Erwin Lam

2.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Erwin Lam is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Erwin Lam has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 16 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Erwin Lam's work include Catalysts for Methane Reforming (15 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (14 papers). Erwin Lam is often cited by papers focused on Catalysts for Methane Reforming (15 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers) and Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (14 papers). Erwin Lam collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Spain. Erwin Lam's co-authors include Christophe Copéret, Kim Larmier, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Shohei Tada, Atsushi Urakawa, Erwin Reisner, Patrick Wolf, Оlga V. Safonova, Gina Noh and Wei‐Chih Liao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Erwin Lam

39 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

CO₂‐to‐Methanol Hydrogenation on Zirconia‐Supported Copper Nanoparticles: Reaction Intermediates and the Role of the Metal–Support Interface

2017 544 citations Kim Larmier, Wei‐Chih Liao et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Engineering the Cu/Mo2CTx (MXene) interface to drive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

2021 239 citations Hui Zhou, Zixuan Chen et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow

2025 25 citations Sayan Kar, Dong‐Seok Kim et al. Nature Energy profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Erwin Lam Switzerland	23	1.4k	1.3k	903	669	243	39	2.3k
Yun‐Lei Teng China	22	1.2k 0.8×	612 0.5×	520 0.6×	175 0.3×	140 0.6×	86	1.8k
Elena Pérez‐Gallent Netherlands	12	1.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.9×	3.6k 4.0×	557 0.8×	129 0.5×	14	3.9k
Youn Jeong Jang South Korea	27	1.7k 1.2×	816 0.6×	2.0k 2.2×	209 0.3×	107 0.4×	62	2.9k
Nicholas F. Dummer United Kingdom	30	2.5k 1.7×	1.6k 1.3×	735 0.8×	118 0.2×	647 2.7×	96	3.2k
Ruiping Wei China	24	1.1k 0.8×	274 0.2×	395 0.4×	370 0.6×	181 0.7×	84	2.1k
Yuvraj Y. Birdja Netherlands	17	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.5×	3.9k 4.3×	607 0.9×	136 0.6×	20	4.3k
Mani Balamurugan South Korea	21	487 0.3×	500 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	211 0.3×	336 1.4×	38	1.9k
Yiming Niu China	23	1.7k 1.2×	904 0.7×	890 1.0×	94 0.1×	627 2.6×	66	2.4k

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Lam, Erwin, et al.. (2025). General data management workflow to process tabular data in automated and high-throughput heterogeneous catalysis research. Digital Discovery. 4(2). 539–547. 1 indexed citations

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Kar, Sayan, Dong‐Seok Kim, Bidyut Bikash Sarma, et al.. (2025). Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow. Nature Energy. 10(4). 448–459. 25 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Dong-Seok, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Erwin Lam, et al.. (2024). Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Using Homogeneous Carbon Dots with a Molecular Cobalt Catalyst. Small. 20(39). e2400057–e2400057. 18 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, et al.. (2023). Comproportionation of CO₂ and Cellulose to Formate Using a Floating Semiconductor‐Enzyme Photoreforming Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(20). e202215894–e202215894. 35 indexed citations

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Rodríguez‐Jiménez, Santiago, Erwin Lam, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, & Erwin Reisner. (2023). Valorisation of lignocellulose and low concentration CO₂ using a fractionation–photocatalysis–electrolysis process. Green Chemistry. 25(24). 10611–10621. 6 indexed citations

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Laveille, Paco, Pascal Miéville, Sourav Chatterjee, et al.. (2023). Swiss CAT+, a Data-driven Infrastructure for Accelerated Catalysts Discovery and Optimization. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 77(3). 154–154. 17 indexed citations

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Rahaman, Motiar, Virgil Andrei, Demelza Wright, et al.. (2023). Solar-driven liquid multi-carbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite–BiVO4 artificial leaf. Nature Energy. 8(6). 629–638. 83 indexed citations

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Bhattacharjee, Subhajit, Chengzhi Guo, Erwin Lam, et al.. (2023). Chemoenzymatic Photoreforming: A Sustainable Approach for Solar Fuel Generation from Plastic Feedstocks. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(37). 20355–20364. 64 indexed citations

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Docherty, Scott R., Erwin Lam, Gina Noh, et al.. (2021). Silica-Supported PdGa Nanoparticles: Metal Synergy for Highly Active and Selective CO ₂ -to-CH ₃ OH Hydrogenation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 450–458. 54 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, et al.. (2021). Mechanism-Based Design of Quinoline Potassium Acyltrifluoroborates for Rapid Amide-Forming Ligations at Physiological pH. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(42). 17557–17565. 11 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hui, Zixuan Chen, Erwin Lam, et al.. (2021). Engineering the Cu/Mo2CTx (MXene) interface to drive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Nature Catalysis. 4(10). 860–871. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lam, Erwin & Erwin Reisner. (2021). A TiO₂‐Co(terpyridine)₂ Photocatalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Cellulose to Formate Coupled to the Reduction of CO₂ to Syngas. Angewandte Chemie. 133(43). 23494–23500. 13 indexed citations

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Pucino, Margherita, Wei‐Chih Liao, Ka Wing Chan, et al.. (2020). Metal‐Surface Interactions and Surface Heterogeneity in ‘Well‐Defined’ Silica‐Supported Alkene Metathesis Catalysts: Evidences and Consequences. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 103(6). 12 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, Juan José Corral‐Pérez, Kim Larmier, et al.. (2019). CO₂ Hydrogenation on Cu/Al₂O₃: Role of the Metal/Support Interface in Driving Activity and Selectivity of a Bifunctional Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 131(39). 14127–14134. 22 indexed citations

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Noh, Gina, Scott R. Docherty, Erwin Lam, et al.. (2019). CO2 Hydrogenation to CH3OH on Supported Cu Nanoparticles: Nature and Role of Ti in Bulk Oxides vs Isolated Surface Sites. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 3 indexed citations

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Noh, Gina, Erwin Lam, Kim Larmier, et al.. (2019). Selective Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CH₃OH on Supported Cu Nanoparticles Promoted by Isolated Ti^IV Surface Sites on SiO₂. ChemSusChem. 12(5). 968–972. 52 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, Juan José Corral‐Pérez, Kim Larmier, et al.. (2019). CO₂ Hydrogenation on Cu/Al₂O₃: Role of the Metal/Support Interface in Driving Activity and Selectivity of a Bifunctional Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(39). 13989–13996. 163 indexed citations

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Chan, Ka Wing, Erwin Lam, Vincenza D’Anna, et al.. (2018). C–H Activation and Proton Transfer Initiate Alkene Metathesis Activity of the Tungsten(IV)–Oxo Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(36). 11395–11401. 27 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, Kim Larmier, Patrick Wolf, et al.. (2018). Isolated Zr Surface Sites on Silica Promote Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CH₃OH in Supported Cu Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(33). 10530–10535. 211 indexed citations

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Lam, Erwin, Aleix Comas‐Vives, & Christophe Copéret. (2017). Role of Coordination Number, Geometry, and Local Disorder on ²⁷Al NMR Chemical Shifts and Quadrupolar Coupling Constants: Case Study with Aluminosilicates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 121(36). 19946–19957. 34 indexed citations

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