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Marc T. M. Koper

Marc T. M. Koper

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Chemistry
Netherlands
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
144
Citations
76194
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2021 - Spinoza Prize, Dutch Research Council
  • 2017 - Faraday Medal, Electrochemistry Group, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Marc T. M. Koper is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple disciplines including energy, chemistry, and engineering, with significant contributions to renewable energy, sustainability, electrochemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and catalysis.

Their expertise covers various scientific topics, notably in electrocatalysts for energy conversion, electrochemical analysis and applications, CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts, advanced battery technologies research, ionic liquids properties and applications, molecular junctions and nanostructures, and catalytic processes in materials science.

Marc T. M. Koper has published extensively, with frequent publications appearing in the following venues:

  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their recent papers include:

  • Electrocatalytic Nitrate Reduction for Sustainable Ammonia Production, 2021, Joule
  • Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silver electrodes without metal cations in solution, 2021, Nature Catalysis
  • The role of adsorbed hydroxide in hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics on modified platinum, 2020, Nature Energy
  • Competition between CO2 Reduction and Hydrogen Evolution on a Gold Electrode under Well-Defined Mass Transport Conditions, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Water at charged interfaces, 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry

Frequent co-authors working with Marc T. M. Koper include:

  • Mariana C. O. Monteiro
  • Rafaël E. Vos
  • Ian T. McCrum
  • Akansha Goyal
  • Sunghak Park

The scientist has received notable awards such as the Spinoza Prize from the Dutch Research Council in 2021, membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017, and the Faraday Medal from the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Advances and challenges in understanding the electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide to fuels

    Yuvraj Y. Birdja;Yuvraj Y. Birdja;Elena Pérez-Gallent;Marta C. Figueiredo;Marta C. Figueiredo;Adrien J. Göttle

  • Activating lattice oxygen redox reactions in metal oxides to catalyse oxygen evolution

    Alexis Grimaud;Oscar Diaz-Morales;Binghong Han;Wesley T. Hong

  • Catalysts and Reaction Pathways for the Electrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide

    Ruud Kortlever;Jing Shen;Klaas Jan P. Schouten;Federico Calle-Vallejo

  • Challenges in reduction of dinitrogen by proton and electron transfer

    Cornelis J. M. van der Ham;Marc T. M. Koper;Dennis G. H. Hetterscheid

  • Nitrogen cycle electrocatalysis.

    Victor Rosca;Matteo Duca;Matheus T. de Groot;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Thermodynamic theory of multi-electron transfer reactions: Implications for electrocatalysis

    Marc T.M. Koper

  • Interfacial water reorganization as a pH-dependent descriptor of the hydrogen evolution rate on platinum electrodes

    Isis Ledezma-Yanez;W. David Z. Wallace;Paula Sebastián-Pascual;Victor Climent

  • Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction for sustainable ammonia production

    Phebe H. van Langevelde;Ioannis Katsounaros;Marc T.M. Koper

  • Theoretical considerations on the electroreduction of CO to C2 species on Cu(100) electrodes

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;Marc T. M. Koper

  • A new mechanism for the selectivity to C1 and C2 species in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide on copper electrodes

    K. J. P. Schouten;Y. Kwon;C. J. M. van der Ham;Z. Qin

  • Two pathways for the formation of ethylene in CO reduction on single-crystal copper electrodes.

    Klaas Jan P. Schouten;Zisheng Qin;Elena Pérez Gallent;Marc T. M. Koper

  • The stability number as a metric for electrocatalyst stability benchmarking

    Simon Geiger;Olga Kasian;Marc Ledendecker;Enrico Pizzutilo

  • Absence of CO2 electroreduction on copper, gold and silver electrodes without metal cations in solution

    Mariana C. O. Monteiro;Federico Dattila;Bellenod Hagedoorn;Rodrigo García-Muelas

  • Theory of multiple proton–electron transfer reactions and its implications for electrocatalysis

    Marc T. M. Koper;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Introducing structural sensitivity into adsorption–energy scaling relations by means of coordination numbers

    Federico Calle-Vallejo;David Loffreda;Marc T. M. Koper;Philippe Sautet

  • Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrate at low concentration on coinage and transition-metal electrodes in acid solutions

    GE Gabriela Dima;de Aca Vooys;Mtm Marc Koper

  • The role of adsorbed hydroxide in hydrogen evolution reaction kinetics on modified platinum

    Ian T. McCrum;Ian T. McCrum;Marc T. M. Koper

  • The importance of nickel oxyhydroxide deprotonation on its activity towards electrochemical water oxidation

    Oscar Diaz-Morales;David Ferrus-Suspedra;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Electrochemical CO2 reduction on Cu2O-derived copper nanoparticles: controlling the catalytic selectivity of hydrocarbons.

    Recep Kas;Ruud Kortlever;Alexander Milbrat;Marc T. M. Koper

  • Powering denitrification: the perspectives of electrocatalytic nitrate reduction

    Matteo Duca;Matteo Duca;Marc T. M. Koper

  • In Situ Observation of Active Oxygen Species in Fe-Containing Ni-Based Oxygen Evolution Catalysts: The Effect of pH on Electrochemical Activity

    Bartek J. Trześniewski;Oscar Diaz-Morales;David A. Vermaas;Alessandro Longo

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Calle-Vallejo
Federico Calle-Vallejo University of Barcelona
Youngkook Kwon
Youngkook Kwon Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Juan M. Feliu
Juan M. Feliu University of Alicante
Patrick R. Unwin
Patrick R. Unwin University of Warwick
Nenad M. Markovic
Nenad M. Markovic Argonne National Laboratory
Maarten Merkx
Maarten Merkx Eindhoven University of Technology
Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka
Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka Technical University of Munich
Wolfgang Schuhmann
Wolfgang Schuhmann Ruhr University Bochum
Zhong-Qun Tian
Zhong-Qun Tian Xiamen University
Serhiy Cherevko
Serhiy Cherevko Forschungszentrum Jülich

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