Athanasios A. Tountas

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Athanasios A. Tountas is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Athanasios A. Tountas has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Athanasios A. Tountas's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (12 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers). Athanasios A. Tountas is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (12 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (12 papers). Athanasios A. Tountas collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Athanasios A. Tountas's co-authors include Geoffrey A. Ozin, Lu Wang, Wei Sun, Mohini Sain, Le He, Shenghua Wang, Meikun Xia, Chenyue Qiu, Thomas E. Wood and Yuchan Dong and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Athanasios A. Tountas

22 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis
    2021 368 citations Mujin Cai, Zhiyi Wu et al. Nature Energy profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Athanasios A. Tountas Canada 14 1.1k 905 424 192 168 23 1.4k
Alexandra Tavasoli Canada 11 912 0.9× 836 0.9× 336 0.8× 174 0.9× 103 0.6× 14 1.2k
Mujin Cai China 10 942 0.9× 830 0.9× 190 0.4× 197 1.0× 77 0.5× 15 1.2k
Bing Nan China 19 1.0k 1.0× 685 0.8× 345 0.8× 470 2.4× 58 0.3× 39 1.4k
Jai Hyun Koh South Korea 17 825 0.8× 373 0.4× 446 1.1× 308 1.6× 124 0.7× 28 1.1k
Mauricio López Luna Germany 17 558 0.5× 513 0.6× 528 1.2× 185 1.0× 95 0.6× 24 946
Chansol Kim South Korea 11 655 0.6× 544 0.6× 197 0.5× 230 1.2× 44 0.3× 17 869
Natalia Morlanés Saudi Arabia 22 660 0.6× 1.0k 1.1× 922 2.2× 195 1.0× 68 0.4× 41 1.6k
Zhuo Xing China 19 1.3k 1.2× 642 0.7× 645 1.5× 526 2.7× 84 0.5× 33 1.6k
Yanzhao Zhang China 18 1.6k 1.5× 1.2k 1.3× 332 0.8× 415 2.2× 71 0.4× 40 1.9k
Byung Hee Ko United States 13 1.9k 1.8× 747 0.8× 1.3k 3.0× 425 2.2× 293 1.7× 16 2.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Wenjie Zhou, Abhinav Mohan, et al.. (2024). Light-harvesting properties of photocatalyst supports—no photon left behind. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 2 indexed citations
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Geoffrey A. Ozin, & Mohini Sain. (2024). Choosing a liquid hydrogen carrier for sustainable transportation. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 8(22). 5181–5194. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Feysal M., Abdelaziz Gouda, Paul N. Duchesne, et al.. (2024). In situ probes into the structural changes and active state evolution of a highly selective iron-based CO2 reduction photocatalyst. Chem Catalysis. 4(6). 100983–100983. 4 indexed citations
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Xinyue Peng, Yangfan Xu, et al.. (2023). Direct CO2-to-renewable methanol: Outlook, performance and optimization approach. Sustainable materials and technologies. 36. e00630–e00630. 6 indexed citations
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Viasus, Camilo J., Juan Manuel Restrepo-Flórez, Nhat Truong Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Carbon photochemistry: towards a solar reverse boudouard refinery. Energy & Environmental Science. 16(12). 6155–6167. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Yangfan, Athanasios A. Tountas, Rui Song, et al.. (2023). Equilibrium photo-thermodynamics enables a sustainable methanol synthesis. Joule. 7(4). 738–752. 26 indexed citations
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Tountas, Athanasios A., et al.. (2023). Bringing down the heat in methanol synthesis. Matter. 6(7). 2106–2135. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zeshu, Chengliang Mao, Débora Motta Meira, et al.. (2022). New black indium oxide—tandem photothermal CO2-H2 methanol selective catalyst. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1512–1512. 121 indexed citations
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Hurtado, Lourdes, Abhinav Mohan, Ulrich Ulmer, et al.. (2022). Solar CO2hydrogenation by photocatalytic foams. Chemical Engineering Journal. 435. 134864–134864. 30 indexed citations
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Wang, Shenghua, Athanasios A. Tountas, Le He, et al.. (2021). CO2 Footprint of Thermal Versus Photothermal CO2 Catalysis. Small. 17(48). e2007025–e2007025. 54 indexed citations
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Xia, Meikun, Chengliang Mao, Athanasios A. Tountas, et al.. (2021). Solar Urea: Towards a Sustainable Fertilizer Industry. Angewandte Chemie. 134(1). 22 indexed citations
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Cai, Mujin, Zhiyi Wu, Li Zhao, et al.. (2021). Greenhouse-inspired supra-photothermal CO2 catalysis. Nature Energy. 6(8). 807–814. 368 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xia, Meikun, Chengliang Mao, Athanasios A. Tountas, et al.. (2021). Solar Urea: Towards a Sustainable Fertilizer Industry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(1). e202110158–e202110158. 93 indexed citations
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Mohan, Abhinav, Ulrich Ulmer, Lourdes Hurtado, et al.. (2020). Hybrid Photo- and Thermal Catalyst System for Continuous CO2 Reduction. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(30). 33613–33620. 29 indexed citations
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Geoffrey A. Ozin, & Mohini Sain. (2020). Continuous reactor for renewable methanol. Green Chemistry. 23(1). 340–353. 12 indexed citations
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Xinyue Peng, Alexandra Tavasoli, et al.. (2019). 5th Anniversary Article: Towards Solar Methanol: Past, Present, and Future (Adv. Sci. 8/2019). Advanced Science. 6(8).
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Tountas, Athanasios A., Xinyue Peng, Alexandra Tavasoli, et al.. (2019). Towards Solar Methanol: Past, Present, and Future. Advanced Science. 6(8). 1801903–1801903. 101 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, Mireille Ghoussoub, Hong Wang, et al.. (2018). Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide with High Selectivity to Methanol at Atmospheric Pressure. Joule. 2(7). 1369–1381. 190 indexed citations
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Wang, Lu, Mireille Ghoussoub, Hong Wang, et al.. (2018). Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide with High Selectivity to Methanol at Atmospheric Pressure. Joule. 2(7). 1382–1382. 9 indexed citations
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Qian, Chenxi, Wei Sun, Chenyue Qiu, et al.. (2018). Catalytic CO2 reduction by palladium-decorated silicon–hydride nanosheets. Nature Catalysis. 2(1). 46–54. 140 indexed citations

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