Matthias Thommes

42.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
157 papers, 34.2k citations indexed

About

Matthias Thommes is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Thommes has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 34.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Materials Chemistry, 72 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 41 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Matthias Thommes's work include Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (72 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (48 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (34 papers). Matthias Thommes is often cited by papers focused on Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis (72 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (48 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (34 papers). Matthias Thommes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Matthias Thommes's co-authors include Alexander V. Neimark, F. Rodrı́guez-Reinoso, J. Rouquérol, K. S. W. Sing, Katsumi Kaneko, James P. Olivier, Katie A. Cychosz, Rodney S. Ruoff, Robert M. Wallace and Weiwei Cai and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Thommes

151 papers receiving 33.7k citations

Hit Papers

Physisorption of gases, w... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2015 2011 2004 2016 2009 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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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. Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report)
    2015 15.7k citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  2. Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene
    2011 5.5k citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  3. Characterization of Porous Solids and Powders: Surface Area, Pore Size and Density
    2004 1.5k citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  4. Recent advances in the textural characterization of hierarchically structured nanoporous materials
    2016 881 citations Rémy Guillet‐Nicolas, Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  5. Quenched solid density functional theory and pore size analysis of micro-mesoporous carbons
    2009 740 citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  6. Synthesis of Self-Pillared Zeolite Nanosheets by Repetitive Branching
    2012 700 citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  7. Physical adsorption characterization of nanoporous materials: progress and challenges
    2014 612 citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  8. Progress in the Physisorption Characterization of Nanoporous Gas Storage Materials
    2018 577 citations Matthias Thommes et al. profile →
  9. Adsorption Hysteresis of Nitrogen and Argon in Pore Networks and Characterization of Novel Micro- and Mesoporous Silicas
    2005 509 citations Matthias Thommes, Bernd Smarsly et al. Langmuir profile →
  10. Characterization of Hierarchically Ordered Porous Materials by Physisorption and Mercury Porosimetry—A Tutorial Review
    2021 302 citations Carola Schlumberger, Matthias Thommes profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Matthias Thommes 16.6k 8.4k 8.2k 7.6k 6.7k 157 34.2k
Katsumi Kaneko 21.7k 1.3× 6.7k 0.8× 6.6k 0.8× 8.9k 1.2× 8.6k 1.3× 551 39.5k
Alexander V. Neimark 16.7k 1.0× 4.0k 0.5× 4.9k 0.6× 8.1k 1.1× 8.0k 1.2× 225 33.3k
F. Rodrı́guez-Reinoso 15.9k 1.0× 5.8k 0.7× 5.5k 0.7× 6.0k 0.8× 7.7k 1.2× 334 34.7k
Teresa J. Bandosz 14.5k 0.9× 4.8k 0.6× 6.9k 0.8× 5.3k 0.7× 4.1k 0.6× 444 27.7k
Ajayan Vinu 19.4k 1.2× 5.7k 0.7× 9.1k 1.1× 4.9k 0.6× 4.5k 0.7× 570 33.0k
Zhonghua Zhu 15.6k 0.9× 5.4k 0.6× 10.4k 1.3× 4.9k 0.6× 3.4k 0.5× 461 30.7k
Sridhar Komarneni 16.8k 1.0× 4.5k 0.5× 9.3k 1.1× 4.6k 0.6× 4.6k 0.7× 828 33.1k
Weishen Yang 16.5k 1.0× 4.4k 0.5× 7.9k 1.0× 8.1k 1.1× 3.0k 0.4× 515 26.7k
Haihui Wang 19.4k 1.2× 6.8k 0.8× 15.8k 1.9× 3.6k 0.5× 5.1k 0.8× 513 38.3k
Bo Wang 25.1k 1.5× 6.9k 0.8× 13.9k 1.7× 19.8k 2.6× 6.1k 0.9× 913 48.9k

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All Works

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Götz, Alexander, Paolo Malgaretti, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, et al.. (2025). Open the Pores: Particles with Fully Accessible Hierarchical Pore Networks by Controlling Phase Separation in Confinement. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(23). 19841–19850.
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Karami, Kazem, S. Ravichandran, Mohammad Wahiduzzaman, et al.. (2025). High-performance hydrophobic MOFs for selective acetone capture under humid conditions. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(32). 26401–26412.
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Mazánek, Vlastimil, Zdeněk Sofer, Pavel Kříž, et al.. (2025). Gas separation performance of ultra-permeable graphene oxide membranes supported by single-wall carbon nanotubes: Unveiling the effect of fabrication method, gas flow transport type, and material aging. Journal of Membrane Science. 729. 124156–124156. 1 indexed citations
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Cuadrado‐Collados, Carlos, Bart‐Jan Niebuur, Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri, et al.. (2024). Catalyst Supraparticles: Tuning the Structure of Spray‐Dried Pt/SiO 2 Supraparticles via Salt‐Based Colloidal Manipulation to Control their Catalytic Performance. Small. 20(35). e2310813–e2310813. 8 indexed citations
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Goncalves, Rebecca B., Carlos Cuadrado‐Collados, Christos D. Malliakas, et al.. (2024). Chemically Reversible CO 2 Uptake by Dendrimer-Impregnated Metal–Organic Frameworks. Langmuir. 40(17). 9299–9309. 5 indexed citations
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Cuadrado‐Collados, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Safety Through Visibility: Tracing Hydrogen in Colors with Highly Customizable and Flexibly Applicable Supraparticle Additives. Advanced Materials Technologies. 9(17). 4 indexed citations
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Taccardi, Nicola, et al.. (2023). Top-down vs. bottom-up synthesis of Ga–based supported catalytically active liquid metal solutions (SCALMS) for the dehydrogenation of isobutane. Chemical Engineering Journal. 475. 146081–146081. 15 indexed citations
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Lloret, Vicent, Carlos Cuadrado‐Collados, Matthias Thommes, et al.. (2023). Characterization of Oxygen and Ion Mass Transport Resistance in Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers in Gas Diffusion Electrode Setups. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 170(6). 64509–64509. 9 indexed citations
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Zecca, Marco, Paolo Centomo, Xiaohui Huang, et al.. (2023). Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(hexyl acrylate) Copolymers as Templates for Large Mesopore Sizes─A Detailed Porosity Analysis. Chemistry of Materials. 35(23). 9879–9899. 7 indexed citations
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Mokrushina, Liudmila, et al.. (2023). Tuning catalyst performance in the SILP-catalyzed gas-phase hydroformylation of but-1-ene by choice of the ionic liquid. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(2). 100061–100061. 1 indexed citations
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Götz, Alexander, Carola Schlumberger, Urs A. Peuker, et al.. (2023). From Meso to Macro: Controlling Hierarchical Porosity in Supraparticle Powders (Small 27/2023). Small. 19(27). 1 indexed citations
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Geißelbrecht, Michael, Paolo Malgaretti, Andreas Bösmann, et al.. (2022). Nucleation as a rate-determining step in catalytic gas generation reactions from liquid phase systems. Science Advances. 8(46). eade3262–eade3262. 35 indexed citations
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Wisser, Dorothea, et al.. (2022). Influence of support texture and reaction conditions on the accumulation and activity in the gas-phase aldol condensation ofn-pentanal on porous silica. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 7(11). 2445–2459. 4 indexed citations
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Uttinger, Maximilian J., et al.. (2022). Classification and characterization of multimodal nanoparticle size distributions by size-exclusion chromatography. Nanoscale. 14(46). 17354–17364. 15 indexed citations
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Balderas‐Xicohténcatl, Rafael, Luke Daemen, Yongqiang Cheng, et al.. (2022). Formation of a super-dense hydrogen monolayer on mesoporous silica. Nature Chemistry. 14(11). 1319–1324. 19 indexed citations
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Wisser, Dorothea, et al.. (2021). Gas‐Phase Hydroformylation Using Supported Ionic Liquid Phase (SILP) Catalysts – Influence of Support Texture on Effective Kinetics. ChemCatChem. 13(19). 4192–4200. 18 indexed citations
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Stassin, Timothée, Rhea Verbeke, Alexander John Cruz, et al.. (2021). Porosimetry for Thin Films of Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Comparison of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy and Adsorption‐Based Methods. Advanced Materials. 33(17). e2006993–e2006993. 72 indexed citations
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Mehlhorn, Dirk, Jérémy Rodriguez, Thomas Cacciaguerra, et al.. (2018). Revelation on the Complex Nature of Mesoporous Hierarchical FAU-Y Zeolites. Langmuir. 34(38). 11414–11423. 19 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Huong Giang T., et al.. (2017). Experimental aspects of buoyancy correction in measuring reliable high-pressure excess adsorption isotherms using the gravimetric method. Measurement Science and Technology. 28(12). 125802–125802. 15 indexed citations
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Thommes, Matthias. (2016). Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report). Chemistry International. 38(1). 25–25. 270 indexed citations

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