Widitha S. Samarakoon

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Widitha S. Samarakoon is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Widitha S. Samarakoon has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Widitha S. Samarakoon's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (6 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (6 papers). Widitha S. Samarakoon is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (7 papers), Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides (6 papers) and Advancements in Battery Materials (6 papers). Widitha S. Samarakoon collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Widitha S. Samarakoon's co-authors include Zhenxing Feng, Guofeng Wang, S. Karakalos, Gang Wu, David A. Cullen, Weitao Shan, Mengjie Chen, Karren L. More, Maoyu Wang and Da‐Ming Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Widitha S. Samarakoon

16 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN₄ Sites for Oxygen Reduction

2019 479 citations Jiazhan Li, Hanguang Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Widitha S. Samarakoon United States	11	1.3k	981	487	268	175	17	1.6k
Changmin Kim South Korea	21	1.1k 0.9×	901 0.9×	632 1.3×	350 1.3×	215 1.2×	45	1.7k
Zhangsen Chen Canada	22	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	637 1.3×	159 0.6×	143 0.8×	47	1.7k
Maoxiang Wu China	19	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	408 0.8×	340 1.3×	201 1.1×	30	1.8k
Xianlang Chen China	12	978 0.8×	931 0.9×	444 0.9×	192 0.7×	118 0.7×	16	1.4k
Zhengpei Miao China	18	936 0.7×	830 0.8×	388 0.8×	183 0.7×	109 0.6×	31	1.2k
Xunlu Wang China	18	896 0.7×	619 0.6×	368 0.8×	290 1.1×	144 0.8×	29	1.3k
Shipeng Gong China	13	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	380 0.8×	151 0.6×	204 1.2×	14	1.5k
Guokang Han China	22	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	642 1.3×	103 0.4×	187 1.1×	38	1.7k
Denglei Gao China	16	916 0.7×	612 0.6×	509 1.0×	280 1.0×	99 0.6×	25	1.2k

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Hossain, Mohammad Delower, Krishna Prasad Koirala, Le Wang, et al.. (2025). Quantification of Oxygen Vacancies in SrFe_0.5Cr_0.5O_3−δ Thin Films: Correlating Lattice Expansion with Oxidation State Variability. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 7(5). 1883–1890.

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Wang, Maoyu, Widitha S. Samarakoon, Zizhou He, et al.. (2023). The role of nonmetallic ion substitution in perovskite LaCoO3 for improved oxygen evolution reaction activity. Electrochimica Acta. 466. 143034–143034. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Le, Zhenzhong Yang, Widitha S. Samarakoon, et al.. (2022). Spontaneous Lithiation of Binary Oxides during Epitaxial Growth on LiCoO₂. Nano Letters. 22(13). 5530–5537. 6 indexed citations

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Chambers, Scott A., Dooyong Lee, Yi Huang, et al.. (2022). Probing electronic dead layers in homoepitaxial n-SrTiO3(001) films. APL Materials. 10(7). 5 indexed citations

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Samarakoon, Widitha S., Dooyong Lee, Bharat Jalan, et al.. (2022). Transient electron scavengers modulate carrier density at a polar/nonpolar perovskite oxide heterojunction. Physical Review Materials. 6(10). 1 indexed citations

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Samarakoon, Widitha S., Jiangtao Hu, Miao Song, et al.. (2022). Direct Imaging of the Structural and Morphological Evolution of Epitaxial LiCoO₂ Films during Charge and Overcharge. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(37). 15882–15890. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Maoyu, Qingbo Wa, Xiaowan Bai, et al.. (2021). The Restructuring-Induced CoO_x Catalyst for Electrochemical Water Splitting. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(12). 2216–2223. 62 indexed citations

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Shen, Qiu, Marcos Lucero, Xianyong Wu, et al.. (2021). Revealing the Fast and Durable Na⁺ Insertion Reactions in a Layered Na₃Fe₃(PO₄)₄ Anode for Aqueous Na-Ion Batteries. ACS Materials Au. 2(1). 63–71. 19 indexed citations

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Adli, Nadia Mohd, Weitao Shan, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2020). Engineering Atomically Dispersed FeN₄ Active Sites for CO₂ Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(2). 1022–1032. 183 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Shreya, Xiaoxuan Yang, Weitao Shan, et al.. (2020). Atomically Dispersed Single Ni Site Catalysts for Nitrogen Reduction toward Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis Using N₂ and H₂O. Small Methods. 4(6). 181 indexed citations

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Adli, Nadia Mohd, Weitao Shan, Sooyeon Hwang, et al.. (2020). Engineering Atomically Dispersed FeN₄ Active Sites for CO₂ Electroreduction. Angewandte Chemie. 133(2). 1035–1045. 45 indexed citations

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Wang, Le, Zhenzhong Yang, Mark Bowden, et al.. (2020). Hole‐Trapping‐Induced Stabilization of Ni^4 + in SrNiO₃/LaFeO₃ Superlattices. Advanced Materials. 32(45). e2005003–e2005003. 31 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yuanhang, Xun Wang, Songpeng Huang, et al.. (2019). Redox Targeting-Based Vanadium Redox-Flow Battery. ACS Energy Letters. 4(12). 3028–3035. 76 indexed citations

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Li, Jiazhan, Hanguang Zhang, Widitha S. Samarakoon, et al.. (2019). Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN₄ Sites for Oxygen Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 131(52). 19147–19156. 61 indexed citations

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Qiao, Zhi, Sooyeon Hwang, Xing Li, et al.. (2019). 3D porous graphitic nanocarbon for enhancing the performance and durability of Pt catalysts: a balance between graphitization and hierarchical porosity. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(9). 2830–2841. 290 indexed citations

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Li, Zhao, Wenhan Niu, Zhenzhong Yang, et al.. (2019). Stabilizing atomic Pt with trapped interstitial F in alloyed PtCo nanosheets for high-performance zinc-air batteries. Energy & Environmental Science. 13(3). 884–895. 130 indexed citations

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Li, Jiazhan, Hanguang Zhang, Widitha S. Samarakoon, et al.. (2019). Thermally Driven Structure and Performance Evolution of Atomically Dispersed FeN₄ Sites for Oxygen Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(52). 18971–18980. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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