Swee Ching Tan

10.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
153 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Swee Ching Tan is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Swee Ching Tan has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 49 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 45 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Swee Ching Tan's work include Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (55 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (40 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (20 papers). Swee Ching Tan is often cited by papers focused on Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods (55 papers), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (40 papers) and Membrane Separation Technologies (20 papers). Swee Ching Tan collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and United Kingdom. Swee Ching Tan's co-authors include Yaoxin Zhang, Sai Kishore Ravi, Dilip Krishna Nandakumar, Shuai Guo, Hao Qu, Ting Xiong, Lakshmi Suresh, Songlin Zhang, Xueping Zhang and Jiachen Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Swee Ching Tan

153 papers receiving 8.6k 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.

Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Membranes Assembled by Ionic Covalent Organic Nanosheets with Reduced Apertures for Gas Separation

2020 413 citations Sai Kishore Ravi, Swee Ching Tan et al. profile →
Structure Architecting for Salt‐Rejecting Solar Interfacial Desalination to Achieve High‐Performance Evaporation With In Situ Energy Generation

2020 362 citations Yaoxin Zhang, Ting Xiong et al. Advanced Science profile →
Biomimetic spinning of soft functional fibres via spontaneous phase separation

2023 179 citations Songlin Zhang, Mengjuan Zhou et al. profile →
MXene Functionalized, Highly Breathable and Sensitive Pressure Sensors with Multi‐Layered Porous Structure

2023 178 citations Xianhong Zheng, Songlin Zhang et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Device design and optimization of sorption-based atmospheric water harvesters

2023 152 citations Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang et al. profile →
All‐Day Multicyclic Atmospheric Water Harvesting Enabled by Polyelectrolyte Hydrogel with Hybrid Desorption Mode

2023 140 citations Hao Qu, Yaoxin Zhang et al. Advanced Materials profile →
Precisely manipulating polymer chain interactions for multifunctional hydrogels

2025 74 citations Shuai Guo, Songlin Zhang et al. Matter profile →
Functionalizing solar-driven steam generation towards water and energy sustainability

2025 69 citations Yaoxin Zhang, Swee Ching Tan et al. profile →
Leaf-based energy harvesting and storage utilizing hygroscopic iron hydrogel for continuous power generation

2025 48 citations Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Active Thermal Field Integration for Marangoni‐Driven Salt Rejection and Water Collection

2025 39 citations Shuai Guo, Zhen Yu et al. Advanced Functional Materials profile →
Self-powered green energy–harvesting and sensing interfaces based on hygroscopic gel and water-locking effects

2025 26 citations Shuai Guo, Shubham Patel et al. Science Advances profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Swee Ching Tan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Swee Ching Tan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Swee Ching Tan 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 Swee Ching Tan. Swee Ching Tan 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Solar-driven fast and selective extraction of lithium from seawater enabled by unidirectional photothermal conversion and confined crystallization with facile synthesis of nanoarray evaporator 2025 ·Chemical Engineering Journal ·(unknown), Zhen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, (unknown), Wenzhong Xiang, Shuai Guo, Ting Xiong, Swee Ching Tan	12
2	Precisely manipulating polymer chain interactions for multifunctional hydrogels breakdown → 2025 ·Matter ·Shuai Guo, Songlin Zhang, (unknown), Siqi Liu, J. Justin Koh, Mengjuan Zhou, Zhongda Sun, Yuan Liu, Hao Qu, Zhen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, Lin Yang, Wei Chen, Chaobin He, Chengkuo Lee, Dongsheng Mao, Sai Kishore Ravi, Yuekun Lai, Swee Ching Tan	74
3	Adsorption-responsive bionic photothermal ion pump for reversible seawater lithium extraction 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Zhen Yu, Zhengyi Mao, Shuai Guo, Yongjun Li, (unknown), (unknown), Lanxi Li, Fenghui Duan, Wulong Li, Yaoxin Zhang, Meiling Wang, Swee Ching Tan, Jian Lü	3
4	Self-powered green energy–harvesting and sensing interfaces based on hygroscopic gel and water-locking effects breakdown → 2025 ·Science Advances ·Shuai Guo, Shubham Patel, Junhui Wang, Zhen Yu, Hao Qu, Songlin Zhang, (unknown), Siqi Liu, J. Justin Koh, Xue Qi Koh, Zi‐En Ooi, Debbie Hwee Leng Seng, Wanxin Sun, Lin Yang, Yaoxin Zhang, John Wang, Sai Kishore Ravi, Cunjiang Yu, Swee Ching Tan	26
5	Leaf-based energy harvesting and storage utilizing hygroscopic iron hydrogel for continuous power generation breakdown → 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang, Zhen Yu, Ming Dai, Xuanchen Liu, Hongbo Wang, Siqi Liu, J. Justin Koh, Wanxin Sun, Yuan Ping Feng, Yuanzheng Chen, Lin Yang, Peng Sun, Geyu Lu, Cunjiang Yu, Wenshuai Chen, Stefaan De Wolf, Zuankai Wang, Swee Ching Tan	48
6	High‐Performance Fully Stretchable Moist‐Electric Generator (Adv. Funct. Mater. 11/2024) 2024 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xian Wen, Zhaoyang Sun, (unknown), Qun Zhou, Huijie Liu, Liming Wang, Xiaohong Qin, Swee Ching Tan	5
7	Autonomous Atmospheric Water Harvesting over a Wide RH Range Enabled by Super Hygroscopic Composite Aerogels 2024 ·Advanced Materials ·Xueping Zhang, Hao Qu, Xiangyu Li, Lenan Zhang, Yaoxin Zhang, Jiachen Yang, Mengjuan Zhou, Lakshmi Suresh, Siqi Liu, Swee Ching Tan	52
8	Recent advancements and perspectives on processable natural biopolymers: Cellulose, chitosan, eggshell membrane, and silk fibroin 2024 ·Science Bulletin ·Xinhua Liang, Shuai Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Lu Liu, Fei Zhang, Gaoming Jiang, Honglian Cong, Haijun He, Swee Ching Tan	56
9	Reprogrammable, Sustainable, and 3D‐Printable Cellulose Hydroplastic 2024 ·Advanced Science ·J. Justin Koh, Xue Qi Koh, Jing Yee Chee, (unknown), Si Yin Tee, Dan‐Wei Zhang, (unknown), Jayven Chee Chuan Yeo, (unknown), (unknown), Swee Ching Tan, Warintorn Thitsartarn, Chaobin He	16
10	Multifunctional Sandwich‐Structured Super‐Hygroscopic Zinc‐Based MOF‐Overlayed Cooling Wearables for Special Personal Thermal Management 2024 ·Small ·Wulong Li, Yaoxin Zhang, Shuai Guo, Zhen Yu, (unknown), Zhanxiong Li, Lei Wei, Swee Ching Tan	28
11	Scalable multifunctional MOFs-textiles via diazonium chemistry 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Wulong Li, Zhen Yu, Yaoxin Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Shuai Wang, Zhixun Wang, Bing He, Shixing Yuan, Jiwu Xin, Yanting Liu, Tianzhu Zhou, Zhanxiong Li, Swee Ching Tan, Lei Wei	30
12	Electrohydrodynamically printed solid-state Photo-electro protein micro-capacitors 2023 ·Energy storage materials ·(unknown), Lakshmi Suresh, Jaemin Seo, Yaoxin Zhang, Hangbo Zhao, Michael R. Jones, Swee Ching Tan	6
13	TriboNano shield – Scalable manufacturing anti-smog multi-level structured nanofiber air filter with co-enhanced purification performance towards self-powered window screen 2023 ·Nano Energy ·Mengjuan Zhou, Liyun Ma, Zhiyong Zhou, Qingli Xu, Songlin Zhang, (unknown), Chengdong Xiong, Wenbin Guo, Rongwu Wang, Swee Ching Tan, Xiong Pu, Xiaohong Qin	19
14	A Hydroscopic Indium Hydrogel Capturing Atmospheric Humidity for Autonomous Agriculture 2023 ·Solar RRL ·Junnan Zhao, Yuli Xiong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shuai Guo, Lin Yang, Swee Ching Tan	14
15	Crocodile Skin‐Inspired Protective Composite Textiles with Pattern‐Controllable Soft‐Rigid Unified Structures 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·(unknown), Mengjuan Zhou, Yao Lu, Hang Yu, Xuefeng Yan, Yue Shen, Wenshuai Chen, Pibo Ma, MA Ya, Songlin Zhang, Swee Ching Tan	23
16	MXene Functionalized, Highly Breathable and Sensitive Pressure Sensors with Multi‐Layered Porous Structure breakdown → 2023 ·Advanced Functional Materials ·Xianhong Zheng, Songlin Zhang, Mengjuan Zhou, Haibo Lu, Shuai Guo, Yaoxin Zhang, Changlong Li, Swee Ching Tan	178
17	In Situ Growth of a Stable Metal–Organic Framework (MOF) on Flexible Fabric via a Layer-by-Layer Strategy for Versatile Applications 2022 ·ACS Nano ·Wulong Li, Yaoxin Zhang, Zhen Yu, Tianxue Zhu, (unknown), Kexin Liu, Zhanxiong Li, Swee Ching Tan	136
18	Performance Improvement by Ozone Treatment of 2D PdSe₂ 2020 ·ACS Nano ·Qijie Liang, Qian Zhang, Jian Gou, (unknown), Arramel Arramel, Hao Chen, Ming Yang, Sharon Xiaodai Lim, Qixing Wang, Rui Zhu, (unknown), Swee Ching Tan, Wenjing Zhang, Kostya S. Novoselov, Andrew T. S. Wee	67
19	Manipulating unidirectional fluid transportation to drive sustainable solar water extraction and brine-drenching induced energy generation 2020 ·Energy & Environmental Science ·Yaoxin Zhang, Hong Zhang, Ting Xiong, Hao Qu, J. Justin Koh, Dilip Krishna Nandakumar, John Wang, Swee Ching Tan	216
20	Bio-photocapacitive tactile sensors as a touch-to-audio braille reader and solar capacitor 2019 ·Materials Horizons ·Sai Kishore Ravi, (unknown), Lakshmi Suresh, (unknown), (unknown), Zixuan Wu, Michael R. Jones, Swee Ching Tan	34

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