2026 Andreas Kafizas: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	53	9360	9037	377	358	118	7903
Chemistry	53	13287	11967	747	663	118	7909

Overview

Andreas Kafizas is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, whose work primarily focuses on materials science, energy, and engineering. Their research encompasses significant contributions in the fields of renewable energy, sustainability, and materials chemistry, with an emphasis on advanced photocatalysis techniques and related applications.

The main areas of study for the scientist include:

Materials Science
Energy
Engineering

Their subfields of study highlight:

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Materials Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Polymers and Plastics

The research topics covered by Andreas Kafizas include:

Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
TiO₂ Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
Ga₂O₃ and related materials
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
Advanced battery technologies research

Some of their recent publications include:

Multi-Scale Investigations of δ-Ni_0.25V₂O₅·nH₂O Cathode Materials in Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries, 2020, Advanced Energy Materials
Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO₃ for water oxidation, 2020, Chemical Science
Linking in situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in doped SrTiO3 reveals design principles for hydrogen-evolving photocatalysts, 2021, Nature Materials
Enhanced Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Ability of Cu-Doped Anatase TiO₂ Thin Films: Theory and Experiment, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
A Review of Inorganic Photoelectrode Developments and Reactor Scale-Up Challenges for Solar Hydrogen Production, 2021, Advanced Energy Materials

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

Ivan P. Parkin
Benjamin Moss
Brian Tam
Sanjayan Sathasivam
James R. Durrant

Publication venues where Andreas Kafizas has frequently published include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Advanced Energy Materials
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Best Publications

CO2 capture and photocatalytic reduction using bifunctional TiO2/MOF nanocomposites under UV–vis irradiation

Angus Crake;Konstantinos C. Christoforidis;Andreas Kafizas;Spyridon Zafeiratos

360
Citations
Ultrafast Charge Carrier Recombination and Trapping in Hematite Photoanodes under Applied Bias

Stephanie R Pendlebury;Xiuli Wang;Florian Le Formal;Maurin Cornuz

289
Citations
Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT.

Camilo A. Mesa;Laia Francàs;Ke R. Yang;Pablo Garrido-Barros

281
Citations
Multi‐Scale Investigations of δ‐Ni0.25V2O5·nH2O Cathode Materials in Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

Jianwei Li;Kit McColl;Xuekun Lu;Sanjayan Sathasivam

254
Citations
Impact of Oxygen Vacancy Occupancy on Charge Carrier Dynamics in BiVO4 Photoanodes.

Shababa Selim;Ernest Pastor;Miguel García-Tecedor;Madeleine R Morris

214
Citations
Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy of CoPi on BiVO4: The Function of CoPi during Water Oxidation

Yimeng Ma;Andreas Kafizas;Andreas Kafizas;Stephanie R. Pendlebury;Florian Le Formal;Florian Le Formal

209
Citations
Determining the role of oxygen vacancies in the photoelectrocatalytic performance of WO3 for water oxidation

Sacha Corby;Laia Francàs;Andreas Kafizas;James R. Durrant

199
Citations
Superhydrophobic Photocatalytic Surfaces through Direct Incorporation of Titania Nanoparticles into a Polymer Matrix by Aerosol Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition

Colin R. Crick;Joseph C. Bear;Andreas Kafizas;Ivan P. Parkin

194
Citations
Where Do Photogenerated Holes Go in Anatase:Rutile TiO2? A Transient Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Charge Transfer and Lifetime.

Andreas Kafizas;Xiuli Wang;Xiuli Wang;Stephanie R. Pendlebury;Piers Barnes

181
Citations
Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Anatase and Rutile: The Impact of Morphology and Phase on Photocatalytic Activity

Xiuli Wang;Xiuli Wang;Andreas Kafizas;Xiaoe Li;Savio J. A. Moniz

178
Citations
Kinetics of Photoelectrochemical Oxidation of Methanol on Hematite Photoanodes

Camilo A. Mesa;Andreas Kafizas;Laia Francàs;Stephanie R. Pendlebury

177
Citations
Evidence and Effect of Photogenerated Charge Transfer for Enhanced Photocatalysis in WO3/TiO2 Heterojunction Films: A Computational and Experimental Study

Carlos Sotelo-Vazquez;Raul Quesada-Cabrera;Min Ling;David O. Scanlon

159
Citations
Linking in-situ charge accumulation to electronic structure in doped SrTiO3 reveals design principles for hydrogen evolving photocatalysts

Benjamin Moss;Qian Wang;Qian Wang;Keith T. Butler;Ricardo Grau-Crespo

159
Citations
White light induced photocatalytic activity of sulfur-doped TiO2 thin films and their potential for antibacterial application

Charles W. Dunnill;Zoie A. Aiken;Andreas Kafizas;Jonathan Pratten

156
Citations
CVD and precursor chemistry of transition metal nitrides

Andreas Kafizas;Claire J. Carmalt;Ivan P. Parkin

152
Citations
Multifunctional P-Doped TiO2 Films: A New Approach to Self-Cleaning, Transparent Conducting Oxide Materials

Carlos Sotelo-Vazquez;Nuruzzaman Noor;Andreas Kafizas;Andreas Kafizas;Raul Quesada-Cabrera

147
Citations
Evaluation of Surface State Mediated Charge Recombination in Anatase and Rutile TiO2

Michael Sachs;Ernest Pastor;Andreas Kafizas;James R. Durrant

147
Citations
Titanium dioxide and composite metal/metal oxide titania thin films on glass: A comparative study of photocatalytic activity

Andreas Kafizas;Suela Kellici;Jawwad A. Darr;Ivan P. Parkin

146
Citations
Enhanced Photocatalytic and Antibacterial Ability of Cu-Doped Anatase TiO2 Thin Films: Theory and Experiment.

Abdullah M Alotaibi;Abdullah M Alotaibi;Benjamin A. D. Williamson;Sanjayan S. Sathasivam;Andreas Kafizas

142
Citations
Water Oxidation Kinetics of Accumulated Holes on the Surface of a TiO2 Photoanode: A Rate Law Analysis

Andreas Kafizas;Yimeng Ma;Ernest Pastor;Stephanie R. Pendlebury

141
Citations
Titanium dioxide/carbon nitride nanosheet nanocomposites for gas phase CO2 photoreduction under UV-visible irradiation

Angus Crake;Konstantinos C. Christoforidis;Robert Godin;Benjamin Moss

141
Citations
Effect of oxygen deficiency on the excited state kinetics of WO3 and implications for photocatalysis

Michael Sachs;Ji Sang Park;Ji Sang Park;Ernest Pastor;Andreas Kafizas

140
Citations
Efficient suppression of back electron/hole recombination in cobalt phosphate surface-modified undoped bismuth vanadate photoanodes.

Yimeng Ma;Florian Le Formal;Florian Le Formal;Andreas Kafizas;Stephanie R. Pendlebury

128
Citations