2026 Vasilios Georgakilas: 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	46	11288	10906	36	36	127	20677

Overview

Vasilios Georgakilas is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with extensive contributions in subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

Graphene research and applications
Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
Carbon and Quantum Dots Applications
TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

Nanomaterials
Molecules
Chemistry - A European Journal
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Journal of Materials Science

Recent papers authored by Vasilios Georgakilas include:

A Guide for Using Transmission Electron Microscopy for Studying the Radiosensitizing Effects of Gold Nanoparticles In Vitro, 2021, Nanomaterials
Solid phase functionalization of MWNTs: an eco-friendly approach for carbon-based conductive inks, 2021, Green Chemistry
Graphene-Based Composites with Silver Nanowires for Electronic Applications, 2022, Nanomaterials
Stable Dispersion of Graphene in Water, Promoted by High-Yield, Scalable Exfoliation of Graphite in Natural Aqueous Extracts: The Role of Hydrophobic Organic Molecules, 2022, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Condensed Clustered Iron Oxides for Ultrahigh Photothermal Conversion and In Vivo Multimodal Imaging, 2021, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vasilios Georgakilas are:

Apostolos Koutsioukis
Vassiliki Belessi
Dimitrios Gournis
Argiris Kolokithas-Ntoukas
Katerina Vrettos

Best Publications

Functionalization of Graphene: Covalent and Non-Covalent Approaches, Derivatives and Applications

Vasilios Georgakilas;Michal Otyepka;Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Vimlesh Chandra

4541
Citations
Noncovalent Functionalization of Graphene and Graphene Oxide for Energy Materials, Biosensing, Catalytic, and Biomedical Applications

Vasilios Georgakilas;Jitendra N. Tiwari;K. Christian Kemp;Jason A. Perman

2462
Citations
Broad family of carbon nanoallotropes: classification, chemistry, and applications of fullerenes, carbon dots, nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, and combined superstructures.

Vasilios Georgakilas;Jason A. Perman;Jiri Tucek;Radek Zboril

2172
Citations
Organic functionalization of carbon nanotubes

Vasilios Georgakilas;Konstantinos Kordatos;Maurizio Prato;Dirk M. Guldi

1642
Citations
Soluble carbon nanotubes.

Dimitrios Tasis;Nikos Tagmatarchis;Vasilios Georgakilas;Maurizio Prato

810
Citations
Decorating carbon nanotubes with metal or semiconductor nanoparticles

Vasilios Georgakilas;Dimitrios Gournis;Vasilios Tzitzios;Lucia Pasquato

805
Citations
Photoluminescent Carbogenic Dots

Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Andreas Stassinopoulos;Demetrios Anglos;Radek Zboril

697
Citations
Liquid‐Phase Exfoliation of Graphite Towards Solubilized Graphenes

Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Vasilios Georgakilas;Radek Zboril;Theodore A. Steriotis

679
Citations
Graphene Fluoride: A Stable Stoichiometric Graphene Derivative and its Chemical Conversion to Graphene

Radek Zbořil;František Karlický;Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Theodore A. Steriotis

502
Citations
Amino acid functionalisation of water soluble carbon nanotubes

Vasilios Georgakilas;Nikos Tagmatarchis;Davide Pantarotto;Davide Pantarotto;Alberto Bianco

398
Citations
Aqueous-phase exfoliation of graphite in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone for the production of water-soluble graphenes

Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Vasilios Georgakilas;Radek Zboril;Theodore A. Steriotis

360
Citations
Organic functionalisation of graphenes

Vasilios Georgakilas;Athanasios B. Bourlinos;Radek Zboril;Theodore A. Steriotis

316
Citations
Purification of HiPCO carbon nanotubes via organic functionalization.

Vasilios Georgakilas;Dimitrios Voulgaris;Ester Vázquez;Maurizio Prato

304
Citations
Attachment of Magnetic Nanoparticles on Carbon Nanotubes and Their Soluble Derivatives

Vasilios Georgakilas;Vasilios Tzitzios;Dimitrios Gournis;Dimitrios Petridis

285
Citations
Multipurpose organically modified carbon nanotubes: from functionalization to nanotube composites.

Vasilios Georgakilas;Athanasios Bourlinos;Dimitrios Gournis;Theodoros Tsoufis

270
Citations
Supramolecular self-assembled fullerene nanostructures

Vasilios Georgakilas;Federica Pellarini;Maurizio Prato;Dirk M. Guldi

254
Citations
Ordering fullerene materials at nanometer dimensions.

Dirk M Guldi;Francesco Zerbetto;Vasilios Georgakilas;Maurizio Prato

214
Citations
Nanoscale organization of a phthalocyanine-fullerene system: remarkable stabilization of charges in photoactive 1-D nanotubules.

Dirk M. Guldi;Andreas Gouloumis;Purificacion Vazquez;Tomas Torres

207
Citations
Novel versatile fullerene synthons.

Konstantinos Kordatos;Tatiana Da Ros;Susanna Bosi;Ester Vázquez

198
Citations
Cyanographene and Graphene Acid: Emerging Derivatives Enabling High-Yield and Selective Functionalization of Graphene

Aristides Bakandritsos;Martin Pykal;Piotr Błoński;Petr Jakubec

195
Citations
Organic Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes

Dimitrios Tasis;Nikos Tagmatarchis;Vasilios Georgakilas;Davide Pantarotto

4
Citations