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Renato Zenobi

Renato Zenobi

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Chemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
37900
World Ranking
1525
National Ranking
27

Overview

Renato Zenobi is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily in the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several related subfields, including Spectroscopy, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of advanced analytical and biosensing techniques. These include Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications, Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Renato Zenobi has contributed to various scientific papers, among which some recent notable publications are:

  • Infrared and Raman chemical imaging and spectroscopy at the nanoscale, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective, 2024, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Nanometre-scale spectroscopic visualization of catalytic sites during a hydrogenation reaction on a Pd/Au bimetallic catalyst, 2020, Nature Catalysis
  • Ultrafine Cellulose Nanofiber-Assisted Physical and Chemical Cross-Linking of MXene Sheets for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding, 2021, Small Methods
  • Immobilization of molecular catalysts on electrode surfaces using host-guest interactions, 2021, Nature Chemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with leading co-authors including Naresh Kumar, Adam Pruška, Julian A. Harrison, Stamatios Giannoukos, and Jiayi Lan.

Renato Zenobi publishes regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent journals and venues for their publications include:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Nanoscale chemical analysis by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

    Raoul M. Stöckle;Yung Doug Suh;Volker Deckert;Renato Zenobi

  • Ion formation in MALDI mass spectrometry

    Renato Zenobi;Richard Knochenmuss

  • Identification of polymers as major components of atmospheric organic aerosols.

    Markus Kalberer;Dwane Paulsen;Mirjam Sax;Martin Steinbacher

  • Scanning near-field optical microscopy with aperture probes: Fundamentals and applications

    Bert Hecht;Beate Sick;Urs P. Wild;Volker Deckert

  • Single-Cell Metabolomics: Analytical and Biological Perspectives

    Renato Zenobi

  • MALDI Ionization: The Role of In-Plume Processes

    R Knochenmuss;R Zenobi

  • Quantitative determination of noncovalent binding interactions using soft ionization mass spectrometry

    Jürg M. Daniel;Sebastian D. Friess;Sudha Rajagopalan;Silke Wendt

  • High-quality near-field optical probes by tube etching

    Raoul Stöckle;Christian Fokas;Volker Deckert;Renato Zenobi

  • Single Molecule Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with Silver Tips

    Weihua Zhang;Boon Siang Yeo;and Thomas Schmid;Renato Zenobi

  • Chemical cross‐linking with NHS esters: a systematic study on amino acid reactivities

    Stefanie Mädler;Claudia Bich;David Touboul;Renato Zenobi

  • Synthesis of a Two-Dimensional Covalent Organic Monolayer through Dynamic Imine Chemistry at the Air/Water Interface

    Wenyang Dai;Feng Shao;Jacek Szczerbiński;Ryan McCaffrey

  • Nanoscale chemical imaging using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a critical review.

    Thomas Schmid;Lothar Opilik;Carolin Blum;Renato Zenobi

  • What can we learn from ambient ionization techniques

    Huanwen Chen;Gerardo Gamez;Renato Zenobi

  • Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic and biogenic precursors

    U. Baltensperger;M. Kalberer;J. Dommen;D. Paulsen

  • Aerobic microbial dolomite at the nanometer scale : Implications for the geologic record

    Mónica Sánchez-Román;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Thomas Schmid;Maria Dittrich

  • Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy - Its status, challenges and future directions

    Boon-Siang Yeo;Johannes Stadler;Thomas Schmid;Renato Zenobi

  • The Matrix Suppression Effect and Ionization Mechanisms in Matrix‐assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization

    Richard Knochenmuss;Frédéric Dubois;Michael J. Dale;Renato Zenobi

  • Infrared and Raman chemical imaging and spectroscopy at the nanoscale

    Dmitry Kurouski;Alexandre Dazzi;Renato Zenobi;Andrea Centrone

  • Graphite/Liquid mixed matrices for laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry.

    Michael J. Dale;and Richard Knochenmuss;Renato Zenobi

  • Rapid in vivo fingerprinting of nonvolatile compounds in breath by extractive electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

    Huanwen Chen;Huanwen Chen;Arno Wortmann;Weihua Zhang;Renato Zenobi

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics of single yeast cells

    Alfredo J. Ibáñez;Stephan R. Fagerer;Anna Mareike Schmidt;Pawel L. Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Deckert
Volker Deckert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Markus Kalberer
Markus Kalberer University of Basel
Boon Siang Yeo
Boon Siang Yeo National University of Singapore
Ernö Pretsch
Ernö Pretsch ETH Zurich
Stefan Schmid
Stefan Schmid Technical University of Berlin
Jian-Feng Li
Jian-Feng Li Xiamen University
Xue Li
Xue Li Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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