Sunmoon Yu

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Sunmoon Yu is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Catalysis. According to data from OpenAlex, Sunmoon Yu has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 14 papers in Catalysis. Recurrent topics in Sunmoon Yu's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (15 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (10 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers). Sunmoon Yu is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (15 papers), Ionic liquids properties and applications (10 papers) and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (8 papers). Sunmoon Yu collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Germany. Sunmoon Yu's co-authors include Il‐Doo Kim, Peidong Yang, Sheena Louisia, Ji‐Won Jung, Chubai Chen, Jianbo Jin, Seon‐Jin Choi, Inwhan Roh, Yifan Li and Jun Young Cheong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Sunmoon Yu

39 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction

2023 607 citations Yao Yang, Sheena Louisia et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sunmoon Yu United States	30	1.9k	1.8k	1.4k	1.0k	472	39	3.5k
Mohammad Asadi United States	21	2.8k 1.5×	3.0k 1.7×	2.2k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	462 1.0×	34	5.6k
Wan Jiang China	25	712 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	965 0.7×	326 0.3×	458 1.0×	54	2.3k
Qiangqiang Meng China	32	1.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.5×	2.0k 1.5×	203 0.2×	1.2k 2.5×	78	4.3k
Tiva Sharifi Sweden	24	1.6k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	203 0.2×	671 1.4×	38	3.1k
Hui Gao China	35	2.6k 1.4×	2.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	756 0.7×	873 1.8×	112	4.5k
Chun‐Jern Pan Taiwan	36	2.3k 1.2×	4.0k 2.3×	3.3k 2.4×	512 0.5×	665 1.4×	64	6.0k
Philipp Stadler Austria	25	874 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	381 0.4×	137 0.3×	65	2.6k
Ruperto G. Mariano United States	9	1.4k 0.8×	718 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	356 0.4×	314 0.7×	10	2.1k
Tharamani C. Nagaiah India	33	1.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	910 0.7×	305 0.3×	571 1.2×	105	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sunmoon Yu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yu, Sunmoon, Davide Menga, Shuo Wang, et al.. (2025). Reactivating Molecular Cobalt Catalysts for Electrochemical CO₂ Conversion to Methanol. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(14). 12298–12307. 11 indexed citations

Iriawan, Haldrian, Graham Leverick, Daniel Delgado, et al.. (2025). Assessing the Activity of Transition Metal Oxides for the Electrochemical N₂ Oxidation to Nitrate. ACS Catalysis. 15(8). 6315–6333. 2 indexed citations

Yu, Sunmoon, Shuo Wang, Abhishek Aggarwal, et al.. (2024). CO2-to-methanol electroconversion on a molecular cobalt catalyst facilitated by acidic cations. Nature Catalysis. 7(9). 1000–1009. 68 indexed citations

Zhao, Xiao, Shouping Chen, Sunmoon Yu, et al.. (2024). Nanometre-resolved observation of electrochemical microenvironment formation at the nanoparticle–ligand interface. Nature Catalysis. 7(4). 422–431. 35 indexed citations

Iriawan, Haldrian, et al.. (2024). Upshifting Lithium Plating Potential To Enhance Electrochemical Lithium Mediated Ammonia Synthesis. ACS Energy Letters. 9(10). 4883–4891. 16 indexed citations

Yang, Yao, Yu‐Tsun Shao, Jianbo Jin, et al.. (2023). Operando Electrochemical Liquid-Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (EC-STEM) Studies of Evolving Cu Nanocatalysts for CO₂ Electroreduction. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(10). 4119–4124. 18 indexed citations

Yang, Yao, Sheena Louisia, Sunmoon Yu, et al.. (2023). Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction. Nature. 614(7947). 262–269. 607 indexed citations breakdown →

Louisia, Sheena, Dohyung Kim, Yifan Li, et al.. (2022). The presence and role of the intermediary CO reservoir in heterogeneous electroreduction of CO ₂. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(18). e2201922119–e2201922119. 34 indexed citations

Cestellos-Blanco, Stefano, Yuexiao Shen, Rhesa N. Ledbetter, et al.. (2022). Photosynthetic biohybrid coculture for tandem and tunable CO ₂ and N ₂ fixation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(26). e2122364119–e2122364119. 41 indexed citations

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Jin, Jianbo, Maria C. Folgueras, Mengyu Gao, et al.. (2021). A New Perspective and Design Principle for Halide Perovskites: Ionic Octahedron Network (ION). Nano Letters. 21(12). 5415–5421. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Pengcheng, Mengyu Gao, Sunmoon Yu, et al.. (2021). Revealing the Phase Separation Behavior of Thermodynamically Immiscible Elements in a Nanoparticle. Nano Letters. 21(15). 6684–6689. 24 indexed citations

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Lin, Zhenni, Ye Zhang, Mengyu Gao, et al.. (2021). Kinetics of moisture-induced phase transformation in inorganic halide perovskite. Matter. 4(7). 2392–2402. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Shouping, Mufan Li, Sunmoon Yu, et al.. (2021). Ligand removal of Au25 nanoclusters by thermal and electrochemical treatments for selective CO2 electroreduction to CO. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(5). 51101–51101. 28 indexed citations

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Chen, Chubai, Yifan Li, Sunmoon Yu, et al.. (2020). Cu-Ag Tandem Catalysts for High-Rate CO2 Electrolysis toward Multicarbons. Joule. 4(8). 1688–1699. 372 indexed citations

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Lin, Jia, Hong Chen, Jun Kang, et al.. (2019). Copper(I)-Based Highly Emissive All-Inorganic Rare-Earth Halide Clusters. Matter. 1(1). 180–191. 42 indexed citations

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Jung, Ji–Won, Dongwon Choi, Ki Ro Yoon, et al.. (2018). Rational design of protective In2O3 layer-coated carbon nanopaper membrane: Toward stable cathode for long-cycle Li-O2 batteries. Nano Energy. 46. 193–202. 59 indexed citations

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Jung, Ji‐Won, Hyeon‐Gyun Im, Daewon Lee, et al.. (2017). Conducting Nanopaper: A Carbon-Free Cathode Platform for Li–O₂ Batteries. ACS Energy Letters. 2(3). 673–680. 32 indexed citations

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Cheong, Jun Young, Ji‐Won Jung, Doo‐Young Youn, et al.. (2017). Mesoporous orthorhombic Nb2O5 nanofibers as pseudocapacitive electrodes with ultra-stable Li storage characteristics. Journal of Power Sources. 360. 434–442. 82 indexed citations

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Yu, Sunmoon, Ji‐Won Jung, & Il‐Doo Kim. (2015). Single layers of WS₂nanoplates embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon nanofibers as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Nanoscale. 7(28). 11945–11950. 100 indexed citations

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Yu, Sunmoon, et al.. (2015). Improved high temperature integration of Al2O3 on MoS2 by using a metal oxide buffer layer. Applied Physics Letters. 106(2). 37 indexed citations

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