2026 Richard D. Tilley: 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	72	4053	3924	134	133	403	18306

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Overview

Richard D. Tilley is a researcher affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their work spans multiple fields with a strong emphasis on Engineering and Materials Science.

Their main fields of study include:

Engineering
Materials Science

Tilley's subfields of study demonstrate interdisciplinary engagement, incorporating:

Biomedical Engineering
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Materials Chemistry
Molecular Biology

The primary topics of research cover a variety of areas related to energy conversion and materials chemistry, including:

Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
Advanced battery technologies research
Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
Electrochemical sensors and biosensors

Among their recent publications are the following notable papers:

"Flexible and efficient perovskite quantum dot solar cells via hybrid interfacial architecture" (2021), published in Nature Communications
"A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation" (2022), published in Nature Catalysis
"Co-catalytic metal-support interactions in single-atom electrocatalysts" (2024), published in Nature Reviews Materials
"The Influence of Nanoconfinement on Electrocatalysis" (2022), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
"Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells" (2022), published in Nature Energy

The venues in which Tilley frequently publishes research include:

Chemical Science
Chemical Communications
Advanced Functional Materials
Chemistry of Materials
Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tilley has collaborated extensively with a number of researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

J. Justin Gooding
Soshan Cheong
Lucy Gloag
Tânia M. Benedetti
Wolfgang Schuhmann

Best Publications

Water‐Soluble Photoluminescent Silicon Quantum Dots

Jamie H. Warner;Akiyoshi Hoshino;Kenji Yamamoto;Richard. D. Tilley

632
Citations
Oxide-based inorganic/organic and nanoporous spherical particles: synthesis and functional properties

Kota Shiba;Motohiro Tagaya;Richard D Tilley;Nobutaka Hanagata

470
Citations
A single-Pt-atom-on-Ru-nanoparticle electrocatalyst for CO-resilient methanol oxidation

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419
Citations
Shape control of platinum and palladium nanoparticles for catalysis

Soshan Cheong;John D. Watt;Richard D. Tilley

374
Citations
Advances in the Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Sensing.

Lucy Gloag;Milad Mehdipour;Dongfei Chen;Richard D Tilley

327
Citations
Flexible and efficient perovskite quantum dot solar cells via hybrid interfacial architecture.

Long Hu;Long Hu;Long Hu;Qian Zhao;Qian Zhao;Shujuan Huang;Jianghui Zheng;Jianghui Zheng

323
Citations
Chemical insight into the origin of red and blue photoluminescence arising from freestanding silicon nanocrystals.

Mita Dasog;Zhenyu Yang;Sarah Regli;Tonya M. Atkins

321
Citations
Challenges and Solutions in Developing Ultrasensitive Biosensors

Yanfang Wu;Richard D. Tilley;J. Justin Gooding

310
Citations
Nucleic acid hybridization on an electrically reconfigurable network of gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles enables microRNA detection in blood

Roya Tavallaie;Joshua McCarroll;Marion Le Grand;Nicholas Ariotti

288
Citations
Chemical Reactions on Surface Molecules Attached to Silicon Quantum Dots

Amane Shiohara;Sanshiro Hanada;Sujay Prabakar;Kohki Fujioka

276
Citations
Preparation, self-assembly, and mechanistic study of highly monodispersed nanocubes.

Jintian Ren;Richard D. Tilley

270
Citations
Gold coated magnetic nanoparticles: from preparation to surface modification for analytical and biomedical applications

Saimon Moraes Silva;Roya Tavallaie;Lydia Sandiford;Richard D. Tilley

256
Citations
How Nanoparticles Coalesce: An in Situ Study of Au Nanoparticle Aggregation and Grain Growth

Bridget Ingham;Bridget Ingham;Teck H. Lim;Christian J. Dotzler;Christian J. Dotzler;Anna Henning

245
Citations
Solution synthesis, optical properties, and bioimaging applications of silicon nanocrystals.

Benjamin F. P. McVey;Richard D. Tilley

220
Citations
Ultrafast growth of highly branched palladium nanostructures for catalysis.

John Watt;Soshan Cheong;Michael F. Toney;Bridget Ingham

219
Citations
Unveiling microscopic carrier loss mechanisms in 12% efficient Cu2ZnSnSe4 solar cells

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205
Citations
Micro-emulsion synthesis of monodisperse surface stabilized silicon nanocrystals

Richard D. Tilley;Jamie H. Warner;Kazushige Yamamoto;Isao Matsui

197
Citations
Cascade Reactions in Nanozymes: Spatially Separated Active Sites inside Ag-Core-Porous-Cu-Shell Nanoparticles for Multistep Carbon Dioxide Reduction to Higher Organic Molecules.

Peter B. O’Mara;Patrick Wilde;Tania M. Benedetti;Corina Andronescu

189
Citations
In situ and ex situ studies of platinum nanocrystals: growth and evolution in solution.

Soshan Cheong;John Watt;Bridget Ingham;Michael F. Toney

187
Citations
Simple Synthesis and Functionalization of Iron Nanoparticles for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Soshan Cheong;Peter Ferguson;Kirk W. Feindel;Ian F. Hermans

183
Citations
Synthesis of SnS quantum dots.

Ying Xu;Najeh Al-Salim;Chris W. Bumby;Richard D. Tilley

173
Citations
Luminescent passive-oxidized silicon quantum dots as biological staining labels and their cytotoxicity effects at high concentration

Kouki Fujioka;Masaki Hiruoka;Keisuke Sato;Keisuke Sato;Noriyoshi Manabe

171
Citations
The Microemulsion Synthesis of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Silicon Nanocrystals

Richard D. Tilley;Kenji Yamamoto

170
Citations