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2026

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D-Index
72
Citations
23114
World Ranking
5173
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Chemistry in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Hungary Leader Award

Overview

Imre Dékány is affiliated with the University of Szeged in Hungary and conducts research primarily within the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work covers various subfields, including Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering, and Biomaterials.

Their research focuses on several main topics, such as:

  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Polymer Surface Interaction Studies
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells
  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization
  • Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis

Recent publications by Imre Dékány include:

  • "Rational Mitomycin Nanocarriers Based on Hydrophobically Functionalized Polyelectrolytes and Poly(lactide-co-glycolide)," 2022, Langmuir
  • "Fundamentals and utilization of solid/liquid phase boundary interactions on functional surfaces," 2022, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
  • "Antioxidant colloids via heteroaggregation of cerium oxide nanoparticles and latex beads," 2022, Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces
  • "Use of Self-Assembled Colloidal Prodrug Nanoparticles for Controlled Drug Delivery of Anticancer, Antifibrotic and Antibacterial Mitomycin," 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Photocatalytic elimination of interfacial water pollutants by floatable photoreactive composite nanoparticles," 2020, Environmental Pollution

They have frequently published in venues including:

  • Magyar Tudomány
  • Journal of Molecular Liquids
  • Langmuir
  • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
  • Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces

Collaboration is an important element of Imre Dékány's research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • László Janovák
  • Ágota Deák
  • Dániel Sebők
  • Ákos Kukovecz
  • László Mérai

Best Publications

  • Evolution of surface functional groups in a series of progressively oxidized graphite oxides

    Tamás Szabó;Ottó Berkesi;Péter Forgó;Katalin Josepovits

  • Graphite Oxide: Chemical Reduction to Graphite and Surface Modification with Primary Aliphatic Amines and Amino Acids

    Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Dimitrios Gournis;Dimitrios Petridis;Tamás Szabó

  • Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly of Polyelectrolyte-Semiconductor Nanoparticle Composite Films

    Nicholas A. Kotov;Imre Dekany;Janos H. Fendler

  • DRIFT study of deuterium-exchanged graphite oxide

    Tamás Szabó;Ottó Berkesi;Imre Dékány

  • Ultrathin graphite oxide–polyelectrolyte composites prepared by self‐assembly: Transition between conductive and non‐conductive states

    Nicholas A. Kotov;Imre Dékány;Janos H. Fendler

  • Enhanced acidity and pH-dependent surface charge characterization of successively oxidized graphite oxides

    Tamás Szabó;Etelka Tombácz;Erzsébet Illés;Imre Dékány;Imre Dékány

  • Clay mineral-organic interactions

    G. Lagaly;M. Ogawa;I. Dékány

  • Hydration behavior and dynamics of water molecules in graphite oxide

    A. Lerf;A. Buchsteiner;J. Pieper;S. Schöttl

  • Mechanism of and Defect Formation in the Self-Assembly of Polymeric Polycation−Montmorillonite Ultrathin Films

    N. A. Kotov;N. A. Kotov;T. Haraszti;L. Turi;G. Zavala

  • Composite graphitic nanolayers prepared by self-assembly between finely dispersed graphite oxide and a cationic polymer

    Tamás Szabó;Anna Szeri;Imre Dékány;Imre Dékány

  • Colloid Clay Science

    G. Lagaly;I. Dékány

  • Preparation and characterization of clay mineral intercalated titanium dioxide nanoparticles

    K. Mogyorósi;I. Dékány;J. H. Fendler

  • ASPHALTENE ADSORPTION ON CLAYS AND CRUDE OIL RESERVOIR ROCKS

    Tímea Pernyeszi;Ágnes Patzkó;Ottó Berkesi;Imre Dékány

  • Chapter 7.3 Clay Mineral Organic Interactions

    G. Lagaly;M. Ogawa;I. Dékány

  • Preparation and investigation of structural and photocatalytic properties of phosphate modified titanium dioxide

    László Kőrösi;Imre Dékány;Imre Dékány

  • Ordering and optical properties of monolayers and multilayers of silica spheres deposited by the Langmuir–Blodgett method

    Márta Szekeres;Márta Szekeres;Olexiy Kamalin;Robert A. Schoonheydt;Kurt Wostyn

  • Synthesis and structural and photocatalytic properties of TiO2/montmorillonite nanocomposites

    Robert Kun;Károly Mogyorósi;Imre Dékány;Imre Dékány

  • Surface and bulk composition, structure, and photocatalytic activity of phosphate-modified TiO2

    László Körösi;Szilvia Papp;Imre Bertóti;Imre Dékány

  • Selective liquid sorption properties of hydrophobized graphite oxide nanostructures

    I. Dékány;R. Krüger-Grasser;A. Weiss

  • Titania-sepiolite nanocomposites prepared by a surfactant templating colloidal route

    Pilar Aranda;Robert Kun;M. Angeles Martín-Luengo;Sadok Letaïef

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Lagaly
Gerhard Lagaly Kiel University
Mihály Bartók
Mihály Bartók University of Szeged
Etelka Tombácz
Etelka Tombácz University of Pannonia
Lajos Kemény
Lajos Kemény University of Szeged
János Varga
János Varga University of Szeged
László Vécsei
László Vécsei University of Szeged
Nicholas A. Kotov
Nicholas A. Kotov University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ákos Kukovecz
Ákos Kukovecz University of Szeged
Zoltán Kónya
Zoltán Kónya University of Szeged

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