V. Sara Thoi

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

V. Sara Thoi is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, V. Sara Thoi has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 18 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in V. Sara Thoi's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (22 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (15 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (14 papers). V. Sara Thoi is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (22 papers), Advancements in Battery Materials (15 papers) and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (14 papers). V. Sara Thoi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Hong Kong. V. Sara Thoi's co-authors include Christopher J. Chang, Avery E. Baumann, David A. Burns, Bingqian Liu, Jeffrey R. Long, Soumyodip Banerjee, Yujie Sun, Xu Han, Jay R. Stork and Seth M. Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

V. Sara Thoi

52 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Metal-organic framework functionalization and design strategies for advanced electrochemical energy storage devices

2019 846 citations Avery E. Baumann, David A. Burns et al. profile →
Complexes of earth-abundant metals for catalytic electrochemical hydrogen generation under aqueous conditions

2012 605 citations V. Sara Thoi, Yujie Sun et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Jenny Y. Yang United States

Jianbing Jiang United States

Cédric Tard France

A. Aijaz India

Ashish Kumar Singh India

Dachao Hong Japan

Changsheng Cao China

Julien Warnan Germany

Max García‐Melchor Ireland

Josep Albero Spain

Jenny Y. Yang United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of V. Sara Thoi

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Li, Zhengyuan, Xing Li, Carter S. Gerke, et al.. (2025). Electro-activated indigos intensify ampere-level CO2 reduction to CO on silver catalysts. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3206–3206. 8 indexed citations

Barcus, Kyle, et al.. (2025). Charge transfer in hybrid quantum dot / metal-organic framework systems: Current understanding and future challenges. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 542. 216841–216841. 2 indexed citations

Xu, Yuting, et al.. (2025). Multi-scale modeling guided electrochemical C–N coupling for urea production in metal-organic frameworks. Journal of Catalysis. 453. 116523–116523.

Hendon, Christopher H., et al.. (2024). Electrochemical host–guest interactions in a disordered oligosilyl coordination polymer. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(40). 16515–16522. 1 indexed citations

Gerke, Carter S., et al.. (2024). Conformal electrochemical deposition of intermetallic AuCu thin films for convergent C–N coupling. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(3). 2217–2226. 2 indexed citations

Gerke, Carter S., Yuting Xu, Yuwei Yang, et al.. (2023). Electrochemical C–N Bond Formation within Boron Imidazolate Cages Featuring Single Copper Sites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(48). 26144–26151. 48 indexed citations

Liu, Bingqian, Avery E. Baumann, Megan M. Butala, & V. Sara Thoi. (2023). Phosphate‐functionalized Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhancing Lithium–Sulfur Battery Cycling. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(40). e202300821–e202300821. 12 indexed citations

Banerjee, Soumyodip, et al.. (2023). Raman scattering spectra of boron imidazolate frameworks containing different magnetic ions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(21). 3 indexed citations

Banerjee, Soumyodip, Justin M. Gorham, Maxime A. Siegler, et al.. (2022). Atomically Dispersed CuN_x Sites from Thermal Activation of Boron Imidazolate Cages for Electrocatalytic Methane Generation. ACS Applied Energy Materials. 6(18). 9044–9056. 9 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Soumyodip, Carter S. Gerke, & V. Sara Thoi. (2022). Guiding CO₂RR Selectivity by Compositional Tuning in the Electrochemical Double Layer. Accounts of Chemical Research. 55(4). 504–515. 98 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Sohini, et al.. (2020). Electric Fields at Metal–Surfactant Interfaces: A Combined Vibrational Spectroscopy and Capacitance Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 124(7). 1311–1321. 65 indexed citations

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Baumann, Avery E., Julia R. Downing, David A. Burns, Mark C. Hersam, & V. Sara Thoi. (2020). Graphene–Metal–Organic Framework Composite Sulfur Electrodes for Li–S Batteries with High Volumetric Capacity. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(33). 37173–37181. 70 indexed citations

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Liu, Bingqian & V. Sara Thoi. (2020). Improving Charge Transfer in Metal–Organic Frameworks through Open Site Functionalization and Porosity Selection for Li–S Batteries. Chemistry of Materials. 32(19). 8450–8459. 27 indexed citations

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Burns, David A., et al.. (2019). 2D Oligosilyl Metal–Organic Frameworks as Multi‐state Switchable Materials. Angewandte Chemie. 132(2). 773–778. 4 indexed citations

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Thoi, V. Sara, Nikolay Kornienko, Charles G. Margarit, Peidong Yang, & Christopher J. Chang. (2013). Visible-Light Photoredox Catalysis: Selective Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide by a Nickel N-Heterocyclic Carbene–Isoquinoline Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(38). 14413–14424. 328 indexed citations

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Thoi, V. Sara, Yujie Sun, Jeffrey R. Long, & Christopher J. Chang. (2013). ChemInform Abstract: Complexes of Earth‐Abundant Metals for Catalytic Electrochemical Hydrogen Generation under Aqueous Conditions. ChemInform. 44(23). 3 indexed citations

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Thoi, V. Sara, Yujie Sun, Jeffrey R. Long, & Christopher J. Chang. (2012). Complexes of earth-abundant metals for catalytic electrochemical hydrogen generation under aqueous conditions. Chemical Society Reviews. 42(6). 2388–2400. 605 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sundstrom, Eric J., Xinzheng Yang, V. Sara Thoi, et al.. (2012). Computational and Experimental Study of the Mechanism of Hydrogen Generation from Water by a Molecular Molybdenum-Oxo Electrocatalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(11). 5233–5242. 68 indexed citations

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Thoi, V. Sara, Jay R. Stork, Edwards T. Niles, et al.. (2008). Diamidodipyrrins: Versatile Bipyrrolic Ligands with Multiple Metal Binding Modes. Inorganic Chemistry. 47(22). 10533–10541. 24 indexed citations

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Thoi, V. Sara, Jay R. Stork, Douglas Magde, & Seth M. Cohen. (2006). Luminescent Dipyrrinato Complexes of Trivalent Group 13 Metal Ions. Inorganic Chemistry. 45(26). 10688–10697. 129 indexed citations

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