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Chemistry
Finland
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
94
Citations
39581
World Ranking
1674
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Hannu Häkkinen is affiliated with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and has a substantial body of research within the Materials Science field. Their work has a particular emphasis on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, as well as Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's research focuses on several key topics including:

  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
  • Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sami Malola, Nanfeng Zheng, Boon K. Teo, Guocheng Deng, and María Francisca Matus.

Häkkinen's publications commonly appear in notable venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • JYX
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Selected recent papers demonstrate a range of topics and publication venues:

  • "Understanding ligand-protected noble metal nanoclusters at work" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Materials
  • "GPAW: An open Python package for electronic structure calculations" (2024), published in The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • "N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Hydrido Au24 Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2" (2022), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics" (2022), published in Nature Chemistry
  • "Solvent-mediated assembly of atom-precise gold-silver nanoclusters to semiconducting one-dimensional materials" (2020), published in Nature Communications

The diversity in publication venues and topics underscores Häkkinen's multidisciplinary engagement across nanomaterials and their applications, particularly focusing on synthesis, catalysis, and crystallography.

Best Publications

  • Electronic structure calculations with GPAW: a real-space implementation of the projector augmented-wave method

    J. Enkovaara;Carsten Rostgaard;Jens Jørgen Mortensen;Jingzhe Chen

  • The gold–sulfur interface at the nanoscale

    Hannu Häkkinen

  • A unified view of ligand-protected gold clusters as superatom complexes

    Michael Walter;Jaakko Akola;Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Pablo D. Jadzinsky

  • When Gold Is Not Noble: Nanoscale Gold Catalysts

    A. Sanchez;S. Abbet;U. Heiz;W. D. Schneider

  • Charging Effects on Bonding and Catalyzed Oxidation of CO on Au8 Clusters on MgO

    Bokwon Yoon;Hannu Häkkinen;Uzi Landman;Anke S. Wörz

  • Self-passivating edge reconstructions of graphene.

    Pekka Koskinen;Sami Malola;Hannu Häkkinen

  • On the structure of thiolate-protected Au25

    Jaakko Akola;Michael Walter;Robert L. Whetten;Hannu Häkkinen

  • All-thiol-stabilized Ag44 and Au12Ag32 nanoparticles with single-crystal structures

    Huayan Yang;Yu Wang;Huaqi Huang;Lars Gell

  • Atomic and electronic structure of gold clusters: understanding flakes, cages and superatoms from simple concepts

    Hannu Häkkinen

  • On the Electronic and Atomic Structures of Small AuN- (N = 4−14) Clusters: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Density-Functional Study

    Hannu Häkkinen;Bokwon Yoon;Uzi Landman;Xi Li

  • Structural, electronic, and impurity-doping effects in nanoscale chemistry: supported gold nanoclusters.

    Hannu Häkkinen;Stéphane Abbet;Antonio Sanchez;Ulrich Heiz

  • Gold clusters ( Au N , 2 N 1 0 ) and their anions

    Hannu Häkkinen;Uzi Landman

  • Divide and protect : Capping gold nanoclusters with molecular gold-thiolate rings

    Hannu Häkkinen;Michael Walter;Henrik Grönbeck

  • Structure and Bonding in the Ubiquitous Icosahedral Metallic Gold Cluster Au144(SR)60

    Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Jaakko Akola;Robert L. Whetten;Henrik Grönbeck

  • N-heterocyclic carbene-functionalized magic-number gold nanoclusters.

    Mina R. Narouz;Kimberly M. Osten;Phillip J. Unsworth;Renee W. Y. Man

  • Catalytic CO oxidation by free Au2-: experiment and theory.

    Liana D. Socaciu;Jan Hagen;Thorsten M. Bernhardt;Ludger Wöste

  • Chirality and Electronic Structure of the Thiolate-Protected Au38 Nanocluster

    Olga Lopez-Acevedo;Hironori Tsunoyama;Tatsuya Tsukuda;Hannu Häkkinen

  • Interaction of O2 with Gold Clusters: Molecular and Dissociative Adsorption

    Bokwon Yoon;Hannu Häkkinen;Uzi Landman

  • Atomically Precise Alkynyl-Protected Metal Nanoclusters as a Model Catalyst: Observation of Promoting Effect of Surface Ligands on Catalysis by Metal Nanoparticles.

    Yu Wang;Xian-Kai Wan;Liting Ren;Haifeng Su

  • A Critical Size for Emergence of Nonbulk Electronic and Geometric Structures in Dodecanethiolate-Protected Au Clusters

    Yuichi Negishi;Tafu Nakazaki;Sami Malola;Shinjiro Takano

Frequent Co-Authors

Sami Malola
Sami Malola University of Jyväskylä
Uzi Landman
Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Technology
Jaakko Akola
Jaakko Akola Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Michael Moseler
Michael Moseler University of Freiburg
Nanfeng Zheng
Nanfeng Zheng Xiamen University
Henrik Grönbeck
Henrik Grönbeck Chalmers University of Technology
Mika Pettersson
Mika Pettersson University of Jyväskylä
Robert L. Whetten
Robert L. Whetten Northern Arizona University
Kimmo Kaski
Kimmo Kaski Aalto University
Tatsuya Tsukuda
Tatsuya Tsukuda University of Tokyo

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