Dionisios G. Vlachos

41.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
682 papers, 34.5k citations indexed

About

Dionisios G. Vlachos is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Dionisios G. Vlachos has authored 682 papers receiving a total of 34.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 343 papers in Materials Chemistry, 226 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 201 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Dionisios G. Vlachos's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (203 papers), Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (167 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (112 papers). Dionisios G. Vlachos is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (203 papers), Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (167 papers) and Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (112 papers). Dionisios G. Vlachos collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Dionisios G. Vlachos's co-authors include Stavros Caratzoulas, Raúl F. Lobo, D. G. Norton, Vladimiros Nikolakis, Paul J. Dauenhauer, Jingguang G. Chen, Ashish B. Mhadeshwar, Michail Stamatakis, Giannis Mpourmpakis and Michael Tsapatsis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Dionisios G. Vlachos

661 papers receiving 34.0k citations

Hit Papers

Microstructural Optimization of a Zeolite Membrane for Or... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2013 2015 2012 2021 250 500 750
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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. Microstructural Optimization of a Zeolite Membrane for Organic Vapor Separation
    2003 930 citations Michael Tsapatsis, Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. profile →
  2. Insights into the Interplay of Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalysts in Glucose and Fructose Conversion to 5-(Hydroxymethyl)furfural and Levulinic Acid in Aqueous Media
    2013 596 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. profile →
  3. Mechanistic Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO on Nanostructured Ag Surfaces
    2015 532 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  4. Top ten fundamental challenges of biomass pyrolysis for biofuels
    2012 473 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos, Paul J. Dauenhauer et al. profile →
  5. Plastic waste to fuels by hydrocracking at mild conditions
    2021 446 citations Sibao Liu, Pavel A. Kots et al. Science Advances profile →
  6. Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Furans for Catalytic Production of Renewable p-Xylene
    2012 397 citations Stavros Caratzoulas, Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. ACS Catalysis profile →
  7. A review on microcombustion: Fundamentals, devices and applications
    2012 331 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. profile →
  8. Tuning the reactivity of carbon surfaces with oxygen-containing functional groups
    2023 136 citations Piaoping Yang, Pavel A. Kots et al. Nature Communications profile →
  9. Chemical recycling of mixed textile waste
    2024 69 citations Dionisios G. Vlachos et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dionisios G. Vlachos United States 98 15.4k 12.8k 8.5k 8.0k 5.1k 682 34.5k
Guy Marin Belgium 83 14.1k 0.9× 7.9k 0.6× 9.9k 1.2× 6.3k 0.8× 6.1k 1.2× 765 29.5k
Jacob A. Moulijn Netherlands 101 26.0k 1.7× 10.2k 0.8× 14.0k 1.6× 13.4k 1.7× 9.7k 1.9× 581 40.9k
Xiangwen Zhang China 77 12.0k 0.8× 5.7k 0.4× 3.5k 0.4× 4.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 588 25.7k
Freek Kapteijn Netherlands 113 32.3k 2.1× 9.4k 0.7× 13.7k 1.6× 18.0k 2.2× 24.2k 4.7× 619 52.9k
Rajamani Krishna Netherlands 120 29.7k 1.9× 11.3k 0.9× 2.7k 0.3× 21.0k 2.6× 37.1k 7.3× 676 54.6k
Thijs J. H. Vlugt Netherlands 67 6.2k 0.4× 5.0k 0.4× 2.8k 0.3× 4.8k 0.6× 4.8k 0.9× 368 16.3k
Volker Hessel Netherlands 77 6.4k 0.4× 15.6k 1.2× 3.9k 0.5× 3.4k 0.4× 1.3k 0.3× 557 26.3k
Edward J. Maginn United States 76 4.5k 0.3× 7.2k 0.6× 14.0k 1.6× 4.9k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 256 22.9k
Honglai Liu China 66 9.2k 0.6× 4.1k 0.3× 2.1k 0.2× 3.8k 0.5× 3.7k 0.7× 878 21.3k
Alexander Wokaun Switzerland 81 12.1k 0.8× 5.5k 0.4× 4.7k 0.5× 2.7k 0.3× 768 0.2× 591 30.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vlachos, Dionisios G., et al.. (2025). Investigating the Role of Acid Sites in the Hydrocracking of Polyethylene-EVOH Multilayer Film Waste over Pt/BEA Catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal. 508. 160869–160869. 1 indexed citations
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Najmi, Sean, et al.. (2025). Catalytic deconstruction of organic additive-containing plastics. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2(3). 220–228. 15 indexed citations
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Schyns, Zoé O. G., et al.. (2025). Sustainable upcycling of polyethylene waste to compatibilizers and valuable chemicals. Green Chemistry. 27(40). 12642–12658.
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Epps, Thomas H., et al.. (2024). Hydrogenolysis of Poly(Ethylene‐co‐Vinyl Alcohol) and Related Polymer Blends over Ruthenium Heterogeneous Catalysts. ChemSusChem. 17(18). e202400238–e202400238. 3 indexed citations
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Kots, Pavel A., Zachary R. Hinton, Thomas H. Epps, et al.. (2024). Effect of reaction media on hydrogenolysis of polyethylene plastic waste: Polymer-surface interactions in small alkane/polymer blends. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 351. 123969–123969. 19 indexed citations
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Yu, Kewei, Sagar Sourav, Weiqing Zheng, & Dionisios G. Vlachos. (2024). Dynamic electrification steers the selectivity of CO2 hydrogenation. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148528–148528. 4 indexed citations
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Kim, Jae Young, et al.. (2024). Similarity-Based Machine Learning for Small Data Sets: Predicting Biolubricant Base Oil Viscosities. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 128(48). 11963–11970. 3 indexed citations
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Cameli, Fabio, Panagiotis Dimitrakellis, Georgios D. Stefanidis, & Dionisios G. Vlachos. (2023). Non-Oxidative Ethane Dehydrogenation in a Packed-Bed DBD Plasma Reactor. Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. 43(6). 2065–2078. 8 indexed citations
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Cohen, Maximilian, et al.. (2023). Deducing subnanometer cluster size and shape distributions of heterogeneous supported catalysts. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1965–1965. 12 indexed citations
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Lee, Jin-Ho, Yoonsoo Kim, Jeong‐Myeong Ha, et al.. (2023). Continuous flow upgrading of lignin pyrolysis oils to drop-in bio-hydrocarbon fuels over noble metal catalysts. Chemical Engineering Journal. 481. 148328–148328. 18 indexed citations
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Zong, Xue & Dionisios G. Vlachos. (2023). Reconciling experimental catalytic data stemming from structure sensitivity. Chemical Science. 14(16). 4337–4345. 5 indexed citations
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Luo, Yuqing, Esun Selvam, Dionisios G. Vlachos, & Marianthi Ierapetritou. (2023). Economic and Environmental Benefits of Modular Microwave-Assisted Polyethylene Terephthalate Depolymerization. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(10). 4209–4218. 57 indexed citations
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Kots, Pavel A., et al.. (2023). Tuning High-Density Polyethylene Hydrocracking through Mordenite Zeolite Crystal Engineering. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(24). 9000–9009. 25 indexed citations
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Kots, Pavel A., Brandon C. Vance, Caitlin M. Quinn, Cong Wang, & Dionisios G. Vlachos. (2023). A two-stage strategy for upcycling chlorine-contaminated plastic waste. Nature Sustainability. 6(10). 1258–1267. 83 indexed citations
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Zhao, Li, Piaoping Yang, Song Shi, et al.. (2022). Activation of Molecular Oxygen for Alcohol Oxidation over Vanadium Carbon Catalysts Synthesized via the Heterogeneous Ligand Strategy. ACS Catalysis. 12(24). 15249–15258. 15 indexed citations
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Liu, Shizhong, et al.. (2022). Catalytic resonance of ammonia synthesis by simulated dynamic ruthenium crystal strain. Science Advances. 8(4). eabl6576–eabl6576. 46 indexed citations
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Wang, Cong, Tianjun Xie, Pavel A. Kots, et al.. (2021). Polyethylene Hydrogenolysis at Mild Conditions over Ruthenium on Tungstated Zirconia. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(9). 1422–1434. 210 indexed citations
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Park, Dae Sung, Maura Koehle, Christoph Krumm, et al.. (2016). Tunable Oleo-Furan Surfactants by Acylation of Renewable Furans. ACS Central Science. 2(11). 820–824. 70 indexed citations
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Abukhdeir, Nasser Mohieddin, et al.. (2014). Analysis and control of heteroepitaxial systems. Journal of Process Control. 27. 50–63. 2 indexed citations
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Norton, D. G., et al.. (2006). PORTABLE POWER GENERATION VIA INTEGRATED CATALYTIC MICROCOMBUSTION-THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES. 299–306. 17 indexed citations

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