Minhan Lou

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Minhan Lou is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Minhan Lou has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Minhan Lou's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (11 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (8 papers). Minhan Lou is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (11 papers), Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (9 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (8 papers). Minhan Lou collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Minhan Lou's co-authors include Peter Nordlander, Naomi J. Halas, Linan Zhou, Hossein Robatjazi, Emily A. Carter, Phillip Christopher, Shu Tian, Jordan Finzel, Dayne F. Swearer and Chao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Minhan Lou

43 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic sit... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts
    2020 639 citations Linan Zhou, John Mark P. Martirez et al. Nature Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Minhan Lou United States 21 1.3k 876 644 505 445 46 2.4k
Katsushi Fujii Japan 25 1.3k 1.0× 854 1.0× 702 1.1× 997 2.0× 274 0.6× 191 2.5k
Todd Brintlinger United States 23 1.6k 1.2× 701 0.8× 351 0.5× 756 1.5× 462 1.0× 60 2.6k
Xiong Zhou China 27 1.9k 1.5× 490 0.6× 152 0.2× 695 1.4× 698 1.6× 126 3.1k
Hideki Yoshikawa Japan 32 2.0k 1.5× 779 0.9× 830 1.3× 1.5k 3.0× 256 0.6× 212 3.4k
Peitao Liu China 34 2.1k 1.6× 2.2k 2.5× 834 1.3× 1.9k 3.7× 242 0.5× 116 4.4k
Jyh‐Pin Chou Taiwan 36 3.6k 2.7× 1.0k 1.2× 349 0.5× 1.3k 2.7× 317 0.7× 123 4.4k
Arunima K. Singh United States 24 3.2k 2.4× 1.0k 1.2× 421 0.7× 1.3k 2.6× 400 0.9× 58 3.8k
Chunyan Li China 25 663 0.5× 875 1.0× 1.6k 2.4× 918 1.8× 260 0.6× 79 3.0k
Xufan Li United States 31 3.4k 2.6× 730 0.8× 423 0.7× 1.6k 3.2× 421 0.9× 61 4.0k
Long Xiao China 21 423 0.3× 315 0.4× 354 0.5× 636 1.3× 476 1.1× 70 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Minhan Lou

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Fields of papers citing papers by Minhan Lou

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Minhan Lou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Minhan Lou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Minhan Lou based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Minhan Lou. Minhan Lou is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Xiang, Chunqi Wang, Minhan Lou, et al.. (2025). In Situ-Formed Tridentate Pd–SOx Coordination for Sulfur-Tolerant CO Oxidation Catalysis. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(25). 13073–13084.
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Chen, Ruiyang, Minhan Lou, Cunxi Yu, et al.. (2025). Optical neural engine for solving scientific partial differential equations. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4603–4603.
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Chen, Ruiyang, et al.. (2025). A Programmable Wafer-scale Chiroptical Heterostructure of Twisted Aligned Carbon Nanotubes and Phase Change Materials. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4478–4478. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Zengling, Yalun Wang, Jiajia Wu, et al.. (2024). Mode-tunable low-loss waveguides in glass for visible light photonic integrated devices. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 182. 108467–108467. 2 indexed citations
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Lou, Minhan, Oliver S. Dewey, Nina Hong, et al.. (2023). Engineering chirality at wafer scale with ordered carbon nanotube architectures. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7380–7380. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Yingjie, Minhan Lou, Weilu Gao, et al.. (2023). Physics-aware Roughness Optimization for Diffractive Optical Neural Networks. 85. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Yuan, Yigao, Linan Zhou, Hossein Robatjazi, et al.. (2022). Earth-abundant photocatalyst for H 2 generation from NH 3 with light-emitting diode illumination. Science. 378(6622). 889–893. 190 indexed citations
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Jia, Wei, Minhan Lou, Weilu Gao, & Berardi Sensale‐Rodriguez. (2022). Design and fabrication of a terahertz dual-plane hologram and extended-depth-of-focus diffractive lens. Optics Continuum. 1(8). 1722–1722. 12 indexed citations
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Lou, Minhan, et al.. (2022). Effects of interlayer reflection and interpixel interaction in diffractive optical neural networks. Optics Letters. 48(2). 219–219. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Ruiyang, et al.. (2022). Physics‐Aware Machine Learning and Adversarial Attack in Complex‐Valued Reconfigurable Diffractive All‐Optical Neural Network. Laser & Photonics Review. 16(12). 20 indexed citations
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Zhou, Linan, Minhan Lou, Junwei Lucas Bao, et al.. (2021). Hot carrier multiplication in plasmonic photocatalysis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(20). 66 indexed citations
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Robatjazi, Hossein, Minhan Lou, Benjamin D. Clark, et al.. (2020). Site-Selective Nanoreactor Deposition on Photocatalytic Al Nanocubes. Nano Letters. 20(6). 4550–4557. 35 indexed citations
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Renard, David, Shu Tian, Minhan Lou, et al.. (2020). UV-Resonant Al Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Silica Coating, and Broadband Photothermal Response. Nano Letters. 21(1). 536–542. 32 indexed citations
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Collins, Sean S. E., Lawrence J. Tauzin, Minhan Lou, et al.. (2020). Plasmon Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanoantennas. ACS Nano. 15(6). 9522–9530. 50 indexed citations
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Zhou, Linan, John Mark P. Martirez, Jordan Finzel, et al.. (2020). Light-driven methane dry reforming with single atomic site antenna-reactor plasmonic photocatalysts. Nature Energy. 5(1). 61–70. 639 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yuan, L., Chao Zhang, Xiang Zhang, et al.. (2019). Photocatalytic Hydrogenation of Graphene Using Pd Nanocones. Nano Letters. 19(7). 4413–4419. 32 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chao, T. U. Tumkur, Jian Yang, et al.. (2018). Optical-Force-Dominated Directional Reshaping of Au Nanodisks in Al–Au Heterodimers. Nano Letters. 18(10). 6509–6514. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Xinwei, Motoaki Bamba, Qi Zhang, et al.. (2018). Vacuum Bloch–Siegert shift in Landau polaritons with ultra-high cooperativity. Nature Photonics. 12(6). 324–329. 91 indexed citations
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Zheng, Huadan, Minhan Lou, Lei Dong, et al.. (2017). Compact photoacoustic module for methane detection incorporating interband cascade light emitting device. Optics Express. 25(14). 16761–16761. 72 indexed citations

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