2026 Roman Fasel: 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	76	3225	3114	58	54	284	26047

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Materials Science

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26047

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

4103
Citations
On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

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

1458
Citations
Controlled synthesis of single-chirality carbon nanotubes

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

689
Citations
Porous graphenes: two-dimensional polymer synthesis with atomic precision

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

655
Citations
Graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions

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

653
Citations
Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons.

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

562
Citations
Electronic Structure of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

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

560
Citations
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

557
Citations
On-Surface Synthesis of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons

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

542
Citations
Two-dimensional polymer formation on surfaces: insight into the roles of precursor mobility and reactivity

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

536
Citations
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

483
Citations
Production and processing of graphene and related materials

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

456
Citations
Amplification of chirality in two-dimensional enantiomorphous lattices.

Roman Fasel;Manfred Parschau;Karl-Heinz Ernst

455
Citations
Superlubricity of graphene nanoribbons on gold surfaces.

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

431
Citations
Porous Graphene as an Atmospheric Nanofilter

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

406
Citations
Topological frustration induces unconventional magnetism in a nanographene.

Shantanu Mishra;Doreen Beyer;Kristjan Eimre;Shawulienu Kezilebieke

368
Citations
Toward Cove-Edged Low Band Gap Graphene Nanoribbons

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

361
Citations
On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of 9-Atom Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons

Leopold Talirz;Hajo Söde;Tim Dumslaff;Shiyong Wang

332
Citations
Giant edge state splitting at atomically precise graphene zigzag edges

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

293
Citations
Termini of bottom-up fabricated graphene nanoribbons.

Leopold Talirz;Hajo Söde;Jinming Cai;Pascal Ruffieux

276
Citations