Rui Lin

9.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
54 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Rui Lin is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rui Lin has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 32 papers in Materials Chemistry and 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rui Lin's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (10 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers). Rui Lin is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (26 papers), CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (10 papers) and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications (9 papers). Rui Lin collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United Kingdom. Rui Lin's co-authors include Yadong Li, Dingsheng Wang, Chen Chen, Ling Wu, Lijuan Shen, Ruowen Liang, Weiming Wu, Yu Wang, Jian Zhang and Wenxing Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Rui Lin

51 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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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.

Bismuth Single Atoms Resulting from Transformation of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Use as Electrocatalysts for CO₂ Reduction

2019 667 citations Erhuan Zhang, Tao Wang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction

2018 609 citations Gang Ou, Yushuai Xu et al. Nature Communications profile →
A Supported Pd₂Dual‐Atom Site Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical CO₂Reduction

2021 296 citations Ningqiang Zhang, Xinxin Zhang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Engineering Lattice Disorder on a Photocatalyst: Photochromic BiOBr Nanosheets Enhance Activation of Aromatic C–H Bonds via Water Oxidation

2022 212 citations Xing Cao, Aijian Huang et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rui Lin China	33	4.3k	4.0k	2.4k	1.2k	828	54	6.6k
Javeed Mahmood South Korea	30	4.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	3.2k 1.4×	825 0.7×	577 0.7×	76	6.9k
Tie‐Zhen Ren China	43	3.4k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	817 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	143	6.6k
Haiyan He China	42	3.3k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	174	6.2k
Guigao Liu China	46	8.0k 1.9×	6.3k 1.6×	3.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	932 1.1×	97	10.0k
Wenwen Zhan China	29	2.0k 0.5×	3.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	638 0.8×	61	5.1k
Zhanfeng Zheng China	45	4.7k 1.1×	5.3k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	873 0.7×	926 1.1×	132	7.7k
Yunhu Han China	34	3.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	861 0.7×	551 0.7×	62	5.5k
Chengsi Pan China	44	6.3k 1.5×	5.7k 1.4×	3.3k 1.4×	594 0.5×	652 0.8×	115	8.2k
Xiaodong Yan China	43	3.3k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	849 0.7×	1.5k 1.8×	137	5.7k
Kai Yang China	49	5.2k 1.2×	5.0k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	469 0.4×	655 0.8×	182	7.0k

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Li, Zhaohui, Zhaorui Zhang, Xiao Han, et al.. (2025). Harnessing solar energy: Transition metal-catalyzed photothermal CO2 hydrogenation toward C1 products. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 110. 507–534. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Junxi, Xin Cai, Xin Li, et al.. (2025). Low loading of lrO ₂ /TiO ₂ enabled by Pd promoter in acidic water electrolysis. Nano Research. 18(12). 94908065–94908065.

Lin, Rui, Fan Dong, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2024). Light tuning CO/H ₂ composition on Ag: Unraveling CO ₂ mass transfer and electron-phonon coupling in plasmon-enhanced electrocatalysis. Nano Research. 18(1). 94907042–94907042. 3 indexed citations

Kang, Yicui, Rui Lin, Kang Liu, et al.. (2024). Effect of crystal facets in plasmonic catalysis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3923–3923. 37 indexed citations

Lin, Rui, Tingting Cui, Zedong Zhang, et al.. (2023). Optimization of p-Type Cu₂O Nanocube Photocatalysts Based on Electronic Effects. ACS Catalysis. 13(17). 11352–11361. 20 indexed citations

Cao, Xing, Aijian Huang, Chao Liang, et al.. (2022). Engineering Lattice Disorder on a Photocatalyst: Photochromic BiOBr Nanosheets Enhance Activation of Aromatic C–H Bonds via Water Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(8). 3386–3397. 212 indexed citations breakdown →

Han, Tong, Xing Cao, Kaian Sun, et al.. (2021). Anion-exchange-mediated internal electric field for boosting photogenerated carrier separation and utilization. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4952–4952. 102 indexed citations

Zhang, Ningqiang, Xinxin Zhang, Yikun Kang, et al.. (2021). A Supported Pd₂Dual‐Atom Site Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical CO₂Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 133(24). 13500–13505. 48 indexed citations

Zhang, Ningqiang, Xinxin Zhang, Lei Tao, et al.. (2020). Silver Single‐Atom Catalyst for Efficient Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction Synthesized from Thermal Transformation and Surface Reconstruction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(11). 6170–6176. 313 indexed citations

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Zhang, Erhuan, Tao Wang, Ke Yu, et al.. (2019). Bismuth Single Atoms Resulting from Transformation of Metal–Organic Frameworks and Their Use as Electrocatalysts for CO₂ Reduction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(42). 16569–16573. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Jian, Xi Wu, Weng‐Chon Cheong, et al.. (2018). Cation vacancy stabilization of single-atomic-site Pt1/Ni(OH)x catalyst for diboration of alkynes and alkenes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1002–1002. 316 indexed citations

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Cao, Xing, Zheng Chen, Rui Lin, et al.. (2018). A photochromic composite with enhanced carrier separation for the photocatalytic activation of benzylic C–H bonds in toluene. Nature Catalysis. 1(9). 704–710. 387 indexed citations

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Ou, Gang, Yushuai Xu, Bo Wen, et al.. (2018). Tuning defects in oxides at room temperature by lithium reduction. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1302–1302. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lin, Rui, Lijuan Shen, Zhuyun Ren, et al.. (2014). Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen production activity via dual modification of MOF and reduced graphene oxide on CdS. Chemical Communications. 50(62). 8533–8533. 210 indexed citations

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Shen, Lijuan, Weiming Wu, Ruowen Liang, Rui Lin, & Ling Wu. (2013). Highly dispersed palladium nanoparticles anchored on UiO-66(NH2) metal-organic framework as a reusable and dual functional visible-light-driven photocatalyst. Nanoscale. 5(19). 9374–9374. 431 indexed citations

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Wen, Tian, Dexiang Zhang, Juan Liu, Rui Lin, & Jian Zhang. (2013). A multifunctional helical Cu(i) coordination polymer with mechanochromic, sensing and photocatalytic properties. Chemical Communications. 49(50). 5660–5660. 239 indexed citations

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Liu, Guodong, Shijing Liang, Weiming Wu, et al.. (2013). Template-free synthesis of a CdSnO₃⋅3H₂O hollow-nanocuboid photocatalyst via a facile microwave hydrothermal method. Nanotechnology. 24(25). 255601–255601. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Weiming, Rui Lin, Lijuan Shen, et al.. (2013). Visible-light-induced photocatalytic hydrogenation of 4-nitroaniline over In2S3 photocatalyst in water. Catalysis Communications. 40. 1–4. 20 indexed citations

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Wu, Weiming, Rui Lin, Lijuan Shen, et al.. (2013). Mechanistic insight into the photocatalytic hydrogenation of 4-nitroaniline over band-gap-tunable CdS photocatalysts. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(44). 19422–19422. 32 indexed citations

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Lin, Rui, et al.. (1980). Spectrophotovoltaic orbital power generation. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

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