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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For explorations of fullerenes, nanotubes, graphite, and graphene, as well as lightdriven synthetic molecular motors
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Petra Rudolf is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, focusing on research primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans various subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Polymers and Plastics.

The scientist's publications cover a range of topics including Graphene research and applications, MXene and MAX Phase Materials, 2D Materials and Applications, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Advancements in Battery Materials, Conducting polymers and applications, and Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies.

Among the frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Carbon Energy

Some notable recent papers include:

  • New insights in polydopamine formation via surface adsorption, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Advances in fluorescent carbon dots for biomedical applications, 2020, Advances in Physics X
  • A facile approach to hydrophilic oxidized fullerenes and their derivatives as cytotoxic agents and supports for nanobiocatalytic systems, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • WO3-SiO2 nanomaterials synthesized using a novel template-free method in supercritical CO2 as heterogeneous catalysts for epoxidation with H2O2, 2020, Materials Today Chemistry
  • Plasma Driven Exsolution for Nanoscale Functionalization of Perovskite Oxides, 2021, Small Methods

Frequent collaborators include Oreste De Luca, Dimitrios Gournis, Yan Feng, Konstantinos Spyrou, and Yutao Pei.

Recognition for their work includes the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) awarded in 2010, with a citation noting explorations of fullerenes, nanotubes, graphite, and graphene, as well as light-driven synthetic molecular motors. Petra Rudolf is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering

    Roberto Macovez;Petra Rudolf

  • Macroscopic transport by synthetic molecular machines.

    José Berná;David A. Leigh;Monika Lubomska;Sandra M. Mendoza

  • Functionalization of graphene via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

    Mildred Quintana;Konstantinos Spyrou;Marek Grzelczak;Wesley R. Browne

  • Out-of-Plane Orbital Characters of Intrinsic and Doped Holes in La2–xSrxCuO4

    C.T. Chen;L.H. Tjeng;J. Kwo;H.L. Kao

  • A Shape‐Adaptive, Antibacterial‐Coating of Immobilized Quaternary‐Ammonium Compounds Tethered on Hyperbranched Polyurea and its Mechanism of Action

    Lia Asri;Mihaela Crismaru;Steven Roest;Yun Chen

  • New insights in polydopamine formation via surface adsorption

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  • Synthetic light-activated molecular switches and motors on surfaces

    Nathalie Katsonis;Monika Lubomska;Michael M. Pollard;Bernard Feringa

  • Electronic states and phases of KxC60 from photoemission and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

    C. T. Chen;L. H. Tjeng;P. Rudolf;G. Meigs

  • X-ray magnetic dichroism of antiferromagnet Fe2O3: The orientation of magnetic moments observed by Fe 2p x-ray absorption spectroscopy

    Pieter Kuiper;Barry G. Searle;Petra Rudolf;L. H. Tjeng

  • L2,3 XANES of the High Tc Superconductor YBa2Cu3O~7 with Variable Oxygen Content

    A. Bianconi;A. Congiu Castellano;M. De Santis;Petra Rudolf

  • Photoemission, autoionization, and x-ray-absorption spectroscopy of ultrathin-film C60 on Au(110).

    A. J. Maxwell;P. A. Brühwiler;A. Nilsson;N. Mårtensson

  • Structural Preablation Dynamics of Graphite Observed by Ultrafast Electron Crystallography

    Fabrizio Carbone;Peter Baum;Petra Rudolf;Ahmed H. Zewail

  • Three state redox-active molecular shuttle that switches in solution and on a surface.

    Giulia Fioravanti;Natalia Haraszkiewicz;Euan R Kay;Sandra M Mendoza

  • Development of effective nanobiocatalytic systems through the immobilization of hydrolases on functionalized carbon-based nanomaterials.

    Ioannis V. Pavlidis;Torge Vorhaben;Theodoros Tsoufis;Petra Rudolf

  • Control of surface wettability using tripodal light-activated molecular motors.

    Kuang-Yen Chen;Oleksii Ivashenko;Gregory T. Carroll;Jort Robertus

  • Charge-transfer and structure in C-60 adsorption on metal surfaces

    M.R.C. Hunt;S. Modesti;Petra Rudolf;R.E. Palmer

  • One-pot functionalization of graphene with porphyrin through cycloaddition reactions.

    Xiaoyan Zhang;Lili Hou;Arjen Cnossen;Anthony C. Coleman

  • Electron-electron correlation in graphite : A combined angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles study

    A. Gruneis;Claudio Attaccalite;T. Pichler;V. Zabolotnyy

  • Carbon Nanotubes Decorated with Palladium Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalytic Activity

    Nikolaos Karousis;Georgia-Eleni Tsotsou;Fabrizio Evangelista;Petra Rudolf

  • Lipase immobilization on smectite nanoclays: Characterization and application to the epoxidation of alpha-pinene

    Aikaterini A. Tzialla;Ioannis V. Pavlidis;Marcella P. Felicissimo;Petra Rudolf

  • Hydrogen Storage in Graphene-Based Materials: Efforts Towards Enhanced Hydrogen Absorption

    Konstantinos Spyrou;Dimitrios Gournis;Petra Rudolf

  • Determination of charge states of C60 adsorbed on metal surfaces.

    S. Modesti;S. Cerasari;Petra Rudolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Gournis
Dimitrios Gournis Technical University of Crete
Nils Mårtensson
Nils Mårtensson Uppsala University
David A. Leigh
David A. Leigh University of Manchester
Francesco Zerbetto
Francesco Zerbetto University of Bologna
Ben L. Feringa
Ben L. Feringa University of Groningen
Thomas Palstra
Thomas Palstra University of Twente
C. T. Chen
C. T. Chen National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Liu Hao Tjeng
Liu Hao Tjeng Max Planck Society
Maurizio Prato
Maurizio Prato University of Trieste
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler University of Vienna

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