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Björn Åkermark

Björn Åkermark

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Chemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17628
World Ranking
5283
National Ranking
62

Overview

Björn Åkermark is a researcher affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, focusing on several fields within energy, environmental science, and engineering. Their work spans interdisciplinary studies with particular attention to electrochemistry and sustainable energy solutions.

The main fields of study in their research include:

  • Energy
  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

Their subfields of study reflect specialized aspects of these disciplines, specifically addressing:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Electrochemistry

Core topics investigated by Åkermark consist of:

  • Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced battery technologies research
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Frequent collaborators contributing to their research include:

  • Biswanath Das
  • Oscar Verho
  • Jun Sun
  • Naresh Kumar
  • Fei Ye

Åkermark has published in various notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Chemosphere
  • Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • ChemCatChem

Selected recent papers include:

  • Effective PFAS degradation by electrochemical oxidation methods-recent progress and requirement, 2023, Chemosphere
  • The Impact of Ligand Carboxylates on Electrocatalyzed Water Oxidation, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Efficient Reductive Defluorination of Branched PFOS by Metal-Porphyrin Complexes, 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Bifunctional and regenerable molecular electrode for water electrolysis at neutral pH, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A
  • Cobalt Electrocatalyst on Fluorine Doped Carbon Cloth - a Robust and Partially Regenerable Anode for Water Oxidation, 2022, ChemCatChem

Best Publications

  • Artificial photosynthesis: molecular systems for catalytic water oxidation.

    Markus D. Kärkäs;Oscar Verho;Eric V. Johnston;Björn Åkermark

  • Towards artificial photosynthesis: ruthenium–manganese chemistry for energy production

    Licheng Sun;Leif Hammarström;Björn Åkermark;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Modified phthalocyanines for efficient near-IR sensitization of nanostructured TiO(2) electrode.

    Jianjun He;Gábor Benkö;Ferenc Korodi;Tomás Polívka

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in a Tyrosine−Ruthenium−tris-Bipyridine Complex: Comparison with TyrosineZ Oxidation in Photosystem II

    Martin Sjödin;Martin Sjödin;Stenbjörn Styring;Stenbjörn Styring;Björn Åkermark;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • STEREOCHEMISTRY AND MECHANISM FOR THE PALLADIUM (II)-CATALYZED OXIDATION OF ETHENE IN WATER (THE WACKER PROCESS)

    J. E. Baeckvall;B. Akermark;S. O. Ljunggren

  • Iron hydrogenase active site mimics in supramolecular systems aiming for light-driven hydrogen production

    Licheng Sun;Björn Åkermark;Sascha Ott

  • A Biomimetic Pathway for Hydrogen Evolution from a Model of the Iron Hydrogenase Active Site

    Sascha Ott;Mikael Kritikos;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun

  • Palladium-promoted cyclization of diphenyl ether, diphenylamine, and related compounds

    Bjorn Akermark;Lennart Eberson;Ernst Jonsson;Egon Pettersson

  • Nucleophilic attack of hydroxide on a Mn(V) oxo complex: a model of the O-O bond formation in the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II.

    Yan Gao;Torbjörn Åkermark;Jianhui Liu;Licheng Sun

  • Water oxidation using earth-abundant transition metal catalysts: opportunities and challenges

    Markus D. Kärkäs;Björn Åkermark

  • Influence of Tertiary Phosphanes on the Coordination Configurations and Electrochemical Properties of Iron Hydrogenase Model Complexes: Crystal Structures of [(μ‐S2C3H6)Fe2(CO)6–nLn] (L = PMe2Ph, n = 1, 2; PPh3, P(OEt)3, n = 1)

    Ping Li;Mei Wang;Chengjiang He;Guanghua Li

  • Visible Light-Driven Electron Transfer and Hydrogen Generation Catalyzed by Bioinspired [2Fe2S] Complexes

    Yong Na;Mei Wang;Jingxi Pan;Pan Zhang

  • Chemical and Light‐Driven Oxidation of Water Catalyzed by an Efficient Dinuclear Ruthenium Complex

    Yunhua Xu;Andreas Fischer;Lele Duan;Lianpeng Tong

  • Photosensitized Water Oxidation by Use of a Bioinspired Manganese Catalyst

    Erik A. Karlsson;Bao-Lin Lee;Torbjörn Åkermark;Eric V. Johnston

  • Artificial Photosynthesis: From Nanosecond Electron Transfer to Catalytic Water Oxidation

    Markus D. Kärkäs;Eric V. Johnston;Oscar Verho;Björn Åkermark

  • Synthesis and structure of a biomimetic model of the iron hydrogenase active site covalently linked to a ruthenium photosensitizer.

    Sascha Ott;Mikael Kritikos;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun

  • Noncovalent Assembly of a Metalloporphyrin and an Iron Hydrogenase Active-Site Model: Photo-Induced Electron Transfer and Hydrogen Generation

    Xueqiang Li;Mei Wang;Suping Zhang;Jingxi Pan

  • Binuclear iron-sulfur complexes with bidentate phosphine ligands as active site models of Fe-hydrogenase and their catalytic proton reduction.

    Weiming Gao;Jesper Ekström;Jianhui Liu;Changneng Chen

  • Phthalocyanine-Sensitized Nanostructured TiO2 Electrodes Prepared by a Novel Anchoring Method

    Jianjun He;Anders Hagfeldt;Sten-Eric Lindquist;Helena Grennberg

  • Light induced manganese oxidation and long-lived charge separation in a Mn2II,II-RuII (bpy)3-acceptor triad

    Magnus Borgström;Nizamuddin Shaikh;Olof Johansson;Magnus F. Anderlund

  • A new dinuclear ruthenium complex as an efficient water oxidation catalyst.

    Yunhua Xu;Torbjörn Åkermark;Viktor Gyollai;Dapeng Zou

Frequent Co-Authors

Licheng Sun
Licheng Sun Royal Institute of Technology
Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström Uppsala University
Stenbjörn Styring
Stenbjörn Styring Uppsala University
Per-Ola Norrby
Per-Ola Norrby AstraZeneca (Sweden)
Lars Eriksson
Lars Eriksson Linköping University
Per E. M. Siegbahn
Per E. M. Siegbahn Stockholm University
Reiner Lomoth
Reiner Lomoth Uppsala University
Junliang Sun
Junliang Sun Peking University
Hong Chen
Hong Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Jan-E. Bäckvall
Jan-E. Bäckvall Stockholm University

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