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Shannon W. Boettcher

Shannon W. Boettcher

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
74
Citations
37419
World Ranking
3539
National Ranking
972

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
37595
World Ranking
4359
National Ranking
1380

Shannon W. Boettcher 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 Shannon W. Boettcher sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 193 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shannon W. Boettcher 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 Shannon W. Boettcher sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Shannon W. Boettcher is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States and primarily works in the fields of Engineering and Energy. Their research spans multiple subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrochemistry.

Their work has a strong focus on topics related to electrocatalysts for energy conversion, fuel cells and related materials, advanced battery technologies research, electrochemical analysis and applications, hybrid renewable energy systems, membrane-based ion separation techniques, and CO2 reduction techniques and catalysts.

Boettcher has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Accelerating water dissociation in bipolar membranes and for electrocatalysis (2020, Science)
  • Fluorination-enabled Reconstruction of NiFe Electrocatalysts for Efficient Water Oxidation (2020, Nano Letters)
  • Bipolar membrane electrolyzers enable high single-pass CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Membrane Electrolyzers for Impure-Water Splitting (2020, Joule)
  • 2022 roadmap on low temperature electrochemical CO2 reduction (2022, Journal of Physics Energy)

Their frequent collaborators include Paul A. Kempler, Grace Lindquist, Lihaokun Chen, Raina A. Krivina, and Sebastian Z. Oener. These partnerships reflect an interdisciplinary approach, often visible across multiple high-impact publications.

Boettcher's research outputs have been published in venues with repeated contributions such as ECS Meeting Abstracts, ACS Energy Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Electrochemistry, and Science. ECS Meeting Abstracts contains the highest number of publications, demonstrating sustained engagement with the conference series and its community.

In 2015, Shannon W. Boettcher was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Solar Water Splitting Cells

    Michael G. Walter;Emily L. Warren;James R. McKone;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Nickel–Iron Oxyhydroxide Oxygen-Evolution Electrocatalysts: The Role of Intentional and Incidental Iron Incorporation

    Lena Trotochaud;Samantha L. Young;James K. Ranney;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Cobalt-iron (oxy)hydroxide oxygen evolution electrocatalysts: the role of structure and composition on activity, stability, and mechanism.

    Michaela S. Burke;Matthew G. Kast;Lena Trotochaud;Adam M. Smith

  • Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications

    Michael D. Kelzenberg;Shannon W. Boettcher;Jan A. Petykiewicz;Daniel B. Turner-Evans

  • Solution-cast metal oxide thin film electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution.

    Lena Trotochaud;James K. Ranney;Kerisha N. Williams;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis on Transition Metal Oxides and (Oxy)hydroxides: Activity Trends and Design Principles

    Michaela S. Burke;Lisa J. Enman;Adam S. Batchellor;Shihui Zou

  • Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications (Nature Materials (2010) 9 (239-244))

    Michael D. Kelzenberg;Shannon W. Boettcher;Jan A. Petykiewicz;Daniel B. Turner-Evans

  • Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Using Si Microwire Arrays

    Shannon W. Boettcher;Emily L. Warren;Morgan C. Putnam;Elizabeth A. Santori

  • Reactive Fe-Sites in Ni/Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Are Responsible for Exceptional Oxygen Electrocatalysis Activity.

    Michaela Burke Stevens;Christina D. M. Trang;Lisa J. Enman;Jiang Deng

  • Energy-conversion properties of vapor-liquid-solid-grown silicon wire-array photocathodes.

    Shannon W. Boettcher;Joshua M. Spurgeon;Morgan C. Putnam;Emily L. Warren

  • Measurement Techniques for the Study of Thin Film Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Electrocatalysts

    Michaela Burke Stevens;Lisa J. Enman;Adam S. Batchellor;Monty R. Cosby

  • Revised Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity Trends for First-Row Transition-Metal (Oxy)hydroxides in Alkaline Media

    Michaela S. Burke;Shihui Zou;Lisa J. Enman;Jaclyn E. Kellon

  • Evaluation of Pt, Ni, and Ni–Mo electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution on crystalline Si electrodes

    James R. McKone;Emily L. Warren;Matthew J. Bierman;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Adaptive semiconductor/electrocatalyst junctions in water-splitting photoanodes

    Fuding Lin;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalysis: Intrinsic Activity and the Roles of Electrical Conductivity, Substrate, and Dissolution

    Shihui Zou;Shihui Zou;Michaela S. Burke;Matthew G. Kast;Jie Fan

  • Accelerating water dissociation in bipolar membranes and for electrocatalysis

    Sebastian Z. Oener;Marc J. Foster;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Design of aqueous redox-enhanced electrochemical capacitors with high specific energies and slow self-discharge

    Sang-Eun Chun;Brian Evanko;Xingfeng Wang;David Vonlanthen

  • Semiconductor–Electrocatalyst Interfaces: Theory, Experiment, and Applications in Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

    Michael R. Nellist;Forrest A. L. Laskowski;Fuding Lin;Thomas J. Mills

  • Pulse-Electrodeposited Ni–Fe (Oxy)hydroxide Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts with High Geometric and Intrinsic Activities at Large Mass Loadings

    Adam S. Batchellor;Shannon W. Boettcher

  • Earth-Abundant Oxygen Electrocatalysts for Alkaline Anion-Exchange-Membrane Water Electrolysis: Effects of Catalyst Conductivity and Comparison with Performance in Three-Electrode Cells

    Dongyu Xu;Dongyu Xu;Michaela Burke Stevens;Monty R. Cosby;Sebastian Z. Oener

  • Si microwire-array solar cells

    Morgan C. Putnam;Shannon W. Boettcher;Michael D. Kelzenberg;Daniel B. Turner-Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Nathan S. Lewis
Nathan S. Lewis California Institute of Technology
Xiulei Ji
Xiulei Ji Oregon State University
Harry A. Atwater
Harry A. Atwater California Institute of Technology
Shaul Aloni
Shaul Aloni Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Douglas A. Keszler
Douglas A. Keszler Oregon State University
Jingjing Qiu
Jingjing Qiu Texas Tech University
Bruce S. Brunschwig
Bruce S. Brunschwig California Institute of Technology
Martin Moskovits
Martin Moskovits University of California, Santa Barbara
Darren W. Johnson
Darren W. Johnson University of Oregon

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