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Günther Rupprechter

Günther Rupprechter

TU Wien
Austria

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
13603
World Ranking
5714
National Ranking
26

Günther Rupprechter publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Günther Rupprechter sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 262 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Günther Rupprechter D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Günther Rupprechter sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Günther Rupprechter is a researcher affiliated with TU Wien in Austria, specializing primarily in materials science with a significant focus on materials chemistry and catalysis. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including renewable energy, sustainability, atomic and molecular physics, optics, and biomedical engineering.

The main research areas addressed by Rupprechter cover catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and oxidation reactions, catalysts for methane reforming, nanocluster synthesis and applications, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and advanced chemical physics studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Michael Stöger-Pollach, Metta Chareonpanich, Yuri Suchorski, Alexander Genest, and Johannes Zeininger.

Rupprechter has published extensively in venues such as ACS Catalysis, Topics in Catalysis, Nature Communications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Mo2TiC2 MXene-Supported Ru Clusters for Efficient Photothermal Reverse Water-Gas Shift, 2022, ACS Nano
  • Tuning Interactions of Surface-adsorbed Species over Fe−Co/K−Al2O3 Catalyst by Different K Contents: Selective CO2 Hydrogenation to Light Olefins, 2020, ChemCatChem
  • Operando Surface Spectroscopy and Microscopy during Catalytic Reactions: From Clusters via Nanoparticles to Meso-Scale Aggregates, 2021, Small
  • High-performance water gas shift induced by asymmetric oxygen vacancies: Gold clusters supported by ceria-praseodymia mixed oxides, 2021, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Emerging applications of MXene materials in CO2 photocatalysis, 2021, FlatChem

Best Publications

  • The application of infrared spectroscopy to probe the surface morphology of alumina-supported palladium catalysts.

    Timothy Lear;Robert Marshall;J. Antonio Lopez-Sanchez;S. David Jackson

  • CO Adsorption on Pd Nanoparticles: Density Functional and Vibrational Spectroscopy Studies

    Ilya V. Yudanov;Riadh Sahnoun;Konstantin M. Neyman;Notker Rösch

  • Molecular Studies of Catalytic Reactions on Crystal Surfaces at High Pressures and High Temperatures by Infrared−Visible Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy

    Gabor A. Somorjai;Gunther Rupprechter;Gunther Rupprechter

  • How to Control the Selectivity of Palladium‐based Catalysts in Hydrogenation Reactions: The Role of Subsurface Chemistry

    Marc Armbrüster;Malte Behrens;Fabrizio Cinquini;Karin Föttinger

  • Operando Insights into CO Oxidation on Cobalt Oxide Catalysts by NAP-XPS, FTIR, and XRD

    Liliana Lukashuk;Nevzat Yigit;Raffael Rameshan;Elisabeth Kolar

  • Methane dry reforming over ceria-zirconia supported Ni catalysts

    Astrid Wolfbeisser;Onsulang Sophiphun;Johannes Bernardi;Jatuporn Wittayakun

  • Vibrational Sum Frequency Spectroscopy on Pd(111) and Supported Pd Nanoparticles: CO Adsorption from Ultrahigh Vacuum to Atmospheric Pressure †

    Holger Unterhalt;Günther Rupprechter;Hans-Joachim Freund

  • Preparation and characterization of model catalysts: from ultrahigh vacuum to in situ conditions at the atomic dimension

    Hans-Joachim Freund;Marcus Bäumer;Jörg Libuda;Thomas Risse

  • Bridging the pressure and materials gaps between catalysis and surface science: clean and modified oxide surfaces.

    Hans-Joachim Freund;Helmut Kuhlenbeck;Jörg Libuda;Günther Rupprechter

  • Bridging the Pressure and Materials Gaps: High Pressure Sum Frequency Generation Study on Supported Pd Nanoparticles

    T. Dellwig;G. Rupprechter;H. Unterhalt;H.-J. Freund

  • Ambient Pressure XPS Study of Mixed Conducting Perovskite-Type SOFC Cathode and Anode Materials under Well-Defined Electrochemical Polarization

    Andreas Nenning;Alexander K. Opitz;Christoph Rameshan;Raffael Rameshan

  • Subsurface‐Controlled CO2 Selectivity of PdZn Near‐Surface Alloys in H2 Generation by Methanol Steam Reforming

    Christoph Rameshan;Werner Stadlmayr;Christian Weilach;Simon Penner

  • The role of metal/oxide interfaces for long-range metal particle activation during CO oxidation.

    Yuri Suchorski;Sergey M. Kozlov;Ivan Bespalov;Martin Datler

  • Operando XAS and NAP-XPS studies of preferential CO oxidation on Co3O4 and CeO2-Co3O4 catalysts

    Liliana Lukashuk;Karin Föttinger;Elisabeth Kolar;Christoph Rameshan

  • Surface Chemistry of Perovskite-Type Electrodes During High Temperature CO2 Electrolysis Investigated by Operando Photoelectron Spectroscopy

    Alexander Karl Opitz;Andreas Nenning;Christoph Rameshan;Markus Kubicek

  • Atmospheric pressure studies of selective 1,3-butadiene hydrogenation on well-defined Pd/Al2O3/NiAl(110) model catalysts: Effect of Pd particle size

    Joaquin Silvestre-Albero;Günther Rupprechter;Hans-Joachim Freund

  • High-Pressure Carbon Monoxide Adsorption on Pt(111) Revisited: A Sum Frequency Generation Study

    Günther Rupprechter;Thilo Dellwig;Holger Unterhalt;Hans-Joachim Freund

  • Enhancing Electrochemical Water‐Splitting Kinetics by Polarization‐Driven Formation of Near‐Surface Iron(0): An In Situ XPS Study on Perovskite‐Type Electrodes

    Alexander K. Opitz;Andreas Nenning;Christoph Rameshan;Raffael Rameshan;Raffael Rameshan

  • Initial stages of oxide formation on the Zr surface at low oxygen pressure: An in situ FIM and XPS study.

    I. Bespalov;M. Datler;S. Buhr;W. Drachsel

  • High-Pressure Studies of CO Adsorption on Pd(111) by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Sum-Frequency Generation

    Vasiliy V. Kaichev;Igor P. Prosvirin;Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov;Holger Unterhalt

  • Studies of metal–support interactions with “real” and “inverted” model systems: reactions of CO and small hydrocarbons with hydrogen on noble metals in contact with oxides

    K. Hayek;M. Fuchs;B. Klötzer;W. Reichl

  • Sum Frequency Generation and Polarization–Modulation Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy of Functioning Model Catalysts from Ultrahigh Vacuum to Ambient Pressure

    Günther Rupprechter

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Joachim Freund
Hans-Joachim Freund Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Axel Knop-Gericke
Axel Knop-Gericke Max Planck Society
Simon Penner
Simon Penner University of Innsbruck
Gabor A. Somorjai
Gabor A. Somorjai University of California, Berkeley
Michael Hävecker
Michael Hävecker Max Planck Society
Raoul Blume
Raoul Blume Max Planck Society
Jörg Libuda
Jörg Libuda University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Marcus Bäumer
Marcus Bäumer University of Bremen
Detre Teschner
Detre Teschner Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov
Valerii I. Bukhtiyarov Boreskov Institute of Catalysis

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