Thomas F. Jaramillo

109.7k total citations · 44 hit papers
337 papers, 95.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas F. Jaramillo is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas F. Jaramillo has authored 337 papers receiving a total of 95.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 273 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 174 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 127 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Thomas F. Jaramillo's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (208 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (80 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (79 papers). Thomas F. Jaramillo is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (208 papers), Advanced battery technologies research (80 papers) and Fuel Cells and Related Materials (79 papers). Thomas F. Jaramillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and South Korea. Thomas F. Jaramillo's co-authors include Jens K. Nørskov, Ib Chorkendorff, Jakob Kibsgaard, Jonas C. Peters, Charles C. L. McCrory, Suho Jung, Christopher Hahn, Colin F. Dickens, Zhi Wei Seh and Jacob Bonde and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas F. Jaramillo

322 papers receiving 94.0k citations

Hit Papers

Combining theory and expe... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2017 2013 2007 2019 2011 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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  1. Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design
    2017 10.1k citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Ib Chorkendorff et al. profile →
  2. Benchmarking Heterogeneous Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
    2013 6.0k citations Charles C. L. McCrory, Suho Jung et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Identification of Active Edge Sites for Electrochemical H 2 Evolution from MoS 2 Nanocatalysts
    2007 5.4k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Sebastian Horch et al. profile →
  4. Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte
    2019 3.9k citations Stephanie Nitopi, Erlend Bertheussen et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  5. Universality in Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysis on Oxide Surfaces
    2011 3.9k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov et al. profile →
  6. Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution
    2006 3.6k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Ib Chorkendorff et al. Nature Materials profile →
  7. Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices
    2015 3.5k citations Charles C. L. McCrory, Suho Jung et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. Engineering the surface structure of MoS2 to preferentially expose active edge sites for electrocatalysis
    2012 2.9k citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Nature Materials profile →
  9. Alloys of platinum and early transition metals as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts
    2009 2.8k citations Ifan E. L. Stephens, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  10. New insights into the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on metallic copper surfaces
    2012 2.6k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  11. What would it take for renewably powered electrosynthesis to displace petrochemical processes?
    2019 2.3k citations Christopher Hahn, Drew Higgins et al. profile →
  12. A highly active and stable IrO x /SrIrO 3 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
    2016 1.9k citations Joseph H. Montoya, Jens K. Nørskov et al. profile →
  13. High-efficiency oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide catalysed by oxidized carbon materials
    2018 1.5k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov et al. profile →
  14. A Bifunctional Nonprecious Metal Catalyst for Oxygen Reduction and Water Oxidation
    2010 1.4k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. Catalyzing the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) with Molybdenum Sulfide Nanomaterials
    2014 1.4k citations Thomas R. Hellstern, Jakob Kibsgaard et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  16. Electrocatalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Methane and Methanol on Transition Metal Surfaces
    2014 1.4k citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  17. Materials for solar fuels and chemicals
    2016 1.3k citations Joseph H. Montoya, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Nature Materials profile →
  18. Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Carbide (MXene) as an Efficient Electrocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution
    2016 1.3k citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
  19. Technical and economic feasibility of centralized facilities for solar hydrogen production via photocatalysis and photoelectrochemistry
    2013 1.2k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  20. Core–shell MoO3–MoS2 Nanowires for Hydrogen Evolution: A Functional Design for Electrocatalytic Materials
    2011 1.1k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  21. Accelerating materials development for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production: Standards for methods, definitions, and reporting protocols
    2009 1.0k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  22. Amorphous Molybdenum Sulfide Catalysts for Electrochemical Hydrogen Production: Insights into the Origin of their Catalytic Activity
    2012 1.0k citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  23. Molybdenum Phosphosulfide: An Active, Acid‐Stable, Earth‐Abundant Catalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
    2014 981 citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Thomas F. Jaramillo Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  24. Promoter Effects of Alkali Metal Cations on the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide
    2017 929 citations Joaquin Resasco, Leanne D. Chen et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  25. Designing an improved transition metal phosphide catalyst for hydrogen evolution using experimental and theoretical trends
    2015 891 citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Charlie Tsai et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →
  26. Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis—The Selectivity Challenge
    2016 834 citations Karen Chan, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  27. Branched TiO2 Nanorods for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production
    2011 828 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  28. Understanding Selectivity for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Carbon Monoxide on Metal Electrodes
    2017 801 citations Jeremy T. Feaster, Christopher Hahn et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  29. Hydrogen evolution on nano-particulate transition metal sulfides
    2008 747 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo, Jens K. Nørskov et al. profile →
  30. Building an appropriate active-site motif into a hydrogen-evolution catalyst with thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2− clusters
    2014 745 citations Jakob Kibsgaard, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  31. Solar water splitting by photovoltaic-electrolysis with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency over 30%
    2016 736 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  32. Addressing the terawatt challenge: scalability in the supply of chemical elements for renewable energy
    2012 680 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  33. Improved CO2 reduction activity towards C2+ alcohols on a tandem gold on copper electrocatalyst
    2018 656 citations Carlos G. Morales‐Guio, Stephanie Nitopi et al. profile →
  34. Electrochemical CO2 Reduction over Compressively Strained CuAg Surface Alloys with Enhanced Multi-Carbon Oxygenate Selectivity
    2017 595 citations Christopher Hahn, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  35. pH effects on the electrochemical reduction of CO(2) towards C2 products on stepped copper
    2018 518 citations Xinyan Liu, Philomena Schlexer et al. Nature Communications profile →
  36. Benchmarking nanoparticulate metal oxide electrocatalysts for the alkaline water oxidation reaction
    2015 514 citations Suho Jung, Charles C. L. McCrory et al. profile →
  37. Insights into the electrocatalytic reduction of CO2on metallic silver surfaces
    2014 505 citations Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  38. Gold-supported cerium-doped NiOx catalysts for water oxidation
    2016 503 citations Michal Bajdich, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  39. Gas-Diffusion Electrodes for Carbon Dioxide Reduction: A New Paradigm
    2018 499 citations Drew Higgins, Christopher Hahn et al. ACS Energy Letters profile →
  40. In Situ X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Investigation of a Bifunctional Manganese Oxide Catalyst with High Activity for Electrochemical Water Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction
    2013 491 citations Junko Yano, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  41. Gas diffusion electrodes, reactor designs and key metrics of low-temperature CO2 electrolysers
    2022 473 citations Jeremy T. Feaster, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →
  42. Understanding activity trends in electrochemical water oxidation to form hydrogen peroxide
    2017 457 citations Felix Studt, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. Nature Communications profile →
  43. Electrolyte Engineering for Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia on a Titanium Electrode
    2020 338 citations Sarah J. Blair, Adam C. Nielander et al. profile →
  44. Multi-scale physics of bipolar membranes in electrochemical processes
    2024 79 citations Adam C. Nielander, Thomas F. Jaramillo et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas F. Jaramillo United States 103 81.8k 49.3k 35.8k 18.4k 11.6k 337 95.0k
Ib Chorkendorff Denmark 101 54.2k 0.7× 32.4k 0.7× 34.2k 1.0× 18.4k 1.0× 7.3k 0.6× 471 72.7k
Jan Rossmeisl Denmark 99 57.0k 0.7× 34.1k 0.7× 28.7k 0.8× 14.2k 0.8× 10.7k 0.9× 298 68.9k
Dingsheng Wang China 152 53.8k 0.7× 29.6k 0.6× 41.0k 1.1× 12.8k 0.7× 4.6k 0.4× 807 79.3k
Yao Zheng Australia 101 42.9k 0.5× 28.1k 0.6× 17.3k 0.5× 9.2k 0.5× 5.0k 0.4× 278 50.3k
Bin Liu China 111 33.9k 0.4× 22.5k 0.5× 22.1k 0.6× 6.7k 0.4× 3.4k 0.3× 592 48.9k
Chen Chen China 103 32.1k 0.4× 22.8k 0.5× 23.3k 0.7× 6.4k 0.3× 3.2k 0.3× 773 51.0k
Thomas Bligaard Denmark 66 30.2k 0.4× 15.4k 0.3× 26.3k 0.7× 14.0k 0.8× 4.4k 0.4× 134 45.8k
Dong Su United States 126 29.2k 0.4× 34.9k 0.7× 22.4k 0.6× 4.7k 0.3× 3.2k 0.3× 615 56.9k
Yan Jiao Australia 81 32.3k 0.4× 23.2k 0.5× 15.2k 0.4× 6.6k 0.4× 3.4k 0.3× 215 41.3k
Hailiang Wang United States 86 26.7k 0.3× 31.9k 0.6× 19.3k 0.5× 4.6k 0.2× 3.2k 0.3× 301 49.6k

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All Works

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Márquez, Raúl A., Jay T. Bender, Venkat Ganesan, et al.. (2025). Tracking Local pH Dynamics during Water Electrolysis via In-Line Continuous Flow Raman Spectroscopy. ACS Energy Letters. 10(4). 2075–2083. 5 indexed citations
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Hersbach, Thomas J. P., Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza, Ian T. McCrum, et al.. (2025). Platinum hydride formation during cathodic corrosion in aqueous solutions. Nature Materials. 24(4). 574–580. 9 indexed citations
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Zhang, C., Valerie A. Niemann, Peter Benedek, Thomas F. Jaramillo, & Mathieu Doucet. (2024). Extracting Thin Film Structures of Energy Materials Using Transformers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 30–37.
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Kani, Nishithan C., Rohit Chauhan, David House, et al.. (2024). Sub-volt conversion of activated biochar and water for H2 production near equilibrium via biochar-assisted water electrolysis. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(6). 102013–102013. 2 indexed citations
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Niemann, Valerie A., Peter Benedek, Jinyu Guo, et al.. (2023). Co-designing Electrocatalytic Systems with Separations To Improve the Sustainability of Reactive Nitrogen Management. ACS Catalysis. 13(9). 6268–6279. 14 indexed citations
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Blair, Sarah J., Mathieu Doucet, Valerie A. Niemann, et al.. (2023). Combined, time-resolved, in situ neutron reflectometry and X-ray diffraction analysis of dynamic SEI formation during electrochemical N2 reduction. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(8). 3391–3406. 28 indexed citations
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Koshy, David M., Md Delowar Hossain, Ryo Masuda, et al.. (2022). Investigation of the Structure of Atomically Dispersed NiN x Sites in Ni and N-Doped Carbon Electrocatalysts by 61 Ni Mössbauer Spectroscopy and Simulations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(47). 21741–21750. 13 indexed citations
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Stevens, Michaela Burke, Megha Anand, Melissa E. Kreider, et al.. (2022). New challenges in oxygen reduction catalysis: a consortium retrospective to inform future research. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(9). 3775–3794. 31 indexed citations
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Landers, Alan, Hong‐Jie Peng, David M. Koshy, et al.. (2021). Dynamics and Hysteresis of Hydrogen Intercalation and Deintercalation in Palladium Electrodes: A Multimodal In Situ X-ray Diffraction, Coulometry, and Computational Study. Chemistry of Materials. 33(15). 5872–5884. 15 indexed citations
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Scott, Søren B., et al.. (2020). CO as a Probe Molecule to Study Surface Adsorbates during Electrochemical Oxidation of Propene. ChemElectroChem. 8(1). 250–256. 18 indexed citations
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Ringe, Stefan, Carlos G. Morales‐Guio, Leanne D. Chen, et al.. (2020). Double layer charging driven carbon dioxide adsorption limits the rate of electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction on Gold. Nature Communications. 11(1). 277 indexed citations
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Nitopi, Stephanie, Erlend Bertheussen, Søren B. Scott, et al.. (2019). Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte. Chemical Reviews. 119(12). 7610–7672. 3931 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duyar, Melis S., Charlie Tsai, Jonathan L. Snider, et al.. (2018). A Highly Active Molybdenum Phosphide Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis from CO and CO2. Angewandte Chemie. 130(46). 15265–15270. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Xinyan, Philomena Schlexer, Jianping Xiao, et al.. (2018). pH effects on the electrochemical reduction of CO(2) towards C2 products on stepped copper. Nature Communications. 10(1). 32–32. 518 indexed citations breakdown →
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Duyar, Melis S., Charlie Tsai, Jonathan L. Snider, et al.. (2018). A Highly Active Molybdenum Phosphide Catalyst for Methanol Synthesis from CO and CO2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(46). 15045–15050. 86 indexed citations
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Hellstern, Thomas R., Jakob Kibsgaard, Charlie Tsai, et al.. (2017). Investigating Catalyst–Support Interactions To Improve the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Activity of Thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2– Nanoclusters. ACS Catalysis. 7(10). 7126–7130. 78 indexed citations
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Jaramillo, Thomas F., et al.. (2017). Effects of Ta3N5 Morphology and Composition on the Performance of Si‐Ta3N5 Photoanodes. Solar RRL. 1(11). 14 indexed citations
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McCrory, Charles C. L., Suho Jung, Ivonne M. Ferrer, et al.. (2015). Benchmarking Hydrogen Evolving Reaction and Oxygen Evolving Reaction Electrocatalysts for Solar Water Splitting Devices. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(13). 4347–4357. 3476 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jaramillo, Thomas F., et al.. (2002). Influence of Composition and Morphology on Photo and Electrocatalytic Activity of Electrodeposited Pt/WO3. Abstracts of papers - American Chemical Society. 224(3). 287–300. 3 indexed citations

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