2026 Christopher W. Bielawski: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	95	1301	1249	36	35	376	49675
Chemistry	96	1503	1336	20	20	398	50943

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Korea Leader Award
2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Christopher W. Bielawski is affiliated with the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research activity spans multiple fields primarily within engineering and materials science, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering, materials chemistry, and organic chemistry. Their work encompasses polymers and plastics as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's research topics include advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, conducting polymers and applications, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, synthetic organic chemistry methods, and semiconductor materials and devices.

Frequent publication venues for Christopher W. Bielawski include:

Journal of Polymer Science
Chemical Engineering Journal
Macromolecules
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Chemistry - A European Journal

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by this scientist include:

Highly Ordered and Dense Thermally Conductive Graphitic Films from a Graphene Oxide/Reduced Graphene Oxide Mixture, 2020, Matter
A Conjugated Porous Polymer Complexed with a Single-Atom Cobalt Catalyst as An Electrocatalytic Sulfur Host for Enhancing Cathode Reaction Kinetics, 2021, Energy storage materials
Ice-Templated Large-Scale Preparation of Two-Dimensional Sheets of Conjugated Polymers: Thickness-Independent Flexible Supercapacitance, 2021, ACS Nano
Single-Atom Catalyst Aggregates: Size-Matching is Critical to Electrocatalytic Performance in Sulfur Cathodes, 2021, Advanced Science
Covalently grafting conjugated porous polymers to MXene offers a two-dimensional sandwich-structured electrocatalytic sulfur host for lithium-sulfur batteries, 2022, Chemical Engineering Journal

Bielawski collaborates frequently with several coauthors, with the most frequent being Jianxin Geng, Tae-Lim Choi, Craig J. Hawker, Herman Mark, and Takuzo Aida. Each has appeared as a coauthor on multiple publications, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

Christopher W. Bielawski was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

The chemistry of graphene oxide

Daniel R. Dreyer;Sungjin Park;Christopher W. Bielawski;Rodney S. Ruoff

13171
Citations
Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites

Jeffrey R. Potts;Daniel R. Dreyer;Christopher W. Bielawski;Rodney S. Ruoff

3675
Citations
Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization

Christopher W. Bielawski;Robert H. Grubbs

1779
Citations
Elucidating the Structure of Poly(dopamine)

Daniel R. Dreyer;Daniel J. Miller;Benny D. Freeman;Donald R. Paul

1163
Citations
Harnessing the chemistry of graphene oxide

Daniel R. Dreyer;Alexander D. Todd;Christopher W. Bielawski;Christopher W. Bielawski

935
Citations
From Conception to Realization: An Historial Account of Graphene and Some Perspectives for Its Future

Daniel R. Dreyer;Rodney S. Ruoff;Christopher W. Bielawski

933
Citations
Graphene Oxide: A Convenient Carbocatalyst for Facilitating Oxidation and Hydration Reactions

Daniel R. Dreyer;Hong Peng Jia;Christopher W Bielawski

845
Citations
Highly efficient ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) using new ruthenium catalysts containing N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

Christopher W. Bielawski;Robert H. Grubbs

794
Citations
Ionic Liquid Crystals: Versatile Materials.

Karel Goossens;Kathleen Lava;Kathleen Lava;Christopher W. Bielawski;Koen Binnemans

789
Citations
High-performance supercapacitors based on poly(ionic liquid)-modified graphene electrodes.

Tae Young Kim;Hyun Wook Lee;Meryl Stoller;Daniel R. Dreyer

771
Citations
Surface Modification of Water Purification Membranes

Daniel J. Miller;Daniel J. Miller;Daniel R. Dreyer;Christopher W. Bielawski;Donald R. Paul

759
Citations
An 'Endless' Route to Cyclic Polymers

Christopher W. Bielawski;Diego Benitez;Robert H. Grubbs

742
Citations
Three-dimensional self-assembly of graphene oxide platelets into mechanically flexible macroporous carbon films.

Sun Hwa Lee;Hyun Wook Kim;Jin Ok Hwang;Won Jun Lee

518
Citations
Tandem Catalysis: The Sequential Mediation of Olefin Metathesis, Hydrogenation, and Hydrogen Transfer with Single-Component Ru Complexes

Janis Louie;Christopher W. Bielawski;Robert H. Grubbs

512
Citations
Reduction of graphite oxide using alcohols

Daniel R. Dreyer;Shanthi Murali;Yanwu Zhu;Rodney S. Ruoff

471
Citations
Polymer Brushes via Controlled, Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) from Graphene Oxide

Sun Hwa Lee;Daniel R. Dreyer;Jinho An;Aruna Velamakanni

431
Citations
Perspectives on poly(dopamine)

Daniel R. Dreyer;Daniel J. Miller;Benny D. Freeman;Donald R. Paul

398
Citations
Carbocatalysis: Heterogeneous carbons finding utility in synthetic chemistry

Daniel R. Dreyer;Christopher W. Bielawski

396
Citations
N-Heterocyclic Carbene−Transition Metal Complexes: Spectroscopic and Crystallographic Analyses of π-Back-bonding Interactions

Dimitri M. Khramov;and Vincent M. Lynch;Christopher W. Bielawski

365
Citations
Main-chain organometallic polymers: synthetic strategies, applications, and perspectives

Kyle A. Williams;Andrew J. Boydston;Christopher W. Bielawski

350
Citations