2026 Raffaella Buonsanti: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	56	8205	7935	121	114	170	12498

Overview

Raffaella Buonsanti is a researcher affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Energy, with a significant number of publications reflecting contributions across these domains.

The main fields of study associated with Buonsanti include:

Materials Science
Energy

Within these broad areas, Buonsanti has specialized in several subfields such as:

Materials Chemistry
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Catalysis
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

Their work has engaged with key topics relevant to energy conversion and nanomaterials, including:

CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Ionic liquids properties and applications
Copper-based nanomaterials and applications
Perovskite Materials and Applications
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Buonsanti has published extensively in a number of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of the American Chemical Society
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Chemical Science
Chemistry of Materials
ACS Catalysis

Among their recent papers are:

Facet-Dependent Selectivity of Cu Catalysts in Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction at Commercially Viable Current Densities, 2020, ACS Catalysis
Stability and Degradation Mechanisms of Copper-Based Catalysts for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO₂ Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts, 2021, ACS Catalysis
2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO₂ reduction, 2022, Journal of Physics Energy
Real-time Monitoring Reveals Dissolution/Redeposition Mechanism in Copper Nanocatalysts during the Initial Stages of the CO₂ Reduction Reaction, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Buonsanti include:

Anna Loiudice
Petru P. Albertini
Jan Vávra
Ona Segura Lecina
James R. Pankhurst

Best Publications

Tailoring Copper Nanocrystals towards C2 Products in Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Anna Loiudice;Peter Lobaccaro;Peter Lobaccaro;Esmail A Kamali;Timothy Thao

892
Citations
Dynamically Modulating the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Doped Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Guillermo Garcia;Raffaella Buonsanti;Evan L. Runnerstrom;Rueben J. Mendelsberg

648
Citations
Structural Sensitivities in Bimetallic Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Revealed by Ag-Cu Nanodimers

Jianfeng Huang;Mounir Mensi;Emad Oveisi;Valeria Mantella

551
Citations
Tunable infrared absorption and visible transparency of colloidal aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanocrystals.

Raffaella Buonsanti;Anna Llordes;Shaul Aloni;Brett A. Helms

541
Citations
Facet-Dependent Selectivity of Cu Catalysts in Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction at Commercially Viable Current Densities

Gian Luca De Gregorio;Thomas Burdyny;Anna Loiudice;Pranit Iyengar

512
Citations
CsPbBr3 QD/AlOx Inorganic Nanocomposites with Exceptional Stability in Water, Light, and Heat

Anna Loiudice;Seryio Saris;Emad Oveisi;Duncan T. L. Alexander

477
Citations
Stability and Degradation Mechanisms of Copper‐Based Catalysts for Electrochemical CO 2 Reduction

Stefan Popović;Milutin Smiljanić;Primož Jovanovič;Jan Vavra

458
Citations
Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO 2 reduction

Jianfeng Huang;Nicolas Georg Hörmann;Emad Oveisi;Anna Maria Loiudice

425
Citations
Chemistry of Doped Colloidal Nanocrystals

Raffaella Buonsanti;Delia J. Milliron

393
Citations
Exceptionally Mild Reactive Stripping of Native Ligands from Nanocrystal Surfaces by Using Meerwein’s Salt

Evelyn L. Rosen;Raffaella Buonsanti;Anna Llordes;April M. Sawvel

310
Citations
Nonhydrolytic synthesis of high-quality anisotropically shaped brookite TiO2 nanocrystals.

Raffaella Buonsanti;Vincenzo Grillo;Elvio Carlino;Cinzia Giannini

295
Citations
Nb-Doped Colloidal TiO2 Nanocrystals with Tunable Infrared Absorption

Luca De Trizio;Raffaella Buonsanti;Alina M. Schimpf;Anna Llordes

227
Citations
Elucidating the Facet-Dependent Selectivity for CO2 Electroreduction to Ethanol of Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts

Pranit Iyengar;Manuel J. Kolb;James R. Pankhurst;Federico Calle-Vallejo

224
Citations
Selective and Stable Electroreduction of CO2 to CO at the Copper/Indium Interface

Wen Luo;Wen Luo;Wei Xie;Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler;Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler;Emad Oveisi

214
Citations
Seeded growth of asymmetric binary nanocrystals made of a semiconductor TiO2 rodlike section and a magnetic gamma-Fe2O3 spherical domain.

Raffaella Buonsanti;Vincenzo Grillo;Elvio Carlino;Cinzia Giannini

204
Citations
Real-time Monitoring Reveals Dissolution/Redeposition Mechanism in Copper Nanocatalysts during the Initial Stages of the CO2 Reduction Reaction.

Jan Vavra;Tzu-Hsien Shen;Dragos Stoian;Vasiliki Tileli

198
Citations
Correlating Magneto-Structural Properties to Hyperthermia Performance of Highly Monodisperse Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by a Seeded-Growth Route

Michael Levy;Alessandra Quarta;Ana Espinosa;Albert Figuerola;Albert Figuerola

186
Citations
Synthesis of Cu/CeO2-x Nanocrystalline Heterodimers with Interfacial Active Sites To Promote CO2 Electroreduction

Seyedeh Behnaz Varandili;Jianfeng Huang;Emad Oveisi;Gian Luca De Gregorio

179
Citations
Colloidal Strategies for Preparing Oxide‐Based Hybrid Nanocrystals

Marianna Casavola;Raffaella Buonsanti;Gianvito Caputo;Pantaleo Davide Cozzoli

176
Citations
Water solubilization of hydrophobic nanocrystals by means of poly(maleic anhydride-alt-1-octadecene)

Riccardo Di Corato;Alessandra Quarta;Philomena Piacenza;Andrea Ragusa

167
Citations
Near‐Infrared Spectrally Selective Plasmonic Electrochromic Thin Films

Guillermo Garcia;Raffaella Buonsanti;Anna Llordes;Evan L. Runnerstrom;Evan L. Runnerstrom

157
Citations
Innenrücktitelbild: CsPbBr3 QD/AlOx Inorganic Nanocomposites with Exceptional Stability in Water, Light, and Heat (Angew. Chem. 36/2017)

Anna Loiudice;Seryio Saris;Emad Oveisi;Duncan T. L. Alexander

4
Citations