Randall Q. Snurr

58.1k total citations · 32 hit papers
397 papers, 48.8k citations indexed

About

Randall Q. Snurr is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Randall Q. Snurr has authored 397 papers receiving a total of 48.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 322 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 258 papers in Materials Chemistry and 76 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Randall Q. Snurr's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (271 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (87 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (78 papers). Randall Q. Snurr is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (271 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (87 papers) and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (78 papers). Randall Q. Snurr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and China. Randall Q. Snurr's co-authors include Omar K. Farha, Joseph T. Hupp, Youn‐Sang Bae, Christopher E. Wilmer, A. Özgür Yazaydın, David Dubbeldam, Tina Düren, Krista S. Walton, Yamil J. Colón and SonBinh T. Nguyen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Randall Q. Snurr

392 papers receiving 48.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrahigh Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks 2004 2026 2011 2018 2010 2012 2015 2010 2013 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Ultrahigh Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks
    2010 3.4k citations Hiroyasu Furukawa, Nakeun Ko et al. Science profile →
  2. Metal–Organic Framework Materials with Ultrahigh Surface Areas: Is the Sky the Limit?
    2012 1.6k citations Omar K. Farha, Ibrahim Eryazici et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. RASPA: molecular simulation software for adsorption and diffusion in flexible nanoporous materials
    2015 1.6k citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  4. De novo synthesis of a metal–organic framework material featuring ultrahigh surface area and gas storage capacities
    2010 1.5k citations Omar K. Farha, A. Özgür Yazaydın et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  5. A facile synthesis of UiO-66, UiO-67 and their derivatives
    2013 1.5k citations Randall Q. Snurr, Joseph T. Hupp et al. Chemical Communications profile →
  6. Large-scale screening of hypothetical metal–organic frameworks
    2011 1.2k citations Christopher E. Wilmer, Omar K. Farha et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  7. Review and Analysis of Molecular Simulations of Methane, Hydrogen, and Acetylene Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks
    2011 1.1k citations Christopher E. Wilmer, Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  8. Development and Evaluation of Porous Materials for Carbon Dioxide Separation and Capture
    2011 1.0k citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  9. Applicability of the BET Method for Determining Surface Areas of Microporous Metal−Organic Frameworks
    2007 874 citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. Vapor-Phase Metalation by Atomic Layer Deposition in a Metal–Organic Framework
    2013 846 citations David Fairen‐Jiménez, Amy A. Sarjeant et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  11. Destruction of chemical warfare agents using metal–organic frameworks
    2015 831 citations Randall Q. Snurr, Joseph T. Hupp et al. profile →
  12. Screening of Metal−Organic Frameworks for Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gas Using a Combined Experimental and Modeling Approach
    2009 802 citations A. Özgür Yazaydın, Randall Q. Snurr et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  13. Metal–organic frameworks for the removal of toxic industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents
    2017 775 citations N. Scott Bobbitt, Timur İslamoğlu et al. profile →
  14. Design of New Materials for Methane Storage
    2004 619 citations Omar M. Yaghi, Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  15. Using molecular simulation to characterise metal–organic frameworks for adsorption applications
    2009 610 citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  16. Advances, Updates, and Analytics for the Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Framework Database: CoRE MOF 2019
    2019 605 citations Benjamin J. Bucior, Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  17. Computation-Ready, Experimental Metal–Organic Frameworks: A Tool To Enable High-Throughput Screening of Nanoporous Crystals
    2014 576 citations Taner Yildirim, Omar K. Farha et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  18. Separation of CO2 from CH4 Using Mixed-Ligand Metal−Organic Frameworks
    2008 552 citations Joseph T. Hupp, Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  19. Light-Harvesting and Ultrafast Energy Migration in Porphyrin-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks
    2012 528 citations Nak Cheon Jeong, Christopher E. Wilmer et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  20. Effects of Surface Area, Free Volume, and Heat of Adsorption on Hydrogen Uptake in Metal−Organic Frameworks
    2006 519 citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  21. Enhanced CO2 Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks via Occupation of Open-Metal Sites by Coordinated Water Molecules
    2009 511 citations A. Özgür Yazaydın, Randall Q. Snurr et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  22. Perfluoroalkane Functionalization of NU-1000 via Solvent-Assisted Ligand Incorporation: Synthesis and CO2 Adsorption Studies
    2013 504 citations Randall Q. Snurr, Joseph T. Hupp et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Calculating Geometric Surface Areas as a Characterization Tool for Metal−Organic Frameworks
    2007 491 citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →
  24. Understanding Inflections and Steps in Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Isotherms in Metal-Organic Frameworks
    2007 478 citations Omar M. Yaghi, Randall Q. Snurr et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  25. Ultrahigh Surface Area Zirconium MOFs and Insights into the Applicability of the BET Theory
    2015 354 citations Amy A. Sarjeant, Randall Q. Snurr et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  26. Machine learning the quantum-chemical properties of metal–organic frameworks for accelerated materials discovery
    2021 332 citations Andrew Rosen, Justin M. Notestein et al. Matter profile →
  27. Nanoporous Carbohydrate Metal–Organic Frameworks
    2011 304 citations Hiroyasu Furukawa, Christopher E. Wilmer et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  28. Inverse design of nanoporous crystalline reticular materials with deep generative models
    2021 275 citations N. Scott Bobbitt, Benjamin J. Bucior et al. profile →
  29. Incorporation of an A1/A2-Difunctionalized Pillar[5]arene into a Metal–Organic Framework
    2012 269 citations David Fairen‐Jiménez, Randall Q. Snurr et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  30. In silico discovery of metal-organic frameworks for precombustion CO 2 capture using a genetic algorithm
    2016 261 citations Peng Li, Karson T. Leperi et al. profile →
  31. An active, stable cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst for the high-temperature reverse water-gas shift reaction
    2024 120 citations Milad Ahmadi Khoshooei, Xijun Wang et al. Science profile →
  32. Progress toward the computational discovery of new metal–organic framework adsorbents for energy applications
    2024 113 citations Randall Q. Snurr et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Randall Q. Snurr United States 107 37.7k 31.1k 11.9k 5.7k 4.8k 397 48.8k
Wei Zhou United States 103 29.9k 0.8× 31.1k 1.0× 8.8k 0.7× 3.9k 0.7× 5.4k 1.1× 384 45.4k
Silvia Bordiga Italy 112 33.6k 0.9× 35.3k 1.1× 7.6k 0.6× 4.4k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 503 50.8k
Guillaume Maurin France 95 27.3k 0.7× 22.3k 0.7× 8.2k 0.7× 4.5k 0.8× 4.6k 0.9× 493 37.8k
Rajamani Krishna Netherlands 120 37.1k 1.0× 29.7k 1.0× 21.0k 1.8× 11.3k 2.0× 2.6k 0.5× 676 54.6k
Shengqian Ma United States 118 34.7k 0.9× 32.6k 1.0× 7.6k 0.6× 3.8k 0.7× 5.5k 1.1× 461 47.4k
Jian‐Rong Li China 92 39.1k 1.0× 31.7k 1.0× 7.9k 0.7× 4.2k 0.7× 9.7k 2.0× 409 51.6k
Jorge Gascón Netherlands 102 23.9k 0.6× 24.6k 0.8× 10.8k 0.9× 4.1k 0.7× 2.9k 0.6× 439 40.1k
Freek Kapteijn Netherlands 113 24.2k 0.6× 32.3k 1.0× 18.0k 1.5× 9.4k 1.6× 3.6k 0.7× 619 52.9k
Gérard Férey France 85 33.1k 0.9× 23.9k 0.8× 5.5k 0.5× 2.3k 0.4× 9.1k 1.9× 239 38.4k
Carlo Lamberti Italy 96 22.4k 0.6× 26.9k 0.9× 4.6k 0.4× 2.8k 0.5× 3.3k 0.7× 399 37.4k

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All Works

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Khoshooei, Milad Ahmadi, Xijun Wang, Gerardo Vitale, et al.. (2024). An active, stable cubic molybdenum carbide catalyst for the high-temperature reverse water-gas shift reaction. Science. 384(6695). 540–546. 120 indexed citations breakdown →
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Reischauer, Susanne, Courtney S. Smoljan, Jabor Rabeah, et al.. (2024). A Titanium-Based Metal–Organic Framework For Tandem Metallaphotocatalysis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(26). 33371–33378. 5 indexed citations
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Stone, A., Xijun Wang, Randall Q. Snurr, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic Semi‐Hydrogenation of Acetylene to Polymer‐Grade Ethylene with Molecular and Metal–Organic Framework Cobaloximes. Advanced Materials. 37(1). e2408658–e2408658. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Kaifei, Seyed Hesam Mousavi, Zhi Gen Yu, et al.. (2024). Molecular Insight into the Electric Field Regulation of N2 and CH4 Adsorption in the Trapdoor ZSM-25 Zeolites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(38). 51129–51138. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Ruihua, Hilal Daglar, Chun Tang, et al.. (2024). Balancing volumetric and gravimetric capacity for hydrogen in supramolecular crystals. Nature Chemistry. 16(12). 1982–1988. 26 indexed citations
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Smoljan, Courtney S., Randall Q. Snurr, & Omar K. Farha. (2024). 3-dimensional linker-based metal–organic frameworks for sub-angstrom control and enhanced thermal stability. Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources. 39(7). 1047–1056. 7 indexed citations
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Srinivasu, K. & Randall Q. Snurr. (2023). High-Throughput Screening of the CoRE-MOF-2019 Database for CO2 Capture from Wet Flue Gas: A Multi-Scale Modeling Strategy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(23). 28084–28092. 52 indexed citations
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Formalik, Filip, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Structural, Dynamic, and Functional Properties of Metal‐Organic Frameworks through Molecular Modeling. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(43). 47 indexed citations
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Pham, Thang Duc, et al.. (2023). Rapid design of top-performing metal-organic frameworks with qualitative representations of building blocks. npj Computational Materials. 9(1). 20 indexed citations
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Yang, Anna, Brandon C. Bukowski, Dylan M. Anstine, et al.. (2023). Defect engineering of porous aromatic frameworks via end capping improves dioxane removal from water. Matter. 6(7). 2263–2273. 13 indexed citations
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Rosen, Andrew, Mohammad Rasel Mian, Timur İslamoğlu, et al.. (2020). Tuning the Redox Activity of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Enhanced, Selective O 2 Binding: Design Rules and Ambient Temperature O 2 Chemisorption in a Cobalt–Triazolate Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(9). 4317–4328. 78 indexed citations
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Gopalan, Arun, Benjamin J. Bucior, N. Scott Bobbitt, & Randall Q. Snurr. (2019). Prediction of hydrogen adsorption in nanoporous materials from the energy distribution of adsorption sites. Molecular Physics. 117(23-24). 3683–3694. 29 indexed citations
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Müller, Philipp, Benjamin J. Bucior, Giulia Tuci, et al.. (2019). Computational screening, synthesis and testing of metal–organic frameworks with a bithiazole linker for carbon dioxide capture and its green conversion into cyclic carbonates. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 4(5). 1000–1013. 31 indexed citations
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Chen, Haoyuan, Zhijie Chen, Lin Zhang, et al.. (2019). Toward Design Rules of Metal–Organic Frameworks for Adsorption Cooling: Effect of Topology on the Ethanol Working Capacity. Chemistry of Materials. 31(8). 2702–2706. 28 indexed citations
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Bucior, Benjamin J., N. Scott Bobbitt, Timur İslamoğlu, et al.. (2018). Energy-based descriptors to rapidly predict hydrogen storage in metal–organic frameworks. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 4(1). 162–174. 232 indexed citations
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Leperi, Karson T., Hanyu Gao, Randall Q. Snurr, & Fengqi You. (2014). Modeling and optimization of a two-stage MOF-based pressure/vacuum swing adsorption process coupled with material selection. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Bernini, María C., et al.. (2013). Screening of bio-compatible metal–organic frameworks as potential drug carriers using Monte Carlo simulations. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2(7). 766–774. 225 indexed citations
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Peng, Yang, Srinivas Gadipelli, Christopher E. Wilmer, et al.. (2013). Simultaneously high gravimetric and volumetric methane uptake characteristics of the metal–organic framework NU-111. Chemical Communications. 49(29). 2992–2992. 122 indexed citations
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Farha, Omar K., Ibrahim Eryazici, Nak Cheon Jeong, et al.. (2012). Metal–Organic Framework Materials with Ultrahigh Surface Areas: Is the Sky the Limit?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(36). 15016–15021. 1576 indexed citations breakdown →
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Furukawa, Hiroyasu, Nakeun Ko, Yong Bok Go, et al.. (2010). Ultrahigh Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks. Science. 329(5990). 424–428. 3373 indexed citations breakdown →

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