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Nikolai Gaponik

Nikolai Gaponik

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
74
Citations
20651
World Ranking
3613
National Ranking
200

Nikolai Gaponik publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nikolai Gaponik sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 336 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Nikolai Gaponik D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nikolai Gaponik sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nikolai Gaponik is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed significantly to research in materials science and engineering, with a focus on materials chemistry and electrical and electronic engineering. Their work spans various subfields including renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

The primary research topics explored by Gaponik include:

  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Gaponik has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent outlets for their research publications include:

  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Recent notable publications include:

  • Boosting Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction on CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals by Immobilizing Metal Complexes, 2020, Chemistry of Materials
  • Silanized Luminescent Quantum Dots for the Simultaneous Multicolor Lateral Flow Immunoassay of Two Mycotoxins, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Ultrasmall CoS nanoparticles embedded in heteroatom-doped carbon for sodium-ion batteries and mechanism explorations via synchrotron X-ray techniques, 2023, Journal of Energy Chemistry
  • Review of photocathodes for electron beam sources in particle accelerators, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Dependence of Quantum Dot Toxicity In Vitro on Their Size, Chemical Composition, and Surface Charge, 2022, Nanomaterials

Collaboration has been an important aspect of Gaponik's research, with frequent co-authors including Vladimir Lesnyak, René Hübner, Guocan Jiang, Alexander Eychmüller, and Jin Wang. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research in materials science and engineering.

Best Publications

  • THIOL-CAPPING OF CDTE NANOCRYSTALS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO ORGANOMETALLIC SYNTHETIC ROUTES

    Nikolai Gaponik;Dmitri V. Talapin;Andrey L. Rogach;Kathrin Hoppe

  • Aqueous synthesis of thiol-capped CdTe nanocrystals : State-of-the-art

    Andrey L. Rogach;Thomas Franzl;Thomas A. Klar;Jochen Feldmann

  • Determination of the Fluorescence Quantum Yield of Quantum Dots: Suitable Procedures and Achievable Uncertainties

    Markus Grabolle;Monika Spieles;Vladimir Lesnyak;Nikolai Gaponik

  • Light‐Emitting Diodes with Semiconductor Nanocrystals

    Andrey L. Rogach;Nikolai Gaponik;John M. Lupton;Cristina Bertoni

  • Modern Inorganic Aerogels.

    Christoph Ziegler;Christoph Ziegler;André Wolf;Wei Liu;Anne-Kristin Herrmann

  • Noble metal aerogels-synthesis, characterization, and application as electrocatalysts.

    Wei Liu;Anne Kristin Herrmann;Nadja C. Bigall;Paramaconi Rodriguez

  • Hydrogels and aerogels from noble metal nanoparticles.

    Nadja C. Bigall;Anne-Kristin Herrmann;Maria Vogel;Marcus Rose

  • A New Approach to Crystallization of CdSe Nanoparticles into Ordered Three‐Dimensional Superlattices

    Dmitri V. Talapin;Dmitri V. Talapin;Elena V. Shevchenko;Andreas Kornowski;Nikolai Gaponik;Nikolai Gaponik

  • Etching of Colloidal InP Nanocrystals with Fluorides: Photochemical Nature of the Process Resulting in High Photoluminescence Efficiency

    Dmitri V. Talapin;Nikolai Gaponik;Holger Borchert;Andrey L. Rogach

  • Quantum dot integrated LEDs using photonic and excitonic color conversion

    Hilmi Volkan Demir;Hilmi Volkan Demir;Sedat Nizamoglu;Talha Erdem;Evren Mutlugun;Evren Mutlugun

  • Nanoengineered polymer capsules: tools for detection, controlled delivery, and site-specific manipulation.

    Gleb B. Sukhorukov;Andrey L. Rogach;Bernd Zebli;Tim Liedl

  • Efficient Phase Transfer of Luminescent Thiol-Capped Nanocrystals: From Water to Nonpolar Organic Solvents

    Nikolai Gaponik;Dmitri V. Talapin;Andrey L. Rogach;and Alexander Eychmüller

  • Bimetallic Aerogels: High‐Performance Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Wei Liu;Paramaconi Rodriguez;Paramaconi Rodriguez;Lars Borchardt;Annette Foelske

  • Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: the aqueous approach.

    Vladimir Lesnyak;Nikolai Gaponik;Alexander Eychmüller

  • Nonfunctionalized nanocrystals can exploit a cell's active transport machinery delivering them to specific nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments.

    Igor Nabiev;Siobhan Mitchell;Anthony Davies;Yvonne Williams

  • Boosting Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction on CsPbBr3 Perovskite Nanocrystals by Immobilizing Metal Complexes

    Zhoujie Chen;Yangguang Hu;Jin Wang;Qing Shen

  • Size-dependent electrochemical behavior of thiol-capped CdTe nanocrystals in aqueous solution.

    Sergey K. Poznyak;Nikolai P. Osipovich;Alexey Shavel;Dmitri V. Talapin

  • Relations between the Photoluminescence Efficiency of CdTe Nanocrystals and Their Surface Properties Revealed by Synchrotron XPS

    Holger Borchert;Dmitri V. Talapin;Nikolai Gaponik;Colm McGinley

  • Factors governing the quality of aqueous CdTe nanocrystals: calculations and experiment.

    Alexey Shavel;Nikolai Gaponik;Alexander Eychmüller

  • Toward Encoding Combinatorial Libraries: Charge‐Driven Microencapsulation of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Luminescing in the Visible and Near IR

    Nikolai Gaponik;Igor L. Radtchenko;Gleb B. Sukhorukov;Horst Weller

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey L. Rogach
Andrey L. Rogach City University of Hong Kong
Hilmi Volkan Demir
Hilmi Volkan Demir Bilkent University
John F. Donegan
John F. Donegan Trinity College Dublin
Dmitri V. Talapin
Dmitri V. Talapin University of Chicago
Horst Weller
Horst Weller Universität Hamburg
Yurii K. Gun'ko
Yurii K. Gun'ko Trinity College Dublin
C. M. Sotomayor Torres
C. M. Sotomayor Torres Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia
Dietrich R. T. Zahn
Dietrich R. T. Zahn Chemnitz University of Technology

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