Erwin Lam

2.8k citations

39 papers · 2.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Process Chemistry and Technology top 0.5%
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
Catalysis top 0.5%
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions

Papers in ⓘ

Process Chemistry and Technology 14
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis 14
Catalysis 16
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming 15

Co-authors: Christophe Copéret (24 shared papers)Kim Larmier (9 shared papers)Aleix Comas‐Vives (6 shared papers)Shohei Tada (4 shared papers)Atsushi Urakawa (5 shared papers)Erwin Reisner (12 shared papers)Patrick Wolf (6 shared papers)Оlga V. Safonova (6 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (7 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (6 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2 papers)Chemical Science (2 papers)Helvetica Chimica Acta (2 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland United Kingdom Spain

In The Last Decade

Erwin Lam

39 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Direct air capture of CO2 for solar fuel production in flow 2025 · 25 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2025 Nature Energy
2021 Nature Catalysis
2017 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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1	CO₂‐to‐Methanol Hydrogenation on Zirconia‐Supported Copper Nanoparticles: Reaction Intermediates and the Role of the Metal–Support Interface Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Kim Larmier, Wei‐Chih Liao, Shohei Tada, Erwin Lam, René Verel, Atul Bansode, Atsushi Urakawa, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Christophe Copéret Hit paper breakdown →	2017	544
2	Engineering the Cu/Mo2CTx (MXene) interface to drive CO2 hydrogenation to methanol Nature Catalysis ·Hui Zhou, Zixuan Chen, Anna Vidal López, Estefanía Díaz López, Erwin Lam, Athanasia Tsoukalou, Elena Willinger, Denis A. Kuznetsov, Deni Mance, Agnieszka Kierzkowska, Felix Donat, Paula M. Abdala, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Christophe Copéret, Alexey Fedorov, Christoph R. Müller Hit paper breakdown →	2021	239
3	Isolated Zr Surface Sites on Silica Promote Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CH₃OH in Supported Cu Catalysts Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Erwin Lam, Kim Larmier, Patrick Wolf, Shohei Tada, Оlga V. Safonova, Christophe Copéret	2018	211
4	CO₂ Hydrogenation on Cu/Al₂O₃: Role of the Metal/Support Interface in Driving Activity and Selectivity of a Bifunctional Catalyst Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Erwin Lam, Juan José Corral‐Pérez, Kim Larmier, Gina Noh, Patrick Wolf, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Atsushi Urakawa, Christophe Copéret	2019	163
5	Photoelectrochemical CO2-to-fuel conversion with simultaneous plastic reforming Nature Synthesis ·Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Motiar Rahaman, Virgil Andrei, Melanie Miller, Santiago Rodríguez‐Jiménez, Erwin Lam, Chanon Pornrungroj, Erwin Reisner	2023	116
6	Solar-driven liquid multi-carbon fuel production using a standalone perovskite–BiVO4 artificial leaf Nature Energy ·Motiar Rahaman, Virgil Andrei, Demelza Wright, Erwin Lam, Chanon Pornrungroj, Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Christian M. Pichler, Heather F. Greer, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Erwin Reisner	2023	83
7	A TiO₂‐Co(terpyridine)₂ Photocatalyst for the Selective Oxidation of Cellulose to Formate Coupled to the Reduction of CO₂ to Syngas Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Erwin Lam, Erwin Reisner	2021	69
8	Chemoenzymatic Photoreforming: A Sustainable Approach for Solar Fuel Generation from Plastic Feedstocks Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Subhajit Bhattacharjee, Chengzhi Guo, Erwin Lam, Josephin M. Holstein, Mariana Rangel Pereira, Christian M. Pichler, Chanon Pornrungroj, Motiar Rahaman, Taylor Uekert, Florian Hollfelder, Erwin Reisner	2023	64
9	Lewis Acid Strength of Interfacial Metal Sites Drives CH₃OH Selectivity and Formation Rates on Cu‐Based CO₂ Hydrogenation Catalysts Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Gina Noh, Erwin Lam, Daniel T. Bregante, Jordan Meyet, Petr Šot, David W. Flaherty, Christophe Copéret	2021	59
10	CO2 hydrogenation on Cu-catalysts generated from ZnII single-sites: Enhanced CH3OH selectivity compared to Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 Journal of Catalysis ·Erwin Lam, Gina Noh, Kim Larmier, Оlga V. Safonova, Christophe Copéret	2020	55
11	Silica-Supported PdGa Nanoparticles: Metal Synergy for Highly Active and Selective CO ₂ -to-CH ₃ OH Hydrogenation SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Scott R. Docherty, Nat Phongprueksathat, Erwin Lam, Gina Noh, Оlga V. Safonova, Atsushi Urakawa, Christophe Copéret	2021	54
12	CO₂‐to‐Methanol Hydrogenation on Zirconia‐Supported Copper Nanoparticles: Reaction Intermediates and the Role of the Metal–Support Interface Angewandte Chemie ·Kim Larmier, Wei‐Chih Liao, Shohei Tada, Erwin Lam, René Verel, Atul Bansode, Atsushi Urakawa, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Christophe Copéret	2017	54
13	Selective Hydrogenation of CO₂ to CH₃OH on Supported Cu Nanoparticles Promoted by Isolated Ti^IV Surface Sites on SiO₂ ChemSusChem ·Gina Noh, Erwin Lam, Jan L. Alfke, Kim Larmier, Keith Searles, Patrick Wolf, Christophe Copéret	2019	52
14	Self-Assembled Liposomes Enhance Electron Transfer for Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Santiago Rodríguez‐Jiménez, Hongwei Song, Erwin Lam, Demelza Wright, Andrea Pannwitz, Shannon A. Bonke, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Sylvestre Bonnet, Leif Hammarström, Erwin Reisner	2022	50
15	Enhanced CH₃OH selectivity in CO₂ hydrogenation using Cu-based catalysts generated via SOMC from Ga^III single-sites Chemical Science ·Erwin Lam, Gina Noh, Ka Wing Chan, Kim Larmier, Dmitry Lebedev, Keith Searles, Patrick Wolf, Оlga V. Safonova, Christophe Copéret	2020	47
16	Comproportionation of CO₂ and Cellulose to Formate Using a Floating Semiconductor‐Enzyme Photoreforming Catalyst Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Erwin Lam, Melanie Miller, Stuart Linley, Rita R. Manuel, Inês A. C. Pereira, Erwin Reisner	2023	35
17	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 ·Erwin Lam, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Christophe Copéret	2017	34
18	Design, Synthesis, and Validation of an Effective, Reusable Silicon-Based Transfer Agent for Room-Temperature Pd-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl and Heteroaryl Chlorides with Readily Available Aryl Lithium Reagents Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Dionicio Martinez‐Solorio, Bruno Melillo, Luis Sánchez, Yong Liang, Erwin Lam, K. N. Houk, Amos B. Smith	2016	34
19	Zr(IV) surface sites determine CH3OH formation rate on Cu/ZrO2/SiO2 - CO2 hydrogenation catalysts CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION) ·Erwin Lam, Kim Larmier, Shohei Tada, Patrick Wolf, Оlga V. Safonova, Christophe Copéret	2019	33
20	C–H Activation and Proton Transfer Initiate Alkene Metathesis Activity of the Tungsten(IV)–Oxo Complex Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ka Wing Chan, Erwin Lam, Vincenza D’Anna, Florian Allouche, Carine Michel, Оlga V. Safonova, Philippe Sautet, Christophe Copéret	2018	27

About Erwin Lam

Erwin Lam is a scholar working on Process Chemistry and Technology, Catalysis, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Information Systems and Management, having authored 39 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Catalysts for Methane Reforming (15 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (15 papers), Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (14 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (11 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (8 papers), Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications (3 papers), Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions (3 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Process Chemistry and Technology (669 citations), Catalysis (1.3k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (903 citations), Materials Chemistry (1.4k citations) and Inorganic Chemistry (222 citations). Erwin Lam has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Christophe Copéret, Kim Larmier, Aleix Comas‐Vives, Shohei Tada, Atsushi Urakawa, Erwin Reisner, Patrick Wolf, Оlga V. Safonova, Wei‐Chih Liao and Gina Noh. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Chemical Science and Helvetica Chimica Acta.

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