Top Cited Article 2025 – Award for ZBT doctoral student Adib Caidi

ZBT doctoral student Adib Caidi has been awarded the “Top Cited Article Award 2025” by the scientific publisher Wiley. This is in recognition of a publication that is one of the most cited articles in the journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization.

Every year, the scientific publisher Wiley presents the Top Cited Article Award to the authors of the most cited articles of the year. For 2025, our doctoral student Adib Caidi has now been awarded for his highly acclaimed contribution on important control features of carbon black materials for the characterisation of surface properties. His article was published in the journal Particle & Particle Systems Characterization.

The award refers to the technical article:

Key Control Characteristics of Carbon Black Materials for Fuel Cells and Batteries for a Standardized Characterization of Surface Properties

All publications of the journal in the period from 1. January 2024 to 31. December 2024 were taken into account. The selection is based on the citation frequency and reflects the scientific reception within the scientific community.

With the Top Cited Article Award, Wiley regularly recognises articles with high scientific visibility. The award emphasises the relevance of the publication in the international research context.

The award-winning work deals with key influencing variables of carbon black materials for use in electrochemical energy systems, particularly in batteries and fuel cells. The focus is particularly on surface parameters such as specific surface area, porosity and functional groups that influence electrochemical performance.

The aim of the work is to create a better understanding of these influencing variables and to develop approaches for a standardised characterisation. This should improve the comparability of different materials and enable their targeted optimisation. The results will contribute to the further development of powerful and efficient energy storage and conversion technologies.

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The paper

Title:
Key Control Characteristicsof Carbon Black Materials for Fuel Cells and Batteries for a Standardised Characterization of Surface Properties

in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization

Authors:
A. Amin, A. Caidi, T. Lange, I. Radev, D. Sandbeck, W. Philippi, M. Kräenbring, M. Öztürk, V. Peinecke, D. Lerche, F. Özcan, D. Segets

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