OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A green hydrogen economy for a renewable energy society	433
Green hydrogen as an alternative fuel for the shipping industry	283
Renewable ammonia as an alternative fuel for the shipping industry	119
Renewable ammonia for sustainable energy and agriculture: vision and systems engineering opportunities	87
Comparison of hydroxyl-radical-based advanced oxidation processes with sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes	77
Addressing the challenges associated with plastic waste disposal and management in developing countries	73
Bayesian optimization for chemical products and functional materials	72
High efficiency PEM water electrolysis: enabled by advanced catalysts, membranes, and processes	70
MXenes-based nanocomposites for supercapacitor applications	68
Seawater electrolysis technologies for green hydrogen production: challenges and opportunities	66
Moving towards an era of hybrid modelling: advantages and challenges of coupling mechanistic and data-driven models for upstream pharmaceutical bioprocesses	58
SWOT analysis of photocatalytic materials towards large scale environmental remediation	57
Status of renewable energy in the GCC region and future opportunities	55
Advances of piezoelectric nanomaterials for applications in advanced oxidation technologies	55
State-of-the-art polymers of intrinsic microporosity for high-performance gas separation membranes	52
Exploration of smart antibacterial coatings for practical applications	46
Application of transparent self-cleaning coating for photovoltaic panel: a review	44
Fundamentals and advances on the mechanisms of electrochemical generation of persulfate and sulfate radicals in aqueous medium	42
Artificial intelligence in reaction prediction and chemical synthesis	42
Advanced nuclear energy: the safest and most renewable clean energy	41
Recent advances in nanostructured superhydrophobic surfaces: fabrication and long-term durability challenges	40
Bioprocess systems analysis, modeling, estimation, and control	39
Microwave-assisted persulfate/peroxymonosulfate process for environmental remediation	37
Thermally activated persulfate-based Advanced Oxidation Processes — recent progress and challenges in mineralization of persistent organic chemicals: a review	35
Techno-economic analyses of several redox flow batteries using levelized cost of energy storage	35

Hybrid modeling — a key enabler towards realizing digital twins in biopharma?	34
Batch or flow chemistry? – a current industrial opinion on process selection	34
Organic solvent nanofiltration membranes based on polymers of intrinsic microporosity	33
Autonomous chemical science and engineering enabled by self-driving laboratories	33
Quantum computing for chemical and biomolecular product design	33
Multiscale and multidisciplinary approach to understanding nanoparticle transport in plants	31
Flexible packaging plastic waste – environmental implications, management solutions, and the way forward	31
Computer-aided molecular design of solvents for chemical separation processes	31
Comparison of sulfate radical with other reactive species	31
Audacity of huge: overcoming challenges of data scarcity and data quality for machine learning in computational materials discovery	30
Revisit the alkaline activation of peroxydisulfate and peroxymonosulfate	30
Challenges in process control for continuous processing for production of monoclonal antibody products	30
Realizing the data-driven, computational discovery of metal-organic framework catalysts	30
Carbon catabolite repression relaxation in Escherichia coli: global and sugar-specific methods for glucose and secondary sugar co-utilization	29
Methods identifying cost reduction potential for water electrolysis systems	28
A piece of the pie: engineering microbiomes by exploiting division of labor in complex polysaccharide consumption	28
Bioprocess digital twins of mammalian cell culture for advanced biomanufacturing	28
Sustainable energy transition: modeling and optimization	28
CO2 as a building block: from capture to utilization	27
Recent advancement in the development of new dispersants as oil spill treating agents	27
A decade in review: use of data analytics within the biopharmaceutical sector	27
Platinum group metal free nano-catalysts for proton exchange membrane water electrolysis	27
Techno-economic analysis of offshore wind PEM water electrolysis for H2 production	27
Accelerating the structure search of catalysts with machine learning	26
New trends on photoelectrocatalysis (PEC): nanomaterials, wastewater treatment and hydrogen generation	26
Inorganic semiconducting nanowires for green energy solutions	25
Design and operation of hybrid renewable energy systems: current status and future perspectives	24
Inorganic nanoparticles for oral drug delivery: opportunities, barriers, and future perspectives	23
Green biomass-derived materials for oil spill response: recent advancements and future perspectives	23
Advances of single-atom catalysts for applications in persulfate-based advanced oxidation technologies	23
Low-carbon footprint chemical manufacturing using plasma technology	22
Iron-based magnetic nanomaterials in environmental and energy applications: a short review	22
Sulfate radical-based advanced oxidation processes for water decontamination using biomass-derived carbon as catalysts	22
Plasma for biomedical decontamination: from plasma-engineered to plasma-active antimicrobial surfaces	22
The structure-property relationships of Polymers of Intrinsic Microporosity (PIMs)	22
Towards data-driven process integration for renewable energy planning	21
Challenges in downstream purification of gene therapy viral vectors	21
Microcellular injection molding of polymers: a review of process know-how, emerging technologies, and future directions	21
Opportunities and challenges for model utilization in the biopharmaceutical industry: current versus future state	20
The chemical engineering aspects of CO2 capture, combined with its utilisation	20
In vitro models of the blood-brain barrier: building in physiological complexity	20
Mapping GHG emissions and prospects for renewable energy in the chemical industry	20
Oil pollution of beaches	20
Design and optimization of hybrid membrane–solvent-processes for post-combustion CO2 capture	19
An overview on photocatalytic sulfate radical formation via doped graphitic carbon nitride for water remediation	19
Bioinspired nanostructured bactericidal surfaces	19
Future perspective on redox flow batteries: aqueous versus nonaqueous electrolytes	19
Industrial carbon capture by absorption: recent advances and path forward	19
Semi‐solid flow battery and redox-mediated flow battery: two strategies to implement the use of solid electroactive materials in high-energy redox-flow batteries	19
A roadmap to AI-driven in silico process development: bioprocessing 4.0 in practice	19

Additive manufacturing of polyaniline-based materials: an opportunity for new designs and applications in energy and biotechnology	19
Machine learning for multiscale modeling in computational molecular design	18
Gas–liquid microdispersion and microflow for carbon dioxide absorption and utilization: a review	18
Predictive interactome modeling for precision microbiome engineering	17
Machine learning for the design and discovery of zeolites and porous crystalline materials	17
Non-household end-use plastics: the ‘forgotten’ plastics for the circular economy	17
Inorganic nanoparticle engineering against bacterial infections	17
Recent advances in photocatalytic coatings for antimicrobial surfaces	17
Knowledge extraction in catalysis utilizing design of experiments and machine learning	17
TiO2-based nanomaterials assisted photocatalytic treatment for virus inactivation: perspectives and applications	16