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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
118
Citations
91566
World Ranking
526
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ib Chorkendorff is affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark in Denmark. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on areas within Energy, Materials Science, and Chemical Engineering.

The main subfields of their work include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Materials Chemistry; Catalysis; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; and Electrochemistry. Their research encompasses a range of topics such as Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts, Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction, Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Hydrogen Storage and Materials, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, and Ionic Liquids Properties and Applications.

Ib Chorkendorff has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Energy Letters, Energy & Environmental Science, ACS Catalysis, and The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

Their recent scholarly articles include the following:

  • Is There Anything Better than Pt for HER?, 2021, ACS Energy Letters
  • Insights into the carbon balance for CO 2 electroreduction on Cu using gas diffusion electrode reactor designs, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Continuous-flow electrosynthesis of ammonia by nitrogen reduction and hydrogen oxidation, 2023, Science
  • Operando identification of site-dependent water oxidation activity on ruthenium dioxide single-crystal surfaces, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Enhancement of lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis by addition of oxygen, 2021, Science

Chorkendorff has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Jakob Kibsgaard, Brian Seger, Peter C. K. Vesborg, Jens K. Nørskov, and Xianbiao Fu. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary efforts within the domains of catalysis and electrochemical processes.

Best Publications

  • Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials design

    Zhi Wei Seh;Zhi Wei Seh;Zhi Wei Seh;Jakob Kibsgaard;Jakob Kibsgaard;Jakob Kibsgaard;Colin F. Dickens;Colin F. Dickens;Ib Chorkendorff

  • Identification of active edge sites for electrochemical H2 evolution from MoS2 nanocatalysts.

    Thomas Jaramillo;Kristina Pilt Jørgensen;Jacob Bonde;Jane Hvolbæk Nielsen

  • Progress and Perspectives of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction on Copper in Aqueous Electrolyte

    Stephanie A. Nitopi;Erlend Bertheussen;Søren Bertelsen Scott;Xinyan Liu

  • Biomimetic Hydrogen Evolution: MoS2 Nanoparticles as Catalyst for Hydrogen Evolution

    Berit Hinnemann;Poul Georg Moses;Jacob Lindner Bonde;Kristina Pilt Jørgensen

  • Computational high-throughput screening of electrocatalytic materials for hydrogen evolution

    Jeffrey Philip Greeley;Thomas Jaramillo;Jacob Bonde;Ib Chorkendorff

  • Alloys of platinum and early transition metals as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

    J. Greeley;I. E. L. Stephens;A. S. Bondarenko;T. P. Johansson

  • Concepts of modern catalysis and kinetics

    Ib Chorkendorff;Johannes Willem Niemantsverdriet

  • Enabling direct H2O2 production through rational electrocatalyst design

    Samira Siahrostami;Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall;Mohammadreza Karamad;Davide Deiana

  • Molybdenum sulfides—efficient and viable materials for electro - and photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution

    Anders Bo Laursen;Søren Kegnæs;Søren Dahl;Ib Chorkendorff

  • A rigorous electrochemical ammonia synthesis protocol with quantitative isotope measurements

    Suzanne Zamany Andersen;Viktor Čolić;Sungeun Yang;Sungeun Yang;Jay A. Schwalbe

  • Understanding the electrocatalysis of oxygen reduction on platinum and its alloys

    Ifan E. L. Stephens;Alexander S. Bondarenko;Alexander S. Bondarenko;Ulrik Grønbjerg;Jan Rossmeisl

  • Considerations for the scaling-up of water splitting catalysts

    Jakob Kibsgaard;Ib Chorkendorff

  • Design of a Surface Alloy Catalyst for Steam Reforming

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

  • Toward the Decentralized Electrochemical Production of H2O2: A Focus on the Catalysis

    Sungeun Yang;Arnau Verdaguer-Casadevall;Logi Arnarson;Luca Silvioli

  • Discovery of a Ni-Ga catalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to methanol

    Felix Studt;Irek Sharafutdinov;Frank Abild-Pedersen;Christian Fink Elkjær

  • Tuning the activity of Pt alloy electrocatalysts by means of the lanthanide contraction

    María Escudero-Escribano;María Escudero-Escribano;Paolo Malacrida;Martin H. Hansen;Martin H. Hansen;Ulrik G. Vej-Hansen

  • Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis-The Selectivity Challenge

    Aayush R. Singh;Brian A. Rohr;Jay A. Schwalbe;Matteo Cargnello

  • Role of Steps in N 2 Activation on Ru(0001)

    S. Dahl;A. Logadottir;R. C. Egeberg;J. H. Larsen

  • The nature of the active site in heterogeneous metal catalysis.

    Jens K. Nørskov;Thomas Bligaard;Britt Hvolbæk;Frank Abild-Pedersen

  • Layered Nanojunctions for Hydrogen-Evolution Catalysis†

    Yidong Hou;Anders B. Laursen;Jinshui Zhang;Guigang Zhang

  • Hydrogen evolution on nano-particulate transition metal sulfides.

    Jacob Lindner Bonde;Poul Georg Moses;Thomas F. Jaramillo;Jens Kehlet Nørskov

Frequent Co-Authors

Ifan E. L. Stephens
Ifan E. L. Stephens Imperial College London
Ole Hansen
Ole Hansen Technical University of Denmark
Brian Seger
Brian Seger Technical University of Denmark
Jan Rossmeisl
Jan Rossmeisl University of Copenhagen
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Søren Dahl
Søren Dahl Technical University of Denmark
Thomas F. Jaramillo
Thomas F. Jaramillo Stanford University
Jakob Birkedal Wagner
Jakob Birkedal Wagner Technical University of Denmark
Thomas Willum Hansen
Thomas Willum Hansen Technical University of Denmark
Jens Sehested
Jens Sehested Haldor Topsoe (Denmark)

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