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2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
116
Citations
49832
World Ranking
591
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Enric Brillas is affiliated with the University of Barcelona in Spain, where their research focuses primarily on environmental science and energy. Their work spans interdisciplinary fields, with significant contributions to water science, technology, renewable energy, sustainability, electrochemistry, industrial engineering, and pollution studies.

The main topics explored in Brillas's research include:

  • Advanced oxidation water treatment
  • Advanced photocatalysis techniques
  • Electrochemical analysis and applications
  • TiO2 photocatalysis and solar cells
  • Water quality monitoring and analysis
  • Pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts
  • Electrocatalysts for energy conversion

The scientist has published extensively in multiple academic journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Chemosphere
  • Separation and Purification Technology
  • Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
  • Electrochimica Acta
  • Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

Brillas's collaboration network includes several frequent coauthors such as:

  • Ignasi Sirés
  • Juan M. Peralta-Hernández
  • Sergi Garcia-Segura
  • Pere Lluís Cabot
  • Martín Pacheco-Álvarez

Recent notable publications by Enric Brillas include:

  • A review on the photoelectro-Fenton process as efficient electrochemical advanced oxidation for wastewater remediation. Treatment with UV light, sunlight, and coupling with conventional and other photo-assisted advanced technologies, 2020, Chemosphere
  • Recent development of electrochemical advanced oxidation of herbicides. A review on its application to wastewater treatment and soil remediation, 2021, Journal of Cleaner Production
  • A critical review on ibuprofen removal from synthetic waters, natural waters, and real wastewaters by advanced oxidation processes, 2021, Chemosphere

Enric Brillas's work is grounded in advancing technologies that address environmental pollution and sustainability challenges, particularly through the development and application of electrochemical and photocatalytic processes for water treatment and energy conversion.

Best Publications

  • Electro-Fenton process and related electrochemical technologies based on Fenton's reaction chemistry

    Enric Brillas;Ignasi Sirés;Mehmet A. Oturan

  • Decontamination of wastewaters containing synthetic organic dyes by electrochemical methods. An updated review

    Enric Brillas;Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle

  • Electrochemical advanced oxidation processes: A review on their application to synthetic and real wastewaters

    Francisca C. Moreira;Rui A.R. Boaventura;Enric Brillas;Vítor J.P. Vilar

  • Electrochemical advanced oxidation processes: today and tomorrow. A review

    Ignasi Sirés;Enric Brillas;Mehmet A. Oturan;Manuel A. Rodrigo

  • Remediation of water pollution caused by pharmaceutical residues based on electrochemical separation and degradation technologies: a review.

    Ignasi Sirés;Enric Brillas

  • Applied photoelectrocatalysis on the degradation of organic pollutants in wastewaters

    Sergi Garcia-Segura;Enric Brillas

  • Mineralization of 2,4-D by advanced electrochemical oxidation processes

    Enric Brillas;Juan C. Calpe;Juan Casado

  • Aniline mineralization by AOP's: anodic oxidation, photocatalysis, electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton processes

    Enric Brillas;Eva Mur;Roser Sauleda;Laura Sànchez

  • Electrochemical destruction of chlorophenoxy herbicides by anodic oxidation and electro-Fenton using a boron-doped diamond electrode

    Enric Brillas;Birame Boye;Ignasi Sirés;José Antonio Garrido

  • Aniline degradation by Electro-Fenton and peroxi-coagulation processes using a flow reactor for wastewater treatment.

    Enric Brillas;Juan Casado

  • Catalytic behavior of the Fe3+/Fe2+ system in the electro-Fenton degradation of the antimicrobial chlorophene

    Ignasi Sirés;José Antonio Garrido;Rosa María Rodríguez;Enric Brillas

  • A review on the photoelectro-Fenton process as efficient electrochemical advanced oxidation for wastewater remediation. Treatment with UV light, sunlight, and coupling with conventional and other photo-assisted advanced technologies.

    Enric Brillas

  • Mineralization of paracetamol in aqueous medium by anodic oxidation with a boron-doped diamond electrode.

    Enric Brillas;Ignasi Sirés;Conchita Arias;Pere Lluís Cabot

  • Electrochemical Alternatives for Drinking Water Disinfection

    Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle;Enric Brillas

  • Benchmarking recent advances and innovative technology approaches of Fenton, photo-Fenton, electro-Fenton, and related processes: A review on the relevance of phenol as model molecule

    Enric Brillas;Sergi Garcia-Segura

  • Degradation of herbicide 4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid by advanced electrochemical oxidation methods.

    Birame Boye;Momar M. Dieng;Enric Brillas

  • Kinetics of oxidative degradation/mineralization pathways of the antibiotic tetracycline by the novel heterogeneous electro-Fenton process with solid catalyst chalcopyrite

    Natija Barhoumi;Natija Barhoumi;Hugo Olvera-Vargas;Nihal Oturan;David Huguenot

  • Critical Review on the Mechanisms of Fe2+ Regeneration in the Electro-Fenton Process: Fundamentals and Boosting Strategies.

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  • Electro-Fenton and photoelectro-Fenton degradation of indigo carmine in acidic aqueous medium

    Cristina Flox;Salah Ammar;Conchita Arias;Enric Brillas

  • Unprecedented total mineralization of atrazine and cyanuric acid by anodic oxidation and electro-Fenton with a boron-doped diamond anode

    Nihal Oturan;Enric Brillas;Mehmet A. Oturan

  • Mineralization of salicylic acid in acidic aqueous medium by electrochemical advanced oxidation processes using platinum and boron-doped diamond as anode and cathodically generated hydrogen peroxide.

    Elena Guinea;Conchita Arias;Pere Lluís Cabot;José Antonio Garrido

Frequent Co-Authors

Ignasi Sirés
Ignasi Sirés University of Barcelona
José Antonio Garrido
José Antonio Garrido University of Barcelona
Pere-Lluís Cabot
Pere-Lluís Cabot University of Barcelona
Francesc Centellas
Francesc Centellas University of Barcelona
Rosa María Rodríguez
Rosa María Rodríguez University of Barcelona
Conchita Arias
Conchita Arias University of Barcelona
Sergi Garcia-Segura
Sergi Garcia-Segura Arizona State University
Mehmet A. Oturan
Mehmet A. Oturan Université Paris Cité
Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle
Carlos A. Martínez-Huitle Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Nihal Oturan
Nihal Oturan Université Gustave Eiffel

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