2026 Flemming Besenbacher: 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	145	191	184	1	1	775	79870

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Denmark Leader Award
2015 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the understanding of atomic scale processes on solid surfaces, leading to breakthroughs in catalysis and nanotechnology
2009 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Overview

Flemming Besenbacher is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research spans multiple fields including Materials Science, Engineering, and Energy.

Their work covers a variety of subfields, such as Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Key research topics addressed by Besenbacher include:

Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
Covalent Organic Framework Applications
Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
Graphene Research and Applications
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Besenbacher include:

Carbon dots-fed Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 for bioelectricity enhancement (2020) in Nature Communications
Recent Progress in Emerging Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Carbides (2021) in Nano-Micro Letters
Photothermal conversion-coordinated Fenton-like and photocatalytic reactions of Cu2-xSe-Au Janus nanoparticles for tri-combination antitumor therapy (2020) in Biomaterials
Nanostructured heterogeneous photocatalyst materials for green synthesis of valuable chemicals (2022) in Chemical Synthesis
Rationally Designed Metal Cocatalyst for Selective Photosynthesis of Bibenzyls via Dehalogenative C-C Homocoupling (2021) in ACS Catalysis

Frequent coauthors of Besenbacher are:

Ren Su
Ye Sun
Miao Yu
Yongwang Li
J. W. Niemantsverdriet

Common venues for publishing their research include:

Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Angewandte Chemie
The Cambridge Structural Database
Nature Communications
SSRN Electronic Journal

Besenbacher is a recipient of several distinctions including:

Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2015)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2010) for contributions to understanding atomic scale processes on solid surfaces, which led to advances in catalysis and nanotechnology
Fellow of the Materials Research Society (2009)
Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Self-assembly of a nanoscale DNA box with a controllable lid.

Ebbe S. Andersen;Mingdong Dong;Morten M. Nielsen;Kasper Jahn

1903
Citations
Bandgap opening in graphene induced by patterned hydrogen adsorption

Richard Balog;Bjarke Jørgensen;Louis Nilsson;Mie Andersen

1794
Citations
Design of a Surface Alloy Catalyst for Steam Reforming

F. Besenbacher;I. Chorkendorff;B. S. Clausen;B. Hammer

1216
Citations
Atomic-scale structure of single-layer MoS2 nanoclusters

S. Helveg;J. V. Lauritsen;E. Lægsgaard;I. Stensgaard

1185
Citations
Oxygen vacancies as active sites for water dissociation on rutile TiO(2)(110).

R. Schaub;P. Thostrup;N. Lopez;E. Lægsgaard

1144
Citations
The Role of Interstitial Sites in the Ti3d Defect State in the Band Gap of Titania

Stefan Wendt;Stefan Wendt;Phillip T. Sprunger;Phillip T. Sprunger;Estephania Lira;Estephania Lira;Georg K. H. Madsen;Georg K. H. Madsen

1001
Citations
Building an appropriate active-site motif into a hydrogen-evolution catalyst with thiomolybdate [Mo3S13]2− clusters

Jakob Kibsgaard;Thomas F. Jaramillo;Flemming Besenbacher

893
Citations
Size-dependent structure of MoS2 nanocrystals.

Jeppe V. Lauritsen;Jakob Kibsgaard;Stig Helveg;Henrik Topsøe

797
Citations
One-step production of O-N-S co-doped three-dimensional hierarchical porous carbons for high-performance supercapacitors

Gongyuan Zhao;Gongyuan Zhao;Chong Chen;Dengfeng Yu;Lei Sun

763
Citations
RNA interference in vitro and in vivo using a novel chitosan/siRNA nanoparticle system

Kenneth Alan Howard;Ulrik Lytt Rahbek;Xiudong Liu;Christian Kroun Damgaard

747
Citations
Filamentous bacteria transport electrons over centimetre distances

Christian Pfeffer;Steffen Larsen;Jie Song;Mingdong Dong

714
Citations
Oxygen vacancies on TiO2(110) and their interaction with H2O and O2: A combined high-resolution STM and DFT study

Stefan Wendt;Renald Schaub;Jesper Matthiesen;Ebbe K Vestergaard

713
Citations
One-Dimensional Metallic Edge States in MoS2

Mikkel Bollinger;J.V. Lauritsen;Karsten Wedel Jacobsen;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

707
Citations
Chiral recognition in dimerization of adsorbed cysteine observed by scanning tunnelling microscopy.

Angelika Kühnle;Trolle R. Linderoth;Bjoerk Hammer;Flemming Besenbacher

702
Citations
Influence of nanoscale surface topography on protein adsorption and cellular response

Megan S. Lord;Morten Foss;Flemming Besenbacher

667
Citations
Enhancement of Protein Adsorption Induced by Surface Roughness

K Rechendorff;M B Hovgaard;M Foss;V P Zhdanov

646
Citations
Single-molecule chemical reactions on DNA origami

Niels V. Voigt;Thomas Tørring;Alexandru Rotaru;Mikkel F. Jacobsen

614
Citations
Location and coordination of promoter atoms in Co- and Ni-promoted MoS2-based hydrotreating catalysts

Jeppe V. Lauritsen;Jakob Kibsgaard;Georg H. Olesen;Poul Georg Moses

571
Citations
Quantized conductance in an atom-sized point contact.

L. Olesen;E. Laegsgaard;I. Stensgaard;Flemming Besenbacher

569
Citations
Oxygen chemisorption on metal surfaces: General trends for Cu, Ni and Ag

Flemming Besenbacher;Jens K. Nørskov

566
Citations
Enhanced bonding of gold nanoparticles on oxidized TiO2(110).

D. Matthey;J. G. Wang;S. Wendt;J. Matthiesen

564
Citations