Darren Lawless

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Darren Lawless is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Darren Lawless has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Water Science and Technology, 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Darren Lawless's work include Membrane Separation Technologies (12 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (9 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (6 papers). Darren Lawless is often cited by papers focused on Membrane Separation Technologies (12 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (9 papers) and Membrane-based Ion Separation Techniques (6 papers). Darren Lawless collaborates with scholars based in Canada, China and United States. Darren Lawless's co-authors include Nick Serpone, R. F. Khairutdinov, Dan Meisel, Xianshe Feng, Dihua Wu, Ezio Pelizzetti, Jean-Marie Herrmann, Jean Disdier, Xianshe Feng and Yifeng Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, PLoS ONE and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Darren Lawless

28 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Size Effects on the Photophysical Properties of Colloidal Anatase TiO2 Particles: Size Quantization versus Direct Transitions in This Indirect Semiconductor?

1995 1.3k citations Nick Serpone, Darren Lawless et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Darren Lawless Canada	23	2.2k	2.1k	890	818	687	29	4.0k
Feifei Jia China	36	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	944 1.2×	889 1.3×	137	3.7k
Stéphanie Lambert Belgium	32	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	578 0.6×	403 0.5×	648 0.9×	149	3.3k
Rashi Gusain India	28	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.5×	660 0.7×	503 0.6×	570 0.8×	42	3.7k
Xinnian Xia China	29	2.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	357 0.4×	707 0.9×	385 0.6×	89	3.5k
Asim Jilani Saudi Arabia	30	1.4k 0.6×	993 0.5×	602 0.7×	761 0.9×	498 0.7×	108	2.8k
Chunan Ma China	34	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	572 0.6×	1.3k 1.5×	712 1.0×	157	3.5k
Jinzhang Xu China	37	3.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	712 0.8×	1.7k 2.1×	426 0.6×	98	4.6k
Zhou Li China	25	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	917 1.3×	75	3.6k
Xia Yang China	36	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	285 0.3×	881 1.1×	562 0.8×	78	3.2k
Yi Shen China	37	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	1.4k 1.7×	526 0.8×	135	4.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Darren Lawless

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lawless, Darren, et al.. (2025). Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators. PLoS ONE. 20(4). e0301310–e0301310.

Huang, Yifeng, Jennifer Runhong Du, Yufeng Zhang, Darren Lawless, & Xianshe Feng. (2016). Batch process of polymer-enhanced ultrafiltration to recover mercury (II) from wastewater. Journal of Membrane Science. 514. 229–240. 28 indexed citations

Huang, Yifeng, Dihua Wu, Xiaodong Wang, et al.. (2015). Removal of heavy metals from water using polyvinylamine by polymer-enhanced ultrafiltration and flocculation. Separation and Purification Technology. 158. 124–136. 161 indexed citations

Wu, Dihua, Jeffrey T. Martin, Jennifer Runhong Du, et al.. (2015). Thin film composite membranes comprising of polyamide and polydopamine for dehydration of ethylene glycol by pervaporation. Journal of Membrane Science. 493. 622–635. 70 indexed citations

Wu, Dihua, Jeffrey T. Martin, Jennifer Runhong Du, et al.. (2015). Effects of chlorine exposure on nanofiltration performance of polyamide membranes. Journal of Membrane Science. 487. 256–270. 51 indexed citations

Huang, Yifeng, Jennifer Runhong Du, Yufeng Zhang, Darren Lawless, & Xianshe Feng. (2015). Removal of mercury (II) from wastewater by polyvinylamine-enhanced ultrafiltration. Separation and Purification Technology. 154. 1–10. 71 indexed citations

Chen, Yiwei, Darren Lawless, & Xianshe Feng. (2014). Pressure–vacuum swing permeation: A novel process mode for membrane separation of gases. Separation and Purification Technology. 125. 301–310. 9 indexed citations

Wu, Dihua, Yifeng Huang, Sanchuan Yu, Darren Lawless, & Xianshe Feng. (2014). Thin film composite nanofiltration membranes assembled layer-by-layer via interfacial polymerization from polyethylenimine and trimesoyl chloride. Journal of Membrane Science. 472. 141–153. 160 indexed citations

Liu, Yujing, Xiao Feng, & Darren Lawless. (2005). Separation of gasoline vapor from nitrogen by hollow fiber composite membranes for VOC emission control. Journal of Membrane Science. 271(1-2). 114–124. 81 indexed citations

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Feng, Xianshe, et al.. (2003). Separation of dimethyl carbonate/methanol/water mixtures by pervaporation using crosslinked chitosan membranes. Separation and Purification Technology. 31(2). 129–140. 84 indexed citations

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Meisel, Dan, et al.. (1996). Interparticle charge transfer. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 17(5). 493–511. 3 indexed citations

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Serpone, Nick, Darren Lawless, & M. R. V. Sahyun. (1995). Selforganization and silver halide photolysis. Supramolecular chemistry. 5(1). 15–20. 3 indexed citations

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Serpone, Nick, Darren Lawless, & R. F. Khairutdinov. (1995). Size Effects on the Photophysical Properties of Colloidal Anatase TiO2 Particles: Size Quantization versus Direct Transitions in This Indirect Semiconductor?. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 99(45). 16646–16654. 1295 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lawless, Darren, Sudhir Kapoor, Pierre Kennepohl, Dan Meisel, & Nick Serpone. (1994). Reduction and Aggregation of Silver Ions at the Surface of Colloidal Silica. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 98(38). 9619–9625. 58 indexed citations

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Tysoe, Steven A., et al.. (1994). Excited State Dynamics of trisbipyridylruthenium(2+),Ru(bpy)32+, on Porous Vycor Glass. Intervention of a Ligand Localized Triplet State. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 116(12). 5343–5351. 12 indexed citations

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Serpone, Nick, Rita Terzian, Darren Lawless, Pierre Kennepohl, & Geneviève Sauvé. (1993). On the usage of turnover numbers and quantum yields in heterogeneous photocatalysis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 73(1). 11–16. 101 indexed citations

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Serpone, Nick, Darren Lawless, & Rita Terzian. (1992). Solar fuels: Status and perspectives. Solar Energy. 49(4). 221–234. 36 indexed citations

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Lawless, Darren, Nick Serpone, & Dan Meisel. (1991). Role of hydroxyl radicals and trapped holes in photocatalysis. A pulse radiolysis study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 95(13). 5166–5170. 344 indexed citations

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Borgarello, E., Darren Lawless, Nick Serpone, Ezio Pelizzetti, & Dan Meisel. (1990). Micellized sequestered silver atoms and small silver clusters. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 94(12). 5048–5051. 7 indexed citations

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Mićić, O. I., et al.. (1990). Semiconductor photophysics. 5. Charge carrier trapping in ultrasmall silver iodide particles and kinetics of formation of silver atom clusters. Langmuir. 6(2). 487–492. 29 indexed citations

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