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Dionisios G. Vlachos

Dionisios G. Vlachos

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Chemistry

D-Index
120
Citations
46582
World Ranking
500
National Ranking
217

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dionisios G. Vlachos is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research spans various specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Catalysis, Mechanical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's research interests cover several main topics. These include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science, Catalysis for Biomass Conversion, Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies, and Microplastics and Plastic Pollution.

Vlachos has published extensively, with notable regular contributions to journals such as Green Chemistry, ACS Catalysis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Vlachos consist of:

  • Plastic waste to fuels by hydrocracking at mild conditions, 2021, Science Advances
  • Polyethylene Hydrogenolysis at Mild Conditions over Ruthenium on Tungstated Zirconia, 2021, JACS Au
  • Bifunctional hydroformylation on heterogeneous Rh-WOx pair site catalysts, 2022, Nature
  • Polypropylene Plastic Waste Conversion to Lubricants over Ru/TiO2 Catalysts, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • C-O bond activation using ultralow loading of noble metal catalysts on moderately reducible oxides, 2020, Nature Catalysis

Collaborations figure prominently in Vlachos's research output. Frequent coauthors include Stavros Caratzoulas, Weiqing Zheng, Marianthi Ierapetritou, Pavel A. Kots, and Sunitha Sadula.

In recognition of contributions to science, Dionisios G. Vlachos was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Microstructural optimization of a zeolite membrane for organic vapor separation.

    Zhiping Lai;Griselda Bonilla;Isabel Diaz;Jose Geraldo Nery

  • Insights into the Interplay of Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalysts in Glucose and Fructose Conversion to 5‑(Hydroxymethyl)furfural and Levulinic Acid in Aqueous Media

    Vinit Choudhary;Samir H. Mushrif;Christopher Ho;Andrzej Anderko

  • Top ten fundamental challenges of biomass pyrolysis for biofuels.

    Matthew S. Mettler;Matthew S. Mettler;Dionisios G. Vlachos;Paul J. Dauenhauer

  • Mechanistic Insights into the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2 to CO on Nanostructured Ag Surfaces

    Jonathan Rosen;Gregory S. Hutchings;Qi Lu;Sean Rivera

  • Combustion characteristics and flame stability at the microscale: a CFD study of premixed methane/air mixtures

    D.G. Norton;D.G. Vlachos

  • An overview of spatial microscopic and accelerated kinetic Monte Carlo methods

    Abhijit Chatterjee;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • Using first principles to predict bimetallic catalysts for the ammonia decomposition reaction

    Danielle A. Hansgen;Dionisios G. Vlachos;Jingguang G. Chen

  • Plastic waste to fuels by hydrocracking at mild conditions.

    Sibao Liu;Pavel A. Kots;Brandon C. Vance;Andrew Danielson

  • Cycloaddition of Biomass-Derived Furans for Catalytic Production of Renewable p-Xylene

    C. Luke Williams;Chun Chih Chang;Phuong Do;Nima Nikbin

  • Nickel supported on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes as hydrogen oxidation reaction catalyst in alkaline electrolyte

    Zhongbin Zhuang;Stephen A. Giles;Jie Zheng;Glen R. Jenness

  • A review on microcombustion: Fundamentals, devices and applications

    Niket S. Kaisare;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • Correlating particle size and shape of supported Ru/gamma-Al2O3 catalysts with NH3 decomposition activity.

    Ayman M Karim;Vinay Prasad;Giannis Mpourmpakis;William W Lonergan

  • A review of multiscale modeling of metal-catalyzed reactions: Mechanism development for complexity and emergent behavior

    M. Salciccioli;M. Stamatakis;S. Caratzoulas;D.G. Vlachos

  • Conversion of Xylose to Furfural Using Lewis and Brønsted Acid Catalysts in Aqueous Media

    Vinit Choudhary;Stanley I. Sandler;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • A CFD study of propane/air microflame stability

    D.G. Norton;D.G. Vlachos

  • Molecular structure, morphology and growth mechanisms and rates of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) derived humins

    George Tsilomelekis;Michael J. Orella;Zhexi Lin;Ziwei Cheng

  • Revealing pyrolysis chemistry for biofuels production: Conversion of cellulose to furans and small oxygenates

    Matthew S. Mettler;Matthew S. Mettler;Samir H. Mushrif;Alex D. Paulsen;Ashay D. Javadekar

  • Xylose Isomerization to Xylulose and its Dehydration to Furfural in Aqueous Media

    Vinit Choudhary;Ana B. Pinar;Stanley I. Sandler;Dionisios G. Vlachos

  • Mechanistic Insights into Metal Lewis Acid-Mediated Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation of Furfural to 2-Methylfuran

    Matthew J. Gilkey;Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou;Alexander V. Mironenko;Glen R. Jenness

  • Binomial distribution based τ-leap accelerated stochastic simulation

    Abhijit Chatterjee;Dionisios G. Vlachos;Markos A. Katsoulakis

  • Production of Dimethylfuran from Hydroxymethylfurfural through Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation with Ruthenium Supported on Carbon

    Jungho Jae;Weiqing Zheng;Raul F. Lobo;Dionisios G. Vlachos

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tsapatsis
Michael Tsapatsis Johns Hopkins University
Raul F. Lobo
Raul F. Lobo University of Delaware
Jingguang G. Chen
Jingguang G. Chen Columbia University
Paul J. Dauenhauer
Paul J. Dauenhauer University of Minnesota
Mark Snyder
Mark Snyder University of Minnesota
Wei Fan
Wei Fan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Giannis Mpourmpakis
Giannis Mpourmpakis University of Pittsburgh
Bingjun Xu
Bingjun Xu University of Delaware
Stanley I. Sandler
Stanley I. Sandler University of Delaware
Lanny D. Schmidt
Lanny D. Schmidt University of Minnesota

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