Simson Wu

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Simson Wu is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Simson Wu has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Materials Chemistry, 17 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 14 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Simson Wu's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (11 papers) and Hydrogen Storage and Materials (11 papers). Simson Wu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (12 papers), Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction (11 papers) and Hydrogen Storage and Materials (11 papers). Simson Wu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Taiwan and China. Simson Wu's co-authors include Shik Chi Edman Tsang, Jianwei Zheng, Y. L. Soo, Tai‐Sing Wu, Kazu Suenaga, Ryuichi Kato, Yiyang Li, Jianwei Zheng, Yung‐Kang Peng and Tuğçe Ayvalı 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

Simson Wu

30 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition

2023 178 citations Huihuang Fang, Simson Wu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simson Wu United Kingdom	21	1.3k	1.1k	780	351	297	31	1.9k
Xuelu Ma China	18	922 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	882 1.1×	354 1.0×	387 1.3×	35	1.9k
Mireille Ghoussoub Canada	11	1.3k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	614 0.8×	277 0.8×	137 0.5×	16	1.9k
Delong Duan China	23	1.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	649 0.8×	435 1.2×	173 0.6×	35	2.1k
Yongyong Cao China	24	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	576 0.7×	596 1.7×	211 0.7×	76	2.2k
Menglei Yuan China	25	807 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	1.3k 1.6×	691 2.0×	235 0.8×	58	2.4k
Minghang Jiang China	24	824 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	901 1.2×	491 1.4×	130 0.4×	52	1.9k
Lizhi Sun China	30	1.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	488 0.6×	795 2.3×	383 1.3×	53	2.2k
Bo‐Hang Zhao China	20	813 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	561 0.7×	442 1.3×	243 0.8×	43	1.8k
Lei Dai China	18	797 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	485 0.6×	899 2.6×	283 1.0×	44	2.1k
Li‐Wei Chen China	14	1.0k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	989 1.3×	339 1.0×	180 0.6×	33	2.0k

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Li, Yiyang, et al.. (2025). Harnessing Solar Energy for Ammonia Synthesis from Nitrogen and Seawater Using Oxynitride Semiconductors. Advanced Energy Materials. 16(8). 3 indexed citations

Guo, Shuai, Jochi Tseng, Simson Wu, et al.. (2025). Hydrazine‐Mediated Thermally Assisted Photocatalytic Ammonia Decomposition Over Layered Protonated Perovskites. Advanced Science. 12(42). e11212–e11212.

Ho, Ping-Luen, et al.. (2024). Active nitrogen sites on nitrogen doped carbon for highly efficient associative ammonia decomposition. iScience. 27(8). 110571–110571. 3 indexed citations

Fang, Huihuang, Simson Wu, Tuğçe Ayvalı, et al.. (2023). Dispersed surface Ru ensembles on MgO(111) for catalytic ammonia decomposition. Nature Communications. 14(1). 647–647. 178 indexed citations breakdown →

Yoskamtorn, Tatchamapan, Jiaying Mo, Lu Chen, et al.. (2023). Exceptional Hydrogen Diffusion Rate over Ru Nanoparticle‐Doped Polar MgO(111) Surface. Small Methods. 7(3). e2201200–e2201200. 4 indexed citations

Zheng, Jianwei, Lilin Lu, К. А. Лебедев, et al.. (2021). Fe on molecular-layer MoS2 as inorganic Fe-S2-Mo motifs for light-driven nitrogen fixation to ammonia at elevated temperatures. Chem Catalysis. 1(1). 162–182. 49 indexed citations

Zhao, Pu, Lin Ye, Guangchao Li, et al.. (2021). Rational Design of Synergistic Active Sites for Catalytic Ethene/2-Butene Cross-Metathesis in a Rhenium-Doped Y Zeolite Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 11(6). 3530–3540. 11 indexed citations

Zheng, Jianwei, К. А. Лебедев, Simson Wu, et al.. (2021). High Loading of Transition Metal Single Atoms on Chalcogenide Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(21). 7979–7990. 143 indexed citations

Wu, Simson & Shik Chi Edman Tsang. (2021). Renewable N-cycle catalysis. Trends in Chemistry. 3(8). 660–673. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Simson, Ryuichi Kato, Tai‐Sing Wu, et al.. (2021). Rapid Interchangeable Hydrogen, Hydride, and Proton Species at the Interface of Transition Metal Atom on Oxide Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(24). 9105–9112. 71 indexed citations

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Mahadi, Abdul Hanif, Lin Ye, Simon M. Fairclough, et al.. (2020). Beyond surface redox and oxygen mobility at pd-polar ceria (100) interface: Underlying principle for strong metal-support interactions in green catalysis. Applied Catalysis B: Environmental. 270. 118843–118843. 20 indexed citations

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Xue, Qi, Yi Xie, Simson Wu, et al.. (2020). A rational study on the geometric and electronic properties of single-atom catalysts for enhanced catalytic performance. Nanoscale. 12(45). 23206–23212. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Simson, Yung‐Kang Peng, Tianyi Chen, et al.. (2020). Removal of Hydrogen Poisoning by Electrostatically Polar MgO Support for Low-Pressure NH₃ Synthesis at a High Rate over the Ru Catalyst. ACS Catalysis. 10(10). 5614–5622. 93 indexed citations

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Mo, Jiaying, Simson Wu, Ryuichi Kato, et al.. (2020). Transition metal atom–doped monolayer MoS2 in a proton-exchange membrane electrolyzer. Materials Today Advances. 6. 100020–100020. 26 indexed citations

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Ye, Lin, Xinping Duan, Simson Wu, et al.. (2019). Self- regeneration of Au/CeO2 based catalysts with enhanced activity and ultra-stability for acetylene hydrochlorination. Nature Communications. 10(1). 914–914. 113 indexed citations

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Li, Yiyang, Yung‐Kang Peng, Liangsheng Hu, et al.. (2019). Photocatalytic water splitting by N-TiO2 on MgO (111) with exceptional quantum efficiencies at elevated temperatures. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4421–4421. 227 indexed citations

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Wu, Simson, Ryuichi Kato, J. Kulhavý, et al.. (2019). Engineering Monolayer 1T-MoS₂ into a Bifunctional Electrocatalyst via Sonochemical Doping of Isolated Transition Metal Atoms. ACS Catalysis. 9(8). 7527–7534. 104 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jianwei, Fenglin Liao, Simson Wu, et al.. (2019). Efficient Non‐dissociative Activation of Dinitrogen to Ammonia over Lithium‐Promoted Ruthenium Nanoparticles at Low Pressure. Angewandte Chemie. 131(48). 17496–17502. 8 indexed citations

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Ye, Lin, Simson Wu, Tsz Woon Benedict Lo, et al.. (2018). Zinc‐Incorporated Microporous Molecular Sieve for Mild Catalytic Hydrolysis of γ‐Valerolactone: A New Selective Route for Biomass Conversion. ChemSusChem. 11(24). 4214–4218. 10 indexed citations

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Ayvalı, Tuğçe, Lin Ye, Simson Wu, et al.. (2018). Mononuclear gold species anchored on TS-1 framework as catalyst precursor for selective epoxidation of propylene. Journal of Catalysis. 367. 229–233. 22 indexed citations

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