Willi Auwärter

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
137 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Willi Auwärter is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Willi Auwärter has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 90 papers in Materials Chemistry and 78 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Willi Auwärter's work include Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (99 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (75 papers) and Graphene research and applications (39 papers). Willi Auwärter is often cited by papers focused on Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (99 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (75 papers) and Graphene research and applications (39 papers). Willi Auwärter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Willi Auwärter's co-authors include Johannes V. Barth, David Écija, Thomas Greber, Florian Klappenberger, Knud Seufert, Jürg Osterwalder, Matthias Muntwiler, A. Tamai, Agustin Schiffrin and Martina Corso and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Willi Auwärter

135 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Boron Nitride Nanomesh

2004 829 citations Willi Auwärter, Matthias Muntwiler et al. Science profile →
Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling

2017 782 citations Xiaoye Wang, Marcus Richter et al. Nature Communications profile →
Porphyrins at interfaces

2015 575 citations Willi Auwärter, David Écija et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willi Auwärter

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Selective On‐Surface Metalation and Uncommon Reordering of Self‐Assembled Macrocyclic Biquinazoline Ligands on Ag(111) 2025 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Felix Haag, (unknown), Biao Yang, (unknown), Knud Seufert, (unknown), Anthoula C. Papageorgiou, Matthias Muntwiler, Willi Auwärter, Corinna R. Hess, Johannes V. Barth, Francesco Allegretti	0
2	Deceptive orbital confinement at edges and pores of carbon-based 1D and 2D nanoarchitectures 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Ignacio Piquero‐Zulaica, (unknown), (unknown), Alexander Riss, Biao Yang, Aran García-Lekue, (unknown), Zakaria M. Abd El‐Fattah, Shunpei Nobusue, Takahiro Kojima, Knud Seufert, Hiroshi Sakaguchi, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth	19
3	Surface Chemistry of a Halogenated Borazine: From Supramolecular Assemblies to a Random Covalent BN‐Substituted Carbon Network 2024 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Davide Bonifazi, Willi Auwärter	1
4	On‐Surface Synthesis of Polyphenylene Wires Comprising Rigid Aliphatic Bicyclo[1.1.1]Pentane Isolator Units 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie ·Biao Yang, Kaifeng Niu, Nan Cao, Nitika Grover, (unknown), Alexander Riss, Jonas Björk, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth, Mathias O. Senge	3
5	Photoresponse of Solution-Synthesized Graphene Nanoribbon Heterojunctions on Diamond Indicating Phototunable Photodiode Polarity 2023 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Xiaoxi Zhang, Yunbin Hu, (unknown), Juan Li, Jinping Shi, (unknown), (unknown), Yan Wang, Zishu Wang, Jiawei Li, Jianing Chen, Guangyu Zhang, Johannes V. Barth, Thomas Frauenheim, Willi Auwärter, Akimitsu Narita, Kläus Müllen, Carlos‐Andres Palma	10
6	Zinc-Porphine on Coinage Metal Surfaces: Adsorption Configuration and Ligand-Induced Central Atom Displacement 2023 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry C ·(unknown), (unknown), David A. Duncan, Paul T. P. Ryan, Reinhard J. Maurer, Martin Schwarz, (unknown), Ignacio Piquero‐Zulaica, Thien H. Ngo, Alexander Riss, Francesco Allegretti, Willi Auwärter	2
7	On‐Surface Synthesis of Polyphenylene Wires Comprising Rigid Aliphatic Bicyclo[1.1.1]Pentane Isolator Units 2023 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Biao Yang, Kaifeng Niu, Nan Cao, Nitika Grover, (unknown), Alexander Riss, Jonas Björk, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth, Mathias O. Senge	5
8	On-Surface Synthesis of Square-Type Porphyrin Tetramers with Central Antiaromatic Cyclooctatetraene Moiety 2022 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·(unknown), Alexander Riss, Adam Matěj, Alissa Wiengarten, Pingo Mutombo, (unknown), Pavel Jelı́nek, Willi Auwärter	20
9	Polycyclic aromatic chains on metals and insulating layers by repetitive [3+2] cycloadditions 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Alexander Riss, Marcus Richter, Alejandro Pérez Paz, Xiaoye Wang, R. Ramesh Raju, Yuanqing He, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Knud Seufert, Manuela Garnica, Ángel Rubio, Johannes V. Barth, Akimitsu Narita, Kläus Müllen, Reinhard Berger, Xinliang Feng, Carlos‐Andres Palma, Willi Auwärter	26
10	Self-assembly and spectroscopic fingerprints of photoactive pyrenyl tectons on hBN/Cu(111) 2020 ·Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology ·(unknown), Knud Seufert, Luka Đorđević∞, (unknown), Sushobhan Joshi, Tomas Marangoni, Davide Bonifazi, Willi Auwärter	4
11	Nanoscale Phase Engineering of Niobium Diselenide 2017 ·Chemistry of Materials ·Felix Bischoff, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth, Agustin Schiffrin, Michael S. Fuhrer, Bent Weber	45
12	Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling breakdown → 2017 ·Nature Communications ·Xiaoye Wang, Marcus Richter, Yuanqing He, Jonas Björk, Alexander Riss, R. Ramesh Raju, Manuela Garnica, Felix Hennersdorf, Jan J. Weigand, Akimitsu Narita, Reinhard Berger, Xinliang Feng, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth, Carlos‐Andres Palma, Kläus Müllen	782
13	Iron phthalocyanine on Cu(111): Coverage-dependent assembly and symmetry breaking, temperature-induced homocoupling, and modification of the adsorbate-surface interaction by annealing 2016 ·The Journal of Chemical Physics ·(unknown), Felix Bischoff, Yuanqing He, Alissa Wiengarten, Shilpi Chaudhary, Niclas Johansson, Karina Schulte, Jan Knudsen, Johannes V. Barth, Knud Seufert, Willi Auwärter, Joachim Schnadt	25
14	Fusing tetrapyrroles to graphene edges by surface-assisted covalent coupling 2016 ·Nature Chemistry ·Yuanqing He, Manuela Garnica, Felix Bischoff, (unknown), Marie‐Laure Bocquet, Matthias Batzill, Willi Auwärter, Johannes V. Barth	112
15	Quasicrystallinity expressed in two-dimensional coordination networks 2016 ·Nature Chemistry ·José I. Urgel, David Écija, (unknown), Ran Zhang, Carlos‐Andres Palma, Willi Auwärter, Nian Lin, Johannes V. Barth	150
16	Tailoring Large Pores of Porphyrin Networks on Ag(111) by Metal–Organic Coordination 2016 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Felix Bischoff, Yuanqing He, Knud Seufert, (unknown), Davide Bonifazi, Johannes V. Barth, Willi Auwärter	37
17	Supramolecular Assembly of Interfacial Nanoporous Networks with Simultaneous Expression of Metal–Organic and Organic‐Bonding Motifs 2013 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, David Écija, Willi Auwärter, Sushobhan Joshi, Knud Seufert, Mateusz Drach, Damian Nieckarz, Paweł Szabelski, Claudia Aurisicchio, Davide Bonifazi, Johannes V. Barth	54
18	A surface-anchored molecular four-level conductance switch based on single proton transfer 2011 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Willi Auwärter, Knud Seufert, Felix Bischoff, David Écija, Saranyan Vijayaraghavan, Sushobhan Joshi, Florian Klappenberger, Niveditha Samudrala, Johannes V. Barth	239
19	Supramolecular Organization and Chiral Resolution of p‐Terphenyl‐m‐Dicarbonitrile on the Ag(111) Surface 2010 ·ChemPhysChem ·Matthias Marschall, Joachim Reichert, Knud Seufert, Willi Auwärter, Florian Klappenberger, Alexander Weber‐Bargioni, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Giorgio Zoppellaro, Alexei Nefedov, Thomas Strunskus, Christof Wöll, Mario Ruben, Johannes V. Barth	28
20	Electron Coherence in a Melting Lead Monolayer 2004 ·Science ·F. Baumberger, Willi Auwärter, Thomas Greber, Jürg Osterwalder	21

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