Thomas E. Mallouk

66.1k total citations · 25 hit papers
501 papers, 55.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas E. Mallouk is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas E. Mallouk has authored 501 papers receiving a total of 55.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 207 papers in Materials Chemistry, 198 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 132 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Thomas E. Mallouk's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (80 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (62 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (52 papers). Thomas E. Mallouk is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (80 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (62 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (52 papers). Thomas E. Mallouk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Thomas E. Mallouk's co-authors include Ayusman Sen, Nina I. Kovtyukhova, Raymond E. Schaak, Wei Wang, Benjamin Martin, Walter F. Paxton, Patricia J. Ollivier, Kazuhiko Maeda, W. Justin Youngblood and E. Buzaneva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas E. Mallouk

491 papers receiving 54.4k citations

Hit Papers

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Ultrathin Composite Films from... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1999 2004 2014 2000 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Ultrathin Composite Films from Micron-Sized Graphite Oxide Sheets and Polycations
    1999 3.0k citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  2. Catalytic Nanomotors:  Autonomous Movement of Striped Nanorods
    2004 1.7k citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Beyond: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Single- and Few-Layer Nanosheets
    2014 1.2k citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  4. Remediation of Cr(VI) and Pb(II) Aqueous Solutions Using Supported, Nanoscale Zero-valent Iron
    2000 942 citations Sherman M. Ponder, Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  5. Visible Light Water Splitting Using Dye-Sensitized Oxide Semiconductors
    2009 892 citations Kazuhiko Maeda, Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  6. Combinatorial Electrochemistry: A Highly Parallel, Optical Screening Method for Discovery of Better Electrocatalysts
    1998 806 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  7. Photoassisted Overall Water Splitting in a Visible Light-Absorbing Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cell
    2009 784 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  8. A Facile and Template-Free Hydrothermal Synthesis of Mn3O4 Nanorods on Graphene Sheets for Supercapacitor Electrodes with Long Cycle Stability
    2012 723 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  9. Electric-field assisted assembly and alignment of metallic nanowires
    2000 716 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  10. Polymer–inorganic solid–electrolyte interphase for stable lithium metal batteries under lean electrolyte conditions
    2019 702 citations Yue Gao, Zhifei Yan et al. profile →
  11. Fast and Efficient Preparation of Exfoliated 2H MoS2 Nanosheets by Sonication-Assisted Lithium Intercalation and Infrared Laser-Induced 1T to 2H Phase Reversion
    2015 651 citations Xiaobin Fan, Pengtao Xu et al. Nano Letters profile →
  12. Autonomous Motion of Metallic Microrods Propelled by Ultrasound
    2012 618 citations Mauricio Hoyos, Thomas E. Mallouk et al. ACS Nano profile →
  13. Small power: Autonomous nano- and micromotors propelled by self-generated gradients
    2013 608 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  14. Perovskites by Design:  A Toolbox of Solid-State Reactions
    2002 599 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  15. Layered metal phosphates and phosphonates: from crystals to monolayers
    1992 544 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  16. Controlled Synthesis and Transfer of Large-Area WS2 Sheets: From Single Layer to Few Layers
    2013 537 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. ACS Nano profile →
  17. Ordered Mesoporous Polymers of Tunable Pore Size from Colloidal Silica Templates
    1999 527 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  18. Standing Wave Enhancement of Red Absorbance and Photocurrent in Dye-Sensitized Titanium Dioxide Photoelectrodes Coupled to Photonic Crystals
    2003 525 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  19. Turning Down the Heat: Design and Mechanism in Solid-State Synthesis
    1993 501 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  20. Optical properties of coupled metallic nanorods for field-enhanced spectroscopy
    2005 495 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  21. Chemical Locomotion
    2006 460 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  22. Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Intercalation Compounds and Heterostructures on Surfaces: Toward Molecular "Beaker" Epitaxy
    1994 458 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Hydrodechlorination of Trichloroethylene to Hydrocarbons Using Bimetallic Nickel−Iron Nanoparticles
    2002 446 citations Bettina Schrick, Thomas E. Mallouk et al. Chemistry of Materials profile →
  24. Bipolar Electrochemical Mechanism for the Propulsion of Catalytic Nanomotors in Hydrogen Peroxide Solutions
    2006 439 citations Thomas E. Mallouk et al. profile →
  25. Photocatalytic water splitting
    2023 355 citations Shunta Nishioka, Thomas E. Mallouk 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
Thomas E. Mallouk United States 127 26.3k 19.3k 16.5k 14.5k 9.4k 501 55.6k
Yoshio Bando Japan 158 62.3k 2.4× 32.3k 1.7× 16.0k 1.0× 14.2k 1.0× 5.3k 0.6× 1.2k 88.6k
Stephen J. Pennycook United States 118 30.1k 1.1× 22.3k 1.2× 6.3k 0.4× 11.6k 0.8× 4.1k 0.4× 691 50.3k
Gustaaf Van Tendeloo Belgium 97 23.6k 0.9× 9.5k 0.5× 5.8k 0.4× 5.1k 0.4× 6.1k 0.7× 946 38.9k
Shouheng Sun United States 135 33.3k 1.3× 17.5k 0.9× 13.7k 0.8× 25.9k 1.8× 2.2k 0.2× 350 64.2k
Yadong Yin United States 129 41.9k 1.6× 21.5k 1.1× 16.1k 1.0× 20.0k 1.4× 1.7k 0.2× 501 69.7k
C. N. R. Rao India 138 53.9k 2.1× 20.8k 1.1× 10.8k 0.7× 7.6k 0.5× 13.0k 1.4× 1.5k 83.9k
Xiangfeng Duan United States 135 52.3k 2.0× 45.2k 2.3× 21.9k 1.3× 17.1k 1.2× 2.4k 0.3× 449 82.3k
David A. Muller United States 108 35.4k 1.3× 20.8k 1.1× 7.1k 0.4× 8.0k 0.6× 4.9k 0.5× 640 53.3k
Peter E. Blöchl Germany 41 59.5k 2.3× 29.1k 1.5× 5.2k 0.3× 14.1k 1.0× 9.8k 1.0× 95 87.5k
Yu Huang United States 125 39.0k 1.5× 38.1k 2.0× 15.8k 1.0× 16.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.2× 392 66.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sheehan, Colton, Seil Jeon, Yufeng Zheng, et al.. (2025). Electron Transfer Energetics in Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction at Viologen Redox Polymer-Modified p-Si Electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(11). 9629–9639. 3 indexed citations
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Xiao, Langqiu, Eisuke Yamamoto, Colton Sheehan, et al.. (2024). Bipolar Membranes With Controlled, Microscale 3D Junctions Enhance the Rates of Water Dissociation and Formation. Advanced Energy Materials. 15(12). 10 indexed citations
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Sheehan, Colton, et al.. (2024). Fast Outer-Sphere Electron Transfer and High Specific Capacitance at Covalently Modified Carbon Electrodes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(29). 20086–20091. 2 indexed citations
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Xiao, Langqiu, Jacob A. Spies, Colton Sheehan, et al.. (2024). Electron Transfer Dynamics at Dye-Sensitized SnO 2 /TiO 2 Core/Shell Electrodes in Aqueous/Nonaqueous Electrolyte Mixtures. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(26). 18117–18127. 5 indexed citations
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Shang, Bo, Fengyi Zhao, Yuanzuo Gao, et al.. (2024). Tailoring Interfaces for Enhanced Methanol Production from Photoelectrochemical CO2 Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(3). 2267–2274. 28 indexed citations
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Nishioka, Shunta, Langqiu Xiao, Yugo Miseki, et al.. (2023). Effects of Anionic Polymer Modification of Dye‐Sensitized Niobate Photocatalysts on Solar‐Driven Z‐Scheme Overall Water Splitting. Solar RRL. 7(23). 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Pengtao, et al.. (2020). Oligomeric Ruthenium Polypyridyl Dye for Improved Stability of Aqueous Photoelectrochemical Cells. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(6). 3542–3550. 8 indexed citations
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Gao, Yue, Daiwei Wang, Yun Kyung Shin, et al.. (2020). Stable metal anodes enabled by a labile organic molecule bonded to a reduced graphene oxide aerogel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(48). 30135–30141. 23 indexed citations
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Mallouk, Thomas E., et al.. (2020). Acoustic Manipulation of Dense Nanorods in Microgravity. Microgravity Science and Technology. 32(6). 1159–1174. 17 indexed citations
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Akamatsu, Hirofumi, Arnab Sen Gupta, Craig M. Brown, et al.. (2019). Competing Polar and Antipolar Structures in the Ruddlesden–Popper Layered Perovskite Li2SrNb2O7. Chemistry of Materials. 31(12). 4418–4425. 34 indexed citations
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Yu, Zhaoxin, Shun‐Li Shang, Daiwei Wang, et al.. (2018). Synthesis and understanding of Na11Sn2PSe12 with enhanced ionic conductivity for all-solid-state Na-ion battery. Energy storage materials. 17. 70–77. 56 indexed citations
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Xu, Pengtao, et al.. (2018). Charge Recombination with Fractional Reaction Orders in Water-Splitting Dye-Sensitized Photoelectrochemical Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(37). 11647–11654. 52 indexed citations
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Swierk, John R., Nicholas S. McCool, Jason A. Röhr, et al.. (2018). Ultrafast proton-assisted tunneling through ZrO2 in dye-sensitized SnO2-core/ZrO2-shell films. Chemical Communications. 54(57). 7971–7974. 4 indexed citations
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Xu, Danyun, Pengtao Xu, Yuanzhi Zhu, et al.. (2018). High Yield Exfoliation of WS2 Crystals into 1–2 Layer Semiconducting Nanosheets and Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution from WS2/CdS Nanorod Composites. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(3). 2810–2818. 114 indexed citations
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Xu, Pengtao, et al.. (2018). Dye-sensitized photoelectrochemical water oxidation through a buried junction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(27). 6946–6951. 28 indexed citations
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Liu, Yunzhi, Rongrui He, T. D. Day, et al.. (2017). Confined Chemical Fluid Deposition of Ferromagnetic Metalattices. Nano Letters. 18(1). 546–552. 12 indexed citations
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Ren, Liqiang, Dekai Zhou, Zhangming Mao, et al.. (2017). Rheotaxis of Bimetallic Micromotors Driven by Chemical–Acoustic Hybrid Power. ACS Nano. 11(10). 10591–10598. 143 indexed citations
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Schrick, Bettina, Sherman M. Ponder, & Thomas E. Mallouk. (2000). Remediation of chlorinated hydrocarbons using supported zero valent nickel-iron nanoparticles. 40(2). 639–640. 2 indexed citations
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Mallouk, Thomas E., et al.. (1985). Raman, infrared and n.m.r. studies of the graphite hydrofluorides CxF1-δ(HF)δ(2 ≤ x ≤ 5). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 314(1528). 179–187. 88 indexed citations

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