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76
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Roman Fasel 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 Roman Fasel sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 284 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Roman Fasel 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 Roman Fasel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Roman Fasel is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields including Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy, with notable focus areas in Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics cover a broad spectrum:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Surface Chemistry and Catalysis
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Roman Fasel has contributed to various publication venues with a higher frequency in some notable journals and resources:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Among their recent papers are several published between 2020 and 2021, reflecting topics likely aligned with their main research interests:

  • Production and processing of graphene and related materials, 2020, 2D Materials
  • Topological Defect-Induced Magnetism in a Nanographene, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthesis and characterization of [7]triangulene, 2021, Nanoscale
  • Coupled Spin States in Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons with Asymmetric Zigzag Edge Extensions, 2020, Nano Letters
  • On-Surface Synthesis of Unsaturated Carbon Nanostructures with Regularly Fused Pentagon-Heptagon Pairs, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Pascal Ruffieux
  • Kläus Müllen
  • Carlo A. Pignedoli
  • Akimitsu Narita
  • Gabriela Borin Barin

Best Publications

  • Atomically precise bottom-up fabrication of graphene nanoribbons

    Jinming Cai;Pascal Ruffieux;Rached Jaafar;Marco Bieri

  • On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

    Pascal Ruffieux;Shiyong Wang;Bo Yang;Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez

  • Controlled synthesis of single-chirality carbon nanotubes

    Juan Ramon Sanchez-Valencia;Juan Ramon Sanchez-Valencia;Thomas Dienel;Oliver Gröning;Ivan Shorubalko

  • Porous graphenes: two-dimensional polymer synthesis with atomic precision

    Marco Bieri;Matthias Treier;Jinming Cai;Kamel Aït-Mansour

  • Graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions

    Jinming Cai;Carlo A. Pignedoli;Leopold Talirz;Pascal Ruffieux

  • Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons.

    Oliver Gröning;Shiyong Wang;Shiyong Wang;Xuelin Yao;Carlo A. Pignedoli

  • Electronic Structure of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

    Pascal Ruffieux;Jinming Cai;Nicholas C. Plumb;Luc Patthey

  • Short-channel field-effect transistors with 9-atom and 13-atom wide graphene nanoribbons

    Juan Pablo Llinas;Juan Pablo Llinas;Andrew Fairbrother;Gabriela Borin Barin;Wu Shi;Wu Shi

  • On-Surface Synthesis of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

    Leopold Talirz;Leopold Talirz;Pascal Ruffieux;Roman Fasel;Roman Fasel

  • Two-dimensional polymer formation on surfaces: insight into the roles of precursor mobility and reactivity

    Marco Bieri;Manh-Thuong Nguyen;Oliver Gröning;Jinming Cai

  • Surface-assisted cyclodehydrogenation provides a synthetic route towards easily processable and chemically tailored nanographenes.

    Matthias Treier;Carlo Antonio Pignedoli;Teodoro Laino;Teodoro Laino;Ralph Rieger

  • Production and processing of graphene and related materials

    Claudia Backes;Claudia Backes;Amr M Abdelkader;Concepción Alonso;Amandine Andrieux-Ledier

  • Amplification of chirality in two-dimensional enantiomorphous lattices.

    Roman Fasel;Manfred Parschau;Karl-Heinz Ernst

  • Superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold surfaces.

    Shigeki Kawai;Andrea Benassi;Andrea Benassi;Enrico Gnecco;Hajo Söde

  • Porous Graphene as an Atmospheric Nanofilter

    Stephan Blankenburg;Stephan Blankenburg;Marco Bieri;Roman Fasel;Klaus Müllen

  • Topological frustration induces unconventional magnetism in a nanographene.

    Shantanu Mishra;Doreen Beyer;Kristjan Eimre;Shawulienu Kezilebieke

  • Toward Cove-Edged Low Band Gap Graphene Nanoribbons

    Junzhi Liu;Bo-Wei Li;Yuan-Zhi Tan;Angelos Giannakopoulos

  • On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of 9-Atom Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons

    Leopold Talirz;Hajo Söde;Tim Dumslaff;Shiyong Wang

  • Giant edge state splitting at atomically precise graphene zigzag edges

    Shiyong Wang;Leopold Talirz;Carlo A. Pignedoli;Xinliang Feng

  • Termini of bottom-up fabricated graphene nanoribbons.

    Leopold Talirz;Hajo Söde;Jinming Cai;Pascal Ruffieux

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Ruffieux
Pascal Ruffieux Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Xinliang Feng
Xinliang Feng TU Dresden
Oliver Gröning
Oliver Gröning Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Akimitsu Narita
Akimitsu Narita Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Thomas Greber
Thomas Greber University of Zurich
Karl-Heinz Ernst
Karl-Heinz Ernst Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Vincent Meunier
Vincent Meunier Pennsylvania State University
Qiang Sun
Qiang Sun Peking University

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