Tom Nilges

6.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
170 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Tom Nilges is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Nilges has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Materials Chemistry, 69 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 58 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Tom Nilges's work include Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (42 papers), Crystal Structures and Properties (39 papers) and Iron-based superconductors research (32 papers). Tom Nilges is often cited by papers focused on Inorganic Chemistry and Materials (42 papers), Crystal Structures and Properties (39 papers) and Iron-based superconductors research (32 papers). Tom Nilges collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Canada. Tom Nilges's co-authors include Stefan Lange, Peer Schmidt, Arno Pfitzner, Richard Weihrich, Marianne Köpf, Chongwu Zhou, Ahmad Nabil Abbas, Bilu Liu, Melanie Bawohl and Yuqiang Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Tom Nilges

164 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Black Phosphorus Gas Sensors

2015 638 citations Ahmad Nabil Abbas, Bilu Liu et al. profile →
Room temperature high-detectivity mid-infrared photodetectors based on black arsenic phosphorus

2017 485 citations Claudia Ott, Tom Nilges et al. profile →
Black Arsenic–Phosphorus: Layered Anisotropic Infrared Semiconductors with Highly Tunable Compositions and Properties

2015 382 citations Bilu Liu, Ahmad Nabil Abbas et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Nilges Germany	33	3.9k	2.6k	1.0k	660	645	170	5.4k
Jing‐Tai Zhao China	41	4.5k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	427 0.7×	305	6.0k
Xiaojun Kuang China	38	3.9k 1.0×	2.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	627 0.9×	629 1.0×	209	5.1k
Stefan Maintz Germany	8	3.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	654 0.6×	541 0.8×	972 1.5×	12	4.5k
Anjana Devi Germany	41	3.5k 0.9×	3.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	533 0.8×	941 1.5×	250	5.4k
Chun‐Sheng Liao China	39	3.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 1.7×	595 0.9×	572 0.9×	102	4.7k
Byung Kee Moon South Korea	42	5.4k 1.4×	2.8k 1.1×	674 0.6×	416 0.6×	798 1.2×	261	5.7k
Xiping Jing China	37	4.3k 1.1×	3.1k 1.2×	780 0.7×	344 0.5×	538 0.8×	147	5.1k
Lourdes Gracia Spain	43	3.3k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	585 0.6×	503 0.8×	1.6k 2.5×	113	4.3k
Yanlin Huang China	37	5.4k 1.4×	2.9k 1.1×	775 0.7×	439 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	269	5.9k
Shi Ye China	45	7.1k 1.8×	4.6k 1.8×	722 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	903 1.4×	151	7.5k

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Pöttgen, Rainer, et al.. (2025). Low-Dimensional Semiconducting Silver (Germanium, Tin) Polyphosphides – Incommensurately Modulated Derivates of the HgPbP₁₄ Structure Type. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(37). 19055–19067.

Mühlau, Mark, et al.. (2025). Performance Optimization of Electrospun Lithium-Ion Conducting PAN/PEO Solid Polymer Electrolyte. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(39). 19752–19763. 1 indexed citations

Rawat, Manoj Kumar, et al.. (2025). Entropy-Driven Disorder and Aliovalent Substitution Induce Defects in Na₃PnS₄ (Pn = P, As, Sb) Solid-State Electrolytes: A Sluice Gate for Sodium Ions. ACS Materials Letters. 7(10). 3427–3434.

Venturini, Janio, et al.. (2023). AgCuS: A Single Material Diode with Fast Switching Times. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(20). 4 indexed citations

Jung, Patrick, et al.. (2023). Rare earths stick to rare cyanobacteria: Future potential for bioremediation and recovery of rare earth elements. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 11. 1130939–1130939. 22 indexed citations

Bhattacharya, Amit, et al.. (2023). Unraveling Sodium-Ion Dynamics in Honeycomb-Layered Na₂Mg_xZn_2–xTeO₆ Solid Electrolytes with Solid-State NMR. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(36). 19727–19745. 13 indexed citations

Venturini, Janio, et al.. (2023). Cu_1.5Se_yTe_1–y (y = 0.2–0.7): A Series of Narrow Band Gap Semiconductors with Low Thermal Conductivity at Ambient Temperature. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(31). 12600–12610. 3 indexed citations

Nilges, Tom, et al.. (2022). Synthesis, modification, and application of black phosphorus, few-layer black phosphorus (FLBP), and phosphorene: a detailed review. Materials Advances. 3(14). 5557–5574. 59 indexed citations

Liu, Yihang, Qingzhou Liu, Jian Cheng, et al.. (2020). Red-phosphorus-impregnated carbon nanofibers for sodium-ion batteries and liquefaction of red phosphorus. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2520–2520. 112 indexed citations

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Miller, Thomas B., et al.. (2019). Cu_9.1Te₄Cl₃: A Thermoelectric Compound with Low Thermal and High Electrical Conductivity. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(9). 6222–6230. 5 indexed citations

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Kumar, Pawan, Ryan Kisslinger, Piyush Kar, et al.. (2019). Vapor Deposition of Semiconducting Phosphorus Allotropes into TiO₂ Nanotube Arrays for Photoelectrocatalytic Water Splitting. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2(6). 3358–3367. 35 indexed citations

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Yuan, Shaofan, Chenfei Shen, Bingchen Deng, et al.. (2018). Air-Stable Room-Temperature Mid-Infrared Photodetectors Based on hBN/Black Arsenic Phosphorus/hBN Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 18(5). 3172–3179. 156 indexed citations

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Yuan, Shaofan, Chenfei Shen, Bingchen Deng, et al.. (2018). Air-Stable Room-Temperature Mid-Infrared Photodetectors Based on hBN/Black Arsenic Phosphorus/hBN Heterostructures. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 3 indexed citations

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Grotz, Carolin, Konrad Schäfer, Maximilian Baumgartner, Richard Weihrich, & Tom Nilges. (2015). 1D-[P15] tubes in layered semiconducting AgP15. University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg). 1 indexed citations

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Nilges, Tom. (2008). The Solid Solutions M₁₉Q₆X₇ with M = Ag, Cu; Q = S, Se, Te and X = S, Se, Te. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 634(12-13). 2185–2190. 12 indexed citations

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Bawohl, Melanie & Tom Nilges. (2008). Pb₅I₂P₂₈, $^{1}_{\infty}\rm [PbP_{14}]{\rm ^{2-}}$ Strands Coordinated to a Unique [Pb₃I₂]⁴⁺ Unit. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 635(2). 307–311. 5 indexed citations

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Nilges, Tom & Stefan Lange. (2005). Ag₅Te₂Cl_1−xBr_x (x = 0 – 0.65) and Ag₅Te_2−ySyCl (y = 0 – 0.3): Variation of Physical Properties in Silver(I) Chalcogenide Halides. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 631(15). 3002–3012. 18 indexed citations

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Nilges, Tom & Stefan Lange. (2004). Ag₅Te_2‐ySe_yCl und Ag₅Te₂Cl_1‐xBr_x: Struktur‐Eigenschaftsvariationen durch Anionenaustausch. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 630(11). 1749–1749. 5 indexed citations

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Nilges, Tom, et al.. (2002). CuClSe1.53Te0.47 and CuClSe0.56Te1.44: Structural and Vibrational Spectroscopic Investigations on Copper(I) Chalcogen Chlorides. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 628(12). 2809–2814. 4 indexed citations

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Pfitzner, Arno, et al.. (2000). (CuI)2P8Se3: An Adduct ofD3-Symmetrical P8Se3 Cage Molecules with Cu2I2 Rhomboids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39(22). 4160–4162. 32 indexed citations

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