Sungwoo Yang

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
46 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Sungwoo Yang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sungwoo Yang has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Materials Chemistry, 14 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sungwoo Yang's work include Adsorption and Cooling Systems (11 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (7 papers) and Graphene research and applications (7 papers). Sungwoo Yang is often cited by papers focused on Adsorption and Cooling Systems (11 papers), Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (7 papers) and Graphene research and applications (7 papers). Sungwoo Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Sungwoo Yang's co-authors include Evelyn N. Wang, Hyunho Kim, Omar M. Yaghi, Sameer R. Rao, Eugene A. Kapustin, Shankar Narayanan, Ari S. Umans, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Lin Zhao and Mircea Dincă and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sungwoo Yang

44 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight

2017 1.5k citations Hyunho Kim, Sungwoo Yang et al. Science profile →
Adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates

2018 604 citations Hyunho Kim, Sameer R. Rao et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sungwoo Yang United States	25	1.7k	1.3k	1.3k	918	627	46	4.1k
Hyunho Kim United States	15	1.8k 1.0×	996 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	804 0.9×	649 1.0×	17	3.5k
Sameer R. Rao United States	13	1.7k 1.0×	703 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	736 0.8×	309 0.5×	29	3.1k
Shankar Narayanan United States	30	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	606 0.7×	1.7k 2.8×	144	4.5k
Nikita Hanikel United States	19	1.7k 1.0×	2.5k 2.0×	1.1k 0.8×	2.6k 2.8×	512 0.8×	28	4.8k
Eugene A. Kapustin United States	16	2.5k 1.5×	3.2k 2.5×	1.4k 1.1×	3.1k 3.4×	574 0.9×	24	6.1k
Xing Liu China	38	2.2k 1.3×	2.8k 2.2×	537 0.4×	917 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	177	5.2k
Yong Yang China	40	893 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	765 0.6×	667 0.7×	1.9k 3.0×	178	5.1k
Haiqing Li China	36	574 0.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	639 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	215	3.8k
Hao Lyu United States	17	1.2k 0.7×	2.5k 1.9×	767 0.6×	2.4k 2.6×	558 0.9×	34	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Sungwoo Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sungwoo Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sungwoo Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sungwoo Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sungwoo Yang 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 Sungwoo Yang. Sungwoo Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yang, Sungwoo, et al.. (2025). Oxygen-Assisted Growth of 2D Vanadium Oxyhalides with Ordered Vanadium Dimerization. ACS Nano. 19(43). 37702–37711.

Zhao, Lin, Bikram Bhatia, Lenan Zhang, et al.. (2020). A Passive High-Temperature High-Pressure Solar Steam Generator for Medical Sterilization. Joule. 4(12). 2733–2745. 112 indexed citations

Strobach, Elise, Bikram Bhatia, Sungwoo Yang, Lin Zhao, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2019). High temperature stability of transparent silica aerogels for solar thermal applications. APL Materials. 7(8). 42 indexed citations

Zhao, Lin, Bikram Bhatia, Sungwoo Yang, et al.. (2019). Harnessing Heat Beyond 200 °C from Unconcentrated Sunlight with Nonevacuated Transparent Aerogels. ACS Nano. 13(7). 7508–7516. 121 indexed citations

Weinstein, Lee A., Kenneth McEnaney, Elise Strobach, et al.. (2018). A Hybrid Electric and Thermal Solar Receiver. Joule. 2(5). 962–975. 78 indexed citations

Kim, Hyunho, Sameer R. Rao, Eugene A. Kapustin, et al.. (2018). Adsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1191–1191. 604 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhao, Lin, Bikram Bhatia, Thomas Cooper, et al.. (2018). INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE SOLAR THERMAL COLLECTOR ENABLED BY NON-EVACUATED TRANSPARENT AEROGEL AND NON-TRACKING COMPOUND PARABOLIC CONCENTRATOR. International Heat Transfer Conference 16. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Hyunho, Sungwoo Yang, Sameer R. Rao, et al.. (2017). Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight. Science. 356(6336). 430–434. 1454 indexed citations breakdown →

Strobach, Elise, Bikram Bhatia, Sungwoo Yang, Lin Zhao, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2017). High temperature annealing for structural optimization of silica aerogels in solar thermal applications. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 462. 72–77. 60 indexed citations

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Rieth, Adam J., Sungwoo Yang, Evelyn N. Wang, & Mircea Dincă. (2017). Record Atmospheric Fresh Water Capture and Heat Transfer with a Material Operating at the Water Uptake Reversibility Limit. ACS Central Science. 3(6). 668–672. 324 indexed citations

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Zhao, Lin, Sungwoo Yang, Bikram Bhatia, Elise Strobach, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2016). Modeling silica aerogel optical performance by determining its radiative properties. AIP Advances. 6(2). 62 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunho, H. Jeremy Cho, Shankar Narayanan, et al.. (2016). Characterization of Adsorption Enthalpy of Novel Water-Stable Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19097–19097. 95 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyunho, Sungwoo Yang, Shankar Narayanan, Ian S. McKay, & Evelyn N. Wang. (2013). Experimental Characterization of Adsorption and Transport Properties for Advanced Thermo-Adsorptive Batteries. 4 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiwei, Lei Ding, Sungwoo Yang, & Jie Liu. (2011). Synthesis of High-Density, Large-Diameter, and Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Multiple-Cycle Growth Methods. ACS Nano. 5(5). 3849–3857. 72 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiwei, Lei Ding, Sungwoo Yang, & Jie Liu. (2009). Orthogonal Orientation Control of Carbon Nanotube Growth. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(1). 336–341. 37 indexed citations

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Yang, Sungwoo, Hunhee Cho, & Kyung-In Kang. (2008). Development and Application of Unit Table Form using Euro Form for High-rise Building Construction. Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction. 8(2). 45–52. 1 indexed citations

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Zheng, Wenli, Xueying Ma, Di Wei, et al.. (2006). Preparation of Recombinant HIV-TATm-Survivin (T34A) Protein and Its Proapoptosis Activity to Four Cancer Cell Lines in vitro. Chinese journal of biotechnology/Shengwu gongcheng xuebao. 22(2). 285–292. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Sungwoo & M. Taher A. Saif. (2005). Reversible and repeatable linear local cell force response under large stretches. Experimental Cell Research. 305(1). 42–50. 46 indexed citations

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Zhukov, Alexander V., Sungwoo Yang, & Juexian Cao. (2005). Low-temperature thermal transport in nanowires. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters. 81(4). 190–194. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Sungwoo, et al.. (2001). Investigation of the W–TiN metal gate for metal–oxide–semiconductor devices. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 19(4). 1591–1594. 9 indexed citations

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