OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A green hydrogen economy for a renewable energy society	305
Green hydrogen as an alternative fuel for the shipping industry	233
3D printing technologies: techniques, materials, and post-processing	154
Recent advances in multi-material additive manufacturing: methods and applications	130
Renewable ammonia as an alternative fuel for the shipping industry	96
Recent developments in metal additive manufacturing	89
A review of 3D printing techniques for environmental applications	87
Renewable ammonia for sustainable energy and agriculture: vision and systems engineering opportunities	64
Comparison of hydroxyl-radical-based advanced oxidation processes with sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes	62
Combining additive manufacturing with microfluidics: an emerging method for developing novel organs-on-chips	59
High efficiency PEM water electrolysis: enabled by advanced catalysts, membranes, and processes	57
MXenes-based nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications	57
Addressing the challenges associated with plastic waste disposal and management in developing countries	53
A review on 3D printing techniques for medical applications	51
SWOT analysis of photocatalytic materials towards large scale environmental remediation	51
Advances of piezoelectric nanomaterials for applications in advanced oxidation technologies	49
Seawater electrolysis technologies for green hydrogen production: challenges and opportunities	47
Moving towards an era of hybrid modelling: advantages and challenges of coupling mechanistic and data-driven models for upstream pharmaceutical bioprocesses	45
Bayesian optimization for chemical products and functional materials	44
Flow chemistry remains an opportunity for chemists and chemical engineers	43
Status of renewable energy in the GCC region and future opportunities	43
Hydrogen production from water: past and present	41
Exploration of smart antibacterial coatings for practical applications	39
Geopolymers reinforced by short and long fibres – innovative materials for additive manufacturing	37
Fundamentals and advances on the mechanisms of electrochemical generation of persulfate and sulfate radicals in aqueous medium	37

Recent advances in nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces: fabrication and long-term durability challenges	36
State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes	36
Mesoscale drag modeling: a critical review	35
Application of transparent self-cleaning coating for photovoltaic panel: a review	35
Recent advances in single-atom catalysts and single-atom alloys: opportunities for exploring the uncharted phase space in-between	32
Can fouling in membranes be ever defeated?	32
Bioprocess systems analysis, modeling, estimation, and control	32
Recent developments of nanomaterial applications in additive manufacturing: a brief review	32
Technologies in additive manufacturing for fiber reinforced composite materials: a review	31
Artificial intelligence in reaction prediction and chemical synthesis	31
Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes based on polymers of intrinsic microporosity	29
Recent progress in laser additive manufacturing of aluminum matrix composites	29
Microwave-assisted persulfate/peroxymonosulfate process for environmental remediation	29
Techno-economic analyses of several redox flow batteries using levelized cost of energy storage	28
Realizing the data-driven, computational discovery of metal-organic framework catalysts	28
Challenges in process control for continuous processing for production of monoclonal antibody products	28
Quantum computing for chemical and biomolecular product design	27
Thermally activated persulfate-based Advanced Oxidation Processes — recent progress and challenges in mineralization of persistent organic chemicals: a review	26
Flexible packaging plastic waste – environmental implications, management solutions, and the way forward	26
Multiscale and multidisciplinary approach to understanding nanoparticle transport in plants	26
Carbon catabolite repression relaxation in Escherichia coli: global and sugar-specific methods for glucose and secondary sugar co-utilization	26
Hybrid modeling — a key enabler towards realizing digital twins in biopharma?	26
Autonomous chemical science and engineering enabled by self-driving laboratories	26
Computer-aided molecular design of solvents for chemical separation processes	25
Advanced nuclear energy: the safest and most renewable clean energy	25
Bioprocess digital twins of mammalian cell culture for advanced biomanufacturing	24
Recent progress on the manufacturing of nanoparticles in multi-phase and single-phase flow reactors	24
A piece of the pie: engineering microbiomes by exploiting division of labor in complex polysaccharide consumption	24
Batch or flow chemistry? – a current industrial opinion on process selection	24
Platinum group metal free nano-catalysts for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis	23
Inorganic semiconducting nanowires for green energy solutions	23
Design and operation of hybrid renewable energy systems: current status and future perspectives	22
Methods identifying cost reduction potential for water electrolysis systems	22
Additive manufacturing potential for medical devices and technology	22
Automation and flow control for particle manipulation	22
Sustainable energy transition: modeling and optimization	22
Microscale electrokinetic assessments of proteins employing insulating structures	22
Molecular simulations of liquid separations in polymer membranes	22
Recent advancement in the development of new dispersants as oil spill treating agents	21
Iron-based magnetic nanomaterials in environmental and energy applications: a short review	21
Audacity of huge: overcoming challenges of data scarcity and data quality for machine learning in computational materials discovery	21
Experimental characterization of polymeric membranes for selective ion transport	21
Design and synthesis of organic polymers for molecular separation membranes	21
Accelerating the structure search of catalysts with machine learning	20
A decade in review: use of data analytics within the biopharmaceutical sector	20
Advances of single-atom catalysts for applications in persulfate-based advanced oxidation technologies	20
Comparison of sulfate radical with other reactive species	20
New trends on photoelectrocatalysis (PEC): nanomaterials, wastewater treatment and hydrogen generation	20
Perspectives of electrocatalysis in the chemical industry: a platform for energy storage	19
Plasma for biomedical decontamination: from plasma-engineered to plasma-active antimicrobial surfaces	19

Synthesis of quantum dots based on microfluidic technology	19
Green biomass-derived materials for oil spill response: recent advancements and future perspectives	19
Towards data-driven process integration for renewable energy planning	19
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	18
Sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes for water decontamination using biomass-derived carbon as catalysts	18
Evaluation of the residual stresses in metallic materials produced by additive manufacturing technology: effect of microstructure	18
Revisit the alkaline activation of peroxydisulfate and peroxymonosulfate	18
In vitro models of the blood-brain barrier: building in physiological complexity	18
Microcellular injection molding of polymers: a review of process know-how, emerging technologies, and future directions	18
An overview on photocatalytic sulfate radical formation via doped graphitic carbon nitride for water remediation	17
Bioinspired nanostructured bactericidal surfaces	16
The structure-property relationships of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs)	16
Inorganic nanoparticles for oral drug delivery: opportunities, barriers, and future perspectives	16
Design and optimization of hybrid membrane–solvent-processes for post-combustion CO2 capture	16
Predictive interactome modeling for precision microbiome engineering	16
Additive manufacturing of polyaniline-based materials: an opportunity for new designs and applications in energy and biotechnology	16
Semi‐solid flow battery and redox-mediated flow battery: two strategies to implement the use of solid electroactive materials in high-energy redox-flow batteries	16
CO2 as a building block: from capture to utilization	16
Oil pollution of beaches	16