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Christina Scheu

Christina Scheu

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Materials Science

D-Index
61
Citations
13782
World Ranking
6766
National Ranking
396

Overview

Christina Scheu is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany, focusing on research within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work encompasses a range of subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their research contributions cover several main topics, notably:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
  • Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques
  • Fuel Cells and Related Materials
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science

Christina Scheu has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nanoscale
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Acta Materialia

Several recent papers illustrate the diversity and depth of their work. Notable publications include:

  • "Multifunctional high-entropy materials," 2024, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Water oxidation electrocatalysis using ruthenium coordination oligomers adsorbed on multiwalled carbon nanotubes," 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • "Oxygen Evolution Reaction on Tin Oxides Supported Iridium Catalysts: Do We Need Dopants?", 2020, ChemElectroChem
  • "Grain Boundary Phases in NbFeSb Half-Heusler Alloys: A New Avenue to Tune Transport Properties of Thermoelectric Materials," 2023, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "Different Photostability of BiVO4 in Near-pH-Neutral Electrolytes," 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials

The scientist frequently collaborates with a core group of colleagues, including Siyuan Zhang, Joohyun Lim, Baptiste Gault, Miquel Vega-Paredes, and Se-Ho Kim.

Best Publications

  • Narrow-band red-emitting Sr[LiAl3N4]:Eu2+ as a next-generation LED-phosphor material

    Philipp Pust;Volker Weiler;Cora Sieglinde Hecht;Andreas Tücks

  • Iron-Doped Nickel Oxide Nanocrystals as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting

    Ksenia Fominykh;Petko Chernev;Ivelina Zaharieva;Johannes Sicklinger

  • Ordered Liquid Aluminum at the Interface with Sapphire

    Sang Ho Oh;Yaron Kauffmann;Christina Scheu;Wayne D. Kaplan

  • Discovery of a Multinary Noble Metal–Free Oxygen Reduction Catalyst

    Tobias Löffler;Hajo Meyer;Alan Savan;Patrick Wilde

  • Ca[LiAl3N4]:Eu2+—A Narrow-Band Red-Emitting Nitridolithoaluminate

    Philipp Pust;Angela S. Wochnik;Elen Baumann;Peter J. Schmidt

  • Strengthening and strain hardening mechanisms in a precipitation-hardened high-Mn lightweight steel

    Mengji Yao;Emanuel David Welsch;Dirk Ponge;Seyed Masood Hafez Haghighat

  • Degradation of iridium oxides via oxygen evolution from the lattice: correlating atomic scale structure with reaction mechanisms

    Olga Kasian;Olga Kasian;Olga Kasian;Simon Geiger;Tong Li;Tong Li;Jan-Philipp Grote

  • Synthesis and biological evaluation of a bioresponsive and endosomolytic siRNA-polymer conjugate.

    Martin Meyer;Christian Dohmen;Alexander Philipp;Daniel Kiener

  • Atomic-scale insights into surface species of electrocatalysts in three dimensions

    Tong Li;Tong Li;Olga Kasian;Serhiy Cherevko;Serhiy Cherevko;Siyuan Zhang

  • Oscillatory Mass Transport in Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of Sapphire Nanowires

    Sang Ho Oh;Matthew F. Chisholm;Yaron Kauffmann;Wayne D. Kaplan

  • Strong efficiency improvements in ultra-low-cost inorganic nanowire solar cells.

    Kevin P. Musselman;Andreas Wisnet;Diana C. Iza;Holger C. Hesse

  • Simultaneous optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties of Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3 thermoelectric alloy by twin boundary engineering

    Yuan Yu;Yuan Yu;Dong-Sheng He;Siyuan Zhang;Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin

  • Tin doping speeds up hole transfer during light-driven water oxidation at hematite photoanodes

    Halina K. Dunn;Johann M. Feckl;Alexander Müller;Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing

  • Artificial chemical and magnetic structure at the domain walls of an epitaxial oxide

    S. Farokhipoor;C. Magén;S. Venkatesan;S. Venkatesan;J. Íñiguez

  • Toward a Paradigm Shift in Electrocatalysis Using Complex Solid Solution Nanoparticles

    Tobias Löffler;Alan Savan;Alba Garzón-Manjón;Michael Meischein

  • Rational strain engineering in delafossite oxides for highly efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis in acidic media

    Filip Podjaski;Filip Podjaski;Daniel Weber;Daniel Weber;Siyuan Zhang;Leo Diehl;Leo Diehl

  • Abnormal Grain Growth in Alumina: Synergistic Effects of Yttria and Silica

    Ian MacLaren;Rowland M. Cannon;Mehmet A. Gülgün;Rayisa Voytovych

  • Copper nanowires within the central channel of tobacco mosaic virus particles

    S. Balci;A. M. Bittner;K. Hahn;C. Scheu

  • A Novel Buffering Technique for Aqueous Processing of Zinc Oxide Nanostructures and Interfaces, and Corresponding Improvement of Electrodeposited ZnO‐Cu2O Photovoltaics

    Kevin P. Musselman;Andrew Marin;Andreas Wisnet;Christina Scheu

  • Microstructural investigations on zirconium oxide–carbon nanotube composites synthesized by hydrothermal crystallization

    F. Lupo;R. Kamalakaran;C. Scheu;N. Grobert

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Dehm
Gerhard Dehm Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Manfred Rühle
Manfred Rühle Max Planck Society
Dierk Raabe
Dierk Raabe Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Baptiste Gault
Baptiste Gault Max Planck Institute for Iron Research
Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin
Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin University of Freiburg
Helmut Clemens
Helmut Clemens University of Leoben
Bettina V. Lotsch
Bettina V. Lotsch Max Planck Society
Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing
Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jochen M. Schneider
Jochen M. Schneider RWTH Aachen University
Alfred Ludwig
Alfred Ludwig Ruhr University Bochum

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