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Diego Troya

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
42
Citations
5876
World Ranking
17584
National Ranking
4297

Diego Troya publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diego Troya sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 141 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Diego Troya D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Diego Troya sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Diego Troya is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in chemistry and materials science. Their work spans various subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and catalysis.

Their research primarily focuses on several advanced topics such as metal-organic frameworks synthesis and applications, chemical synthesis and analysis, synthetic organic chemistry methods, advanced polymer synthesis and characterization, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, catalytic processes in materials science, and catalysis and oxidation reactions.

Frequent coauthors of Diego Troya include John R. Morris, Amanda J. Morris, Louis A. Madsen, Samantha J. Scannelli, and Mohammed Alaboalirat.

Publications by Diego Troya have appeared in a variety of scientific journals. Venues with multiple publications include Macromolecules, Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Angewandte Chemie, and ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Diego Troya include:

  • Metal-Organic Framework- and Polyoxometalate-Based Sorbents for the Uptake and Destruction of Chemical Warfare Agents, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Uncorrelated Lithium-Ion Hopping in a Dynamic Solvent-Anion Network, 2023, ACS Energy Letters
  • Photoinduced Dynamic Ligation in Metal-Organic Frameworks, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Semiconducting and Metallic [5,5] Fullertube Nanowires: Characterization of Pristine D5h(1)-C90 and D5d(1)-C100, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Influence of the Norbornene Anchor Group in Ru-Mediated Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: Synthesis of Bottlebrush Polymers, 2023, Macromolecules

Best Publications

  • The role of vacancy defects and holes in the fracture of carbon nanotubes

    Steven L. Mielke;Diego Troya;Sulin Zhang;Je Luen Li

  • Mechanics of defects in carbon nanotubes: Atomistic and multiscale simulations

    Sulin Zhang;Steven L. Mielke;Roopam Khare;Diego Troya;Diego Troya

  • Bottlebrush Polymer Synthesis by Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization: The Significance of the Anchor Group

    Scott C. Radzinski;Jeffrey C. Foster;Robert C. Chapleski;Diego Troya

  • In Situ Probes of Capture and Decomposition of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants by Zr-Based Metal Organic Frameworks

    Anna M. Plonka;Qi Wang;Wesley O. Gordon;Alex Balboa

  • How Solvent Modulates Hydroxyl Radical Reactivity in Hydrogen Atom Abstractions

    Susan Mitroka;Stephanie Zimmeck;Diego Troya;James M Tanko

  • A crossed molecular beams study of the O(3P)+H2 reaction: Comparison of excitation function with accurate quantum reactive scattering calculations

    Donna J. Garton;Timothy K. Minton;Biswajit Maiti;Diego Troya

  • Mechanism and Kinetics for Reaction of the Chemical Warfare Agent Simulant, DMMP(g), with Zirconium(IV) MOFs: An Ultrahigh-Vacuum and DFT Study

    G. Wang;C. Sharp;A. M. Plonka;Q. Wang

  • Carbon nanotube fracture - differences between quantum mechanical mechanisms and those of empirical potentials

    Diego Troya;Steven L. Mielke;George C. Schatz

  • A quasiclassical trajectory study of the reaction OH+CO→H+CO2

    Matthew J. Lakin;Diego Troya;George C. Schatz;Lawrence B. Harding

  • Theoretical studies of hyperthermal O(3P) collisions with hydrocarbon self-assembled monolayers.

    Diego Troya;George C. Schatz

  • Heterogeneous chemistry and reaction dynamics of the atmospheric oxidants, O3, NO3, and OH, on organic surfaces

    Robert C. Chapleski;Yafen Zhang;Diego Troya;John R. Morris

  • Reaction Mechanism of Nerve-Agent Decomposition with Zr-Based Metal Organic Frameworks

    Diego Troya

  • Surface Catalyzed Oxidative Oligomerization of 17β-Estradiol by Fe3+-Saturated Montmorillonite

    Chao Qin;Diego Troya;Chao Shang;Sherry Hildreth

  • Crossed beams and theoretical studies of the O(3P)+CH4-->H+OCH3 reaction excitation function.

    Diego Troya;George C. Schatz;Donna J. Garton;Amy L. Brunsvold

  • Infrared Spectra and Binding Energies of Chemical Warfare Nerve Agent Simulants on the Surface of Amorphous Silica

    Amanda R. Wilmsmeyer;Wesley O. Gordon;Erin Durke Davis;Diego Troya

  • Characterization of Undercoordinated Zr Defect Sites in UiO-66 with Vibrational Spectroscopy of Adsorbed CO

    Darren M. Driscoll;Diego Troya;Pavel M. Usov;Andrew J. Maynes

  • Multi-walled carbon nanotubes experiencing electrical breakdown as gas sensors

    Jaehyun Chung;Kyong Hoon Lee;Junghoon Lee;Diego Troya;Diego Troya

  • Theoretical Studies of the O(3P) + Methane Reaction†

    Diego Troya;Ronald Z. Pascual;George C. Schatz

  • Experimental and theoretical investigations of the inelastic and reactive scattering dynamics of O(3p) + D2.

    Donna J. Garton;Amy L. Brunsvold;Timothy K. Minton;Diego Troya

  • Hyperthermal reactions of O(3P) with alkanes: Observations of novel reaction pathways in crossed-beams and theoretical studies

    Donna J. Garton;Timothy K. Minton;Diego Troya;Ronald Pascual

  • Quantum wave packet and quasiclassical trajectory studies of OH+CO: influence of the reactant channel well on thermal rate constants.

    Dmitry M. Medvedev;Stephen K. Gray;Evelyn M. Goldfield;Matthew J. Lakin

Frequent Co-Authors

George C. Schatz
George C. Schatz Northwestern University
Anatoly I. Frenkel
Anatoly I. Frenkel Stony Brook University
Craig L. Hill
Craig L. Hill Emory University
Timothy K. Minton
Timothy K. Minton University of Colorado Boulder
Djamaladdin G. Musaev
Djamaladdin G. Musaev Emory University
Sanjaya D. Senanayake
Sanjaya D. Senanayake Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard N. Zare
Richard N. Zare Stanford University
Sulin Zhang
Sulin Zhang Pennsylvania State University
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
Andrew J. Orr-Ewing University of Bristol

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