Johnny Saavedra Lopez

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Johnny Saavedra Lopez is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Catalysis and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Johnny Saavedra Lopez has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Catalysis and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Johnny Saavedra Lopez's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (7 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (5 papers) and Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (5 papers). Johnny Saavedra Lopez is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (7 papers), Catalysts for Methane Reforming (5 papers) and Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (5 papers). Johnny Saavedra Lopez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bulgaria and Russia. Johnny Saavedra Lopez's co-authors include Bert D. Chandler, Christopher J. Pursell, Hieu A. Doan, Lars C. Grabow, Robert A. Dagle, Robert M. Rioux, Vanessa Lebarbier Dagle, Zhifeng Chen, Todd N. Whittaker and Libor Kovařík and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Energy Materials.

In The Last Decade

Johnny Saavedra Lopez

17 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation

2014 550 citations Johnny Saavedra Lopez, Hieu A. Doan et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johnny Saavedra Lopez United States	14	966	600	447	274	228	17	1.3k
Branko Zugic United States	14	1.3k 1.4×	517 0.9×	727 1.6×	200 0.7×	138 0.6×	17	1.5k
D. Uzio France	25	961 1.0×	479 0.8×	274 0.6×	526 1.9×	299 1.3×	57	1.4k
Chandra Ratnasamy Switzerland	4	845 0.9×	558 0.9×	208 0.5×	296 1.1×	124 0.5×	4	1.0k
Stanislaw E. Golunski United Kingdom	20	1.2k 1.2×	912 1.5×	331 0.7×	263 1.0×	114 0.5×	27	1.4k
Gerard Novell-Leruth Spain	16	1.1k 1.2×	615 1.0×	401 0.9×	164 0.6×	157 0.7×	22	1.4k
Deepak Kunwar United States	11	1.3k 1.3×	835 1.4×	718 1.6×	249 0.9×	78 0.3×	16	1.5k
Carrie A. Farberow United States	17	764 0.8×	416 0.7×	638 1.4×	361 1.3×	431 1.9×	32	1.5k
Jon P. Wagner United States	5	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.9×	361 0.8×	552 2.0×	159 0.7×	7	1.7k
Yanan Li China	14	706 0.7×	573 1.0×	226 0.5×	229 0.8×	124 0.5×	23	995
Yanran Cui United States	17	1.1k 1.2×	536 0.9×	531 1.2×	274 1.0×	95 0.4×	30	1.4k

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Barpaga, Dushyant, Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, et al.. (2024). Single-Pass Demonstration of Integrated Capture and Catalytic Conversion of CO₂ from Simulated Flue Gas to Methanol in a Water-Lean Carbon Capture Solvent. ACS Omega. 9(46). 46247–46262. 1 indexed citations

Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, et al.. (2024). Reactive direct air capture of CO ₂ to C–C coupled products using multifunctional materials. Green Chemistry. 26(14). 8242–8255. 7 indexed citations

Kothandaraman, Jotheeswari, David J. Heldebrant, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, & Robert A. Dagle. (2023). Mechanistic insights to drive catalytic hydrogenation of formamide intermediates to methanol via deaminative hydrogenation. Frontiers in Energy Research. 11. 2 indexed citations

Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, et al.. (2023). Influence of blending cycloalkanes on the energy content, density, and viscosity of Jet-A. Fuel. 358. 129986–129986. 13 indexed citations

Kothandaraman, Jotheeswari, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, Yuan Jiang, et al.. (2022). Integrated Capture and Conversion of CO₂ to Methanol in a Post‐Combustion Capture Solvent: Heterogeneous Catalysts for Selective CN Bond Cleavage. Advanced Energy Materials. 12(46). 25 indexed citations

Kothandaraman, Jotheeswari, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, Yuan Jiang, et al.. (2021). Integrated Capture and Conversion of CO₂ to Methane Using a Water‐lean, Post‐Combustion CO₂ Capture Solvent. ChemSusChem. 14(21). 4812–4819. 44 indexed citations

Dagle, Vanessa Lebarbier, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, Lelia Cosimbescu, et al.. (2021). Production, fuel properties and combustion testing of an iso-olefins blendstock for modern vehicles. Fuel. 310. 122314–122314. 18 indexed citations

Dagle, Vanessa Lebarbier, Austin D. Winkelman, Nicholas R. Jaegers, et al.. (2020). Single-Step Conversion of Ethanol to n-Butene over Ag-ZrO₂/SiO₂ Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 10(18). 10602–10613. 41 indexed citations

Dagle, Vanessa Lebarbier, Johnny Saavedra Lopez, Jon Luecke, et al.. (2020). Production and fuel properties of iso-olefins with controlled molecular structure and obtained from butene oligomerization. Fuel. 277. 118147–118147. 18 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, Robert A. Dagle, Vanessa Lebarbier Dagle, Colin Smith, & Karl Albrecht. (2019). Oligomerization of ethanol-derived propene and isobutene mixtures to transportation fuels: catalyst and process considerations. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(5). 1117–1131. 45 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, Vanessa Lebarbier Dagle, Chinmay A. Deshmane, et al.. (2019). Methane and Ethane Steam Reforming over MgAl2O4-Supported Rh and Ir Catalysts: Catalytic Implications for Natural Gas Reforming Application. Catalysts. 9(10). 801–801. 21 indexed citations

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Dagle, Vanessa Lebarbier, Matthew Flake, Teresa Lemmon, et al.. (2018). Effect of the SiO2 support on the catalytic performance of Ag/ZrO2/SiO2 catalysts for the single-bed production of butadiene from ethanol. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 236. 576–587. 81 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, Christopher J. Pursell, & Bert D. Chandler. (2018). CO Oxidation Kinetics over Au/TiO₂and Au/Al₂O₃Catalysts: Evidence for a Common Water-Assisted Mechanism. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(10). 3712–3723. 124 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, Todd N. Whittaker, Zhifeng Chen, et al.. (2016). Controlling activity and selectivity using water in the Au-catalysed preferential oxidation of CO in H2. Nature Chemistry. 8(6). 584–589. 172 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, et al.. (2015). Using Thiol Adsorption on Supported Au Nanoparticle Catalysts To Evaluate Au Dispersion and the Number of Active Sites for Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation. ACS Catalysis. 5(4). 2232–2241. 35 indexed citations

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, Hieu A. Doan, Christopher J. Pursell, Lars C. Grabow, & Bert D. Chandler. (2014). The critical role of water at the gold-titania interface in catalytic CO oxidation. Science. 345(6204). 1599–1602. 550 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lopez, Johnny Saavedra, et al.. (2013). CO oxidation over Au/TiO2 catalyst: Pretreatment effects, catalyst deactivation, and carbonates production. Journal of Catalysis. 307. 37–47. 66 indexed citations

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