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Materials Science
Germany
2022

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Materials Science

D-Index
79
Citations
23716
World Ranking
2809
National Ranking
159

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Pinna is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their main research topics include:

  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Advanced battery technologies research

Nicola Pinna has a significant number of publications in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Nanoscale

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • MoS2 Van der Waals p-n Junctions Enabling Highly Selective Room-Temperature NO2 Sensor (2020, Advanced Functional Materials)
  • Platinum single atoms on tin oxide ultrathin films for extremely sensitive gas detection (2020, Materials Horizons)
  • Recent Advances in Multimetal and Doped Transition-Metal Phosphides for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction at Different pH values (2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)
  • Edge-enriched WS2 nanosheets on carbon nanofibers boosts NO2 detection at room temperature (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Partially oxidized ruthenium aerogel as highly active bifunctional electrocatalyst for overall water splitting in both alkaline and acidic media (2022, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental)

Throughout their career, Nicola Pinna has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Their well-known coauthors include:

  • Norbert Koch
  • Patrícia A. Russo
  • Thorsten Schultz
  • Muhammad Hamid Raza
  • S. Santangelo

Best Publications

  • Nanostructured Materials for Room-Temperature Gas Sensors

    Jun Zhang;Jun Zhang;Xianghong Liu;Giovanni Neri;Nicola Pinna

  • Two-Dimensional Nanostructured Materials for Gas Sensing

    Xianghong Liu;Xianghong Liu;Tiantian Ma;Nicola Pinna;Jun Zhang;Jun Zhang

  • Atomic Layer Deposition of Nanostructured Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications

    Catherine Marichy;Mikhael Bechelany;Nicola Pinna;Nicola Pinna

  • Surfactant-free nonaqueous synthesis of metal oxide nanostructures.

    Nicola Pinna;Markus Niederberger

  • Galvanic Replacement Reactions in Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

    Myoung Hwan Oh;Taekyung Yu;Seung Ho Yu;Byungkwon Lim

  • Turkevich in New Robes: Key Questions Answered for the Most Common Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis

    Maria Wuithschick;Alexander Birnbaum;Steffen Witte;Michael Sztucki

  • Magnetite Nanocrystals: Nonaqueous Synthesis, Characterization, and Solubility†

    Nicola Pinna;Stephanie Grancharov;Pablo Beato;Pierre Bonville

  • Electrospun Nanomaterials for Supercapacitor Electrodes: Designed Architectures and Electrochemical Performance

    Xiaofeng Lu;Xiaofeng Lu;Ce Wang;Frédéric Favier;Frédéric Favier;Nicola Pinna

  • Amorphous layer around aragonite platelets in nacre

    Nadine Nassif;Nicola Pinna;Nicole Gehrke;Markus Antonietti

  • Nonaqueous Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Semiconducting Metal Oxides for Gas Sensing

    Nicola Pinna;Giovanni Neri;Markus Antonietti;Markers Niederberger

  • Periodically ordered nanoscale islands and mesoporous films composed of nanocrystalline multimetallic oxides

    David Grosso;Cédric Boissière;Bernd Smarsly;Torsten Brezesinski

  • Chlorine intercalation in graphitic carbon nitride for efficient photocatalysis

    Chengyin Liu;Yihe Zhang;Fan Dong;A.H. Reshak

  • Highly Crystalline Cubic Mesoporous TiO2 with 10-nm Pore Diameter Made with a New Block Copolymer Template

    Bernd Smarsly;David Grosso;Torsten Brezesinski;Nicola Pinna

  • Ni Strongly Coupled with Mo2C Encapsulated in Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon Nanofibers as Robust Bifunctional Catalyst for Overall Water Splitting

    Meixuan Li;Yun Zhu;Huiyuan Wang;Ce Wang

  • A General Soft‐Chemistry Route to Perovskites and Related Materials: Synthesis of BaTiO3, BaZrO3, and LiNbO3 Nanoparticles

    Markus Niederberger;Nicola Pinna;Julien Polleux;Markus Antonietti

  • Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Organic Solvents

    Markus Niederberger;Nicola Pinna

  • Nonaqueous and halide-free route to crystalline BaTiO3, SrTiO3, and (Ba,Sr)TiO3 nanoparticles via a mechanism involving C-C bond formation.

    Markus Niederberger;Georg Garnweitner;Nicola Pinna;Markus Antonietti

  • Ligand‐Directed Assembly of Preformed Titania Nanocrystals into Highly Anisotropic Nanostructures

    Julien Polleux;Nicola Pinna;Markus Antonietti;Markus Niederberger

  • Superstructures of Calcium Carbonate Crystals by Oriented Attachment

    Nicole Gehrke;Helmut Cölfen;Nicola Pinna;Markus Antonietti

  • Room‐Temperature Hydrogen Sensing with Heteronanostructures Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide and Tin Oxide

    Patrícia A. Russo;Nicola Donato;Salvatore Gianluca Leonardi;Seunghwan Baek

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Georg Willinger
Marc Georg Willinger Technical University of Munich
Giovanni Neri
Giovanni Neri University of Messina
Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society
Nicola Donato
Nicola Donato University of Messina
Yung-Eun Sung
Yung-Eun Sung Seoul National University
Jeffrey Pyun
Jeffrey Pyun University of Arizona
Norbert Koch
Norbert Koch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jun Zhang
Jun Zhang Qingdao University
Seung-Ho Yu
Seung-Ho Yu Korea University

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