.4×	354 1.5×	173 1.5×	25	2.0k
Koichi Matsuzawa Japan	20	993 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	531 1.3×	164 0.7×	79 0.7×	123	1.4k
Sixuan She China	17	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	596 1.5×	202 0.9×	160 1.4×	30	1.8k
Nana Han China	13	1.5k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	460 1.1×	196 0.9×	249 2.1×	19	1.8k
Subhasis Shit India	17	1.1k 0.9×	920 0.8×	406 1.0×	219 1.0×	96 0.8×	25	1.4k
Chun‐Han Kuo Taiwan	19	1.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	632 1.6×	350 1.5×	144 1.2×	26	2.0k
Anna K. Schuppert Germany	13	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	368 0.9×	225 1.0×	75 0.6×	15	1.4k

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Paganin, Valdecir Antônio, et al.. (2025). Uncovering Key Parameters in Perfluorosulfonic Acid (PFSA) Membrane Fuel Cells to Enhance Performance. Membranes. 15(3). 65–65.

Lopes, Thiago, et al.. (2024). Carbon emission reductions in the University of São Paulo’s transportation sector using hydrogen-powered vehicles. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 140. 1017–1032. 1 indexed citations

Salvador, Camilo Augusto Fernandes, et al.. (2024). Materials selection of non-metallic glasses for planar solid-oxide fuel cell sealants. Ceramics International. 51(6). 6867–6878. 1 indexed citations

Sá, Luís Fernando Nogueira de, et al.. (2024). Design of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) channel layout using the topology optimization method with a design variable propagation approach. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 67(12). 3 indexed citations

Miranda, Caetano R., et al.. (2022). Development of electrochemical reactors for CO ₂ electroreduction—the viability of an electrochemical CO ₂ plant in Brazil. 4(4). 43003–43003. 1 indexed citations

Dionísio, Dawany, et al.. (2022). A Machine Learning Model for Adsorption Energies of Chemical Species Applied to CO ₂ Electroreduction. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 169(11). 116505–116505. 5 indexed citations

Lopes, Thiago, et al.. (2021). Effect of Substrate and Pyrolysis Atmosphere of FeNx Materials on Electrocatalysis of the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Electrocatalysis. 12(5). 548–563. 10 indexed citations

Lopes, Thiago, et al.. (2020). PEM fuel cells fed by hydrogen from ethanol dehydrogenation reaction: Unveiling the poisoning mechanisms of the by-products. Electrochimica Acta. 355. 136773–136773. 4 indexed citations

Silva, Júlio César M., Thiago Lopes, Almir Oliveira Neto, & Estevam V. Spinacé. (2019). Electrocatalysts for direct ethanol fuel cells. 1 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago & Marcos Chor Maio. (2018). COMUNIDADE E DEMOCRACIA NA SOCIOLOGIA DE T. LYNN SMITH E JOSÉ ARTHUR RIOS*. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. 32(95). 1–21. 4 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, et al.. (2018). Non-Noble Fe-Nx/C Electrocatalysts on Tungsten Carbides/N-Doped Carbons for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Electrocatalysis. 10(2). 134–148. 7 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, Juliano Soyama, Guilherme Zepon, et al.. (2017). Thermodynamic Calculations for the Investigation of Phase Formation in Boron-Modified Ferritic Stainless Steel. Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. 38(3). 343–349. 9 indexed citations

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Malko, Daniel, Anthony Kucernak, & Thiago Lopes. (2016). In situ electrochemical quantification of active sites in Fe–N/C non-precious metal catalysts. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13285–13285. 454 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malko, Daniel, Anthony Kucernak, & Thiago Lopes. (2016). Performance of Fe–N/C Oxygen Reduction Electrocatalysts toward NO₂^–, NO, and NH₂OH Electroreduction: From Fundamental Insights into the Active Center to a New Method for Environmental Nitrite Destruction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(49). 16056–16068. 132 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, Anthony Kucernak, Daniel Malko, & Edson A. Ticianelli. (2016). Mechanistic Insights into the Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Metal–N–C Electrocatalysts under Fuel Cell Conditions. ChemElectroChem. 3(10). 1580–1590. 37 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago & Paulo Olivi. (2014). Non-precious Metal Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts Synthesized Via Cyanuric Chloride and N-Ethylamine. Electrocatalysis. 5(4). 396–401. 7 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, et al.. (2012). Oxygen reduction reaction on a Pt/carbon fuel cell catalyst in the presence of trace quantities of ammonium ions: An RRDE study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 37(6). 5202–5207. 29 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, Valdecir Antônio Paganin, & Ernesto Rafael González. (2011). The effects of hydrogen sulfide on the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell anode catalyst: H2S–Pt/C interaction products. Journal of Power Sources. 196(15). 6256–6263. 52 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, Valdecir Antônio Paganin, & Ernesto R. González. (2011). Hydrogen sulfide tolerance of palladium–copper catalysts for PEM fuel cell anode applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 36(21). 13703–13707. 23 indexed citations

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Lopes, Thiago, Tommy Rockward, Rangachary Mukundan, Francisco Uribe, & Fernando H. Garzón. (2009). Diagnosing the Effects of Ammonia Exposure on PEMFC Cathodes. ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2009-01(8). 423–423. 2 indexed citations

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