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Leif Hammarström

Leif Hammarström

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Chemistry

D-Index
86
Citations
22215
World Ranking
2595
National Ranking
33

Overview

Leif Hammarström is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden, where their research spans several interconnected disciplines within energy and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on advancing understanding and applications in the fields of Energy, Materials Science, and Chemistry.

Their specialization includes several subfields such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry.

The main research topics covered by their publications are:

  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Leif Hammarström has contributed extensively to scientific literature with 14 publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, 5 in Chemical Science, 4 in ACS Catalysis, 3 in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, and 3 in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, among others.

Selected recent papers by the scientist include:

  • "Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines, Fair and Square" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "From NiMoO4 to γ-NiOOH: Detecting the Active Catalyst Phase by Time Resolved in Situ and Operando Raman Spectroscopy" (2021), ACS Nano
  • "Panchromatic Ternary Polymer Dots Involving Sub-Picosecond Energy and Charge Transfer for Efficient and Stable Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "The 2022 solar fuels roadmap" (2022), Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • "Molecular Catalysis of Energy Relevance in Metal-Organic Frameworks: From Higher Coordination Sphere to System Effects" (2023), Chemical Reviews

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including Haining Tian, Hongwei Song, Sascha Ott, Sylvestre Bonnet, and Nidhi Kaul. These collaborations reflect a network of partnerships that align with their research scope.

Best Publications

  • Towards artificial photosynthesis: ruthenium–manganese chemistry for energy production

    Licheng Sun;Leif Hammarström;Björn Åkermark;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Electronically coupled zinc phthalocyanine-tin porphyrin dyad performing ultra-fast single step charge separation over a 34 Å distance

    Jérôme Fortage;Erik Göransson;Errol Blart;Hans-Christian Becker

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Guidelines, Fair and Square

    Robin Tyburski;Tianfei Liu;Starla D. Glover;Leif Hammarström

  • Biomimetic and microbial approaches to solar fuel generation.

    Ann Magnuson;Magnus Anderlund;Olof Johansson;Peter Lindblad

  • Accumulative Charge Separation for Solar Fuels Production: Coupling Light-Induced Single Electron Transfer to Multielectron Catalysis

    Leif Hammarström

  • Artificial Photosynthesis and Solar Fuels

    Leif Hammarström;Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

  • Recent advances and future directions to optimize the performances of p-type dye-sensitized solar cells

    Fabrice Odobel;Yann Pellegrin;Elizabeth A. Gibson;Anders Hagfeldt

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in a Tyrosine−Ruthenium−tris-Bipyridine Complex: Comparison with TyrosineZ Oxidation in Photosystem II

    Martin Sjödin;Martin Sjödin;Stenbjörn Styring;Stenbjörn Styring;Björn Åkermark;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • A p-Type NiO-Based Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell with an Open-Circuit Voltage of 0.35 V

    Elizabeth A. Gibson;Amanda L. Smeigh;Loïc Le Pleux;Jérôme Fortage

  • Switching the redox mechanism : Models for proton-coupled electron transfer from tyrosine and tryptophan

    Martin Sjödin;Stenbjörn Styring;Henriette Wolpher;Yunhua Xu

  • High-turnover photochemical hydrogen production catalyzed by a model complex of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase active site.

    Daniel Streich;Yeni Astuti;Michele Orlandi;Lennart Schwartz

  • IgG subclasses in bacterial infections.

    Hammarström L;Smith Ci

  • Femtosecond Transient Absorption Anisotropy Study on [Ru(bpy)3]2+ and [Ru(bpy)(py)4]2+. Ultrafast Interligand Randomization of the MLCT State

    Staffan Wallin;Jan Davidsson;Judit Modin;Leif Hammarström

  • Plasma anti-pneumococcal antibody activity of the IgG class and subclasses in otitis prone children.

    A. Freijd;L. Hammarström;M. A. A. Persson;C. I. E. Smith

  • A 3.0 μs Room Temperature Excited State Lifetime of a Bistridentate RuII−Polypyridine Complex for Rod-like Molecular Arrays

    Maria Abrahamsson;Michael Jäger;Tomas Österman;Lars Eriksson

  • Inversion of chromosome 14 marks human T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

    L. Zech;G. Gahrton;L. Hammarström;G. Juliusson

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer of Tyrosine Oxidation: Buffer Dependence and Parallel Mechanisms

    Tania Irebo;Steven Y. Reece;Martin Sjödin;Daniel G. Nocera

  • Sensitized hole injection of phosphorus porphyrin into NiO: toward new photovoltaic devices.

    Magnus Borgström;Errol Blart;Gerrit Boschloo;Emad Mukhtar

  • Photoinduced Ultrafast Dynamics of Coumarin 343 Sensitized p-Type-Nanostructured NiO Films

    Ana Morandeira;Gerrit Boschloo;and Anders Hagfeldt;Leif Hammarström

  • Proton-coupled electron transfer of tyrosines in Photosystem II and model systems for artificial photosynthesis: the role of a redox-active link between catalyst and photosensitizer

    Leif Hammarström;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Improved Photon-to-Current Conversion Efficiency with a Nanoporous p-Type NiO Electrode by the Use of a Sensitizer-Acceptor Dyad

    Ana Morandeira;Jérôme Fortage;Tomas Edvinsson;Loïc Le Pleux

  • Bistridentate ruthenium(II)polypyridyl-type complexes with microsecond 3MLCT state lifetimes: sensitizers for rod-like molecular arrays.

    Maria Abrahamsson;Michael Jäger;Rohan J. Kumar;Tomas Österman

  • From NiMoO4 to γ-NiOOH: Detecting the Active Catalyst Phase by Time Resolved in Situ and Operando Raman Spectroscopy.

    Robin N. Dürr;Pierfrancesco Maltoni;Haining Tian;Bruno Jousselme

Frequent Co-Authors

C. I. E. Smith
C. I. E. Smith Karolinska Institute
Licheng Sun
Licheng Sun Royal Institute of Technology
Stenbjörn Styring
Stenbjörn Styring Uppsala University
Sascha Ott
Sascha Ott Uppsala University
Reiner Lomoth
Reiner Lomoth Uppsala University
Fabrice Odobel
Fabrice Odobel University of Nantes
Björn Åkermark
Björn Åkermark Stockholm University
Errol Blart
Errol Blart University of Nantes
Gerrit Boschloo
Gerrit Boschloo Uppsala University
Haining Tian
Haining Tian Uppsala University

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