Sil Wellens

1.2k total citations
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sil Wellens is a scholar working on Catalysis, Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sil Wellens has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Catalysis, 7 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sil Wellens's work include Ionic liquids properties and applications (11 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (7 papers) and Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (4 papers). Sil Wellens is often cited by papers focused on Ionic liquids properties and applications (11 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (7 papers) and Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (4 papers). Sil Wellens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium and United Kingdom. Sil Wellens's co-authors include Koen Binnemans, B. Thijs, Tom Vander Hoogerstraete, Claudia Möller, Jan Luyten, Alok Rout, Luc Van Meervelt, R. M. Bowman, Małgorzata Swadźba‐Kwaśny and H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne and has published in prestigious journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Green Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sil Wellens

13 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sil Wellens Belgium 12 721 668 192 184 173 13 1.1k
Maria Boltoeva France 22 971 1.3× 666 1.0× 261 1.4× 353 1.9× 330 1.9× 51 1.4k
Nicholas J. Bridges United States 18 384 0.5× 827 1.2× 330 1.7× 124 0.7× 330 1.9× 32 1.5k
Alok Rout India 25 1.6k 2.3× 1.5k 2.2× 227 1.2× 127 0.7× 1.1k 6.6× 81 2.1k
Maria Atanassova Bulgaria 21 634 0.9× 337 0.5× 93 0.5× 40 0.2× 622 3.6× 51 971
Qi Zhao China 16 167 0.2× 249 0.4× 141 0.7× 129 0.7× 194 1.1× 65 894
Guohui Zhou China 20 245 0.3× 616 0.9× 239 1.2× 207 1.1× 202 1.2× 48 1.2k
Vicenta González-Alfaro Spain 18 346 0.5× 574 0.9× 403 2.1× 41 0.2× 435 2.5× 33 1.3k
Suphot Phatanasri Thailand 17 299 0.4× 232 0.3× 159 0.8× 98 0.5× 278 1.6× 43 883
Qingde Chen China 19 168 0.2× 193 0.3× 84 0.4× 40 0.2× 255 1.5× 45 701

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sil Wellens

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sil Wellens

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All Works

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Wellens, Sil, Solveig Felton, R. M. Bowman, et al.. (2015). Thermochromism and switchable paramagnetism of cobalt(ii) in thiocyanate ionic liquids. Dalton Transactions. 44(25). 11286–11289. 71 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil, Tom Vander Hoogerstraete, Claudia Möller, et al.. (2014). Dissolution of metal oxides in an acid-saturated ionic liquid solution and investigation of the back-extraction behaviour to the aqueous phase. Hydrometallurgy. 144-145. 27–33. 89 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil. (2014). Ionic Liquid Technology in Metal Refining: Dissolution of Metal Oxides and Separation by Solvent Extraction. 8 indexed citations
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Hoogerstraete, Tom Vander, et al.. (2014). Determination of Halide Ions in Solution by Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence (TXRF) Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 86(3). 1391–1394. 23 indexed citations
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Hoogerstraete, Tom Vander, et al.. (2014). Determination of Halide Impurities in Ionic Liquids by Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 86(8). 3931–3938. 46 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil, B. Thijs, Claudia Möller, & Koen Binnemans. (2013). Separation of cobalt and nickel by solvent extraction with two mutually immiscible ionic liquids. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(24). 9663–9663. 62 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil, B. Thijs, & Koen Binnemans. (2013). How safe are protic ionic liquids? Explosion of pyrrolidinium nitrate. Green Chemistry. 15(12). 3484–3484. 32 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil, et al.. (2013). A continuous ionic liquid extraction process for the separation of cobalt from nickel. Green Chemistry. 15(11). 3160–3160. 102 indexed citations
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Wellens, Sil, Neil R. Brooks, B. Thijs, Luc Van Meervelt, & Koen Binnemans. (2013). Carbene formation upon reactive dissolution of metal oxides in imidazolium ionic liquids. Dalton Transactions. 43(9). 3443–3452. 34 indexed citations
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Rout, Alok, Sil Wellens, & Koen Binnemans. (2013). Separation of rare earths and nickel by solvent extraction with two mutually immiscible ionic liquids. RSC Advances. 4(11). 5753–5753. 70 indexed citations
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Goossens, Karel, Sil Wellens, Kristof Van Hecke, et al.. (2011). T‐Shaped Ionic Liquid Crystals Based on the Imidazolium Motif: Exploring Substitution of the C‐2 Imidazolium Carbon Atom. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(15). 4291–4306. 33 indexed citations

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