D. Villagrán

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

D. Villagrán is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Villagrán has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 27 papers in Organic Chemistry and 20 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in D. Villagrán's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (20 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers). D. Villagrán is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (20 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (18 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (15 papers). D. Villagrán collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. D. Villagrán's co-authors include Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Menachem Elimelech, Naomi J. Halas, Candace K. Chan, F. Albert Cotton, C.A. Murillo, Vahid Jabbari, José M. Veleta, Jorge L. Gardea‐Torresdey and Xiaoping Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

D. Villagrán

81 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Emerging opportunities for nanotechnology to enhance water security

2018 735 citations Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Candace K. Chan et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Villagrán United States	31	1.0k	971	764	757	734	83	3.4k
Zhi Cao China	39	1.9k 1.9×	1.8k 1.8×	1.2k 1.6×	629 0.8×	834 1.1×	143	5.1k
Wei Feng China	29	1.7k 1.6×	907 0.9×	312 0.4×	455 0.6×	752 1.0×	165	3.3k
Zhibin Ye Canada	40	1.4k 1.3×	416 0.4×	2.1k 2.8×	328 0.4×	632 0.9×	171	4.8k
Juan Du China	36	1.8k 1.7×	847 0.9×	357 0.5×	171 0.2×	448 0.6×	171	4.0k
Wei Meng China	35	984 1.0×	582 0.6×	187 0.2×	754 1.0×	431 0.6×	71	3.4k
Bin Yue China	34	2.5k 2.5×	810 0.8×	578 0.8×	777 1.0×	394 0.5×	163	3.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Villagrán

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Wu, Yanyu, et al.. (2025). Metalloporphyrin organic polymers as effective and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions. Molecular Catalysis. 587. 115483–115483. 1 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2025). Advances in PFAS electrochemical reduction: Mechanisms, materials, and future perspectives. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 491. 137943–137943. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Wei, Tong Zhang, Jennifer L. Guelfo, et al.. (2025). Merits, limitations and innovation priorities for heterogeneous catalytic platforms to destroy PFAS. Nature Water. 3(6). 644–654. 10 indexed citations

Villagrán, D., et al.. (2025). Porphyrin-functionalized glassy carbon electrodes for electrochemical water splitting. Dalton Transactions. 54(33). 12550–12556. 2 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical Reduction of PFOA in Organic Media: A Step toward Environmental Remediation. ACS electrochemistry.. 1(11). 2484–2494.

Villagrán, D., et al.. (2025). Hydrogen evolution reaction as an environmentally friendly redox probe to detect GenX (HFPO-DA) via MIP modification. Microchemical Journal. 219. 116171–116171.

Galicia, M., et al.. (2024). “Forever chemicals” detection: A selective nano-enabled electrochemical sensing approach for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). Chemical Engineering Journal. 491. 151821–151821. 27 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2024). Bifunctional porphyrin-based metal–organic polymers for electrochemical water splitting. Dalton Transactions. 53(5). 2306–2317. 11 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical Reduction of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA): An Experimental and Theoretical Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(15). 10687–10698. 36 indexed citations

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López, Juan, Christian Sandoval‐Pauker, Wen‐Yee Lee, et al.. (2024). Trap-n-zap: Electrocatalytic degradation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) with UiO-66 modified boron nitride electrodes at environmentally relevant concentrations. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 355. 124136–124136. 18 indexed citations

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Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2023). Molecular inspired electrocatalyst materials for environmental remediation. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(21). 6160–6175. 3 indexed citations

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Sandoval‐Pauker, Christian, et al.. (2023). Computational Chemistry as Applied in Environmental Research: Opportunities and Challenges. ACS ES&T Engineering. 4(1). 66–95. 23 indexed citations

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Sun, Ruonan, Pingfeng Yu, Pengxiao Zuo, et al.. (2022). Biofilm Control in Flow-Through Systems Using Polyvalent Phages Delivered by Peptide-Modified M13 Coliphages with Enhanced Polysaccharide Affinity. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(23). 17177–17187. 16 indexed citations

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Marcos−Hernández, Mariana, José Hermínsul Mina Hernández, Camilah D. Powell, et al.. (2021). Superparamagnetic nanoadsorbents for the removal of trace As(III) in drinking water. Environmental Advances. 4. 100046–100046. 8 indexed citations

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Westerhoff, Paul, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Jae‐Hong Kim, et al.. (2021). Utilizing the broad electromagnetic spectrum and unique nanoscale properties for chemical-free water treatment. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. 33. 100709–100709. 5 indexed citations

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Garcia‐Segura, Sergi, Ana S. Fajardo, Christian L. Conrad, et al.. (2020). Disparities between experimental and environmental conditions: Research steps toward making electrochemical water treatment a reality. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 22. 9–16. 125 indexed citations

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Guan, Yan-Fang, Mariana Marcos−Hernández, Xinglin Lu, et al.. (2019). Silica Removal Using Magnetic Iron–Aluminum Hybrid Nanomaterials: Measurements, Adsorption Mechanisms, and Implications for Silica Scaling in Reverse Osmosis. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(22). 13302–13311. 25 indexed citations

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Yu, Pingfeng, Zijian Wang, Mariana Marcos−Hernández, et al.. (2019). Bottom-up biofilm eradication using bacteriophage-loaded magnetic nanocomposites: a computational and experimental study. Environmental Science Nano. 6(12). 3539–3550. 25 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Pedro J. J., Candace K. Chan, Menachem Elimelech, Naomi J. Halas, & D. Villagrán. (2018). Emerging opportunities for nanotechnology to enhance water security. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(8). 634–641. 735 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Chang Hoon, D. Villagrán, Timothy R. Cook, Jonas C. Peters, & Daniel G. Nocera. (2013). Pacman and Hangman Metal Tetraazamacrocycles. ChemSusChem. 6(8). 1541–1544. 17 indexed citations

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